Posts by matthew
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Turning chamberlain park into sports fields won't make it any more public. Seddon fields are public in that you can watch for free but membership of the football club costs $250 and use of facilities is not open for the general public.
Passive recreation. ... in an area blessed by Western springs reserve it hardly seems a priority.
Cycle track... sure it would be handy but would be a really expensive way of taking resource from one minority group, golfers, and giving it to another equally badly dressed minority with expensive barriers to entry.
Save chamberlain park!
For the record while I have swung a club from time to time I'm not a golfer. I am however a user of cricket and soccer facilities so the shortfall infor those sports does affect me considerably.
The solution is just like housing.... density. Improve existing facilitites and optimise their use. Seddon fields used to be a bog in winter. It would be closed for training most weeks and every second Saturday games would be canceled. Improvements have been made and the available usage hours has increased. Teams are now playing friday and monday nights which takes pressure off other venues like walker park and coxes bay.
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Is there really such a thing as permanently deleting an email. Surely there is at least some forensic IT capacity somewhere in our state apparatus that could recover deleted correspondence.
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Hard News: Interview: Glenn Greenwald, in reply to mark taslov,
Mr Prime Minister are you abiding by the current law or the law you will be writing once it is demonstrated that your current activities are in fact not within the law.
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Whether or not gcsb staffers personally use xKeystroke or not seems irrelevant if they are assisting foreign intelligence services to do so, either actively or passively (ie by not trying to stop activity they know to be occuring). Seems like their entire reason for existing is to prevent exactly that. My question for the prime minister is 'what instruction have you given to the gcsb in relation to preventing the NSA from accessing the private correspondence of New Zealand residents?'
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Wow that's lame. Everyone that so much as votes is trying to exert influence on the political process. Some just choose different methods.
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So if Phil Goff was incompetent for not having recalled the SIS briefing, (according to John Key) surely it is logical that John Key is incompetent for not remembering being briefed by the SIS about the OIA request.....
And its being generous to Key to say he forgot rather than that he was lying.
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Rawdon Christie is an entertainer not a journalist. I was disappointed that he interviewed laila harre this morning when corin dann who has muxh better journalistic credentialls was right there in the studio. It certainly shows how tvnz prioritizes infotainment over serious content.
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Oh contraire, my sommet sports love affair began with their coverage of the Caribbean premier league last year. Its only 20/20 but its still cricket.
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Hard News: Bad Judgement, in reply to Josie McNaught,
My thoughts exactly.
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I'm a cricket tragic so I fronted up with the high price for one day. Guy next to me in the ticket queue with two kids was scared off by the price and went home. What annoyed me was that the Cricket NZ website said walk up tickets were $40, I paid $45 and when I received the physical ticket it said $40 plus $2 'stadium purchase surcharge', total $42. How hard would a little transparency be. Cheap advance purchase tickets are all well and good in theory but until you know what the weather is going to be like and whether you'll be able to get of work its a bit hard to make a commitment to go. I have been stung in the past buying a non refundable ticket for a game that was rained off.