Posts by Stephen Judd
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Hard News: The Voyage of a Lifetime, in reply to tussock,
Y’all probably thought they’d cut spending in real terms, but out here in the world those tax cuts are spending too (in that they’re a cut in negative spending).
Well, I saved my tax cut, and most of it’s piling up in a Kiwibank cash PIE, so it’s being lent to someone to buy a house or perhaps get consumer goods on credit. It’s churning through the economy, in an unplanned way. Productive? Depends on your definition, I suspect.
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Hard News: Reading the Numbers, in reply to Russell Brown,
I think the bogus figure was a matter of genuine ineptitude in pursuit of a low-sounding number.
People are not inclined to double-check results that agree with their prejudices.
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Now that I dwell among you, Christchurch brethren and sistren , what are the Chch equivalents? Where would I go if I was a) extremely frugal or b) extremely gourmet?
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High grade Mills and Boon. Don't have time for an extensive translation of the blurb at the moment, but think historical family saga in multiple volumes.
Apparently "Sarah Lark" is the pseudonym of a German author who is a former tour guide. She has a line in medieval historical novels as "Ricarda Jordan."
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Dear God, I don't know I could handle watching this if I were you -- I think I'd be down the pub trying not to think about it. Sort of getting the operation done under a general, thanks.
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Is there much correlation between languages that don't have sex-based grammatical categories, and sexism? I don't think so. Anyway, it could be worse -- Hebrew verbs are conjugated by gender as well as number and person.
You lot might enjoy this Wikipedia article.
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Hard News: The war over a mystery, in reply to Stewart,
There seems to be (or have been) a culture within police investigations of determining a ‘main’ suspect and then abandoning other lines of enquiry and focussing on those lines of enquiry that strengthen the case against this main suspect.
I think that's a general tendency in groups under pressure. My experience of trying to solve and diagnose complicated problems as a team is that it takes a lot of mental fortitude to continue to be skeptical once a consensus emerges about the causes of the problem YOU ARE JUST CONFUSING THINGS STEPHEN and in particular senior people can often seize on a preferred hyopthesis and treat it as truth prematurely because they need to front other people with an explanation. I'm sure you can create a culture of analytical rigour and open-mindedness if you try hard enough... it's hard though.
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About ISPs and capacity. First, I think that distinction nzlemming made between the commercial ISP and ISPs as defined in law is important. Second, as nzlemming notes, if you're a commercial ISP, then the more people you can service off a given capacity link the better off you are -- yes, you sell the possibility of using a lot of data, but you also want people to not use what they've paid for, and in all likelihood, you provision for rather less than theoretical maximum and hope that your users don't magically all change behaviour and use their full capacity at once.
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Speaker: How's that three strikes thing…, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
You userbase isn’t exactly typical at a university though, is it? Irresponsible, hedonistic, impressionable.... and then there's the students.
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Speaker: How's that three strikes thing…, in reply to B Jones,
are there many other reasons to pay for a 20G data plan?
For us, four devices at home with auto-updating software, motion-detecting cameras uploading to a server off-network, heavy youtube usage by 2-3 people, streaming tv programs from tv1/2/3/7, occasional working from home over VPN -- it adds up. Maybe not to 20GB, but certainly 10. I would imagine households of more than 3 people could easily use a 20gGB cap even if everything they did was on the level, if they were mostly interested in video format content.