Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I don't know, Kyle. It seems to me that McCain has his own 'Limbaugh Effect' to deal with -- because there's no guarantee the Dittoheads and Ann-droids are going to hold their noses and vote for him, as opposed to just staying home. The hard-right sure didn't bother turning out for GHB in '92, while the economy (and his infamous "no new taxes" pledge coming back to haunt him) alienated fiscal conservatives and social moderates in the party.
Yes, hence my 'by and large'. There will be a small number of people who jump from one to the other - probably some women might jump to vote dem if Hilary is the candidate, probably some African Americans if Obama. Possibly some Dems will vote for McCain if they... I dunno. Like him for whatever.
But the numbers will still be small. A couple of percent at most. If it's 1/3 democrats, 1/3 republicans, and 1/3 independents, then it's that middle third that still decides it.
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Personally I couldn't get up in fingers, let alone up in arms about the junket. 100K isn't a massive amount of money to send a bunch of people around the world visiting Eastern Europe and meeting with all the local hobnobs.
But I concur with Craig about the lame excuse of 'all the real MPs are busy running'.
This junket is in April. ~6 months before the election. Were the MPs planning to do any real work this year, or just planning to spend the whole year living off us while they run for another 3 years?
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If the Dems were determining this, Clinton would likely be winning.
Yeah. There's an interesting debate over that, given most democrats/republicans are going to vote for their own candidate in the general. It will be independents that by and large decide most presidential elections in America, in those battle-ground states.
Whether that means it makes sense for the democratic primaries to be open to them... who knows.
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They certainly have been used in evidence. I suspect police would use them for both.
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Here's some of the story - unfortunately the entire story has been 'erased' from the Stuff website.
Someone else might know better, but I don't think stuff archives all news stories. They tend to disappear after some period of time. I don't know if that has to do with stuff, or has to do with their deal with the newspapers. I don't think it's any conspiracy anyway.
An innovation about to be piloted in 20 areas is talking cameras, enabling anyone misbehaving to be told off by a loudspeaker.
Ahem.
i'll never be able to urinate in a public place again
Hey you. Stop piddling on the lamppost! Yes, everyone is looking at you now! Yes you look like a dick! Thank you.
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If kids do this on MySpace or Bebo, the news media starts shrieking about internet suicide cults. But we're grown up, so it's alright.
I was wondering how I'd feel if the media picked up on PA/S and our comments started appearing in newspapers. I kinda finished up feeling that I'd feel like a private space got invaded, which is illogical given that this is the internet and not a private space, but still.
Made me think about how 'those kids' must feel - no one pays attention to them until someone dies, and then all of a sudden a spotlight is put on their previously ignored space. Not hard to link suicide to 'getting attention' in that light.
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By definition, evolution and gravity theories cannot be wrong
I'm fairly confident that they're correct. But if they cannot be wrong by definition, then I suspect 'theory' is no longer an appropriate word.
Ignoring the whole, I've written a definition which fulfills my requirement for something to be correct by their own definition.
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It's one hell of a nasty Catch-22, and one I really doubt there's any political or fiscal quick fix.
I'm not sure about 'quick fix'.
However if my memory is correct, and there were umpteen reports by vaguely competent bodies saying 'this needs more money', then I think it's fair to say 'more money would help'.
My mother has worked in mental health both here, and in Perth. She said the difference was very noticeable. In Perth there was the funding to have specialists and extra support and training for staff and resources available, and it showed in terms of outcomes. Not perfect, but a lot better than NZ.
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Kyle but that's the joy of Common Law & with the existing precident it has started to impact on NZ - watch this space.
Well of course. But that doesn't make it in any way constitutional. I'd struggle to believe that constitutions can be written by judges in the modern world. And I think parliament would as well.
'precident' makes it sound like it's judge-made law which only happened by accident ;) Judge gives away northland to Australia through failing to notice 'not' slipped into court transcript.
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I detect real nervousness about the NZ economy.
What do you call that? An economy-dar? Econ-dar? Eco-dar wouldn't work, the greenies must have that one.
I was finally getting my gaydar more finely tuned than a thermonuclear blast, and now we've moved onto this? I'm going to be meeting people at bars and having to figure out how they're feeling about retail sales and house prices and interest rates at a glance.