Posts by Russell Brown
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I take that to mean your next coffee maker will be so large as to require its own room.
Confession: I did download Google Sketchup with the intention of designing it a little place of its own. With, of course, its own plumbing ...
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Oh, and I see that the Kiwiblog commenters are on their usual form. One refers to Yang Liu as a "slope" and no one bats an eyelid.
And I'm not sure Rodney Hide's supposed new love interest will enjoy being leered over by those dicks. Ick.
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Then the university bookshop was run by some cool musicians and there were some great imports out there and a small second hand section.
When I was at school it was managed by Tony Peak of the Vandals and Newtones, who was super-cool. We'd go in there and leaf through the new wave imports. I think my first import orders were placed via Tony.
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You know who's good? Kanye West.
He's been working the hype sites and MP3 blogs in a really interesting way by posting works-in-progress from his new album on his blog and letting them circulate.
People didn't like 'Love Lockdown', so he reworked it a couple of times. Now, he's posted an unmastered version of another tune, Heartless:
You got a new friend
Well, I got homies
But in the end it's just so lonelyAwww ...
Can't wait for the dub mix.
In the meantime, there are remixes galore of 'Love Lockdown' and the official version is a hit single. Nice.
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For United Future I’m trying to think of something offensively Middle of the Road. Air Supply?
Savage Garden.
Burn.
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Can I use the musicality of this thread to remind PAS'sers that we now have our own group on last.fm and anyone is welcome to join.
D'oh! I've just added that information to day's post like I was meant to.
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Cool. Looks like y'all were on this politics-as-rock-music thing before I even posted today!
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Forcing the fund to invest in NZ isn't about the current crises of course. It's a permanent decision for a very very long term fund to be investing in such a way.
Yes, as I noted above, it permanently changes the rationale of the fund, and in a potentially problematic way.
It's a hella big policy to be pulling out of your ass at a time like this.
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Gordon Campbell ...
Smacks National:
There’s a pattern emerging here : raid the Kiwisaver savings scheme, intervene in the Super Fund earmarked for the needs of our ageing population, scrap the Fast Forward science fund, abolish the tax credit for research and development, dump the home insulation fund meant to offset the energy costs of dealing with climate change….
What do all these moves have in common ? They all involve a drive for short term advantage, and denial about the need to plan for longer run challenges facing the country. Savings, research, demographic change. All are being jettisoned in the name of instant gratification. If I can steal a line from the conservative columnist David Brooks, John Key shows every sign of having the policy libido of a 15 year old boy.
And the Greens ...
Before the Greens cheered this proposal, they might have considered whether – once you open this door - just what the cost may be, and where the 40 % is likely to go. The Fund guardians will - allegedly - be left free to decide where in New Zealand they put the money. The NZSX is small, and the Fund guardians are highly unlikely to become creative venture capitalists of fledgling enterprises overnight. Arguably, nor should they be. Moreover, the Fund moneys would quite conceivably be going into the kind of local investments that the Greens would abhor.
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Then there's the venture capital side of it. Dragon's Den sponsored by the Cullen Fund could prove entertaining, enlightening and enriching all at once.
I'm seeing it now. An NZ On Air-funded game show on state TV that hands out tax money previously directed by the government to a public investment fund. It's the new socialism!
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