Despite what it may seem, the public are not entitled to any information about his health. The family have opted for privacy. The family have also chosen to utilise the money that Schumacher himself earned to provide him with a comfortable environment in which to possibly recover. None of that is in any way our business.
So, should we also assume that midwives are going to have a name change to.. oh I dont know... midpersons? Or, has the TV ad campaign to attract more men to that profession not come out yet?
Hang on... People seem to be forgetting the big issue here, which is that she and made out the whole issue was all about so-called security threats. She told the media, the staff, and the students that her reason for cancelling the event was because of security concerns, but it was later found she neglected to tell them the real reason. If the uni council think were stupid, best of luck to them, but were not stupid.
Easy to say in hindsight, but he should have stood his ground. What would they do next? Call security? At least then the complainant wouldnt have been able to flee the situation and remain forever anonymous like she did.
All these years shes been getting by thanks to government assistance. Now shes making enough money that her entitlement has dropped, in other words, more of her taxes are going to help those less well off than she is (eg like she was)... And shes complaining about it? Welcome to the other side of socialism, Sue.
IF they do this (and I do say IF) then I expect never to hear of a city forced into water restrictions during the height of summer. But yes. This is an interesting version of No new taxes isnt it?
Men arent the issue. The issue is bad people. Can we PLEASE stop making the issue about gender, and start focussing on the behaviour thats unacceptable? Alienating half the worlds population because of some narrowminded, collectivist attitude isnt going to get you any allies or even listeners from the males in this world, and I know for a fact there are women who share the same view.
New Zealand schools have enough problems with literacy rates when it comes to English. I suggest we focus on fixing those before trying to teach another language.
This is completely common sense. We need to stop being sentimental toward born and bred New Zealanders who independently chose to leave the country to pay taxes elsewhere. Born and bred means they received government funding throughout their childhood, then they left and earned money overseas so someone elses government got the benefit.Swings and roundabouts, I get that. Every immigrant who pays decent income tax gives us the opposite situation, but we need to get over this lifelong kiwi mindset. If you left the country, you left the country. Dont whine on Facebook from London about how you miss certain things about NZ and expect sympathy. Come home or turn over a new page.
Labelling this as a free speech issue, in my opinion, relegates their opinions to the same place that conspiracy theorists and cult leaders speak from. This is an insult to the very valid arguments raised by Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux. One thing most of us can all agree on is that the status quo, when it comes to Islamic terrorism in this world, is unacceptable. Anyone who agrees with this notion at least needs to hear these people out.Also, lets be clear on one other thing. They arent anti-feminist, they are anti-third wave feminism, which basically equates to anti-people who are against anything ever done by men. Thats not feminism.
I was cynical reading the first half, dreading the possibility of us being introduced to yet another apparently oppressed group of people in society. But the second half turned around for me. To a large extent, we each have a huge amount of influence over how we all appear and present ourselves to the world. If we dont like the image the world sees of us, nobody cares about changing that any more than ourselves.
And who fact-checks the media? I believe Lauren Southern is one person who does that and calls them out on fabricating stories. Oh wait, hang on, wasnt she one of the people the MSM persecuted and accused of making all kinds of 0 statements, managed to get her talk shut down, then gloated about it?Now do you see why we dont trust you?
Lets not make this another National vs Labour issue. The issue is that a lot of NZ homes are hard to heat, and that the cost to do so to an acceptable standard is too great for some households. As Ive said before, theres a lot of talk at the moment about minimum standards for rental properties, but please dont forget there are plenty of poorly designed homes owned by their occupants as well.
Trump runs for presidency, and the Democrats try and counter it by putting up one of the least likeable presidential candidates the world has ever seen... then wonder why they lost?
Heres a thought.... let couples choose whose surname they want to give their children. In other words... the exact way it is today. Its their choice. Dont tell them how to name their own kids just because the outdated tradition doesnt fit with your personal agenda.
