Posts by Eric Dutton

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  • Hard News: Chew before swallowing,

    One disturbing trend in this social research is the separation of Maori and Pacific Island figures. From the original data it would appear much more important to classify by family size. And don't try to draw socioconclusions before cutting out the breakfast skippers. I had no idea that teenage girls ate breakfast.

    For the large families, we may need to bring back the old family benefit. Non means tested so that it doesn't raise effective marginal tax rates, and universal so that there is no social stigma.
    Far less complicated than "working for families", and it would allow John Key to outflank labour on the left.

    That all went because the tory party of the Holyoake era thought that making babies was fun and the poor should be punished for it. We now have a sub-replacement breeding rate. The rich won't make babies and the poor can't afford to bring them up. Even John Howard does better than us.

    Whangarei • Since Nov 2006 • 13 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Wonderful athletes,

    Basic problem with sport and gambling.
    Cricket has had a match fixing problem for 30 years. Not just, but especially in one day internationals.
    In New Zealand we do not associate cricket intimately with gambling, but nor did South Africa and Hanse is dead.
    We have to face reality. The MSM are so into gambling that the Herald devotes more space to cricket than to genuine sports like pro wrestling.
    Witness the Herald refusing to publish the results of one day cricket.
    Harald routinely publishes the runs scores by a batsman, but not the number of balls faced.
    The classic methods of match fixing: batting well but slowly, taking part a in disproportionate number of runouts or selecting unfit players are ignored by Harald. Indeed Adam Parore, who's career ended without anyone working out who he played for, is still wrting for the Herald.
    Until cricket has a credible system of stipendiary stewards looking over the conduct of players and umpires its back to genuine sports entertainment like WWE.

    Whangarei • Since Nov 2006 • 13 posts Report Reply

  • New Herald site,

    Looking forward to Christmas.
    Last year the editor's Christmas greeting was premium content. Goodwill to all men etc, but only ar a price. Why can't granny make premium content available for free, as does the Economist.

    Whangarei • Since Nov 2006 • 13 posts Report Reply

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