Ocean floor mining

[bluninja]

Blood is red, it is a pigment called melanin determines skin colour.

erythrocytes (red blood cells) are red when oxygenated and give blood it's red colour. Plasma is a yellow straw coloured liquid, platelets are creamy coloured. Not sure what colour white blood cells are So 55% of blood is yellowish.....so how come blood doesn't look orange?

[puddytat]

Some ( well most) people react negatively when challenged, in that they can sound like Luddites.
More often than not though, they are the very ones who usually lay that kind of shit on others who want to change the World.
It is them that stop, any kind of rational , ethical & moral advancement caused by all the shit we're doing.
They are denying change.

Meanwhile....
We are being short changed.
There are those amongst us who do not agree with the present course, & want a sustainable future. But they are seen as the Luddites, whereas if the truth be known, it is their accusers that are holding us back.

[oldrider]

Well, we have managed not to starve to death so far without sea bed mining.

The so called ' consumer need ' is generated by the very same corporations that want the excuse to mine the sea bed. There's a big difference between needs and wants.

Like all the unemployed that "want" jobs to help them tend to their "needs"! ... What goes round comes round.

To take away all the corporations would be like taking the oxygen out of the air ... these things are what they are for a reason!

Agree that there still have to be checks and ballances to keep things transparent honest and tidy but to condemn every corporation as evil is a bit OTT isn't it?

[Ocean1]

Do we want NZ to lead the way in possibly destorying the last natural resource on the planet? Seems like it is going to happen anyway.

Corporate greed is likely to continue untill there is nothing left.

And you're completely innocent of consuming anything requiring the resources in question, eh?

Lets not forget about the billions of tax dollars that many of the largest New Zealand companies are masters at evading.

Got references showing all that tax evasion?

Only, it's the sort of thing the feds would be extremely interested in knowing about.

[mashman]

Got references showing all that tax evasion?

Here's 1 of 'em, technically more than 1 but hey, I doubt there would be more, or they'd have been caught because there are no loopholes right?

[mashman]

Some ( well most) people react negatively when challenged, in that they can sound like Luddites.
More often than not though, they are the very ones who usually lay that kind of shit on others who want to change the World.
It is them that stop, any kind of rational , ethical & moral advancement caused by all the shit we're doing.
They are denying change.

Meanwhile....
We are being short changed.
There are those amongst us who do not agree with the present course, & want a sustainable future. But they are seen as the Luddites, whereas if the truth be known, it is their accusers that are holding us back.

OMG truth overload, truuuuuuuuuuuth overloooooaaaaadddddd

[Katman]

Got references showing all that tax evasion?

Only, it's the sort of thing the feds would be extremely interested in knowing about.

Go do some searching for yourself.

It's generally accepted that tax evasion is costing the country somewhere in the region of 6 billion dollars.

[Ocean1]

Here's 1 of 'em, technically more than 1 but hey, I doubt there would be more, or they'd have been caught because there are no loopholes right?

Yes. Not a NZ company in sight.

Nor have they avoided the tax in question, apparently.

[Ocean1]

Go do some searching for yourself.

It's generally accepted that tax evasion is costing the country somewhere in the region of 6 billion dollars.

You're the one claiming NZ companies evade billions in tax, you fucking research it.

You never know, you might even learn something.

[Katman]

You're the one claiming NZ companies evade billions in tax, you fucking research it.

You never know, you might even learn something.

I suppose it shouldn't come as any surprise to me that you consider yourself smarter than those at Victoria University who conducted a study on tax evasion in New Zealand.

[Ocean1]

I suppose it shouldn't come as any surprise to me that you consider yourself smarter than those at Victoria University who conducted a study on tax evasion in New Zealand.

Imagine my shock at your failure to deliver.

[Akzle]

Corporate greed is very real but there are many companies that also have a responsible ethic. What all of these people bleating from their socialist households forget is that the tax take generated largely by business and the employees of those businesses is what funds our safety nets ( and beyond safety nets ) of welfare and constantly revisited / topped up treaty settlements.

Nothing is perfect but you dont shut down the means of earning tax dollars and employing people

by christ. i hope you work 365.
you know the weekend is just qa socialist labour -party driven con, for all those lazy mooching so-and-so's, you're completely right, white guys should fuck the whole earth for money. great fucking idea.

Yes and your lot were very good at killing each other, killing more of each other than the white man ever did. Your hypocrisy is breathtaking.

If the white man is so bad ( and doubtless part of your own bloodstream ) I suggest you go back to your leaky flax huts and huddle around your smoky fires. Its attitudes such as yours that really rile the many mixed race people of this country who just want to get on with life and be New Zealanders. They dont want to hear all of this divisive racial bullshit that you are mindlessly espousing.

And if your white blood that you will have a percentage of is so bad might I suggest suicide as an option?

my lot? you don't have a fucking clue, and all this counter-intelligent, shit you spout about whites being a more advanced/civilised society?? back under your rock, knuckledragger.
and the dis-ingenious argument twice debunked already, that all modernity should be forsaken because "white guys brung it"... fuck sake.

[Winston001]

Do we want NZ to lead the way in possibly destorying the last natural resource on the planet? Seems like it is going to happen anyway.

Corporate greed is likely to continue untill there is nothing left.

Disagree about "corporate greed" - it's just business which is what enables you and I to ride motorcycles and tap away on extraordinary pieces of plastic and metal.

I do however agree that some business managers are amoral (or neutral) regarding any responsibilities to cherish the environment, pay taxes, and be fair employers. I lay the blame at the feet of the Harvard Business School and their Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree which has spread throughout the world. Selfishness 101.

[Katman]

Imagine my shock at your failure to deliver.

Probably on par with my shock at your failure to do any research of your own.

[Akzle]

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fuckoff, dicks.