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Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 6:02 pm, January 17th, 2025
3% margin of error - with numbers this close they're a bit meaningless - TPU is obviously too cheap to have enough people interviewed for a real pollWritten By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 2:01 pm, January 21st, 2024
Tau is probably in a better position to know this than most - and Luxon has intimated this in the past too. However now is the time for him to come out and just plain say "the National caucus will not be supporting this past the select committee stage". ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 4:56 pm, February 26th, 2023
Their plan says that it will involve "user fees" which means water meters, and a whole new bureaucracy to come and read those metersWritten By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 12:48 pm, January 8th, 2023
I'll just like to point out that older people are "normal" ..... and we're all getting older every dayWritten By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 2:19 pm, January 2nd, 2023
My take on "woke" is the same as "politically correct" it's a term that people on the left originally used to gently make fun of their compatriots who went a little too far, that was adopted and redefined by the right to mean something that they thought ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 4:08 pm, December 4th, 2022
"3 strikes and you're out" is so culturally wrong, if we must have this nonsense surely it should be "6 balls and you're over"?Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 6:49 pm, October 20th, 2022
I guess I'm confused by they try to cry poor by driving their really expensive tractors around town, it makes no senseWritten By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 3:01 pm, October 16th, 2022
Yeah but imagine how hard Luxon would have come down on her if she had been say, found to have beaten a kid with with a bed leg, rather than hurt some cowsWritten By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 4:54 pm, October 9th, 2022
BTW I understand that STV votes are difficult to process by hand - but I think that opening them, feeding them to a scanner and validating that what was scanned is what was on the ballot are things that a scrutineer should be able watch over - along with ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 4:44 pm, October 9th, 2022
I have no idea if there's a real problem - I just think that elections should be open and accountable - sections 80 and 81 of the Local Electoral act effectively make scrutineers in local elections unable to function if it's a postal vote (though a council ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 3:20 pm, October 9th, 2022
One of the problems with the current law is that the local election process is effectively closed, scrutineers are only allowed for votes counted AFTER the polls are closed, however with postal voting most votes are counted before the polls are closed, ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 6:27 pm, September 1st, 2022
The thing here was that some (larger, offshore based) funds are able to avoid paying GST on some of their costs - my guess is that they are offshoring some of their costs (GST doesn't attach to offshore transactions) - this legislation was intended to ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 7:00 pm, August 11th, 2022
that's great thanks for passing it onWritten By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 12:02 am, August 11th, 2022
Uffindel told us yesterday that he'd bullied a lot of others at school, but he hadn't gone out and apologised to any of them. I bet I know why: he doesn't remember their names or any of the dates or details of what he'd done to them, he only remembers that ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 11:51 pm, August 10th, 2022
I was that kid, I'm 64 now, still have PTSD fight-or-flight feelings about that boys' school when I think about this issue - the last couple of days have been hard, I wont sleep tonight - but it's important we talk about this. Our traditional NZ boys' ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 3:55 pm, July 24th, 2022
Of course the really weird thing is that he named his organisation "FARC" - a name you may have heard beforeWritten By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 3:50 pm, July 24th, 2022
Not really - treason requires you to physically try to overthrow the govt - perhaps you're thinking of sedition which was removed from the Crimes Act in 2007Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 12:16 pm, May 23rd, 2022
It's kind of hard to declare an explicit swing from Liberal to Green (or any swing) in Oz because of the way that preferences work there - in particular who comes 2nd vs. 3rd in the initial vote may determine who wins - in the end it's really just FPP-lite ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 1:34 pm, March 14th, 2022
We used to have a 39% tax rate, National got rid of it and increased GST to 15% claiming that it would be neutral, or course it was really a regressive tax on the poor used to fund a giveaway to their rich mates. Let's undo National's jiggery-pokery, ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 11:31 am, March 2nd, 2022
Are you saying that getting arrested for breaking the law is a violation of human rights? well let's empty out all the jails then Like many people here I've been arrested for protesting real things (not imaginary conspiracy covidiot stuff) in the past, ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 10:52 am, March 2nd, 2022
And remember for a virus to replicate it needs to take over the internal workings of a cell, make copies of itself and then destroy the cell to release them - this is by far the main cause of damage to your body from infection. Covid is a disease of the ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 8:11 am, March 2nd, 2022
Yeah I couldn't remember if it's an RNA or DNA virus which is why I said "DNA/RNA" - the point though is bthat without that b it to take over the workings of a cell a spike protein alone doesn't destroy a cell ( might block a receptor)Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 7:48 am, March 2nd, 2022
The main difference that without the viral payload (the DNA/RNA required for reproduction) a spike protein by itself doesn't take over a cell and result in its destructionWritten By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 2:02 pm, February 3rd, 2022
This is OK if you live in Auckland, but I live in Dunedin - how would I come back from a biz trip and self isolate for 10 days at home without spending a bunch of hours in an airport or on a plane sharing my potential virus? Probably the best thing I could ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 11:15 am, January 26th, 2022
My cat only uses her microchip to command the cat door to openWritten By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 10:42 pm, January 10th, 2022
Not only that, the 1956 health act was written by a bunch of old men ..... who had been young men who had come back to war to live through the Spanish Flu .... they had real practical experience of a major pandemic, they saw it all play out and when they ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 8:07 pm, December 20th, 2021
It's too early to tell, omicron has been around for 2-3 weeks - for delta it takes a week or two to make it into hospital, then a few weeks to die, such is modern medicine, we really don't know yet how good or bad omicron is going to be. Saying that it's ...Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 9:40 pm, December 13th, 2021
"Still looking for the next National PM"Written By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 8:00 am, December 1st, 2021
They now have a strong caucus? their caucus hasn't changed, they're just moving the deck-chairs aroundWritten By: Paul Campbell - Date published: 12:53 pm, November 4th, 2021
Rather than having charlie on the money I think we should simply switch to the "governor general is elected by 2/3 of parliament" rather than appointed by some foreigner with advice from the govt. Probably some additional parliamentary procedure should be ...
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