Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Karl fucking Marx, Rich
Actually, old Karl had a bit to say on why the people of the US are the way they are.
Also, you've met me and I'm sure I wasn't sneering.
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McLaren, BTW. And I guess they're as Kiwi as the America's Cup team.
I think you should do more on:
Skiing (for real)Medieval football (still played in a few places)
Bog snorkelling
Fencing (this sort) -
slightly more folksy/churchy language
Or American voters might some day decide that they want a President with a brain, rather than some hick from the sticks who believes in fondling poisonous snakes.
People, representative democracy doesn't mean your leader needs to be as thick as you are!
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Ok, derive the equation for an object of mass M and cross-section S falling in air at nominal density. Using only common sense.
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What I particularly love about this line is how it's trotted out as a solution to oil prices, as if good ol US oil comes out easier and cheaper than Russian. And is not sold on an international market.
It's mad, but not unfeasible. Most oil (Canadian oil sands possibly excluded) costs a lot less to produce than the market price - the difference is largely taken up with royalties / petroleum revenue tax or the equivalent. If a net oil producer were to limit exports and/or reduce the tax take on oil for domestic use, they could have oil cheaper than world market prices. Most Gulf states do this.
Of course, this limits the incentive to economise and sends consumption up, creating a monster shock when local production fails to meet demand.
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Peter Dunne is going to be elected president of the United States!
Please! Can he be?
It'd make him ineligible as an NZ MP, wouldn't it?
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First Presidential debate: Triangle TV, 10:30pm Sunday
Sky had it 5pm this afternoon via their Fox News network.
Sky had it live on CNN at 1.30 or thereabouts.
I don't understand why anyone would want to watch it, except as a form of political masochism.
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You are confused that is the limit of a campaign backing a party, for a single MP the limit is $1000.
That still buys an awful lot of flyers to distribute around Te Atatu (since you couldn't really regard any flyers distributed *outside* Chris Carter's electorate as being part of a campaign for the electorate vote).
I'd very much doubt that they'd got anywhere near that number.
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If GABA are not a registered third party and this flyer bearing the name of MP (& patron) Chris Carter is seen as an advertisment then it is quite possibly illegal for the GABA to be distributing it in an election year.
No, because (even if merely mentioning the name of an MP was an election advertisement, which it isn't) they are very unlikely to be spending $12,000 on printing and distributing such flyers and are thus not required to register.
How about we discuss the *real* EFA, rather than the spurious straw man one created by the <strike>National Party</strike> New Zealand media.
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Hitler's Mountain Home
Classic!
Private Eye did a spoof Hello that contained an article "At Home With Saddam Hussein, Mrs Hussain And Their Nine Children, Pets and Torture Victims".