I think the point Green Machine was making is that there will ALWAYS be something like Fortnite, that is the in thing and lures kids in, causing problems of one form or another. Fidget Spinners, Beyblades, Minecraft, Roblox, Pokemon, Pokemon Go.... Sheesh, I can remember the 90s where things like Tamagotchi toys caused widespread pandemonium, and even chatter rings (toys with no electronics in them whatsoever) did the same. Theres always something there ready to adopt the kids as they tire of the latest craze, and theres always people who are going to complain about the negative impacts of them. The only part we can control is to parent responsibly.
Youd probably think differently if you were still living in South Africa today. Lauren has produced an entire documentary on the reverse apartheid thats developing there, how (for farmers at least) its becoming the next Zimbabwe).
If the govt dont want wealth passing on from one generation to the next because they think thats unfair on the families who arent wealthy, perhaps they might want to reconsider their position as part of the commonwealth. After all, the commonwealth is led by a group of people who have done nothing but be born to the right parents, and seem to have a lot more wealth than the average person. Just saying.
So, if gangs are so great for society, lets see them hold open days. Surely theyd be open to letting the world see what fantastic things they get up to behind their 0 image of being intimidating.
Except if everything else in your house is cold, youll attract mildew to some surfaces. Last year I tried being one of those frugal types who avoids using heaters unless necessary, but I found a tiny covering of mildew on some internal doors and low shelves. Regardless of how hard you work to dry the air, NZ humidity is usually high enough to cause moisture to condense on cold surfaces in winter. You dont want that being anything in your house.
The one thing we havent seen in this article is their home. How big is it, and how new is it? Old homes (pre 2000) are notoriously poorly designed in most cases, and its a fluke if they harness the sun for anything of use in the winter. Its certainly not by design.Although, as others have said, the fireplace makes this situation an unfair comparison to any NZer who uses electric heating and doesnt have the choice to forage for free power.
Tamil is spoken by a mere 15 percent of the populationAnchor has been supplying their products to Sri Lanka for 40 years.This has suddenly become a problem today because??
Just because a city has been upgraded to fibre, doesnt mean fibre is available everywhere. According to the UFB map, practically everywhere in my city has fibre now.... except my suburb. Im sure this is the case in most cities.
Whether or not it was a genuine foul, sooner or later were going to get a case where a genuine red card offence is commited. The problem is, red card punishments ruin the game for EVERYONE. They are the sports equivalent of keeping an entire class in at lunch time because one student misbehaved in maths class. They say Your offence was so severe, that this game has to be awful for everyone.Easy solution - send the player off for the entire game, but allow them to sub a replacement on after 10 minutes, so at least its 15 vs 15.
Just imagine if the shoe was on the other foot (if gangs were supporting Brash). The response would have been very different.This isnt about free speech. Its about thought control.
I agree completely. The idea of penalising both teams, and all spectators with an inferior brand of rugby for the remainder of the game reminds me of an overly strict high school teacher who keeps the whole class in at lunch time for the actions of one student. Making a team play with 14 players for the remainder of the match also reminds me of something youd expect to see at primary school sport, and no higher.
Im not sure if thats accurate (that a solar air heater is no less efficient than a window). But even if we assume youre right, a window is only useful in a room where theres a window that receives sunlight. For houes with poor layout where adding a north-facing window simply isnt possible, this unit would at least allow those rooms to be heated and allow the materials inside to retain thermal mass.
Only slight problem with that is, how do you have multi-crew using VR headsets and seeing each other as well as the flight deck environment? Also, youve got to remember, aviation is full of standards. Its highly unlikely that any kind of desktop PC-based VR flight simulator would be accredited to use in place of actual flight training.
Im interested to know what all these virtue signalling white commenters actually want to happen. How long should we run inverse discrimination for until the debt is repaid? Can we define a number and agree on that? Or, is that not enough and are you proposing we actually hand our land back to the MÄori? If thats what you mean, then just say it, and lets have conversations about that. It just seems like all we want to do on the subject is cry about the injustice and perpetually imbalance entitlements as a result.
Careful. Youre using the same collectivist attitude that got us here in the first place. Saying that you suddenly wont trust anything ever produced by Massey misses the fact that one person made this decision. The vice chancellor doesnt peer-review academic literature. Also, are you proposing to rewrite history and veto anything produced under all previous vice-chancellors of the University as well?
