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Well seems like the slashdot crowd havent heard about the recent NZ police porn scandal (which has been a huge deal in the media!)

Streaming video of news: http://www.xtra.co.nz/streaming/0,,10550-4309851-3 00,00.html

txt: http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11981-4311659,00.html

"A police audit has found that about 20 percent of email capacity was taken up with pornographic images, and 300 officers are under investigation for having pornography on work computers. "

now, perhaps monitoring software could have at least prevented the email exchange of porn, would have made it a whole lot less embarrassing for the police!

They've been hyping this for years, and while the telecom crash of the early 2000s kicked the chair out from under their business plans, they'd still be really really cool if they ever deployed the bloody things.

By the way, their PR mockup picture of the Stratellite looks amazingly like the whale in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

That strategy can have some nasty reprocusions, you might consider a different one.

Europeans also have MUCH higher tax rates, higher unemployment, and lower economic growth rates.

I can't speak for Europe, but I can speak for New Zealand. New Zealand has Universal Healthcare (as well as a parallel private system if you're willing to pay), long unemployment benefits, and many of the other features attributed to western european countries.

New Zealand has an unemployment rate of 3.6% which is very respectable, and a decent economic growth rate.

And as for taxes - I can give a good comparison there: For a time I was working in New Zealand and my brother was working in the US. We were earning the same salary in local currency. After tax (including social security payments, state taxes, and all the rest) I had more cash in hand than my rother. In practical terms New Zealand had a lower tax rate than the US.

New Zealand is far from perfect (it has many problems in fact), but it is an example that universal healthcare and unemplyment benefits needn't result in Europe's tax, unemployment and growth rates.

Please note that I am neither advocating for or against either the US or European style of doing things here, merely pointing out that your correlation doesn't always hold up.

Jedidiah.

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Do It Yourself kit

Don't fret. It's not an English invention but actually another (along with powered flight) New Zealand invention.

4x4 Evolution, Grand Turismo, all those racing games that let you drive an actual car. It's been going on for a while. GT3 was the only advertising platform for the Subaru Impreza, and after 2 years it began to sell in the U.S. and Europe. GO get 'em
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report on xtra show's thier is ~40,000 "BugBear" hits per day...

i think i get ~50 of those per day, but..

it's good thing i don't have any e-mail account's (or addresses) on my office..

i use mozilla as my mail client :)

Money helps but it also comes down to ideas and being a nation of sailors.

Get your red socks on

No red sock campaign :-(

You can hardly say that it is just technology that wins. This guy has been sailing Optimists and P Classes since he was a young lad. You can hardly call a 1947 and a 1923 desgined boat state of the art. The optimist is a complete pig to sail and he still won in that, even though all the boats were one design

What makes him a good sailor is years of skill, practice and a city where sailing is part of your school ciriculum from when you are 10 years old.

Also technology is making the sport a lot better to watch check out the Virtual Spectator software. cool.

Rock on Team New Zealand and hope we can keep the cup again!

/b

the US cannot run a military campaign to save themselves