Posts by Rich of Observationz
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[Moderator. Please delete my above message, or reinstate some of the spam it refers to. I wasn't meaning to slur Ian]
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I think the assumption is that in year 1, the tax cuts balance the carbon tax.
If in subsequent years, people are using less fuel, then sure, the carbon tax revenues will fall and they'll have to pay more in other taxes to compensate. But they'll be saving money on fuel, and paying the same net amount in tax.(Unless they choose to run an SUV, or own a coal fired dairy factory, or fly the Pacific five times a year. Those people will continue to be worse off).
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Hard News: The Digital Natives, in reply to Russell Brown,
Labour first http://www.webcitation.org/5k1gJJStW then gave it up under pressure from Peters and Dunne. They did consider that one could be introduced "post 2012".
They then switched to an ETS, which has comprehensively failed.
It would be kinda nice if they could work with the Greens on a suitable policy that also addressed consumer living standards issues, but I guess that the Greens managed that all by themselves.
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There's a very good argument that indirect copyright infringement shouldn't be a criminal matter. It would be reasonable for a future government, in general but especially if the court finds against Dotcom, to look at reforming our copyright legislation to make this clear.
If they passsed such a change, then Dotcom could in theory still be extradited as his conduct was illegal under NZ law at the time of the offence. But I would think that he'd have a very good case to avoid extradition.
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Hard News: The Digital Natives, in reply to Sacha,
As a techy lower stack geek myself, I agree wholeheartedly.
If they'd had parliamentary democracy in 15th century Germany, I wonder if they'd have had a "Printing Party" and people whinging that its leader really didn't have a deep enough knowledge of movable type.
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See:
https://github.com/stoneyrh/TrueCryptfor a repo of 7.1a (which apparently hasn't been touched for a year).
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What's he ever done for the internet?
Hone Harawira voted against:
the Copyright "Infringing Filesharing" Bill aka three strikes.
the Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Bill
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GCSB bill.What do you expect him to do, write a compiler?
Hey, we could have had that Richard Stallman as Internet party leader, if it wasn't for the pesky citizenship requirement. Oh, and the fact he makes Bomber seem unpolarizing.
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Maybe they'll create low-latency wireless DJ headphones. I don't think these exist, but I once looked at how you could (basically, use hardware for the whole data path).
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This rather strange Github repo has all the pre-takedown Truecrypt source and binaries:
https://github.com/drwhax/truecrypt-archive(Strange because having one branch with all the files alongside in zips is an unusual use of Github. It would be useful to unzip these files into a conventional git repo. I could do this, but I think I'd use a burner account to do so).
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I'd point out that Dunne and Banks aren't actually exploiting the "coat-tails rule" as neither of their vestigial parties gain enough votes for a second MP (and Dunne doesn't have enough for a first, I think).
What they are tending to do is exploit the "affiliated parties" loophole where a party in loose alliance with another can have candidates (Dunne & Banks) whose seats are not added in to National's total when calculating the latter's list seats. Thus National has two more seats than they would have if Dunne & Banks were National MPs.
If Mana really wanted to rort the system, Hone would keep his head down, never leave Northland and not campaign for the party vote at all. That would get him into Parliament and maximise the left-wing vote.
Running as a composite party, on the other hand, simply ensures that the votes of Mana and IP supporters are less likely to be wasted.
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