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Lol this Phil Quin nitwit in the leadup to the election:quote:In the wake of Labour’s coming — and fourth consecutive — defeat, the central role of the MoU [with the Green party] in kneecapping whatever chance Labour had to reemerge as a credible governing party will be obvious to all but the small handful of apparatchiks. These are the people who conceived of the agreement, and whose reputations hinge on pretending, against any and all available evidence, that it was a resounding triumph. Sadly, this is the same clique who will shape the post-election narrative, much as they did in the aftermath of the Cunliffe Calamity when they hired as co-obfuscators Bryan Gould and Margaret Wilson, authors of the toothless and pathetic ”post-mortem”.
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Jaguars! posted:Edit: ^^ Yeah, it seems to publish a lot of borderline conspiracy theories. Doesn’t exist here. It is why Spark and Vodafone can offer bundles and extras like don’t pay data charges for Spotify or the old zero.facebook.com which offered no images Facebook browsing which didn’t incur data charges. The problem is how can a different music streaming app compete against free data for Spotify?
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Nov 28, 2017 04:59
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Varkk posted:Doesn’t exist here. It is why Spark and Vodafone can offer bundles and extras like don’t pay data charges for Spotify or the old zero.facebook.com which offered no images Facebook browsing which didn’t incur data charges. They would compete with ease apparently, since - at least for Vodafone - it's free for your app to send free data to your customers if you ask them to include your app in their thingy. There is even a sign up form on the website. I signed up a week ago, haven't heard anything yet though so maybe the signup form is just there for appearances....
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Nov 28, 2017 05:07
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I'm pretty sure Telecom would still be charging everyone $100 a month for dial up if it wasn't for unbundling. Not exactly the same, but it's hard to have ~net neutrality~ when there is only one ISP.
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Nov 28, 2017 05:19
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bike tory posted:Bunch of journalists think they have a "gotcha" moment with Golriz Ghahraman's past in human rights law because she had worked as defense for people accused of genocide. She had been open about this before but hadn't included it in any of her bios, so a bunch of people are calling for her to resign as claiming that she is a genocide denier. It's ugly that ex labour staffer guy is a blairite little freak
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Nov 28, 2017 05:21
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exmarx posted:that ex labour staffer guy is a blairite little freak The mind of a centrist Labour party member. *pre election* "Labour are a disaster and are going to lose again because they're not making GBS threads on the left enough" *post election* "How do I best gently caress up this Labour led coalition from the sidelines?"
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Nov 28, 2017 05:34
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Yeah and he's obviously decided this "discovery" is his Pentagon Papers moment
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Nov 28, 2017 06:28
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Jaguars! posted:Edit: ^^ Yeah, it seems to publish a lot of borderline conspiracy theories. I am not sure of specific legislation but the telecommunication ombudsman is pretty strong and has a bias towards consumers, and a good track record. The biggest problem is a chilling effect on new entrants into the internet, which is out of our hands unfortunately. Edit: the question is can they throttle some sites in order to speed up the ones who pay ISPs. I am not sure. Free data is not really as big an issue as speed, I think. exmachina fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Nov 28, 2017 07:47
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Jesus the more I read about Phil Quin the more I dislike him. He cut his teeth in the journalism sphere moaning about Helen Clark and other women "taking over Labour" to it's detriment, and despite claiming to love NZ Labour he constantly uses political "left" as a pejorative. What a loving dweeb. Relatedly I'd love to see a similar level of scrutiny on Chris Bishop's past, particularly the time he spent in Asia lobbying governments to loosen regulations around tobacco...
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Nov 28, 2017 11:32
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bike tory posted:Jesus the more I read about Phil Quin the more I dislike him. He cut his teeth in the journalism sphere moaning about Helen Clark and other women "taking over Labour" to it's detriment, and despite claiming to love NZ Labour he constantly uses political "left" as a pejorative. What a loving dweeb. He loving created the failed plot to oust Helen Clarke as leader in 1996, he hates Corbyn and thought May would crush him as well. He thinks he's a loving master of electoral strategy but he's been wrong about everything for 20 years. e: he thinks Julian Assange is 'the far left', and has been whining about identity politics and neo-marxism this last year El Pollo Blanco fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Nov 28, 2017 11:36
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I almost guarantee he supported the was in Iraq, I just can't find any evidence to that effect
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Nov 28, 2017 11:43
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he's deleted a bunch of tweets, but looks like he's your run of the mill hitchens-loving islamophobe
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Nov 28, 2017 20:00
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hey guys did you know a rookie criminal lawyer defended very bad people sometimes and admitted as such in multiple interviews before the election this is a scandal apparently
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Nov 28, 2017 20:28
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Why would an intelligent qualified legal professional defend such scum? When the judge asks the line of lawyers 'who wants to defend the guy that burned a few villages? don't make me pick someone!' they're all meant to shuffle around and stare at their feet and eventually he caves in with an 'awwww you guys' and just sentences him to death cause nobody wants to do it.
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Nov 28, 2017 20:36
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I, for one, am glad that the NZ public through the media has the chance to hound another of these shifty defense lawyers who enable criminals to escape justice into an emotional breakdown ending with their death. RIP Greg King.
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Nov 28, 2017 21:06
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Like the whole point of a justice system is justice and you can't have justice if people are running around trying to stop justice happening to the scum that deserve it.
