Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: Friday Music: Going Large, in reply to Stephen D. O'Hoy,
I can't really see there being anything beyond a niche market at best for the Pono Player.
My 16yrold sons can't wait. They complain deeply about the tinny iPod touch sound, prefer records and hunt them out, and are hanging out for a decent digital sound player. There must be more out there.
In the tradition of Ian Dalziel's gug guide for Chchch: tomorrow is the South Island QiGong Open Day at Papanui High 10am to 3pm.
http://www.qigong.org.nz/sites/default/files/attachments/qigong_dle_leaflet_visual_2014.pdf
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Seems the draft Distict Plan is out today. The Chch City Council's proposed expanded Flood Management Area in the draft District Plan, out for comment now. http://resources.ccc.govt.nz/files/TheCouncil/policiesreportsstrategies/districtplanning/districtplanreview/dprexistingandproposedfloodmanagementareamarch2014.pdf
A whole lot more info about the natural hazards parts of the draft District Plan: http://www.ccc.govt.nz/thecouncil/policiesreportsstrategies/districtplanning/districtplanreview/ourdistrictplanreview/naturalhazards.aspx
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Keir Leslie,
On yer bike, eh?
On yer byte more like.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to BenWilson,
These are conundrums for a Green/Labour coalition, and they should get a plan together.
Not really because Labour is going to be the dominant partner this decade. Policy concessions rather than merging will be the price of Greens' support.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Agree. But it's not us who let the swinging voter--or the likes of Peter Dunne-- set our country's direction. It's the system wherein micro-polling and its results are a matter of routine for crucial-vote harvesting.
BTW, who does Roy Morgan poll for? I had a call, seeking a respondent with specific criteria.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Emma Hart,
a well-off urban liberal
Oh man, remember when this meme was "Chardonnay Socialist" and it was about Labour? Good times.
This.
That pointless arguing is why the swinging voters refuse to vote for Labour and to let a Labour-Green coalition into power. National's strategists know this and exploit it to maximum effect.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Matthew Poole,
The dinosaur thinking associated with viewing the extraction of dead dinosaurs from the earth as being of vital economic and employment importance is never going to be swayed to thinking of the Greens as anything other than economic vandals who won't be happy until the entire country is occupied by dreadlocked hippies wearing standard-issue kaftans and smoking standard-issue pot.
This [missed the edit window for previous comment].
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Or possibly it’s roots are in people who object to being lectured to like this.
Jumpy like that is a bother Tom. I am not lecturing; I'm saying that it's what I see as the gulf between my thinking and some wings of the Labour Party.
I resent the out-greening purists as much as you do -- probably more -- because I believe pretty much every sort of thinking and every sort of people are part of a continuum. (See my Floodland post on cleaning up.) I'm a pragmatic green. Always have been.
As for the comments about Greens being against employment: Tory spin swallowed whole. Read the policy. If you still take that inference, it's your prerogative but please don't tell me what I support and believe.
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I have been puzzling about the New Zealand Labour/Green schism for a couple of decades. There are so many similarities in basic principles, yet so much hair-splitting of policy detail.
To me the main difference lies in some Labourites who are entrenched in smokestack industrial-age concepts and thinking, and who refuse to admit the world has changed, and New Zealand society has changed hugely since the 1970s.I wish we could all be nicer to each other -- find the common ground and talk out the differences. That would be true to the spirit of MMP rather than the reluctant and grudging coalitions of the past.
That goes for discussion here too Ben and Phil: PAS works because people, even when they play not-so-nicely, don't keep going and going until they have the last word. Boring and it squashes debate.
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Up Front: Floodland, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
Thinking like that is completely understandable Isabel. If the storms last week and this had not happened, there would be no urgency from the council staff, government and insurers to find an acceptable solution.