Posts by Stephen Judd
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"I hate audio compression. I especially hate that TV companies claim they are unable to do anything about the volume of advertisements."
I recall seeing a really neat design for an "adkill" TV accessory that relied on the typical compressed audio signal to detec ads. It seemed quite easy to build...
"It's also frustrating (and very obvious) if (hypothetically of course) a person was to make a mix CD."
My favourite ripping/encoding tool (grip) has a setting to normalize the volume across tracks which helps with this. Maybe yours does too.
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I would love to have a few more details on the "roading lobby" who are repeatedly referred to - who its members are, and to what extent it is formally constituted.
I would also love to know what organisations are public transport advocates.
Traditionally an expose such as this ends with a call to arms, and I'm hanging out for it.
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Yeah, despite what I said upthread, that is well-put.
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James, I can't find the spreadsheet I downloaded last time, but there is a lot of stuff still on the MOH site.
I was just looking at this PDF. Go to page 25, "Incidence by Deprivation". In the under-fives, Decile 10 has a rate 5 times as high as decile 1 - even worse in the North Island.
And a little light googling reveals that crowded housing and poor hygiene are risk factors. Yes, it's airborne, and no, the bacteria don't live long - that's precisely why overcrowding can make a big difference.
I did find an old email I wrote to my ex, where I did some figuring:
According to the graph in the PDF from the MOH of meningitis rates in NZ, Europeans 5-9 were about 5 in 100,000. The death rate is 4 out of 100 cases (leaving aside other complications). That means X's lottery chance of death is about 1 in 500,000.
This is was in the context of an argument about the risks of vaccination. Basically, the risk of dying from bacterial meningitis IF you are an older Pakeha child is very low - although the risks of adverse reaction are even lower.
*I am not a health person, I just to like read source material*.
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On the MenzB front - that really troubled me. I downloaded the reports from the Ministry of Health, and it was very apparent from the breakdown of area, age, and ethnicity that basically a middle-class Pakeha child at primary school had a very low chance of contracting the disease, at least an order of magnitude less than the equivalent Polynesian child. (If I can dig up the numbers I ran, I'll post them).
They didn't record the socio-economic status of those who did get the disease but I remember wondering whether the root cause wasn't inadequate and crowded housing, and wondering whether that just wasn't too much of an admission for a Labour government to make. In other words, we don't have a meningitis epidemic, we have a housing crisis, with meningitis as its symptom.
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You've got nothing to be concerned about, but I would like to know - even if you don't - if any of the witnesses appearing on behalf of the accuser were given any payment (in cash or in kind) for helping police with their inquiry. That should be public knowledge, right?
Well, why don't you go and find out and let us know then? Off you go...
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I provided you with a link showing that police pay informants, and police have been known to help out prison informants by way of giving them goodies and reducing whatever charge they may be facing.
So you did. All I want is for you to state clearly the conclusion you draw from that. If you're NOT saying the witness perjured herself for reward, then what am I supposed to be concerned about?
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Please yourself. You insinuate a claim - that the witness lied because the police gave her something - and then you back away from it.
Anything's possible, including monkeys flying out my butt on their way to give you a conspiracy vaccination, but I don't have to waste my valuable thinking time considering each one. Especially, I don't have to give a shit about hypotheticals which you aren't willing to state clearly or adduce evidence for. If you want to cast doubt, cool - kindly provide some reason to doubt.
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"anything's possible. But bribery? No, I used "inducement" and I'm sure the police would use the same word."
Ah, you're not saying it, merely insinuating it.
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"It's amazing what some cash will do to jog one's memory."
Are you saying that the police bribed a witness? That's what I think you're saying.