Cancelling a red card... what difference will that make since the game has been played?? Next thing theyll be saying we felt the wind was too strong in the first half, so weve re-written history so that it wasnt.
This concept needs mainstream attention in NZ, where many of our older homes are terribly laid out. If you live in a house like I do (a long house, aligned north/south) theres one entire end of the house that virtually never gets sunlight throughout the day. Something like this on the roof would solve a lot of the issues at that end of the house. For an installation like this, Id rather get the professionals to do it. I looked for someone to do it, but do you think I was able to find someone who was willing to?
Perhaps this informal agreement needs to be written down. It doesnt say whether there are signs by the carparks outside shops that indicate they are ideally for customer use only. If not, how are people supposed to know?I would personally be a bit annoyed, if I parked in a carpark I believed was free and there were no signs contradicting this, to be told I couldnt park there. At the very least, some nicely-worded signs would be a good start.
The big difference between watching live sport and watching a movie has always been that, at least with sport, you have no idea what the outcome will be. Its not predetermined. Its totally down to what happens during that competition.Unfortunately, with the All Blacks playing the way they are, any rugby involving them is rapidly heading to the same place. I dont think the All Blacks should be regulated in any way to make the game more interesting, but boy do I wish the rest of the world would join us so fixtures become more interesting.
The best concert Ive ever been to was when I saw the Mutton Birds on their tour after they just returned from overseas, in late 1999 from memory. McGlashan was such an amazing frontman, and the way they performed all their songs live just breathed so much life into them.
We seem to have arrived at a stage where the first thing a lot of people do when they feel wronged is to go straight to the media. I dont see anything about previous cases having been followed up between parents and Metlink. Surely, these students know the number of the bus they were on and the time of the service. This would all be useful information to give to Metlink whilst raising a complaint. But instead, its the usual line of going straight to the media. Im not saying I support this behaviour, if it has been going on. But the point is, nobodys given any facts, and the story is heavily one-sided in its current state.
Its really easy to use the property flipping we heard about pre-election as an example of why a capital gains tax is justified. After all, if someone rocks up, buys a house, then sells it later that day and makes money from it, how should they escape tax?But those scenarios are outliers. If I start a business, work really hard for years, paying tax in doing so, then sell it for a profit, why should I pay tax?
This woman is a good example of leave it to the professionals. Her communication could really use an overhaul. For starters, calling them handicapped... but more than that, when you start your message out on the offensive with a judgemental statement like Shame on you what do you think its going to do, besides aggravate people? How about something thats a little more friendly, and gives the benefit of the doubt?
Michael Schumacher to continue recovery in $52 million mansion in Spain
Despite what it may seem, the public are not entitled to any information about his health. The family have opted for privacy. The family have also chosen to utilise the money that Schumacher himself earned to provide him with a comfortable environment in which to possibly recover. None of that is in any way our business.
NZTA to change 'line men' signs to 'line crew' after inquiry from 7-year-old girl
So, should we also assume that midwives are going to have a name change to.. oh I dont know... midpersons? Or, has the TV ad campaign to attract more men to that profession not come out yet?
Student excluded from James Cook High School over bullying incident
Thats the first thing. Now what about the assault charges?
Massey University council backs under-fire vice-chancellor Jan Thomas
Hang on... People seem to be forgetting the big issue here, which is that she and made out the whole issue was all about so-called security threats. She told the media, the staff, and the students that her reason for cancelling the event was because of security concerns, but it was later found she neglected to tell them the real reason. If the uni council think were stupid, best of luck to them, but were not stupid.
Wellington dad barred from parents' room at Queensgate Mall by another parent
Easy to say in hindsight, but he should have stood his ground. What would they do next? Call security? At least then the complainant wouldnt have been able to flee the situation and remain forever anonymous like she did.
When a $16k payrise only gives you $50 a week extra in hand after credits reduced
All these years shes been getting by thanks to government assistance. Now shes making enough money that her entitlement has dropped, in other words, more of her taxes are going to help those less well off than she is (eg like she was)... And shes complaining about it? Welcome to the other side of socialism, Sue.
