Posts by Rich of Observationz
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filobuster
noun: Isn't that a giant roll of filo pastry stuffed with an entire chicken or similar?
verb: To make a political speech while eating a filobuster, thus making delivery slow and indistinct, and thus deliberately delaying proceedings. The filobuster has been banned in many parliamentary assemblies as an unfair debating technique.
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At the end of the day it's the party vote that really matters though. Labour could field candidates that were so shitty they lost most of their electorates, but if the party vote held up, then they'd get list MPs to compensate.
And that's as it should be. We vote for a party we want represented (in government or opposition, depending on how things pan out). One should be able to find a party (amongst the 20 or so that contest elections) to match ones ideas, and if not, anyone can start their own and many do.
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Yes, but in all cases, American's can vote against their registration in the final Presidential election, can't they? So a moderate Republican who decided the adopted candidate was too extreme/mad/dumb could vote Democrat.
And a registration is just that - it isn't like joining a party, being accepted and paying a subscription?
Or am I wrong?
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I wonder how a primary system would work in NZ. If you're a registered Democrat, you can still vote Republican, right? What stops people registering for somebody elses party and voting for the most useless candidate. Like, I could register as a Nat and vote for Bob "Bollox" Clarkson as leader every time.
Most NZ parties don't even poll their paying members, do they? I think the Greens do?
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According to Wikipedia you used to lose US citizenship if you were naturalized in another state, but that had no legal basis and doesn't happen any more.
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On the topic of Black:
Like I said on the Guardian blog, I don't think people like that should go to jail. Jail should be for violent crime, mostly.
Instead, he should be bankrupted for the rest of his life and deprived of all assets and income. The next 10 or so years begging on a street corner should sort him out. In Chicago. In winter.
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Hang the coach!
And whoever takes over from him, hang him as well!
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For quite a lot of my science A levels I calculated the theoretical expected results, applied a random error, and plotted the "results" out on graph paper as required. Never got pinged for it, either.
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Incidentally, if I mail some party pills off to my friends just before the ban, and NZ Post don't deliver them until after, presumably I'm in the clear? But are NZ Post guilty of supplying illegal drugs?
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If you give party pills as Christmas gifts you'll be looking at 8 years in jail
While a bottle of whisky is not only legal, but socially acceptable. Even though it's worse for you and those around. What's more, it will give you a worse hangover than BZP if you drink the whole lot.