Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Don’t put it in a city that’s seismically active!
I guess that would rule out Wellington for, well, pretty much anything critical.
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Up Front: Ups and Downs. And Side-to-Sides., in reply to recordari,
I have one of the old Ericsson phones with the dial on the base
The Ericsson Cobra is a classic. But it's not like you need a phone that old for emergency use. (Besides, no one under the age of 20 knows how to rotary dial.) Any fully wired phone will work on the power supplied by the phone line. Here's a new one from Dick Smith.
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Up Front: Ups and Downs. And Side-to-Sides., in reply to BenWilson,
Telecom will also divert landlines for free. Call 120.
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Would leave, but for cats, who are badly stressed.
You’re a better cat-person than I am. But then again, I’m a dog.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Russell Brown,
A lighter moment … what sort of plants might the owner have been growing in the attic of this now-ruined house?
Looks like a ... pot plant. (boom tish)
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to recordari,
Somehow it feels like we owe the people of Christchurch, even those not related or friends, the debt of spending enough time immersed in the horror of it all to reach a point of sympathy that becomes somewhat meaningful
Or do this.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Mistruths spread quickly.
Sure does. TV3 just said (about 6.25pm) that the hospitals were calling for blood donors. It's not easy to know what to believe about anything.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I know in the circumstances confirming reports like that is hard but damn…lives may depend on (mis)information like that.
Indeed. One of the risks with Twitter in particular is that unsubstantiated info like this spreads like wildfire.
In other words: Think before you RT.
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Emma Hart,
"Long term reversible" - that's vasectomies, right?
I'm not sure if that's sarcasm, but for the record; vasectomies are to be considered permanent. It may be possible to reverse one, but there's no guarantees for that.
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
A US advocate of such a programme was in the country not long ago and Dita De Boni fawned all over her in her column on parenting for the Herald. I would look for the link but.. I don't want to.
Here. Money quote:
It was hard to see any kind of downside to this excellent work, although RNZ's excellent Katherine Ryan did her best in offering a countering view that down-and-outers should not be bribed to stop breeding.
Needless to say, it wasn't a convincing counter argument.