Posts by mark taslov
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Hard News: We ... WHAT!?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I don’t see how any reasonable person could say Key’s diction was at issue here.
Indeed. For what was the rewind button invented if not this?
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Some added context here: Top 10: Please show your ID
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Hard News: Leaf and Tips, in reply to Russell Brown,
That all sounds good to me. I'm liking the way you're stepping up on this issue this year Russell, good on you. When my sister was busted by her school at 15, she was ordered to receive counselling and suspended for a fortnight, +1/-1.
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Hard News: Leaf and Tips, in reply to Richard Aston,
(Richard)? Some people are more susceptible to psychosis. How are we as a society prepared to help them?
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Hard News: Leaf and Tips, in reply to Richard Aston,
So how do we regulate for that ?
The more pertinent question being why would you want to regulate for that? How do we regulate for that with alcohol? Prolonged use causes psychosis in selected users. Surely the ideal endgame for a progressive developed society is one where the greater majority are sufficiently educated and empowered to make responsible decisions regarding their own health, regardless of any progress in society as a whole there will always be casualties.
One would hope that this developed society is one where the police aren't charged with destroying flora and fauna and charging the gardeners. Certainly a society where we stop expecting politicians to make these very personal choices for us would be a start, education and socialization being both our closest allies and our worst enemies.
While the environmental impact of this bust is minimal, the very simple fact that another 80 photosynthesizers bought it as the hands of strikingly unskilled photographers highlights quite readily that there is a plethora of employment opportunities out there for those with lowered IQ and that this low-hang is clearly rife. It could also be argued that an IQ surplus in an employment sector geared primarily for tourism and agriculture could be a contributing factor to the wastrel mentality.
Clearly age restrictions on alcohol do nothing to diminish (and arguably do enhance) its attractiveness and desirability to the young: there being less youth huffers than youth drinkers.
Random thoughts aside, it feels incredibly generous to categorize the core issues here as much more than a well orchestrated international campaign of misinformation and herbicide.
Andin, your still going to hell ;)
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Hard News: The question of Afghanistan…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
The terrain is impossible. That's one of the things that divides the country into so many segments.
It's the reason historically armies stopped before incorporating Afganistan into whatever empire they happened to be forming at the time.
Hasn't stopped them Kiwis, brave little blighters.
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they should do that by issuing equal shares in these dams to every taxpayer. Then we could sell them off as we saw fit, to pay off the debts we have, or we could keep them, make money out of them,
But first check, will your grandchildren also be issued shares? Surely it would be more egalitarian to not issue shares and instead use this profit(?) to subsidize the cost of electricity. Not that I disagree with the thrust of your ideology here Ben. But a sentence like
"They should also be forced to save money."
doesn't seem so far adrift from the ideology that national proposes in these welfare reforms. To my way of thinking, sound governance need not involve telling people what to do with their money as much as creating an environment in which it's harder not to save money.
Although I strongly agree on your insistence on taking back what is yours Ben, New Zealand First's pledge to de-float the NZ dollar is an obvious first step in reclaiming economic control, and in turn providing a platform for a better quality of life.As for these proposed welfare reforms, my impression is that they sound horrendous. Certainly they would discourage me from seeking welfare. I think in this day and age there are viable alternatives in the form of online work with minimal training. Encouraging people to seek out those alternatives doesn't seem such a bad step for the national economy in terms of bringing money into the country. But these proposals are not decent
Global employment opportunities are growing by the day. But as the attractiveness of these opportunities is reliant on a healthy exchange rate and by proxy an attractive CPI rating, both of which are currently more or less beyond the Government's grip. the untethered waka is as yet no tūrangawaewae.
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They cancelled the sheep run, kept the docking ring, and prescribe abstinence. Hazardous.
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The lines that DCBCauchi refers to are drawn all the time, but they are notoriously hard to define in universal terms.
The footer of the bill draws the line.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to DCBCauchi,
choose art.