Posts by Rich of Observationz
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There should just be a fakehood/reality switch in twitter. Personally I'd keep it set on 'fake' at all times.
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Hard News: Political Idol, or whatever…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Basically it comes down to this: do the people of NZ tell multinational companies what to do in our country, or do they tell us what to do? It would be nice to vote on that.
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"Fuck you" is the correct answer. A parliament cannot bind it's successor - Key may have purported to do so by signing up for a 30 year contract, but statutes can always void contracts.
I'm sure this will piss off the labour-voting Sky City shareholders - both of them.
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to ,
Primaries are unique to the USA.
The big difference with a US primary is that anyone can tick a box on their electoral registration form to register as Democrat or Republican, and then vote in the primary - no need to pay subs or adhere to the parties rules, etc. In some states with "open primaries", you don't even have to do that - anyone can vote in either primary.
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a little less with that thing
You mean the slave labour fishing boats, or the wanting to dig up Northland?
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Deborah,
Actually, the NZ tax system is both extremely simple and extremely biased in favour of asset owners against wage earners.
Compared to other developed countries we have no:
- inheritance tax
- capital gains tax
- tax on real property transfers
- initial tax allowances
- social security / payroll tax
- local income taxes
and we have a very measly pension savings scheme (the UK allows up to GBP50k of annual savings with tax relief at 20%, it used to be 40% on 15% of salary *and* the fund's accumulation is untaxed).Basically, it's a huge subsidy from working stiffs to a minority of wealthy asset owners, mostly from the baby-boomer generation.
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At least as recently as the early 90s the (UK) military was loathe to deploy any kind of OS (which in those days was usually VMS), at least on things that were meant to fly or go bang. They liked to be able to examine each byte of the code and gate of the hardware (resulting, on one memorable system, in a number of drawings being provided with hex dumps of ROM contents).
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
They don't actually elect him or anything, though. I know I said upthread that the list/electorate thing doesn't matter, but it is quite conspicuous that Jones has lost 4/4 electorate contests, all in allegedly grassroots working class areas.
(Although with most Maori voting in Te Tai Tokerau, Northland must be pretty much unwinnable by Labour. BTW, does anyone know if candidates for Maori seats have to be on the Maori roll and vice versa?)
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OnPoint: Ich bin ein Cyberpunk, in reply to nzlemming,
Have a classic paper on that subject.
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Speaker: Naked Inside the Off-Ramp, in reply to Matthew Poole,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_liability_in_English_law
may be relevant.ISTR you can spend a whole class in law school on that subject.
But if the definition of "secondment" involved the employee using their access to GCSB's interception systems as opposed to merely their technical knowledge, then I suspect that isn't relevant, they were agents of GCSB.