Posts by Paul Campbell
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I don't think that Dotcom's reveal is necessarily a fake, I just don't think there's good evidence either way, without some other conforming evidence it doesn't particularly stand alone.
As someone elsewhere on PA said Key's defence is essentially the "Chewbacca Defence"
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ross Mason,
How far from the sea does Southern Cross “own” the cable?? It has to go somewhere across land once it is ashore and…..well…..it can go anywhere after that. Anyone got a map??? Whenuapai maybe???
Well bugger me!! It was a good guess!! Here it is
pardon my ignorance of Auckland geography, isn't Whenuapai essentially on the East coast, why would we terminate the Australian cable there? (apart from the obvious Air Force base)
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Hard News: 2014: The Meth Election, in reply to stephen clover,
There will be no ‘mass surveillance’, and data will be accessed by GCSB only with the consent of owners of relevant networks or systems.
So if my ISP says yes I can be spied on - more importantly if my ISP buys in to the whole super-norton-anti-virus thing my data can be accessed for any other reason
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I wonder if Key and the GCSB were so focused on trying to figure out which documents Snowden had on them they completely forgot to see what it was the NSA was paying him to do in Hawaii?
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I'm reminded of the film "The Falcon and the Snowman", a true story about a CIA signals analyst (basically what Snowden was) who was so disgusted by watching the CIA's involvement is the take down of the Whitlam government that he started passing secrets to the other side.
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Seems to me that you don't have to release the document to release the underlying secrets, and that's what Key has done today - he's told us the secret while first saying he'll release the documents, then saying he wont.
Either way it's the secrets that the law really protects, not the documents - surely he's broken the law here?
Either that or he's telling fibs to get reelected, neither is a good look.
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I know people in Shenzhen whom simply take the subway to the end of the line every couple of months, cross out, back in. Others who actually live in Shenzhen and commute to work in HK (their passports fill up ....)
I'm the proud owner of am APEC business card (costs about the same in NZ as a single visa to China) theoretically it can be used for the 60 day thing though I'm think more likely occasional 1-2 month long stays are in my future
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Chris Waugh,
My experience – limited to China, which is probably not very comparable to Anglo countries – is that expats never really have ‘Home’ far from their minds, and that although home is where they’re living now, capital H Home is their home countries, in which they’re still well invested, at least emotionally and, ummmm…., identificationally (if that’s a word that makes sense).
"Home" is a funny word, often it seems to be the place you're not - living 20 years in the US "home" was always NZ, not long after we moved back it started referring to Oakland - now , 10 years later, I think we realise that both places are home and always will be
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Looking in the Way Back Machine (PA wont let me link to the page at archive.org directly, you’ll have to paste it in manually) .....
It appears that that page didn’t exist prior to about a month ago – the broken links actually worked back then but lead one back to a “how to apply for citizenship” page that has since been replaced.
The reason or the different age thing (<14, 14-16, >16) seems to likely be part of the general applying for citizenship thing, kids under 16 need their parent’s permission, kids under 14 don't have to meet language and character requirements.
$470 plus lots of paper work for something that ought to be “I see you’ve lived in NZ on your NZ passport for 5 years, let me check that box for you” – as I said it’s a form of “second class citizenship”
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to stephen walker,
Paul, i was told a few years ago that if my children (citizens by descent) lived in NZ for a certain length of time, they could apply for full citizenship. has this changed?
Well when I investigated this 7-8 years ago I was told "yes, they have to go through a naturalisation ceremony". I'm pretty sure I went in to the Dept of Immigration and asked, of course that's one of the govt offices that National have closed in Dunedin, can't do that any more.
This web page gives more hope that it's easier - we've been lazy and both kids are about to graduate Uni, they've been here 10 years - now there's a little urgency.
I'd hoped it was a simple as some computer that watches passports move through airports and totes up the days and applies a check to your citizenship record when it hits whatever the residency requirement for applying for citizenship is. Sadly no.