Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Some of the schools I’m referring to that have been closed were affected by… some rain. And possibly the odd teacher from out of town having concerns about the commute. It does beggar belief somewhat.
If it happens once every forty years then I can't begrudge them too much.
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to 3410,
Meanwhile, workers at KFC, Pizza Hut and Starbucks get told “you have no job when it snows”.
My first thought was: well, someone tell Restaurant Brands that’s not how it works. But then I read the article. KFC workers are instead being told: if the store is open, and you don’t turn up, and you can't show you were prevented from coming in and you choose not to take leave, then you don’t get paid.
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Legal Beagle: Crowdsourcing the referendum, in reply to Geoffrey Pritchard,
Whether you're planning a better version of our simulator, or something a bit different, I'll be very interested to see what you come up with.
Something very different.
10 different factors and facets of voting systems: I like list MPs vs I hate list MPs. I like proportionality vs I like single-party majority government. etc.
Then it tells you how much each of the systems stacks up against your preferences.
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Legal Beagle: Crowdsourcing the referendum, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
does anyone know if the Jim Anderton Progressive Party are contesting the next election in the absence of their leader?
I'm pretty sure they're not.
It lets you adjust all those assumptions – the ones they supply are defaults based on a same-as-last-time scenario I think.
It let's you change a bunch of things, but there are a number of inbuilt assumptions within each system.
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(Heather Roy’s VSM bill will return to Parliament next year for its third reading, despite her retirement).
I would have thought this year was more likely.
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Apparently it’s in one of the council brochures, but I can’t find the info on the Waterfront Auckland site. I may have been wrong …
I’m also told there isn’t a fee to have your car untowed :-)
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Flavell. Being in a cabinet with Paula Bennett might do this to people, I think.
1. Te Ururoa Flavell is not in Cabinet.
2. Te Ururoa Flavell is not even a minister.
3. The Maori Party does not have any cabinet ministers, and never has. -
If we introduce a tax on capital gains at 15%, does that mean that those people who are currently taxed at marginal rates for capital gains that IRD treats as income (house flippers, day traders etc.) will have their tax rates on such transactions reduced to the CGT rate?
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Hard News: Meanwhile in Epsom ..., in reply to Craig Young,
Hide was the lesser of two evils when faced with Dr Richard (“I love Korean dishes”) Worth, his predecessor. Who didn’t last very long as National MP, remember…?
Richard Worth was in Parliament for ~10 years. Rodney's been there ~14 years. It's more, but the difference ain't great.
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Hard News: Meanwhile in Epsom ..., in reply to Ian Fish,
Voting a bit skewed in Epsom, lots of Labour/Greens voters (including me) voted for Richard Worth last election (that went well!)
At the 2008 general election in Epsom:
* Among Labour Party party voters, Rodney Hide was more popular than Richard Worth.
* More Maori Party party voters favoured Rodney Hide than favoured any other candidate.
* 11 people who gave their Party Vote to Act gave their electorate vote to Keith Locke (and 216 supported Worth).
* The Green Party got more party votes than the ACT Party.