Posts by Steve Barnes
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I have it on good authority that some people think that Iran is inhabited by cute pink fluffy bunnies. This information may, of course be wrong. Some of those bunnies may be vicious.
On the other hand Iran might be developing nuclear power generation so as to conserve their stocks of oil for future generations and we can't have that can we? America has a right to plunder the wealth of other nations. -
underwhelming.
I allways imagined the effect of Prozac to be totally "Whelming"
You could use it in conversation or in a greeting;
"How are you?'
"I am whelm, thank you"
Which would, in fact, mean you were crushed by a weight,
But as a descriptive word to sum up the entire year I think only the right wingniks could own such a word. If however you were looking for a colective noun for a leader of the National Party I think English DonKey springs to mind but you weren't, were you? -
Stupidiocracy. Noun.
A political system run for the stupid by an Idiot for the benefit of the few.
Apologies to the American Constitution.And how about;
rareconditioning, Verb/trans.
Something you have done to make you seem cooler than you were before.
or; TARDIS; my girlfriends handbag ;-) -
If it's vacuum-sealed to prevent water damage, then it's perfect!
But will it work in your longdrop?
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Seriously dude, you're not connecting my toilet the the interweb. Major privacy issues involved!
It would seem to be an ideal solution in Dunnydin ;-)
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The problem of course is that laying fibre, digging up streets is terribly capital extensive - you can't really have 10 different sets of people do it up every street
I have been nagging Auckland City Council for years to run fibre through the sewer system, their reasons for not doing this have been pathetic (toilet paper will get stuck to the fibre, telecoms people have no experience in sewers etc.).Other countries have done this, Canada for example, so the technology is out there. How this would all tie up is beyond me but I'm sure some bright spark could create a model that could allow the investment fund to have some investment in this area along with other infrastructural elements that should never have gone out of public control.
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Allowing private investors to build roads, water companies, more energy companies, airports, ports, and tecos would be a very good start.
I beg to differ. Providing a workable enviroment through investment in infrastucture will allow productive business to grow and prosper whilst at the same time discoraging private investment in non-productive asset stripping. Now we, as a nation, are used to the concept of user pays there is no reason for infrastuctuer to be non profitable. Kiwisaver is a long term investment stratagy that would benefit everybody through investing in these areas. As it stands Kiwisaver is unlikley to go for a long term low profit investment but at the same time if it were to continue to grow and compete with private investment the damage could well be disaterous.
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With the Billions floating around in Kiwisaver there was always going to be the problem of where to invest that money without it skewing the local market. By investing in infrastructure we would eliminate big business maximising profits at the expense of national growth. Using Kiwisaver as a fund for all infrastructure, not only telecommunications but water, power, rail and roading would do more good for the country in terms of growth than allowing foreign business to rape and pillage the nation for mere profit. However, if Don Key becomes PM I can see all good ideas turning to custard as we slide slowly into the ranks of a third world country while his mates buy up all the infrastructure that they will, inevitably, sell off.
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I'vr just read "Fran O'Sullivan: Thanks John Howard, the best PM we never had"
That woman makes me want to PUKE! -
You've just done him a huge favor with your link!
Not really. People will follow the link, his hit count will go up, he may make a few cents in ad. revenue and people will go away with the impession that "these guys are so weird" then maybe never visit a site like that again.
I want to add that I noticed his blog was on a Catholic site. I have nothing against people who choose to be Catholic, in fact, some of my best freinds are Catholics and most, if not all, of them would rather not hit their children.