Posts by giovanni tiso
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Result; apperently remarkably close, although surely it will be a landslide
It will be a landslide... so what's your point? :-)
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Ah, jeez. Do I have to do my patented 'Harumph! 300 million people!' rant again? No one wants that. :)
I lost my copy, actually - you wouldn't do an encore for the fans?
Just watched Obama on the DS. Christ he's aged! He looks ten years older than the last time he was on.
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The Plaza Accord in 1985 among the US, Japan, UK, France and West Germany let to a spectacular property and share market bubble between 1986 and 1992 in Japan, aided by inept management of the money supply by the Bank of Japan and ridiculous lending policies by Japanese financial institutions.
I've been wondering about that... we are all told that in the long term stock prices always go up, and every time think to myself "go tell it to the Japanese". The Nikkei was at 39,000 in 1989, then it crashed. Ten years later, when it was at 15,000, I'm sure there were stockbrockers all over the place urging people to buy: it was bound to go back up because shares always go up. Now it's halved in price again, and it's all in absolute terms, not even factoring in inflation (although of course Japan has had lots of deflation too).
I wonder how people perceive the worldwide bank strife now in your neck of the woods, since it's been happening there for so long?
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So how do you poll 1,000s of people and with good response rates?
Here's a thought: how about you don't. Unless it's for some public policy higher purpose, but in eleven years in New Zealand I've yet to come across one of those (and I ALWAYS ask).
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I'll take umbrage when I stop laughing.
HEH!
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Saw the pun, of course, but would still bet good money that whoever made the joke thinks 'wrapped' is the correct spelling of 'rapt'...
That's just assuming we're better than everybody else and I'm so against that.
(I'd have just said Telephone marketing surveys, but I figure that saying they're shit is like saying stabbings are painful.)
I love them. I eat much too fast and I depend on those interruptions to help me take longer and not get indigestion.
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Type-A Man and this very fine blog disagree.
Sorry: Type-A Man agrees, the blogger disagrees.
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Signs that say "12 items or Less
Type-A Man and this very fine blog disagree.
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Hands up who knows what a "sham foreign exchange transaction" is.
Mu understanding was that they paid this guy under the table and made it look like the money had gone into foreign exchange transactions which had never occurred?
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Don't think I'm the only Christian out there who gets a tad over-sensitive after endlessly being lumped in with Mel Gibson, Brian The Bish and the theo-con wing of the Republican Party.
Sorry, no, allow me to backpedal, insofar as I don't think that happens nearly enough. I think it's appaling how the Catholic church in particular has got away in recent decades with concealing and sanitising its proud (and oh so recent - collusion with the Nazis, anyone?) history of sadism, brutality, antisemitism and torture. If Gibson's fine work can serve as a reminder, I think it's a good thing.