Posts by Steve Barnes
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What's it all aboot eh?
I was in two minds as to where to post this. The right hand one thought here would be good. -
Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to Russell Brown,
(c) Seriously, leave TVNZ alone you bastards. I, for one, don't wan't to see Russell begging on the street come July.
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De Düva frumm abovensca?
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to DexterX,
It may be opportune if a new CEA is negotiated to dismiss the CEO and appoint a new board – thus enabling the future of the Port to be secured without the bad residue of incompetence.
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Big media flex their muscles again...
This time they want Hotfile. Google steps in.
Emboldened by Megaupload shutdown, Hollywood targets Hotfile -
Obscure? Much?
Såsom i en spegel -
Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to Scott Chris,
That’s the thing about preemptive action of any sort. It rarely gets the credit it deserves.
I have sent the Police round to your house, you know, just in case eh?
Of course, you have nothing to worry about if you have done nothing wrong, or nothing that might be considered wrong at a future date.People with two first names never let me down.
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Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to merc,
filled those places. Bad water and stale mints, plenty of booze and nothing achieved.
The only reason those places have to be big is not for the number of people but the size of them. I have seen those movies about large Americans attending conferences and the motivation for attending seems to be to behave badly and cheat on their wives. I thought that was what Wellington was for.
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Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to DexterX,
are casinos a better environment to leave your kids in the car rather than a super market car park?
jonkey thinks so apparently and I wondered how he had reached that conclusion.
I wonder if that is because we don't want those dole bludgers wasting their money on food, we would rather they went gambling and helping our mates at Sky City -
Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to Joe Wylie,
It only pays half the daily rate that Shipley trousers on the CERA review panel.
Mearly 5 times the minimum wage, poor dear.
From the Drinnan article...
Government intervention into commercial markets first came to public attention with the largely opaque deal with Warner Bros studios to secure production for Sir Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, with John Key negotiating industrial law change and a $20 million sweetener, on top of the $100 million subsidy.
Last year it was revealed the Government had extended a loan so that several radio stations could pay off their payment to the Crown for radio frequencies.
The treatment being metered out to TVNZ by Sky City is appalling, it's like your neighbour getting planning permission to build over your house because he knows a dodgy guy on the council who wants to get rid of you too.
