Posts by Trevor Nicholls
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Nothing to do with the Olympics, I'm afraid, but I'd hope that a corner suite with balcony would have 270 degree views. Even if they are only views of Wellington architecture.
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If this is the case then you do have to wonder why Sparc needs to spend those millions of dollars on research, proof-of-concept and technology development instead of just copying an already existing successful model.
Isn't it funny that this same thread discusses Trade-Me versus eBay. I do wonder how much richer Sam M would have become if he had blindly copied an already existing successful model.
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But this looked to me like Sidebottom running where he shouldn't have been, and not watching the batsman, who surely had right of way given that the ball was no where near the bowler.
I understand the general rule to be that the batsman does not have right of way in this situation.
Sidebottom may not have been as near to the ball as the batsman (who was practically standing on it), but he was one of the best placed to move to the ball.
Of course if either player had deliberately impeded the other, then there would be grounds for intervention by the umpires without any consultation with the captain: the batsman could be given out for obstructing the field, or the fieldsman could be reprimanded and the batsman (if run out as a result) recalled. However neither player did anything wrong. Accidents happen, and several players had opportunity to rise above the laws and take the moral high ground. Bell could have held onto the ball. Pieterson could have refrained from breaking the stumps. Collingwood could have withdrawn the appeal. -
Heh. I like my typo: "nedia". They can be needy for stories...
I guess that makes MSN the mainstream nedia.
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Perhaps the new owner of the rail network can tilt the competitive balance against road freight to the same extent as Toll biassed it the other way.
Maybe it can extract a few years' road charges out of them (the Toll Road Toll?) to make up for the promised investment that never happened. And if Toll don't like it they know where the off-ramp is. -
Tui of the week:
__the Herald, which has previously carefully guarded its political independence__
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I see James Bremner supports the fallacy that economic consequences only follow from policy *changes*.
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...wipes out a century of warming
And here was me thinking that up until the end of 2k7 the denial business was emphatically denying that there was any real evidence for "a century of warming" at all.
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Are the National Party's Lions led by a Don Key or a Cheshire Cat?
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And the idea that we should make dramatic policy decisions with huge consequences based on highly uncertain predicitions is just nuts.
Of course choosing to do nothing is also a policy decision - one not exempt from huge consequences of its own.