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Nov 28, 2017 21:11
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I’m actually surprised at the amount of comments around I’ve seen that are “this is a non story, everyone deserves a fair trial”. Of course there is some of the worst poo poo too (“She mislead everyone in her maiden speech. What was she thinking having photos taken with a war criminal and smiling. This is what happens when you allow refugees to enter parliament. I don't like it. There's something that doesn't feel right about it. It's off.”) Of course for my own sanity I’d never check the stuff comments on this story.
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Nov 28, 2017 22:20
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Of course Hosking has picked up on this. E: And Garner too.
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Nov 28, 2017 22:46
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To be fair, she actually didn't talk about it before the election, but has done without prompting since getting her seat. I also kinda agree that the way her various bios were worded lend themselves to the interpretation that she was in the role of prosecution. But like, that's a non story, your bios are meant to make you sound good and she didn't lie or even mislead. It's pretty telling that Quin claims that "if my life has purpose" it's exposing those involved in the genocide, but also that he doesn't understand the importance of well regarded and indisputable legal processes in ensuring the prosecutions don't incite further sectarianism. He's such an ignorant tool
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Nov 28, 2017 23:30
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bike tory posted:Quin claims that "if my life has purpose" 
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Nov 28, 2017 23:32
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She did talk about it though. https://mobile.twitter.com/kirsty_johnston/status/935280379476418560
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Nov 28, 2017 23:52
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Sir John Key update: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11948852
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Nov 29, 2017 00:26
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So John Key is a lying sack of poo poo? The devil you say!
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Nov 29, 2017 02:15
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Man, the NZ media machine is pretty terrifying. The instant a brown woman sticks her head above the parapet, they turn into goddam snipers. May god have mercy on Marama Davidson.
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Nov 29, 2017 03:49
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Robo Captain posted:She did talk about it though. Haha I'm so glad he's made this his hill to die on then
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Nov 29, 2017 03:50
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https://dovjacobs.com/2017/11/28/a-ridiculous-attack-on-peter-robinson/ is a nice read.
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Nov 29, 2017 04:13
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Turns out there is a multi billion dollar hole in the government’s finances. Except it isn’t $11 billion like Joyce claimed, it is actually $20 billion and Joyce knew because he put it there. http://politik.co.nz/en/content/politics/1241/
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Nov 29, 2017 06:33
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Nov 29, 2017 07:24
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Wonder how long that took to type with one hand.
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Nov 29, 2017 07:38
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Varkk posted:Turns out there is a multi billion dollar hole in the government’s finances. Except it isn’t $11 billion like Joyce claimed, it is actually $20 billion and Joyce knew because he put it there.
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Nov 29, 2017 09:14
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Also, was at the 7 Days taping tonight, and they roasted Dave from Dunners pretty well. I hope they use Corbett's NZ on Air sting in its full.
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Nov 29, 2017 09:21
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Varkk posted:Turns out there is a multi billion dollar hole in the government’s finances. Except it isn’t $11 billion like Joyce claimed, it is actually $20 billion and Joyce knew because he put it there. I hope you like landmines! We are going to see more and more salt the Earth messes as Labour goes through the their portfolios. It's going to suck like every time the left gets in as it's has to spend so much energy fighting all these bush fires who then get blamed for said bush fires.
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So much for needing immigrants to find skill and jobs when we are increasingly not keeping the one we have trained locally. Thanks National for yet another land mine. https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018623546/indians-bearing-brunt-of-immigration-crackdown-advisors-say
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Nov 29, 2017 10:03
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In more anger inducing news... https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018623544/wendy-s-illegally-refused-staff-public-holiday-entitlements So Wendy's (and others) have been ripping off their staff by not giving a day in lieu for staff working on public holidays. At first I thought it was them altering their rosters to avoid having to pay people for public holidays by altering their rosters so they didn't work public holidays and as such didn't get paid for that day, which is scummy enough on its own. But no, these cunts were manipulating rosters and interpreting the law so that if you work on a public holiday you don't get a day in lieu. What a bunch of petty greedy cunts. Why is the answer always eat the rich.
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Nov 29, 2017 20:06
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ledge posted:In more anger inducing news... Is that the whole roster so it's not your normal day of work, then tell you to come in anyway? If so, Noel Leeming tried the same poo poo on all their warehouse staff for years. I know I fought them too and loving nail when I worked there. Harvey Normans too
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Nov 29, 2017 20:10
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It's giving you one Monday off two weeks before so that they can say "well you didn't work the last three because we altered that week, so even though the planned roster has you working it's not an ordinary working day for you".
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Nov 29, 2017 20:36
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Are they idiots or something? That is stupid illegal. Who would even think that is a good idea?
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Nov 29, 2017 20:42
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What gets me is the savings from shafting people making 15/hr for holiday pay and similar are loving miniscule compared to just figuring out ways to improve efficiency or better marketing or any number of actual business practices to improve profitability. It's just so incredibly petty and stupid even when if you ignore the moral aspects, it's like trying to reduce losses by taking away paper cups from the water cooler or something. Unrelated: does anyone here know anything about linux or better still some sort of resource to teach a neophyte how the gently caress to use linux? I've decided I need a hobby that doesn't involve engines or going outside.
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