Posts by Rich of Observationz
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do they still make long player albums on vinyl
Some dance albums are released as a set of records with around 4 tracks on each.
I used to DJ on vinyl but have moved to digital. The main problem is that most physical DJ record shops have gone out of business. (The type of place that would ask or know what you liked and give you armfuls of records to select from. There are record shops left, like Real Groovy, but they have no clue what their stock is. At least, not in genres I'm into).
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Oh, I'd forgotten limiting the number of councillors to an absurdly small number to force the LGC into setting boundaries that under-represent urban voters. Not to mention limiting the amount of scrutiny of the many unelected managers the new system creates.
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I think that *all* NZ councils have ratepayer electors.
However, the linked FAQ suggests that a single person/entity can only vote once for any council, but may vote for multiple community boards. So, if you have a business in the CBD and live in the Coromandel, you can vote for either council but not both? But is Rodney changing it so that the ANZ bank can have hundreds of votes for all the properties they've repossesed?
Together with all the other measures that make up the Rodney-mander of course: FPP, huge election spending limits, tacked on rural areas, a separately elected "Lord" Mayor, many of the councils decisons made by appointees, etc...
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Also, those are the old lyrics. Since Peter Garrett's election to the Federal Government, he prefers the version:
"The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to us
And we're f...g keeping it" -
"Space" rockets, jetpacks, amphibious cars.
There doesn't seem to be a shortage of funding for (questionably) good ideas. I'm not sure the public purse needs to join in the fun.
Maybe bring back tax relief on R&D, though..
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Those debt numbers are just numbers really. In the real world, the management of the economy should have three aims:
- to ensure everyone who wants a job has one, and for a fair wage
- to provide a decent level of public services, pensions and benefits
- to maintain a reasonable certainty of the future value of moneyOne big reason not to get wound up about how much debt we have in 2050 is that the world will be a very different place by then. We'll be starting to see coastal areas being flooded, resulting in either abandonment or huge dyke-building projects. Crops will be failing resulting in substantial food shortages, with those not actually starving having to spend way more of their income on food.
NZ will actually (and I know this sounds evil) be in a positive position with respect to most other countries. Our geography means we'll be able to grow some food, somewhere. We have enough space and small enough cities to relocate them off the flooding coastal areas. Plus it's impossible to swim here.
How much we borrowed in 2010 is going to be the least of our problems - most of the urbanised nations of the world are going to have big problems making their payments by then.
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Threadjack (had to go somewhere):
Just seen the ad for Pitch Black at Sandwhiches .
Off for a cheez whroll now...
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when there are so many other great options out there.
Those links illustrate my beef with NZ fiction, of which Witi Ihimaera is part - everything is nostalgia, mysticism or nostalgic mysticism.
To my knowledge (and *please* let me know otherwise) Craig Marriner is the only NZ author who writes on contemporary themes with characters who live in a world I recognise.
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I have no problem with minarets in Wellington. They might drown out Benjamin Easton's ranting up at the MoJ.
A few stonings would be good for laffs, even.
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a scale model of the stock exchange
It's a room above a pub..