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Exclamation Marx posted:please don't threaten heads of state, government, etc. on this website I threatened his neck.
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It was hella funny when that dude threatened to kill some president of the USA and then the secret service investigated lowtax. A top, top moment in forums history
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Jul 28, 2015 05:55
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I agree.
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Jul 28, 2015 06:02
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Sorry thread, I will make sure not to use words such as "exponentially" ever again until I have had a proper mathematical edumacashun 
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Jul 28, 2015 06:12
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janis-powers/he-gave-me-a-breathalyzer_b_7857924.html
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Jul 28, 2015 06:13
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Exclamation Marx posted:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janis-powers/he-gave-me-a-breathalyzer_b_7857924.html How dare other countries have other laws, what is this bullshit. She was speeding with two kids in the car, she was a loving moron regardless of intoxication.
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Jul 28, 2015 06:23
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Exclamation Marx posted:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janis-powers/he-gave-me-a-breathalyzer_b_7857924.html Straight in with the sheep jokes. What a fat loud idiot American!
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Jul 28, 2015 06:27
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You guys, they got her DNA!! without consent! and kids in the car!! Don't worry though: she won't be paying the speeding ticket 
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Jul 28, 2015 06:28
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bobbilljim posted:You guys, they got her DNA!! without consent! and kids in the car!! Hope she likes not leaving the country.
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Jul 28, 2015 06:30
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I like the bit where she compares herself to Sandra Bland
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Jul 28, 2015 06:30
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Hope she likes not leaving the country.  What if that was her plan all along?!
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Jul 28, 2015 06:34
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Hope she likes not leaving the country. An american idiot posted:New Zealand law enforcement may have collected my DNA through a breathalyzer test, but they failed to collect my money for the traffic citation before I left the country. Since I can't find the ticket here at home, am I the one who's bending the rules?
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Jul 28, 2015 06:37
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Your move, sheepshaggers
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Jul 28, 2015 06:37
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WarpedNaba posted:
If she stays here long enough she might stop endangering her children!
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Jul 28, 2015 06:37
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Ha, that's even better because if she ever wants to come back here she's going to have a massive fine to pay before she's allowed to enter the country.
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Jul 28, 2015 06:38
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quote:It flies in the face of the principles outlined in numerous amendments to the American Constitution, as well as thousands of years of legal precedence, dating back to Roman Emperor Justinian. While suffering inconveniences for the greater good is part of living in a society, citizens must question the boundaries that restrict their individual freedoms. This is hilarious.
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Jul 28, 2015 07:26
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Lol at the NZers mocking her on her facebook page https://www.facebook.com/janispowerswriter?fref=ts
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Jul 28, 2015 07:29
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Maybe the editor forgot to hold the piece back until after the tppa is signed and US law does apply here.
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Jul 28, 2015 08:07
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I don't suppose we could just sign the deal then split Pharmac into like 2 regional bodies?
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Jul 28, 2015 10:08
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quote:The fact that I was compelled to take a breathalyzer test is certainly on the low end of the spectrum of potential civil rights abuses. The spate of deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of American law enforcement in recent months, and now the death of Sandra Bland, casts a shadow on the notion of what it means to live in the land of the free. Nonetheless, a minor infraction is still an infraction. And in New Zealand, their approach to catching drunk drivers gives law enforcement the authority to act based on the assumption that people are guilty before proven innocent.
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Jul 28, 2015 11:08
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Just preserving this wonderful piece of text for posterity. She was speeding! With two kids! In the car! She should be pleasantly surprised that the New Zealand Police Force assumed she was impaired. Given that the other option was that making it to her loving wine tasting was genuinely more important to her than her kids.
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Jul 28, 2015 11:33
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hell she's lucky she wasn't asian otherwise her keys would have been taken and she wouldn't be able to drive back to her seven houses
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Jul 28, 2015 11:42
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Getting pulled over for speeding is exactly as bad as the systematic racism that gets black folks gunned down by the very people who are supposed to protect them. Don't believe me? Well have you heard of this thing called the Corpus Juris Civilis? Justinian would not have stood for this. Also Mabo v Queensland 1992, and the general vibe of the thing, you know? I rest my case.
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Jul 28, 2015 11:48
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This $25m estimated increased cost to Pharmac each year, with the gracious offer from National to cover it from Taxpayer money, has me wondering how much the gross trade $ value will be for the Govt to see $25m in taxes. Business are taxed at 33%, so the TPP would need to see $75.75m in profit from new trade in order to offset this cost. Using Fonterra as an example, because most of the New Trade will be dairy, obviously. Looking at their 2014 financial statement they had $22,275m in revenue for the Group, and $13,243m for the Parent company for the year ended 31/7/2014, with profit of $179m & $167m respectively. That's a $346m profit on $35.5b of revenue, or 0.974%. So for $75.75m in profit Fonterra would need to see a revenue increase of $7.77b. Even if we go with a 5% profit: revenue ratio, they'd still need $1.5b in revenue to generate $25m in tax. That's stupid. Also: National realise that the ones who Pharmac helps most are the poor, right? It's a bit ironic for them to be cracking down on beneficiaries & those using state housing while offering to pay more for their health subsidies.
