Posts by Kyle Matthews
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National will contrive seats for Peter Dunne and Act’s Epsom candidate David Seymour
I really don't get why they would with Act. If Act are getting their butts kicked in Epsom, their party vote is going to fall significantly. Most of that vote will flow through to National. If Act were to get 1% with National, and National dumped them, I'd guess National would get close to half of that. Some of the rest would go to other parties, but much would just lower the total number of party votes so National gets close to half of that as well.
Losing less than half a percent of the party vote doesn't seem such a cost to pay for clearing all the space to your right and not having your image tarnished by the pile of dung that Act has made themselves over the past few years.
It might, however, bring back un-voters, who (unlike me) can’t really stomach environmentalism.
I'm not even sure what that means.
To say that we shouldn’t be so much in dairy, when dairy is what NZ does best, is very close to talking up contracting the economy and making a lot of people unemployed, well in excess of any substantiated Green jobs proposals I’ve ever seen
You know that being good in dairy is something that we've made ourselves? It's not outside the realm of possibility that we could make ourselves good in some other things that are less environmentally harmful.
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Net immigration to Britain, just 48,000 in 1997, rose to 148,000 in 1998, and advanced even more sharply thereafter.
"net immigration" doesn't feel like a logical phrase to me, though I note it's used a lot on the internet. How can there be a net value to something going one way?
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No, I don’t think the DoS is in the habit of publishing deliberate misinformation. But the numbers you cited are very strongly influenced by historical immigration laws and business conditions that no longer apply. They can’t be used to generalise about current migration rates and they’ll look quite different as the earlier years drop out of the 20-year period.
Seems like one of you is talking about net migration, and one about migration. They're pretty different figures.
And I don't think that evolutionary psychologists have any place in this debate. If evolutionary psychologists proved that there were evolutionary bases for rape and murder, would we just accept those? Be nice if we could step above Darwinism a little.
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No disgrace in leaving before the encore.
The whole encore phenomenon drive me nuts. Artists that do two or three I want to throw things at.
That is all.
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Here we are. A rare surviving screenshot of x-Ville. I’ve looked for this image several times and this little gif is all there was.
Christ. Serious flashbacks, and I never used Xtra.
Can anyone else here claim an active 18 year old email address?
21 years in a few months. Though it helped that I work at the same place I went to uni.
And ihug flat rate accounts changed my life. Fantastic.
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This is me in 1996 protesting in Wellington as part of a university student bus trip, nicely taken by the Herald. Fantastic year in which I did a lot of great things, not many to do with university study.
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How about green tea
A lot less. Tea uses much more of the plant than coffee. And tea plants grow close together I think. Might only be a couple of square metres to feed your tea habit.
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Just been watching Russia vs Korea in Sledge Ice Hockey. Really good stream, great web site, as good to watch as the main olympics on Sky.
I'm on a teleconference tomorrow night and am going to see if we can get a couple of those ice hockey sledges into the country for people to try.
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Unfortunately, I'm also a sports fan, which means I won't be able to dump Sky any time soon ...
I'm wondering if sky have protections on their isky to prevent multiple households logging in at once on one account. Half a dozen people could contribute to a sky subscription and pick up the sports that way (my computer displays quite well on my tv) and then use apple tv etc for everything else.
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Sorry Maggie B, but there are many reputable studies which question the validity of the copy cat effect.
An interesting discussion. Yes the coroner has questioned this and there's been a discussion about changing the media guidelines. But should media (if David's column is to be considered as such) just ignore the guidelines in the interim and publish details? Isn't that possibly just stumbling from one thing that doesn't appear to be working, into another thing that may or may not work better?
