Posts by keeaa
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Revolting phrase in last line.
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While agreeing wholeheartedly with the original post by Russell, I was from the start uncomfortable with the "young" in the title.
Perhaps the subsequent discussion would have had a different direction if the title and slant had just been "Fix up, men". Then again, perhaps not.
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Polity: In defence of the centre, in reply to Sacha,
Nope, right-wing. Try again.
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Polity: In defence of the centre, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
central place in left-wing parliamentary democracy
What is this place and what does it look like? What policies reside there, if any?
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And yet, the best quote from Monbiot’s article is probably “Rebuilding a political movement means espousing what is desirable, then finding ways to make it feasible. The hopeless realists propose the opposite.”
Electing Labour just to “stop the rot” of right-wing policies is not enough. Too many people, and the planet itself, are suffering, for that limited vision to be desirable.
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Polity: Unity, success: Chicken, egg?, in reply to Pharmachick,
So you believe that if you lose your job and can't find another one for some time, or if you get too sick to work for a long period, the health and welfare of you and your children should suffer?
And don't tell me you have provided for just such an eventuality - in this hypothetical (for you) scenario, you haven't been earning enough to do so.
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Speaker: Market failure in the research world, in reply to Angela Hart,
cutting their budget makes no sense, even to bean counters
I wish you were right, but unfortunately William Ray's original stirring up of this issue has resulted in the wrong questions being asked in some quarters.
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Speaker: Market failure in the research world, in reply to Angela Hart,
By all means try to change the domination of research publishing by the big publishers - I'm fully in agreement there. But attacking it from the angle of library spending is a very dangerous tactic.
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Speaker: Market failure in the research world, in reply to mccx,
Would it potentially reduce the cost of journal subscriptions for NZ universities (and SOEs etc.) if they negotiated or shared access as a consortium instead of as individual institutions?
As bmk has already said, the universities have been doing consortium buying for years. And so do the CRIs.
You must realise that libraries in little old NZ (even the biggest ones) have absolutely no power to change these agreements with the multinational publishers.
All that camapigning on this issue is likely to do is draw negative attention to research library budgets and cause them to be cut - result: even less access for N.Z. researchers.