Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Google will give you the answers you seek, the process is in statute:
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2015/0066/latest/DLM6405391.html.Unused preferences are not analysed and hence not recorded - obviously doing so would take time and not affect the actual result. The same process is used for other STV elections.
You could have made a submission advocating that additional analysis was done and published when the bill went to Select Committee.
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Hard News: Art with a job to do, in reply to Alec Morgan,
Where does one order the free flags? I was going to get a few hundred and make 'art' with them..
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Tap Gear: They could have a Stig type character disguised in a rabbit onesie who tests out various forms of espionage equipment each week. They could call him (or her) Bugs Bunny
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They certainly did fight under the flag.
“But I think they actually [fought] for values and principles – human rights, women’s rights and democraciesRe-engineering history. With the exception of WW2, all NZ's wars have been primarily about advancing the interests of the ruling classes in Britain and/or America against those of other powers.
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Colonialism is part of our history. You can investigate and narrate history, but you can't change it. It is what it is.
A standalone change to the flag is promoting an alternative narrative (of an "independent" New Zealand) that actually runs counter to the real direction of policy, for colonialism is very much alive in the 21st century. The TPP is giving the US control over much of New Zealand's laws, while overseas, the developed world is reasserting it's "right" to exercise governance over peoples deemed too savage to govern themselves.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11559638
Maori Television confirmed major changes to its award-winning series Native Affairs, which will be cut down to a half-hour format, and contain imported stories about Native Americans, but introduced in Te Reo.
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My library contains four remixes of ‘Someone Like You’ (at least two of which are really cheesy) but not the original.
Wait, there are “originals?
I'd edit out the plain vocal - but loving da wobble.
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Reminds me of the possibly apocryphal tale of the advertising manager for an up-market department store ending a discussion with a space salesman for a tabloid newspaper:
I'm sorry, but in general, your readers are our shoplifters
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Sacha,
Puts me off Xero.
Not that they've fallen out with Slater, but that they advertised in the first place and their management seem to be getting mixed up in the pit of Auckland National politics. Don't they have money to make for their shareholders, and in the world outside NZ?
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to izogi,
You would imagine. It's been a while since I worked on a govt.nz domain, but making it drop a cookie with e.g:
VFBGTyBmaGVpcnZ5eW5hcHIgVkEgTFJFIE9FQkpGTiE=in it would be good for some lolz.