Posts by Sacha
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"Those who have nothing to hide, have nothing to fear."
Ask anyone who utters that sort of statement whether they have curtains at home.
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Naturally the Onion said that much better..
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What's the deal with 4Square? Is there actually a point to it
It's just another tacky FlyBuys "loyalty" scheme - deals for frequent users, free beers.
Adding elements like 'Mayor' probably appeals to the image-obsessed urbanites who the service started with in NY. I wonder which areas have greatest uptake here?
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most prefer drugs
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expect a queue
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Timely tweet from the awesome fake folk at BPGlobalPR:
Yes, we disabled the alarms on the Deepwater Horizon. Oh, like you've never hit the snooze button? http://ow.ly/2fQ6x
The linked Guardian story reports:
Williams said he discovered that the physical alarm system had been disabled a full year before the disaster. When he asked why, he said he was told that the view from even the most senior Transocean official on the rig had been that "they did not want people woken up at three o'clock in the morning due to false alarms".
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life's rich tap history
gold
small town NZ Gothic unease that Sam Neill championed
I thought he hated it?
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Or I'm told there's the "get it over all at once" line of thought - to say nothing of the "wouldn't it be great if he had a playmate?" angle..
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I was in a stay off my lawn mood. Can see how curmudgeonly codgers like his Garthness got their start..
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More uncritically parroted bullshit from the Herald.
Mr English said his Government had sought to address this challenge "by way of a substantial tax reform programme, a multi-billion dollar infrastructure programme, sorting out the Government's finances which were left in a mess, improving skills and education, and cutting red tape".
Uh huh. "Improving skills and education" by cutting funding to them.
"Left in a mess" is not how most would describe the paid down government debt that allowed this country to escape the fate of others during the global financial collapse - and left room for English to blow the bank borrowing for tax cuts for the richest New Zealanders.
When will editors and journalists stop letting cynical and unambitious politicians and business "leaders" bleat that this country is afflicted with red tape when for a long time now we have rated in the top handful of easiest business environments in the world?
Not hard to fact check such utterances rather than breathlessly rushing them to print - but that could clash with the ideology a tad. Might also require some basic competence.