Super-regions or a special tax - how the Government plans to fix New Zealand's broken water systems
IF they do this (and I do say IF) then I expect never to hear of a city forced into water restrictions during the height of summer. But yes. This is an interesting version of No new taxes isnt it?
Michelle Duff: We don't need men telling us how to #MeToo
Men arent the issue. The issue is bad people. Can we PLEASE stop making the issue about gender, and start focussing on the behaviour thats unacceptable? Alienating half the worlds population because of some narrowminded, collectivist attitude isnt going to get you any allies or even listeners from the males in this world, and I know for a fact there are women who share the same view.
Te reo or Mandarin? Learning a second language should be compulsory
New Zealand schools have enough problems with literacy rates when it comes to English. I suggest we focus on fixing those before trying to teach another language.
How a capital gains tax could affect you
Doesnt really matter how you try to spin it, all this serves as yet another disincentive for people to make ordinary things into great things.
Kiwis overseas could miss out on NZ Super under proposed law change
This is completely common sense. We need to stop being sentimental toward born and bred New Zealanders who independently chose to leave the country to pay taxes elsewhere. Born and bred means they received government funding throughout their childhood, then they left and earned money overseas so someone elses government got the benefit.Swings and roundabouts, I get that. Every immigrant who pays decent income tax gives us the opposite situation, but we need to get over this lifelong kiwi mindset. If you left the country, you left the country. Dont whine on Facebook from London about how you miss certain things about NZ and expect sympathy. Come home or turn over a new page.
Coalition trying to defy history with backing of wind-up merchants
Labelling this as a free speech issue, in my opinion, relegates their opinions to the same place that conspiracy theorists and cult leaders speak from. This is an insult to the very valid arguments raised by Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux. One thing most of us can all agree on is that the status quo, when it comes to Islamic terrorism in this world, is unacceptable. Anyone who agrees with this notion at least needs to hear these people out.Also, lets be clear on one other thing. They arent anti-feminist, they are anti-third wave feminism, which basically equates to anti-people who are against anything ever done by men. Thats not feminism.
Budget Buster: The hotness pay gap is plain wrong
I was cynical reading the first half, dreading the possibility of us being introduced to yet another apparently oppressed group of people in society. But the second half turned around for me. To a large extent, we each have a huge amount of influence over how we all appear and present ourselves to the world. If we dont like the image the world sees of us, nobody cares about changing that any more than ourselves.
Editorial: The media is not the enemy
And who fact-checks the media? I believe Lauren Southern is one person who does that and calls them out on fabricating stories. Oh wait, hang on, wasnt she one of the people the MSM persecuted and accused of making all kinds of 0 statements, managed to get her talk shut down, then gloated about it?Now do you see why we dont trust you?
Being cold and rationing heating is now normal in New Zealand
Lets not make this another National vs Labour issue. The issue is that a lot of NZ homes are hard to heat, and that the cost to do so to an acceptable standard is too great for some households. As Ive said before, theres a lot of talk at the moment about minimum standards for rental properties, but please dont forget there are plenty of poorly designed homes owned by their occupants as well.
Hillary Clinton's third run for US president? 'It could happen'
Trump runs for presidency, and the Democrats try and counter it by putting up one of the least likeable presidential candidates the world has ever seen... then wonder why they lost?
How do people choose their baby's last name - it's more complicated than you think
Heres a thought.... let couples choose whose surname they want to give their children. In other words... the exact way it is today. Its their choice. Dont tell them how to name their own kids just because the outdated tradition doesnt fit with your personal agenda.
Latest gaming craze Fortnite hooks children
I think the point Green Machine was making is that there will ALWAYS be something like Fortnite, that is the in thing and lures kids in, causing problems of one form or another. Fidget Spinners, Beyblades, Minecraft, Roblox, Pokemon, Pokemon Go.... Sheesh, I can remember the 90s where things like Tamagotchi toys caused widespread pandemonium, and even chatter rings (toys with no electronics in them whatsoever) did the same. Theres always something there ready to adopt the kids as they tire of the latest craze, and theres always people who are going to complain about the negative impacts of them. The only part we can control is to parent responsibly.
