Posts by Ian Dalziel
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I’m pretty sure I couldn’t read a script stapled to my head.
Graeme, you'll find the Leonardo da Vinci Call Centre has solved this problem by placing mirrors above their monitors and reversing the forehead script for reflection...
apparently if your carpet is glued to the floor, it’s covered by the policy, if it’s tacked it counted as a chattel (and not covered).
in the Press today Brownlee is quoted as saying:
"The Government expects to be buying houses in the condition that is reflected in their valuation. If people want to start ripping things out of them, that will simply reduce the value," he said.
"If you sell to the Government, then all legal rights belong to the Government, like it would with any purchase agreement.
"It costs a minimum of $15,000 to $20,000 to demolish a house. The demolition contractors will expect to get some salvage out of it."It seems the only deal Brownlee did was to ensure the Demo companies make some dosh - no thought about replacement values in the Phantom Zone.
even though if these were mortgagee sales the owners could strip the house of chattels - as I understand it, maybe someone else could clarify...This could also explain why Brownlee looked so damn shifty and nervous on the podium behind John Key during the initial announcement on Thursday...
and here is a history of Tower insurance another piece of fine Government tinkering and dissolute policies...
Once upon a time it was owned mutually by the policy holders - now I'm not sure who the shareholders are - but here are the directors if ya want to contact them.
from their Values PDF
TOWER’s values
TOWER adheres to three fundamental values in all its business dealings:
Commitment to our customers and to providing them outstanding service;
Commitment to our employees and to providing them opportunity to grow and develop;
and
Meeting reasonable shareholder expectations and delivering competitive, sustainable
and profitable growth.2 out 3 ain't bad, right?
David, I'm signing up as foot soldier in your fight against corporate greed and for real justice.
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to BenWilson,
I hope I’m dead and gone before drugs are legalised.
That’s one hell of a dangerous thing to wish for.Especially if the TPPA goes through and Pharmac is legally restrained from making even legal medicinal drugs - that a deteriorating geriatric might need - priced beyond reach...
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Hard News: Perception and reality in the…, in reply to Rex Widerstrom,
Stirring Porridge...?
Unashamedly stolen from the BBC’s Question Time, which put several pollies into Wormwood Scrubs to do just that.
Wormwood scrubs always makes me think of bitter aromatic overalls - the medical equivalent of a hair-shirt!
absinthe makes the heart grow fondue... -
Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to recordari,
Astounding stuff...
There is a science fiction short story that plays with this idea: there is a lonely ‘normal’ in a world of instant portals and extremely widespread experiential&knowledge sources
Any chance you can remember the name?
It sounds like I need to read it.Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time could be regarded as an early take on this idea...
You can read it on line here
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to Islander,
Third eyelid all sewn up?
hum and haw (mainly British)
also hem and haw (American & Australian)
to take a long time to say something and speak in a way that is not clear, in order to avoid giving an answer He hemmed and hawed and finally admitted taking the money. -
Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to nzlemming,
drinking tots...
I am not in favour of 12 year olds
drinking alcohol.But I am in favour of drinking
12 year old alcohol.
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Speaking of "accessories after the fact"
Key is now telling Australian media that
Pike River Mine would be illegal in Australia
even though "In November last year, however, he said: "I have no reason to believe that New Zealand safety standards are any less than Australia's."
I think the crucial phrase there is
- I have no reason... something that becomes more and more obvious every day! -
Hard News: Perception and reality in the…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
...for (allegedly) stealing the best part of $500 from everyone in NZ.
I don't think any of these charges
relate to the collapse and bail out
of South Canterbury Finance...
That's a whole other kettle of fish
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to chris,
Honey, I shrunk the country...
There’s something in that for the NZ govt methinks – Beehive beer.
perhaps a whole new reality tv series
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to Islander,
In a
manner of meaning
life is
a flurry of commas
& then
a full stop.The inbetween arguments
and agreements mean-
everything.a life sentence, even...
and ya meet some real colons
along the way, too
:- )we are the theses of our parents
bracketed and put out for marking...