Posts by Paul Campbell
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Hard News: Where are all the polls at?, in reply to Andrew Robertson,
I understand that, in this case he just had Parliament pay to send his poll to everybody in his electorate. No one made any phone calls.
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I was push polled by National about 10 years ago, full of have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife sorts of questions. From my local list MP (Michael Woodhouse) on the govt's dime no less, disguised as a poll of constituents opinions
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To me the issue is very simple, if the law let's children go without food, for any reason, the law is an arse, and needs to be changed
Metiria is shining the public spotlight on this ugly corner of our society at risk to her own future, that makes her a step above those people who are guarding their precious status quo and quietly sweeping the hungry and homeless under their rug of mediocrity
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Toby Morris's most excellent Greed Vs. Need
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Not only clean slate legislation, but a 10 year statute of limitations on such electoral issues
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The point made by several people that exactly this sort of intense scrutiny into her personal life is exactly the same as what WINZ submits beneficiaries continues to be the point that just keeps on giving .... this latest stoush came about because someone used the old electoral roll information to try prove who she was sleeping with 20 years ago ... which was nobody's business 20 years ago and is nobody's business now
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Hard News: Friday Music: Remembering Roi, in reply to Kumara Republic,
What about bulletin board services? Or was that more an early 1990s thing?
there were BBSs in the US in the early 80s (when I moved there in '84), none I knew of in NZ when I left. Buying stuff from overseas, especially computers, modems was hard in the Muldoon years (was there a 40% input duty on computer hardware?) and tough exchange control (because Muldoon was screwing our economy by secretly borrowing from overseas).
I do remember Oz showing up on usenet (before NZ) - they used to email weekly mag tapes across the pacific ...
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I think the big upside to universality is that because it applies to everyone the rich and powerful are invested, they've been paying in all their lives too
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I just had this joke shared with me:
Two Trump supporters are on their way to a rally when they get into a car accident and die. Being believers, they both go to Heaven and meet St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. One says to the other, "So, are you going to ask him?" "Ask him what?" replies the other. "You know, about him." "No, you ask him." "Fine."
"Saint Peter," he says, "Where was Barack Obama born?" The venerable saint replies, "President Barack Obama was born in the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, in Honolulu, Hawaii."
The Trump supporter turns to his friend and whispers, "This thing goes even deeper than we thought!"
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to Paul Campbell,
to be fair is conceivable, but highly unlikely, that he was out of the house on each and every one of those days and had someone exercise his proxy, but if you believe that I have this bridge ....