Posts by Steve Barnes
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TV show spurns Kiwi crew for Americans
Mr Bollinger said that with relaxed immigration rules on foreign workers, three key crew roles that New Zealanders could have filled would be undertaken by imported American workers.
I think that sums it up.
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My money is on Subsection 2b "to protect the safety of any person:"
As you point out by quoting Adam Bennet's article in the Herald “location, awareness on the part of the wanted person of law enforcement interest in them, or any information indicating risk factors in effecting any arrest”
We were told at the time that the reason the AOS were involved was because the police believed that Dotcom and his associated were "armed and dangerous". Is the information gleaned from GCSB the evidence of this "clear and present danger" or was the use of GCSB a means of obfuscating the perceived need for such an over the top operation?.
I can't help thinking that some people involved in this operation were caught up in the drama and just got carried away with the fantasy. -
people shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that it was the Police who initiated this investigation.
I think you will find it was the FBI that initiated the investigation and you can “Bet your sweet bippy” the police were all over themselves with “Gosh darn it, we’re in the “Big Time” now, wait till I tell Mum”
In other news…
"Man investigated for knowing too much about stuff"
This morning a Mr M. Pool was…."Man under watchful eye of punctuation police for over use of quotation marks"
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OnPoint: Because Statistical Rigour, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
imagine divining the future from Muldoon’s liver, just prior to a snap election!
Hmm, tastes just like chicken.
ETA. Goes well with cigars, cheers Keri. ;-)
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Pah! reading's not important anyway,if you don't read anything then you don't have to answer questions about it or know what truth is, or anyfink.
See, I could be PM one day...
Now there's worry.
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OnPoint: Because Statistical Rigour, in reply to linger,
Any attempt to “analyse” such data cannot possibly be any better than interpreting chicken entrails,
So. Next week are we to expect the Min of Ed to be sending representatives around
schools with chickens and long knives as an improvement on their current random collection of disparate data? -
Speaker: The Democracy-Free Zone, in reply to Matthew Poole,
So that would make it a National Standard.
National standards by the few, for the many. That sounds like... wait for it.... COMMUNISM!!!
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OnPoint: Because Statistical Rigour, in reply to Russell Brown,
the key to your school achieving well is for it to have a name starting with “i”
An Apple for the teacher.
Yay, the Apple iSchool.
<pads off to another Galaxy with friendly Android, i have an awful pain in the diodes down my left arm> -
But wait...
There is more
Dolphin vote 'tarnishes NZ's reputation'New Zealand is the only country to vote against further protection for the critically endangered Maui's dolphins at the world's largest conservation summit.
This is truly innovative thinking. By doing this our guvnorment can sell the rights to drilling for oil on the seabed without breaking an international treaty to protect our own wildlife. We could even render down dolphins for lamp oil for the poor to use in the mines. Oh joy, prosperity is on the horizon (just beyond the dead mammals).
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Speaker: Friday Music Guest:…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
What’s their game, then?;- )
Wasted them with the BFG 2000 in DOOM.
HAR Har