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In reply to Concern over new downloading laws:

you've just commented on a post that's more than a year old -- You can catchup on latest developments in copyright law over at http://creativefreedom.org.nz

I don't understand why you're concerned about the size of the files you download. nowhere in the legislation does it say "if someone downloads big files, disconnect them"...

The old, flawed law amounted to "if a copyright holder accuses someone, the ISP had better disconnect them to avoid liability". nothing about what size file.. heck, you might not have used your connection at all for 6 months, you only needed to be accused, not proven, of repeated copyright infringement.

what about ps3 , some of the

In reply to Concern over new downloading laws:

what about ps3 , some of the content i d/l is the size of a movie . i pay for psn content . does this mean they will ban me for being legal , i also d/l linux .. now will i be doomed for d/l a legal free product , i guess wifi hacking will be more wide spread , i am atm scanning for open connections ..

Wow a post about me :) A lot

In reply to Two types of greenies:

Wow a post about me :)
A lot of what i do is to save money, it's cheaper for me to make my own laundry liquid than it is to buy the cheap stuff which is harsh on the enviroment as well as giving me a rash.
It's cheaper for me to make my own modern cloth nappies than it is to use dispoables or to buy premade modern cloth nappies.
It's cheaper for me to grown my own veg and either freeze or bottle excess for out of season than it is to buy fresh.
BUT there is still a lot more that i can do. I'm trying to give up plastic bags and paper towels.

Also I am a stay at home mum i have the time to spend on this, depending on what i'm doing my son can help me too. I do realise that not everyone has the time to make either own cleaners (although most can be made from water, white vinegar and baking soda and can be made up as you need them so don't take a lot of time at all) So there are more eco friendly products that are available to buy in the shops, yes they cost a bit more but isn't the planet worth it?

If water had a memory then of

In reply to Homeopathy fans to testify.:

If water had a memory then of course it would also remember being surrounded by fish guts, or urine, or heavy metals, so my favourite explanation of homeopathy is where water's memory is only stored by shaking it ten times in various directions: left, right, up, then down.

So homeopathy is like a Nintendo Entertainment System, and you have to power-up by shaking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#Preparation_of_remedies

People want to know the

In reply to Things i have learned about baby clothes:

People want to know the gender of a baby for conversation purposes (ie to referring to baby as "it"), gendered clothing saves baby tourists from making a gender faux pas.

the house shot was taken by

In reply to Urewera dreaming:

the house shot was taken by my Dad on a work trip out there about a year ago.

The house shot is amazing;

In reply to Urewera dreaming:

The house shot is amazing; what a fit. Only in the Ureweras.

i hear through the grapevine

In reply to Wellington Community Network shuts down:

i hear through the grapevine that the server cost ~$100k / year to run.
which incidentally is the same cost as that fugly "wellywood" sign the council wants to install over miramar.

telstra were however part of

In reply to The truth about your ISP:

telstra were however part of the trial...
ut regardless, the technical issues with the filter are not speed, but rather the trivial methods for circumventing the filter.

Suspicious people were told

In reply to The truth about your ISP:

Suspicious people were told today in the paper the only isp's who have signed on to the filter are watchdog and maxnet.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10...

TCL is definitely shaping

In reply to The truth about your ISP:

TCL is definitely shaping YouTube video. It's been demonstrated that using an Australian YouTube cache as well as a VPN to the US is able to get the necessary speeds. It is the Google domain which is throttled, not anything else.

Interesting...a while back we

In reply to The truth about your ISP:

Interesting...a while back we got notice from Telstra they had upped our speed from 4 to 10mbps for free. Coincidently earlier on that day I discovered YouTube was running perfectly on my iPod for the first time...not long after that, a matter of days, my ability to view non-stop YouTube went down the tubes and has stayed that way. I hadn't wanted to think this might be what's happening but apparently it is...wonder if this new cable being talked of will help things along any!

A suspicious person would

In reply to The truth about your ISP:

A suspicious person would wonder if (a) ISPs are shaping video sites down to keep their international bandwidth charges down, or (b) the shit-tastic DIA filters are interfering with video-heavy sites.

