Posts by James Francis
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As long time reader may I just say, that you Mr Dalzeil, are worth the price of admission every single day. Brilliant.
Thanks
Seconded with acclamation.
By-the-by, I was listening to Kim Hill interviewing Jim Wilson from Phantom Billstickers on Saturday. He mentioned that the person that came up with the name was one Ian Dalzeil. I thought, I know that name...
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Religion along with caste systems are the most toxic things we've so far come up with.
And trolls.
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Fuck that. Vivid 4 life.
We always called them squeakers.
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John Boscawen and partner free-riding the New North Road bus this morning handing out pamphlets.
He has a Gold Card?
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In Brian Rudman's column in this morning's Herald there's an ad from Auckland City Council. "Everyone has a plan for Auckland. Tell us what you think of ours."
Two words can answer that.
Ironic. And late.
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<quote>ruing the addiction of commenting for the first time anywhere/<quote>
Crikey, Phil. 4.11am. You've got it bad.
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Banks has The Machine behind him.
Bob Harvey has the charisma and the (sorry, hate to use this word but can't avoid it) vision but is going to be tainted with his Labour associations which someone like Banks, completely devoid of any self-awareness of the hypocrisy, will not hesitate to use.
The first Mayor of Greater Auckland or whatever it's called is going to be critical. He or she are going to set the pattern for the future. If the election is based on slogans, divisions and petty politics, then I think the City's going to be stuffed before it's started.
I would love to think that there was someone out there who wasn't an existing Mayor who could capture the imagination of the whole Auckland populace.
Any nominations?
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At least with a nightmare when you wake up it's gone.
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And I dont want John Banks as mayor unless he owns up to having a beard all these years and comes out.
I don't want John Banks full stop. I saw him on Close Up tonight and he was doing this mumble-fuck about lifting New Zealand into the top half of the OECD - the National Party mantra from the last election - and he sounded like a little PR robot.
What's the bet that Cits and Rats have already held meetings to decide how they're going to 'win' the City.
That's the bit that scares me. Rich white men with a right-wing economic orthodoxy.
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I'm going to expose my ignorance and possibly my ludditism (luddism?) but I have to ask this. How exactly will high-speed internet improve the economy? Because, if I remember rightly, that seemed to be the promise. We needed to have high-speed broadband to be competitive in the international marketplace.
I'm not suggesting that we don't have it or need it but I do wonder how it will benefit us economically.
I can understand that installing it will create (or at least, maintain) jobs.
But what else does it do?
As a product manufacturer or primary producer - which is what a large part of our economy is - will it make a material difference? You can send communications and documents pretty efficiently as it is; will a fraction of a second's extra speed make us more competitive?
This is what baffles me. If you're uploading or downloading bucketloads of information such as movies - Peter Jackson comes to mind - I can see the advantage. And if you're doing that for your own entertainment, high-speed's going to be fantastic.
Am I missing something here? What is the advantage to the economy?
I look to be enlightened.