Posts by Kyle Matthews
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then handle having to say, "che. see, haych, ee" and have every receptionist from here to new orleans spell it, s, h, e.
That's bizarre. I mean, there was this guy, he's quite famous, you might have seen this picture of him on wannabe revolutionaries walls.
Maybe you should just get the t-shirt and point at it. "Y'know. Same as this dude."
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I've never been a communist at any stage and at that point the only political party I had belonged to was Bob Jone's "New Zealand Party" in 1984.
How does anyone get from the New Zealand Party to the Communist Party? That's jumping a few tracks to say the least.
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Has the price of beer and cigarettes gone up recently?
Always good to counter one sort of I dunno, anti-rich person stereotyping, with another sort with racist undertones.
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But what I find enormously frustrating about this whole exercise is that there are people whose lives and well-being quite literally depend on major contracts being awarded on the basis of merit not patronage.
Yeah, that's the crappy part. There are fuck-ups, there probably always will be fuck-ups, but they have a human cost.
Hopefully the competence is to be found at the other... 22 or whatever DHBs. If they're not in the news for being crap, hopefully that means they're at least reasonable.
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No, I mean while he was part of a government that was supposed to be making sure that this kind of bullshit wasn't going to happen any more. That was trumpeting elected DHBs as some rebirth of community involvement, transparency and all that other good stuff.
I think whenever you elect boards of this sort, some are going to fuck up. If we wanted them to never fuck up, we'd just appoint top professionals to run the Health Boards in this country. Actually they'd still probably fuck up sometimes.
Seems to me that Hawkes Bay has had community involvement, there's been transparency - that's why they all got fired. No it's not perfect, but things are going to screw up sometimes, and you step in and fix them.
It's part of running a country.
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It also distracts from the more important issues - in manawatu, wanganui, rangitikei areas, we have no adolescent/teen specialist psychologist and rely on a locum from Auckland visiting.
I would suspect having local district health boards, with elected officials, would be more likely that things like this would get local attention. If things were decided in Wellington, it'd be more modelled and costed and efficiencies. If the DHB in those areas decided that an adolescent psychologist was a priority, they'd be able to do it.
Does this unit not have any psychologists at all?:
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(but not have missed out on anything when I do buy a new tv in 5 years)
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So you can rush out to the shops on April 2, plug in your box and sit down to watch Media7 that night!
I feel like I need someone to provide a 'freeview for dummies' guide in short sentences.
I really just want to know when I can get it, cheaply, and have it not be out-of-date 6 months later. And who I should see about that without having to buy a new TV.
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I get some HD TV when I download some sporting broadcasts from the states. This is compressed, and reduced in resolution for delivery, and I blow it back up to fullscreen, on a crappy 6 year old PC laptop screen.
Still looks 10 times better than anything I've seen on NZ TV. Makes watching the box truly pleasurable.
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I think you'd need a very special modem, usually only available to GCSB and the like.
"That's not a modem. That's a _really_ big golf ball.