Posts by Rich Lock
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What does such a person do next?
Starts working on completing 'second life', of course.
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Riding a motorbike carries with it a very high probability of an accident that leans heavily on the health system, so a decent insurance premium seems justified.
And I don't disagree with you. But turning round and saying 'oh, by the way, you'll be paying 400% more next year for the privilege' is not exactly the right way to go about winning friends and influencing people.
Plus the boundaries have been set by taking into account engine size only, with no attempt to relate these to the actual power generated, or overall configuration of the machine.
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WemustcatchupwithAustralia
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I'm always amused by the Scots moving from the bitterly cold north to the UK, to, ahhh, Dunedin
didn't Billy Connelly have a joke about that? Scots immigrants landing in Auckland and going 'Nawt cald enough! Move further Sooooth!'
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Then I am happy to have obliged, Dottore.
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Has anyone thrown Lhaws (or Lawhs) into the ring yet?
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Part of this is because of our national psyche and tall-poppy syndrome: we don’t do enough to encourage or celebrate business success, and are openly hostile to people with wealth. Our heroes are mostly sportspeople.
As a result, our businesspeople don’t generally create large companies, take risks, or invest hugely in infrastructure and capital. So productivity suffers.
I'm not convinced that that conclusion logically follows your initial statement. Most sucessful businesspeople have large enough egos that they generally don't give enough of a rat's arse about what people think about them for it to effect their business.
You said 'part of this is because..'. I'd speculate that larger parts of the problem are the geographic isolation of NZ, and the small population, which directly effects both your workforce/pool of talent, and your market size.
I'd don't necessarily disagree that NZ is punching below it's potential weight. I'm just not convinced by the arguments and conclusions to explain this that I've heard so far.
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our firstborn did rummage around mightily indoors when he was taken to a screening of Aliens
Possibly not the worst film to prepare you and your partner for 'the miracle of childbirth', either.
What with the blood and the slime and the screaming monsters bursting out of people and all that...
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you have to believe that thousands and thousands of climate scientists worldwide have colluded in a grand conspiracy for the purposes of ... what, exactly?
Ah Carol, clearly you didn't read Hopkin's piece closely enough.
They are "earning for themselves great renown and large amounts of dosh"
And now that I think about it, it must be true. Because every climate scientist I know swans around their own private island made entirely of gold ingots, strolling up and down the beach listlessly kicking clouds of powdered diamond into a sea of molten platinum.
And they need the private island, see, because now they've got all that 'great renown', they're having to beat the groupies off with a stick.