Posts by Russell Brown
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well that's true - one of the things I;m continually amazed by at running a small biz in NZ (comared with the same in the US while I was living there) is how wonderfully easy the paperwork is - maybe 20 minutes a month for me do do gst/paye/payroll -
I'll always remember talking to someone who worked for a company that made, among other things, payroll software. The most complex employment environment they had to deal with, by far, was the US one.
New Zealand is one of the more lightly regulated economies in the developed world.
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Riddley, make a grand exit if you must, but that "parody" was nasty and hurtful.
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More than a wee bit
Fair enough.
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Wow. Hitch isn't exactly holding back in his new Slate column about Jerry Falwell.
That's some really good invective.
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As part of the Vanity Fair interview with Hitchens the interviewer as part of a question says -
Lawrence Wright says in his one-man show, "My Trip to al-Qaeda," that getting along with women is a large part of what civilization is about.
Quite an interesting observation.
It's a bloody cracker. I'm banking that.
Hitchens is strange. His dutiful defence jobs for the necons are poor - and not just because I disagree, but because he gets so cranky and defensive and tedious.
Compare that with the light and shade of the Londonistan piece. Sonic, you should give him props for that. It's a good piece of writing.
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While we're on housekeeping, I've locked dad4justice's account, for trolling, and for being a wee bit scary.
I did it a couple of days ago, but didn't want to say so until I was sure his session had ended and he wasn't still logged in.
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OK, they were not "do you want to fight" posts, I considered I was being censored in a hostile way by Craig, and I posted the quote from another thread because I think Craig was referring to being censored himself and I wondered by whom, thas all.
See above, plus afterthought. I don't think you were being censored, I thought you were being disagreed with.
I don't have a grievance against you RB, but I do wonder why you think I have.
Because you keep mentioning me in your posts about the dispute, and you wouldn't let me even have an opinion without declaring it a "Craig defence", which I thought was really unnecessary. Please, email me and let's sort it out.
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Which occasionally more than verge on outright nastiness, as happened with the recent manifestly undeserved attacks on merc.
You're kind, Rob. I'm sure it wouldn't detract from Craig's pithiness to employ a similar generosity of spiri.
Ngggg. Can I point out that Craig hasn't said a word to Merc on this thread for two days, since well before page 15 where Merc wrote three do-you-want-a-fight posts. And then Merc's back this afternoon trying to rev it up again over something Craig said on another blog. Please, mate, I value your presence a lot, but just chill.
I've asked Craig to tone it down, now I'm asking Merc. You've expressed a grievance against me that you're welcome to take up by email, but please don't keep trying to relitigate it here.
Afterthought: Agghh ... that probably sounds too snippy, but in the end I did have to go back through every page of the thread and that probably made me grumpy in itself. As usual, it'll probably piss some people off, but I read it all back again and, on balance, I didn't think it was Craig who'd been provocative. Independent of that, this kind of thing only works well when people assume goodwill. That's important.
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oh right. i look forward to using that defence myself.
Please, relax. It's a joke, and not even one at my expense.
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__Craig said on Kiwiblog: Wussell Brown, Apparatchik of the Liarbore Dykeocracy__
i guess i'm just quoting you out of context Craig, would you like to explain to us what you mean by that?
It's irony, but I guess you might have to be familiar with my past adventures with wingers in the Kiwiblog forums to get it. No need to be offended on my behalf, honestly.
I can't be arsed reading it all, but I gather Craig is getting the bash at Kiwiblog for hanging out with dirty lefties ...
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