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Trigger-happy people are dangerous, guns shoot people and males get high on guns more than females. Police tried the careful approach to a guman in Aramoana and lost out. There has to be a better program for these 'lost boys' sent away from home by the sleazy-peazy Australian government wanting to slide out of their failures to integrate people. We are much the same here, but we haven't the option to pass the parcel. So let's have a sensible program, and give them something to ground them here, ability to turn their lives around and have a regular earning job and still keep in touc...

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:07 am, February 26th, 2021 - 5 comments It seems that the Springbok tour protests in 1981 had a deep and abiding effect on David Seymour, even though he would not be born until two years later. He was clearly affected by the experience or lack thereof and has clearly harboured a deeply felt opposition to apartheid ever since. But regrettably his deeply felt opposition to apartheid is not matched by his understanding of what it involves.  Because he has confused the ability of par...

An Aucklander who spent six minutes at a store where a Covid-19 case was working had to wait nearly eight hours on the phone to get advice from Healthline. Even if this item isn't correct in every detail it illustrates cracks in the Covid management policy widening. Are front-line workers being properly paid and rested? Are investigators really on top of their job keeping up with the urgency needed, that was shown earlier on? NZ can't afford to be complacent. Recently one student was phoned a number of times without success, and a visit to the house wasn't made. In the meantime the...

Taylor rose through the ranks at Salesforce extremely quickly. He joined the company in 2016, when it acquired his word processing startup Quip and reported directly to Benioff right away, which is rare for startup CEOs post-acquisition. Soon after, in 2017, Taylor made the leap to the C-suite as the president and chief product officer of Salesforce, before his latest promotion to COO in December 2019.  Prior to Quip, Taylor was Facebook's chief technology officer and helped lead the company through its IPO in 2012 — and gets the credit for creating its "Like" button. Before that, he was a...