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The rules are broken because my literal child labourers are not legally allowed to use any of the equipment they need to do their job.
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Jan 15, 2015 22:34
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fong posted:Oh its a hosed up industry, I totally agree. What assistance do you think farmers get, though? Fonterra certainly get plenty of help, whole divisions of our diplomacy service are basically marketing & sales departments for them, but the farmers themselves get gently caress all in NZ. The milk-shilling really just puts more pressure on to do more hosed up stuff.
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Jan 16, 2015 10:41
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Ironically it's probably the lack of subsidies that have done the most damage. Federated Farmers brag about how few (direct) subsidies New Zealand farmers get, and directly attribute the increased growth of the industry - mostly in dairy stock - to the removal of subsidies, even while they admit that in the same breath that actual farm profits are lower. The subtext being that if we hadn't cut off their subsidies, then farmers wouldn't have intensified as much as they did, and their decisions on things like the environment and labour wouldn't be wholly shaped by market pressures out of their control.
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Jan 17, 2015 03:14
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I don't know what more you could want from 100% Pure New Zealand™ other than my assurance that we are fully committed to the aspiration of our rivers one day being safe enough to wade in.
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Jan 17, 2015 03:35
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Slavvy posted:Can someone explain to me why they're always mentioning 'ratepayers' and how 'ratepayers will foot the bill' or whatever. Isn't that what rates are actually for? Like, if you pay rates (and other taxes), that's money leaving your pocket regardless of how it's used. You don't lose anything if the revenue is spent on things that aren't somehow directly economically beneficial. I mean, yeah, you'd still be paying for roads regardless, but your taxes shouldn't be going towards poo poo like building infrastructure and funding development for private companies that don't intend to pay that money back with interest or in dividends.
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Jan 17, 2015 05:25
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I just realised that while extending our urban sprawl from Henderson over the Waitakeres to fix our housing prices (it won't) is prima facie bad, it could also mean less farmland and therefore fewer farmers.
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Jan 18, 2015 22:42
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While I agree there is some significant regulation that has shaped Auckland's housing market for the worse, National seems to not realise there's any beyond the "hey guys, maybe try not making GBS threads up the entire countryside with loving quarter acres?" local regs. LA is a loving awful city and we really shouldn't be seeking to emulate its sprawl and dependence on motorways.
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Jan 18, 2015 22:54
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I haven't been on WINZ for a while now, but I spent a good 5 years doing contract/temp work and every now and then I'd hit a lull and need assistance. I hated every aspect of dealing with them, and they made me attend every idiot 'orientation' about writing a CV and applying for jobs even when I'd done it just three months earlier or when I was only needing assistance for a month before starting a new contract. I would honestly say I spent more time dealing with the bureaucracy of getting unemployment than I did actually getting another job.Infotainment! posted:Lol if you don't think John key beigely panders to the pink vote every chance he gets while his south Auckland mps vote against human rights for reasons of "community culture" just like labour.
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Jan 19, 2015 09:54
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Last I read Rangitoto is the only volcano with a chance of reactivating.
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Jan 20, 2015 00:34
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WarpedNaba posted:Because assassinating a head of state tends to cause problems for the nation, no matter how worthless he is. 
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Jan 21, 2015 05:01
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New Zealand Politics - BARONS CYBER SKULL's house raided by police to discover source of thread title leak
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Jan 21, 2015 05:25
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"In order to provide for an increase in Auckland's affordability we are removing Auckland Council's ability to set rates and control land supply, forming the Auckland Housing Authority which will report directly to Gerry Brownlee."
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Jan 22, 2015 10:10
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Slavvy specifically means the Road User Charge, which cyclists do not pay, and which is about half of the National Land Transport Programme's funding.
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Jan 27, 2015 07:45
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Slavvy posted:Don't get me started on how RUC applies equally to a multi-ton behemoth as it does to a 1.4 kia rio. 
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Jan 27, 2015 09:40
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It's not the same, it's similar. It's called a comparison.
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Jan 27, 2015 10:06
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The Rabbi T. White posted:What really appears to be happening there is people trying to do well by the environment with a nice new Golf TDi are being charged the same rate as trucks to subsidize the hauling companies. I have no evidence at all to prove this, but it seems the only logical explanation.
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Jan 27, 2015 12:34
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How dare she MOONLIGHT on her GOVERNMENT JOB and write a book. She should write books the correct way - on the unemployment benefit - and stop using government money to criticise the government. Oh wait.
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Jan 27, 2015 23:34
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The Hamster Man posted:But muuuuum, I said he was a human being as in a bundle of sticks, haven't you read the dictionary???
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Jan 28, 2015 11:26
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I don't know why you guys are posting Matrix characters that aren't the narcissistic dickhead who sells out humanity for the price of a comfortable lie.
