> I'm just glad New Zealand finally found an industry more lucrative than sheep herding.
It's called beef. There are still plenty of sheep about but the numbers have gone down as more cows have been raised - since milk solids and beef are worth more than lamb and mutton at the moment. Yes, I'm from New Zealand so we do hear about these things.
Part of New Zealand's supposed "struggling" economy is the fact that our public debt (eg that of the government and people) is relatively low as a proportion of
> I just took the opportunity to bring up some tidbits you'd never hear > otherwise - not that anyone is particularly interested, but the New > Zealand economy is not often its own slashdot topic.
This is why I come to slashdot. Random cool stuff, written right now by actual humans (MS VB ShillBots aside) that I never would have heard about any other way. Good post, thanks.:-)
Thank you very much. It makes it worthwhile to post knowing that some people enjoy learning about all sorts of random stuff (as I do too:) ).
Lol, you are so right about the MS shillbots, but I think they're mostly about how Visual Studio (VS) is supposed to be the shizzle (no thanks, I'd rather be truly cross-platform).
This is why I come to slashdot. Random cool stuff, written right now by actual humans (MS VB ShillBots aside) that I never would have heard about any other way. Good post, thanks.:-)
You make it sound like details of the NZ economy are some exotic pieces of information you'd never have come across otherwise.
Don't you ever read newspapers or look at internet news sites beyond the first couple of headlines?
Future historians will be confused (Score:3, Interesting)
As they find the ancient coins, they will no doubt believe New Zealand was ruled by Hobbits.
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I'm just glad New Zealand finally found an industry more lucrative than sheep herding.
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> I'm just glad New Zealand finally found an industry more lucrative than sheep herding.
It's called beef. There are still plenty of sheep about but the numbers have gone down as more cows have been raised - since milk solids and beef are worth more than lamb and mutton at the moment. Yes, I'm from New Zealand so we do hear about these things.
Part of New Zealand's supposed "struggling" economy is the fact that our public debt (eg that of the government and people) is relatively low as a proportion of
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> I just took the opportunity to bring up some tidbits you'd never hear
> otherwise - not that anyone is particularly interested, but the New
> Zealand economy is not often its own slashdot topic.
This is why I come to slashdot. Random cool stuff, written right now by actual humans (MS VB ShillBots aside) that I never would have heard about any other way. Good post, thanks. :-)
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Thank you very much. It makes it worthwhile to post knowing that some people enjoy learning about all sorts of random stuff (as I do too :) ).
Lol, you are so right about the MS shillbots, but I think they're mostly about how Visual Studio (VS) is supposed to be the shizzle (no thanks, I'd rather be truly cross-platform).
Cheers!
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This is why I come to slashdot. Random cool stuff, written right now by actual humans (MS VB ShillBots aside) that I never would have heard about any other way. Good post, thanks. :-)
You make it sound like details of the NZ economy are some exotic pieces of information you'd never have come across otherwise.
Don't you ever read newspapers or look at internet news sites beyond the first couple of headlines?