Posts by rodgerd
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The basic tenet remains. If you can't afford it, don't buy it.
If you can't afford and buy it anyway (regardless of motivation for doing so), then you really don't have anyone to blame but yourself if you suddenly find yourself in trouble.
Well, yes and no. "Somewhere to live" isn't a luxury good, and the scarcity isn't artificial. "Don't buy" is great advice until ownership drops to the point where the only defence against having your income rack-rented out of you is government legislation, with various attendant problems (see: New York).
I heard that sentiment expressed many, many times over the last four or five years.
Well, that one's true, up to a point. My house was something I could just afford when I picked it up 7 years ago. I couldn't have even a couple of years later, and not at all now.
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We get to come here and play around on the best blog site in NZ, and you're too damned stingy to watch the ads in return for all the entertainment?
Hey, there are people on PA willing to argue that a musician earning $10k for an album is an overpaid fatcat.
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The OS/browser numbers are interesting compared to an NZ bank I have numbers for. The visitors here are definitely Firefox/Mac heavy.
And no OS/2 or PSP/PS3 users? Man, people use that to do their banking, why not read PA?
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it was a person with mental health issues losing their self-control, not religious zealots wanting to become martyrs.
Being more concerned by religious zealots than the mentally ill seems pretty reasonable to me. When people are mentally ill society says it's OK to treat them and, if need be, stick them somewhere where they're less likely to hurt themselves or others.
When religious zealots march on parliament in blackshirts giving clenched-fist salutes and demanding the elimination of various segments of society, the leaders of political parties curry their favour.
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I have a sinking feeling they'll have no option but to do something.
Well, Paul "Full of Shit" Henry was certainly putting on a bravura performance to that effect last night. Honestly, the guy he had on for the 'interview' might as well not have been there. I thought Paul Holmes was bad, but I see we've now lurched to the O'Reilly school of broadcasting, where guests are just there to shut up and be yelled at by some pig-ignorant fuckwit.
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So it turns out Russell's correct about Iti, but missed the bit where TVNZ is underwriting his photo op with Key.
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I'm often staggered by the number of people (smart people as well) who haven't got the faintest idea about how the media works, what drives a journalist to write a particular story from a particular angle or indeed what the limits are...
Buy a stack of Mr Pratchett's The Truth and hand them out...
there's real value for the technical people especially in being able to say to a small group of their peers "here's what we're working on"
Man, I wish. Client confidentiality is a bitch when it concerns Cool Stuff 8)
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A law change - sounds good to me. What about if a person is drunk, then the onus is on the other person to show he or she had reasonable grounds to believe the first person had consented
Well, does that mean if a drunk driver crashes into me, I should be prosecuted for not being better at avoiding them?
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Final word: I probably qualify as a tribal Labour voter, but I'm not as horrified as some people by the possibility of a change of government.
I'd be a lot more comfortable if it was English in charge and worthless 90s turds like Williamson were long gone.
And as for poor-taste images and two-faced whiners, one need not wonder too hard what the reaction would be if David Farrar's local giant billboard with a pic of Mao and a suggestion the Greens are _just like him_ was, say, Mussolini and Rodney Hide, or Goebbels and Tony Ryall.
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How about we start exporting children? There's a burgeoning market among US celebrities.
I'd rather export boomers and wrinklies, myself. They voted the country into generations of debt already, and my kids and grandchildren-yet-to-be could do without them stuffing it up any further.