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Comment on Tourism: At What Price. A Treatise on Authenticity by Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:42:36 +0000

@Scott - but it’s fake - authnticity is king
@rich - your comment raises a number of issues - I’m not brave enough to raise them here @zoli - you will see some soon!

Comment on Tourism: At What Price. A Treatise on Authenticity by Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:23:09 +0000

Ben, I hope you’ll treat us to a few great Flickr albums

Comment on Tourism: At What Price. A Treatise on Authenticity by richie rich

richie rich — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:22:53 +0000

I think that Waiotapu is actually a scenic reserve – acquired by the Crown around 1900. By 1908, the only (!) significant Maori-owned thermal area in the Rotorua region was at Tikitere. Your sensitivity to the environment may have led you to overlook this greater cultural inauthenticity.
And anyway, what’s the difference between chucking something into a geyser to make it spurt and (for example) fencing off a valley & killing the introduced mammals so that we can enjoy gawking at endangered species.
In NZ, natural (ie left without human impact) means possums, rats, stoats etc running amok, forest collapse and the rest.

Comment on Tourism: At What Price. A Treatise on Authenticity by Scott

Scott — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:23:29 +0000

It’s only the equivalent of washing powder, right? And it does get spat back out… Not too a big a deal given that many tourists will have flown here from the other side of the world.

Comment on Diary of a Site Owner - Chapter 1; Breathe deep, breathe deep by David MacGregor

David MacGregor — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:45:30 +0000

Looks like it could be the lyric to a musical.
Is Leonard Bernstein still alive?

Comment on Peter Griffin on FTTH… by The UM

The UM — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:32:38 +0000

“Because it is hypocritical to say you want a roading network, a schooling system and to say you dont want the internet. ”

To YOU Jacob, to you. If you want and or need synchronis fast internet speeds, pay for it like every other business. (btw good on you if you have a digital business).

My point is, that without businesses to use the internet the investments pointless. FTTH is even more pointless…fast facebook? Better Youtube? if you are running a business from home, then fair enough…but again pay for it.

Comparing our speeds to Japan is a fools errand. They have a population density and digital economy that means investment is much more easily justified.
Finally a 10% Roi is nothing. Cost of capital is currently sitting at what ? 6%? that means 4% return. just (JUST) over the return from putting it in the bank. That is not a good investment pure and simple

Comment on Peter Griffin on FTTH… by Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:09:43 +0000

Excuse me mate I need synchronous up/down internet. And excuse me for saying this but if you don’t want and need fibre do you not want and need a roading network. Because it is hypocritical to say you want a roading network, a schooling system and to say you dont want the internet. And guess what, your already on the internet so I guess you lied!. I guess you do want the internet because your already using it.

And you completely fail to see that this is essentially a highly profitable business venture that the national lead government is going on. The government will guarantee a 10% interest on all bonds that company’s who enter the ppp will get on every dollar they invest. So that means that they are sure that it will be returning more than 10%pa. Because they wouldn’t have said they will guarantee it if it wouldn’t happen as they would lose money.

And a guaranteed 10% return on money invested into the fibre network will provide a steady, safe and stable investment for the governments money put into this. And as a bonus we will be getting better services for less than I pay for mine. This is a business in devour which will provide the government with a fair return for their investments and also lower the price of it for our company’s in new zealand. After all we can not compete with overseas company’s if all our company’s costs are higher than their overseas competitors.

And just to point this out I am shure that many people complained when the government made their national fibre grid, or when they put roading in. And yet I do not see them complaining now. And do not forget that this will take time to build. By the time we build it and get 100/100 plans japan will undoubtably be at 10Gbps which is an increase of 10x their current best plans which are 1Gbps and are 10x the speed of their previous best plans. And most people in japan are on the 100/100 plans so yes their is demmand. After all they are consuming it… So shut it..

Comment on Another Global SaaS Accounting Player by Richard

Richard — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:31:26 +0000

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as they say, RIP MYOB!

Comment on MYOB on the block by John

John — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:29:23 +0000

oops sorry meant to just put up a link

Comment on MYOB on the block by John not John the spammer

John *not John the spammer* — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:28:40 +0000

all Interprise does is SPAM every blog and messageboard on the internet. Your comments are welcome, but please do not go pasting press releases everywhere. This is so unattractive