Posts by Lyndon Hood
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Frankly, I can't see that they are secretly motivated by long term considerations. I think they were presented with options, including for eg more tax or more borrowing, but "cut spending" was the only one that appealed.
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I have dealt with one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyl_cat.
They’re not exactly up to manipulating tools, but if one decides to lazily grab you it’s quite difficult to extract yourself.
Also, for those who missed: Unicorn – The New White Meat/Lawyerbait.
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Shouldn't take the time to enthuse about irony in Shakespeare at this point in the day, so here is a video of a tornado in a strawberry field.
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quite another to have the technique and emotional intelligence to hold 300 people in a public square with nothing more than her voice and a battered ukulele.
Agreed. She and Jason Webley both left me with the impression they’ve had plenty of practise playing unruly spaces. And I could hear her at the back. An interestingly old-school set of skills for an internet celebrity.
Incidentally, if I have this right Amanda Palmer was in Iceland for the volcano, Australia for the floods and New Zealand for the earthquake. (There may have been another one on the list.)
Jason Webley was in Christchurch. If you heard him in the square this pic seems kind of blackly droll http://twitpic.com/42o2e8 .
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Incidentally, wellington airpart billeted all its people.
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Not accusing him off ripping anything off. I love Gaiman.
Personally I think his glorious ripping-off is a key part of Gaiman's awesome.
And I'll chip in that the old gods in Tom Robbins' Jitterbug Perfume have similar problems.
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Incidentally, w/r/t asset sales I don't know if anyone has raised the spectere, but supposing someone from, say, China took a largish stake and supposing we wanted to make legislative change to reduce coal consumption or tame the elkectricity market, might they not sue us under the trade agreement for devaluing their investment?
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Gordon and Lyndon both deserve columns at a major newspaper
Aw, shucks.
Y'all may or may not be aware that Gordon is syndicated in sundry Fairfax community papers. Which may be by way of emphasising your point.
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Case studies: Goff throws around numbers on the contact energy sale.
Also, if nobody else has said it, here's Gordon C from yesterday.
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The Chairman seems to know, but perhaps someone can help me out: How will part-selling Solid Energy help it raise capital?