Closest I’ve been to banning someone for years.

@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

Too long, didn't read.

@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?

What a great way for Smith and Henry to retire.

@billy-tell said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@gt12 said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@majorrage said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

I notice this morning there are a couple of articles on the herald about how NZ reputation taking a hammering MIQ etc etc.

Articles are premium so I can't read them, but I do wonder if the editor has realised that NZ media is arguably the biggest problem due to their complete and utter inability to seriously question the government.

I strongly doubt that, but I did see this pop up in my feed, which makes me wonder if the media has realized that now there is some value in questioning the government (either that of the FB algorithm is working perfectly):

Mike Hosking

Mike's Minute: Doesn't the Government see the damage it's doing?

I don’t need to wade through the detail, the Herald has that if you want the finer points. But yet another gargantuan scandal is unfolding once again invol

Bloody hell. I read that article and was staggered no-one had thought this sort of stuff thru.

Sure, it's tricky for any government to deal with the pandemic and loads of mistakes are going to be made at the start like pensions for people trapped overseas - but you get on and fix them. This is incompetence on a grand scale and that it's allowed to continue shows a lack of political leadership bordering on callousness.

Why are you so surprised? Without the distractions of covid19 and the Christchurch mosque attack, what have they done? Kiwibuild? Nope. 1M trees? Nope. Auckland light rail? Nope. Eradicate child poverty? Nope Nope Nope. That's a whole lot of futility

I point you to the NZ politics thread for a partial list of completed work I compiled.

Are you a government spokes person? It’s like you’ve been sent here as a propaganda minister. I suppose it brings some balance.

I've found his posts useful and informative. It's important to understand others point of view, and what they are trying to do. Doesn't mean I like the content, but it certainly helps me land on my opinions.

@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.

@Tim said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:

I identify as a pacific person. Absolutely get fucked.

Just put Pakeha

@taniwharugby said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@Kruse I only found out here, right now, there is a post credit scene...so off I shall go.

Same!

@antipodean said in Musk & Twitter:

Been following some of those employees posting on twitter during the last month. Firing them was like having a tumour removed. Entitled nitwits.

@Kiwiwomble said in Musk & Twitter:

considering its only been the last 10 year where countries have rolled out hundreds of billions to install fibre...maybe they should have looked a bit further and invested in something like this

Not cost effective until you had reusable rockets, and that was supposed to be impossible. Fibre will always be better for high density urban areas, in most cases.

This is the missing piece of the puzzle for the underserved rural areas (That ISPs in the US have taken billions from taxpayers and never delivered, in some cases multiple times!). Also will allow for a truely global, always connected internet. Great for 3rd world countries, opens up all sorts of opporunities to grow economies.

Add in the T-Mobile deal (which will spread) that allows for current hardware to connect to these satellites when out of service, it's going to be a hugely profitable business.

@MN5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@Crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@MN5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@Crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@MN5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@Crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

That was a great episode.
Post credit scene awesome!

Indeed.

As good as the show has been you simply can’t beat a good tie in to the OT.

Show content

I’ve never seen imperial troopers shoot with such precision before. Those basic stormtroopers were ruthlessly effective when gunning down the townsfolk.

Makes sense though. At this stage of the Empire they had moved past clones to well trained troops ruling by fear. As seeds of a rebellion took hold they had to up the troop numbers as a show of force and they were basically patsys in armour that couldn't shoot to save themselves.

Well no it doesn’t. The clones were ruthlessly effective. Latter day troopers have been shown to be….well, less so.

The guy head butting one of them was very silly

The move away from clones had nothing to do with effectiveness. I never said the clones were poor.
In case you haven't watched it, Bad Batch delves into the changeover and reasons why

Yes I know all that. The point I made was I’ve never seen them shoot so well.

Like shooting fish in a barrel really, they were just shooting into a crowd. One Stormtrooper climbed a bunch of stairs to get yeeted off by a guy holding a hammer. Seems on point.

@Crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@MN5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@Crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

That was a great episode.
Post credit scene awesome!

Indeed.

As good as the show has been you simply can’t beat a good tie in to the OT.

Show content

I’ve never seen imperial troopers shoot with such precision before. Those basic stormtroopers were ruthlessly effective when gunning down the townsfolk.

Makes sense though. At this stage of the Empire they had moved past clones to well trained troops ruling by fear. As seeds of a rebellion took hold they had to up the troop numbers as a show of force and they were basically patsys in armour that couldn't shoot to save themselves.

And also the biggest example of Stormtroopers having terrible aim was in A New Hope in the Death Star, where it turns out they were letting Leia escape to track the Rebel base.

@MN5

The consistency of the writing and the quality of all aspects of this show were top notch.

Adding Tony Gilroy to the list of people that know how to do Star Wars.

Excellent post credit scene.

@Windows97 said in Musk & Twitter:

@nzzp said in Musk & Twitter:

Oh yeah - and SpaceX is spinning off into internet available across the world. That's kinda crazy, and yet another game changer.

That is crazy - I can now purchase my wifi off Elon Musks satellites, no need to go to my local telco, no need for a fiber connection or any sort of infrastructure just use his satellites.

It's incredible and not to mention every telco that must be shitting themselves.

And he's launching 50 of those satellites every ten days. Once Starship is able to deploy those some time next year that will increase significantly too.

@antipodean said in Musk & Twitter:

@nzzp said in Musk & Twitter:

@antipodean said in Musk & Twitter:

@nzzp said in Musk & Twitter:

@nostrildamus said in Musk & Twitter:

@No-Quarter said in Musk & Twitter:

Like a tweet I saw that went viral among lefties and "anti-Muskers" that reckoned a key reason it was going to crash was "a random HDD will fill up because nobody is watching it", and it would be catastrophic. Like yeah, sometimes directories get full and cause issues, but they are the easiest of incidents to fix, and the easiest to prevent repeats of. Just absurd nonsense.

Is it simply a political issue? Musk seems to have a rather mercurial approach to management, intervention and client autonomy, could be PR, could be personality, but hard to tell..

There's a lot of political stuff, too. I heard him described by a radio presenter as a terrible businessman, and literally laughed out loud. Like, the richest man in the world is a terrible businessman. It's ... an interesting take

To be fair, that wealth is from a ludicrous valuation of Tesla.

which he kinda built into a massive operation. And also SpaceX of course ... and he got a fat payout from PayPal.

Yeah, Musk and Musk alone built Tesla. SpaceX is a private business so none of us know if that's profitable and his involvement with Paypal is less than sweet fuck all - that was Peter Thiel.

I'll say this for him; he's a great salesman.

Awesome strawmen there. Even Musk doesn't claim he did all this alone.