Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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If it’s to be a twitter hash tag, then I’m surprised no-one has suggested #allwhites. Although that was probably more a 2009 thing, with the qualifying. The Cup was pretty big though too.
Other football related words might include: draw, and undefeated/unbeaten.
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Oxford (the dictionary) has announced its word of the year is refudiate.
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Keith had a twitter/facebook update yesterday in which he noted:
In the past 12 months, 9 cyclists were killed on the roads; 35 pedestrian, 278 driver/passenger fatalities in the same period.
I assume it was accurate.
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Instead of the sort of uniform that can only be tested by getting teenage girls to kneel in front of you, how about changing the uniform requirement for girls to trousers?
Wow - that was quick!
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I find the ones who party voted Labour but gave electorate vote to Hide the most confused.
People who liked Labour but thought Hide was an effective local advocate engaged with his community who had done a good job as local MP. What's confusing about that?
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Voted ... in the vain hope of keeping Rodney out of Parliament, but cast my party vote Green. I imagine there were a few of us in Epsom who went a similar way, or split Worth/Labour.
You might be surprised.
16% of Green Party voters in Epsom gave Rodney Hide their electorate vote, vs. 18% for Richard Worth.
Of Labour Party voters in Epsom, more gave their electorate votes to Rodney (16%), and Keith Locke (15%) than Richard (11%).
And 11% of people who gave their party vote to ACT in Epsom, voted for someone other than Rodney!
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And the bank employees, which makes this near and dear to my heart.
They've already come for the bank employees. Search warrants have always covered this information. What they're doing with production orders is backing away from the bank employees. They've decided that the powers they currently have over banks are too strong, and are introducing a less invasive power.
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Production Orders are a form of search warrant that involves a lesser degree of intrusion that an ordinary search warrant. They are designed to be used in respect of people who would like to co-operate with authorities, but want the protection that being ordered to co-operate by a court provides.
The solution to concerns about them is to replace the consequences for not complying, with a rule that says when someone declines to comply, the production order becomes a search warrant (which could be obtained anyway).
At present, what happens is that the police (or customs or whoever) gets a search warrant, and send it along to the bank or whoever it is, who provide them the information they ask for. This was felt to be too invasive because it gives the police the power to enter and search the bank etc., when they don't really need it.
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How's your trip been?
They killed Aurora. I stopped watching and never saw another episode.
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Act received markedly fewer votes than a party not represented in Parliament, New Zealand First...
ACT got 85,496 votes. New Zealand First got 95,356 votes. ACT got 5 MPs. NZF got enough votes for 5 MPs. This is not a particularly marked difference.
But I don't want Douglas in Parliament, and I think it's damn unfair that Epsom gets to put him there.
Roger Douglas is a member of Parliament because ACT convinced a lot of voters to give them their party votes. Rodney Hide's win in Epsom wasn't enough, they needed the party votes too, and they got them. It is not unfair that the people who gave their party vote to the ACT party are represented by a group of MPs proportionate to the size of their vote.