Posts by Rich of Observationz
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I'd assume that Stats NZ's mission in this is to provide an accurate number.
There are a few ways people can provide an uncategorised answer to the question:
- they genuinely don't know
- they don't understand the question
- they don't want to fill the census out properlyThere is also an aspect of Māori having been discriminated against variously in the history in NZ, which would most likely result in people choosing to hide their ancestry from their children, sadly.
The approximations used by stats do seem reasonable. (For instance, declaring an iwi affiliation mostly indicates that one is of Māori descent, as does having a Māori parent).
It's true on the face of it that someone who doesn't give an unequivocal yes can't honestly register on the Māori roll, but it's also possible that they could learn more about their ancestry and later make that decision.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Any farmed salmon is neither ethical or particularly healthy (although I'm sure a small amount won't kill you). Stuffed full of drugs and treatments to keep them alive and thriving, with a plume of shit and waste food below the farm. That pretty pink colour - colouring in the feed.
I still eat it, but then I also eat bacon.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Russell Brown,
doors everywhere marked "cast members only" was indeed quite surreal
Apart from that, I guess it was nothing like Parliament?
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In my humble opinion, having sampled the cuisine from the likes of Ramsey, White and Conran* in my London days, I think it's brilliant that http://www.myfoodbag.co.nz/ are bringing equally good food to humble NZ homes. Their products combine the best and freshest ingredients with the technical innovation that enables every home cook or microwave artist to achieve top class results. A must.
* Well, their sous-chefs.
Ms PR Pead: is this enough? Just email me and I'll let you know where to send the free food. Oh, and I don't do celery. Or courgettes.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Go Home DJ, in reply to Steve Barnes,
One option (which is supported by some laptop tools like Ableton) is to play in mono and use one channel for playing out and the other for pre-listen. You'd need a reasonably versatile mixer, or a special cable.
The other one is that some phones/tablets support USB OTG (almost all do at chipset level, but it's whether they bring the lines out) which would give you the ability to drive a four channel USB audio device. Given software support, obviously. And a power supply. And probably cyanogen.
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Are any of these apps Ranty Dave's product? Maybe he'll come on here and tell us about it - the different feature is being able to preview and set up your mixes ahead of time.
Playing tunes at home is truly a different use case from DJing for an audience though. In the former case, you probably want automatic blends and sequencing, with the ability to easily cue anything up from an entire record collection.
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One woman argument for a press ownership law, really.
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I would consider all science fiction irretrievably bourgeois and decadent.
Either you're part of the brave new future of socialism, in which case why read about alternative, incorrect, realities, or you're a reactionary dreamer, in which case you should be freezing your arse off in an antarctic salt mine*.
* (The NZ revolution will inevitably feature antarctic salt mines. Even if there's no salt in the antarctic, reactionaries will be forced to keep digging till they find some. And provided with internet access, so they can blog about their miseries, pour encourager les autres) .
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Under the US Constitution, federal law trumps state law
Not really. The federal government can only legislate for certain things. They purport to have authority over drug use under the Commerce Clause. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court (the members of which are political appointees and often not the best lawyers in the country, as they are here) is quite capable of declaring black to be white in these matters.
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Hard News: A good soldier dies, in reply to George Darroch,
I know that's the official story, but can you provide an instance where a coroner has made a sensible recommendation which was acted on and produced a significant reduction in the death rate from the cause in question?