Posts by Sacha
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innovation and entrepreneurship doesn't come from prime minsterial edict
Keith, you side-stepped the part of the question about R&D. I think it's fair enough to ask if any plans were revealed in passing yesterday to make up for canning the tax credits (which was by edict). Or do our new leaders think our economy consists of farms, banks and construction projects?
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NZ would offer as much with a moderate increase in the funding, they are well used to stretching on the 'smell of an oily rag' here.
And there's the real craziness. It will take a lot of money, but not nearly as much as the pallid wonks in Treasury fear as they gaze at their global sources and apply old-fashioned stereotypes about resourcefulness. And any extra money will create lots of jobs, though not for burly construction workers and their well-connected bosses who seem to have cornered the market on concern.
I am hopeful that the current financial crisis might actually make innovative improvements more acceptable to decision-makers. If they listen to the right people.
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Nothing to offer, just waiting when the time is right to hear about the saving lives bit.
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All very noir. :)
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Rod, how did your workstream go (without breaching confidence)?
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.. like you just don't care.
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It would certainly make ordering drinks in a loud bar easier...
Too true, Mikaere. Need to make sure it's well lit, though. I'm told that Deaf parties are, and that eavesdropping is easier. Your wife and others here would know more, for sure.
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The advent of faxes and then texting made a huge difference in incorporating deaf into society. A section of our community who had previously ignored all telecommunication devices became avid uptakers of the new technology, which I don't think the Telco's had thought about, or expected.
And let's not forget Teletext, one of the early successes in the 1980s for a freshly-formed lobbying organisation called DPA.
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My brother is profoundly deaf, born in 1964, affected by the Rubella epidemic of the year before.
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It was partly due to that epidemic that things changed, partly because there were so many more deaf than usual, and also because the disease was indiscriminate of the victims. Not just poor people were having deaf babies, but professional, literate, educated parents did. And they stood up and fought for their rights..Thanks, Hannah. I hadn't heard that slice of history. Progress happens when resourceful or influential people are implicated. Earlier, returned soldiers changed attitudes about the worthiness of disabled New Zealanders.
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I always did think handicap was a more accurate, nicer way of describing disability. It makes things harder, it doesn't stop them altogether (disabled, just seems, and maybe it doesn't technically, like it means not able ).
Graeme, I quite like "challenged" which is even less restrictive - but it got ruined before I was ever involved.
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