Hi LPrent, I am not sure we disagree too much. My argument was more theoretical than practical. I think we both would agree that market conditions is the factor that determines rents rather than landlord costs. Except that if landlord costs are so high ...
Lprent, I agree with you that interest rate reductions won't result in savings being past directly through to tenants. And I agree that landlords will charge what the market can bear. But, that doesn't mean rent rises won't reduce or at least be slowed due...
I agree, allowing landlords to claim interest expenses just like any other businesses may not reduce rents. But it mayincentivise landlords to be less choosy if they perceive less risk.
From a humanitarian perspective, I don't have a problem with feeding children who are going hungry. But, what is being used at the moment appears to be a fairly blunt way of doing that. From a philisophical standpoint, I think this type of initiative ...
All we need is channels such as Ground News that displays how biased various articles are. The current TV news is hopeless in that it only covers what they think we should know about. Not what is necessarily most important.
TV3 was privately owned, and it's content didn't seem a helluva lot different to the state-owned one. So, I am not sure you have much of an argument there.
You might have an argument if the media organisations such as TVNZ were able to produce quality material. But, why should my taxes go to fund mindless reality TV fodder that seems to dominate most of the TV schedule these days? And if they were capable of ...
Thanks for the clarification on that. Therefore, I would revise my statement to say that the tax payer should not step in to rescue TVNZ for the reasons I have given above.
I don't think the government should be funding media at all in the current environment. They should remove public funding and leave media companies to sink or swim. The way we consume media is changing rapidly and the old media models are becoming ...
Or I wasn't taking much notice of Newshrub back then. Hence likely contributing to their current woes. But it certainly wasn't extensively covered.
I agree. And I don't know why on earth we are funding TVNZ either. It is all agenda driven biased coverage that ignores important news events and feeds us what they want us to hear. And their entertainment content has degenerated to an endless stream of ...
The problem with TV news is that they only report the news they want us to hear, and ignore all sorts of important events happening in the world that are worthy of reporting. For example, a Filipino student we are hosting asked me if I had heard of the ...
It appears that the gang patch ban was effective to at least some degree in Australia, even if it was just the psychological impact of the general public feeling safer. The Bill of Rights will be something the government has to work around. So, will be ...
Thanks Weka, I should have given that link myself. She did say that she will be apologising personally to Mark Mitchell on Wednesday, so the apology part may not yet be complete.
I guess it does boil down to what he was there for. If he was there to provide security for aid organisations, then there are four questions to answer in my mind: 1. Was it justifiable for aid organisations to be there? 2. Was military grade security ...
I see Ginny Anderson delivered a public apology on News Talk ZB this morning. Good on her for that. I guess the evidence that there was nothing to see with respect to Mark Mitchell's previous career is that Nicky Hagar didn't write a book about it prior to...
"But the issue here isn't that some dude ran a PSC, it's that he then entered parliament bringing those values with him, and held a number of Ministerial positions including Defence and Police." I guess that would depend on the motivations for running such...
I don't find private military companies particularly tasteful either tbh. But I think the blame for their existence needs to be laid equally at the feet of Western governments who don't want to be seen to be directly involved in various scenarios around ...
That raises the issue of honesty and whether Mitchell is inclined to be open and transparent, or manipulate comms to create an impression. Weka, I guess there are two answers to that. Firstly, in my experience, people who have been involved in conflict ...
As a self declared mercenary he was there to kill.No questions asked. Francesca, I think that statement is bordering on defamatory. You need to back that statement up with evidence. I agree that a possible consequence of him being there was that he might ...
The 'only mention' does not mean that was the only conflict he was involved in… That may or may not be true. But the onus is on you to produce the evidence. Otherwise you are just speculating.
Weka, as I pointed out above, the only Wiki mention of him being in actual conflict that could have incurred deaths was a self-defence situation. I expect that if you, I, or any of our politicians, including Anderson, were in that compound, we would be ...
As Hipkins said in her defence, he is often provocative. And of course there is an element of truth in what she said. I guess you could claim an "element of truth'' in the same way it could be claimed that the police or armed forces may end up killing ...
I don't know what got into Ginny Anderson yesterday on NewsTalk ZB with Mark Mitchell and Hosking. I couldn't quite believe what I was hearing. On Newstalk ZB Week on Demand at 8.15 yesterday for the discussion. She accused Mitchell, in his previous role ...
We host Filipino students who come to train for farm jobs here. We had a case recently where a farmer was considering a young couple we were hosting for a farm job which included a nice house. But first he wanted to consider a kiwi couple who had also ...
TSMC should explore making their computer components with nuclear power. Then they might be making fission chips, lol.
I agree that the US wouldn't get involved just for Taiwan's sake. But, they might if there are wider strategic concerns. In this respect, the goals for AUKUS, the QUAD, and the defence of Taiwan aren't mutually exclusive. The South China Sea in itself is ...
I agree that the blockade scenario of Taiwan is more likely than an outright invasion. A lot would depend on whether the QAUD group would step in to help. I agree that Taiwan wouldn't be able to withstand an attack from China on its own. From what I have ...
I understand they are testing a submarine kamikaze drone at the moment, which would be a lot harder to detect. Something really nasty would be to have one that cruises undersea at about 100 metres deep or so, and then launches up vertically at the ...
I am all for using modern technology. I never implied that I wasn't.
There won't be war with China. The economic blow-back would destroy them. Starting with a sea blockade that would stop the flow of goods in and out of China via sea. India, as part of the QUAD, has positioned themselves strategically for this purpose. The ...
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