Posts by David Hood
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This boggled my morning musically
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pope-francis-to-release-pop-rock-album-wake-up-20150925
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Hard News: The positive option of Red Peak, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
The Maori party voted for it to be added to the referendum, or do you not count actually voting to add it as support of Maori leaders?
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So then, on this basis, would you say that if they do lose they are using the wrong tactics? Or is it that if they do lose their policies were too close to Corbyn's (the only major difference in the 4 points that I can see is Corbyn called on freezing small business taxes while NDP want to cut them)?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/03/canada-election-parliament-stephen-harper
Because it is first past the post it is all in the riding results.
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And then there is when your audience becomes automated
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Hard News: The positive option of Red Peak, in reply to chris,
The Greens were presented with the option of either showing solidarity with Labour’s hypothetical proposal which could have potentially saved millions of pages of paper, litres of ink and petrol and kilowatts of electricity or the chance to satisfy a tiny movement running a lucrative fundraising campaign whose petitioned numbers amounted to about 20% of the party’s popular vote.
Well, it could also be framed as they presented with the option of 4 choices and no first round decider, or five choices and no first round decider. Because there were not the numbers for a first round decider, otherwise the process would not have been gridlocked.
You will notice John Key shifted ground on this as their is no agreements for all parties to endorse the process, which was an early demand. Strategically, Labour might have been better to opt for "of no red peak or red peak, we support red peak. We think the process is flawed and there should be a yes/no on the first, but since national has dropped it's weird demand that we could only get Red Peak on if we endorse their process, we are happy to support Red Peak without endorsing the process. We will fight on to try and get the voices of the majority of New Zealanders who do not want change heard and avoid a colossal waste of money in this vanity project"
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Hard News: The positive option of Red Peak, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
like the ancient underground symbol for Christianity…
That's a good point, three Red Peak flags make a Christianity symbol, 4 make a swastika. Is New Zealand First comparing Christians to Nazis as they are closer to the flag?
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Red Peak would lead to chaos. It is obvious.
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A pair of panda cost an up front donation of many millions to Chinese environmental work, and an annual lease of a million or so a year with a 10 year lease (pandas generally lose their draw card bonus for the zoo after 3 or so years). New Zealand will not be able to swap some kiwi for them.
Due to some recent dead Panda china is also cracking down on Panda conditions and people making money from having them, don't expect the economics of Panda ownership to get any better.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/china-watch/culture/11758922/panda-lease-system-china.html
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Hard News: NZME and you, in reply to BenWilson,
I’d rather pay tax for the air I breathe than my bandwidth, because at least the air I use is constant, and you could argue it’s a common good I’m taking from, unlike data flowing down a wire that I’m already paying for the use of, and indirectly the installation and maintenance of, something not being done by the government in the first place.
And arguably, at the moment there is no mechanism for the client, when content is requested of the publisher, to at that point say "oh, wait. this is more content than I wish to purchase for this topic". Infact, if people were taxed on downloads, the incentive from the publishers is to make everything full screen video to increase the amount being downloaded.
I am happy for general taxes (everyone pays/ guaranteed minimum income), I am happy for levies on usage (paywalls/ micropayments), but I am intrinsically unhappy with the idea of a system where the amount you are levied is pushed to you by the people benefitting from the levy.
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"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out" - Francis Bacon
