Posts by Chris Waugh
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Russell Brown,
How much of T3 on demand is geoblocked for you at the moment, out of interest?
On the assumption that TV3 simply blocks anybody coming from a non-NZ IP address....
I've never had any troubles watching TV3 news, either segments or entire broadcasts. Campbell Live, also. I currently have the 60 Minutes June 10 broadcast (Bronwyn Pullar) playing. Sport has been a bit more dodgy, not that I watch much of it. I had trouble seeing much of the Rugby World Cup, apparently because of all the licencing deals that are done around such things. Pretty much everything else I've tried to watch has been geoblocked.
So from what I can tell, if Media 3 is put in the same category as news and current affairs, then us expats should be able to watch it.
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Nice posters, thanks. Now I wonder if I'll be able to find anything similar in my local market or bookstore.... this place could use a little brightening up...
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
This could be covered by you still going to the polling booth and writing ‘No Confidence’ across the form,
To me, 'mandatory voting' suggests that perhaps even that option would not be available. In any case, it'd be nice to pointedly not go into the voting booth at all. And if anybody dismisses my abstention as apathy, I can turn around and tell them no, it's no confidence, and there's a hell of a difference. 'No confidence' means I care but see no valid option on the ballot paper. As for construing abstention as tacit approval, could I not get at least a few t shirts printed wittily informing the public that I do not give my consent to the system as it stands? At the very least? Perhaps even, I dunno, write a blog expressing my political point of view to any and all who may care to read it?
Whatever, those options I see as vastly superior to mandatory voting.
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I think we should make voting mandatory and non voting fineable as in Australia,
Absolutely not. Abstention is a perfectly valid option as a vote against the system (as merc says) or a vote of no confidence in any of the parties or candidates on offer.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
The dogs up here roam so freely through the village it's impossible to know who they're related to! Still, there was a period when I still had my Zaizai when it seemed like half the puppies born up here had suspiciously big, floppy ears, just like Zaizai.
Yes, I do think she'd handle something Chihuahua-sized a bit better. Fortunately, though, as badly behaved and poorly trained as they are, these dogs know perfectly well their status in the family and have never given me reason to wonder about my daughter's safety in their presence.
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...but still a little nervous...
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She's curious about the dogs...
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The wee one decided we should get up earlier than I would've liked.... but rural life starts early, anyways. And the reward was this cloudscape.
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The weather clears.
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Aswallow? Maybe two? As the storm passes.
