Posts by nzlemming
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I blame the nuns
Always a good starting point
Shit yes. I'd blame the nuns for global fucking warming if I could figure an angle. They've screwed up so many lives around me and mine that it's hardly a stretch to think they might have fucked over the planet as well.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Where are the anti binge drinking ads that show the man waking up in jail having raped? Where are the anti bullying adds that show someone standing by watching while their mates rape someone?
Actually, those are fucking good ideas. So I doubt they'll ever get made, for the other reasons in your comment, which are very perceptive IMHO.
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to stephen walker,
No probs. As one of the bloody RoNS was going through my living room but will now be going behind my back fence, I'm pretty incensed by them. NZTA's role in the duplicity around these is remarkable.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Thanks for sharing that, Craig. Not easy to do and truly hideous to have lived through. You're right, it's not okay. Ever. Neither was what Hopoate did and neither is anyone making a joke about it.
Take care.
Mark
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Che Tibby,
It was a soccer top, which is even more dubious... #insomeeyes
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And small point of fact, Smith cited a Speaker’s Ruling (page 16, No. 7) from 2003.
At the time of eviction, he said “The Speaker has decided…”. He didn’t get around to looking up SOs until Mallard was asking for clarification and he looked clearly rattled. The “pulling it out of his arse” aspect IS part of his inconsistency. There have been some idiot Speakers from all sides of the spectrum over the years but Smith is the worst in my memory.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Can I also just say how disappointed I am that there was an entire conversation about 'pearl necklaces" and no one made the obvious comment
I so nearly did, but it sounds better from a woman ;-)
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to stephen walker,
the one review done by overseas consultants was buried because it rubbished NZTA’s BCRs
I know, I was one of the people who unearthed it and sent it to Oram. It's called the SAHA report and you can compare it to the "massaged" final report that was only commissioned after the Official Information Act request for the first one.
It didn't exactly rubbish the BCR's - it showed that, even with the most optimistic of assumptions, they weren't very high and some were actually negative UNLESS you lumped them all together and let the 3 that were very positive (including the Victoria Park tunnel which was under way before the RoNS were ever heard of, so WTF?) haul the average up for the rest. That's why Joyce and NZTA keep talking about the RoNS as a single project. Yet we haven't seen any consultation on the RoNS as a single project, and each individual road has to go through a separate consents process.
It also used some very new methodologies for analysis that are still a little controversial overseas. To be fair to SAHA, they did put in caveats in the first report which NZTA have roundly ignored, though I note that those have mostly disappeared in the second report. There's an analysis of the discrepancies on our website by a former chief economist for the Commerce Commission, Dr Mike Pickford. (sorry, it's a Word docx file. Trust me, I'm working on that)
My point is that the SAHA report used the same sort of methodologies as the Auckland rail business case, which Joyce rubbished while celebrating the Economic Evaluation Manual approach. The EEM was pretty much ignored in the development of the business cases for the RONS, The irony is that Joyce loves the method that gives him the nearest answer to what he's already decided to do. Pick'n'mix politics.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Kracklite,
Ah, now I know who he reminds me of…
I'm glad you put the second link, as I thought you meant the Ood at first...
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I plan to be fully occupied with Tony Ryall for the foreseeable future
See, that's the sort of shit that starts rumours...