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  1. Hello! Is this Gordon's Pizza?

     

    No sir, it's Google Pizza.

     

    I must have dialed a wrong number. Sorry.

     

    No sir, Google bought Gordon’s Pizza last month.

     

    OK. I would like to order a pizza.

     

    Do you want your usual, sir?

     

    My usual? You know me?

     

    According to our caller ID data sheet, the last 12 times you called you ordered an extra-large pizza with three cheeses, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms and meat balls on a thick crust.

     

    OK! That’s what I want …

     

    May I suggest that this time you order a pizza with ricotta, arugula, sun-dried tomatoes and olives on a whole wheat gluten free thin crust?

     

    What? I detest vegetables.

     

    Your cholesterol is not good, sir.

     

    How the hell do you know?

     

    Well, we cross-referenced your home phone number with your medical records. We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.

     

    Okay, but I do not want your rotten vegetable pizza! I already take medication for my cholesterol.

     

    Excuse me sir, but you have not taken your medication regularly. According to our database, you only purchased a box of 30 cholesterol tablets once, at Drugsale Network, 4 months ago.

     

    I bought more from another drugstore.

     

    That doesn’t show on your credit card statement.

     

    I paid in cash.

     

    But you did not withdraw enough cash according to your bank statement.

     

    I have other sources of cash.

     

    That doesn’t show on your last tax return unless you bought them using an undeclared income source, which is against the law.

     

    WHAT THE HELL?

     

    I'm sorry, sir, we use such information only with the sole intention of helping you.

     

    Enough already! I'm sick to death of Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and all the others. I'm going to an island without internet, cable TV, where there is no cell phone service and no one to watch me or spy on me.

     

    I understand sir, but you need to renew your passport first. It expired 6 weeks ago.

     

     

  2. Nomadpete did say "Maybe there should be a plebesite to determine whether to change the law or just ignore it!"

     

    Which is a very dangerous idea to express because considering their actions and inactions to date the pollies just might go ahead and hold a plebesite to hold a plebesite

     

    Puts a whole new twist to the "going postal" expression

     

     

  3. I presume that they could pass an act to the effect that any person who swears and oath (pledge) relinquishing any entitlement to non-Australian citizenship will be deemed to have complied with the provisions of section 44.

     

    That would

     

    a.. side step the need for any other nation to be involved

     

    b..avoid the need for a constitutional amendment.

     

     

  4. I wonder how many of the 1901 parliamentarians would fail the 2017 eligibility test?

     

    I'm sure that when they adopted the constitution they did not intend to disqualify themselves.

     

     

  5. I find it strange that in this instance parliamentarians are not so much being asked to pledge loyalty to Australia as to demonstrate that another country as renounced its claim,if any, on that person's allegiance.

     

     

  6. It would seem that if some Kiwi clerk elects to delay the paperwork for Barnaby's renunciation of NZ citizenship he will remain ineligible to sit in parliament.

     

    Or if Yemen decides to grant Pauline citizenship then she too will join the ranks of the banned.

     

    How weird that we don't have a system whereby an Australian citizen by taking an oath can renounce any entitlement to foreign citizenship.

     

     

  7. If we are going to cut back on CO2 production; hot rocks and nuclear fusion look like the future of base load requirements .

     

    In the mean time we need something to smooth out the disconnect between the demand and production cycles inherent in wind/solar/tidal.

     

    Batteries, hot salt storage, pumped hydro or some other tech

     

     

  8. sec 44 says in part

     

    "entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power; or"

     

    Can Barnaby et al actually step around this entitlement that is conferred by another nation.?

     

    They can obviously declare that they will not avail themselves of this entitlement, but can they actually create a situation in which that entitlement does not exist?

     

     

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