good grief. can't they at least keep their stupid on their own side of the pacific?
freakin' politicians.
worst part is the same government will probably get back in because, gasp, earthquake.
somehow people are too dim to realise that 'oh, there was a big disaster and they didn't screw up following the preexisting contingency plans and their general massive increase in direct power didn't imeidately cause my house to burn down' is a good reason not to replace them, despite repeated screw ups of this nature (and outright failure to deliver on promisies, lies, general sneakery, and acting against the public interest)
here abouts we have a left wing who screw up due to mistaking the map for the teritory (ideology vs reality) but at least mostly try to do right by the people usualy (with varying degrees of success) and right wing who screw up due to little more than greed and insist on enacting policies that benifit a Very few rich people here and a whole lot of over seas investors/forigen corporations... and no one else. (policies that don't even benifit the former in the long run :S)
wonderful choice really.
(actually, go a little further around the seating layout and you get to some Really interesting nutjobs... and some compleatly inefectual centerists (not that centerists are inherantly ineffectual, just that our centerist parties suck.)
internet. it crosses borders. only people who need to have staff in the state being sold into at any time are the shipping companies (who do pay all relivant taxes, one assumes)
*laughs* well, once upon a time it might have been a reasonable assumption, in general, due to the social situation at the time (largely lack of opertunity :P)... of course, the ones who conform to this thought also don't end up anywhere near that sort of high ranking job in the corrupt system that is big business and government.
that word 'often' is important too, of course.
it's the part that makes the statement true. heh.
i seem to remember something about underfunding leading to drug smugglers having their boats impounded... then the boats get auctioned off to cover costs and the smugglers buy them right back...
but i can't for the life of me remember the source for that bit of information so it's reliability is, of course, nill.
*wishes for an edit button once more*
though much as it technically says what he said he wanted it to say, taking the words invididually, the phrase as a whole has a more specific meaning that is contrary to what he's trying to say, thus, bad wording.
pretty sure we had a huge argument in the comments last time that amounted to anti-mike-people arguing that he was making false accusations and anti-anti-mike people arguing that it was compleatly true and a few sane people going 'ummm... he worded that really badly'.
same wording as this time, if memory serves. problem is, this does Technically mean what mike wants it to, and is snappy. all the clearer alternatives are... not.
ehhh, i figure it's a reasonable, possibly good, idea... with a lot of potentual for abuse. one of those 'let's see if it pans out and hope it's worth the risk' things that i'd have no problem doing if i were running the place... but would be rather dubious about if i were an employee and didn't know the boss, personally, to not be the sort to abuse such...
yeeeeeeah, there's a reason why most New Zealanders i talk to hold an opinion reguardin the US something to the effect of 'well, i don't Hate them... don't realy care on the whole. But i wish they'd just go away and leave us alone'. ... the degree of vehemence varies.
personally, i'm of the opinion that the whole issue is but a symptom of the entrenched culture, which Obama is a product of. so, frankly, the idiots need to shut up about 'wah, it's all Obama's fault, evil communist' *stifles laughter at the idea that ANY american politician could be considered left wing and actually get anywhere* and 'no, no, Obama can do no wrong because it's all bush/the system's fault'.
fact is, the system is broken, and Obama, so far as i can tell, is not making it better, and is infact perpetuating the downward spiral. so... both half right, all stupid for arguing over it rather than realising the problem and looking into viable solutions.
of course, we currently have a National government, not a Labour government. The Labour government was the one that didn't change the terrorism laws. the National government is the one that changed the copyright laws. (and looks set to sell off the Christchurch City Council's assets, including utility companies, under cover of rebuilding from the earthquake. almost inevitably to US interests who gut it for all it's worth, wreck it, then either con the government into buying it back to keep it functional or sell it to Other forigen interests who do the same. that's what's happened to everything ELSE they've done that to,, anyway.)
that requires an alternative. the system is such that alternatives have no hope. representative democracy is about Stability, not the will of the people.
problem is, trademarks are supposed to be a Consumer protection, but are being lumped in with IP.
seems to me that Trademarks should be one of those things where there's an authority with a list and They come down on people who are violating the trademark, after investigating if such biolation actually exists, after having a report of such. there shouldn't be an adversarial court case involved unless someone is appealing the outcome... or at least, that's what i'd think. of course, you still have regulatory capture issues, but meh *Ishrugs*
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New Zealand is a compleatly different country on the other side of the pacific.
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good grief. can't they at least keep their stupid on their own side of the pacific?
freakin' politicians.
worst part is the same government will probably get back in because, gasp, earthquake.
somehow people are too dim to realise that 'oh, there was a big disaster and they didn't screw up following the preexisting contingency plans and their general massive increase in direct power didn't imeidately cause my house to burn down' is a good reason not to replace them, despite repeated screw ups of this nature (and outright failure to deliver on promisies, lies, general sneakery, and acting against the public interest)
here abouts we have a left wing who screw up due to mistaking the map for the teritory (ideology vs reality) but at least mostly try to do right by the people usualy (with varying degrees of success) and right wing who screw up due to little more than greed and insist on enacting policies that benifit a Very few rich people here and a whole lot of over seas investors/forigen corporations... and no one else. (policies that don't even benifit the former in the long run :S)
wonderful choice really.
(actually, go a little further around the seating layout and you get to some Really interesting nutjobs... and some compleatly inefectual centerists (not that centerists are inherantly ineffectual, just that our centerist parties suck.)
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internet. it crosses borders. only people who need to have staff in the state being sold into at any time are the shipping companies (who do pay all relivant taxes, one assumes)
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such things as 'my party didn't win, therefore it's corruption' (facts and reality aside) make this standard an issue.
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it's the part that makes the statement true. heh.
i seem to remember something about underfunding leading to drug smugglers having their boats impounded... then the boats get auctioned off to cover costs and the smugglers buy them right back...
but i can't for the life of me remember the source for that bit of information so it's reliability is, of course, nill.
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though much as it technically says what he said he wanted it to say, taking the words invididually, the phrase as a whole has a more specific meaning that is contrary to what he's trying to say, thus, bad wording.
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same wording as this time, if memory serves. problem is, this does Technically mean what mike wants it to, and is snappy. all the clearer alternatives are... not.
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when it changes landmasses and is inhabited primaraly by those who's national identity is russian. :P
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the key to this, as in all things, is balance. just keep in mind that the balance point is rarely the absolute center.
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yeeeeeeah, there's a reason why most New Zealanders i talk to hold an opinion reguardin the US something to the effect of 'well, i don't Hate them... don't realy care on the whole. But i wish they'd just go away and leave us alone'. ... the degree of vehemence varies.
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fact is, the system is broken, and Obama, so far as i can tell, is not making it better, and is infact perpetuating the downward spiral. so... both half right, all stupid for arguing over it rather than realising the problem and looking into viable solutions.
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seems to me that Trademarks should be one of those things where there's an authority with a list and They come down on people who are violating the trademark, after investigating if such biolation actually exists, after having a report of such. there shouldn't be an adversarial court case involved unless someone is appealing the outcome... or at least, that's what i'd think. of course, you still have regulatory capture issues, but meh *Ishrugs*
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