Posts by Tom Semmens
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Oh and I see first of the baubles of office are falling to the national Party's faithful lapdogs at the Herald, with Paula Oliver getting a fat comms job in John Key's office for a job well done.
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ARRRGH! I forgot all about Kraftwerk!!!!
I was forced to entertain a blond Formula One promo girl at Mezze instead :(
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When it comes to the ACT party it pays to remember we are not dealing with rational people. Rodney, Roger and co are zealots committed to implementing their own economic sharia law. As soon as clever clogs Key signed up his broad church I thought if a) the baubles of power do not sedate the zealotry of ACT's parliamentary imams then b) it would be in ACT's interests to provoke a crisis that forced National to choose between them and the Maori Party as their support partner.
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"...to urge John Key to ignore the party whose charms appear to be rapidly fading,..."
Given the powerful right wing faction in his own party, does anyone really believe Key will face down Rodney and the rest of the denialist loons in ACT over their chief policy scalp? How could he when the result (given The ACToid's massive sense of entitlement on the back of 3.7% of the vote) would be either relying on the Maori Party to retain confidence and supply, a new election, or a new leader of the National Party?
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Assuming player of the tournament went to the player who played best through to the tournament and materially contributed to the winning team's victory, the Slater's award at least makes sense.
The Australian reaction to their loss is a reminder that their cocky sporting arrogance has a flip side of lacking any sort of grace, humility or respect in defeat.
Anyway, ask any All Black supporter about the lottery that is knock play in tournaments...
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Speaking of technology, I wonder why papers are printed at all anymore. Would it not be better to buy a formatted for print version of the online publication from a kiosk where you put your cash/EFTPOS/Credit Card in and a tabloid or A4 format is printed while you wait? And you could charge people just for the bit they want, i.e. they want just the classifieds or the sports news or the world news sections... Such a thing would mean a paper could instantly update for fast breaking stories - so for a 9/11 event you might even sell two copies as shocked commuters grab a copy on the way to and from work.
Even better, if the kioks were "open source" then the "Pundit News" or the "Public Address Bugle" could compete with the "NZ Herald" or "Kiwiblog Advertiser" for your dollars that day, and your costs and revenues would be totally tied to how many copies were printed from each kiosk...
Just an idea I had in the bath the other week.
Oh yes and Afghanistan: The reason why it isn't mentioned is because it isn't/wasn't a very controversial decision to get involved. A broad consensus of New Zealanders agreed with our taking part in the invasion post 9/11, agreed with the secret SAS role, and understood that such an attack as 9/11 on our ally the United States demanded a united armed response in Afghanistan. And having become involved, we have a national conspiracy amongst ourselves not to mention the war in the hope Al Qaeda won't find out and will leave us alone.
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I have Sky primarily for the sport. I have to buy the rest of the garbage that comes with that because Sky is a shitty monopoly who know they've got the consumer buy the balls and happily squeeze as hard they think they can without actually rendering their audience castrato. If my friends and acquaintances are any guide Sky has probably usurped Telecom at the top of the "most cordially hated corporate you can't do anything about" list. Certainly, if I were Sky I would lobby all I was worth to shut down any competition and ensure it retains a vice like monopoly, because if the consumers out there were ever to be given a choice then they wouldn't last past sundown.
In terms of Freeview I am afraid I struggle with justifying the cost of an HD receiver. To Joe the Plumber, content is still wafer thin on Freeview at the moment. I am not an early adopter - I am a Service-Pack-1-plus-major-patch-before-I-purchase kinda guy, so I will wait until I upgrade my LCD set next year, and make sure my new set comes with a built in receiver.
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The general public neither care nor will be interested in the niceities of the support agreements or which ding-bat coalition partner privatised the water supply or killed off the ETS or were responsible for the (inevitable) corruption scandals in the newly created divolved Iwi funding authorities. They will just blame "the gummint."
Water supply - I suspect it is already shaping up to be the Section 59 for this government.
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And Craig, you can also be relied on to not notice that PA isn't the set for your personal online version of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, so if you could just tone down your vulgar screechings we might all get along just a bit better.
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Glenn, a favourite tactic of the kiwiblog sewer is to devote thousands of posts of the most vicious nature abusing their opponents then when challenged rush around dredging up single comments to justify a moral equivalence/
"Look! See! The PA fellow travellers of the lickspittle Liarbour scum lesbo-dykocracy called Nikki vacuous once on PA! ZOMG! We've got a free hand for vile abuse cos the the commie watermelons are just as bad as us!"