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    oh well, at least in reality you don't really have to choose, right...

    you guys can always have Mercedes and the BMW... :)

    [aside] i so don't get people who are real clingy an needy in relaish's. if you can't handle being away from your b/f [or g/f] well, you kinda need to get your own life. [i'm talking short periods of time here, not like, weeks or whatever] it's not as tho you go around as half a person until you find someone to make you 'complete'...

    that really gets me <_<

    *end rant*

    ^_^

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    right thas fine, and i see what you're getting at with not owning [temporarily guarding] any land unless you pay for it. but where do they make the boundaries as to what you can buy and how much it will cost you and why you're buying it etc etc? otherwise what's to stop someone buying Mission Bay an making it private [dunno why you would but for arguments sake], an how will that differ from a tiny beach in the middle of nowhere that someone wants to buy? this is waaaaay bigger than the government realised it would be...

    aside - surely the aborigines came from somewhere, as the maori people did? admittedly i don't know any aboriginal myths an legends...

    as for maori's being indigenous... if there was no one here before them, regardless of whether they migrated here or not wouldn't they still be the "original people [t]here"?

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    From NORML President Chris Fowlie, who believes testing will unfairly target cannibus users:

    "This is not about safety," Mr Fowlie said. "Does the moderate use of cannabis cause impairment? The research says it doesn't. In fact it can make you a safer driver because you are less likely to take risks."

    Doesn't it make your reaction time slower? How would that make you a safer driver?

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    Drug tests starting for drivers

    07.05.2004

    By JAMES GARDINER

    Drug testing of drivers will start next week with specially trained police stationed at drink-driving checkpoints.

    The testing will initially be voluntary, but police are counting on the overconfidence or irrationality of drug users for compliance.

    Drivers who pass the alcohol breath test but are thought to be impaired will be asked to undergo a series of tests including walking a straight line, standing on one leg, holding their heads back and touching their noses, and closing their eyes and estimating when 30 seconds have elapsed.

    :huh:

    i love that they're counting on people who they decide are probably "impaired" won't be able to make rational decisions... they do this in Britain where apparently "drivers were often keen to perform the tests because they had seen them on television "and they want to have a go". "

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    I would have thought that private title-holders would have paid for the land and its use and have relivant resource concents (at a guess). Taking something away from someone who paid for it would be quite an interesting exercise.

    point taken...

    Curiously, what resource is being taken away?

    i'm not sure. [yea i know, way to join in when i don't really know the story all that well] i would assume it would be the right to go to the Maori Land Court to make claims and have the ownership of the foreshore and seabed in various cases investigated? only in that is that not what brought this issue up...?

    some of those pakeha may have been actively using it.

    but there isn't a chance that some of those maori were actively using it as well?

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    i haven't had much of a chance to follow what's going on lately, but i did read something in the paper today that was of interest...

    "The problem is that this legislation is racist because only Maori will have the resource taken away and not the private titleholders, most of whom are Pakeha.

    "Non-Maori out there are saying that no one should own the foreshore and seabed and yet they don't kick up about the private titleholders."

    ...as i said i don't know the finer points of the legislation, but if this is correct, is it not a valid point? coz in a huge generalisation [was about to write what's considered an 'accurate generalisation'... bit of a massive conntradiction - maybe a more accepted generalisation?] wouldn't most of the private title holders be pakeha [thus unaffected?]? y'no, the people who sell the land to Shania Twain etc...

    completely aside - i should go to aut so i can use those "special rooms" and photocopiers huh? ...

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    most i can offer at the moment is $2000 which is less than half u want so i doubt it

    but if it doesnt sell i will have more money later on in the year and could proberbly meet ur price if i dont buy a car before then

    Yes you'd need to head up another grand 800 at least. And I wouldn't be cleaning it for that price :P
    oh... so the rest of the price is your fee for cleaning it? ;)

    haha, could be the car for me, i'm slowly gettin there wit my bmw knowledge [slowly being the operative word] to know what i want an don't want... i'm not sure that i'm keen on white, but y'no, that could grow on me :) the main thing seems to be reliability in terms of whether the seller is bs-ing about how good the car is [or isn't], an buying it from someone here gives me a li'l bit more "peace of mind" [yea, geekis insurance jargon]

    has it got all the power steering etc etc?? options??

    ya reckon it's a good 1st car then? :D

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    It means they're too low budget to have caller ID matching to their database on their call centre computers.  B)

    haha sounds about right... NZI is currently getting phone and software upgrades tho :D so they say ;)

    we have to do that "security check" more to update our records, because half the time there's something wrong on the postal, or the mobile phone number is old, or it has the default birthdate coz at the time of taking the insurance out they were unsure of their partner's DoB... as well as a lame attempt at confirming you are who you say you are...

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    its sad to see the stereotype of maori/polynesians being perpetuated.

    oh.

    my.

    gosh.

    *rant - lack of sense follows due to heapsa annoyance*

    tell me about it. it's so frustrating, no one needs to reinforce the negative stereotypes of maori/polynesian people... especially when there are so many people trying break like, the cliche, but then some idiot comes along and no one focuses on the positive when there's a negative around.

    *end rant*

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    i work full time in insurance. it's neat. really. <_<

    nah i'm pretty much on the computer full time, so have loads of stuff open to entertain me and distract me from doing actual work... ;)

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