Posts by Kiwiiano
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Hard News: DNC 2016: Beyond weird, most…, in reply to Zach Bagnall,
The worry is that Bernie's supporters will storm off in a huff and not bother to vote, handing the Prez to Trump by default.
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Hard News: Hate and guns, in reply to Russell Brown,
I doubt that we'll see any sense until someone walks into either Congress or a big NRA meeting with a serious weapon and lets rip. So long as it's someone else's problem....
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Maybe cameras running at 1 frame per sec to speed the process. Computer analysis of the images? There's a lot at stake.
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Well don't just stand there moaning about his naff maths, queue up next time he's on talk-back and blast him there. Take his miscalculations apart piece by piece.
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And let's no forget that a UBI will be frittered away on things like groceries, electricity & petrol so will rapidly return to the Government as GST and other taxes. The money won't be squirreled away in Swiss or Panama bank accounts.
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I'm willing to believe that Apple does have very meagre margins on their retail prices, they always have. That's why whenever you see the TV ad trumpeting "25% OFF EVERYTHING IN STORE" there's always the fine print at the bottom of the screen "excludes Apple products" and why they're always keen to sell you added warranties, carry bags, etc etc, that's where any profits they hope to make come from. Apple takes the BIG slice of the pie between the Chinese factory and the tax haven where their accountants lurk.
But then NZ is wide open for being ripped off. Anyone wanna bet we don't eventually see Chinese owned & staffed farms, purchased with loans from Chinese banks @ exhorbitant interest that means the farms are barely viable😨, selling their milk to likewise owned processing plants with immigrant workers @ or near minimum wages, exporting on their own ships to wholesalers at a loss? It's been working in the Tourism industry. If it's not illegal it will happen. That's what predatory capitalism is all about.
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I, too, am hoping for another go at selecting the flag in a few years. But it raises the question as to a fair process, which the latest effort wasn't. How did the Canadian flag get selected. And how did it manage to get a Norwegian maple leaf on it rather than a Canadian ?
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"Unfortunately, in the 1980s another Labour Government began to dismantle the welfare state...."
Unfair!! It was an admittedly effete Labour Party hijacked by the Act Party, who, once they had committed their dirty deeds, reverted to their true colours. -
Polity: Buying a fight with democracy, in reply to Dean Wallis,
And put the enrolling booth in an unlit basement with no stairs behind a door labelled "Beware of the Tiger".
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Hard News: Campbell interviewed, in reply to Russell Brown,
Russell:
two more post-mortems.....
And another funeral I discovered last night, TVNZ Heartland* has gone titzup. SKY and TVNZ must have had a falling out. It may have been a collection of mouldy oldies but a lot of the stuff they were showing gave the modern reality crap a hiding.
(*pity they chose a name forever besmirched by association with one of the most evil organisations on the planet.)