Posts by David Slack
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I know they film Eye to Eye with an honest-to-goodness lawyer from - I think - Simpson Grierson sitting in the control room.
I also recall that when I worked in advertising about a hundred years ago you'd have to take the script of your client's TV commercial over to an office in the terrace where a bloke from TVNZ (or was it BCNZ) would approve it.
I actually think Outrageous Fortune functions as a pretty accurate barometer for anyone who would want to be a censor in contemporary NZ. If it's in OF, it's probably going to be just fine with the punters.
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maybe it's time for the Newton OS revival!
Now that brings back memories:
And more recently on the Microsoft side of the ledger, this
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Indeed. Thanks, Gary.
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You're overlooking a manufacturing threshold. In this case, thighs is everything.
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Stephen, I'll give you two contrary arguments, although I'm not sure they defeat it:
1: it may tend to reinforce the status quo - the inherent bias may be conservative. Whether that's desirable or not is another question.
2: it creates the possiblity of an empty vessel into which may be poured the ambitions of others, as has arguably been the case with Bush fils. In this instance, of course, there is English as the principal supplier.
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One further point off for elevating Williamson, the single worst thing ever to happen to IT in this country, but a point back on for doubling up in Maori Affairs.
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Okay. Getting in right away: D Slack, pupil, Feilding Agricultural High School 1973-77. Member of debating team. Never attended Burnside High, but did possess Values Party 1975 manifesto.
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You don't think a different approach to relations with the small parties, race relations, and a radically different attitude to climate change, aren't substantial? I do. This is a radically different approach to the Brash years.
Yes I would, if that's what the broad expressions of good intention mean, but that's my beef: it's so vague it could mean a great deal or not very much at all.
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You would not expect detailed policy just yet. That would be very bad process in a new leader.
You do though need to set a tone, with vision statements and the like. Any new leader of any organisation needs to do this sort of thing.Rob, I don't disagree. But this was the equivalent of a new boss declaring that he believes in profits, reward for effort, and career opportunities for the staff. It's reassuring to know the new boss has good intentions, but does it give us any sense of what's going to happen to the business in the next year?
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Why not use one of our own historical political scandals? Winebox, tiler-box, speed-box, email-box, gone-by-lunchtime-box...
That's a great idea, especially when you consider that the Woodward/Bernstein of the Winebox scandal was, of course, TVNZ's very own Ian Wishart.
Cast your mind back through sundry scandals, and consider just how often his name comes up. One might even say it goes beyond coincidence, but that's one for the conspiracy theorists.