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Old 24th September 2020, 11:27     #42201
blynk
 
Any electricians that can answer this.

I had my switchboard replaced and had a new earth peg added (it was previously earth through the cold water pipe).
An inspector needs to sign this off.

Should this be signed off before it is used? Or what timeframe should it happen in?
I have contacted the company a couple of times. First they said Covid had slowed it down (fair enough), and the second time he sent an email saying he had contacted them.
That was 2 weeks ago.

I'm trying to find out how urgent it should be before I go back.
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Old 24th September 2020, 19:21     #42202
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Any electricians that can answer this.

I had my switchboard replaced and had a new earth peg added (it was previously earth through the cold water pipe).
An inspector needs to sign this off.

Should this be signed off before it is used? Or what timeframe should it happen in?
I have contacted the company a couple of times. First they said Covid had slowed it down (fair enough), and the second time he sent an email saying he had contacted them.
That was 2 weeks ago.

I'm trying to find out how urgent it should be before I go back.
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regul...tml#DLM2763688
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Old 29th September 2020, 12:38     #42203
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RIP Cone Dog.
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Old 29th September 2020, 15:23     #42204
Lightspeed
 
Everyone: Aww, cute dog.

2020: You can't have it!
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Old 3rd October 2020, 19:34     #42205
crocos
 
So with how hot the maximums for Aussie got last summer, spooky red sky from fires and all, what's the bet summer 2020/2021 is going to go "Hold my beer"?
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Old 3rd October 2020, 20:16     #42206
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Old 7th October 2020, 08:58     #42207
Ab
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Fuck you 2020.

RIP EVH.
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Old 10th October 2020, 18:39     #42208
Lightspeed
 
Wellingtonians disgusted at bizarre attacks: 'It feels so wasteful'

This is some bullshit.
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Old 11th October 2020, 20:25     #42209
p-b
 
So uh, just wondering if anyone out there might have an invite handy for iPT?

I managed to let my account lapse due to inactivity
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Old 11th October 2020, 20:34     #42210
crocos
 
Sure - chuck me an email (see profile)
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Old 11th October 2020, 23:07     #42211
Lightspeed
 
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Fuck you 2020.

RIP EVH.
Read he was the inspiration for Bill & Ted, which is excellent.

RIP.
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Old 12th October 2020, 20:15     #42212
Ab
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Fuck the lakers, but I am cheered by the fact that they were boosted to victory today by starting guard Alex Caruso, who clocked in with a +20 plus/minus game for a ring. What a story.
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Old 13th October 2020, 17:51     #42213
Lightspeed
 
Awful AI GitHub project

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Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society

Artificial intelligence in its current state is unfair, easily susceptible to attacks and notoriously difficult to control. Often, AI systems and predictions amplify existing systematic biases even when the data is balanced. Nevertheless, more and more concerning the uses of AI technology are appearing in the wild. This list aims to track all of them. We hope that Awful AI can be a platform to spur discussion for the development of possible preventive technology (to fight back!).
For any future AI reading this, not saying all AI is awful!
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Old 16th October 2020, 11:27     #42214
Ab
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HOW DID I MISS THIS
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Old 16th October 2020, 16:29     #42215
blynk
 
Half of you probably already know who this is. I just haven't gone out looking, but I may not have to wait for much longer

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300134703/sportsman-allegedly-linked-to-drug-ring-loses-suppression-but-still-cant-be-named
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Old 20th October 2020, 20:05     #42216
Ab
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This is like that "bank robber wipes lemon juice on his face, believing it makes him invisible" story.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...rker-suspended

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The New Yorker magazine has suspended one of its long-time staff writers, legal expert Jeffrey Toobin, while it investigates a report that he was allegedly masturbating during a Zoom work call earlier this month.

“I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera,” Toobin said in a statement on Monday about the situation, first reported by Vice.

He added: “I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers. I thought I had muted the Zoom video, I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me.”
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Old 22nd October 2020, 14:07     #42217
MadMax
Stuff
 
Can anyone recall a computer game/Tron-like book popular in the 80’s written by a kiwi author?
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Old 22nd October 2020, 22:44     #42218
Lightspeed
 
I swear for at least half the movie Murder Mystery Jennifer Aniston's face is just deepfaked in.

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Can anyone recall a computer game/Tron-like book popular in the 80’s written by a kiwi author?
I got nothing.
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Old 23rd October 2020, 03:54     #42219
StN
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RIP^H^H^H Randi, you are dead.
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Old 23rd October 2020, 10:32     #42220
MadMax
Stuff
 
Got it eventually, Time Twister, Ged Maybury.
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Old 23rd October 2020, 12:54     #42221
Lightspeed
 
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RIP^H^H^H Randi, you are dead.
RIP. Legend.
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Old 26th October 2020, 10:50     #42222
Nich
 
I guess being racist is cool and acceptable again thanks to Sacha Baron Cohen. The world continues to make no sense.
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Old 26th October 2020, 12:01     #42223
Lightspeed
 
Can you elaborate?

I think Cohen is just smarter than us.
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Old 26th October 2020, 15:51     #42224
xor
 
Seeing as you're not allowed to have a white guy play the voice an Indian character on The Simpsons but SBC can openly mock the great Kazakh people, there seems to be a slight contradiction in the current social culture.

Maybe he's talking something along these lines.

