Posts by Paul Campbell
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Hard News: SpinCity, in reply to Ross Mason,
An additional 40 gaming tables (based on current average opportunities to game), together with a further 12 gaming tables with the ability, in respect of each of those 12 gaming tables, to substitute each table for the right to operate 20 fully Automated Table Game Player Stations (but which are not substitutable for Single Terminal Gaming Machines) per table;(My Bold)
sounds like a table with say 20 stations playing each other (and the house) - basically 12 sets of 20 blackjack, or poker, or bingo machines - so yes another 240 gambling machines being quietly slipped in under the radar by pretending that they are 1 machine with 20 terminals
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I think Graeme is right - it should have been disclosed - from a purely moral point of view - the legal one is just an angels on heads of pins thing.
Personally I think every single dollar a party or candidate for public office takes in should be published - something that was hard to do back in the days of ledgers and cheques, and relatively easy to do these days - take a cell phone picture of each and every cheque and publish those (some places let you deposit checks by taking pictures of them and uploading them to your back account anyway) and a pic of your monthly statement and throw them on line - see easy - and good for our democracy too. Even better, avoid all those secret trusts/etc, change the law so politicians and parties can only accept personal cheques.
I can understand there's one non-obvious reason why politicians don;t want to reveal this stuff - they don't want the competition to see how much they can spend during an election - just like how many members they have on the ground is also a state secret
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and it's been signed by out deputy Queen (how apt) now it really is law
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So I wonder of we will now see a whole bunch of conservative christians getting married in church but not in the new civil 'gay' marriage? it would be a strange turnabout
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Particularly funny is the online US reaction to the "UNLOCK THE DOORS" in the parliamentary video
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Up Front: Gathered Together, in reply to Emma Hart,
What happened to Destiny Church? Where are the black-shirted incredibly-aggressive marchers? Are they now just holing up and putting all their money into canned food and shotguns?
Busily working on their chain of charter schools probably
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One also has to remember that the old Post Office was terribly under-staffed and undercapitalised (just plain not enough copper in the ground, in most of North Dunedin in the 80s they had just not laid cable since the 30s, unless the Uni paid them to, and never given the resources to put more - unlike say a govt that pays to put fibre everywhere) - we were also saddled by a technical miscalculation from the 30s when someone bought a whole bunch of cheap phones with dials with numbers that were in a different order from everyone else on the planet - not a problem until you want to go to an electronic exchange, or direct dial out of the country
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OK totally dumb question - the law has been broken 85 times - I'm told ignorance is no excuse - there will be 85 charges laid with the courts right?
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Hard News: Media3: Our comedy, in reply to Mark Graham,
What about Buck House? I seem to remember a proto-Fred Dagg wandering around spounting dagg-isms and it seemed quite amusing to a rather (ahem) young man back then...
Yes "that'll be the door" was ubiquitous in my high school years
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yes ,who's a terrorist depends on who's writing the history