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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
“moral pygmies” = “people short of morals”.
No shortage of those in National, for sure.
“Immoral bastards” might be more politically correct in one sense,
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Essentially, it seems to me that the very way people work is changing.
Cue two BBC Radio 4 series on that topic, both currently available to stream through BBC iPlayer, though not to download:
The New Workplace (from August 2015; podcast access has expired)
and The Joy of 9 to 5 (November-December 2015; no podcast available). -
Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Overseas voters have the option of uploading a scan of their response form to the elections.org.nz site. I note that, contrary to the listed browser requirements, the upload does not work under older versions of Safari such as 5.0.6 (still the most recent version for MacOS 10.5).
The site recommends that voters only upload their own response form, on the basis that you shouldn’t know how anyone else has voted; presumably the same consideration applies to putting multiple postal votes in the same envelope. Nevertheless, as long as the form codes are distinct, it seems the voting papers would both be counted.
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Legal Beagle: Update: Into the River, in reply to Alfie,
If you think the job description is "guardian of our country's morals" then a social conservative is exactly who you'd appoint.
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Still struggling to see any nett benefit for most people. Unless you take out a reverse mortgage or suchlike, or cash up and move to a cheaper suburb, an increased property value doesn’t affect actual cashflow. Without such measures, any perceived “wealth effect” from the value of one’s own residence is at best short-term: rates, following property values, go up faster than income does, reducing available income for discretionary spending. Meanwhile, those who don’t own their own homes (=currently 40% of NZers) have significantly less income for discretionary spending as their rent increases. Because the really important thing about a property bubble is that increases in income do not -- and cannot -- keep pace; so most people go backwards in real terms.
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to Jim Cathcart,
Where you have property bubbles, you also [have] higher discretionary spending
by the small minority of the population actively involved in property speculation -- which does not support growth in employment or wages for the majority. Invoking the thoroughly discredited "trickle-down" theory is just taking the piss.
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Hard News: The Police Ten 7 State, in reply to Sacha,
As others have already suggested, it may be that Police didn’t actually “write” this one – some untrained minion just copied a lot of boilerplate in from somebody else’s overly ass-covering contract. ’Cos who’d have thought you could ever have too much ass-covering? … Oh, right.
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to Sacha,
another spectacular misjudgement
Yah, of the “step away from the festering corpse” variety. On what planet is any continuing association with Douglas not an obvious electoral weapons-grade biohazard?
@Joe: It appears Labour can make this kind of stuff-up ...
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to Grant McDougall,
yep, about as likely as MH saying changing TV show hosts is good.
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Hard News: The Police Ten 7 State, in reply to BenWilson,
They probably have a computer program generating their excuses, too.