Posts by Rich of Observationz
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In Polo you can play in multiple different teams in separate tournaments.
Since they have several simultaneous tournaments, and a handicapping scheme that encourages a mix of different ability players on the same team, a player can play with and against the same person in one afternoon.
The only restriction is that you normally can't switch teams in a tournament.
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I submitted on the Liquor Bill:
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Not if it were owned by the people for the people, as God intended
I'm pretty sure all electrons belong to the Estate of Michael Faraday, by right of discovery.
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And another thing!
Retail electricity "markets" are intrinsically bogus. There's only one set of wires in the country, so you get the same power as the guy next door, no matter who you pay for it. If you get cheap power, it's at the expense of someone else.
What should happen is that which generators run hour-by-hour is decided according to a fossil fuel minimisation and security of supply algorithm. Then the generator owners get paid according to fuel costs + capital costs + a reasonable operating fee. The total cost gets divided by national power consumption, which sets the price everyone pays.
Ok, so it doesn't create an ecosystem of traders, marketing people and website sponsorship, but it would minimise carbon emissions and keep prices down.
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On topic #1, I'd suggest the following partisan view:
- For most people, the main problem with the recession is that a lot of people who had productive jobs a year ago don't now.
- Loosening fiscal policy, increasing borrowing and maintaining public spending would help rectify that
- Again, for most people, the only bad effect of that would be that when normality eventually comes around, interest rates and taxes will be a bit higher in order to pay down the debt. So they'd have a bit less spending money in the future in return for security now.
- For NACTs core supporters, they actually *want* high unemployment, so they can pay their staff less. They've got enough cash stashed away to weather the downturn and still keep the yacht and beach houses. A bit of pork from the government (motorway building, stadiums, etc) and they're sweet.
- The rich would suffer a bit from higher debt and taxes, because they would have to pay higher interest rates and might actually run the risk of paying some tax as well.
- NACTs focus isn't to make things better for ordinary people, it's to protect the position of the rich. So taxes stay up (for most people) and public spending comes down.
I guess people wanted a change.
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Given that TVNZ pays the taxpayer a dividend, isn't Russell funding the taxpayer, rather than the other way?
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I thought Dave Podmore was in semi-retirement as the paid pro of Little Pissingham.
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Is Autotune going to be integrated into Singstar in the future?
Also, I see another application in auto-karaoke where the real vocals are detuned and distorted automatically, saving people who can't sing the trouble.
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I know people aren't meant to edit their own Wikipedia entries, even to correct misconceptions about being Timarawegian.
But if Russell were to write his biog on here and license it under Creative Commons, somebody could cut and paste it onto Wikipedia with a reference back, and it would be all sweet.
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I can understand the name "New Munter" - they must have spent a few nights out in Christchurch eh!