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Jan 29, 2015 01:21
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Ivor Biggun posted:
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Jan 30, 2015 03:46
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Catton for office.
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Jan 30, 2015 10:05
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Did somebody glitterbomb her seconds before that was taken, or is she secretly a Twilight vampire? 
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Jan 30, 2015 12:57
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Key lied about when he had information 
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Feb 3, 2015 05:05
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Maybe we'll get lucky and tuhoe will have him for lunch.
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Feb 3, 2015 21:37
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The Left are hypocrites because they criticise me over not speaking out about other nation's human rights violations, but yet then they go and criticise me for trying to supply our allies with troops for a war fought with human rights violations on both sides in which our allies have historically used other nation's troops to circumvent the rule of law. Make up your minds! I'm going to send troops because it's the right thing to do even if it's not in our direct interests, but I'm also not going to speak out against our allies because that's not in our interests even if it's the right thing to do.
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Feb 5, 2015 03:36
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The ones the United States commits literally don't count because they don't recognise the Intentional Criminal Court so won't ever submit to it and have permanent veto on the Security Council so can't ever be punished for not doing so.
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Feb 5, 2015 03:52
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I misspelt something on the internet 
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Feb 5, 2015 04:32
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Slavvy posted:I'm staggered nobody has brought up the john key hairdye thing in here.
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Feb 11, 2015 22:45
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Butt Wizard posted:Also re: Sky City, 50% of the Herald's letters today and basically "John Key is a dick if he gives Sky City any money at all" - hard to imagine they'll ignore that level of opposition if it's got that much traction in something like the Herald.
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Feb 12, 2015 23:56
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I especially like that they confirmed tax payer money has been spent on the exhibition, but they aren't objecting to the exhibition just one specific item in it, but also their objection isn't to "the t-shirt per se" because that would make them look like idiot prudes who don't understand that an exhibit costs money to run but the individual items could be from private collections and not cost the museum anything extra to include.
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Feb 13, 2015 01:56
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To be fair, the person has taken the precaution of giving a false address to the authorities.
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Feb 13, 2015 03:36
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I think in the grand scheme of things it is worth standing with our allies against the wrongs of the world, regardless of how incidental they are to us as a nation. I also think, though, that doing so requires a level of selective participation where maybe the question should be asked if we are not simply contributing to more wrongs by doing so, such as the propping up of the Syrian government and endorsement of Kurdish cleansing that the current struggle with ISIS is causing due to the need for local allies, and there's of course the whole point that the whole Terrorism part of the War on Terrorism has grown out of decades of American interference and exploitation of xenophobia about American interference in the area in the first place, so it's just feeding into a cycle of lovely wars, fallen governments, and retreat into extremism. There are already nations with non-combat training troops on the ground that are engaging in direct combat because how do you tell people who want to kill you that you're only there to train others to fight them? On top of that, we're going to be training the Iraqi army - an army that's already had years of training and equipment from America and is reportedly still the least effective of all the combatants in the field and the largest source of ISIS arms. We absolutely should be doing peacekeeping and training missions, but we should be doing them with a holistic view of what regimes and interests, both local and foreign, that our actions are supporting.
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Feb 13, 2015 04:19
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It's mostly just goonery, but it would also be nice if the people we hire to shoot and capture for torture foreign nationals at the behest of our golfing partners were in it as a job rather than because they weren't enough of a sociopath to go into politics.
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Feb 15, 2015 11:58
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No, I'm just agreeing with a vague sentiment at the beginning of the military bashing that a portion of military recruits, regardless of how numerically large or small it may factually be in the New Zealand army, are there because they want to kill and harm people; and, I don't think they should be given the opportunity to do so. Most of the recruits I would guess are just regular people doing their job and defending the country/securing the world.
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Feb 15, 2015 12:17
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Sorry to have made you laugh, mate.
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Feb 15, 2015 21:21
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I would argue that the government needs to learn that more than the recruits.
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Feb 15, 2015 21:42
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There's no such thing as a non-combat role on the ground during an insurgency. The NZDF's role in Afghanistan was reconstruction. They lost 8 people to combat situations in two years.
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Feb 16, 2015 03:43
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Should pharmacists be free to refuse to supply the morning-after pill to women based on their personal assessment of the morality of it? 
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Feb 17, 2015 01:17
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I'm not even going to give them that much credit. Critical analysis of politics doesn't sell. It's the market, stupid.
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Feb 17, 2015 02:31
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The issue is that whether or not he actually did the thing as opposed to failed to be proved he did the thing is completely irrelevant. He was legally exonerated and therefore was jailed wrongfully. All of the necessary facts on his side are already in the government's own records.
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Feb 19, 2015 05:53
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