i see statements like that and remember just how odd the situation in New Zealand is... more and more people have mobiles, but the old landlines just aren't going away. often getting upgraded and bundled with web services (and sometimes cable tv) but certainly not going away.
that said, for a fair number of people here a tv is simply a convenient VDU for consoles, DVD players,and, depending on the make, computers. though far more people still use it to watch free to air tv :D
to the best of my knowledge the lords are Part of parliament, actually.
as is the house of commons.
not sure about that though. i know that technically the monarch (or govener) is here... i say technically because we also have a speaker for the house, the governer generally never seems to do anything other than officially start and end things, and i have no idea if they ever even bother showing up anymore. but 'here' is not the UK...
never mind that attempting to follow 'first world' (ie, American) practices is a large part of why we're Not a first world country anymore. (though apparently we still pay first world level taxes...)
not the Only reason, but certainly up there.
(it still amuses me that the NZ$ was worth more than the US$ for a while...)
damnit. forgot to remove the 'less than' sign based smilies.. that's like, less than 1/6th of what i said, but i forget the rest. gah. had it set to plain text and everything.
anyway, was a big rant about us having political parties ranging from the useless to the dangerous, stupid voters, and then a general agreement with Sirknz.
also, it might make it through if it stays low profile enough that no outside pressure is applied to the government to change it, or if it ends up being used as a smoke screen to cover another attempt at dodgy copyright law changes.
side effect of people voting for National and Labour consistently.
National seems to think American practices are a good idea, while Labour, when it doesn't have actual Issues poping up that it has to keep on top of, seems to periodically decide it needs to implement social engineering projects, about half of which seem entirely designed to concentrate more power in the bureaucracy
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only in the south or in the mountains. near the coast you just get rain. Christchurch gets maybe one or two snowfalls a year, and you're lucky if it settles and sticks around for more than a day in the shade. Auckland is borderline tropical, at least in summer, and gets no snow. the mountains, on the other hand, get Lots, every year. we have plenty of ski fields :D
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that said, for a fair number of people here a tv is simply a convenient VDU for consoles, DVD players,and, depending on the make, computers. though far more people still use it to watch free to air tv :D
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yeeeah.
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as is the house of commons.
not sure about that though. i know that technically the monarch (or govener) is here... i say technically because we also have a speaker for the house, the governer generally never seems to do anything other than officially start and end things, and i have no idea if they ever even bother showing up anymore. but 'here' is not the UK...
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the vast majority of the general public are idiots...
(I'm reminded of Churchill's 'best argument against democracy'... then there's this comment thread :S )
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or possibly he could be pointing out that the thing won't inherently save them if they continue to be utterly incompetent...
you know, just maybe.
waiting for a Saviour won't get you anywhere if you don't act to the best of your ability in the meantime. you'll just starve waiting.
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just terrible execution in the posting department.
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not the Only reason, but certainly up there.
(it still amuses me that the NZ$ was worth more than the US$ for a while...)
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anyway, was a big rant about us having political parties ranging from the useless to the dangerous, stupid voters, and then a general agreement with Sirknz.
also, it might make it through if it stays low profile enough that no outside pressure is applied to the government to change it, or if it ends up being used as a smoke screen to cover another attempt at dodgy copyright law changes.
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National seems to think American practices are a good idea, while Labour, when it doesn't have actual Issues poping up that it has to keep on top of, seems to periodically decide it needs to implement social engineering projects, about half of which seem entirely designed to concentrate more power in the bureaucracy
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nothing to do with the quality of life, science, or anything else. (and technology in most areas kept right on progressing during them.)
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incredibly unlikely, but an amusing possibly.
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