Posts by merc
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Hard News: Sub Mission, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I read it backwards, true.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to Most Beloved First Citizen,
Just started raining here in Auckland, need the wind to go offshore but.
And anyway Key is cute and disingenuous like all New Zealanders - so says the Daily Telegraph. Meanwhile guesswork is the new prognostication,
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10810744 -
Elephant outed, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10810825 by Chris Barton,
Deals like this make a mockery of creating an open competitive market in telecommunications in New Zealand, exemplifying the lack of transparency in the process whereby Crown Fibre Holdings allocated these fibre contracts. The company is yet to answer why Chorus was given a better deal than anyone else. Such favouritism - already apparent in the financial structure of the deal - smacks of political interference. It makes one wonder also - given Crown Fibre Holdings is stacked with ex-Telecom staff - whether the deal was a foregone conclusion and whether competitor bids for the fibre rollout in most of the country ever stood a chance.
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Once, I knocked off design to make logos, now I knock off advertising to make art.
Read somewhere on the intertubes.
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...maybe comes with a hole in the bottom.
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Hard News: Reading the Numbers, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Bingo, privatised education, one of the elephants we are not looking for.
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...those are not the elephants you're looking for ;-)
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Legal Beagle: Urewerrors, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Not usual, but not uncommon. And do we really want sentences decided by relatively low-level employees of the Department of Corrections?
No, and that is not currently, nor has ever been the case.
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Legal Beagle: Urewerrors, in reply to Lucy,
Is it usual for a sentence to be so far from what was recommended and does it matter (on a legal, not ethical, basis)?
It matters a great deal and it's weight is as effective as it's recommendation's acceptance - should the State not be pursuing an obvious vendetta.
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Hard News: Reading the Numbers, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Yep, Joyce has a template for those who want to make, erm, do the same for other things of national importance.
Silence is golden but sometimes it's gilt.
It really surprises me that no media journalist has noticed the rather large broadcasting elephant in the corner of the room.