Posts by Ian Dalziel

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  • Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to nzlemming,

    Doctor Where?

    Lockwit has been very definite about his authoritah being respected

    Looking at TV3’s coverage I don’t think Lockwood Smith respected the new MPs' Maiden Speeches enough to even be present – some of the editing gives the impression he is in the chair, but when you see the aerial shot with the woman doing signing on the speaker's left (about 28 seconds in) it ain’t Lockwood nestled into the fleece of power…
    What could have been more important I wonder?

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,

    a parliament of rooks...

    Can we get subtitles too!

    Does each MP's seat/bench have a dedicated microphone?
    Couldn't software like Siri (or whatever it is iPhones now use) be used to transcribe what is said, with an attribution underneath as to who it is...
    ...and then all the juvenile heckling could also be ascribed to its source, and float around in the background like the aural pollution it is...
    Might even put a stop to it!

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Up Front: A Real Character, in reply to Russell Brown,

    404 for me too.

    Free Peugeots all round...
    Some people swear by them!
    :- )

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  • Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue,

    Universality Challenge...
    Does anyone know how UK Parliamentary services dealt with providing for David Blunkett's blindness?

    It does seem clear under the Parliamentary Services charter and act that they are to provide the werewithal for Representatives to do their jobs...
    and while directives come from The Speaker, he in turn can only make those after receiving relevant advice and recommendations from the Public Service Commission - so those folk need to pull finger, under urgency if you will...

    Speaker to take into account advice and recommendations of Commission
    (1) It is a function of the Parliamentary Service Commission to advise the Speaker on—
    (a) the nature of the services to be provided under section 9C(a); and
    (b) the objectives to be achieved by the Service by providing those services.
    (2) In giving directions under section 9B(1), the Speaker must take into account any relevant advice and any relevant recommendation given or made by the Parliamentary Service Commission under subsection (1).

    14 Functions of Parliamentary Service Commission
    (1) The Parliamentary Service Commission has the following functions:
    (a) to advise the Speaker on the following matters:
    (i) the nature of the services to be provided to the House of Representatives and to members of Parliament:
    (ii) the objectives to be achieved by providing those services:
    (b) to recommend to the Speaker the adoption of criteria governing funding entitlements for parliamentary purposes:
    (c) to recommend to the Speaker persons who are suitable to be members of a review committee:
    (d) to consider and comment on draft reports prepared by review committees.
    (2) The Commission may at any time require the Speaker or the General Manager to report on, or inquire into, matters relating to the administration of this Act or the exercise or performance of any function, duty, or power under this Act.
    (3) The Commission has any other function or power conferred on it by or under any enactment.
    (4) The Commission does not have a role in relation to—
    (a) business transacted at meetings of the House of Representatives or meetings of committees of the House of Representatives; or
    (b) any other proceedings in Parliament.

    perhaps Smith wants to use an interpretation of (4)a & b (above) to say they have no jurisdiction over house proceedings - which would seem to defeat the purpose...
    the whole Parliamentary Services Act is here

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Joe Wylie,

    welcome to the Wild East...

    “One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage
    if no one is thinking of firing it.”

    More excessive actions by unthinking Chch police have seen charges withdrawn...

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  • Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Joe Wylie,

    hang on old Beano...

    Crusaders supporters may still dress like Freddie Krueger...

    and there was me thinking they looked like Dennis the Menace (UK)
    even if he was toned down... by the BBC

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,

    Click crush...

    Ian you might have stopped and joined in the festive spirit.

    we were on a weighty mission
    with time constraints...
    I did enjoy the inaugural lantern festival in Chch
    in Victoria square, but this one with a reported
    40,000 strong crowd*, shudder, not for me....

    *even if they weren't all there at the same time
    I'm always in the wrong place amidst teeming humanity
    less stressful to avoid...
    (CCC demonstration was a rare exception...)

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  • Up Front: A Real Character, in reply to Kracklite,

    Rule 63...

    hmm where does that leave the
    intertwined Jerry Cornelius/Miss Brunner
    I always liked Rose Von Bek from Moorcock's multiverse, steampunkish trilogy of Blood: a southern Fantasy, Fabulous Harbours and The War Amongst the Angels

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  • Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to papango,

    But there are a fair number of OIA and Privacy Act enthusiasts tucked away in dusty corners of government. ... But I like it, and I know I'm not the only one.

    You probably saw this article on Vivek Kundra in the October 2010 issue of Scientific American - I just read it recently (in hard copy), shame I don't have a subscription to get to the full article, maybe some of you do, he seems to have made serious inroads to rationalising and opening up the US Govt's diverse data streams.
    He has now left the post of U.S. chief information officer to work for a cloud computing firm, here is the 25 point implementation plan he came up with and some praise from others on his leaving office, and his own reflections...
    Hope some of it is of interest...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Capture: Go Postal with Ian Dalziel,

    dub dub dub sidestep...

    It’s worse than that, it’s dead Jim…

    Sorry, I don't have a website,
    just an email address...

    all the base info is in the Capture post
    after that it is just language and dealing
    with folk one by one, old school style...

    perhaps I better bite the bullet and
    put some basic site together,
    sometime, somehow...

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