Posts by Steve Barnes
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Sorry but, personally, I think he should have stuck to being a bus conductor. The way he waves his arms about you could mistake him for these guys
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Sacha,
I doubt Goff or King could credibly oppose privatisation given their baggage from the 80s. Who’d take them seriously?
I am sick of this argument that blames Labour for the fall out from Muldoons ill fated dictatorship. That prick left this country in the same state that these buggers will, given the chance. You can't go blaming Goff and King for stuff that happened back then, they had little power over the likes of Prebble, Douglas and the rest of the turncoats. There was more than just the sickening stench of free market philosophy in that term. For instance;
Treaty of Waitangi Amendment Act 1985 — extended the scope of the Waitangi Tribunal to retrospective claims dating back to the Treaty
Constitution Act 1986 — codified important constitutional conventions
Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986 — legalised homosexual relations
Immigration Act 1986 — liberalised immigration, particularly skilled migration, into NZ.
Māori Language Act 1987 — made Te Reo Māori an official language.
State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 — established the first SOEs
State Sector Act 1988 — made the civil service more business-like with Chief Executives instead of Permanent Secretaries
Public Finance Act 1989 — changed the reporting and accountability for government expenditure
Reserve Bank Act 1989 — enabled the Reserve Bank to autonomously pursue an inflation target
New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 — enumerated civil, political and criminal procedure rights
Establishment of the Royal Commission on the Electoral System
Declaring New Zealand to be a nuclear-free zoneSource Wikpedia
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Jacqui Dunn,
Presumably not a large hotwater bottle on the roof? :p
There's a bit more to it than that and I was a bit conservative on the price but Hey.
Check out the project Peria Blog Burma Road
Now, get back to Music, Simon gets a bit ansty when someone goes off topic, remember that "Other" thread?.
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Hard News: Really good, actually, in reply to Islander,
Genghis Khan was emphatically practising genocide (you ever heard about skull towers?)
I was talking to someone just the other day about this but couldn't remember where I read it, can you remind me? I have only seen the reference in one book, was it called something like “Caravansari”? The Caravansari of tongues was the place, so called because they stacked up the people with their feet tied to a post and plastered them in with mud, people would poke their tongues though the mud to be able to breath. And they say Gadaffi is bad. :-O
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to recordari,
Patent it. No don't, please. Share it indiscriminately for the betterment of humankind, and I want one.
No, I will never part with the drawings, Sofie has a big handbag. ;-)
Nah, seriously.
I'll put it up on my Blog when I've drawn it up, it is sooo simple. -
Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Do you know what? You are a man of hidden and unknown depths.
You don’t know how low I can go.
I’ve just designed and built a solar hot water system for $50 :-D -
Back on subject.
Some useful links;
What Labour is doing in Christchurch
The David Shearer Show on Planet FM
I reckon David Shearer could be the man to watch. Needs a little media training maybe, calling Brian Edwards?. -
An interesting twist to the Snark saga. I seems that a certain dairy farmer Allan Crafar called in the receivers after they sought to export the aircraft but these efforts were blocked by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The plot thickens.
Anyway, sorry for the apparent threadjack, my point was more to do with this Governments total lack of support for a world class project, muppets.
Note; Personally I dislike the idea of manufacturing weaponry but if it's being done why not do it here? no ambition?
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to nzlemming,
But you go ahead and hero-worship the “lone entrepreneur” if you like, Steve.
Way to miss the point entirely. Off you go now, there's a cliff just over there :<
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Hard News: Chasing the Trans-Pacific Express, in reply to Kumara Republic,
And last I heard, the sports channels are compulsory irrespective of package. No picking and choosing it seems.
I have no sports on mine, much to the dismay of some of our more fanatical visitors. Don't get the magazine either, you can opt out.
As for TIVO, too old tech and far too late to market, once again WTF were TVNZ thinking?