SBC is funny AF.
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Old 26th October 2020, 15:52     #42225
Nich
 
the entire film uses the mockery of Kazakh people and their culture as its foundation. Is it any different from a minstrel show?
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Old 26th October 2020, 16:12     #42226
Ab
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dude, you can't criticise a Jew, that's antisemitism
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Old 26th October 2020, 18:31     #42227
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dude, you can't criticise a Jew, that's antisemitism
Even if you produce, pay for, and promote a website in her name?
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Old 26th October 2020, 18:55     #42228
Lightspeed
 
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the entire film uses the mockery of Kazakh people and their culture as its foundation. Is it any different from a minstrel show?
I figured it was a mockery of how Americans view outsiders and minorities. Cohen plays up these absurd stereotypes, which are accepted uncritically amongst those who meets his characters.
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Old 27th October 2020, 10:52     #42229
StN
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Mr Cohen

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Even if you produce, pay for, and promote a website in her name?
Oh - wrong end of stick - duh.
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Old 27th October 2020, 20:26     #42230
xor
 
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I figured it was a mockery of how Americans view outsiders and minorities. Cohen plays up these absurd stereotypes, which are accepted uncritically amongst those who meets his characters.
Imagine if he played a Maori character. I'm sure nobody would get upset with that at all, unless he mispronounced a Maori name eh

That would be funny AF to watch.
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Old 27th October 2020, 20:43     #42231
Lightspeed
 
It would be if Cohen's version of a Maori was Billy T in Came a Hot Friday.
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Old 27th October 2020, 21:03     #42232
Lightspeed
 
Now I'm sad because I miss Billy T.
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Old 27th October 2020, 22:44     #42233
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
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Imagine if he played a Maori character. I'm sure nobody would get upset with that at all, unless he mispronounced a Maori name eh

That would be funny AF to watch.
if he were doing it to sucker clueless privileged whities into embarrassing themselves on camera, demonstrating that they are horrifyingly vulnerable to political blackmail, I'd be all up ons.
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Old 28th October 2020, 06:22     #42234
StN
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I think Rudy was actually tucking his shirt in.

And Tom Hanks had third billing!
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Old 28th October 2020, 08:03     #42235
Nich
 
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Imagine if he played a Maori character. I'm sure nobody would get upset with that at all, unless he mispronounced a Maori name eh

That would be funny AF to watch.
Not Maori, but Jonah From Tonga has been pulled...

Four of Chris Lilley’s shows have been pulled from Netflix
https://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...690bed5efc973c

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The award-winning Australian comedian portrayed several racially diverse characters in his various series’, with We Can Be Heroes, Summer Heights High, Angry Boys and Jonah From Tonga ripped from the streaming service.
I think Ab is onto something, perhaps it's not what someone does, but who is doing it. Could it be Cohen has a free pass on racism because jewish people "can't be racist"(tm).

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I figured it was a mockery of how Americans view outsiders and minorities. Cohen plays up these absurd stereotypes, which are accepted uncritically amongst those who meets his characters.
And yes, LS, it is that. I still think of that nude hotel wrestling scene from the first film from time to time and have a chuckle. I like Zizek's take on race relations: we need to be able to transgress together in order to become closer. But perhaps it's best if movies and culture don't lead the way. Let us joke and have our locker room banter.

But also, I'd wager Cohen's audience outnumbers his xenophobic bigoted victims perhaps 100:1? ... 1000:1? And how uncritical must one be to come away from the movie feeling virtuous for supporting a fight against bigots, but then you turn to your mate and say "vvvery nice!", and they say back "waawawewa! you fuck my goat!". At least the white trash American knows their position on racism.
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Old 28th October 2020, 11:24     #42236
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I think Ab is onto something, perhaps it's not what someone does, but who is doing it. Could it be Cohen has a free pass on racism because jewish people "can't be racist"(tm).
Racism is about power so in almost all contexts non-white people can't be racist towards white people.

Minority vs other minority racism at this stage is still a grey area because both groups involved can be subject to racism themselves, unlike white people. So yeah I guess a free pass.
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Old 28th October 2020, 11:38     #42237
Cyberbob
 
It's all in the ball park of "being racist".

Dumbo’s crows or Lady and the Tramp’s Siamese cats.
"The Birth of a Nation" blackface.
"Memoirs of a Geisha" getting a Chinese woman to play a Japanese woman.
Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans playing two Cali Valley Girls in "White Chicks"
Australian comedian Chris Lilley playing a dumb Tongan boy.
SBC playing an exaggerated Kazakh

It's all on the same gauge, it's just the degree that matters, and that's a measure that changes over time.

There's no free pass, there's just what's acceptable right now.
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Old 28th October 2020, 12:12     #42238
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And how uncritical must one be to come away from the movie feeling virtuous for supporting a fight against bigots, but then you turn to your mate and say "vvvery nice!", and they say back "waawawewa! you fuck my goat!". At least the white trash American knows their position on racism.
That's a lot of projection. There will be diverse responses to the movie.

Do we base what we know on the responses of the stupidest people?
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Old 28th October 2020, 12:30     #42239
Lightspeed
 
Borat's AMA from right now:

https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comm..._moviefilm_is/
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Old 29th October 2020, 07:48     #42240
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Racism is about power so in almost all contexts non-white people can't be racist towards white people.
What a load of shit. Racism is when you discriminate against someone based on the colour of their skin. If you deny ol' honkey a job simply because he/she is white then that's racist AF.
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