I'm sure Michael Faye's consortium had purely altruistic motives, and would not have tried to sell any of the farms, instead donating them to charity.
Why does there need to be any bridge building? There is no fracking going on in christchurch, and it didn't stop them banning that. However, if they build new multi-story buildings, I suspect they will need pile driving (and I have been told that some ...
Ooh! Burn! With your inciteful comments and well-referenced points, I cede to your greater wisdom. I will henceforth ignore things like Scientific American (Still, researchers say it seems unlikely that fracking had anything to do with last weekend's ...
The magnitude of the tremors from pile driving are probably higher than those from fracking, so yeah, fair point.
I'm waiting for them to ban trucking and pile-driving too. You know, because of the 'earthquakes' they cause.
Right. So summary is: No-one has a vested interest in proving global warming, and yet 'big oil' which controls about 5% of the worlds oil supply must be stopped because they have a vested interest and are apparently spending a few thousand dollars... (Or ...
But you see, the argument is that for the evil 'deniers' industry is "it’s all about money". It's that the evil oil companies have so much to lose because global warming hysteria will put them out of business. The fact is that it won't. The fact is that ...
Oh Noes! They got TENS-OF-THOUSANDS-OF-DOLLARS! THOSE BLOODY DENIERS! LOOK AT HOW MUCH MONEY THEY'RE GETTING! I mean, even poor old Michael Mann only got a cool half-million in one year. And another group only got a couple of million. http://online.wsj.com...
How many hours of lawbreaking did Helen participate in?
Gawd James a show that Key took part in may result in a prosecution. How much more evidence do you need? And the amusing thing is that Labour's main issue is that they are pissed that they didn't get an opportunity to break the law (again) as well.
Big Oil – big corruption, big proaganda, big revenues to protect, and even bigger lies to protect them with! When you say "big oil". to whom are you referring?
Can I just contract that to: "putting up unemployment... is the RIGHT and ETHICAL thing to do!" Awesome.
it’s not sufficient to simply wave a blue flag and talk out of your arse… So what have I got wrong? I agree - people will change to gas if it makes economic sense for them to do so. Lanthanide implies that the government would push people to change to gas,...
Who is the "they'll" referring to in your post above? You implied it was the National Government. By the way - the majority of the cost of gas is in transmission and retail charges, not the cost of the raw gas.
On the otherhand over the last century we have had some good direct temperature data from across most of the landmasses world wide. That does show a gradual rise in average temperatures worldwide in a consistent cohesive pattern. And you've also got some ...
Because we lack export facilities, any gas discovered will be used domestically – meaning that the push for exploration and exploitation directly undermines the stated goal of 90% renewable electricity generation by 2025 Yes, it will be used domestically (...
Except that even the extremely biased wikipedia article points out evidence for low temperatures globally during the little ice age. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
From your article: The retreat of glaciers since 1850 affects the availability of fresh water for irrigation and domestic use, mountain recreation, animals and plants that depend on glacier-melt, and in the longer term, the level of the oceans. Studied by ...
Err... Why do you choose IPENZ for your Appeal To Authority?
People in minimum wage jobs are rarely, if ever, able to negotiate for an individual payrate above whatever it is the employer is offering. And that would be because minimum wage jobs are usually bound up by union-enforced collective bargining, where the ...
What rubbish. I'm not "whinging", I'm pointing out a fact.
Ummm. I don't understand your point. I am ~40 times as productive on certain tasks as a graduate. Are you suggesting that I shouldn't be paid any more until I am ~2000 times as productive?
My daughter was let go (eventually) from her job at Pack 'n' Save because she was too slow at scanning. Apparently other people could do it faster. So go figure.
Its rarely the "same job", or at least, the "same job performed with the same level of productivity". I have 15 years experience in a reasonably specialist field. Part of my role is to train graduates. Should they be paid the same as me, given that it ...
Its NOT a "LITTLE BIT MORE", [deleted]. There are people who pay precisely zero PAYE, and then complain that even though I pay $50,000 more than them, its still not good enough. God forbid if it drops and I only pay $49,500 in tax. Won't someone think of ...
What do you mean "give it back"? To whom? My employer, because that's where it comes from? Are you implying that I stole from my employer?
Gee, [deleted]. I'm actually employed by... shock horror... an evil company employer. Apparently they do pay decent wages for skills that are in demand. And define "fair share". Like I said - in the politics of envy, its never enough. [lprent: Names. ]
Where exactly did I say that I was in any way "a five times better person than the typical Kiwi"? I didn't. You made shit up. That is your attitude, not mine. It says more about you than it does about me. A 'privileged position'? I worked my ass off to ...
And there you have it. Apparently people should be punished for being wealthy. I can pay $50,000 in paye (ie. infinitely more than people who pay no net PAYE after WFF), and yet apparently that's not enough and I should hang my head in shame, and cough up ...
These graphs would be even more helpful if you could also post net PAYE tax paid, in dollars, as a function of income.
I find it really ironic that the left complain about not enough money being spent on tertiary education.... then complain that those that have a tertiary education and get high paying jobs because of it are "rich pricks" that should be hammered with envy ...
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