Coalition trying to defy history with backing of wind-up merchants
Youd probably think differently if you were still living in South Africa today. Lauren has produced an entire documentary on the reverse apartheid thats developing there, how (for farmers at least) its becoming the next Zimbabwe).
Inheritance tax good economics, and the politics may be better than they seem
If the govt dont want wealth passing on from one generation to the next because they think thats unfair on the families who arent wealthy, perhaps they might want to reconsider their position as part of the commonwealth. After all, the commonwealth is led by a group of people who have done nothing but be born to the right parents, and seem to have a lot more wealth than the average person. Just saying.
No-one intended comments that spooked Massey University to be taken as threats
So, if gangs are so great for society, lets see them hold open days. Surely theyd be open to letting the world see what fantastic things they get up to behind their 0 image of being intimidating.
Priority 'investments' in warmth and wellbeing for renters and homeowners
Except if everything else in your house is cold, youll attract mildew to some surfaces. Last year I tried being one of those frugal types who avoids using heaters unless necessary, but I found a tiny covering of mildew on some internal doors and low shelves. Regardless of how hard you work to dry the air, NZ humidity is usually high enough to cause moisture to condense on cold surfaces in winter. You dont want that being anything in your house.
Our power bill is $70 - and we don't go without
The one thing we havent seen in this article is their home. How big is it, and how new is it? Old homes (pre 2000) are notoriously poorly designed in most cases, and its a fluke if they harness the sun for anything of use in the winter. Its certainly not by design.Although, as others have said, the fireplace makes this situation an unfair comparison to any NZer who uses electric heating and doesnt have the choice to forage for free power.
Sri Lankans boycott Anchor butter after Fonterra refuses to include Tamil language on packaging
Tamil is spoken by a mere 15 percent of the populationAnchor has been supplying their products to Sri Lanka for 40 years.This has suddenly become a problem today because??
How to get fibre installed
Just because a city has been upgraded to fibre, doesnt mean fibre is available everywhere. According to the UFB map, practically everywhere in my city has fibre now.... except my suburb. Im sure this is the case in most cities.
Red card mars All Blacks match with France down to 14-men from the 12th minute
Whether or not it was a genuine foul, sooner or later were going to get a case where a genuine red card offence is commited. The problem is, red card punishments ruin the game for EVERYONE. They are the sports equivalent of keeping an entire class in at lunch time because one student misbehaved in maths class. They say Your offence was so severe, that this game has to be awful for everyone.Easy solution - send the player off for the entire game, but allow them to sub a replacement on after 10 minutes, so at least its 15 vs 15.
No-one intended comments that spooked Massey University to be taken as threats
Just imagine if the shoe was on the other foot (if gangs were supporting Brash). The response would have been very different.This isnt about free speech. Its about thought control.
French fullback Benjamin Fall should not have been sent off World Rugby says, red card cancelled
I agree completely. The idea of penalising both teams, and all spectators with an inferior brand of rugby for the remainder of the game reminds me of an overly strict high school teacher who keeps the whole class in at lunch time for the actions of one student. Making a team play with 14 players for the remainder of the match also reminds me of something youd expect to see at primary school sport, and no higher.
Solar panel heater made from empty cans costs almost nothing to run
Im not sure if thats accurate (that a solar air heater is no less efficient than a window). But even if we assume youre right, a window is only useful in a room where theres a window that receives sunlight. For houes with poor layout where adding a north-facing window simply isnt possible, this unit would at least allow those rooms to be heated and allow the materials inside to retain thermal mass.
"Massey University's $700k flight simulator like a Diamond in the sky
Which is precisely why Massey ALSO have a fleet of aircraft they use for training.
"Massey University's $700k flight simulator like a Diamond in the sky
Only slight problem with that is, how do you have multi-crew using VR headsets and seeing each other as well as the flight deck environment? Also, youve got to remember, aviation is full of standards. Its highly unlikely that any kind of desktop PC-based VR flight simulator would be accredited to use in place of actual flight training.
