Posts by Rich of Observationz
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please avoid using the words “National”, “Green”, “Mana”, and “Maori"
A pity, because I wanted to discuss driving in a [redacted] car whilst listening to [redacted] radio on my way through Plimmerton to [redacted] to visit a [redacted] friend.
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If you do wind up with a house in the dead zone (where presumably services aren't going to be fixed), would the council prevent you from putting in a septic-tank system? If properly installed, they work well, in my experience.
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Hard News: Perception and reality in the…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
I believe a lot of the success of liberalism in Continental Europe is rooted in an association of authoritarian policies with Nazism and Soviet communism. The generation that experienced occupation or domination by the Nazis and Soviets tended to react against this and support liberal ideas.
Since no significant part of the anglosphere was occupied, we didn’t benefit from this “inoculation”.
Unfortunately, that’s dying out with the 1940’s generation – reactionary forces (often associated with powerful media and financial interests) are succeeding in scaring continental Europeans into intolerant social attitudes.
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I wonder what Hubbard will get, if convicted. I bet he'll do less than two years - for (allegedly) stealing the best part of $500 from everyone in NZ.
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One of TripMe's members has even gone to so far as encouraging users to harden up and deal with the odd panic attack rather than adding to the ED statistics and spoiling it for everyone else.
I'm not about to click that link at work.
But there might be a modicum of logic in that. Getting the user f..d up to some degree is what drugs are *meant* to do. It's by design. People shouldn't trouble busy medics with something that's going to pass (un)naturally. (There might a significance in the way panicked reports from casualty departments tend to be from backwaters like Nelson - the average K-Rd kid and their mates are probably better able to accept that they're just tripping-out and don't require medical attention).
Those angel people do a good job, too, but I haven't seen any for a while.
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feckless suburban dairy owners.
As in some poor sod who’s struggled to escape poverty/war/dictatorship somewhere in South Asia (said issues being something that we in the developed world can take a lot of the blame for). They’ve managed to move here and found that their qualifications are useless, most employers won’t look at people without “NZ experience” and their best bet is some form of self-employment that works around that.
So they put all their cash together and manage to buy a corner shop and work all hours trying to carve out a niche against corporations and multinationals with the power of bulk-buying and cross subsidy. Are you surprised that they might want to sell anything that’s legal and people want to buy?
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to Hebe,
You might wind up with some sort of temporary / permanent autonomous zone springing up in areas abandoned by Authoritah.
People would need to be prepared to create their own services though, septic tanks, generators and water storage / collection. No different to living in the bush, though.
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I don't quite understand this "abandonment" thing.
Sure, there will be earthquakes for some time, *but* (and a seismologist can correct me here) I know of nowhere on earth that has experienced continuous significant earthquakes on an indefinite basis. So the earth will calm down in a while and we could see no more quakes for hundreds of years.
Why then are chunks of the city being abandoned in favour of greenfield development in places that might well get hit by a future quake? (albeit they are presumably less prone to liquefaction). The Wellington CBD (and airport) is built on reclaimed sandy soil - isn't that going to be prone to liquefaction when the Big One strikes? But we aren't abandoning it and rebuilding on Mt Vic.
Is this a profit-driven exercise - the government is helping their mates to make lots of money by building a new city on farmland?
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Russell Brown,
Maybe not Mao's China or Pol Pot's Kampuchea. Proust would have been slaughtered, on general principles.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Alastair Jamieson,
Must be for America - on that basis we would have only 18 PR people and 5 journos in the whole country.
No wonder people have trouble getting jobs..