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Is there a non-paywalled version?

My summary:

I didn't do it.  
While !Bankrupt
    Fuck, they called me on my bullshit.  
    Better double down, I can't have anyone call me a liar  

I'm not sure you understand industrial automation.

That is not really an option.

If I was advising someone building a new plant today, I'd tell them to go European.

Probably Siemens for the most part, Schneider is also an option, but their engineering environment sucks more than Siemens.

Unfortunately Rockwell has the best software, from a software engineering point of view. No serious open source options in the industrial space yet.

I liked the Lambrini Girls; it reminded me of old school punk, it was my #1.

The unplug Trump wasn't reall that good, seemed to be jumping on the band wagon a little too much for my taste.

Love the video for Give In To You.

How about "THE Cinnamon Bun"

or more controversially the "FUCBun" obviously no hidden meaning at all

To give one example, automation equipment.

Sure there are alternatives, but changing is the work of years and millions of dollars, just to get what you are currently getting. For big plants, in may be it the 10's of millions.

A large percentage of the NZ automation market is using Rockwell gear, an American company.

Welcome, and bring the syrup.

I would look to expand it to other countries in the future, in an EU style free movement of citizens type of arrangement.

Today?

I like the idea of closer ties with Canada and the UK, we already have very close ties with Aus.

It is pretty weak.

If you were going to do something like that. You would have to assume that they have been using the same design for decades. You would be making a parody of their design skills, it wouldn't really be satire.

E.g. have the same style, with text like "our policies are progressive, but out style is conservative"

They are raising a false equivalence; they want you to think that their billboard is in the same class as satire or parody; when in fact they are trying to push an agenda.

The billboards in question are definitely not parody; they are not a humorous commentary on the original and they are not primarily entertainment.

They could be classed as satire; but barely, they are designed to be critical of the Greens policy, but they they don't actually do the job of effective criticism. They are not lampooning the policy and asking the audience to come to their own conclusion; they are clearly asking the audience to think what they want them to think. I would argue that they are also not satire, in that they are not art; satire is an artistic style, and these billboards are not an artistic expression.