OnPoint: Budget 2011: Radioactive Space Donut
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Heather Gaye, in reply to
Right. Budget. Sorry. Mmm, yes, anyone?
The space doughnut is interesting, but I’ve been refreshing PA front page every two minutes in anticipation of Keith’s analysis. Until then I won't know what I think of it.
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recordari, in reply to
The space doughnut is interesting, but I’ve been refreshing PA front page every two minutes in anticipation of Keith’s analysis.
Perhaps we should ask for a feature upgrade that auto-refreshes, like Cricinfo? Just to bring in a cricket analogy, since it already feels like a long cold winter (of our discontent).
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CatherineP, in reply to
Plus, some people working in buildings not too far from Parliament might be stuck on IE8 and, heaven help them, XP, although not from choice.
IE8, I wish! My building's pretty damn close to Parliament, and I think we have IE6. At least every other site I open tells me my browser is outdated and that I should upgrade... Well, clearly there will be no money for the next 10 years to buy software updates to bring us in line with the real world..
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Fine and shiny on Chrome, nonexistent on IE7 (I know!) at work. I'll try the special IE version tomorrow.
Just one comment: when I was in Data Viz School*, we were told to avoid red-green colour gradients where possible. Red-green colourblindness is much more common than we usually think, and a blue-yellow scale (while perhaps not quite as pretty) will be visible for more people.
(* aka making it up as we went along, with help from a few books on perceptual psychology)
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It’s… beautiful.
Although, as Tom says, it will be interesting to see if my red-green colourblind brother even notices there’s anything on the screen.
I’m also looking forward to the analysis so I can internalise Keith’s opinions and regurgitate them at leisure.
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Sacha, in reply to
Red-green colourblindness is much more common than we usually think
4%
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3410,
IE8, I wish! My building's pretty damn close to Parliament, and I think we have IE6. At least every other site I open tells me my browser is outdated and that I should upgrade... Well, clearly there will be no money for the next 10 years to buy software updates to bring us in line with the real world..
You know IE8 is free, right?
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3410: that is assuming that public servants have the access to install/update software on their machine.
That is not my personal experience.
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No sir, you have to have the money to pay your outsourced it department to package up the distributable and spend months ensuring it won't break any of your arcane grandfathered obscure apps used by two people.
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Works really well in Opera 11.1 too. Well it would, Opera is still the only 100% standards compliant browser, trouble is standards stifle innovation but they shure make life easier most of the time.
That 2.3 Billion seems to be NZTA created in 2008 by merging Transit New Zealand with Land Transport New Zealand. This figure would be the transfer of funding from the two existing departments.
ETA Opera also has auto refresh settings and too many features to list on a single website let alone a thread.
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$8.8 billion for retirement in 2011. $9.58 bill in 2012.
good thing they're fkcing up incentives for kiwisaver then. real good.
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I note that "Walking and Cycling Facilities" has had cuts to funding two years running now. So much for Johnboy's Cycle Path that was going to create so many jobs.
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Keith Ng, in reply to
Just one comment: when I was in Data Viz School*, we were told to avoid red-green colour gradients where possible. Red-green colourblindness is much more common than we usually think, and a blue-yellow scale (while perhaps not quite as pretty) will be visible for more people.
Aye. It is true. I thought about it, but my own impairment is that I'm colour-retarded. It takes me forever to figure out colours on anything. The previous versions of this were grey on white, and yellow on grey.
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Choice! Here's mine:
What's the deal with transport in 2009? It shoots up by over 10x 2008's budget.
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Yeah I'm sure the 2009 transport expenditure is a mistake.
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Works well in Safari 5.0.5 in MacOS too.
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The 2009 transport expenditure is due to two departments being merged into one. Transit New Zealand and Land Transport New Zealand’s assets were “liquidated” and then transferred to NZTA. This would also show up in Treasury income data.
As far as mistakes go I figure this is just an anomaly of their method of accounting asset transfer to a new department from departments that no longer exist.Meanwhile, back at the ranch. As it’s nearly Friday something to listen to while we wait for Keith’s analysis.
Paddy McAllon at his best… look out for the blinding banjo. -
Sacha, in reply to
while we wait for Keith’s analysis
Ahem - been over here for a lil while.
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Ah thanks for the explanation Steve. I knew there had to be some bizarre reason behind it.
Interesting that transport is now the 6th biggest area of expenditure. If you exclude finance and IRD it's the next biggest expenditure area after the big three of social development, health and education.
Reinforces my feeling that we certainly spend enough money on transport, we just tend to spend it on stupid stuff.
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Stephen Judd, in reply to
I think we have IE6. At least every other site I open tells me my browser is outdated and that I should upgrade... Well, clearly there will be no money for the next 10 years to buy software updates to bring us in line with the real world..
Firefox and Chrome are free. Sounds like your organisation is wasting money on software that costs money to buy (yes I know all software has costs to support and run).
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Reinforces my feeling that we certainly spend enough money on transport, we just tend to spend it on stupid stuff.
The Highway to Hell is paved with our gold.
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Rex Widerstrom, in reply to
black on olive green not that readable
Yes, breathtakingly breathtaking aside from the fact I have to squint like an old man at a salad bar (in IE9).
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Graeme Edgeler, in reply to
Interesting that transport is now the 6th biggest area of expenditure.
I think the point is that, given this is just a combining of two departments, it was probably already the 6th biggest area of expenditure (or close) and we just didn't know it.
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Rail was another big infrastructure winner, with $250m to go towards the KiwiRail turn-around plan, which aims to turn it into a self-sustaining freight business within 10 years.
Well, that came as a surprise, is Steven Joyce in a coma or something?.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
What's the deal with transport in 2009? It shoots up by over 10x 2008's budget.
Yeah, I'm pretty all the rail infrastructure work and new rolling stock could have been put on layby and/or constructed by slave labour...
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