Posts by Matthew Poole
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Hard News: Media3: Bad News for the Force, in reply to Emma Hart,
it advocates domestic violence
It actually doesn't, though I can see how you got that read. There are many things wrong with that post, but advocacy of domestic violence ain't one of them. It suggests that such violence already happens, rather than suggesting that it should happen.
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Hard News: The Waterview Bore, in reply to Sacha,
Indeed, though I can sympathise with the difficulties of trying to even start designing a one-size-fits-all TBM. You still have to change drill bits to make different size holes with a domestic drill, and with a TBM the whole machine is the bit.
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Hard News: The Waterview Bore, in reply to Cameron Pitches,
TBMs are generally designed and built for a specific project, which is why they then bore themselves a grave once the project is completed. The costs of recovering and relocating are massive, and it’s rare that there’s another project in the vicinity with the same parameters as the project for which the TBM was designed. They’re not an off-the-shelf piece of kit that gets tuned for size on-site, they’re bespoke for a particular set of requirements.
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Legal Beagle: The hopeful disallowance…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Don't forget that even if we ignore NZ, the nonsense that Moz describes is utterly rife in the US. Kids who send pictures of themselves end up being charged with producing child pornography and then end up as registered sex offenders before they've even finished high school.
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Legal Beagle: The hopeful disallowance…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
automatically leading to sex offender registration under NZ law
There’s not, as far as I’m aware, “sex offender registration” in NZ for any offence. One might end up on an unofficial register drawn up by one of the various groups that abound, but pending confirmation from Graeme I’m pretty sure there’s no public government register.
As a wider observation, though, Moz is right on the money with that point about sexting and long-term consequences that are simply ignored. With or without the sex offender issue, I suspect that most 13-18y/o kids know, or know of, someone for whom sexting ended badly when the pic(s) in question went public after a nasty break-up or simply because a recipient was a douchecanoe of the first order, but blithely engage in the practice because "It won't happen to me." Knowing the consequences of opening up one’s life and actually following through on that knowledge are entirely different things.
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Hard News: The Waterview Bore, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Now can we please reach the same good compromise for the next project without having the bitter nasty fights along the way?
The next project will be the City Rail Link, and it's already bitter and nasty. Steven turned on Auckland Council, and now Gerry is turning on his own advisers.
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Legal Beagle: The hopeful disallowance…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
knowledge that a teacher has been before the council will have a negative impact on their relationship with future students, potentially damaging their education
And students never gossip, or pass rumours. There's also no communication between students at different schools, and no global electronic communication system that allows students to make contact with other students in a matter of minutes.
If anything the pretence that suppression orders are a useful way of protecting teachers from future students knowing of their past is more anachronistic now than at any time in history. -
Hard News: The Waterview Bore, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I support the concept of TG, but the implementation is unsupportable on economic grounds. A project needs to be more than just a good idea, particularly when it's massively expensive and the country supposedly doesn't have bottomless pots of money.
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Hard News: The Waterview Bore, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Or an Ekranoplan service.
That's pretty awesome, but I'm not sure it's really practical for a distance of roughly 11km.
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Hard News: The Waterview Bore, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
That's true, though with Auckland Airport rescue fire boasting that they operate the only hovercraft in NZ I'm not convinced there's the local knowledge and expertise to run an operation that would need at least two hovercraft, probably three.