Posts by Lyndon Hood
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One thing about green consumerism is that while it probably can make a difference, done properly, I wouldn't think it would be enough.
If you accept pollution and resources depletion need fixing, that's a group action problem - you need to arrange things so everyone ups their game. That's a political action, not shopping.
For it to work, everyone does have to contribute; but if everyone's conscience actually is sated by some fairly token measures, you might not get the motivation for real change.
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Do too much of that, she says, and you are well on the way to stirring up political disillusionment and disengagement."
But supposing you only cared about getting elected - or were only paid to think about getting elected... tradition suggests that the people who disengage are the ones who would have voted on the left. Double win!
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Apparently Fairfax have already cut back on proofreading for their press releases:
Fairfax Media, New Zealand's largest newspaper, magazine and web publisher, is again seeking the country's young journalism prospects for its journalism intern scheme and, after training at five leading journalism schools, to join publications or websites of their choice.
The rest isn't what you'd call a model of style either.
Not, I hasten to add that I should talk.
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__I'm unsure what a cardamon pod is, but the seeds I have are about a cm long and very fibrous. Because they don't decompose in the cooking, they're bastards to find in your mouth, and they're really hard to identify before you've eaten them.__
That's a cardamom pod, all right.
Darn - that was going to be my tip. Cardamom seeds are little black hard things. Can be bought seperately whole or ground, or, if you're really bored, got out of the pod one by one.
I actually quite like biting into a well-cooked cardamom pod or one that's been infusing in a chutney for weeks.
Tip for making hiccups go away: drink a glass of water backwards - works about 95% of the time for me.
Depending on the hiccup, a spoonful of strong vinegar can stop it with a quickness. Yoghurt also worth a shot.
Here's me:
Don't put your tomatoes in the fridge. -
Re: defining norms -
Did you see How to Define ‘Obscenity’? Lawyer Looks to Google for Help -
If you add in revenue loss from not taxing currently illegal drugs...
Aren't we measuring 'social harm' rather than impact on the treasury balance? Though I think it's clear the former means whatever you want it to.
On which:
Do all those enforcement agents actually help the GDP - keeping people in work and keeping the money circulating and so on? Though that effect may be dampened if they put people in jail. Especially seeing as that's supressing a thriving sector of the economy which operates unhindered by the fiscal drag of taxation.
"productive resources diverted due to drug production"
And seizing the drugs frees these up?
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Also re: having a duty to your shareholders - if it's wrong to do, it's wrong to do on someone else's behalf.
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The "Don't be Evil" slogan was what I was thinking of.
I recall an article that suggested 'evil' was there effectively defined as what the head of ethics said was evil.
When they were originally debating the idea of corporations in the US someone (Andrew Jackson?) described them as having "no sould to damn and no ass to kick". This doesn't prevent us applying ethical standard to their actions, surely - it's just a matter of who one holds responsible.
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you can't stop Google reporting it, and *even using your Google Analytics data*
Isn't that, y'know, evil?
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... should have to give the damn money back, like Labour did?
While I'm throwing in random historical facts, that would be (offhand) "like Labour, National*, United Future, The Greens and the Maori Party did". The Progressives didn't have any to pay and NZ First just didn't. Not, as above, that they 'had' to. They just did.
*but not the GST?