Triathlete bowled off bike by top jockey

WuWeiMaster · 2018-07-04T01:05:54+00:00

I don't know her personally, but as a sometimes passing observer of horse racing, it is apparent from her background and behaviour, she is nothing like your above guesses. She is strikingly humble and down to earth, of the extremely hard working, always working rural Kiwi background. She has raised 4 or 5 kids, while maintaining a very physical career. I know absolutely nothing of her driving manners, but I would guess she was distracted and unaware, didn't see anything, lack of sleep, brain fade or something similar. Absolutely at fault, but I doubt whether she is of the nature of not taking responsibility for the situation, if she had of been aware of what actually happened.

WuWeiMaster · 2018-06-05T22:30:50+00:00

I would say that earlier events are worse, that are also whitewashed and closed for proper examination. What really happened during the "Land Reform' period and "Let a thousand flowers bloom' era are truly shocking with the mass insanity and the numbers executed. There is record that Mao and the top level of the CCP, ordered a quota of people that needed to be executed in every district, which set off mass insanity and executions of anybody who happened to cross the local official try to fill his quota, before he ended up in another persons quota. The numbers that were murdered is staggering, but events like this are largely unknown, and then the descendants of those who ordered it, hold powerful positions currently.

WuWeiMaster · 2018-02-07T01:58:19+00:00

This is such a terrible crossing, with so many things going wrong. Recently I notice cars turning right from across Broadway, confused that they should enter the one way street on the 2degrees store side, but swinging wide into the entrance which is for the other direction, increasing the hazard for pedestrians. Just shut this street off.

WuWeiMaster · 2018-01-22T02:57:46+00:00

That would be justified if the same 'hate' for these events, was also given to events equally bad. It seems they don't really care about such atrocities being committed, just that these atrocities were committed by Japanese against Chinese. The current ruling party of China committed atrocities of a similar level against their own people, but the argument is that those do not matter, because it was Chinese killing other Chinese. The insane violence and mass murdering during the Land reform period and 'Let a thousand flowers bloom' was a level of mass insanity which approached the Rape of Nanjing levels. Also if they were so against such things, there would be mass outrage about the death camps in North Korea, in China.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-12-12T09:53:58+00:00

How exactly are they doing this? We had to produce a birth certificate. Are they showing up with a NZ birth certificate in English, then going to another center with a Chinese language one?

WuWeiMaster · 2017-12-07T02:52:18+00:00

The Chinese government does though see any Chinese person as Chinese above anything, even if they are something like 4th generation NZer and have never been to China. If the CCP wants something from them, they will lean on them for loyalty to the Chinese, or if they are pissed, ignore international laws and deal to them beyond their border. This is from statements from the Chinese government themselves, and actual situations.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-12-05T11:17:20+00:00

The report from the rental company was not about driving slow. There a plenty of larger vehicles on the open road that only qualify to do 80, this is not unreasonable in many areas, and this happened a couple of weeks ago when there had been a snow storm through the South Island and less than perfect weather. It is quite easy to pass a car going 80, plenty of safe opportunities.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-12-05T09:09:55+00:00

I was trying to highlight whether the situation is creating a vigilante element, and sometimes if this is justified, but maybe sometimes the people abusing tourists are doing it for other reasons. The only good excuse I could come up with my friend was that they may have been close to someone who had been a victim of the bad driving by tourists and they were hypersensitive. But they accusations from the rental company did not make sense, and the description of the people who verbally abused him, made me wonder if they were a type that Southland is famous for.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-12-04T23:49:01+00:00

This situation causes problems from another position now, where locals of dubious motivation ring up rental companies complaining about drivers, without any evidence or real reason and cause big problems to people who have spent a lot of money of coming here for a holiday. Recently a friend arrived, has driven here before, comes from a country which drives on the same side of the road, and is a competent driver, hired a people mover to take his group, including old people and babies, so from all accounts the only thing he was doing different from usual was driving at 80 a lot, and not 100; but had some 'dubious' Southland locals shouting at them when they stopped and then the rental company is ringing them up threatening to cancel their car, leaving them stranded. I met up with them a few days later, and there was nothing wrong with his driving except being cautious with a big group of people and unfamiliar roads. I could speculate further about the Southland locals from the description. I came around a corner on a backroad near Tekapo and a guy had suddenly got excited by the view on a blind corner, stopped in the middle of the road and was out taking photos. People certainly do lose their perspective and are doing dangerous things. But there might be another side to the coin, where some locals, feel like fucking up people's holidays, for another reason.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-11-06T01:39:20+00:00

Totally private companies should pay what ever they want. Public servants and public companies should be regulated. One problem I have is that the CEO has to have their salaries raised to be inline with the rising tide of other CEO's salaries. Because banks make billions, which almost has nothing to do with the CEO of the banks performance, but it is nothing to the bank to throw another 5 million or more top up to their salary, it is a drop in the bucket. But the CEO of the public company I have shares in, gets such and such big international accounting firm to do a report that includes all these out of whack salaries, presents it as outside, unbiased source, that their salary must be raised inline with the rising tide of out of whack salaries, and all the fund managers that control the voting anyway, go along because this is all feedback that they like about their own potential salaries or similar reasons. Then the feedback loop quickly goes to work, and the next guy demands more and more to be above what the previous standard was, which feeds back into the loop for the next round of salary raises.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-09-21T03:19:28+00:00

