Posts by mark taslov
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Scott A:
Why exactly shouldn't Public Address carry advertising for TVNZ7?
Wrong colour tie.
Seems to me with this flag thing that people are just pissed that it's the wrong brand of death.
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We could invite all racial supremacists from all the various races around the place, put them all in a ring and get them to fight to the death awarding the winning race a ribbon.
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I'd always been a sceptic of Tai Ji until my Master 'August' invited me to try and tip him over at any stage of his routine (to no avail), It wouldn't be a bad thing for the rugby players too...fascinating Culture.
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Hey Stephen do you know if Hitler's Cock made it to the stage? I have a feeling i may have seen Hitler's Cock at the Hillcrest Tavern a few years back.
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Damn, Great thread, a lot of info here, I have some difficulty erasing the image of you guys all gathered around your map with little toy soldiers and whatnot, but it's a fine read.
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I suspect if it were called "balanced-based exercise" and not some weird Chinese word, you'd be hailing its virtues.
Yeah that's about all there is to it Russell, nicely put. You got some red neck sound bites on that one...almost to the tune of "how is practising balance going to stop old people from falling....?"..And lest we forget, more than just a 'therapy', it's a philosophy of balance in all things....woo woo....[cough] diet, drinking, smoking, not beating da missus...
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Immigration Minister David Cunliffe said the new law would streamline the process to remove illegal immigrants and make it easier for desirable migrants to enter New Zealand.
On a bit of a tangent;
I'm always dubious as to the Government's definition of 'desirable'. when 90% of what you hear to define this description is either qualifications, money or cheap labour. It seems there is very little consideration as to what can be done for the greater good of society. It's telling in the specifics of the China/ New Zealand FTA that the working positions allocated to Chinese don't include repairing electronic equipment. When there are countless unqualified citizens here able repair computers, cellphones etc whose selective immigration to New Zealand would save the average New Zealander $100s a year.
These kind of practical considerations seem almost untenable to the leaders who are far more interested in new levies and taxes. To the extent they're content to draft an immigration policy that sells off our land, hikes our property prices, sells off our educational opportunities to those who would cheat. The immigration system offers very few benefits to the incumbent New Zealander.
and that's without even looking at the rights of immigrants....
I'm still staggered that the tax payer is required to pay for deportations of foreign nationals.
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Sounded good George. These things need to be discussed. There does seem to be a certain sense of powerlessness expressed in your explicit referral to Helen Clark rather than the democracy of New Zealand as a whole.
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That some things could be done better isn't a reason to not get started.
Really depends. What I'm suggesting Morgan is not so much that the Gate's are bad for trying to do something with the money made from selling the same program again and again under 7 different monikers.
Merely that it's a total fucking waste of money and resources for most of those people who updated OS that were basically fine.I got an ad in the mail this morning,
" Windows® 7 is full of ideas from Windows Live users like you—ideas that help make everyday tasks a little bit easier. Like simplifying the way you use your PC and making it easier to connect to the people, places, and things in your life."
It already is fucking easy on XP, It was easy on 95, likewise NT. The only reason I ever needed to upgrade from 98 (which was also easy) which I used until 2005 was because each time they 'upgrade' their Windows, third party-programmers move to the newer platforms to stay current, rendering early Window's versions obsolete.
For the avid Microsoft OS fan like Russell here, that's an outlay of about about $1000 on seven versions of the same thing, that each come with the an average relevance window of just over 2 years. I have bought candyfloss with a longer lifespan.
So Bill Gates the benevolent provider of the same program 7 times deserves your props for funneling X percentage of your earnings: subsequently x percentage of his earnings, into creating his version of a better world. Morgan?
Because this time it's different, this time it's a little bit easier...
As a charitician, I preferred Mother Theresa. It's easy to look good giving away shitloads of money When you have it. It really comes down to how ethical you deem the Gates' acquisition method to be.
The fact remains that many things the Gates Foundation is doing - particularly with vaccinations, IMHO - will save the lives of millions of children who otherwise wouldn't have been.
Your talking about Earth yes? that overpopulated mess? Dear Mr Gates, Please artificially joggle our survival rates so there can be more to sell Windows 18 to: A greater number of worthy CPUs to inhabit and profit to be made in order to be regarded as the greatest cake since boiled marsupial. But we need more people we really do, these diseases should never inhibit our quest for total overpopulation.
If some of the programs the Gates Foundation are involved with don't have universal support that's a shortcoming. It'd be nice if they did. But sometimes the only way forward is to just get started, and fix any problems that crop up later on.
Or he could just donate his entire fortune to the native Americans and join the fire brigade.
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But is that our business Morgan?
Which part?
shortcomings in many homes
As far I recall at school, I don't know if that was particularly lackluster school or what, but a majority of kids did the bare minimum, but once they could read write and wipe their own shit, some of them discovered books, and learnt the rest themselves. Where did this desire to learn come from? who knows.
Did the system ever let us down?
It wasn't anything to do with the teachers, the rules, the syllabus or the assessment method, the only let down to the good student is lack of resources.