Posts by Gareth Ward
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I LOVED that speech, especially this bit:
New Zealanders who can afford it go to the Gold Coast for their holidays, not Invercargill. We would like it to be warmer.Of course at the time I thought the whole thing was a beautifully weighted satire... I'm still waiting for him to drop the poker face though
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They are "making it" by exporting productive industry to places outside of Europe.
Links please to the studies saying that?
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Listener editorial is here: http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3577/columnists/12306/nothing_to_hide.html
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[about 14] European countries have announced that they are [withdrawing/defaulting/not going to meet their commitments or something]
I've heard nothing of the sort - there are ZERO countries stating they'll withdraw from Kyoto (Canada made noises but haven't), the EU as a whole is committed to Kyoto, many of the Eastern Bloc are making their targets through virtue of economic decline, and the Nordic countries are doing a stellar job (and will make a small fortune in selling excess units I imagine).
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The ditching of the ETS has undermined New Zealand's carbon credibility, and made difficult for us to argue our own virtue in the face of Britain's proposed new departure taxes.
This was nicely worded by the way Russell - we could have been as effective in emission reduction in Sweden, and the tax would have still been the same. It's about the emissions to get here, not how green we are.
But our absurd delays and denials remove any credibility about changing the nature of that tax (their initial plan to move the APD to an "emissions per plane" basis would have been great for AirNZs biofuel program for example) -
The climate change denial stuff is just a sideshow anyway (in all senses of the word).
We HAVE signed up to Kyoto
We ARE a year into the emissions recording period
We WILL have to pay for each every and every ton of carbon we are emitting right now.So exactly why we're still letting those businesses that cause that liability to emit without any exposure to it's cost to the country completely fails me. The ETS doesn't impose cost to the country, it minimises it. Treasury's analysis made it clear that it was the least-cost approach to delivering on a legal, signed-up, in-play liability
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Nick Dwyer's NZ On Air-funded Making Tracks
Wasn't that a great little show. I missed a bunch of them but the ones I saw were excellent...
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As you've discovered, the indoor aerials generally work rather well.
Well in my case, only just. Very frustrating because the aerial on the roof has line of sight out to the mast on the Waitaks, and the Sky Tower the other way for infill - but my lounge is down behind a building on both directions so the aerial has to be juuuuuuust right. Is apparently a big issue in the UK and is actually delyaing their analogue switch off.
Still, very impressed - I worked in the home theatre bizzo for a few years and HATED plasma/LCD because of the awfulness of the image. They were just a bit too far ahead of the content I think. Planet Earth on BluRay for example is absolutely unbelievable.And yes, I realise you guys are the "minnows" but you know we want to see every bead of nervous sweat... ;)
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I recently picked up an integrated-tuner HD TV (exactly the Sony one you link to) after running my beautiful Loewe CRT into the ground. Buying an LCD or plasma set without an HD tranmission was always pointless to me - they look markedly worst on SD content - so once I could get HD broadcast TV (I include source-upscaled material in that) I was in there.
And it's mint - movies, seem to be coming off a close-to-HD source, and I've even sat through Bones simply because of the picture quality...But a note of caution for those in apartment buildings - there are apparently lots of issues with building distribution systems. Lots of installers are sending satellite signals, CCTV signals etc along the same cable and it's blocking the UHF band that FreeviewHD comes in on. I've had to go to a seperate indoor UHF aerial to get all the channels.
Oh, and someone get Sky to play ball and put Prime on there. And Russell, you and Wallace need to pitch for much improved picture quality on Backbenches and Media7. I'm not sure if it's a capture issue, broadcast quality issue or what but Backbenches is almost painful to watch with it's artifacts and "crawling"...
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TABOR the Burninator - burninating peasants, thatch-roofed cottages and necessary public expenditure...
Add majestic lines... for majesty.