Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
Ah. I trust the moderated world consensus via the IPCC. Take it up with them rather than waste our time here with outliers who deny what's going on.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
a very respected scientist
name?
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Hard News: This is your public broadcasting, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
don’t really have anything you could describe as public service television in New Zealand anymore
ahem. Maori TV
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one tips one's hat
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Russell Brown,
no one's tried grazing Herefords on permafrost tundra yet. QED.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Similarly, wilful polluters need to not just be billed the real and actual costs of cleaning up their messes but also fined a punitive sum so large that it makes the cost of doing the right thing attractive.
When Auckland was bowling many of our historic buildings in the brave 1980s, the heritage building Browns Mill was illegally destroyed overnight, resulting in a desultory $5000 fine. I recall mention of what would have happened in more enlighted Germany: the demolisher required to pay heritage experts to reassemble the building brick by brick, and then cop a hefty fine. But here that would be 'unfair' to our oppressed heroes, the developers. Let Christchurch be our example instead.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to BenWilson,
Yes, that third eye is actually quite fetching, on an older man.
bravo
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to DexterX,
the costs and harm that result are not met by the people profiting from the risk taking
Which requires regulation to create a functioning market. Instead we get 'relaxation' in the name of progress. Go, Jetsons.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to mark taslov,
tell them it's a certain filmstar's NZ wedding and I'm sure they'll oblige.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
For the same reason many of our businesses have just hired more bodies rather than investing in infrastructure or smartness - lack of confidence and a slanted playing field towards more of the same. The very opposite of the 'ambition' the current mob promised.