Posts by Gareth Ward
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Also, don't you realise this is the internet? Specifically the NZ blogosphere? You don't admit that you may have been working under false assumptions - you grow increasingly hostile and tangential to the mounting body of evidence.
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Ah, now I follow even more so after your Retracted. I was labouring under the un-researched rough assumption that rate alignment would be paid for by depreciation/LAQC changes and therefore GST changes could be neutral with compensation.
If they do that - 30% rate alignment paid for with depreciation changes and ringfencing of losses, with a rise in GST matched with a $5-6000 tax free income threshold I'd actually be pretty impressed (sorry, that may not go down too well here*). But after the massive overestimate, underdeliver of today I don't feel like they're going to go that far. But perhaps I'm being negative without even giving them the chance.
*Although my rough guess is that most people would pay about the same total individual tax under that model, just in slightly cleaner, more transparent ways and it would remove weird property and trust distortions
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Sorry, don't follow? You're saying raising GST will receive $2.89b. And you'd have to give $1b back through the tax system.
Where's the issue exactly?Edit: Sorry, I follow now - the across-the-board cut required to give a $1b back to the lower 50% would cost a lot more than $2.89b as the cut would also extend to the upper 50%.
Interesting...[Keith: My bad. Edited to make it clearer.]
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Wow, I wanted to read it, I really did. But I couldn't get past the first two paragraphs that state the war on drugs is a given (makes it a bit difficult to assess alternatives I would have thought), puts quote marks to belittle otherwise quite upstanding adjectives and then makes awful rape comparisons.
Points to all of you that had the stomach to continue...
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For a while now all the rumours around iPhone OS4.0 have been that it will multitask. And this thing runs the iPhone OS. So my money would be on the next OS release making this thing run multitask. I suspect it was waiting for that OS actually (this fancy chip etc seems well and truly ready for it) but perhaps the pressure to release it and some delays in the iPhone OS team meant they went a little early.
And it really doesn't need USB and HDMI etc. It's meant to be a second computer - specifically for the "I got a netbook to sit on the couch" crowd. A lounging computer as I called it elsewhere. It doesn't even really need 3G in that model although I now accept being able to take it out with you could be quite useful at times. But it's not really ideal as a mobile computer and I don't think they want it to be.
I don't want one atm because my Macbook Pro fills both the main computer and lounging computer niche in one. And it needs to either come with Click2Flash or similar and absolutely should wifi sync to fulfill that second computer focus properly. But hey, go and look up an image of the first gen iPod.
But if I could have an iMac in the study, Airport Express hooked into the lounge stereo, and an iPad running that iTunes Remote application then that would be a better home computing setup for GarethAverage than much else I can think of. -
Re Rode - I don't know much about bikes, but the Pashley bikes they link off their website? Man, gooooorgeous.
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Insightful analysis of a subject that I find truly interesting, but all I can think is... man, those are some perty graphs!
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Preventive detention is just a way of giving life sentences to those who commit offences that don't carry life sentences.
Intriguing, thanks
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this is where the life without without parole for second strike murder comes in – the normal sentence for murder is life
Do you think this will lead to an adjustment in the sentences that judges hand down for murder on a second strike? Where they would have given life (with the expectation of parole), they will now give out a "lesser" absolute sentence knowing that parole can't be applied?
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Has there been any kind of verification as to this supposed harem of woman? I haven't been following it (not interested enough) but early on it struck me that he had been advised to clam up after admitting the initial indiscretion, and that anyone with desires for fame/wealth/a-reality-show could wave their arms about claiming they slept with him too.