Posts by Kyle Matthews
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There was a brown face behind the desk at the Wellness Centre. I don't know the actor's name but she's from Shortland St I think.
She looked like too well known an actor just to be given one line for the series, so I wondered if she might have more of a role in future programmes.
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I couldn't get past that the (electric) car was restricted because of carbon credits, but all the doors opened via electricity and everything seemed to be well lit.
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I went into the local tertiary apple store and had a brief play with one at lunch time. Mostly racing cars I'll admit.
Good fun. If it was half the price...
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I'm going to give TINML a couple more weeks to see if it picks up, but I wasn't impressed by last night.
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Did you know that it was a sign that you needed to find food for your avatar? (and if you did, how?).
What a curious experience to play a game that you couldn't understand the cues for.
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I need my Landry fix!
You'll be liking season 4 then.
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I gave up on Friday Night Lights on NZ tv. They showed series 1 at 11pm or something, but I think they showed series 2 at... 1am or something? Not even close to funny. FFS.
I downloaded all four series once Patrick Kane scored the Stanley Cup winning goal for Chicago and my bandwidth got freed up again, watched them over the last month. Really good. I thought season 4 might drop off with the major change looking a bit desperate, but it gets a bit season 1 of the wire and touched on wider social issues and crime and race. Good, way better than the 2004 movie which looks half as long as it should have been in comparison.
Also put me onto a musician called Sufjan Stevens. His album Illinoise is fantastic.
Does anyone know if we're going to be getting Treme?
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Put it another way: the reason to have labour standards, is so that workers have basic welfare. Why should a Filipino die younger so that a New Zealander can afford cheap asthma medicine?
I'm all in favour of labour standards. If there were decent labour and environmental standards I'd be a free trade advocate, rather than thinking it's a nice theory used to screw people.
Labour standards are pretty different from "our standards, and right now", which was what you suggested.
And I don't think you know me well enough to assume that I don't give a shit, given that I said in my post that I did.
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My heart bleeds for us :-)
Will the world fall over if all of a sudden we have to stop importing our clothing and toys and computer parts from some parts of the world? No, there are some alternatives out there, but it might get expensive and damn annoying for everyone.
But what about essentials? Do we tell every asthmatic that there won't be any more medicine for a few months until Pharmac finds a supplier that has a certificate that indicates that they work within NZ's environment and labour laws? Insulin? A thousand other things?
It's an easy chair to sit and just say "we pass a law presto".
I'm fully in favour of there being international labour and environmental standards put into trade agreements and countries that don't meet them being pushed sideways until they do. Signing off a law that did that instantly would be a disaster.
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It would also be very easy to do.
I think it would be easy to do as a parliament. As an importer of goods it would suddenly get a lot more complicated, and no doubt we'd see some things disappear from NZ shelves, at least for a while.