Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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The other scenario - that Locke didn't realise how bad the bill was - kind of worries me.
I can't conceive that he'd have known. Problems? Sure. But not these ones.
The idea that Locke would seek to provoke debate on whether we should have a hereditary monarch, who passes on their status to their eldest son (who must be a Protestant and not marry a Catholic), by advancing a bill that could replace them with an elected Head of State, who - in the event of their untimely death - would probably be replaced for the remainder of their term by their eldest son who must be a Protestant and cannot have married a Catholic is a little out there even for him.
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I'm sorry that it's 3000 words, but it was that much fun...
[Just wait until my next piece =) ]
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Well, given the article doesn't have the both logos to compare, and the logos on the website of the Auckland Regional Parks look nothing like it, I don't see how the work similar applies yet.
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The first series of Mirror, Mirror (a joint Australian/New Zealand production, but filmed and set in New Zealand) had as its central family an Australian family (played by Australians) newly immigrated to New Zealand.
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Can comebody please explain how "Popstars" -- a reality show about the trevails of a pop group -- was the earlier form of "Pop Idol" -- a talent show, in which contestants get knocked out on a weekly basis (a format which has been around for some time)?
There was an audition process not unlike the one in idol. I think. I never actually watched it.
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The Police angle is interesting; can't really see what general law they've broken...
Well, I don't don't about specific Victorian criminal laws, but false accounting would seem to fit if it was in New Zealand:
Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years who, with intent to obtain by deception any ... benefit, ... or to deceive ... any other person,—
(a) makes or causes to be made, or concurs in the making of, any false entry in any book or account or other document required or used for accounting purposes.
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We didn't have Non-Celebrity Treasure Island first; we jumped straight to the variant.
Umm ... yes we did and no we didn't. There was definitely a non-celebrity Treasure Island first. Two seasons of it, I think (prize in the first one was $5000, the second, I think $25,000).
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Duck and cover, friends and relations!
Now that was a great collection of short stories!
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I've uploaded an MP3 of the pronunciation.
Not that it really helps.
I can safely say my guess at the pronunciation was not even close. How to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull.
They don't really seem to agree with each other. Although maybe the latter is breaking it down slowly for us.
Ay-ya-fyat-lie-ya-kut
(with fyat not terribly different from Fiat, and kut rhyming with put).
Not easy for a one-language English speaker, but loop the pronunciation on the GMA story half a dozen times in a row (start from around the 40 second mark), and you should be able to pronounce it easy enough (and certainly if it's your job to!).
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so help me with this!
Not a whole lot of change from the current system:
1. Keep MMP.
2. Parties with 2.5% or more of the party vote receive seats in Parliament proportional to their Party vote.
This includes electorate MPs: e.g. a party with 10% of the party vote gets 12 MPs; if they have no electorates, these would all be list MPs; if they have 1 electorate MP, they would get that person and 11 list MPs.
3. Parties with less than 2.5% of the Party vote would not receive list MPs, but if candidates from their party won an electorate, that person would of course be the electorate MP.The method by which party votes get turned into list seats would stay the same, but I would support modifying it somewhat, if we got rid of the threshold completely.