Posts by Thomas Johnson
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Taken a Horopito Motors (Smash Palace), a slightly fantastic Peugeot.
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On the Flickr deluge, I thought this was a clever interpretation.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to uroskin,
Don't let the facts bother you, will you Uroskin?
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to 3410,
Yep, attempting to clean up without safety equipment and training is a bad idea. Just remind where Goff said that locals should do that.
Perhaps where he is pictured leading by example, cleaning up in a business suit with no protective gear and (I'm confident in claiming) no training?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/rena-crisis/5776792/Visiting-politicians-dig-in
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On regulation, the Democratic party response in the USA was the Dodd-Frank law, 2100 pages that enact ~400 new rules that each need further work. After a year it seems that the regulators are running way behind on implementing these. There is a massive cost involved too, both on the state and those subject to the regulation. Will the country be better off for this effort? Who knows! I guess a lot of lawyers, accountants and lobbyists will be better off though.
I haven't done a detailed examination of this but the concept of "lets just regulate - it's easy and it will make everything right!" is fatally flawed.
Best comment I have seen on the OWS is "Be careful of what you wish for"
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Sacha,
Thank you.
Oddly (or not) the main reason I remembered the SAS one is because I had a "Good Heavens, is that John Key being interviewed on Morning Report" moment while in the shower.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I agree that short term it will have to be governments taking intelligent regulatory measures, but they will be evaded.
It seems (perhaps superficially) that most of the regulatory responses have made things worse, and only pandered to a different group of special interests. I have a suspicion that the problem is beyond regulation in some ways.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Sacha,
Same. Last date when Key was interviewed live on RNZ Morning Report would do.
He was interviewed following the recent SAS death - 29 September?
Here's the link.
Here's another from 23 September on Pike River
You can apologise to Craig now.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Russell Brown,
Which does rather suggest Radio NZ got a complaint from the PM's office.
Well, if that turns out to be the case then I'll be disappointed. At least RNZ management should have had the guts to make a decision themselves for their own reasons.
I do recall that Hooten was booted some time back after a particularly torrid Politics session on the pledge card, so there is form there - a search indicated it was back in March 2006 when Labour was in power.
Kiwibloglink to that issue.
