Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: What you lookin' at?, in reply to Myles Thomas,
Equally the TVNZ commissioners work in a deeply commercial, precarious and risk averse environment. That is created by pressure from their bosses who are under huge pressure in turn from their shareholders, the government, to make as many $$$ as possible
One might almost say they are in 'unchartered' waters...
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Hard News: The flagging referendum, in reply to nzlemming,
Am I alone in reading loaded language here?
Hell, no - that's chalk and cheese
- New flag = uplifting positive
old flag = tired and drab
- it may as well be NLP (neuro linguistic programming)!The designer’s intent is that the multiple points of the fern leaf represent Aotearoa’s peaceful, multicultural society, a single fern spreading upwards representing one people growing onward into the future.
If that's what he really wanted to do he would have included the inherent fractal nature of a fern frond's structure - it appalls me that Maggie Barry (allegedly a garden expert) thinks that that 'cartoon leaf' represents a silver fern.
as it is it looks more like that invasive Australian fishbone fern ( it is also indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands - seemingly like Key - the American Frond?) - see above
and anyway someone should have told him about that most appealing of ferns The Pony Tail fern! -
telling vision...
Have to say the shorts/promos for filthy Rich put me right off, so haven't bothered - I also saw half an hour of The People v OJ Simpson and was appalled at how wooden it was - David Schwimmer and Cuba Gooding Jr looked like they were reading lines taped on other actors or out of shot, with the emotional range of a gas stove - maybe that was the intent - I read a lot of books these days instead - but it is all different strokes for different folks.Maybe they will finally make David Lynch's Mulholland Drive into the series it was supposed to be...
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Hard News: The flagging referendum, in reply to Rae Sott,
the representative colours being principally black and blue. Then again, maybe some of you think it is an appropriate colour combination to represent the country.
Well it has been a bruising process...
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Polity: Booze review! Brewday IV, in reply to Julian Melville,
I’m hoping the limbics were actually lambics?
That limbic is a nervy little drop, keeps you totally wired...
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Hard News: The flagging referendum, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
...when there are thousands of refugees in Syria on the point of death?
Now you are just being obtuse, if not a wilful denigrator - what good are we to others if we can't look after our own first?
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Hard News: The flagging referendum, in reply to JLM,
the flutter buy…
that’s pretty conclusive evidence
Plus:
He signed the TPPA under a ‘false flag’ – dispensing with his usual silver fern lapel pin and wearing a Kyle Lockwood design instead, he wears it a lot nowadays – surely must constitute ‘electioneering’ – in fact I notice that the posters advertising this heavily politicised 2nd round of voting don’t carry a promoter name and address (Just the elections.org logo)Key photo Source
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Up Front: Five, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Not much evidence of it among the comfortably-remunerated central planners, whose vision rarely seems to extend beyond ensuring their second pension.
But they do seem to have the concept of healthy 'bedding' in their repertoire - shame it is only 'featherbedding'...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/77283257/cera-spends-100000-on-melbourne-business-school-trainingSince July 2015, Cera has sent five managers on residential-based programmes at the school's Mt Eliza campus, despite the organisation disbanding in April.
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The Young Ones...
Beer fetcher service
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firtive activity...?
This story on the Australian/American Pine Gap spy base popped up on Stuff's front page menus this morning and has now disappeared from plain view (it is buried in the Australia section) ....
I wonder why?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/77346076/rare-glimpse-at-the-secrets-of-australias-pine-gap-spy-basebased on this report:
http://nautilus.org/briefing-books/australian-defence-facilities/pine-gap/the-pine-gap-project/
