Posts by Rich of Observationz
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I've been to both Singapore and Zimbabwe - and you know, I think I prefer Mugabe's madness..
Sounds like Akamai have a brilliant business - aren't they basically delivering peering under the guise of "delivery optimisation" and charging for it? A P/E of 125 suggests that the market thinks that...
Telcos really don't understand content. Look at how the technology has been pretty much there for excellent mobile applications for the last 5 years, and what do we have - Vodafone Live - do me a favour!
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On the Fay Richwhite thing, why was the job of privatising Trans Rail given to a couple of Kiwi chancers rather than a big global institution with a reputation to lose?
Was this a case where buying NZ wasn't the best thing for the country?
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What's the kiwi slang for robbery then?
Yes, more world news would certainly fill the hour. But how many non-sport reporters does NZ media usually have overseas? Three or four? So "foreign" news tends to be a bit detached - or it's a straight grab from ABC or CBS of a story that's trivial there and even more trivial 12,000km away.
And I think that it's better to be able to pick up a paper and know it's got an agenda then to have a basically conservative monopoly with a thin veneer of claimed impartiality.
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TV1 or TV3 could choose to deliver news at 6 pm
I don't believe enough news happens in NZ to fill an hour, so the space has to be stuffed with trivia and beatups.
This mornings top 4 headlines in the Herald
- minor power cut in outer Auckland suburb
- insider trading case from five years ago
- armed blag at a dairy
- persistent heavy drizzle in AucklandThis mornings top 4 in the Guardian
- China becomes world's largest carbon emitter
- early release scheme for prisoners
- opposition proposals for GPs pay
- US offensive in IraqI think the Guardian would relegate 2/4 of the Herald's top stories to inside page 18. I don't think they cover heavy drizzle at all - it would lead to a lot of repetition..
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He thought NZ's geographical isolation might also be partly to blame for its longevity here
Yup, it's an artefact of prohibition, and specifically the ability of NZ to interdict imported drugs and precursors. Meth and dope are the only drugs that don't rely on illegally imported substances and are thus cheaper here.
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the plane didn't crash it just landed without wheels
It qualifies as a "good" landing - everyone walked away.
Not quite an "excellent" landing - that's one where the plane is able to take off again.
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The Bundeswehr has 250,000 personnel, of which 50,000 are conscripts. They probably need 50,000 of the professionals to shout at and feed/pay the conscripts, leaving 150,000 for actual defence.
I think the only reason they have the conscripts is to prevent the military becoming an isolated caste. They can't go overseas unless they volunteer for extended service (e.g. stop being conscripts).
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There are Jewish skinheads, I've met them.
I think the concept that skinhead != fascist might not have reached NZ?
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In the UK Spurs is associated with the East End Jewish community
NORTH London!
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Priests get jailed (how many years would Tamaki get?), drug dealing tolerated, and a 200% tax on private cars!
Can we get the Communist Party of Vietnam to run at the next NZ elections? Or at least see if Nguyễn Tấn Dũng wants to be Mayor of Auckland?