Posts by Russell Brown
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
So why not "rent" that empty space during the day with the subsidies you are handing over anyway? That way we stimulate the economy, effectively for free.
And if you can't get to the bar, be assured that the ferry company is making money there ...
-
But, if it'll make you happy, and since you do raise a valid point, I'm stating here that the column is published under the Attribution-Noncommercial licence.
Cool.
That actually helps clarify my thoughts on how to approach it sitewide.
-
This despite the fact we can all check out the archives here and print them off at our leisure.
I took the liberty of giving Professor Lessig a copy of Great New Zealand Argument: Ideas About Ourselves, which sold well, even though nearly everything in it was already available for free here:
-
Also from NBR ...
National used OIA to dig dirt on Clark's husband
They went back 40 years trying to find somewhere Davis had put a foot wrong in applying for a grant or something. It will have cost taxpayers many thousands of dollars.
So please, no more whining about "smears".
-
You're advocating for people to use creative commons, so why don't you use it yourselves?
I have been thinking about it. When we started, there wasn't a NZ Creative Commons licence, so we simply asserted rights.
It wouldn't be my place to simply slap a CC licence on the site without talking to the other contributors, who I have always regarded as owning the copyright in their own works, and I'd want to see how other text-based sites with a lot of user-generated content have handled it. But yeah, I should do that.
-
Check out the Herald's Porkometer. National have won (and I bet that's not what the Herald intended when they started it!).
And it makes a bit of a nonsense of the rationale for voting National in today's front-page editorial. They should just admit it's tribal and be done with it.
BTW: can y'all help me here?
Did the Herald threaten to do a pre-election name and shame (with mugshots) of everyone who voted for the EFA and/or the pledge card spending validation bill?
It appears they have not been so pissy after all, but I'm struggling to recall the original threat.
-
My major gripe is that the incumbent government has done nothing to warn people that their borrowings are funded offshore and the implications of that when it all turns to custard (as we're seeing now).
Really? I think Cullen has kvetched about that quite a bit. And, more to the point, done something about it via KiwiSaver and (insofar as it impacts the overall national saving rate) the Super Fund -- both of which were opposed by other parties.
-
Also, he's not a complete git, which puts him one over Franks.
Great campaign slogan: "Grant Robertson: Not a complete git"
-
wankers
Quite. Who are these people?
-
Anyone taking notice would have realized that the NZ's largest challenge is to live within its means. Whether or not the Labour government can be faulted for not addressing this situation is arguable, but they've been happy to bask in the glow of the economic "boom" (as fake as it was).
I think they did do something about it. They greatly improved the public accounts and they did a good deal to address our national savings problem. Cullen took a great deal of flak in the process.
NBR's front-page editorial today declared Labour should go because it "condoned" the housing bubble, which is the greatest factor in our very high levels of household debt. What not condoning it might have involved isn't apparent.
Last ←Newer Page 1 … 1764 1765 1766 1767 1768 … 2279 Older→ First