a little disappointed that no-one's pointed out John Key being a 'fast follower' yet...
ooh! king hit there! So remind us how much fat those specially hired, highly paid razor gang specialists found to trim?
oh yeah, tax free loans whilst still in NZ; you ot any better ideas to mitigate the incentive to go offshore and earn much better money?
yeah, or to eat less meat, or to eat different meat. For my part I can walk 5 minutes away and buy wild venison/ bacon/ goat/ rabbit; to my mind you can't get more environmentally friendly than that. Not that everyone's so lucky with their local shopping. ...
This is because the null hypothesis will often be something like "observed changes are due to natural variability'. Thus, any research that confirms the null hypothesis is much less likely to be published, potentially providing a skewed view of reality ...
oh but surely that's different; Afghanistan was the USSR's Vietnam... And of course, these days, Afghanistan is nothing like Vietnam...
I's forgive McCully not seeing the value in his self going personally, ie when you compare the cost/value of getting supplies there and vs the cost/value of getting a figurehead there I can see why he'd not see the point of going himself. The value in him ...
obviously the tooth fairy was distorting the trickle-down fairy's invisible wand of the market
nah, he'll be fine on Letterman - while we're cringing, the rest of the world (hopefully) will just think he's doing a clever flight of the conchords act
had to knock this together last night. The larger file (click on 'all sizes' ) prints off at A4 nice enough if anyone wants to use it... The parallels between Winston Peters and Blinglish at the mo' are pretty astounding. Well, not really, but pretty ...
agreed; extra taxes just increase the associated stress and don't do anything to actually help people quit. It's a logical incentive, but not a functional one. I think the work done in the last 10 years has helped a lot though, it has transferred (most of)...
not to mention that capital gains tax only applies if the proprty's been owned for less than 10 years...
hang on; I remember looking into this a few years ago and it didn't sound like quite the scientific frenzy of panic you're making it sound. Some boffins noted that since glacials/ interglacials were looking to be cyclic, then at some point in the future we...
oh yeah, a 14 year period; so presumable all the bullshit about korrupt practice tars the Fourth National Government with the same brush?
My arse it is; it's a reflection on the manner to which Messrs English et al have become accustomed. How many shipping containers does it take to accommodate a family of 8? There's a trailer park in the offing close to Parliament at that...
I hear what you are saying oob, but I think the problem is that if Labour move to the left then they leave the centre for the Nats, and the centre is where the swing votes are. ----------------8< schnippety poo 8<------------- Activists, in my view, need ...
Yep, a very important point. Worth recalling the 1990 election when a centerist leader in Jim Bolger led National to a pretty strong lead. Funnily enough the incoming govt really botched the 'decent society' promise and there was a backlash. From a 'born ...
The Third World in general and sub saharan Africa in particular is underdeveloped, not because of the ‘big bad' market but because of government and corporate interventions that have everything to do with ideology and screwing the public but nothing to ...
oh yeah brilliant; history has clearly shown that poverty keeps birth rates low. Maybe we should set up special housing areas too, just so these decrepit poor don't upset those who've got all the cream. You're a sick fuck. Isn't it amazing how we've just ...
yeah, pretty big can of worms that one. There was a spate of newspaper article/ editorials a couple of years ago, usually about India and China's population & their increasing affluence. The general message was that to satisfy their demand for resources, ...
great stuff. Think he performed in Ch-Ch in 2005 ('04?), with Dennis Bovell to boot. Gonna long regret not travelling up to see that...
ah, yeah. All those elections Labour stole 1991 - 2005? Dastardly!
yeah, it kind of mystifies me as to why we get a photo of him every single day in the Dompost. New photo, same face, same expression. Pretty much the same story too. Stretches the meaning of 'news' does it not?
brings to mind Armistice Day a couple of days after the last election; Key didn't attend because he wasn't aware that Helen Clark would be. Funny how some people decide what their priorities will be...
in Australia, Cecil G Murgatroyd came up with a perfect solution: QUEEN ANNE OF AUSTRALIA Queen Elizabeth could make her daughter, Princess Anne, the Queen of Australia. With Anne naturalised as a business migrant, we'd have an Australian Head of State ...
We shouldn't fight among ourselves just because the left has real choices and the Right doesn't but you're talking MMP logic in an FPP world; take a look at the election results across the last 5 or 6 decades. There isn't a page I know of that illustrates...
mustard? Off-lemon perhaps?
oh come off it, surely just about any change would have improved on what remained after Muldoon's 9 years?
utter twaddle; social cooperation to meet the collective needs of a group preceded anything recognisable 'commerce' or 'government' by a reasonable stretch. At some point in late human evolution, the ideas of trade or governance as seperate entities have ...
oh y god, tres embarrasing! its well honed instinct & an excuse to post a captcha 'Boston couldn't'
vto : > instinct should be first as it is a time proven pointer to the correct direction Not too sure about this. When a kiwi senses a predator, it follows it's well honed instinct and keeps absolutely still & relies on camoflague. As they say, biology ...
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