If you are looking for a way to kill 5 mins at the end of the day, this tool/quiz to help you decide whether you like MMP or FPP is interesting… I must say I felt weird after doing the quiz as I wasn’t sure it accurately represented my feelings. Preconceptions are there to be …
Category Archive: Politics
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Aug
03
2011
Greens on poverty
The Green party has recently released their policy program for helping the poor: [Turei's] party wants to extend Working For Families tax credits by $60 a week for the poorest 140,000 households, reinstate the Training Incentive Allowance for university-level courses to help beneficiaries get educated and into work, raise the minimum wage to $15 an …
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Jan
27
2011
Comic government test
Look at this comic right now, before reading any other comments or anything I have to say. Via SMBC Then, if you can be bothered, write in the comments your first impression regarding what this comic implied about government. Brief comment from me under the fold.
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Jan
20
2010
Apparently China needs censorship because Chinese people are stupid….
….that is the justification offered by a Chinese journalist in this article related to the Google vs China row (blow by blow at Ars technica here). This quote is shocking: The Chinese society has generally less information bearing capacity than developed countries such as the U.S., which is an objective reality that no one can …
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Dec
10
2009
F**k being a banker …
Seriously, so the UK is going to arbitrarily tax bonuses at 50% because they are not “generating real wealth” they are just “rent seeking” (Will Hutton and Paul Krugman feel this way). Wow. The decision to pay a wage, or a bonus, is voluntary. Given that these bankers are creating sufficient value through their work …
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Jun
30
2009
The carbon emission circus is coming to town
Late last week the Government announced that they were running a public consultation on the emissions target for 2020. The Government already have a long term goal of reducing carbon emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2050. Long term goals tend to work quite well for Governments as it gives the public the idea …
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