Treaty of Waitangi: What was lost
Im interested to know what all these virtue signalling white commenters actually want to happen. How long should we run inverse discrimination for until the debt is repaid? Can we define a number and agree on that? Or, is that not enough and are you proposing we actually hand our land back to the MÄori? If thats what you mean, then just say it, and lets have conversations about that. It just seems like all we want to do on the subject is cry about the injustice and perpetually imbalance entitlements as a result.
No-one intended comments that spooked Massey University to be taken as threats
Careful. Youre using the same collectivist attitude that got us here in the first place. Saying that you suddenly wont trust anything ever produced by Massey misses the fact that one person made this decision. The vice chancellor doesnt peer-review academic literature. Also, are you proposing to rewrite history and veto anything produced under all previous vice-chancellors of the University as well?
French fullback Benjamin Fall should not have been sent off World Rugby says, red card cancelled
Cancelling a red card... what difference will that make since the game has been played?? Next thing theyll be saying we felt the wind was too strong in the first half, so weve re-written history so that it wasnt.
Solar panel heater made from empty cans costs almost nothing to run
This concept needs mainstream attention in NZ, where many of our older homes are terribly laid out. If you live in a house like I do (a long house, aligned north/south) theres one entire end of the house that virtually never gets sunlight throughout the day. Something like this on the roof would solve a lot of the issues at that end of the house. For an installation like this, Id rather get the professionals to do it. I looked for someone to do it, but do you think I was able to find someone who was willing to?
Parking restrictions in Feilding could be introduced
Perhaps this informal agreement needs to be written down. It doesnt say whether there are signs by the carparks outside shops that indicate they are ideally for customer use only. If not, how are people supposed to know?I would personally be a bit annoyed, if I parked in a carpark I believed was free and there were no signs contradicting this, to be told I couldnt park there. At the very least, some nicely-worded signs would be a good start.
All Blacks' dominance not damaging test rugby – but their rivals' inertia is
The big difference between watching live sport and watching a movie has always been that, at least with sport, you have no idea what the outcome will be. Its not predetermined. Its totally down to what happens during that competition.Unfortunately, with the All Blacks playing the way they are, any rugby involving them is rapidly heading to the same place. I dont think the All Blacks should be regulated in any way to make the game more interesting, but boy do I wish the rest of the world would join us so fixtures become more interesting.
Former Mutton Birds' front man Don McGlashan announces New Zealand tour
The best concert Ive ever been to was when I saw the Mutton Birds on their tour after they just returned from overseas, in late 1999 from memory. McGlashan was such an amazing frontman, and the way they performed all their songs live just breathed so much life into them.
"Apple to unveil iPad, MacBook laptop overhauls
I know exactly what one of the new iPad features will be: a base model price tag well over $1000.
Wellington students say they're treated like 'second-class citizens' on city buses
We seem to have arrived at a stage where the first thing a lot of people do when they feel wronged is to go straight to the media. I dont see anything about previous cases having been followed up between parents and Metlink. Surely, these students know the number of the bus they were on and the time of the service. This would all be useful information to give to Metlink whilst raising a complaint. But instead, its the usual line of going straight to the media. Im not saying I support this behaviour, if it has been going on. But the point is, nobodys given any facts, and the story is heavily one-sided in its current state.
Capital gains tax punishes hard work
Its really easy to use the property flipping we heard about pre-election as an example of why a capital gains tax is justified. After all, if someone rocks up, buys a house, then sells it later that day and makes money from it, how should they escape tax?But those scenarios are outliers. If I start a business, work really hard for years, paying tax in doing so, then sell it for a profit, why should I pay tax?
North Canterburys shame on you parking warrior comes forward
This woman is a good example of leave it to the professionals. Her communication could really use an overhaul. For starters, calling them handicapped... but more than that, when you start your message out on the offensive with a judgemental statement like Shame on you what do you think its going to do, besides aggravate people? How about something thats a little more friendly, and gives the benefit of the doubt?