Posts by Sam F
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Interesting piece on the Whitcoulls crisis in the Business Herald – unfortunately haven’t been able to locate it online.
One point that stood out to me: odd discounting practices, namely slashing prices on bestsellers and quietly ramping up prices on less exalted items. In hindsight I feel guilty about buying Iain M Banks’ latest Culture novel in January, which was just released and surely had a market ready to pay cover price but was already discounted at 50%…
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to
(I know Brown and McKay can plausibly blame the last lot, but really guys. You’re wearing the big hats, boys, and that’s a well you can’t keep going back to forever.)
I’d say they can keep going back a bit further than four months, though, surely? That said I agree with Matthew that it needs to be sorted - I just object to the Herald turning a fairly explicable council decision and presenting it (IMO) hysterically.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to
Yup. Interesting how the story suggests that some of the buildings may have been strengthened since - I'd say Auckland being Auckland an equal or greater number have already been bowled.
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Today’s Weekend Herald frontpage: Auckland Council won’t release an old, possibly inaccurate list of earthquake prone buildings in a city that isn’t particularly prone to earthquakes.
IMO this is taking their whole “if it’s suppressed it leads” thing just a bit too far.
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Hard News: "Orderly transition" in #Egypt, in reply to
Heh, spotted this:
Somebody round at TVNZ, some years back, has given in to extortion.
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Garth George's column today so entirely generic and predictable I'm not even going to dignify this sentence with a full stop
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to
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Hard News: "Orderly transition" in #Egypt, in reply to
Hence the word "bitextual."
By contrast I must be deeply vanilla - same number and SIM since 2001!
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Hard News: "Orderly transition" in #Egypt, in reply to
And even kiwi kids often carry two or three, depending on which carrier has the cheapest texts this week.
Heck, I knew plenty of friends in highschool with a Telecom cell for $10 TXT and a Vodafone for free weekends and that's ten years ago now...
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to
Personally I look for the works of Lentilus Maximus, MD, particularly on checking for pulse.
Don't tell me you haven't read this...