I thought it would be piss-easy to immigrate to NZ. Either:
Be born in the South Pacific.
Have a reasonable amount of money (enough to buy a small flat in London or New York) and offer to set up a business there, especially in a rural area.
Have a relationship with a kiwi of either gender (supporting documentation is required if your country does not support gay marriage yet).
Go on the points system, which changes each year according to demand. Try to speak English, have a degree, be youngish, and have a useful skill.
Over the past few decades net immigration has been pretty much zero (as many going out as coming in) so it hasn't been that hard. What people (on both sides of the Tasman) get annoyed at is people getting NZ citizenship and then pissing off to Australia the first chance they get.
That's what the US is trying to force the EU to do. If the US has its way, they only way to buy GM free foods will be on a personal level; to stop eating out, stop eating processed foods, and only buy food from specialist shops where the provenance of the food can be guaranteed (as was common in the 1950s, but people these days want to have both the convenience of supermarkets and the knowledge that their food is what they expect it to be), instead of on a collective level. Jose Bove might be fine with following that but I am not.
You can't say "it's your choice to buy it or not" and then sue us in the WTO to make it not our choice. Americans are a bunch of hypocrits when it comes to enforcing things on others that they would never submit to themselves. e.g. I didn't see you buying a lot of our BSE contaminated beef.
It seems they couldn't be bothered making a file for New Zealand. Do they think our government is too lazy to abuse human rights our something? There must be something they can criticise!
For example there are still some disputes about sorting out some stuff that happened in the 1860s that violated the treaty of 1840.
"Australia officially abolished capital punishment nationwide, under the Crimes (Death Penalty Abolition) Amendment Act 1985. Under Commonwealth law, the Death Penalty was abolished in 1973 by Section 4 of the Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973.
The last state-sanctioned execution was the hanging of Ronald Joseph Ryan on February 03, 1967. His execution stopped the nation, literally. The hanging created the biggest public outrage ever seen in the history of Australia, that no person was executed ever again."
Fiscal conservatives realize that the REAL way to spur the economy is to put the money into the hands of the people, NOT the government.
You have a different idea of fiscal conservatism than is usual. The idea I subscribe to not racking up trillions of dollars of debt if you don't have to. If you buy stuff on credit, you have to pay interest. If you let that get away from you, you end up paying a lot of interest.
As for "trickle-down": It didn't work in Russia, it didn't work in Africa, and it didn't work in the USA. If you give the money to the idle rich, they just sit on it in swiss bank accounts. If you give it to the middle class, they might invest it locally or spend it.
...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. (quote from some slaveowners)
And we'll kill/imprison/make unhappy anyone who disagrees with us! 100,000 dead and counting...
If you force your people to pray to one god and the women to wear masks around all over the place, you are wrong. Period.
That is probably more likely to happen in Iraq now than before. I would guess christians in iraq are more nervous now. I don't know whether even a good plan would have improved the fundamentals of that though. Germans voted for Hitler. Many Americans voted for Bush. A significant number of europeans would vote for parties that would reduce democracy. Iranians voted for the revolutionaries IIRC. Iraqis could do the same.
IIRC there was a tradition that the speaker of the icelandic ruling body had to recite the entire body of law from memory each year. Any that he missed out was revoked...
I have heard from a friend of a neighour of a friend etc. that PS2 controllers have appeared on a top-shelf pr0n magazine, and also images of people playing Wolf3d and other games in a hardcore video...
this dodgy website. I am using 1.0 RC1 at the moment and it often renders this site very badly, hiding the text in negative-X land. Perhaps I should have stuck to internet explorer, which this site is obviously designed for.
e.g. in the UK a while back the harrassment of people who look vaguely like or have similar names to people who were "named and shamed" by a national newspaper.
Canadian Salmon? They're probably not even genetically modifed, as any good honest three-eyed US salmon would be.
BTW I note that CITES has just legalised killing American Bald Eagles. Some countries don't give enough respect to their national symbols! Mind you, think of all those maple trees that canadians torture by slow bleeding...
Well perhaps by analogy import sales of NTSC consoles outpaces import sales of PAL consoles in europe, for example, but that does not mean that NTSC will be mass market there. There is a distinction between luxury niche and mass-market.
e.g. the story that the US govt. was complaining to Japan that they weren't buying enough US cars, threatening them and saying it must be due to illegal tactics.
Perhaps they might have bought more if the US car companies had bothered to put the steering wheel on the correct (right) side of the car.
Well it has Halo, and now Fable. That might be *almost* enough to buy it for, along with Sudeki and the Rare game. Not as much as the PS2 or gamecube, but if you have all the good games for them already it might be worth having.
But I would have to buy another shelf big enough to put it on which would be inconvenient...
