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During their investigation of the purchase of a large estate in New Zealand by Peter Thiel, Matt Nippert and Anne Gibson, reporters for The New Zealand Herald, noticed that certain processes required by the Overseas Investment Act had not been followed. The explanation: Peter Thiel is a NZ citizen and hence wasn't required to follow the procedures for an overseas investment.
If Thiel is so sure that Trump will deliver, why does he need a bolt hole and more importantly, citizenship in another country?
One question being asked was why Mr. Thiel became a New Zealander in 2011. Close behind that was how it happened.
If you like New Zealand enough to want to become a citizen, the country's Internal Affairs Department noted on Wednesday, one requirement is "to have been physically in New Zealand for a minimum of 1,350 days in the five years preceding the citizenship application." Another requirement is that you "continue to reside" there after becoming a citizen.
Mr. Thiel, 49, does not appear to have done either.
[...] If Mr. Thiel was not a resident in New Zealand for the necessary amount of time, an exception must have been made. The government has not responded to questions about whether that happened and, if so, what the reason was.
(Score: 3, Informative) by lx on Friday January 27 2017, @07:40AM
A bolt hole is a place to hide.
Why you need to ask? I'm guessing it's either because you have a lack of general education combined with mediocre Google skills, or you prefer to bitch about your ignorance to going out of your way to learn something new.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @07:50AM
Unfair, AC!
Why you need to ask? I'm guessing it's either because you have a lack of general education combined with mediocre Google skills,
No, this seems to be an "idiom", which is a proper technical term for "a word or phrase used by idiots". Thanks for playing. For extra-credit, explain "spider-hole" to us!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @08:03AM
I'm guessing it's either because you have a lack of general education
Not a native English speaker, probably.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @08:52AM
And here native speaker me was thinking it was a hole you put a bolt into, but not the way Peter thinks of it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @05:37PM
I'm a native speaker and I've never heard that term used in that context before. I asked about ten people around my office, which is in the United States, and none of them have ever heard of "bolt hole" meaning "a place to hide."
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday January 28 2017, @03:25AM
Think of the sentence "After being startled by the fox, the rabbit bolted into its hole"
Perhaps Americans have forgot the original meaning of bolt?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28 2017, @04:12PM
What? Knowing the definition of "bolt" has nothing to do with knowing what the term "bolt hole" means, it just makes it easier to derive it through context. However, that wasn't the issue. The issue was NOBODY says "bolt hole" in LARGE regions of the English-speaking world, and acting incredulous and intellectually superior doesn't change the fact in a news story meant for wide dissemination is probably not the wisest choice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28 2017, @04:14PM
Damn it, phone, stop deleting things. "...doesn't change the fact that using such an obscure term in a news story meant for wide dissemination is probably not the wisest choice."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2017, @06:48PM
Are you saying the OP meant "bore hole", but yet again, not in the way Peter Thiel thinks of it?