Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Behaving badly at the bottom…, in reply to FletcherB,
I heard a rumour that turning up in a suit and tie was a good way to get yourself challenged by the defense… no idea if it’s true?
It depends on the case. The first time I was summonsed, I turned up in a suit - no ploy, just standard work clothes. Wound up as the foreman :-(
Second time I wore tight scabby jeans and a vaguely anarchist t-shirt - no luck, though I kept my mouth shut at foreman-choosing time.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to BenWilson,
A beast of a job.
But the numbers are good...
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Lilith __,
And the most-read article on Stuff just now is this one.
I lurve comment #138
"Does anyone know a website in New Zealand where I can actually read the news?" -
Hard News: Behaving badly at the bottom…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Pretty clasic Streisand Effect
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[edit] wrong thread
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to giovanni tiso,
It's common practice for film projects/franchises to form standalone companies owned by the bigger studios. It means they have a limited liability corporate entity with its own bottom line that can hold the copyright and make the revenue or take the hit if it tanks.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Peter Cox,
To some extent I suspect the MEAA’s attitude was ‘the ends justify the means’, which has been, unfortunately, the strategy of rather too many people in this thing, but such is the reality of these kind of actions I guess.
Seems that Simon Whipp would get on very well with Chris Trotter...
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Stephen Judd,
the current news about the shechita ban, which seems unfortunately linked to cabinet ministers’ halal meat export prospects. I’m afraid the impact on buying and selling is very much part of New Zealand governments’ decisions.
Perhaps this current government's decisions, but the article notes that:
Papers show that officials repeatedly spelled out to successive agriculture ministers how small the domestic kosher market was - about 2000 chickens a year and no more than 300 sheep - and that banning it could breach the Bill of Rights.
That advice continued right up to the current minister David Carter - who banned it anyway.
which shows that previous governments had the sense to do the right thing, when lobbied by trade interests.
cf this particular snippet:
Prime Minister John Key - who has Jewish roots - said he had "no concerns" with the way Carter made his decision.
Fuck. If Key was any more relaxed, he'd be comatose.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Simon Grigg,
NZ gets upset by the severe abuse of the global passport system and it’s, were are told, all about selling stuff to the non-Israeli Middle East.
I'm finding it interesting just how much of the US "analysis" comes down to buying and selling. Says a lot about their view of the world
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Hard News: A very roundabout review of…, in reply to Kracklite,
True revolutions are syntheses.
Well said, that Kracklite!