Posts by Stephen R
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Hard News: Terror panics and the war imperative, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Please someone make the point that sending troops endangers New Zealanders traveling overseas, it effectively devalues our passports and the security they provide.
But think of the Trade treaty we might get if we do!
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And if I were Nicky, I'd think seriously about never using those devices for sensitive work ever again...
Once the laptops/phones have been in the hands of police/SIS for any length of time, there's no real way to assure yourself that they're not compromised.
They also may well have Nicky's private keys on, which makes decrypting any previously intercepted communications an easier task (especially if you managed to get a keylogger on his laptop, either now or in the future).
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
Craig, please enlighten me, is someone righteous like you happy to have someone as your current party leader and prime minister who lies as freely and frequently as John Key does?
I find it very easy to imagine a reasonable person voting National because they like National's economic policies, and more importantly because even assuming the allegations in Dirty Politics are true, that a National led government would still be a better government than Labour led government, given Labour's apparent internal divisions.
I happen to disagree, but that doesn't mean Craig is a monster for thinking so, nor that he automatically approves of everything National does.
Party politics - it's a package, you choose the best package you can with the fewest dead rats. Different people tolerate different rats.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to giovanni tiso,
And that's just what having a profoundly dysfunctional party looks like (and a reminder of how pinning it all on Cunliffe or his faction is just ludicrous).
I totally agree that it's not all Cunliffe's fault, but I also agree that the party looks profoundly dysfunctional. I'm not sure keeping or changing the leader is going to make the party look more functional without other major changes.
I don't know what would, but I do think that until they look less like a mess, they're not going to do well in the polls.
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Hard News: A message from The Fabians, in reply to Russell Brown,
In part that's because the only other thing I've done with the Fabians struck me as offering the basis of a coherent and credible economic strategy that got us beyond the short-term window of much current policy
I very much enjoyed attending the voyage of a lifetime discussion in Wellington. Any idea if this is likely to travel south this time?
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to izogi,
CE’s of companies are bound by the law, enforced on behalf of stakeholders by any number of government entities.
Unless the CE can get someone to smear the head of the SFO badly enough that they back off...
edited to add: Or the funding for the IRD investigations for tax fraud is reduced, (while the funding for investigating welfare fraud of much less funds is increased)
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Hard News: The humanity, in reply to Bart Janssen,
It should be noted that perhaps the biggest journalistic success in that last few years has come from a journalist outside the favoured clique.
And Nicky Hager isn't exactly rolling in dosh and wearing the sharp suits now is he?
Success can be measured in different ways, and possibly if you need to pay a mortgage in Auckland, dollars can be a persuasive measuring stick.
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Legal Beagle: Election 2014: the no…, in reply to ,
but the Conservatives insatiable desire to lock people in prisons, just gives me the shits.
"the Conservatives insatiable desire to lock poor and brown people in prisons"
FTFY.
Maori kids with spray cans should go to prison; White-guys-with-knives who chase Maori-kids-with-spray-cans down the road and stab them to death should be applauded for being tough on graffiti.
</sarc>Feckers.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Alfie,
Sure, someone could steal the code from your letterbox, in the same way they can steal your EasyVote card now. The proposed system is no less secure than the current one.
But if you nick someone's EasyVote, and they actually go down to vote, then you end up with two votes for that name, and the wheels of ... I was going to say justice, but shall we say "electoral law" start to roll.
I think that does make the current system slightly more secure than the proposed one.
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From time to time I forget that I despair of my species, and then I am reminded.
Now I'm cruising the web playing happy music and dancing around the house (with the curtains pulled so I don't scare the neighbours) to try to use exercise as a way of feeling better.