Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: The place where things happen…, in reply to BenWilson,
If anything, harm reduction stood in its way at the time, all the people who could claim they could see some kind of harm coming from it, stacked up against a minority of people whose happiness would be improved enormously.
Harm reduction is about objective measurables, not subjective perceptions. You are therefore incorrect in your assessment - the harm that was reduced was the fact that homosexuals faced discrimination without redress, were sent to prison (at a measurable cost to the State), frequently turned up in A&E having been beaten outside a nightclub or a bar or even in their own home (measurable cost to the State), were regularly under medical care for mental health issues, for addiction issues and other matters, all of which can be costed. I was there and part of it. You are too young.
I'm glad we considered the happiness the bigger part of the picture.
You were correct when you said "fundamental human right". That's not happiness, it's only a basis from which you may seek happiness. Homosexual law reform was never about happiness. It was some of the grimmest political work I have ever seen.
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Hard News: Labour's medical cannabis…, in reply to Russell Brown,
There was a commenter here called Shulgin, who I think I banned after he got obsessive about that and other issues
I remember him. He was a tad rabid, yes.
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Hard News: Labour's medical cannabis…, in reply to Alfie,
Maxwell, who is still with the police, says he doesn’t want to discuss his report.
I’ll bet he doesn’t.
Sounds like an OIA to me.
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I don't believe anyone's saying "you should work longer hours because family" but, when you advertise your bank as equivalent to any other bank, you need to mean it. And when you operate globally, you need to manage those relationships, even if it means having an out of hours rent-a-callcentre in a country that doesn't share your timezone.
I doubt that CJ would have had much better service from any of the NZ banks over Easter though.
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Hard News: Media Take: The Panama Papers, in reply to william blake,
It is odd that NZ journalists were left out of the loop since we feature so prominently in the story. More so since Nicky Hager did so much work on a similar story with the ICIJ that looked at NZ trusts but was scuppered by a rogue Guardian journo.
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Hard News: Approved by lunchtime, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
the fat, lazy, overpaid, underworked Wellington policy class
You really do need to find a new club to beat with.
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Hard News: Approved by lunchtime, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
How can any clear thinking person have a problem with ‘evidence based public policy’ – which would obviously be based on ‘advice’ from those best equipped to give it.
I think the answer lies in your question ;-)
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Hard News: UMR: Medpot and the public, in reply to James Littlewood*,
wasn't there a scenario in which commercial interests run marketing campaigns
This is in there with the "Philip Morris is just waiting for it to be legal!" camp. Experience shows that these scenarios have little to no basis in reality. Alcohol is already marketed to kids, whether deliberately, with alco-pops and the like, or by osmosis from parents, older siblings, television, films - in fact, our society in general.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Making the…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The Beatles with a string section?
Ringo! Fabulous, Ian.
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Fabulous discussion though, even if I just wanted to shake the reverend sir.