Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: A plea for sanity on the…, in reply to Andre,
This was just a classic:
"Older people will all recall from their own lives how black and white and now-focused young people tend to be".Quite. Easy to see which of Gen Zero or Grey Power are thinking of a future for others, not just themselves.
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Thanks so much for this post Russell.
Fear is an understandable response to change, and it deserves far better handling than we're getting. Whoever 'managed' the comms for this whole draft UP process needs a spanking. Channeling my inner parent today. :)
The Ministry of Education already does quite sophisticated population modelling and land-banking for new schools. Cooperation with Council planners at that operational level is probably fine, but this current Cabinet really need to act like grown-ups rather than oafish brats. The transport funding distortion is appalling.
Councils have the hard task of balancing the interests of businesses, developers, other organisations, and current citizens with future ones who don't get a vote. A million extra residents in this case.
Auckland already shows the impact of decades of short-sighted development (like a harbour bridge needing extra lanes added straight away, a crucial rail network link planned but not build for a century, and creaking sewers making our harbours unswimmable).
We must also do extra to meet challenges like peak oil that have been poorly explained but mean big changes in lifestyle for everyone whether they like it now or not. Shortchanging our children and grandchildren is downright stupid and disrespectful.
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom and the GCSB, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Hager's revelations years ago about the extent of Echelon's activities should make this no surprise at all.
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OnPoint: What Andrew Geddis Said, But…, in reply to hotfrog,
Coordination is no longer only either top-down or bottom-up, but is essential for change - and for making sure political parties have good candidates to vote for. Otherwise us grassroots all ending up wanting the same rain but not knowing how to get it.
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Duncan tells me Hall does use his own products, but in oral, rather than smokable form
Did wonder if there are less damaging ways than smoking to ingest these new substances - much like decriminalising the real thing would allow vaporisers and suchlike to help reduce harm.
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Hard News: Modelling Behaviour, in reply to Ross Bell,
Aw. I need to watch the rest of it. Wasn't in the mood for the style.
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Hard News: The Messenger God, in reply to Lilith __,
handy both ways :)
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Hard News: Modelling Behaviour, in reply to Chip Matthews,
turned me off
same.
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Metro editor Simon Wilson paints a word-picture of what our future St Heliers and Quay St might be like.
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Nice topic. Our Hermes of human form include the likes of Pellegrino Turri, inadvertent inventor of the CC in email a couple of centuries ago.
What motivated him to create the first typewriter, along with carbon paper? The desire to communicate with his blind lover. I'm confident you can find something lyrical in that.