Posts by Greg Dawson
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person with a camera here: http://twitter.com/dyedredlaura
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
de facto sterilizing the poor/beneficiaries may be well-intentioned but still creepy
What Craig said. The potential long term results of a policy on free sterilisation (not quite mandated) for the un/under-employed is scary sh*t.
As a relatively young person, it looks very much like children are joining houses as something that the rich do.
ETA: wow comments went into hyperdrive on that bombshell.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Take a bottle of wine, for instance, It is a liquid, it comes in a bottle, you can drink, you can get drunk but its value relies purely on its taste which is intangible.
Wait a minute, I thought in NZ the value of a particular bottle of wine was required to be printed on the front before the % symbol.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Richard Derham,
so I tend to do online market research surveys and select book voucher cards as my payment
That is both a fantastic plan I may have to emulate, and something I'm going to taunt my market research colleagues with.
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Hard News: Book review: 'Wikileaks:…, in reply to Danielle,
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
... (although not necessarily the yellow dog)
Clifford for prime minister!
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
I prefer let me google that for you :)
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
Something like, oh, USIREBOH (USual IRrational non-fourth Estate Behaviour of (the) Herald)?
Possibly you're being far too clever for me, but that seems overly complicated. Why not simply refer to the heralds underlying (irrational and terrifying) beliefs, or the hubtext for short?
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The electricity supply is unlikely to stop if the companies are sold though is it ?
The experience in California implies that this statement requires a careful interpretation of 'stop' to mean 'stop forever ever'
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Hard News: Media 2011, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Ah, the old misleading analogy between the state's budget and a household budget...
Maybe we can look into getting a cut-price home brand version of government instead of the .... oh wait.