Posts by insider
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to andin,
Read the post to the end would you
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Islander,
Sure bear. Read the second last line of Keith's post - "But asking to be compensated for his troubles is not unreasonable, either. "
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What exactly were the 'troubles' he wanted compensating for? The trouble of Not being able to find his flash drive in the directory? The trouble of exploring msd's files? The trouble of making a phone call to ask for money?
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Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Also, this could have been dealt with very differently: a quiet word from the community cops to someone like Tamati Kruger - just let them know that TPTB know what they're up to and it would be a good idea to tone it down.
What makes these idiots deserving of such special treatment? They were gathering recruits around the country, and gathering weapons and ammunition and disseminating them. Kruger said he knew all about it anyway, so if he was such a leader he should have done the right thing off his own bat.
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I'm just as happy to laugh at accountants as all the other science and arts grads on here, but to dismiss them as contributing nothing is academic snobbery.
Accountants are engineers just as much as a guy designing a physical structure; they just work with a different type of material. The structural engineer doesn't have unlimited steel and concrete to work with and part of his role is be as efficient as possible with what he has available. Change structural engineer to accountant and steel and concrete to cash and what's the difference?
It's like reading Not PC with all this unqualified lauding of engineers and scientists as heroes of society.
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Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to Russell Brown,
That said Russell, surprisingly for the times, the political attack lines being used this year and it being a Labour leader's speech, the word 'inequality' (or variants thereof) was never used.
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Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to BenWilson,
NZ isn't growing or dividing the pie - it's actually fucking the pie.
Or the good old bite and suck (as Big Ben used to advertise). The seared mouth was usually not worth the runny muck that filled it
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Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to Idiot Savant,
MED Already has multiple ministers - Telecommunications, consumer affairs, Resources and Development, Energy, Econ Dev. Nothing new here, just bigger and probably more unwieldy.
Personally I think the process stuff - regulations about toasters and companies register etc should be separated out from the strategic planning element. Although that could create a Ministry of Administrative Affairs, which rings a bell...
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Hard News: Unwarranted risk, in reply to BenWilson,
@ Ben
"We were actually talking about things that belong to the NZ Government before you tried to muddy the waters by talking about your own business."
Thanks. It wasn't the intention to muddy the waters. I didn't think you were just talking about NZ Govt assets alone because you talked about the risk of deterring investment in general and that not all overseas investment being a benefit. I disagree that there is some form of national loss, be it ownership or whatever, because, as Gareth says, you get a whole wad of cash in return to do with as you want; you can invest in NZ in some way or invest on Sydney hookers, as one 'owner' of NZ business recently did.
It seems a huge selective morality is at play around the sale of a business to foreigners. No-one would give a stuff if I were cashed up and sold that NZ money in return for Ferraris. But sell a business to the Germans and I'm suddenly handing over a piece of the country. I can't see a huge difference in the two events in terms of their impact on NZ.
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Hard News: Unwarranted risk, in reply to Sacha,
Well that's just wrong Sacha. Business ownership and responsibilities are totally separate from citizenship rights. That's how foreign ownership is able to occur and still be subject to NZ law...