Posts by Steve Barnes
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Watching the body language and facial expressions of John Key and Bill English yesterday, I got a bad feeling.
It got worse when I listened to what came out of their mouths.
If I know nothing about these guys I would assume that Bill was a politician and Jon Key was a spokesman for an finance company. So how is it that JK is the prime minister, he sure don't look the part.
The hairs on the back of my neck stood up when I remembered that JK was a money trader and now here he was telling us that Standard and Poor's may downgrade our credit rating and Bill English was saying nothing, the words were there but they were hollow rhetoric.
Today's budget is going to be harsh, nothing for the poor and "stimulus building incentives" for the wealthy. We are going to be set up for a fall. We will wake up one day to find our assets gone and the land we stand on owned by some faceless banking sector that belongs to no country. All in the name of "Growth and Productivity"
Remember, in this country we don't actually own our land, only the top 2 meters, the rest can be sold off by the crown for whatever they like.
I think I'm going to need a bottle of scotch to go with this budget. -
"Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?"
"I'm tired of these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!"
Exlent Danielle.
Come to think of it, I wonder if they got the idea for that line from this story. -
Didn't Scruff have that club?
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What's interesting is how taiaha aren't considered threatening, despite being fairly lethal weapons. You wouldn't get the same reaction carrying a baseball bat to a protest and I guess they're seen as merely ceremonial and symbolic.
I have thought of that before and come to several questions.
Is it more of a weapon than a handbag or a walking stick? are people who say it is a weapon being racist? Could an Afghani marching down Queen Street with an AK47 claim it was a cultural right?
It would certainly be an interesting debate. -
See Lanes? This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!
Comedy Central had to change that line and had trouble in the edit so according to IMDB
To solve this they decided just to re-dub it, and the phrase they chose? "Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?".
I'm so going to use that one day. ;-)
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Who needs a plan when you have motive and opportunity - though it will require the engineering of a crisis,
And that, Sir, is classic right wing behaviour, WMD anybody?.
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It was unnecessary, and I deleted it. That does not reduce my disgust with what you've said.
As you should do with all of Dave and Chucks posts. They lower the tone. If I wanted to read Kiwiblogesque uninformed reactionary rubbish I would go to kiwiblurgh.
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Although, it does lead to the odd situation that I can't call my brother in Brooklyn because it costs him money to pay for the inbound interconnection fee.
And that must suck but hey, I guess you can also call people you don't like. ;-)
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Going totally OT.
This home isulation grant thingy that is being pushed as a great thing.
Has anyone noticed that there was already a scheme for low income families and the only real difference is that now rich people can get it too?. Oh, and its a job creation sceme (sorry, economic stimulus) for those that can climb under houses and into ceilings.
Bah, humbug. -
Rich.
Woosh is something over half the price of Vodafone/Telecom for a data-only connection.
From my calculations using a "Vodem" on a 24 month 3Gb plan works out at around $23.00 per Gb and that is the cheapest deal I can find on Vodafone (I haven't checked Telecom but I believe their pricing reflects that of Vodafone) Woosh, on the other hand, works out around $3.00 per Gb on a 20Gb plan, about eight times the price.
I am surprised nobody picked up on the tech bit. Woosh uses UMTS-TDD which requires only one band up and down as opposed to the normal split across two or more frequencies.- Woosh don't have to manage telephone interconnection and are basically unregulated
Woosh do have interconnection agreements for their VOIP service.
Anyroad. I don't work for Woosh I am just a customer, you know the guys that pay for it all in the end and we are always right ;-)
The point is and this is why I am posting here, why are the big guys charging so much more for data? Mobile data in NZ is amongst the most expensive in the world by a long way. If Telecom's data charges on the XT network are going to be in the same ballpark as Vodafone's them why would I want to change?