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@Stargazer said in Bledisloe #1:

Ah, another TSF meltdown. Everyone completely overreacting as usual.

If you don’t meltdown after nearly conceding 50 in a Bledisloe game something is wrong with you

@KiwiMurph said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:

@akan004 said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:

Akira must be feeling great right now. Poor guy.

this has pre-meditated change written all over it - Frizell was always coming back

Conservative selection group, perfect game to test Akira out in with the top team. Frizzell's had three goes and been adequate at best.

Akira had 29 mins against a fired up Aussie side and had an excellent performance. Would make more sense to see if he could sustain it.

At six , is absolutely clear that Akira is now ahead of Frizzel.

@Godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

Level 3 lets more people go to work, but it's hardly a huge improvement on level 4 in terms of the cage doors opening.

However, in good news, apparently, not only is our curve flattening, it's exponentially reducing - halving every 5 days. At this rate, we are probably looking at a total of 6-8 weeks at levels 3&4 (so another 2-4 weeks) and then back to level 2.

The rest of the world is rightly envious of that, because they're generally looking at months of the equivalent of level 3+. 4 weeks seems a bit early to be rolling out the civil liberties flag - human rights and civil liberties are critically important to the NZ democracy, but the most important right is the right to life because the rest are not much use to dead people.

And a cratered economy is a damn sight harder on people on the other side.

This is exactly the sort of scare mongering that drove that poll result.

The original justification for this lockdown was not to eliminate the disease but to prevent our health system from being overwhelmed. That has been achieved and over the last four weeks process and capacity has been added to help even more with that.

So let’s move down the levels fast, test appropriately, contain regional reoccurrence, and get back to normalise life.

Even today Cindy was downplaying the huge impact this is having on the economy. “Doing in tough” is not even close to what’s coming IMO.

So who would have though James Fucking O’Conner would have completely outplayed an All Black ten?

@crucial said in All Blacks Squad for France:

@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks Squad for France:

This thread is starting to resemble the good old days around AB selection time ,

All we need is Toeava to make himself available .

DMac is the new Toeava

Toeava could play ten.

@Winger said in US Politics:

This is becoming a weird election. I just can't see the Democrats even getting close unless they cheat.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/the-democrats-embarrass-themselves-again.php

We are approaching a very weird election in which one of our major parties is taking a stand in favor of rioting, looting, arson, destruction of federal property, and violent attacks on law enforcement. The Democrats seem to think that this is a winning formula. If it is, our republic is doomed. While we may be in deep trouble, I don’t think we are that far gone yet.

I agree with this last bit. But who knows

Of course it's going to be close. You are a prime example of why, people have picked Team A or Team B and no matter what their team does they will vote for it.

Somewhere on cyberspace there is a poster called Fullback that posting as fervently as you are about Biden/Hillary/Bernie.

Helps with disappointment that a quality bloke is lifting the trophy

Nah, you lose the ability for a Japan vs SA or Ireland upset if you do that.

I like the alternative of the plate competition I saw mentioned the other day, so there is more to play for after the top two pool spots.

ESB is easily the best Star Wars film, better dialogue, better direction and a just a better made film. It’s pretty much the template on how a sequel can make the first film better.

@canefan said in US Politics:

@Kirwan said in US Politics:

@nostrildamus said in US Politics:

@Kirwan said in US Politics:

@nostrildamus said in US Politics:

Wow. Which button did I push? Merely meant to point out there is a duty of care (and a question of scale and impact) regards a world leader accused of using Twitter (or whatever) to stage a coup and a bullied teenager (or their bullies).
I believe the social media giants should be regulated and that they blur journalism and duty and so forth when they feel like it. But currently, they are private companies and IMO can ban who they like. And yes, there are huge gaps in the laws protecting citizens from them, but I could say giant media companies also still seem to shirk responsibility (the phone tapping scandals were disgraceful).
The question of privacy is different (I hope) to question of access.

Probably read more shrill than I intended.

The private company line works if they are not publishers. Publishers have different liability under US law, and IMO they have crossed the line with recent actions.

I’m also sick and tired of Google and Facebook, and a lesser degree Twitter, buying their competitors or working in collusion with other service providers to make competition impossible.

They are pulling up the ladders behind them and controlling the 21st century’s version of electricity. It’s deeply concerning for our democracy, our right to privacy and just having choice as a consumer.

Right, ok, we probably are very much in agreement here. I have friends at Facebook and Google and I can't stand the former and I am a little wary of the latter (though I have to rely on it and to a lesser extent Facebook-related companies/products). Twitter, I know less of their influence or business model. I would add Amazon to that list of dangerous companies. Apple possibly as well.
But the issue of who they can ban and suspend, I think, is a different matter.
Then again, if Trump is threatening national security/the Constitution, shouldn't there be legislative or judicial or executive people to rein him in?

