Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Hard News: Not so insane, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I'd imagine the next thing is going to be distributed, anonymous social networks.
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Something I was wondering: in many countries overseas there is fairly blatant corruption between councillors and companies wanting consents and contracts. Is NZ squeaky clean here, or does it also go on?
And if not, why are councillors generally so keen on anything involving lots of concrete?
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Hard News: Local interest, in reply to Barnaby Nicholls,
He's only going to win if people don't turn out (or turn in, given it's a postal poll) and put him last. I suspect a lot of his front-runner status is due to his equally Jurassic mates on the Dom Post plugging the old twatcock.
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Deborah,
is all medical care to be prescribed by big pharma?
You do know that most if not all of the alternative pill makers are owned by large pharma companies?
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Someone I know went to a naturopath, and while there was a lot of quackery involved, some of the advice was sensible - give up all foods that one might be sensitive to, drink more water, get more sleep.
Given they are able to provide much more time than a proper medic and the advice might work (especially for the substantial number of patients who don't have anything much wrong with them).
Worst case of course is they fail to notice you have cancer and you die.
If that's prevented (and bringing CAM within the health system should help) then the only problem is a society full of fussy eaters.
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Why do they persist with that ranking system? Does National do it too?
It just seems to be a way to create jealousy and division. Surprised no leader has scrapped it - does the party constitution demand it?
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Legal Beagle: Council Elections: STV Q&A, in reply to Steve Todd,
That's most informative.
Both Labour and the Greens are running candidates in my ward. What I did wonder is why they are only running one candidate in a three seat ward - lack of people wanting to run, or a desire to put all their resources behind one candidate?
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Chris Waugh,
..and Westwood got shot in a drive-by.
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I think we should have hours and minutes that change duration as a function of season and time of day, such that sunset is always 1800 and sunrise 0600.
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Would the use of some sort of duress alarm to destroy data (or encryption keys) be contempt?