Posts by Rich of Observationz
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I hope Orcon know what they're doing. The only people who'll pay $70 a month will be people who intend using *all* the gigabytes they're paying for. And they'll be complaining bastards if it doesn't work.
80:20 rule and all that..
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the phoneline is essential
Humankind managed for 40,000 years without one.
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I'm with Bart to some extent, and agree that doing science is a good idea.
But there are contra arguments. The US did lots of basic science through (say) 1950-80 and made money out of it. Japan (although this is a bit anecdotal) did bugger all and still managed very well economically by productionising other peoples technology.
However, one main reason for Japan's economic malaise since 1980 has been their inability to adapt to a world where software and marketing are more important than hardware. Whether more R&D would have helped in this remains to be seen.
I'd say that a bit of microeconomic pushing (and $500 mln would seem to be a sensible amount) in the right direction is a fairly good idea.
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Yawn... They'll still be an American politician whoever wins.
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If people buy the product thinking the of the Shire but then realise Fonterra is in fact Saruman the White this may prove effective
Could you translate this please?
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Queenstown's massive growth comes from the viticulture industry and expanding dairying into the lower South Island.
I thought it came from Aucklanders (mostly) mortgaging themselves up the wazoo to own a ski house.
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I'm fairly sure I've seen them reported as being given in evidence. Graeme?
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Commented on this Saturday.
Just another demonstration of how our monopoly newspapers have a built-in bias towards authoritarianism, if not explicitly towards the National party (until recently).
Incidentally, I'm surprised that defence lawyers don't question the admissability of text messages as evidence, considering they can be easily forged: http://www.smsspoofing.com/
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Regarding the price of food, the cost of a sufficient diet in relation to average wages is still pretty low in historical terms (even if it's blipped up a bit lately). What is expensive is living on prepared and luxury foods (which I'm as guilty of as anyone else).
Expensive farm products are partly the cost of adequate enviromental controls and labour conditions and partly the effect of people in other countries being rich enough to buy our milk products (etc). Which are good things, really - and not eating lamb chops and kilogram lumps of cheese is both good for you and a reasonable trade off.
Rice is $2 a kilo, if you buy enough. That's 20c a meal, for starters.
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Craig:
News bias can often be about story selection - it's a bit less apparent online, where you pick and choose, then in physical newsprint where you might notice pages of copy about the evils of the EU (Torygraph) or International Big Business (Grauniad).
I doubt the Telegraph would run a long-term investigation of British Aerospace, resulting in at the jailing of at least one former cabinet minister Or indeed, that the Guardian would maintain a negative barrage against the EU in the way that the Telegraph does.