Posts by Rob S
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I wouldn't be surprised to find that the USA wouldn't be too worried about these free trade talks dragging on forever. Getting included means that they can now stall/stop any agreement that goes against their interests. There seems to be an element of US IP that is rentier in nature and wouldn't like copywright and patent law to be freer.
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Key is too mainstream to be a cheese with any real character even an ordinary blue vein displays more elan than I associate with him. I expect that He's relaxed about that however
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OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Q, If John Key were a cheese. ..............hmmmm
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Speaker: Why the disaster in Japan made…, in reply to BenWilson,
no more getting beached in the middle of the Waitemata Harbour for me (but that's another pratfall).
Between Pt Chev & Te Atatu or the upper reaches?
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Front page of the Herald has me cancelling my sub.
I know they have resorted to carcrash/overseasblondspoisoned/fires & etc as attention grabbers but the latest just sickens me and I believe the motives are pure cynicism to sell there increasingly vapid rag.
Did the childs family know about and give permission for the photo to be used in such a way?
It's a shame as one of my pleasures has been the morning coffee and newspaper combo.
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There is no protection for holders of Whitcoulls vouchers. All of those plastic cards loaded up with money and given out as christmas/birthday presents to doted on offspring etc might already be worthless as happened with a recent collapse in the music industry. Submissions in regard of this have been made to the relevant minister as the consumer guarantees act is under review [don't hold your breath] . All funds put into such card schemes should be held in a trust fund or similar so that they can't be wiped out with no recompense. These voucher schemes are a cheap loan to the issuers with no security. I admit they are one way of directing how the money gets spent but an exchange card is currently a better option. I suspect millions of dollars are involved. Sorry for the tangent!
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Rich Lock,
I spit on managed funds, they're for the benefit of the managers not the investors. My preference would be for tracker funds for less hands on types and let the more savvy types invest directly in specific shares as they desire. One wonders if share traders had to nominate their purchases a few days in advance whether this would dampen down some of the market volatility as they'd be taking a [comparatively] longer term view of the market. Probably good reasons out there showing why this isn't desirable or practical.
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Rich Lock,
Sorry to say but shares have done very well over the last 1.5-2 years. Better than cash. Not long after our financial geniuses on the treasury benches slowed down payments to the 'Cullen fund' ensuring that any pick up from the bottom of the market would be missed.
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House painting,
BFM,sunblock and cold beer at days end.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to giovanni tiso,
He'd have to cheat there is only 1 z on a scrabble board. Perhaps Zbigniew and that calls for the innovation of personal names.