Posts by George Darroch
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These points may be true, but looking at the present Auckland City Council logo it's hard to be inspired by the professional design industry. The last logo the ACC had was just fine, in my (layman's) opinion.
I suppose, however, that a great many logos do their job so well that we don't really notice them.
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Hide has a point.
I correct myself. Rodney is a man of well rounded policies - and pi will have to be rounded - and opposed to points.
And p comes in points, after all.
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"It's never easy to deal with closed-minded people," he admits sadly. "A case in point would be John Key. I have it on good authority that he's never sniffed anything stronger than PVA. Some people might ask whether a person like that has the clarity of thought to be prime minister -- I know it's something that's certainly a concern to me."
And yet we still follow this pied piper. Hide has a point.
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I only read the Listener for the pictures.
Do they still have Jane Ussher?
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For those of us whose communities are *literally* being wiped out by inhalant abuse, making light of the problem in this way is insulting.
I believe that the correct term is Wipe Out™ed.
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Besides every dollar we spend on this thing is another hip replacement we can't afford right?
I thought we were after a hip replacement for the current mess?
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Secondly, I don't see why, if the cruise ship industry feels better facilities are needed, it can't build and pay for them itself. Why does it need a public subsidy? Some NZ industries, like IT, manage fine without public handouts. Tourism (in particular) seems to be different.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I'm of the understanding that Queens Wharf is currently owned by ARC through Ports of Auckland. Ultimately it's a taxpayer concern. If Hide gets his way all of the waterfront will be sold and then it will be a private business decision.
There might be cause to recoup some of the costs from cruise ship owners in the way Auckland Airport pays for improvements, but unlike the airline business cruise ships tend to be highly mobile - they're likely to balk at any great costs and berth in Lyttleton or Wellington instead, or avoid NZ for other Pacific destinations.
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ACT: keeping hardworking businessmen in solvent since 1994.
Hide has great solutions.
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Would that be, err, blowing up the pi? Wealthier communities together.
You need more than three dolars in your pocket for that.
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Let's get on with it. We need a decent cruise ship facility and public open space on Queens Wharf.
Hang on, there are three different things there. We need a decent cruise ship facility. We need quality public open (and, I would argue covered) space on the waterfront. And we have Queens wharf.
Obviously ships need to tie up somewhere, but it isn't a given for me that we rush into throwing all those needs together into one design. It is my experience that the more objectives you try to make a project fulfill, the less likely it is to fulfill any of those to a high level.