Posts by dc_red
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Sacha,
Yes, my first thought was that the criminal complaint was a stalling tactic. The Police could easily take 6-12 months to address such a pressing issue ... sure as it won't be done by the time the next HoS goes to print?
How many years did it take for them to find nothing re : the "theft" of the Brash emails?
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Heh, in the TV3 video when the Rt Hon hops out of his limo to meet Banks, there's a prominent sign in the background across the road: "Clark & Clark"
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McCully: it's my waterfront now! <evil laugh>
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he sounded drunk and meaningless
I've been assured this is just how Key sounds independent of any actual imbibing of the latest JK vintage.
Meanwhile, one elements of a compliant media buy the line that chaos is all the Auckland Council's (and more specifically the mayor's) fault.
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An alternative headline might go something like Heineken Experience Survives McCully Experience. Odious little man that he is.
I think a key difference between the Vancouver and Auckland downtown celebrations is that the former attracted basically locals (~99.8% Canucks fans in attendance), whereas in Auckland come the knock-out phase there will be a mixture of supporters from both teams, plus some neutrals. That will change the vibe.
Although Canucks fans have a familiar legacy of bitter disappointment to draw on (no Cup in 40 years).
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An hilarious contribution from big tobacco there: arguably the foremost opponent of evidence-based policy ... ever since, well, the evidence against smoking began mounting after the release of the 1962 Royal College of Physicians report.
And extra marks for throwing in 'scare quotes' around health 'researchers' ... probably better saved for those employed and contracted by your own industry to obfuscate and contest.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
The reason articles can't simply be put on University websites (for the most part) is that the (corporate-owned) journals in which they're published explicitly preclude this.
i.e., it is a condition of publishing in most corporate journals that the final version can't be posted on an open-access site, unless you're backed by a powerful funding agency that demands public access to the final product (Monbiot mentions the US National Institutes of Health).
Many journals will allow earlier versions without the final formatting and editing to be posted (conditions vary, and are reasonably complex).
So academic authors are compelled to sign agreements (if they want to publish in these journals) that preclude a creative commons licence.
And by and large you won't get much funding from a public agency without a record of publishing in highly-regarded, corporate-owned journals (and a plan to do more of it in the future).
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I guess it was thinking it will be the same dubiously-talented Cabinet supported by a much-larger contingent of whacky and ill-equipped backbenchers.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
Unfortunately 57.1% of the NZ public have a crush on Key too, according to the latest Fairfax poll.
Dear god, think of the loonies and wild-eyed freaks that kind of support could bring to the House after Nov. It will be 1990 all over again.
The horror. The horror.
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The parents in that group will be expected to be in education or training by the time their child is one year old, and a National government would fund childcare to make that possible.
I fear only the first part of this sentence will ever come to fruition.
(But then I am apparently the last male Labour voter).