It is invalid. We don't hand out citizenship to everyone who works here. Instead, there is a path that potential immigrants can follow and eventually obtain citizenship if they show long term commitment to living here and being productive citizens. The ...
He could still have invested in NZ without becoming a citizen, plenty of people do, so your argument is invalid.
I respectfully disagree. No person, be they a man or woman, should be allowed to force a woman to carry on with a pregnancy against her wishes (her body, her choice). Abortion should be legal and remain guaranteed so, even if other women disagree with this...
If you can't see any contradiction in those statements, there is absolutely no point engaging with you, since you seem to be either completely clueless or deliberately disingenuine.
You said: ...that’s not the line I’m running... Yet, ...there is no evidence that that has occurred... is pretty much equivalent to "You can’t prove it!". Edit: Plus, you also said "because at the moment nothing untoward has been proven." in comment 8.1
These is scientific evidence that suggests that the fructose component of common table sugar (i.e. sucrose) is not metabolised in the same way as other carbohydrates, and contributes disproportionately to metabolic disease. Thus, specifically targeting ...
When I saw the headline of this post on my feed I thought it was a joke or satire. But it's not. I agree with you Lanth and Weka and I am extremely disappointed to site it on this site.
Methinks he richly deserved his outing. No, he doesn't. He deserves to be dealt with by the law (and he has been - unless you are claiming the judiciary is corrupt) not by a political blog spreading rumours about his private life.
What would like like to drink? I have english breakfast tea, earl gray tea, green tea and urine. I'm sorry, these are the only choices. I happen to like tea, but obviously your choice of beverage will have nothing to do with my preference.
Bullsh**t. There are plenty of Germans who are more than happy to welcome refugees to their country. Just because you are a selfish prick doesn't mean everyone else is.
Consider a good set of media stories where... I think you are vastly overestimating the competence of the NZ media.
I'm not sure the 'preaching birth control' would really make a difference. The fact is most Catholics ignore the church's anti-contraception stance - after all, it's not like the birth rate in 'Catholic' countries is particularly high. The most reliable ...
I'm pretty sure its a wind up. But the sad fact is some the RWNJs are so vile that it's impossible to tell. I once thought that fisiani was someone's exaggerated impersonation of a RWNJ, but sadly it appears that he is a real person who really holds such ...
I got the same reply. There is no legal definition of a "zero hours contract" so clearly MBIE/Wendy's might define it one way, while Unite define it another way. In any case, you are right, "preferred" does not mean the same thing as "guaranteed". Since ...
Indeed, I sent a message saying I would to exactly that.
... post to reflect your research, wtl. Cheers, TRP]
The placebo effect has be something to do with the mind-body interaction. As the brain is part of the body, it is perfectible reasonable to suggest that the mind is able to influence the physiology of the body. But of course, I don't know exactly how the ...
If it’s a great placebo and it resolves health issues for a person without the risk of liver or kidney failure, what’s the problem??? As TheContrarian pointed out above, it is misleading and unethical to use the placebo effect to treat someone without ...
Well, I have no problem with practitioners of 'traditional medicine' using the placebo effect to treat people, but they should be honest and upfront about it, rather than claiming that their medicine works because of 'unknown forms of energy' or other such...
What control did you use to rule out the nocebo effect?
Yes, and it is STOPPING the Russians and Chinese from collecting this data is exactly what the GCSB is meant to be doing, not collecting the data themselves.
Why would they get fewer donations? I thought everyone in NZ loved John Key and therefore a billboard with his picture on it will surely result in more donations?
I think Hager also had a source who was someone who worked for Farrar, who would have been privy to at least some information about Curia's clients (for example, based on the kind of polling questions asked).
Proof does no have to be documented evidence. For example, a court will accept testimony as a form of evidence and McCarten's testimony would therefore be accepted as true in a court unless it was disputed.
So, given that, if someone were using duress to get Brownlee to commit an act of terrorism against a plane, he would have to be on the plane himself. Again it seems unlikely a government minister would knowingly act as a suicide bomber no matter what ...
...how likely is it that an unmistakable government minister (given his size) going to commit any sort of terrorist or harmful act while on the plane? Probably not a lot less likely than any other person would commit such an act. Consider this: What if ...
Q. Why are you so interested in this thread? Gosman occasionally goes crazy on certain threads and ends up posting ~50% of hundreds of comments (some hobbit ones come to mind). I no longer bother reading any of his comments - its not worth the time or ...
Alternatively: 1) Sign up students to your charter school. 2) Receive funding from government. 3) Encourage students to find a different school and leave, bribe them with proportion of the funding if necessary. 4) Keep remaining funding, have no students ...
I don't have time to check right now, but I recall Andrew Geddis doing some posts on this threshold on Pundit. I think he mentioned when it was changed but I can't recall when it was. If you search through the Pundit archives you might find something.
While the story of the murder of an American hostage by some extremists half way around the world is making headline news, I thought that we should remember that over the weekend, three young New Zealanders were killed in a fire. A recent report quotes a ...
Great to see you acknowledging that climate change denial is as loony as anti-flouride and anti-vaccination campaigns.
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