Twitter's business model involves showing growth (number of users) and advertising. Perhaps that's why they seem slow to remove bot accounts, Isis training videos, or the child porn that they still host.

Agree completely about Amazon, less about Apple who are really just a hardware company. They become an issue when they work together with Google to remove an app, because between them both that's the full mobile computing market.

I'd be happy for them to ban whoever they like if they weren't at the same time removing their competition. We have five companies working together shaping the market in their favour.

Unless there is evidence that they are colluding for common gain, I don't see how you can ever stop this

They have been caught before and fined, Apple and Amazon colluded to fix book prices and several Silicon Valley companies had illegal aggreements to not poach staff. Also fined.

They can be held to account, just as Microsoft was in the 90s.

In any case, just like with GDPR, the solution will probably come from European law as both the Democrats and Republicans don't seem to care about people's privacy.

@nostrildamus said in US Politics:

@Kirwan said in US Politics:

@nostrildamus said in US Politics:

Wow. Which button did I push? Merely meant to point out there is a duty of care (and a question of scale and impact) regards a world leader accused of using Twitter (or whatever) to stage a coup and a bullied teenager (or their bullies).
I believe the social media giants should be regulated and that they blur journalism and duty and so forth when they feel like it. But currently, they are private companies and IMO can ban who they like. And yes, there are huge gaps in the laws protecting citizens from them, but I could say giant media companies also still seem to shirk responsibility (the phone tapping scandals were disgraceful).
The question of privacy is different (I hope) to question of access.

Probably read more shrill than I intended.

The private company line works if they are not publishers. Publishers have different liability under US law, and IMO they have crossed the line with recent actions.

I’m also sick and tired of Google and Facebook, and a lesser degree Twitter, buying their competitors or working in collusion with other service providers to make competition impossible.

They are pulling up the ladders behind them and controlling the 21st century’s version of electricity. It’s deeply concerning for our democracy, our right to privacy and just having choice as a consumer.

Right, ok, we probably are very much in agreement here. I have friends at Facebook and Google and I can't stand the former and I am a little wary of the latter (though I have to rely on it and to a lesser extent Facebook-related companies/products). Twitter, I know less of their influence or business model. I would add Amazon to that list of dangerous companies. Apple possibly as well.
But the issue of who they can ban and suspend, I think, is a different matter.
Then again, if Trump is threatening national security/the Constitution, shouldn't there be legislative or judicial or executive people to rein him in?

Twitter's business model involves showing growth (number of users) and advertising. Perhaps that's why they seem slow to remove bot accounts, Isis training videos, or the child porn that they still host.

Agree completely about Amazon, less about Apple who are really just a hardware company. They become an issue when they work together with Google to remove an app, because between them both that's the full mobile computing market.

I'd be happy for them to ban whoever they like if they weren't at the same time removing their competition. We have five companies working together shaping the market in their favour.

@voodoo said in Know any good Java developers?:

@Duluth said in Know any good Java developers?:

@NTA said in Know any good Java developers?:

Yeah I'll kick it around on SM and see what kicks back.

Oh and the question was put on the TSF because of the location of most people on here.

I doubt they'd hire an Aussie based developer but they would hire more Kiwi's

what about a kiwi, based in aussie, that spends most of his day loafing around a kiwi website talking smack with other kiwis and a few aussies?

oh, and has no idea how to code at all

If that sounds of interest, I'm available from April...

You're hired.

@Duluth is easy to hide from to save your liver.

That would be great.

Ideally, we are looking for senior Java Developer, with experience with Spring Boot. Experience with building apps that utilise a database, any front experience would be beneficial as well.

It's a remote team working for a US company. Bonus is you get work with me and Duluth.

@NTA said in US Politics:

@Kirwan said in US Politics:

That's not their stated policy, it doesn't have to have happened.

If we all relied on what was stated policy, and never handled special cases, we'd have to redraft policy every second day.

I don't believe you can treat an outgoing President with 88M followers and a lunatic fringe the same as Jimbob up the street who is saying he'll go attack an abortion clinic but is always too drunk to do so.

They just banned the President of the US, but can't ban the President of Iran for even worse posts? Come on.

@NTA said in US Politics:

@canefan said in US Politics:

@NTA letting him continue was bound to have commercial consequences as well

Perhaps. Twitter are a US organisation and having this shit go down on home soil probably brings a bigger emphasis than some shit happening in the MidEast that has been happening for donkeys...

Twitter may be a US company, but it's a worldwide application.

Lets say your strange line in the sand is a valid and we only look at US users. There have been examples pointed out of left leaning journalists calling for violence against Trump supporters.

Accounts still active, and attacks did happen.

That's not their stated policy, it doesn't have to have happened. They have purged plenty of people just talking about violence against people.

And besides, they have attacked (by proxy) Israel (line items in their budget supporting known terrorist organisations).