Posts by Danyl Mclauchlan
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I think it's fairly likely Sean Hoare was assassinated - probably not by News International, but by Met officers working in an unofficial capacity, sending a not-very subtle message to other potential whistleblowers that if you speak out against them they can murder you with near total impunity.
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Strange that this was spun together by Joyce's little elves, not the Finance Ministers'.
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Ever since, I'm continually amused by the popular conflation of hacker with computer genius. It's not quite "never the twain shall meet", but there's very little, if any, correlation
Writing the code that finds security exploits, is, I assume, fairly difficult, but a matter of expertise and time, not genius. I think most 'hackers' just torrent said files and run them.
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Mine would be something like, 'When you speak about race issues you ask the public to accept that you're acting in good faith, and not race-baiting or 'playing the racist card'. Yet you surround yourself with candidates and staffers who repeatedly make comments that speak the language of racism and white supremacy. How can we accept your claim of good faith given this wider context?'
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Ministers are accountable, that's the point. It's not just an opportunity to campaign to "persuadable voters". That's an election campaign.
And this is a government that's in permanent campaign mode.
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I've heard from a few friends at RNZ that the two presenters that receive the largest amount of complaints and negative feedback are/were Plunkett and Wilson. RNZ's mostly superannuated audience considers them both 'rude'.
Which makes the decision not to replace Sean Plunkett with another facsimile of same make a lot of choice - from the organisations perspective he was an unpopular and very high maintenance presenter.
I don't think the government's lack of appearance on RNZ is because they're 'scared of being held to account' or whatever - its just a strategy focused on reaching persuadable voters, which means a focus on non-news outlets like Breakfast TV, womens magazines, sports radio and so on.
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Without a loss here, it may have been difficult for the Maori Party not to run in Te Tai Tokerau in November. They’re now in a better position to learn the lesson and take the deal.
Pita Sharples just indicated that he intends to stand an electorate candidate in Te Tai Tokerau in November.
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I should probably look this up, but is that a nominal figure? Because inflation is going to go mental, as a result of GST plus the wallop of Christchurch spending.
No no no. It is nominal - but inflation stays really low. For some reason. Also unemployment plunges for some reason. And productivity grows steadily, somehow. It's all gravy.
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For many, the increase in employer contribution to 3% and the sneaky imposition of tax on that will all end up coming out of worker's pockets in the form of smaller pay rises.
Don't worry! Treasury confidently predict 4.0% annual wage growth for six years! Which, as far as I can tell, has not happened in New Zealand in at least the last hundred years!
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can someone deconstruct the reasons why people think Key is a good bloke, a nice man etc.
I know it does no good trying to convince people who think that way otherwise, but….
….I WANT TO KNOW WHY THEY THINK THAT WAY, ANYHOW!!!!!!!!
I hate things I don’t understand, and this is one of them. Please help!
Here you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralism_%28political_philosophy%29