Posts by dc_red
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1. ...it would have 30 regular listeners?
2. The bottle. Provided you don't live in Auckland.
3. Just like the guardians of Gondor. Key on one side of a previously unspoiled south-westland river. Muzza on the other.
4. b ... I assume.
5. Will the NZH notice, and launch an over-wrought campaign?
6. See 5.
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It seems like no one's actually given any thought to what, if any, use the building would actually have, apart from looking quite interesting.
Parking, surely?
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@ Paul C
the various tax free allowances in the US system - there you can write off the interest on your mortgage, your rates, cost of registering your car, .... it's also why, when I lived there, I filed a 20-30 page tax return ....
Same story in Canada, albeit with different write offs. Home improvement expenses. Public transport passes. University tuition fees. Contributions to a pension plan.
The taxes and "taxes" (levies, fees, etc.) on airline travel are horrendous, though. Your Auckland-Wellington equivalent flights in Canada are C$300 return by the time you add all those.
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Heroin tends to rank highly (well, highest) on harm indexes because of its potential for injection. This same quality increases the risk from, e.g., cocaine, barbiturates, and ketamine. As Nutt et al. put it in the Lancet*:
"Drugs that can be taken intravenously—eg, heroin—carry a high risk of causing sudden death from respiratory depression, and therefore
score highly on any metric of acute harm"For the record, that enlightening study ranked alcohol 5th, and tobacco 9th, in terms of mean harm from 20 substances. Cannabis was 11th. Ecstasy was 18th.
* = Lancet 2007; 369: 1047–53 (Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse)
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@Craig
Honestly, I wouldn't let Brian Neeson feed my cat while on vacation
Brian Connell is another former National MP you should probably excuse from that duty.
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@Lucy
Can anyone think of anything I've missed? If not, I think I'll run with it.
Seems to me like you're on pretty strong ground.
There's also the potentially less satisfying route of simply keeping your child home on test day for any of the statutorily-acceptable reasons.
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In the end, Williams is a great rentaquote but I don't know anyone else who takes the guy particularly seriously.
Someone will probably give him a radio show at this rate.
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There's been plenty of stock placed in the 80% approval rating it got through a series of hui - do you think these were stacked in Maori Party favour somehow?
Yes, perhaps John isn't the only one who struggles to distinguish the personal, the official, and the constitutional (or doesn't care enough to try). The apprentice (Pita) is just learning from the master (John).
Speaking of John, is anyone else mildly surprised he's put up with these late-night textses from that Williams idiot? I can't imagine HC would have. Presumably PMs have security people who can convince others not to be annoying (and yes, Craig, I know it's nice that PMs in New Zealand are relatively approachable - even by self-styled Maori radicals who want to twist their arms off. But I don't expect to get away with repeated late-night texting).
my favourite, the Hunterwasser Koru Flag.
Yes, the Hundertwasser flag's brilliant.
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"Allah probably doesn't exist. Stop blowing shit up, and chill"?
I rather like that, actually. Thanks Craig! ;-)
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Unlike Don Brash, McCann notes that New Zealand enjoys a transparent and largely corruption-free business environment, good-quality institutions, a sound regard for property rights, light regulation and a relatively small public sector
Someone give that man $477,000! ;-)