Posts by Greg Dawson
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Che Tibby,
I thought he and his ilk were the barbarians at the gate
I thought big mama grizzly had shot all the ilk?
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It's an homage to Starsiege
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Tim Hannah,
But presumably better per capita income...as I believe a fair amount of US aid money is given to US corn farmers and the like?
wikipedia gives GNI per capita (using exchange rates) as:
US - USD47240
NZ - USD26830I haven't confirmed that these are for the same period as those used by the OECD figures quoted earlier.
However, that disparity in GNI is indeed why we rank higher on the percentage of GNI in foreign aid, despite their higher per capita aid (the US 0.2% vs NZ 0.29% figure).
To answer your second question - the figures I quoted are net official development assistance, as defined the OECD. They define ODA as net contributions by govt agencies to countries and multilateral institutions, where the aim of the contribution is to promote economic development and welfare.
So it definitely excludes any domestic subsidies. I have nfi if it excludes military aid. And I don't full understand the interaction with 'OA'.
ETA: More scotch for you Kracklite - it does wonderful things. Although I may have chosen to interpret
("Out, damned spot!", I hear)
as being because Spot had fleas...
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Greg Dawson,
US in the 09 data ranks 1 for net donations (USD28665m), rather less well for donations/GNI (0.2%)
NZ for comparison is poor on both, with USD313m and 0.29%
Using the numbers i got earlier from the OECD, and the population numbers from wikipedia, NZ is decidedly worse per capita.
As I work it out, US is USD92.20 per capita, NZ is USD71.27.
So, we are better than them at % of GNI in aid, but worse per capita, and worse in raw figures (obviously).
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Chart tool courtesy of the OECD
US in the 09 data ranks 1 for net donations (USD28665m), rather less well for donations/GNI (0.2%)
NZ for comparison is poor on both, with USD313m and 0.29%
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Interesting al jazeera blog on non-secret information that has been released to no impact, the allure of secrets.
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The confidential records of WINZ or the IRD or of the DHB’s uploaded by an anonymous employee, motives unknown?
Given form, it'll be so we can really get our hate on with those damn bludgers.
Which sounds just awesome (insert deafening unstated "Not!" and filthy look here). -
Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to giovanni tiso,
While there are many downsides to the name "Test Test", you do receive a copy of almost every mailing and trial product ever sent.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to BenWilson,
I’m hinting at “something that should be undertaken only under dire threat, as a last resort” as opposed “something we always are doing, usually against people who have no capacity to harm us, and we always claim it’s in their interests”.
That I was thinking along the same lines is why your previous post reminded me so much of just war theory.
TBH, it's been a couple of thousand years, I still don't think there is a satisfactory answer to the problem.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Hadyn Green,
The slight flaw cannot be easily fixed. So we work on the honor-system, any duplicate voting from now on will be deleted from the sheet.
Actually, for small voting populations I prefer cumulative voting. I find it tends to highlight the preferences better, and allows people to go all in on their personal favourite.
So instead of deleting multi-votes, you could simply value them as 3pts for a 1st preference, 2 for a second preference, and 1 for a third preference.
Or 9,3,1 respectively for a clearer outcome.