Posts by SteveH
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Hard News: 2014: The Meth Election, in reply to Jake Starrow,
Is it really a matter of me arguing better and/or showing more respect.
Yes. You managed to piss me off in about 3 sentences and I haven't even seen the efforts of your previous incarnations. If you tone down the sarcasm etc., and simply make your points politely you'll find you're welcome here even if people disagree with you.
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Hard News: 2014: The Meth Election, in reply to Jake Starrow,
My name's not Kevin. And I'm not interested in discussing it with you. If I wanted a debate about it I can find plenty of Nat supporters who can make a point without being a dick. Thanks all the same.
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Hard News: 2014: The Meth Election, in reply to Jake Starrow,
I predict you won't be here long if you keep up that attitude.
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Hard News: 2014: The Meth Election, in reply to Euan Mason,
If JK can't form a governing coalition after the election then the corporate backers will drop him and find another, less tarnished face to sell their low wage/low tax/low regulation/state asset sale/socialize pollution costs agenda.
My pick is that Key won't last long whether he wins or not. If National can form a government I predict English will take over around 12 months in.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to chinashop,
my personal conspiracy theory is that the Nats are using income inequality the same way the US Right used terrorism in the 2000s – to keep people feeling vulnerable and on edge, and hence more likely to vote conservatively
You may be right, but that's a completely irrational conclusion for them to draw. National aren't going to help anyone who isn't in the top 10%, probably really 5% of incomes.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to nzlemming,
Most of the posts are favourable to Odgers, in a Slateresque fashion.
Yep. Which makes me think it's probably her trying to distance herself from Whale Oil rather than the other way around.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Walter Nicholls,
No wayback machine for me.
I have to admit that I couldn't bring myself to actually read those posts, I just checked they were there.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Richard Wain,
None of the ones I’ve checked are there…perhaps they’re on the National Archives though, cheers mpledger
Ok, you made me check them all. 52 are there. These four are not:
2009/08/message-to-john-key-endorse-the-cactus-plan/
2009/09/cactus-on-fire/
2011/01/cactus-should-send-a-bill/
2014/08/uppity-tech-geek-gets-smashing/ -
Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to James George,
I appreciate that most of the population round here are likely to judge me far too cynical to be considered, but I have to say most of what surfaced through Hager & Whaledump has been pretty much as I thought was happening.
Quite a bit was suspected, seeing hard evidence is something else though. And I wasn't aware that Slater was being paid to post other people's work under his name, or the extent of special treatment he was getting in terms of OIAs.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Richard Wain,
” I gather they’re all still available on the Wayback Machine.”
A quick squizz suggests not…
The couple that I checked were there.
ETA: I've now checked about a dozen and the only one that wasn't found was the very last one from August 2014.