Posts by Paul Brislen
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I would say the police comment that he's committed an "unlawful act" without any opportunity to defend himself against those charges would and should become the basis for a defamation case against either the police the PM's office or both.
And given the number of times he was called a criminal in various other publications, I'd say that if Ambrose wanted to feather his own nest he'd probably be able to do so quite nicely (well, the nest of his lawyer that is).
Of course, he'd never work in this [media] town again.
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Personally I'd shut down PoAL altogether and move the North Island's main port to Tauranga. Currently they simply compete with each other, we duplicate the costs for little gain and could use the money from the sale of the land on the waterfront to pay for a harbour crossing/light rail link/free puppy for every household/venture of the day.
But that's just me.
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Hard News: That page doesn't exist ..., in reply to bmk,
Yes, I was expressing sarcasm at the view (widely held in some circles).
My apologies - dryness doesn't always translate. I shall use more smiley faces. ;-)
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Hard News: That page doesn't exist ..., in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Sent this to Russell but may as well post it here.
Nobody pays to make 0800 calls in NZ but the organisation you're calling pays to receive them.
Some companies do indeed block mobiles from calling their 0800 number (mobiles are luxury items, remember, not low-cost options for those that don't have the credit rating/wherewithal to pay for a landline) primarily because they cost four times the price of a similar call from a landline.All of which points to the big problem here - don't you WANT more engagement with your key stakeholders?
(got to speak like that with govt departments/corporates as that's their language) -
Get Vikram to tell you the weirdness of how they got to play the doco... then we can talk about copyright and where this whole shooting match is going.
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I have the urge to go buy Bob some toy cars. Last year at Foo, Bob and I spent a lovely half hour with cars playing in the dirt.
Hopefully we can do something more substantial today. Let me know.
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What can we do for David and Jen and the kids? They need what, everything I'm guessing?
How can we help?
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Two words: Southern Cross.
Don't know about overseas, but in NZ I got the nip/tuck and SC picked up the tab.
That was a major factor in my case.
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Thank you all for your kind words and oh-so-cruel stories... I didn't mean to start a pissing (blood) contest - far from it (I thought it quite painless, particularly compared with a bone marrow biopsy. Ouchies!) but the tales have been entertaining.
Gerald, if you're reading this, you owe me a beer or a cut of the action. Oh wait, I already got that.
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How did I miss that XKCD? That's gold...
And here I was foolishly thinking BillR had come over all social media-ist what with his Twitter account and all... haven't heard from him for a while, not since he became a PR man.
and the least said about that the better.