Posts by Greg Dawson
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I have great conversations with homeless living in cars and campervans that know what our PM is like and express it’s wrong they cant get a benefit without a postal address and don’t vote.
I've asked the EEC what their position is on getting the homeless enrolled - if it's just getting a postal address (they have published options to get around unnumbered addresses for actual residence) that is the problem, there are options. Even if it's as basic as counter delivery or using the address of somewhere they are known.
It's just plain wrong for anyone to be disenfranchised by process - it's bad enough when they're disenfranchised by law (hi prisoners!).
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
“We have maintained a silence closely resembling stupidity!”
Thanks for the history lesson, really fascinating (didn't know about Neil Roberts, didn't know about the La Paz revolution - I'm young, although I don't think anyone here but the vampires were around in 1809)
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Hard News: UPDATED: Media Take: Election…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
‘cos he sure acts like he has ’a lien’ on the country…
A fee? Fie! He only reigns until his foes stop fumbling, anyway.
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Hard News: UPDATED: Media Take: Election…, in reply to Pharmachick,
Maybe I’m earning my tinfoil hat for this, but I can’t help but be very worried about the influence of foreign millionaires on our internal politics.
Do you have to be born overseas to be a “foreign” millionaire?
I've read plenty of research in the last few years indicating that becoming a millionaire makes you stranger (compared to most people) than simple geography ever could.
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Hard News: We can do better than this, in reply to Malcolm,
How can the satirists compete any more? Check out this press release from Judith Collins:
http://www.national.org.nz/news/news/media-releases/detail/2013/04/03/time’s-up-for-cyber-bullies
Just....wow.
Making it an offence to send messages and post material online that is grossly offensive, indecent, obscene, menacing or knowingly false, punishable by up to 3 months imprisonment or a $2,000 fine.
Creating a new offence of incitement to commit suicide, even in situations when a person does not attempt to take their own life, punishable by up to 3 years imprisonment.
Self-awareness, clearly not a requirement for office.
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Hard News: The Fine Line, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
While simultaneously adding another lever against wage depreciation. Sneaky, but good.
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Hard News: The Digital Natives, in reply to BenWilson,
And that's without even taking her shoes off - she's perfect!
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Hard News: The Digital Natives, in reply to BenWilson,
Is she digital?
Ten times over!
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holy cow, I was going to comment but this comment box of punishing on an s2 android, can't space or punctuate. treats it like a url box, what's the fix?
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I don't at all understand this series of responses.
The message seems to me to be that a bad thing happened with a bad person, so everything associated with that should be destroyed or hidden and only weirdos and creeps would be interested in anything to do with it. Seems a bit close to the original bad thing, to me.