Posts by Dismal Soyanz
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Matthew Poole,
To be honest, why should the police be the immediate owners of the footage? It's not really the realms of Star Trek to have a blend of HORansome's ideas and what you are saying with the footage going to an independent authority. That way, there is never any question that it could have been tampered with.
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I like. Greg O'Connor - maybe not.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Matthew Poole,
An exaggeration on my part, Matthew but who gets to be the custodian of the footage?
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to HORansome,
NZ version of "World's Wildest Police Videos" anyone? We can trust Fox to be fair and unbiased.
"No idea where the footage went, Sarge. Musta dropped out of the car during the struggle."
Funny how reality TV seems anything but.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to TroyHoward,
Hilarious. There is hope for journalism in this country yet.
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Been a while since I read The Black Cloud but I thought the guy's brain fried because he couldn't handle all the information the cloud downloaded into his brain (possibly because of preconceptions).
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Amazingly no bodies found in the Cathedral site. A second best to finding survivors. Peter Beck's response is spot on. </threadjack>
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
Probably also some “but Wellington released a list” envy.
The awareness of earthquake risks in Wellington has meant Wellington local government has been somewhat more on the ball on the issue of building strength (witness the WRC report on the lessons of Sep 4 for Wellington). Not to say that it's all good but I would have expected the council here to have more up to date info than Auckland.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to nzlemming,
I think it started once the meatworks closed. That was a big factor in keeping Petone poor – rich people didn’t want to live with the smell, and poor people didn’t have a lot of choice.
Also possibly reflecting the general loss of manufacturing businesses in the Wellington region. Having said that, gentrification of Petone seems to have been more in evidence over the last decade - possibly an overflow effect from Wellington City?
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OnPoint: On Price Gouging, in reply to Sacha,
True and I expect that there is a very strong element of that in the oil companies' decision. But it's not the only element. Because the two factors (personal empathy and corporate responsibility to shareholders) point in the same direction, the response of not pushing up prices is kinda a no-brainer. However, if the two were in opposite directions, I'm not so sure that the personal empathy would win out. The corporate veil is more than just a legal construct.