Posts by Sam F
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I fail at maths - half a thou buys one fill now as opposed to two not so very long ago. Point stands despite my Heineken-fuelled error.
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I'm about to head out into peak-hour traffic, and hopefully truck-related chaos will be minimal.
The $500 claim interests me. If you assume a 250-litre diesel capacity for a truck, that's about two fill-ups. Half a grand would have filled the same tank about four times over a few years back. Why is it apparently so easy to mobilise truckies in protest over a tiny additional charge, as opposed to fuel prices that are going to slowly throttle some of them anyway?
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bee in your bonnet?
I'd like to take this unintentionally on-topic phrase as an opportunity to politely ask: aren't there two other threads devoted to endless head-against-wall DRM discussion, and do we really need to make this rather interesting thread into the third?
I'm sorry if everyone else gets a kick out of it, but I for one am tired of seeing worthwhile threads derailed into epic discussions of music piracy every time DRM is mentioned.
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That's a marvellous resource. Will save and keep. Cheers Shep!
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Hope this isn't a completely unacceptable place to post this.
National attacked the Government yesterday over increased road-user charges and a law passed last night allowing regional fuel taxes to fund large capital projects - but won't say it would undo them.
"How on earth can you justify putting more costs on to the poor old motorists, already suffering from very high petrol prices, and on the trucking industry," said National transport spokesman Maurice Williamson.
National finance spokesman Bill English said last night his party had not yet decided whether to revoke the tax if it leads the next Government.
Oh, you guys...
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Ah. My bad - thanks for the correction Graeme. At least it seems I know 'deeply unlovely' when I see it...
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I see that the deeply unlovely folks behind the Family Party (you know, Philip Taito Field's crowd) have jumped on the GST off staples bandwagon, too. At least if the men with banners and placards on the Mangere Bridge offramp are to be trusted.
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One for Auckland PAS folk: presumably the old blue council recycling bins would do even better than buckets for portable potatoes? Solves the problem of the bins themselves being non-recyclable, at least...
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Bricks were shat.
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And just for reference, this (as of 3:13pm) is what an awkward silence looks like.