Posts by Ben McNicoll
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It finally came through. Nice. I wonder how much decent local underground rap is just hiding away on sites like zshare?
Lots.
Including, as mentioned upthread, guys like Home Brew: http://homebrew.bandcamp.com/album/last-week
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Think you could go a long way with some marquis,
The Marquis de Sade, in particular, will let you go a very long way...
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I'm a novice at this, but I can't seem to find (short of reading the full text of all 3 bills) a reference to this in the legislation...
http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Legislation/Bills/Default.htm?search=42432935
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I agree, this is one of the few cases where mass protest action could actually influence the outcome...
Scare Key and his backers with the prospect of years in the opposition wilderness should this bill be passed in it's current form.
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Off topic: Does anyone have any thoughts on this
Matt McCarten opinion piece in The Herald that suggests the next supercity bill will have a provision for landlords to have an extra vote for each property they own?It seems almost unbelievable, but the implications are chilling if the article is factually correct.
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My dream scenario would be a hybrid STV & MMP system, similar to current MMP, but with no threshold, and STV used decide the electorate vote.
Seems to me that this would combine the best elements of the better systems, STV being a good way to choose one of a number of candidates for a single position, and a party vote result translating into direct proportionality.
Obviously the removal of the threshold may enable some overhangs...
I'm not sure if this has ever been explored?
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Laws is the Comte Saint Germain. That much is obvious. Sue Bradford is an instrument for measuring the Earth's telluric currents.
So you're re-reading Foucault's Pendulum as well?
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@ Stephen Judd
I wouldn't speak too soon. I'm still waiting to see what his actual response is.
John Key implied before the referendum that he wasn't going to act on the result because the law was working and the question confusing.
This enabled me to abstain from voting with a clear conscience as there was no way I could answer such a poorly worded question honestly, and I am happy with the status quo. Given the low turnout, I suspect a significant number of people who would come down in the yes camp did the same.
If the PM, having diminished the importance of a vote by saying he wasn't going to change anything, changes anything, I'm going to be pissed off.
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I'm astounded by the logic:
She said she had decided against running for re-election as Alaska's governor, and believed it was best to leave office even though she had two years left to her term.
"Many just accept that lame duck status, and they hit that road. They draw a paycheck. They kind of milk it. And I'm not going to put Alaskans through that," she said.
From the Herald story
Her words would seem to imply that she thought the role of Governor was to stand for office (and win presumably), rather than, you know, actually govern.