Posts by Paul Litterick
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I think that's one reason why (typical) Brits will always be (stereotypically) so much hotter than Americans...
I like the way this conversation is going.The promotion of British architectural critics as a stereotype of hotness is relevant to my interests.
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Addressing your points, I didn't mean that a trading trust is automatically tax-exempt, but that if the trust is charitable, and trades, then Sanitarium NZ could have a fully tax-exempt status.
But it isn't and it doesn't. It is a company, not a charity. It is not owned by the Adventists and it is not part of Sanitarium in Australia.
Can we now move on?
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...I could be wrong, and Sanitarium NZ could be a trading trust and thus exempt from income tax on the basis of its trust holdings..
That you could. I think you might find that Sanitarium in NZ is independent of Sanitarium in AUS, that it is a corporation and is taxed accordingly and that its only connexion with charitable status is the proportion of its profits that it donates to charities.
Notice too, how I managed to say that without being abusive.
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And you would like to take the on the challenge of drafting the legislation to close the loophole?
Oh yes; oh yes, oh yes, oh yes.
The classification of charitable purpose (religion, education, relief of poverty and general good - I think you got the last one wrong Matthew: culture is not a purpose in itself, so far as I know) was the result of a 19th Century judgment by the Law Lords of the House of Lords, in the Old Country. It has never been before our House of Representatives, it has never been law.
In effect, the likes of Tamaki and a whole bunch of other people do not have to pay income tax because of a legal decision made more than a century ago in another country. The assumption of that decision was that the promotion of religion was a public good, an assumption that few would share today.
There really is no correlation between a charitable purpose such as relieving poverty and that of the practice and promotion of a particular religious opinion. The unavoidable truth is that Tamaki and many others are coining it because of an outdated notion of what constitutes charitable purpose.
As for Dilworth: it is an anachronism. We now have a public education system. That said, Dilworth at least provides private schooling for those who cannot afford it; other private schools like Kings and Dio benefit from charitable status, although they educate the children of the very rich and charge fees accordingly.
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Whether it is intentionally biased or not, it is a really crap advertisement. Here is a man known for his inability to tell house from home - and his ability to profit from the confusion - telling us what a marvelous job he is doing. Frankly, I was not impressed. I shall not be watching.
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I have heard he's also the kind of person who assigns his own books and essays as a very significant portion of the reading for courses he teaches, which is...somewhat telling.
Denis Dutton's views on Aesthetics are somewhat quaint (with all the menace that word implies). At present, he is trying to kill off the subject by claiming that Art can be explained by Evolutionary Psychology, a discipline which has become the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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What astonishes me about the Illuminati is how they control everything except Internet. Somehow, people can post the truth about the Illuminatii all over Internet, without the Illuminati seeming to notice. Clearly, they have spent so much effort dominating global politics that they have fallen behind in Information Technology.
I would gladly tell the Illuminati about the people who have found out their secrets and posted them on Geocities pages (in green letters on black background), but I do not know their Fax number.
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The electricity could be used to power a travelator (not as cool as one under the harbour but still better than walking.
Don't you worry: Simpson's plan envisages a wave-powered travelator. His plan has everything, except engineering and costing.
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I'd like to see a nice design which made the bridge like sails. Understand that it has to work technically as well, but it would start to claim Auckland's identity and not look like a blot on the landscape.
I'd like to see a moratorium on structures that look like sails in Auckland, as well as a ban on buildings that look like boats. It is time to grow up.
Anyhow, how could a bridge look like sails? Bridges are horizontal, sails vertical.
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Did Simpson describe the rushed early history of the initiative during his presentation at Architecture Week?
The rush is something he created, with the urgent need to get the plan built by the centenary of ANZAC.