You've got me beat. Woosh in

In reply to The truth about your ISP:

You've got me beat. Woosh in Auck is only getting 895. average. I've tried telecom and it dribbles along as well so who is getting the good speeds?

Is there any rationale for

In reply to Wellington Community Network shuts down:

Is there any rationale for this?

(It's like I'm reliving all the crappest bits of the 90s...)

What would it take/how much

In reply to Wellington Community Network shuts down:

What would it take/how much would it cost to keep it running? Is it as simple as paying for a VPS/server or does it require a sysadmin to maintain it to?

Wonderfull, sweet pictrue:)

In reply to Chilling:

Wonderfull, sweet pictrue:)

I highly doubt anything as

In reply to XO 1.5 laptops arrive:

I highly doubt anything as drastic as a DDR1 to DDR2 change will even happen in the XO 1.5. What we're looking at is similar to what game console manufacturers do as time goes on. Minor changes and removals to deal with supply issues and problematic parts and to make it cheaper to manufacture
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Probably employers pay women

In reply to New Zealand's gender pay gap.:

Probably employers pay women less because they can get away with it. I mean, it's sort of their goal to pay you as little as they can get away with, right?

I'm in my last year of school, and when I do a job interview and it comes up to "so, how much would you like to be paid?" I have no idea what to answer. "More than the last place" is as far as my brain can get. I suspect most students upon graduation don't know what they're worth or what they deserve.

So then you get into sociological things now. Are guys more likely to shoot high when asked how much they think they should be paid? Comparing payrates is still considered a bit of a faux pas. Are guys more likely to disregard that faux pas in order to make an informed request for compensation? What about negotiating?

The employers could very well be either:
A) asking the employee "what do you think you're worth?" and then relying on that employee's ego/confidence/sense-of-self-worth
B) low-balling and getting lucky when the women don't know to say / are afraid to say "that's not enough"

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Oh, and regarding "It's not because women take time off to raise children, because we're talking starting rates of someone who has just graduated from university." Sure it could be. It could be "well, she's going to get married and be pregnant in the next year or two anyway..."

i agree with

In reply to On breastfeeding:

i agree with julie...parenting is a hotbed of arguments and people telling you or thinking you are a terrible parent and they can't believe you don't or do (insert one of many examples here) in regards to your child. my son is 16 months old and i'm still breastfeeding him. i work part-time and tried expressing when he was wee but he wasn't having a bottle and i was cool with that as i found expressing painful and that it messed with my milk supply hence i gave it up relatively quickly. the longest he is in daycare is 7 hours without milk and he survives! my boobs are certainly full and sore by the end of the day but he feeds as soon as i pick him up and that goes away very quickly. i have made a choice to let him self-wean when he is ready. i don't miss drinking (although shock horror i do have a very small amount once in a blue moon), i absolutely love the connection and feeling i get from nourishing my son and i know he loves it too. i am training to be a midwife at the moment and breastfeeding is one of my major interest areas. we have a paper called 'lactation and breastfeeding' but i'm unsure as yet if we learn about bottle feeding and how to do this. i hope so, i would be worried if we didn't as i would feel there would be something missing in my knowledge base. i will admit that i do not understand it where mothers choose not to breastfeed there baby at all, even that research-proven all important cholosterum. i guess it's kind of like having children in the first place, there are women out there that can't have children at all and so dearly want one and then there are women that irresponsibly have children when they can't cope with or afford or even seem to want to have children. and so in the case of breastfeeding, there are women that so dearly want to be able to but can't because of physical reasons. but as always, it is a women's choice as to what she does with her body and whilst i might not understand not wanting to breastfeed because of whatever the reason may be - inconvenience, work, mental/emotional, etc - i do respect her choice. i also agree that there is too much shaming and disrespect in the realm of parenting - (most) people do the best they can in the best way that they know how and with the resources that they have. it's a hard enough job raising a child as it is let alone having the way you do it judged.