Posts by andrea quin
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@Bart Janssen
The EU is changing the post-doc setup so that anyone who has been in the same place 5 years becomes an employee not a contractor. This is to counter the increasing casualisation of academic work.
And who says this kind of contrscting doesn't exist in NZ employment law at the moment? There are loads of post-docs happily (or unhappily, as the case may be) working around the country.
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Here's an intersting article from the NY Times looking at the change in price of various foodstuffs since 1980 (the context is a discussion of the soda tax -- not so applicable here as we don't tend to gulp down a litre of the stuff a day).
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I think Ben is over-egging it a little too. The current system is nice and simple but if that argument is the only important thing, why not bring in a flat tax for income tax? The "fresh produce" test is a relatively simple one.
But, Rich, do you really expect to see many businesses becoming exempt from GST? I don't know any shops that dont sell a bunch of eggs or chocolate bars along with their veg.
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Anyone read the article in the New York Times about getting people to eat their veg? Seems you gotta make 'em cheaper somehow.
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Lucy, here's a link to that study showing that it's really hard to tell someone else is drunk.
And Kyle, if you are going to do rankings like that, you have to normalize for the number of MPs each party has available to make fuck-ups. If Garrett were the only idiot in ACT, that's still make 20% of ACT MPs idiots...
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The Invention of New Zealand. A real masterpiece, that.
Hear, hear. Here.
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Does anyone else find itunes one of the world's more annoying pieces of software? The constant updates adding functionality for bits of hardware I dont have (idevices) certainly dont help.
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So, Islander, are you suggesting that you know something that Graham doesn't? Or that you are somehow more relevant than Te Radar? Please share.
And wouldn't you say that this country being the last big bit of land (outside Antarctica) anywhere in the world to be populated by anyone, and that having happened just about 100 years ago, makes it really quite a young country? At least relative to every other country on the planet?
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Good - because honestly who always enjoys or is "satisfied" with what they do for a living.
About 84.1% of people if you believe the survey Russell quote above (and if you drop the always). But yes, anyone will have parts of their job they don't enjoy.
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The sex worker survey didn't ask whether or not they enjoyed or were satisfied with their work, they asked what the good bits and the bad bits were.