Posts by Trevor Nicholls
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Hard News: Media Take: The creeping…, in reply to Idiot Savant,
The problem isn't that the OIA is a burden, its that some public servants and most politicians view it as one.
I'd like to know how many government salaries are invested in burying information. And how many in prettying it up before letting the public see it. The calculus isn't just that it costs money to make information available.
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And here's NZ 1st = with Denmark in the international corruption perception index for the last 2 years. How much longer can that last?
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
The thing is - we have no context at all for how usual or unusual this is.
The thing about "normal" is that a reasonably large number of people are familiar with it. As things stand, this appears pretty extreme, if not a first of its kind. Perhaps it really is "the new normal", in which case we should be starting to think about a revolution, not downplaying it.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
Accessing computer system for dishonest purpose
..which is what blubber-byproduct does every time he touches a keyboard.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
we know nothing.. so there's nothing to know. yeah, right.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Because 1-0 is "far in excess of" 51-49.
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Conspiracy theorists treat facts as artifacts of reality.
"Conspiracy theorists" treat facts as artifacts of a conspiracy. -
Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to BenWilson,
I would if the majority given is far in excess of the majority polled
On that basis you'd have to reject the result of every election that is held for a single position, unless it was unanimous.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to bmk,
OK, well I have been misinformed. Ignore me :-)
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to BenWilson,
Which is not theory, it's what happened, over and over
I wouldn't call giving a majority party a majority of seats "gaming the system". Gaming the system requires a party receiving fewer total votes getting a governing majority. As far as I can recall NZ has only once had a government which received fewer votes than the main opposition party (the margin was tiny, and the opposition won the next election by a convincing margin).