Not so fast, privatised prisons are also run in New Zealand. http://www.corrections.govt.nz/utility-navigation/locations/prisons/northern/mt_eden_corrections_facility/about_contract_management_of_mecf.html

Look on the bright side you have approx. 500K+ resident Kiwi's to blame when it all hits the fan.

The servers are located in Germany otherwise no-one would ever be able to access anything. NZ is at the end of 2 shitty cables.

Dotcom wanted to buy the house but was rejected as 'an unfit person' as he had previous convictions and had not been domiciled here long enough. Now having lived in NZ for over a year as a Resident he can purchase it.

Tax Avoidance = Rich people. i.e Sending money to the Cayman Islands and having it come back as Capital gains. Tax Evasion = Poor people. i.e. Taking cash jobs and not declaring the income. Avoidance is the LEGAL minimisation of taxation due, evasion is the ILLEGAL minimisation.

He DID have a safe room and went and hid. The Police enticed him out later with candy bars and threats.

One of the reasons that we Kiwi's get cheaper goods is due to allowing parallel importing. This keeps the distributors honest although Big Pharma (amongst others) call us dirty names. This will all go when we sign up to the filthy TPP however.

Hey, if exploring the solar system a la Gattaca can be done in Armani suits then going into orbit could at least involve a shave and haircut. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca

This may be poor for consumers but it is good for people.

Germany were no closer to the A Bomb in 1945 than they were in 1940. OKH never took the research seriously and supplies were in short supply, after the Poms blew up the Heavy Water complex in Norway nothing much accrued.

If the PM cuts Banks free then he will either have to rely on the Maori Party for support of legislation, that would be make for a difficult 2 years with the water-rights issue etc boiling away. It would give Pita Sharples a chance to prove he is not senile though.

You earn $100K in NZ your marginal tax rate is 33c which kicks in at $70K. The other main source of Govt revenue is GST (sales tax) which is now 15% thanks to the National Party Government. There are few exemptions from GST (interest, rent & mortgages. Exports are zero-rated) so the lower paid sure pay their whack.

Netflix have just started advertising on TV in NZ. However content will be drastically limited as Sky TV (the resident Murdoch monopoly pay TV service) have most of the content providers in their pocket.

At the Port Massacre Arthur in 1996 in Tasmania 35 people were killed and 21 wounded. Is that enough for you?