In the UK anyway there is no old-style PS2 (judging from last weekend). Sony must have stopped making them. The shops just have signs up saying they will have the new slimline PS2 when Sony bothers to manufacture them. Otherwise you can buy a gamecube or Xbox if you can't wait:-)
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Over the past few decades net immigration has been pretty much zero (as many going out as coming in) so it hasn't been that hard. What people (on both sides of the Tasman) get annoyed at is people getting NZ citizenship and then pissing off to Australia the first chance they get.
That's what the US is trying to force the EU to do. If the US has its way, they only way to buy GM free foods will be on a personal level; to stop eating out, stop eating processed foods, and only buy food from specialist shops where the provenance of the food can be guaranteed (as was common in the 1950s, but people these days want to have both the convenience of supermarkets and the knowledge that their food is what they expect it to be), instead of on a collective level. Jose Bove might be fine with following that but I am not.
You can't say "it's your choice to buy it or not" and then sue us in the WTO to make it not our choice. Americans are a bunch of hypocrits when it comes to enforcing things on others that they would never submit to themselves. e.g. I didn't see you buying a lot of our BSE contaminated beef.
For example there are still some disputes about sorting out some stuff that happened in the 1860s that violated the treaty of 1840.
Isn't Sophear a cambodian name?
"Australia officially abolished capital punishment nationwide, under the Crimes (Death Penalty Abolition) Amendment Act 1985. Under Commonwealth law, the Death Penalty was abolished in 1973 by Section 4 of the Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973.
The last state-sanctioned execution was the hanging of Ronald Joseph Ryan on February 03, 1967. His execution stopped the nation, literally. The hanging created the biggest public outrage ever seen in the history of Australia, that no person was executed ever again."
So he doesn't even need a snooker? And he's conceding? :-(
Well that's the labour party safe then!
You have a different idea of fiscal conservatism than is usual. The idea I subscribe to not racking up trillions of dollars of debt if you don't have to. If you buy stuff on credit, you have to pay interest. If you let that get away from you, you end up paying a lot of interest.
As for "trickle-down": It didn't work in Russia, it didn't work in Africa, and it didn't work in the USA. If you give the money to the idle rich, they just sit on it in swiss bank accounts. If you give it to the middle class, they might invest it locally or spend it.
And we'll kill/imprison/make unhappy anyone who disagrees with us! 100,000 dead and counting...
If you force your people to pray to one god and the women to wear masks around all over the place, you are wrong. Period.
That is probably more likely to happen in Iraq now than before. I would guess christians in iraq are more nervous now. I don't know whether even a good plan would have improved the fundamentals of that though. Germans voted for Hitler. Many Americans voted for Bush. A significant number of europeans would vote for parties that would reduce democracy. Iranians voted for the revolutionaries IIRC. Iraqis could do the same.
For some strange reason the farmers' party kept getting elected...
IIRC there was a tradition that the speaker of the icelandic ruling body had to recite the entire body of law from memory each year. Any that he missed out was revoked...
I have heard from a friend of a neighour of a friend etc. that PS2 controllers have appeared on a top-shelf pr0n magazine, and also images of people playing Wolf3d and other games in a hardcore video...
(I meant Preview Release, of course), but slashslow doesn't allow you to update comments that quickly.
this dodgy website. I am using 1.0 RC1 at the moment and it often renders this site very badly, hiding the text in negative-X land. Perhaps I should have stuck to internet explorer, which this site is obviously designed for.
e.g. in the UK a while back the harrassment of people who look vaguely like or have similar names to people who were "named and shamed" by a national newspaper.
BTW I note that CITES has just legalised killing American Bald Eagles. Some countries don't give enough respect to their national symbols! Mind you, think of all those maple trees that canadians torture by slow bleeding...
Access denied from here in the UK. I wonder if there is an exception so that Tony Blair can look at dubyas website.
IIRC that was one of the reasons given for introducing region coding (*spit*) to DVDs.
Well perhaps by analogy import sales of NTSC consoles outpaces import sales of PAL consoles in europe, for example, but that does not mean that NTSC will be mass market there. There is a distinction between luxury niche and mass-market.
Maybe Ford does not see itself exclusively as a luxury novelty. In other countries, it sells to the mass market.
I thought that was a PC game, like Neverwinter Nights.
Perhaps they might have bought more if the US car companies had bothered to put the steering wheel on the correct (right) side of the car.
But I would have to buy another shelf big enough to put it on which would be inconvenient...
In the UK anyway there is no old-style PS2 (judging from last weekend). Sony must have stopped making them. The shops just have signs up saying they will have the new slimline PS2 when Sony bothers to manufacture them. Otherwise you can buy a gamecube or Xbox if you can't wait :-)
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