Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Hard News: 2015: The Budget of what?, in reply to wendyf,
If somebody works 2 or more jobs, the payroll people at the second job don't know how much they earn in the first, and thus can't tell which tax band to put them in.
So if you have two jobs on $16 an hour, you'll pay too much tax on the second one. But you *will* be able to claim it back at the end of the year.
Conversely, if you are earning $100k a year and help out in a pub at the weekend for $16 an hour, you will pay the correct amount of tax.
If there was no secondary tax in the current system, the first person would possibly pay the correct tax, and the second would underpay and have a bill at the end of the year. Which might be better, but it would mean that in a few cases, the IRD would wind up chasing their money.
I think there is a plan for a more sophisticated system where companies will report payroll to IRD in realtime and be issued adjustments. (There is also a privacy issue where you might not want one employer to know about your side job and how much they pay you).
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Hard News: Mediaworks: The only horizon…, in reply to Russell Brown,
It also happened because we have lax company (and broadcasting) laws that allow a company to dump its obligations and rise from the ashes with the "owners" recovering control of the business. As opposed to it being shut down and the license re-tendered for.
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Hard News: First-person media and the…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
It would also be straightforward to have software that superimposes a selected random image of oneself over every regular image as it's saved, thus making every piccy a selfie.
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Broadcast TV's in a death spiral, right?
Viewers are switching to TV on demand (etc), revenues are falling, quality is dropping,
causing more viewers to cut the cord.The corollary to this is that the rump of viewers are people too <strike>old* or</strike> stupid to work computers, who will tend to be increasingly conservative, or at least grumpy.
* Old people *can* work computers. Dad is 85 and has five Macs. But then he used to fly fighter planes and helicopters for a job.
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Hard News: 2015: The Budget of what?, in reply to George Darroch,
And you'll notice a large number of articles in the NZ Herald of limited interest to a general audience (one would have thought) and with a definite slant in favour of buying the expensive US product. Not that the paper might have been induced at some level to take this line, of course.
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I'd just link this bit of research from tatjna.
By the MoH's own figures:
3.5 million packets of synthetic cannabis sold and a maximum of 600 people had problems in the 10 months of regulation. 0.017%
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Was Dick Weir known as Wierd, after the fashion of Dan Weir?
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http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v3/n3/full/nrg756.html
http://www.nature.com/news/soapy-taste-of-coriander-linked-to-genetic-variants-1.11398
Also, an idea that smell might relate to vibrational states of spectra:
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Did you get this in NZ?