Posts by Tony Kennedy
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The is more than one flavour of STV, The single seat constituency version used in Australia is never going to do the smaller parties any favours, however the multi seat (min 3, maximum 5) version as practised in Ireland is more conducive to small party’s getting a seat.
It should be noted that the Dail (Ireland’s Lower house) has 166 members for a population of a similar size to NZ.
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Since we are on the subject of typos, the small fascicle on achievements during Mr Palmer’s term as PM could be distributed by Fascimile.
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Himmler had something "simler"
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My xtra broadband was working beautifully - and then........ about 7 weeks ago, it all just turned to craq. Sometimes my modem lights would go blinkety blink blink like a cheshire cat on crack
A similar experience, same symptoms, in my case a technician called round and checked all the ADSL filters, his diagnoses was that it was a “filter” problem, exacerbated by the recent installation of SKY digital. He did things including replacing all the filters and the problem went away. I seem to recall a comment from the techie that this was the not the first SKY install resulting in ADSL connection problems that he had dealt with.
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Is that a typo? I thought we nominated Don Christie?
An easy mistake to make, I am still trying to recover from trying to visualise Don as a Goth – (old Cracker from many moons ago).
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THE MONEY
"The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £21,000, and was subsequently raised to £50,000 in 2002"
meanwhile just across the water....
"The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind for a single work of fiction published in English. It is open to novels written in any language and by authors of any nationality, provided the work has been published in English or English translation. The Award is a joint initiative of the Dublin City Council, the Municipal Government of Dublin, Ireland, and the productivity improvement company IMPAC. The prize is €100,000.
The award is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries who seek nominations from public libraries from major cities across the world."
No NZ winner yet
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Were they singing as well?????
We love our Molenberg ...
Oh the policemans life for me ... (with apologies to Cosi Fan Tutte) -
"2condchance John" has anounced that he wont be letting you down.
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Being semi serious for a moment, the critical “bad” moment for me in the 2nd half was the conversion miss, a 7 point lead is so much better than 5 and I could not see the French scoring 8 unanswered points. At this level, this kick should have been converted; this may explain the continued reliance on scoring a try to close out the game.
I wonder if the selectors now regret not selecting Weepu !