Mickey asks"Is Syria the first failed state because of climate change?" Obviously not. States around the Sahara have been under states of decay or failure for thousands of years because the climate has been changing. Think Timbiktu in Mali, Meroë in Sudan,...
LPRent says "Whole unprocessed logs and meat constitute all except a small fraction of the rest of the exports to China. " Utter nonsense. In the year to March 2015, we had - $10.7b of exports to China - $2.8b of dairy - $1.6b of logs and wood products - $...
lprent says"National had put almost all its eggs into exporting unprocessed or barely processed commodities, with dairy as the primary example. " Wrong - National doesn't export a thing. Private companies do. National doesn't decide what to export. Private...
Yeah - much better to be self reliant and not trade like North Korea and Zimbabwe. If we didn't trade, you wouldn't be sitting there on your computer - you'd be in a cave.
Draco - I thought you'd be over the moon with the flag debate - it's given you hours and hours of opportunity to whinge and moan. All for just $6 per person. You're getting fantastic value out of it.
In some ways it's a more important indicator than the actual economy. Because it's confidence that dictates future planning on whether companies will be taking on more staff, expanding production, buying more plant, and increasing spending with their ...
Nearly $8b of$10.5b of our exports to China is NOT dairy. So the argument that we've put all our eggs in the dairy basket, is a misleading myth. And trade agreements like the TPP and Korea FTA will give us better market access to export higher value ...
Bill obviously doesn't like the character of small town folk, yet it seems to me more likely to be Auckland where there's such a lack of community that most people don't know most of the people in their very own street. And you're over 600% more likely to ...
While there were designs I liked more in the final 40, ANY of the four finalists would be better than our current flag, in which the most prominent part is borrowed off someone elses country. And at less than $6 per person, it would be money well spent at ...
But obviously calling people fuckwits isn't abuse if it's the moderator doing the abusing. [lprent: It is a pretty exact description. See the last sentence in my previous note. Tired of toying with such a poor debater... Adding you to auto spam. ]
[deleted] You're the most personally abusive person here, so lecturing people on obeying your rues is the epitome of hypocrisy. [lprent: There is no policy about abuse on the site, There is one about "pointless abuse" which is whole different beast. I ...
Gatsby - the censorship and rules obviously only apply to right wingers. [deleted more whining ] [lprent: Ah no. Many people who write here a lot have had bans including felix, millsy, morrissey, vto, etc etc.. Currently the longest non-permanent ban is ...
The Standard Policy says, quote... "We encourage robust debate and we’re tolerant of dissenting views. But this site run for reasonably rational debate between dissenting viewpoints and we intend to keep it operating that way. What we’re not prepared to ...
So you tolerate "fuck off shrill" by your people, but criticism very, very mild by comparison is totally censored. [deleted] [lprent: Listen to what the moderators and authors say. When an author tells you to stay on topic of her post then you will stay on...
The arguement to keep the assets wast because of the dividends they made the govt. That argument is blown to bits with the Labour/Greens power plan. Surely the referendum question should be " Do you want to keep the assets, then destroy their value?
Get rid of it real quick if the potential next government wanted to destroy it's dividends and capital value. You can't argue to keep the assets because of the great dividends, when your plan is to destroy those same dividends.
... left. [I am wondering if photonz has overstayed his welcome. There...
I thought I had to go to Sri Lanka to get censored. Apparently not. [You expect to come over here and abuse and then get upset when you get pulled up on it? Really? - MS] [karol: and this can go to open mike too. it adds nothing to the topic under ...
Did Labour go to the public (or even tell anyone) when they sold Spring Creek Mine? And we're not talking 1990s - it was in 2007. And what about the missing $100m of shares in Air NZ. In 2002 they owned 82%. A few years later they somehow carelessly ...
Paul - you write a post complaining about abuse, then claim you want intelligent debate, but instead of that YOU get abusive. Nothing at all about Air NZ, straight after your post telling people off for not staying on topic. You gave two good pieces of ...
Very likely. Reduction will come through new technology and an economy that can afford to implement it. In the last two or three years - - I've bought a small efficient car that uses less than HALF the fuel of my old car, for the same km. - installed a ...
[deleted] [karol: You were warned. You started it, and you are keeping it going. Now try to say something on topic. People get annoyed that you have started by derailing the tread]
karol - perhaps they are talking about PPPs. i.e. private companies building and maintaining schools, and the govt leasing or renting them. That's been talked about quite a bit previously. [karol: is this the best you can do? Who is "they"? Joyce? He is ...
So endless mindless personal attacks that don't even mention the topic (like the one you just did), are not boring. But anything that shows up hypocrisy of the people you are cheer leading for is. And few things are more hypocritical flying around the ...
Sounds like you're desperately in need of a nice prosperous communist country to call home - is there such a thing?
The left also want to drill it. They still want to fill their car up, so they want some other person, in some other place, to take all the risks for drilling the fuel that they use. The left also want to mine it. They still want tvs and cars and computers,...
Morrissey is probably in his muli-million dollar mansion.
You mean like the 49% of shareholders who got bulldozed by the 51% shareholder in Contact Energy? http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/business/26763/contact-directors%27-fees-to-be-doubled Or Infratil controlling Trustpower with a 51% interest? The 51% ...
Framu - thanks - you just 100% proved my previous post. greywarbler - your perception and reality couldn't be further apart. Anything intelligent to say about Air NZ? No?
Why would the Air NZ shares be a bargain? Air NZ shares have been on the market every day for more than a decade - plenty of time for the market to figure out if the current price is a bargain, or fair market value.
lprent says "Are you suggesting that Labour should not warn investors about the risk that they are taking in participating in National’s selling of taxpayer owned assets and laws?" They didn't with Mighty River. They didn't with Meridian. They haven't with...
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