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Comment on How Much damage Can One Lobby Group Do? by M Freitas

M Freitas — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:45:31 +0000

Yep… Astro-turfing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing) is bad, and most of the times people doing it understand the damages once you explain it. But some are just idiots.

Comment on How Much damage Can One Lobby Group Do? by Rory

Rory — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:06:52 +0000

Lobby groups can indeed do a hell of a damage specially if their position are ultra winged. We can all end up eating biologically altered food that would in the long term make us into something we are not supposed to be!

Comment on Lobby Groups, Vested Interests and Short Sightedness by How Much damage Can One Lobby Group Do? at diversity.net.nz

How Much damage Can One Lobby Group Do? at diversity.net.nz — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:17:32 +0000

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Comment on My Thoughts on Coffee by Veronica

Veronica — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:34:19 +0000

McDonald’s mocha coffee is actually not half-bad. Well, for McDonald’s, anyway…

Comment on Pacific Fibre – Part Two by Builder Christchurch

Builder Christchurch — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:30:09 +0000

There must be a loop as well. The Pacific must be circumfiber opticed from US going to NZ, AU, EAST ASIA, ARTIC then back to US via Canada!

Comment on Pacific Fibre – Part Two by SMINA

SMINA — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:51:39 +0000

Ben,

this brings back a conversation we had at the first Cloud Camp in Auckland last year: Someone-please refresh my memory- had a dream that New Zealand should be the next data center of the world….so yeah, Google could be interested, let’s just become another server farm? How about Fonterra coming to the party as well, their IT can certainly be leveraged once the fibre is in?….

Comment on Pacific Fibre – It Had to Happen by SMINA

SMINA — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:44:35 +0000

Great “Intent” but seriously:
1. Who in NZ will want to open their wallet to participate?
2. What is the value add to businesses here knowing that most businesses’ culture is to “limit” access to the internet because it is perceived as unproductive?
3. Where is the public offering to invest?
my 2 cents: There is definitely a great deal of cash loaded risks adverse people in this country, yet, there is also a generation of “my New Zealand, my future, my asset” that are eager to invest into profitable assets for their country.
2 million people, 100 dollars each….. when can we subscribe?

Comment on Pacific Fibre – It Had to Happen by Jeremy Wilson

Jeremy Wilson — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:30:22 +0000

Great news! I’m over in Singapore at the moment and its hard not to foresee a huge gap between New Zealand and the world as countries such as this develop full fibre coverage and links with other major networks.

These pipes will be critical for New Zealand businesses to keep up.

Comment on Pacific Fibre – Part Two by Miki Szikszai

Miki Szikszai — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:29:20 +0000

Yeah – I am not joking. The Kordia release right now sends a clear signal that one decent sized telco/ISP will be interested in this (Orcon via Kordia). Keep them rolling people…

Comment on Pacific Fibre – Part Two by Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:20:49 +0000

Miki – don’t jest…. We have water (and cold water at that). We’ve got electricity. We have resource. Add in some pipes and we have the perfect stage for a pac rim data centre play…