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Preventing people from drawing a pension while working would help even more.
Introducing a 100% surtax probably wouldn't go down too well with voters. Neither those already receiving superannuation nor those due to retire within the next 10 years or so.
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Sorry, I get it now. It was not about the Nazi party, but it was about the Nazis, forming other parties.
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Thank you for the analysis. rest deleted , my misunderstanding.
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Works fast and well in Opera.
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to 3410,
And please tell me you were looking to prove a causal relationship, not a casual relationship.
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Confession: I don't watch Backbenchers. Being hard of hearing I just can't distinguish what people are saying when several speak or shout at the same time.
However, I do watch and enjoy several other local programs on TVNZ7, including Media 7, The Court Report, Hindsight, The Good Word, Use As Directed, the news hour at 8, and probably others I've forgotten. As well as a number of overseas programs. So I will be sad to see the demise of TVNZ7. I hope some funding can be found to continue with all or some of the local programs on other channels.
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Muse: Linky Love, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I also appreciate books as objects, except when I have to pack them and move them to a new location, or find room for new ones in the library. So it surprised me that I've hardly opened a paper book since getting the ereader. However visits to bookshops are not entirely ruled out, since e-ink ebook readers are more or less useless for books with colour illustrations.
Magazines are something else entirely, and I still buy and read those. So far I've only subscribed to a single emagazine, and that's mainly due to the cost of postage for the paper version from the USA.
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Muse: Linky Love, in reply to Tom Beard,
I'm not your average reader or book buyer. My reading is practically limited to relatively recently published non-fiction. And so far I've found sufficient to satisfy my needs on Whitcoulls, Kobo, Amazon and O'Reilly. Several shops, especially UK ones, will not sell to overseas buyers, and it has been necessary to jump through hoops to get some of the Amazon ones. Geographic restrictions are the bane of ebook buyers.
Some time ago I did search for some novels without any luck. David Lodge was one well-known author with nothing available at the time.
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Bookstores do need love in order to survive. Unfortunately I predict that love is going to be more difficult to find in future. I have spent a great deal of money in bookstores, both new and second-hand, through the years. But since getting an ereader almost 6 months ago I haven't bought a single paper book. So far there is a collection of about 50 ebooks instead. Some of them were free, but most were paid for from local and overseas suppliers.
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Part of the break has been spent buying, downloading and reading ebooks. With a Kobo and a Kindle there is plenty of choice in reading matter, and it's easy to take a good selection of books wherever you go.
One interesting and informative read was "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming" by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.
Apart from that, climbing Mount Otanewainuku was suitable exercise on New Year's Day. Last year on New Year's Day it was Mt Te Aroha, which is much more challenging.