Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Hard News: Bad Judgement, in reply to Euan Mason,
I think people who don't want another three years of Key government should concentrate on the real issues. People who rather like paying 33% tax and don't mind stepping over beggars, carry on bitching about who awful Labour are.
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The Greens new plan for cheap long term government loans for solar panels will reduce carbon emissions and help ordinary Kiwis gain energy independence at no taxpayer cost.
Sure, we need a lot more than 30MW to close the gap and get us to 100% renewables, but it's a start. And with Europe feeling the ompact of climate change, it's unlikely that National's fuck-the-planet energy policy will be without cost in terms of exports for much longer.
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Hard News: Splore 2014: Everyone's…, in reply to Alan Perrott,
Yep. The new space is great - nice environment, no exogenous security hassles, co-operative local powers. It needs a bit of tweaking to separate camping from sound, and the river isn't deep enough to float the pirate ship, sadly. By all accounts the landowner enjoyed it and we have a five year resource consent to keep going.
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Hard News: Splore 2014: Everyone's…, in reply to Mark Thomas,
If you like Splore (and have huge amounts of spare cash and don't mind it being fsking hot) you may enjoy Burning Man. Or Kiwiburn, next year.
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Hard News: Splore 2014: Everyone's…, in reply to Mark Thomas,
Very, very hippy. Drum circles, if you like that sort of thing. I'd hope they still have psy-trance.
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Key wins when people who want the same thing don't cut each other any slack...
Word, Ian.
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Pattrick Smellie, Director, is a highly respected business journalist and co-founder of the BusinessDesk news service, which provides business news to all mainstream media outlets in New Zealand and the Australian Associated Press. Pattrick has worked on both sides of the media fence, as a press secretary to the then Minister of Finance, Roger Douglas, and for major corporate clients including Fonterra, Contact Energy, and The University of Auckland. He is a Harkness Fellow, former chairman of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, and was The Australian newspaper's first New Zealand correspondent.
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Just what are we going to be exporting there that's going to make so much money?
And the US will not and will never open up its agricultural markets in a way that impacts its farm lobby. So we aren't going to get a better price for milk powder.
Mostly, stuff we are successful in exporting is stuff people need and can't produce locally at a reasonable price. Timber to Japan, milk to China, Serato Final Scratch to DJs everywhere. That doesn't need a free trade agreement. British DJs don't prefer using Traktor because it's a German product.
This isn't a free trade agreement, it's a protection agreement for large (mostly) US corporations.
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Hard News: The Uses of Dotcom, in reply to Sacha,
It's not impossible that someone in the GCSB/NZSIS/Police/US might use Slater as a convenient cut-out to launder information they want out there.
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Hard News: Friday (Thursday) Music: Mad Props, in reply to bob daktari,
I thought that.
In the UK, promoters are required to fill in Form 696 with details on who the artists are, genre of music, colour of audience*, etc.
*They were forced to take that out, but they still ask the genre, which often amounts to the same thing.
