Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
on a policy that hasn't been enacted
People do respond to announced intent, not just implementation - even lawyers.
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The "100%" tagline is topical because of its trumpeting in Hobbit-related promotion - including imagery of tourists frolicking in rivers that clashes with the recent reports about 50% of our waterways being too polluted for that.
I can imagine that may have got up Dr Joy's nose, especially with the ongoing government-backed shennanigans around his filthy local Manawatu River, as Gareth Morgan's article noted.
Our unsustainable environmental practices go back far further, but it's quite fair for people to point to our current government gutting the ETS, making pro-development changes to our RMA and Local Government laws, canning the State of the Environment reports and pulling out of Kyoto, then wonder how our diminished reputation will affect both tourism and export markets looking for any excuse to block our goods. Trade Minister Groser was apoplectic on the 6pm news last night about the 'treachery' of discussing this. He and his 'shoot-the-messenger' colleagues do not seem to have been thinking it through.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
my emphasis - to show the head in the sand approach immediately adopted
I read it as humour. Ministry response, not so much.
Seen several stories now about access permission problems with the system, but not clear if that's technology failure or the human systems around it. Both covered by contract, surely.
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to BenWilson,
Something I instantly recognized in Te Papa
how cool
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to FletcherB,
Those "pre-historic" special effects were, at the time so advanced they were the subject of TV documentaries
They had to build the equipment themselves. This doco segment shows that team (up to 5 min mark):
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Hard News: The Velvet Underground Etc., in reply to Simon Grigg,
'real music' = jazz & classical
Marbecks queens arcade #bye
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to Harry Musgrave,
HUGE spaceship was awesome
indeed
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James Dann's explanation of the conference's reality-distorting properties seems plausible.
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Hard News: Triangulated by Fools, in reply to Keir Leslie,
All good. Overall party strategy and positioning are usually separate from individual policies. More of a comms/governance function, if you will.
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Hard News: Triangulated by Fools, in reply to Keir Leslie,
In terms of short-run political tactics, there’s a bunch of gossip about who’s behind what initiative and who wrote what
you're joking - so party members don't know who is setting strategy?