Posts by Petra
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Sofie, I like your passion and where you're coming from. I can tell you have a lot of heart and care deeply about injustices. You're not completely wrong at all - it's just that you're not completely right either. (And chances are that neither am I).
I just don't see all business - even big business - as some great evil. Don't get me wrong, 'cos it sure as hell can be *monsanto, big tobacco, etcetc* - but negotiations and striking deals have been happening since humans first bartered skills and food, etc. Everyone is looking for their net benefit - we just have to fight to keep it as fair and equitable as possible, with as few "victims" as possible (victims includes the environment, natch), and...and...um, I'm rambling. lol
Time for bed. Brain is mush.
G'night. :)
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Horsefeathers and poppycock, Brendon.
Or should that be poppyfeathers and horsecock? Bugger, I'll have to consult my neocon handbook.... -
It's buying WB. That is a bit suck.
That's just normal trade negotiations. The journey to this sucked, because a few months ago it was all so unnecessary. But that's business - something changes, and you finding that you have to discount your product or throw in a "free gift" or something in order to buy a potential customer's patronage or to keep an established customer loyal. It's a bit suck, but I can shrug that off easily enough.
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We also get to pay $10 mil to WB to advertise our own country as a destination. Found that a bit suck.
It's actually not suck though. I used to sell advertising, and NZ would spend that very easily in a very short space of time to market itself as a destination. It's a good deal.
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Maybe Mt. Tarawera at the right angle could work. Not the usual view you see on postcards, across the lake - but from, maybe Rerewhakaaitu or Edgecumbe? Or even Mt. Edgecumbe itself?
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No they don't - not from a government that sees education as a cost rather than an investment.
Oh, man. I really feel for you guys. You have your battles cut out for all on all sides - "damaged" (not quite the right word, but I hope you know what I mean) kids; lazy kids, reprobate parents, overbearing parents, Anne Tolley, the bank manager; a huge section of the public that "just don't get it"; anti-unionists; people that think it should be your "vocation" and therefore you don't need money, you should do it for love; and just generally being one of society's punching bags.
I couldn't do it. But I can openly support you, and I will. :)
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This seems to be a point that gets missed - this isn't like Bill English's ETS bribes to farmers, where taxpayers pay actual money out of our pockets to underwrite someone's industry. It's opting to miss out of tax revenue we wouldn't otherwise have and enjoy collecting the income tax, GST, and whatnot anyway. And, of course, not paying dole for a bunch of out-of-work technicians, and, yes, actors. Plus the lack of forclosures on people who can't pay their mortgages and whatnot.
Personally, I'm not too concerned about the tax breaks as long as it is still within the realm of good business investment sense. Shame the cost of the investment had to increase; but it is still a good investment, I think.
What concerns me is the law change. I'll be watching that one, and coming in here to see what you more learned legal folk have to say about it.
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not really the kind of place you mine.
That's where the CG comes in - put a digital lid on it, and viola!
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Spotted on Facebook:
"Roman Polanski announces plans to film in NZ - John Key agrees to lower the age of consent to 12."
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Mt. Taranaki as The Lonely Mountain?
Some CG will still be needed, but not too much, I'd have thought.