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Messages - doberman-08
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« on: April 01, 2016, 10:26:09 pm »
It warrants having another vote in 10 years time. By then, there will be a whole new generation of voters, (and a whole generation of older voters who grew up with the current flag would have died off).
That's wishful thinking  I'm counting on modern medicine to intervene and give me another shot
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« on: December 25, 2015, 05:23:00 pm »
Merry Xmas
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« on: December 21, 2015, 08:01:04 pm »
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« on: December 14, 2015, 06:03:57 pm »
Mae West
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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« on: December 14, 2015, 12:35:42 pm »
*sigh*
How can you even paint your house without paint existing.
Never did like that debate in Metaphysics 
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« on: December 14, 2015, 11:37:58 am »
It's been stated many times before, asking the question "do we want to the change flag?" without first presenting the alternative option, is a stupid idea.
Would you agree to have your house painted a different colour, without knowing what colour?
Choosing the alternative flag first is logically the best way of doing it.
Apparently those that did the polling don't agree with the sentiment that it is stupid and considering they got a good response to that question says it all. Why would you want to change your house colour, the old adage applies if it isn't broken don't fix it The only reasons to paint the house a different colour would be: you are doing maintenance; trying to improve it for sales purposes; or, you are genuinely sick of the old colour. Either way you still need to ask the question.
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« on: December 14, 2015, 09:07:46 am »
It kind of says it all, this, from ODT on Saturday "The vote included what appeared to be a significant protest element, with 9.7% of votes informal.
The Electoral Commission said last night 1,527,042 votes were received, including 148,022 informal votes (9.7%) and 2476 invalid votes (0.16%).
The turnout was 48.16% of registered voters". If the Finance Minster thinks this was strong public interest he shouldn't be handling my money for much longer.
Well, I look at those same numbers and come to the opposite conclusions.
9.7% of votes informal, but I not sure what they are protesting against. They didn't like any of the flags? Well too bad. Not everyone can have the flag they want, that is why we have to vote for it.
Fortunately, the democratic process doesn't cater to the minority, but for the majority.
48.16% of registered voters is quite good, on par with other postal votes, and higher then many local government elections.
9.7% is very high for a protest vote according to Pol Studies lecturer Dr Bryce Edwards from Otago Uni, he stated that 1% was normal. The protest vote may well be more about changing the flag and not the options if i have read the poll results right. NZ Herald on 24 November reported that 65% of those polled did not want the change. If that is the case then following on the polls the better question being asked in the referendum should have been about whether we wanted a change at all. For my money it means only 38.4% actually voted for any flag option/change, so still not seeing strong public interest.
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« on: December 13, 2015, 03:42:01 pm »
The Blue / Black Fern design won.
Followed closely by the Blue / Red Fern design.
Red Peak was a distant third.
Didnt vote.
Hate everyone who voted.
http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/flag-result-causing-debate-2015121208#axzz3u34pdGGv
Deputy Prime Minister Bill English says the result shows strong public interest in the future of the nation's flag.
It was Prime Minister John Key's decision to put a flag change in front of voters and let them decide.
He played you.
He played all of you like a puppet.
It kind of says it all, this, from ODT on Saturday "The vote included what appeared to be a significant protest element, with 9.7% of votes informal. The Electoral Commission said last night 1,527,042 votes were received, including 148,022 informal votes (9.7%) and 2476 invalid votes (0.16%). The turnout was 48.16% of registered voters". If the Finance Minster thinks this was strong public interest he shouldn't be handling my money for much longer.
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« on: November 15, 2015, 06:54:53 pm »
my favourite has always been free flight
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« on: November 15, 2015, 06:41:48 pm »
Fuck credit rating.
The reason the world is turning to shit.
it is causing a whole heap of heartache 
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« on: October 06, 2015, 07:12:27 pm »
nah mate local iwi claimed the rights
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« on: October 05, 2015, 07:05:08 pm »
Wild West Coast
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« on: February 16, 2013, 04:43:15 pm »
pointless you posting then
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« on: February 16, 2013, 04:10:38 pm »
Very sad news, my condolences Non
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« on: April 25, 2012, 03:54:26 pm »
Hubble Peeks Inside a Stellar Cloud  Bright stars, shining through what looks like a haze in the night sky, are part of a young stellar grouping in one of the largest known star formation regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The image was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.
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« on: April 10, 2012, 10:10:21 am »
ATV-3 Approaches the Station  In this photo taken from the International Space Station, the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) is seen on approach for docking. The unmanned cargo spacecraft docked to the space station at 6:31 p.m. EDT on March 28, 2012. The ATV-3 delivered 220 pounds of oxygen, 628 pounds of water, 4.5 tons of propellant and nearly 2.5 tons of dry cargo. Among other items, the station crew received experiment hardware, spare parts, food and clothing.
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« on: March 09, 2012, 07:57:52 am »
Hubble Views Grand Star-Forming Region 
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« on: March 08, 2012, 03:18:25 pm »
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« on: March 07, 2012, 03:52:05 pm »
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« on: March 07, 2012, 07:28:24 am »
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« on: March 03, 2012, 08:53:17 am »
Merging Galaxy Cluster Abell 520  This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520, formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters. The natural-color image of the galaxies was taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.
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« on: February 28, 2012, 07:51:37 am »
Eastern Seaboard at Night  An Expedition 30 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of much of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Large metropolitan areas and other easily recognizable sites from the Virginia/Maryland/Washington, D.C. area are visible in the image that spans almost to Rhode Island. Boston is just out of frame at right. Long Island and the New York City area are visible in the lower right quadrant. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are near the center. Parts of two Russian vehicles parked at the orbital outpost are seen in left foreground. This image was taken on Feb. 6, 2012.
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« on: February 25, 2012, 01:16:56 pm »
Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova  NASA's Hubble Telescope captured an image of Eta Carinae. This image consists of ultraviolet and visible light images from the High Resolution Channel of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The field of view is approximately 30 arcseconds across. The larger of the two stars in the Eta Carinae system is a huge and unstable star that is nearing the end of its life, and the event that the 19th century astronomers observed was a stellar near-death experience. Scientists call these outbursts supernova impostor events, because they appear similar to supernovae but stop just short of destroying their star. Although 19th century astronomers did not have telescopes powerful enough to see the 1843 outburst in detail, its effects can be studied today. The huge clouds of matter thrown out a century and a half ago, known as the Homunculus Nebula, have been a regular target for Hubble since its launch in 1990. This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys High Resolution Channel, is the most detailed yet, and shows how the material from the star was not thrown out in a uniform manner, but forms a huge dumbbell shape. Eta Carinae is one of the closest stars to Earth that is likely to explode in a supernova in the relatively near future (though in astronomical timescales the "near future" could still be a million years away). When it does, expect an impressive view from Earth, far brighter still than its last outburst: SN 2006gy, the brightest supernova ever observed, came from a star of the same type, though from a galaxy over 200 million light-years away. Image Credit: ESA/NASA
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« on: February 17, 2012, 07:14:17 am »
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« on: February 10, 2012, 04:28:17 pm »
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