Posts by Greg Dawson
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OnPoint: On Price Gouging, in reply to Rochelle,
That’s a whole ’nother argument.
At this point I think it’s been a week of things being well…messed up.
There’s a certain absent emotive content in that construction.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
And, as the year wears on, if New Zealanders are looking for stability – at this stage only “National outright” can provide that.
No ship is more stable than the one resting on the bottom...
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Can anyone make head or tail of what Jim Hopkins is on about?
I might be being too sensitive, but I got the impression he was winding up to make a link between the quake and global warming, and how both were nothing to do with people.
ETA: I should say this interpretation was probably influenced by the wider oeuvre of Hopkins.
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Up Front: Ups and Downs. And Side-to-Sides., in reply to Lilith __,
Not sure if the Pope would agree, but I think this counts a a miracle.
Hey, the Pope knows hardware and would definitely count that. He founded Mitre Ten.
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I don't understand the need to cancel rather than postpone.
The myriad of uses for up-to-date statistical information, in the midst of a crisis and a recession...argh it just doesn't make sense.
However while I'd love to believe it is because they are not interested in facts intruding on their policies, it's almost certainly a case of stupid rather than evil.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Andre Alessi,
Elijah Wood tweeted a link a US-based website with 35 photos.
I hadn't seen this one before. It is quite nice.
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Australian news have repeated the before-after picture swipes they did for the flooding in Queensland, with Christchurch snaps.
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Up Front: Ups and Downs. And Side-to-Sides., in reply to recordari,
As you were. Goat bleating over.
Careful, those cultists from the other thread will hear you.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I think the gibberish is not optional, but we could sub in goat cheese and some good olives.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Gareth Ward,
I just don't get how it got into what appear to be so small pieces :(
The PGC building, you can see that it was a building before, and what shape it was roughly. CTV, not so much. Gah.