Posts by nzlemming
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Up Front: Safety Net, in reply to Morgan Nichol,
To be fair, usually when people bless me it is more along lines of "the power of christ compels you".
Good to know you're getting your exorcize. A sedentary lifestyle can be pure hell.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Peter Graham,
Ye-es. Your point being, perhaps, that it's Ray's self-interest motivating his comments, rather than a wider interest in the welfare of copyright holders?
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Kumara Republic,
That would not really qualify as news, amigo.
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Up Front: Safety Net, in reply to BenWilson,
I do treasure your experience in these matter, Ben.
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Up Front: Safety Net, in reply to Emma Hart,
Bless you Morgan, you've pretty much summed up why I do what I do.
Correct if I'm wrong, but I believe that might be the first time in forever that anyone has said "Bless you Morgan" when it wasn't about a sneeze ;-)
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Up Front: Safety Net, in reply to Russell Brown,
Also: most-commonly cited reason for wanting to contribute to PAS discussions, but not doing so?
Dont't forget the ones who say "But I don't listen to any of that hipster music. They'll judge me." To which I replied "I don't like the Pixies, actually". Then Sacha said "Them's fighting words!" and it was all on ;-)
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Up Front: Safety Net, in reply to Morgan Nichol,
Judginess can be real. I've had bad experiences with GPs and specialists to the point where I've walked out and refused to pay because they were overlaying their morality on the medical issues. Also because they frankly didn't understand WTF I was talking about because their life experience just didn't cover it. I stopped using a dentist because he went to the same church as my parents and I just didn't trust him anymore.
Perceived unsafety is not imaginary - safety is very subjective.
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Simon, can you give an estimate of how much Ray (or anyone - it just so happens w're picking on him at the moment)would get each time the song is played on radio? Would that all be songwriting royalty, or is he due something as a performer if his recording is played (I think that's the mechanical royalty, yes?)?
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to merc,
too much institutionalized power via corporatism
Political scientists might just call that "fascism"...
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Are there ever substantial traffic delays between Puhoi and Wellsford outside holiday periods?
That's a very significant point. Here in Kapiti, we face another of these Roads of National Party Significance, and the issue is similar. The problem used to be holidays and evening rush hour between Paraparaumu and Waikanae (never in the morning, oddly enough). Since the commuter train was extended to Waikanae, there no longer is a problem on that stretch as all the people who used to drive to Paraparaumu to catch the train can now catch it at Waikanae. The only problem seems to be Friday night when a bunch of out of towners come up to their baches (cribs to you Southrons) and even that's not too bad.
Holiday weekends are another issue and we do need another road for that, or at least another river crossing on the Waikanae and some major work at Otaki (now delayed by about 4 years by NZTA). But the breakdown of traffic other than holidays shows only 30% of it actually passes through the Kapiti district, 30% is purely internal and the remainder either stops or starts in the district (mostly commuter to Wellington and that road is fine until you hit Ngauranga).
The griping you hear about the "bloody Kapiti roads" mostly come from people going to or returning from their holidays, so "holiday highway" is quite appropriate.
ETA speeling