Posts by tussock
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The people of Massachusetts are going to repeal their state income tax, by a large margin. Classic. Of course, the same trick will be used by Floridians to save all their marriages from teh gays. Weird country.
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I'd hate to see the member's bills become a party piece, I think the reason the Greens got so many passed this term is that they where largely conscience vote stuff outside their core policies (even if the LabNats party-vote them and go on to simultaneously claim credit and blame the other).
What you want is a moment each week where the leader of the opposition can introduce legislation for it's first reading or progress something lost in select committee. Great, do so, but don't ruin the member's ballot for it.
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I don't know Graham, the whole issue to me seems to be trying to present any of that sort of thing in a news format. The present state of nations and their people are fit for university courses, hefty books, or a series of documentaries, not a quick telling of daily events on an ad-hoc basis.
We just don't have much of that. Uni's submitted to the almighty dollar, few people seem to read extensively (even in regards their business interests), and docos have been displaced off TV by sitcoms and survivor.
It's a specialist job anyway, explaining a culture to outsiders, and it seems the specialists still exist. If they want to get their message out to more people, tell them all about web 2.0 and how many people read wikipedia.
PS. Africa is also an interesting continent people outside know nothing about, as are the Americas below Texas, and, well, pretty much everywhere else. Full of nice, ordinary people. Shame about all the war and genocide, really. -
88% Green, 75% Labour, 71% UFie.
But that's only because I left all the authoritarian shit at +0 at the start. Labour and United aren't too bad at the things I think governments should be doing, it's just a shame they're such closet fascists the rest of the time.
Also, Winston's not a bad foreign minister (in that it keeps him more pro than anti), and if someone would just take the drugs policies off Jim we could get a bearable left-leaning government out of this.
Obama? For a guy who's basically a Democrat, he sure does talk pretty. -
For the people who grew up immersed in the passing over of a Half-crown when asked for "two and six", it wasn't complex thought of any kind. They just rote memorised a dozen or so combinations of coins and the names given to them, and the shops set prices to suit ("two and six" rather than the modern $19.95; thr'pence rather than $2).
The simple divisive properties of base 12 and 60 number systems makes them much easier to memorise than the base 10 stuff we use now, to the point that modern people are probably doing much more mental arithmetic than the folk who used L.s.d. or feet and inches all the time. Of course, easier is better, and that's why we should go back to L.s.d. <cough>
Turn off the GPS if you've got the time (and fuel) for a cruise, grab a pen instead of a calculator next time if you want polish your math skills; but for the most part you should save the time and energy for something more productive. -
Who needs a handjob when you're soloing epic 40-man raids on a wall of monitors, a room full of programmable trackballs, with what must be some pretty amazing macro skills.
God I love urban legends.
Not that the experience would touch a game of Dwarf Fortress. You've all read boatmurdered, right?
Nigel: I recall how we had a half dozen sporting world champions at one point who'd garnered not one iota of national coverage between them (before it became a talking point, at least). Really, if you're not doing something that someone from New Zealand beat the best of British at before the nation discovered itself in WWI, nobody gives a shit. Same reason those Australians love their cricket so much, but don't care about their women's swimming team outside one week every four years (and only then if the blokes aren't doing as well by comparison). -
1/ They already do, usually for the politicians who are best at pretending to be the same.
2/ Let it happen.
3/ Less likely to bite me.
4/ The organic ones, duh.
5/ Jonky. Funnier than when they sat Brash next to Tama Iti.
6/ Bankers are out this summer.
7/ Quarter mile jetboat sprints; too many deaths even for a staunch liberal like myself.
8/ Lockwood.
9/ Protect their children from them.
10/ All of them; see the Wellington phone directory. PS: full severance plus hired back on a 50% pay rise in the same job with a new name, same as everyone does.
11/ See above, and below.
12/ The poor people's, because it's cheaper by volume. You're obviously doing far too well for yourself.
13/ Pioneered the ministerial bicycle.14/ Pioneered sleeping at parliament so I don't ever have to ride the fscking bicycle.
15/ Led Zeppelin, the instrumental ones.
16/ Idiot, Russel, and Frog. Man-hugs all 'round.
17/ Hmm, the cheese is one of those things I leave other folk to buy, but they were over $10 last I noticed. I get cheap bread for $2, surely that's more common than cheese.
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My 14 year old niece just wants the latest cell-phone ... I'm not sure if she's ready to select the next government.
Ask her. I think you'll find the only reason she wouldn't know all about income tax, budgeting, and employment law is that no one's taken the time to explain it to her. God knows the politicians are all shy enough with laying out the facts and figures and expecting people to seriously think about it all.
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And of course Obama's an Arab. His daddy's a Muslim, so he's got some of that in him through his blood. The Arabs they're at war with are Muslims too. Therefore Obama is an Arab.
Heh, I just reverse engineered their logical flaws.
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Coddington. Is that some sort of a cunning add for the Labour party? A sort of "remember all the good they've done? Well we'd smash it all to bits if we could".
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Then a couple of years later they will go to 18 teams with the 3 new teams most likely coming from Japan, USA and I would say either Argentina or the PI's.
Ahem: peak oil. Just to put it out there. Someone also mumbled something about the global economy recently.
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I'd post my last.fm link, but it would just confirm how much I secretly enjoy bland popular music and classic hits, regardless of my longing for an independent voice.