Posts by Rich of Observationz
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I think when engaging in foreigner-gouging the idea is to *make* money.
Ripping people off and still losing money sounds like a lose-lose scenario.
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Apparently World Cup Final tickets are going to be NZD1,400 a pop.
How many NZers can afford that? But we're all (and especially Aucklanders) being taxed to subsidise the millionaires, government, corporate and journalistic liggers that will make up the NZ contingent.
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The article actually said:
financial assistance for three years to improve the skills of Indonesians working in the dairy and beef industries and visas for 100 Indonesian chefs, ... and 20 halal butchers.
That looks to me that there are two different things:
- training for people in the meat industry. We do have quite a lot of expertise in export meat processing which I guess would be quite useful to an overseas nation.- visas for halal butchers to come *to* NZ. Which seems to be just a migration concession and separate from the training aspect.
I'm unconvinced of the benefits of any and all free trade deals, just because most of the things (computer software, movies, jetpacks) that NZ's economic growth is in aren't really affected by them.
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And considering what a shitpile the last round of spying allegations that appeared under the by-line of Messers Hubbard and Hager, I certainly hope the SST's new editor is a little less credulous than his predecessor. This is one story that better be absolutely water-tight.
Well Gilchrist is a real person and activist, he admitted spying for the cops as well as being implicated by the evidence on Rochelle Hume's computer.
I think this story is pretty watertight. Also, given that this pretty much proves that the police *do* spy on legitimate political groups (up to and including elected MPs) it does beg the question of whether the original allegations were in fact true. A vehement denial from the authorities doesn't a disproof make.
gathered evidence by tapping his phone and installing a script on his computer that forwarded his emails to her
I don't really see what else she could have done to prove his activities, given that one couldn't exactly trust the authorities to investigate. There's every difference between the state or large corporations spying on individuals and individuals defending themselves against state action.
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Most of my friends are either horrified at the way National is "getting stuff done" without going through proper process, or in the case of the small number of National voters, have gone very quiet.
It's ridiculous to have to suspend normal planning procedures just because the rugby authorities want us to. It's quite possible that a lot less people than anticipated will make it to the cup - upper class pommy stockbrokers haven't done exactly well in the last few months. We'll probably be able to fit everyone into an unmodified Eden Park.
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I just have visions of one of those yelly people on Cuba Mall.
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We called it skiving.
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It's time New Zealand matured.
What, you don't think we buy into the bullshit enough, compared to more obedient peoples like the Chinese?
Let's hope we never do!
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Hey can somebody explain the chucking thing?
Normally, I'd have thought you bowl an illegal delivery, you get no-balled for it, end of story. Why is chucking considered so bad?
It's not as if he twatted a fielder with the bat.
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AS: Maybe you could discuss what prevented you achieving literacy yourself?
Block capitals should be used for abbreviations and acronyms. There is boldface and underlining for emphasis. You have to talk *about* something, "I'm talking having..." is not correct usage.
Glass houses, etc.