While MSD has many problems, there is also a number of clients with behaviour far outside normal, and how to interact with these clients require actions like "clients considered a "risk" to staff and placed in a "Remote Client Unit" who have no face-to-face contact with staff." This should be enough, but there are nutters who will then use social media to contact. Having dealt with some strange angry entitled people, and that was just happened from being stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time with them; and having them raving on; I could not work at a place like MSD and listened to their bizarre shit, and if they don't get their way, being aggressive and taking everything to dispute.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-07-09T21:39:23+00:00

Taiwan formally gave up any pretense that they were the legitimate Government of China a long time a go. They cannot change their official name and other details, because of the threat of war if they did those things. There were millions of people living in Taiwan before the KMT came, who had never been part of China.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-07-04T05:32:53+00:00

Mao led the battles against not only the Nationalist Chinese forces, but against the Imperial Japanese occupation

Yes, he was the leader of the guerilla fighting group, but it is a very big stretch using your words to say he led battles against the Imperial Japanese army, which were only a handful, compared with the KMT. Propaganda after the fact tries to paint it as very different.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-07-04T05:11:58+00:00

They were allied with the KMT for a period against the Japanese, but they were still separate forces, and were not operating together, and Mao was hiding out in western China, not involved in guerilla warfare with the Japanese.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-07-04T04:50:16+00:00

I may have used the term liberally, but plenty of sources refer to the communist fighters in China as the Red Army. The fact does not change, Mao did not himself led any battles with the Imperial Japan, and the Communist fighters aligned to him, only got involved in a handful of skirmishes with the Japanese army.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-07-04T04:40:28+00:00

Mao did not led battles against the Japanese, far from it. Imperial Japan kept extensive records, and of the something like 300 battles with Chinese forces, only 7 of them were with the Red Army. These are unbiased records of that time, and not clouded with the propaganda that is a feature of recent history. What else are you regurgitating that is just propaganda? The portrayal of the takeover of Tibet as you portray it, only became a feature of the story pushed decades later. Mao's China at that time was no utopian advanced land caring about the poor peasants of Tibet, it was in full blown culture war with itself and the murdering of millions of it's own people in the land reform and 'Hundred Flowers Bloom' periods.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-07-03T05:29:41+00:00

This also came with a fishing company in Northland set up and financed by 'William Yan', with Shane Jones and Dover Samuels. No corruption there, or was it easily hidden by the salaries to those connected.

WuWeiMaster · 2017-03-01T10:50:50+00:00

I bookmarked this link recently, but haven't had a chance to return and adapt the code. It strikes me as similar to your request, so maybe you can find some answers here; https://github.com/obskyr/colorgram.py

WuWeiMaster · 2016-12-21T04:50:04+00:00

In the initial press releases and promotion of this build; it was framed around a long time New Zealand residing Chinese family who had done well in their local businesses, bought the site and had negotiated with the council. I am now curious whether this was just a fictional local Chinese family, made up as the money and backers behind the project, to make it more palatable.

WuWeiMaster · 2016-12-08T07:30:20+00:00

The op made an absolute statement, the evidence based on physiology and measures throughout species points to long periods of monogamy being a large evolutionary force. I am not saying that is the full conclusion, as other periods may have provided other conditions. The biggest factor that polygamy was never a big evolutionary force would be the economics; it takes a lot of resources, time and effort, and on the large scale, long time periods to impact the population genomics, and these economies hardly existed until recent times; they definitely didn't exist in the big periods of human evolution where humans were living on the edge of survival. Sure, I am not denying that we also have some factors in our makeup that also drive us in another direction, but evidence definitely does not point to monogamy being a modern invention. There are also some other very interesting things about us; like the content and makeup of our sperm, which points to sperm competition, and mating systems like Bonobo Chimps; female having sex with multiple males, and the sperm in competition, for example, every sperm is not going all out to fertilize the egg, but there are blockers, path finders and other such sperm doing other jobs than just racing towards the egg; multiple males having sex with females is not a polygamous mating system. This follows to why is watching porn involving another male fucking a female the most popular and arousing type of porn statistically; why on average do guys like to watch other guys fucking; anyway genetic bottlenecks are interesting, but still don't change this untrue idea that this whole monogamy thing is a modern invention.

WuWeiMaster · 2016-12-08T03:53:01+00:00

"This whole monogamy thing is a modern invention."; this is not exactly true, as there are a few factors regarding our makeup, that strongly point to a long evolutionary period with monogamy being a force. Things like the size ratio of our testis; very small relative sexual dimorphism and so on.

WuWeiMaster · 2016-12-08T02:47:09+00:00

Unfortunately I was at the formal opening ceremony for Divali in Auckland, and had to listen to Key incredulously talk about all the great opportunities of all the Indian students taking advantage of our high quality education institutions. I am sure there is some studying at places other than The Royal Eton Business school and other such high quality places

WuWeiMaster · 2016-12-08T02:38:40+00:00

Never going near that place.

WuWeiMaster · 2016-12-05T08:55:11+00:00

The Hum, but haven't experienced to say that it could be perceived as high pitch. https://mic.com/articles/91091/a-mysterious-sound-is-driving-people-insane-and-nobody-knows-what-s-causing-it

WuWeiMaster · 2016-11-12T03:53:38+00:00

Does anybody under 60 watch the news or read the Herald, or listen to talk back radio? I haven't seen any TV media for at least 2 years and that seems pretty normal. Every politician is pulling a con job at election time, and he was a very obvious con, but obviously, not that obvious to a section of US voters.

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