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Jul 28, 2015 22:04
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Yes but the increased money won't go to the poors it will go to the drug companies and then on to the shareholders. Also they will provide a one off bump to pharmac and tout it as them increasing spending on public health then slowly drain the money back out in the next few budgets.
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Jul 28, 2015 23:04
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Binkenstein posted:So for $75.75m in profit Fonterra would need to see a revenue increase of $7.77b. Even if we go with a 5% profit: revenue ratio, they'd still need $1.5b in revenue to generate $25m in tax. That's stupid. They probably realise. I doubt they give a poo poo. But yeah, pressuring government services to turn a profit - can't see how that might go wrong.
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Jul 28, 2015 23:09
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Binkenstein posted:Business are taxed at 33%, so the TPP would need to see $75.75m in profit from new trade in order to offset this cost. Dairy is to be excluded from the TPPA, benefits are more likely to accrue to meat and produce export.
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Jul 28, 2015 23:20
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The Japanese media had some leaked info on the drug patent stuff. Apparently the US wanted patents at 12 years before generics could be made, but have come down to 8 years. Another sticking point still is the investor state tribunal poo poo, Australia is pushing really hard for various limitations and provisions in there. I'd imagine it's to protect or allow for the sort of thing they're doing to tobacco companies with their plain packaging.
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Jul 28, 2015 23:39
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Binkenstein posted:This $25m estimated increased cost to Pharmac each year, with the gracious offer from National to cover it from Taxpayer money, has me wondering how much the gross trade $ value will be for the Govt to see $25m in taxes. This would be true if Fonterra's company tax was the only way in which the Govt received revenue from Fonterra, which it isn't. Don't forget your net profit comes after you take out wages and so on, and there's PAYE and then the flow-on effect from your employee/supply chain spending as well. Although also yea, Fonterra isn't going to get anything out of it and a bunch of the benefits they do get when milk prices go back up will immediately flow out of the country as they repay debt to foreign owned banks. Fun times.
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Jul 28, 2015 23:54
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You have to be corrupt as gently caress, directly or indirectly, to even contemplate signing anything that allows your government to be sued by corporations for something as fundamental to its function as passing policy. But since it's something that already exists across the world and the empirical data is that it has always turned out bad for the government and good for foreign corporations, recent history has shown that we will eagerly plunge our future selves' hand into that gom jabbar.
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Ghostlight posted:You have to be corrupt as gently caress, directly or indirectly, to even contemplate signing anything that allows your government to be sued by corporations for something as fundamental to its function as passing policy. You know, I always assumed that the corporate-controlled cyberpocalypse was something that rose after a great war, not something brought in by a bullshit piece of hyper-secret legislation that right-wing governments would eagerly welcome.
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Jul 29, 2015 00:05
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Reminder that Banks said that "Government owned anything is bad" because he's a raging fuckmagnet.
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Jul 29, 2015 00:27
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Hipster Pig, Hipster Pig, does whatever a Hipster Pig does!
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Jul 29, 2015 00:31
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The flag change referendum is just a distraction. Now, about that national anthem...
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Jul 29, 2015 01:06
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quote:Opposition parties were "whinging" and making "backward-looking complaints", because they did not like Prime Minister John Key, English said.
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Jul 29, 2015 01:18
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To be honest guys I don't like Prime Minister John Key much either
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Ghostlight posted:You have to be corrupt as gently caress, directly or indirectly, to even contemplate signing anything that allows your government to be sued by corporations for something as fundamental to its function as passing policy. Just wanna chime in and say the gom jabbar is actually the needle at your neck. Ghostlight posted:Not a cult of personality. Bill English has evidently completed his metamorphosis into a lamprey-like drone attached to JK's hindquarters, incapable of independent thought and devoid of individual personality. He now lives for the swarm.
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Jul 29, 2015 01:51
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Slavvy posted:Bill English has evidently completed his metamorphosis into a lamprey-like drone attached to JK's hindquarters, incapable of independent thought and devoid of individual personality. He now lives for the swarm. Are you suggesting he had a personality to begin with?
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Jul 29, 2015 01:53
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Vagabundo posted:Are you suggesting he had a personality to begin with? "rear end in a top hat" is a personality.
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