Oz @Greens @MehreenFaruqi prioritises pandering to perpetual students in the #COVID19 crisis
13 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
OP BURNHAM INQUIRY
02 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
The Operation Burnham Inquiry Report has been released. You can access it at https://operationburnham.inquiry.govt.nz/inquiry-report/
It is a comprehensive, fair and balanced document as you might expect from two pre-eminent jurists … Sir Terrance Arnold and Sir Geoffrey Palmer. Some observations ….
The catalyst for the inquiry was the book ‘Hit & Run’ co-authored by Nikki Hagar and Jon Stephenson (although I understand that Stephenson may have since resiled from some of the claims in the book). Twas fascinating to see Hagar claim on TV that the report vindicated him. It did not. I quote directly from the report, Section 1, para 63 et seq …
However, the principal allegations in Hit & Run about the conduct of TF81 personnel on Operations Burnham and Nova are not accurate. First, the operations were not revenge operations; nor were they “ill-conceived”. There were legitimate reasons for them—there was reliable intelligence indicating there were…
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So @eugeniesage @mfe_news haven’t a clue if @plasticbagfascism is even a drop in the ocean
29 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
Mugged By Reality – in Three Tweets
28 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
In an earlier post – Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive – I noted an ESPN reporter who rapidly evolved from being a BLM “Burn that shit down” supporter to angrily denouncing “these animals” invading his neighbourhood.
Something similar happened again the other day, this time in Seattle, where it seems Antifa/BLM are having another crack at things after the murderous failure of CHAZ.
Paul Gallant is a talk show host at 710 ESPN Seattle. He’s the co-host of “Danny and Gallant”, weekday mornings on the channel.
Back when Seattle was not dealing with CHAZ and President Trump was calling out the mayor’s uselessness, Gallant responded in an interesting way.
“Chill Dawg.” That is so cool, even with the cultural appropriation, but then he is a sports reporter. It sounds much like the “peaceful protests” headline being pushed…
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Upgrading The Past
27 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
Between crappy TV cameras and 16mm film cameras that only ran at 12fps (frames per second), it’s fair to say that video coverage of the Apollo missions to the Moon could have been better.
How much better? Well, the idea of using a computer to build new frames in between the old ones, to get the video up to the standard 24fps, has been around for decades. Basically each pixel in a new frame would have to be created and its movement between frames calculated so that the transition was smooth to the human eye. Plus calculating all the other things like colour, contrast and so forth. Throw in the idea of upgrading the picture to HD or even 4K and your multiplying the workload by orders of magnitude.
It could have been done decades ago on supercomputers but they were too expensive to be used for such frippery, and…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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