Posts by Sacha
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They all do traffic shaping - and some more than others.
Woof -
It was like some surreal art thing
As was the accompanying tweet
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From the VeryShortStory twitterstream:
Not one to follow directions, Jack snorted the magic beans. That's when his troubles started.
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You can only recycle vegetarians in those ones
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Genius. Brownlee really is shaping up as our own Sarah Palin, isn't he. If someone published his mindfart (sent up beautifully by Keith, further fisked elsewhere) verbatim, many rational foreigners would naturally think it was satire.
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Absolutely!
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Not another Girls High survivor?
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if I can hide underneath it, it's not a postcard
Heh.
No doubt Brownlee is sincere in his belief that mining is an ideal way to improve the country's economic wellbeing. Wrong, but genuine.
Labour MP David Shearer decries the poverty of vision.
Sadly, it’s more clutching at straws, trying to emulate Australia which we’re trying to catch. It’s ad hoc, quick fix, get rich quick. It’s short termism, shows a real lack of imagination, an absence of anything strategic, forward thinking or sustainable.
What we are not seeing is that Australia is not content to rely on its minerals. It’s investing in science – upping its investment by 25%. It’s giving breaks to innovative companies. Finland, Denmark, Singapore are all doing similarly.
NZ will not become prosperous overnight. It needs long term thinking, a commitment to capitalising on our brains and building innovation into our economy through our brightest companies. We need to be clean, green and clever.
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That fine sentiment lasted until they realised there was serious chance of the left winning the election. And tired neolib wackiness about separating thinking from doing came into play. Oh, and some empire-building.
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"I'm hiring you to provide transport, not to subject me to your warped view of the world"
I've never had trouble with taxi drivers talking politics or talkback unless asked. This may come as no surprise..