Posts by stever@cs.waikato.ac.nz
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Hard News: The other kind of phone tapping, in reply to Graham Dunster,
Oh me too :) Right on the southern border (Longley Road) before it became Colliers Wood :)
I went back last year---IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME...apart from a huge Sainsburys' in (what was) the car park to the (gorgeous) Granada Tooting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada,_Tooting
and a Caffe Nero :)
I love it.
And of course "Power to the People"....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Smith
:)
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Hard News: Masters of Reality, in reply to Steve Barnes,
has educated himself
...from Milich
ha ha ha! Not
John Key never went to school or Uni then I take it.
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Dean Wallis,
Well yes obviously I know that.
But it clearly isn't a sufficient condition for people not to be allow to walk over it on footpaths AND for farmers to make a living! See: the UK.
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Yes...I'd always wondered (and not wandered).
The settler thing does seem to explain the attitude to land here.
When I cycle round the countryside that surrounds Hamilton, unable to walk on it, I feel a bit sad really...people are missing so much. Especially as most of it has nothing on it, save grass and livestock.
I guess it's become a cultural thing, because when I suggest to people that a network of several thousand kilometres of footpath all over the country would be nice, they immediately try to find reasons why not.
And they aren't even the landowners!
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to BenWilson,
Well, from my childhood in the UK I remember that footpaths over golf courses are common, so not an impossible problem to solve...education and tolerance!
But then of course, as I appreciate when I go back, footpaths everywhere are common there...walking through farmland, talking to cows, sheep, horses and enjoying the countryside without needing a car to get to it (!!!) are joys not available in NZ, sadly.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
And the PM changed his phone number in September…so he’s clearly thought it a good idea to tell Slater the new one!!!
Which, BTW, puts the use of “unsolicited” when describing the txts yesterday in an uncertain light!
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Do you reckon that the Speaker might impose a rule during any debate or discussion (am I being naive in thinking this might be, you know, debated and put through select committee etc?…) which requires MPs to declare any interest in the matter, i.e. are they or are they not a landlord?
Seems only fair we should have transparency and a high-standard in all this, what?
OK, yes I'm being naive...this will happen through a change of regulations, won't it?
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Hard News: TVNZ: Emptied out, in reply to simon g,
Yes!! This!!! Get rid!!!
How about changing the "A" in ABC to Australasian? I'm just about to leave the West Island again, and ABC will be what I miss most :)
No adverts!!!! Long interviews!!!
And the Aussies moan about how awful it's become...but it's nirvana compared to almost all of NZ TV.
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So, I'm in London and went to the (unsalubrious basement of...) NZ House in Haymarket to vote this morning.
OK, I signed a declaration, but then it occurred to me (having taken my passport, which no one was interested in) how do they *check* (indeed, *do* they check?) on the "having visited" requirement?
The fact I needed no ID of any kind either was sort of a surprise.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to sandra,
Sandra you've nailed it...it's beyond belief. Literally.
So many, many people don't believe it :(