Posts by Steve Barnes
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I was just playing with a qCode and barcode reader that I had just downloaded and was looking for a handy barcode or qCode. I found both on the voting form.
At the top under your name and address you will see a bar code, this generates an eleven digit number. If you look at the tear off voting form you will see a qCode, this generates the exact same number as the barcode under your address.
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Hard News: Bringing an order Auckland…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Spotted somewhere in Parnell.
I call photoshop... ;-)
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Hard News: A Stand for Quaxing, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
all communities have ‘notice boards’…
WE have one of those? Hooda thought...
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Hard News: A Stand for Quaxing, in reply to Tim Welch,
I’m sure Russell doesn’t want Public Address turned into a “For Sale” forum)
I'm sure he would love it, for a percentage ;-)
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Hard News: A Stand for Quaxing, in reply to Russell Brown,
the odd terrifying Elephant and Castle roundabout.
That, my friend, sends shivers of panic up my spine even to this day, that and Hyde Park Corner and marble Arch.
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Hard News: A Stand for Quaxing, in reply to Jolisa,
if you build it, you might have to double it sooner than you expected, because they will come… in droves!
I wonder whether that is why the powers that be drag their collective feet over public transport but that is a different matter, they seem to ignore that progression of events when it comes to building roads though.
Providing infrastructure for cycling should be a no brainer, it is the cyclists that supply the rolling stock as it is with roads. This is the main reason for holding back on rail I imagine. -
Looking at me these days you may find it hard to believe that I was quite the cyclist in London. For several years I navigated the monstrous traffic in that city, up hill and down dale I would commute to building sites and other jobs, ride to the pub and ticky tour the unusual places forbidden to “normal” vehicular traffic, a blissful life you may think.
The biggest problem I encountered in the UK was the ubiquitous London thug, who on seeing a bike would toss it down the nearest railway embankment or in the nearest creek or canal, if you had the audacity to lock your bike up it would be bent beyond repair out of frustration and sheer anger at not being able to engage in the art of bicycle tossing.
I did try to do the same when I arrived in Auckland, only to discover that Auckland motorists seem to have the attitude that cyclists are the scourge of the road and do their damnedest to eliminate as many as they can, I gave up and joined the mongrel mob of motorists, without the genocidal motive I must add.
Amsterdam, on the other hand, was cyclist heaven, free bikes, little traffic. It still has the canals but they seem to have a different purpose there. There were other delight too, cafés to die for, if not in and cycling after coffee, cake and a nice little shmoke made the whole experience a delightful and intrepid journey.
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Hard News: Bringing an order Auckland…, in reply to Russell Brown,
And the fact that Bill Ralston – named by The Standard as a likely starter – has chosen to stand as an independent candidate isn’t a great omen either.
Isn’t that the name you use when you call prominent right wingers “Arseholes”?
Or is that KeyHoles?.a vehicle for National (one potentially at war with the established vehicle for National)
And that vehicle is…
A GTF-00A, It rides the Roads of Nationals Significunts to the bounteous nether regions of Aotearoa with a rapidity only exceeded by the growth of the National debt.
The GTF-00A,
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Polity: Canada voted, in reply to Russell Brown,
Trudeau (and 29 other Liberal MPs) voted for Harper’s explicitly xenophobic Barbaric Cultural Practices Act.
Every year, 15 million girls are forced into marriage worldwide. Complications from childbirth are the leading cause of death among these child brides[2]. Physical abuse, sexual slavery, and so-called ‘honour’ killings are also carried out daily against girls and women around the world. A brutal practice carried out in some African and Middle Eastern countries is female genital mutilation, which has impacted more than 125 million girls and women alive today
Here
So banning that is a bad thing?
The public reaction and the initial intent of the bill from a conservative perspective may be abhorrent but… -
Legal Beagle: Cameron Slater: computer hacker?, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
This might not be too bad for Kim Dotcom, if he could be prosecuted in NZ, plead guilty and get home detention
Hadn't thought of it that way, let's hope so. Much as many people dislike the man injustice is still injustice.
The rest of that bill makes pretty scarey reading though, the paranoid loon in me sees US influence all through it.
