Posts by andin
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
slick, but soulless
Well they were destined for success then weren't they. And they certainly gave off that aura at the time. Eyes on the goal of success OSeas they didnt want to pay their dues gigging round OZ, I never went to one of their gigs.
But the live music scene there was healthy then, bands playing a different place every night, and people went out. It kinda ate NZ bands up cause they had to start all over, building an audience.
Srry I take a while to percolate this stuff thru. -
Speaker: The Voyage: The Engine Room…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
one of the issues around the financial institutions is that as technology has advanced it has made them in many ways irrelevant.
So they are just filling their pockets while they still can?
I would not miss them if they disappeared -
Instead he has adopted a very puritanical and rigid interpretation of scripture which utterly condemns the idea of any sexual relationship that is not between a man and a woman. This is pretty consistent with other conservative church positions,
Oh Right! so he's in line with other fucked up organisations. That's all right then.
The "City of god" is in Wiri... Who knew!
And as for Quax, Sharples and others fawning over this throwback with self-serving noises about all the good that will come of it....
More fool you. -
Hard News: Friday Music: This stuff works, in reply to Simon Grigg,
I'm going to be extra cheeky
Bugger me I think I could get lost in there.
fucking brill!
Makes me glad I was never a Black Sabbath obsessive too.
On my next move, soon now, I will investigate ISP's
Do Snap cover Kawakawa? -
A good starting point but at some stage we have to accept, maybe understand in a wider sense our biological imperatives, and come to accept and value individual variation in a society. Not say this is the individual norm based on a single grouping's ideas you have to fit in.
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Hard News: The Voyage of a Lifetime, in reply to Sacha,
we’re still only learning how to function in larger groupings than a clan or village.
Depends who your referring too. Most have had at least a couple of thousand years to get their mind around it. Does that mean we're slow learners or just normal?
Im not against economics, no ideological objection at all, as you and others say it has just got out of hand.... literally. -
In modern conventional economics, capital and labour are the recognised constraints and the environment is assumed irrelevant.
In NZ govt terms that is certainly the way this local modern incarnation of govt led by Johngoldentonsils appears to view the world. But now its about resource and economic viability and cloaked behind elevated discussions at the diplomatic level.
Its not hard to see 18th century slave traders and hard nosed book keepers maintaining their cosy positions while blinding themselves to any consequence, in these present day functionary roles. Just the vocabulary are different. -
Legal Beagle: Shirking their responsibilities?, in reply to Phil Lyth,
parliamentary parties would benefit greatly from MPs who were more directly involved in “the real world”,
or "all walks of life" ya know a-l-l of them. Its all a world, and reality lets not GT
And today, MPs are constantly in touch with their constituents. 30 years ago, communication was limited to mail and telegram. Now, with email, internet, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc etc, it seems that the challenge for any MP is to get time to themself. I’m surprised at the strange hours of the night that some MPs are posting / tweeting.
That, I hope, is a good trend.
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it determines the way we live our lives, but most of us are shut out from discussing it – by language or privilege, or simply because it seems too hard. Thus do assumptions go unchallenged and thus is the debate left to technocrats and their ministers.
And maybe that is where we are going wrong. This situation has not happened overnight, but over the past few decades economics has risen to becoming a spectre we must all adhere to. And has given rise to an indecipherable language for many.
While our predecessors on this planet were wrong about one big imponderable (there being a realm of ultimate caring or a god) they understood people and the best way for us to get along was to care for each other on a wider scope than just within a small group or within those who thought along the same lines shared by a common ancestry, not money, ok, economics.
And how we have f*#ktards like Blinglish and the other one saying its all about appearances John Key was the best Prime Minister in a generation at articulating that confidence.
So talk it up the little people will understand.
Cue Tui tag line. -
Hard News: The Editorial Image, in reply to Kumara Republic,
And why no similar ‘tough love’ towards deadbeat dads?
The reasons for that are deeply buried in the collective mind some politicians think we supposedly all inhabit, and are truly drek. Tho' that is the direction we should all be looking for the most effective long term solution.
But this govt is all about bashing those least able to fight back, gutless pricks, take your lousy philosophy and fuck off is all I want to say.So how do you know when Johnkey is lying?
He's talking.