Posts by Neil Smart
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Doesthe Unicef report report on the number of young people killed on the roads?
Ou lunacy of allowing 15 year olds to drive must contribute a high percentage of death and injury raising the the tol in comparison to those who do not allow young adults to drivel.
Raise the driving age to 16,17 0r even18 when science suggests the brain is better equipped to deal with analysing danger more effectively might reduce the toll.Only of course if it can be efectively policed. Now would that not take a brave politician!!
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In a discussion this morning over coffee a friend who spends a lot of time working in South East Asia mentioned that for instance Cambodia is full of people who look like Han Chinese at one extreme and like polynesian at the other.
I accept that we should recognise differences in culture looks and personailty but is there not a danger that we create divisions by selecting our arguments?
We should celebrate our differences but do not make judgements based on race
"None of these people like the Han Chinese terribly much", is a potentially racist comment and saying I do not like ...... for whatever reason is potentially damaging for some less enlightened souls. -
the demographer quoted as 'warning' Maori about the impending swamping of Maori by 'Asians.'
Surely this is tautological if DNA tests are to be believed Maori are Asians albiet as far removed:
Maori ancestry traced back to Taiwan
Maori ancestry traced back to Taiwan http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/596904 -
C mon Russell
"The country's best newspaper needs to calm down a bit."The Country's best: surely a very Auckland centric view. Still I suppose size does matter!! I can never find the news for all thise Jaffa's selling things
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(Mallard waves this great idea in front of our noses and then lets our local govt decide. It was dead from that moment on and they should have known that..)
Perhaps they did!! The Christchurch Mayor managed to think it through!
(The other problem with NHS is that you will never get Auckland rugby relocating there.)
Do they come anyway? Isn't that the argument that the only time you will fill a big stadium in Auckland for a Rugby game is for a National event? They certainly could not fill Edin Park for the Ranfurly Shield when they last held it.
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The only sensible suggestion was Grant Fox who said , "once the decision is made everyone should get behind it".
North Harbour seems sensible from a distance but it is not where the powers to be decided to go. Although looking here you would wonder why? LINK
Northern and Western Motorway Ring route. Bus way 2007. Buses flexible. Planned for light rail in future, adjacent infrastructure for park & rides eg Massey University, etc
I have much sympathy for those who bought properties next to Eden Park but surely they knew the stadium extension was a possibility?
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Today's post
Well, if the waterfront stadium gets nixed and Eden Park is anointed as the World Cup final venue, it'll be situation normal:I know it is not an option but what about the half completed shell of North harbour Stadium? or is it simply that it is on the wrong shore. Anything is better than Eden Park.
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If Keynes was he Ying
Friedman was the YangIsn't balance great.
Friedman thought Keynes was a great theorist with a wrong HypothesisMilton and Rose Friedman: Wall St journal
BY TUNKU VARADARAJAN
Saturday, July 22, 2006 12:01Had Keynes lived long enough to read Friedman's work in the fifties I am sure he would agee that his was a great contribution to the subject. We will never know what he considered it right or wrong.
I suspect histrory will judge that they were both right for their time but like all theorists they cannot be right all the time. The answer lies somewhere between the extremes. -
How about "The Coliseum" as a name.
Speaks volumes about the use and so much more elegant than the cake tine or bedpan.
With appologies to Edgar Allen PoeHere, where a hero fell, a column falls!
Here, where the mimic eagle glared in gold,
A midnight vigil holds both Locke and Hyde!
Here, where the dames of Auckland brush their gilded hair
Waved to the wind, now wave the reed and thistle!
Here, where on golden throne the world cup lolled,
Glides, spectre-like, unto this marble home,
Lit by the the powerful floodlights,
The swift All Backs of another age! -
I know I am an older blogger but why are peoples memories so short. Ian Kirkpatrick was a giant in a poor All Black era and at least the peer of McCaw. Remeber that Try!!
Isn't everyone missing the point of a rotation policy it means players can get injured!!
Carter would leave a hole but with the right attitude someone will fill it. After all Canterbury with Carter and McCaw could'nt even beat Welligton. Rugby is a team game.