Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to Sacha,
Naturally you heard all about that at the time. Transparency only works when the rest of the political system is functioning properly.
I think I just cut myself on your tongue...
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Thanks for a very clear elucidation. I am appreciative of your attempts to explain this on Kiwibog as well, though I do wonder why you bother ;-)
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Hard News: Television and the Public Good, in reply to merc,
Graeme has posted on this, just now
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to merc,
All this does not bode well for any of us, Christchurch included.
nzlemming; I’d like to think that monosyllabic answers used at question time would be censured by the Speaker, or at least let it be known that Gerry is laughing in all our democratic faces.Not disagreeing with you. That's why I said "sadly". I doubt that we'll ever get decent behaviour from Lockwood Smith as Speaker, though.
Is there a war going on between central and local govt. that we need to know about?
There is always a tension between the two. Central govt hate that local govt often won't do things that CG regards as being in the national interest because LG regard their first responsibility as being to their ratepayers, and LG hates that CG keeps poking their nose in, usually to demand reports and statistics. It's really odd when you've been part of both, because you can see both sides, and realise that both arguments are mostly bullshit.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to merc,
Do we deserve this?
No, but it's sadly one of the better exchanges of the day.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I'm sure he'll bounce back. Regrettably.
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to James Butler,
Retrofit? You never know till the law compels you to try ;-)
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Sacha,
Yes, I agree. But they'll probably try to say it's a joint venture between the elected council and the corporate body. Bollocks to the lot of them.
I'm not big on the usurpation of democracy by central government, but I'm trying to work out which would be the lesser of two evils.
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to James Butler,
So then you’d have 20+ years before the majority of the fleet were fitted with it, and a massive perverse incentive for people to hang on to older cars.
Not if your WOF depended on it
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Sacha,
Which used to be in breach of the Companies Act, but it was changed in 1997:
s131 Duty of directors to act in good faith and in best interests of company
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(4) A director of a company that is carrying out a joint venture between the shareholders may, when exercising powers or performing duties as a director in connection with the carrying out of the joint venture, if expressly permitted to do so by the constitution of the company, act in a manner which he or she believes is in the best interests of a shareholder or shareholders, even though it may not be in the best interests of the company.Notice the wording similarity?
Edit: By which I mean "Evidence of a lawyer acting in haste to achieve compliance"