Posts by Andrew C
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Can someone explain why pffft was listed as a contender. Its been posted a few times so i'm guessing it refers to something or some incident.
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to BenWilson,
Do you actually believe the veracity of anything sent to you by Slater? He punked Bomber with this kind of manipulation, and I expect he would love to punk you too.
Ben, do you have a link, or some more details?
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Could someone explain to me just what protection being a journalist gives you? I understand there is something around not revealing your sources.
Does this simply mean that you cannot be forced to TELL the police/courts, or is it more than that? For example can the police get a warrant and raid your house and take your laptop (say) and go hunting for the details, or does the protection extend to that too (I guess that would mean that if they found it they cannot use it).
My interest is not specific to the Hager case, its simply that the Hager case made me realise I never knew what journalistic protection actually meant.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Is that the best the Oily One can come up with?
If you're gay and you don't want to seem like you're, well, gay, apparently watching rugby isn't enough either, you have to actually play rugby.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to BenWilson,
Especially if Slater starts on some homophobic crusade
Robertson doesn't drink beer, he probably drinks shandy don't you know.
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In the NZ Herald last Saturday there was an interview with Dr Joy, and in the printed version were a couple of large typeset statistics (not shown in the online version).
One that grabbed me was something like: "44% of our lakes are polluted" Can anyone shed light on what this statistic means/measures?
It struck me as seeming too high, given the large number of lakes we have that are basically in the middle of nowhere up mountainous areas. I'm not doubting Dr Joy's position and research, just trying to understand this particular statistic.
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Hard News: Going solar?, in reply to Moz,
if it can be done it will be economy-wrecking expensive
I guess I am saying that they are saying it wont be much different to bau prices, yet are showing forecast bau prices quite a bit higher than most forecasts I have seen lately.
It’s also a 40 year forecast, so if it’s within a factor of 2 it’s a great deal better than most long term economic forecasts.
Yeah, but 2020 aint 40 years away, and they are talking about seeing $120 then. So saying they're better than most is up for debate.
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Hard News: Going solar?, in reply to Moz,
meaning the price of electricity was lower with 100% renewable than with the current approach
I had a quick scan of their document Moz. Showing prices of $120 by 2020 is considerably higher than most business-as-usual forecasts I have seen. I haven't picked it apart to see what it contains, and probably won't, but their claim seems to rest considerably on the assumption that their price forecast is not much higher than the bau will be. From what I have seen, it's a strong assumption.
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Hard News: Going solar?, in reply to Moz,
One retailer in Victoria is charging 14c/day if you have solar
Is there a cost to the electricity supplier (or network supplier) to take excess power out from a house and put it back into the distribution network?
I'm just wondering if this is the reason...?
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Hard News: Going solar?, in reply to Kumara Republic,
as opposed to people acting out of property value self-interest
I don't think that came into it at all.
NZ is blessed with some great hydro schemes, but it doesn't seem easy to propose new ones nor extend existing ones.