Posts by Rich of Observationz
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ACT on Campus is calling for the resignation of Justice Minister Simon Power
Meanwhile, ACT Not On Campus (prop. David Garrett) is calling for drug dealers to be hung from lampposts.
I thought you'd left and joined the LibZ, Mikee?
Also, Green party press release:
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I'm actually attacking the policies of the Jim Anderton Progressive Party. Unfortunately, when your self-named party has but the one member, it's hard to avoid an ad-hominem attack.
I'm sure Anderton's convictions are sincere, but equally sure that they are informed by personal emotion rather than any attempt to consider the issues scientifically.
He did once inform a friend of mine, when taxed with the issue that alcohol is more harmful than BZP, that he would "ban alcohol if he could".
Anderton and Dunne together prevented Labour from attempting to move drug policy in a progressive direction, backed by a "mandate" from a minority vote in two backwoods suburban constituencies.
Power, on the other hand, opposes drug law reform to match the prejudices of the National party's core voter. A 50-something white male golfer who is happy to drink four scotches and drive home, but objects vehemently to them damn hippies and their Illegal High Drugs.
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all the surplus stocks of BZP are being blended into re-pressed MDMA pills
Not convinced, for a range of reasons. One of them is that (so I'm told) you can't actually repress a pill, the compounding agents that make the pill stick together only work once. You'd have to add some more binder, which would dilute everything down.
Also, BZP is pretty obvious stuff. It has a distinctive "marmite" smell and taste, not to mention the effects.
If I was a nefarious drug maker (which I'm not), then I'd look at methylhexanamine (aka geranamine) in pure form as a better active cutting agent.
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Anderton doesn't deserve the rap he gets
Yes he does. The consultation (which resulted in a preponderance of solid arguments against the ban) was entirely ignored. Anderton's mind had been made up, and the ban only took so long to implement because Clark had other things to do with her remaining parliamentary days.
Giving Anderton a health job is like giving someone whose kid had been killed in the Army responsibility for defence.
Mind you, at least he wasn't getting backhanders from the tobacco lobby, like certain other support ministers in NZ governments.
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National wouldn't consider changing any of our drug laws unless they got permission from the yanks first.
Meanwhile, in California, you can't walk down the street without spruikers urging you to sign up for "medicinal" marijuana. The next step is to legalise and tax itcompletely in order to try and dig the state out of its debt hole.
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MIT is offering a great deal of their coursework content on the net entirely free
The one in Boston, not the one in Manukau?
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Heh, in fact, Language Log eviscerates Orwell:
Maybe Orwell was trying to entangle rival writers into an obsession with petty grammar as a form of gamesmanship.
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we just don't trust those scumbags
Yeah, we prefer the home grown kind, who must be trustworthy coz they went to Auckland Grammar and once scored a try against Scotland.
The main advantage of property is that you can borrow a large percentage of its value and are under (in effect) no obligation to take action if that value drops against the loaned amount.
Try that with shares: 50% maximum, payable on demand and with a margin call the moment the price drops.
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nitrous. That's what's in those little grey cylinders, yes?
But Jim Anderton banned that stuff! Surely the respectable estate agents and farmers who form the 7's crowd aren't taking Illegal High Drugs?
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Walking distance after how much drinking?
The walk from Eden Park to K Rd (35 mins for a fit and sober Google Mapper) is about the same as the 31 minutes from the Cake Tin to Courtenay Place. But as people have pointed out before, there are better pubs en route in Wellington, provided you are willing to take the risk of meeting an inebriated MP.