Posts by Matthew Poole
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And to further depress those of us who wish NZ actually had a functional economy for profiting from local inventions, this artcle says that Qualcomm has bought a local JV firm that has created tech to do uncoupled vehicle charging over a distance of 450mm. That's got spectacular potential (thanks, I'll be here all week) with electric vehicles, and now all that NZ gets to keep is the patent licensing revenue.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to DCBCauchi,
Yeah, way to avoid admitting that you called it completely and utterly wrong on the position of Dunedin's cops towards Occupy Dunedin.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to DCBCauchi,
The Dunedin cops are hard-arses, dull but hard
On the basis of this, I'd say you probably owe the Dunedin constabulary something akin to an apology. Wouldn't you?
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Hard News: Presentation and Reality, in reply to Peter Calder,
You need to look for a somewhat more sophisticated analysis than bleating “the Herald is anti-[insert name of your favourite party here]”. It just doesn’t bear scrutiny
It may not be anti-Labour, but it's sure as hell pro-Key. The difference is, IMO, a semantic pissing contest.
Failing to detail Goff's full 10 is a pretty major slap-down, and a paper that's trying to demonstrate true impartiality would have at least included the whole list. It's a casual dismissal of the Leader of the Opposition's belief (and it's one that's shared by many who live in NZ) that the country has undergone serious regression on Key's watch. A properly impartial paper would air his claims; possibly, even, *gasp* investigate them and determine if he's actually correct. Because goodness knows it'd be good journalism to be able to call a senior politician on having their figures wrong. The Herald certainly took great delight in figuring out that Labour was $400m short in funding their campaign policies. But to investigate Goff's claims might uncover uncomfortable evidence that Key is not the Messiah, or even a very naughty boy, but, rather, merely a political lightweight with the country-management skills of a gnat.
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On the topic of presentation, Granny is at it again, leaving out Goff's "Top 10 list of Govt shortcomings" from the article of the same title. I count two, or possibly three, of the aforementioned 10.
I guess a 30% completeness score is better than Granny's normal levels, but it's still a glaring omission from a rag that tries to pretend to some degree of fairness.
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Even Act would enforce regulations more strongly.
After first paring said regulations as far as they consider could possibly get past the electorate, of course. But at least they'd enforce the remaining clichéd-European-dairy-based-food of regulations that might survive the paring exercise.
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Apropos nothing in particular, I had David Seymour as my ECON101 tutor. He did a pretty good job of teaching the topic, rather than pandering to his ideological bent, but it was fairly obvious to one who knew his political leanings that he wasn't entirely in agreement with some bits of the syllabus.
We could certainly do worse than to have him in Parliament, from what I could tell of him, but I still would much rather that Act shrivelled and died on the back of Banks not winning Epsom. -
Speaker: Why Auckland, and New Zealand,…, in reply to Colin Ross,
National is quite certain that it can continue to ignore Auckland’s single voice until said voice gives up and does what it’s told; or gets voted out due to lack of progress in the face of a hostile central government. A voice that, as embodied by Brown, speaks with the mandate of more direct votes than any dozen of the Beehive’s residents combined. Brown needs to remind Joyce and Key of the fact that more people voted for him in that single election than have voted for the two of them combined in every election for which they have stood! (ETA: And that would apply even if Joyce had won Rodney in the last election.)
It’s a shame that the prolles seem to be so completely bamboozled by the Key Cognitive Dissonance Field, because the stated voting patterns really bear no resemblance to any statements made relating to National’s policies.
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OnPoint: 3 News Exclusive Investigation…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
If they've got capital gains income and aren't paying back their student loan, why would charging interest change their position? Until capital gains cease to be tax-free, people who have largely tax-free income will have no encouragement to repay their student loans because they'll not be over the threshold.
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Immediately relevant right now, the official advice from the Minister and the Police themselves is that it's not illegal to video or photograph police officers at work, provided you're on public property or have permission from the owner of private property.