Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Tristan,
agreed. If implemented the next thing we will see is incentives...get an IUD and will pay you 500 bucks. Then get stealised for 1000 bucks....
A US advocate of such a programme was in the country not long ago and Dita De Boni fawned all over her in her column on parenting for the Herald. I would look for the link but.. I don't want to.
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I just thought Danyl’s bitch was out of order and unfair. A presumption of good faith would be nice.
I think good faith has to be earned, and it's not as if National doesn't have a track record in these matters.
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
But on the specific matter this thread is about, I might get my rage on when I've read and properly digested the actual report.
You do realise however that the published information is going to be in it, right? That's why it was leaked to the media. So whilst I also look forward to reading the report, and you can rest assured that I will, I think it's legitimate to comment on what we know about it already.
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If, as 3 News claimed last night, the Welfare Working Group's report will recommend work-testing -- on pain of loss of benefit -- for DPB parents when their second child turns 14 weeks old, then the group has lost touch not only with logic, but with simple human decency.
Call it heat, if you will, but the group - which includes at least one fairly unreconstructed fascist in Professor Peter Saunders - was selected to ensure that it would put forward recommendations that would make whatever Bennett and Key come up with look moderate in comparison. It's a classic bad cop, worse cop routine, like the 2025 taskforce. Kind of funny, if it wasn't so very tragic.
(Also: what Danielle said.)
ETA: a bit redundant by now, sorry, I missed a whole page of comments before posting somehow.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
One and one equal TWO and it was Newton not Russell.
You're right about the first statement, wrong about the second.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to DCBCauchi,
That you need to consider such a thing as an 'abstract idea-space' for it to exist in shows what a deeply strange thing two is.
Bertrand Russell had to do quite a bit of work in Principia Mathematica to demonstrate that one plus one equals to, as I recall.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to DCBCauchi,
Nothing is real! Nothing is true! Nothing exists!
Nothing like a bit of nihilism on a sunny afternoon, eh?
Again, if only Derrida had actually said that... I do hope you are enjoying your strawman.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Anonymous Author,
Derrida was partially correct when he suggested nothing exists outside the text.
Except for the fact that he never said that. What he said was that there is no outside-text, that is to say, there is nothing outside context.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
..and why are wines described as dry? Shouldn’t that be sour?
A dry wine is an empty bottle, I keep saying that.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I know that Trotter is not Mr Popular around these parts but I did appreciate him challenging Deborah Coddington on her facile notion of 'objective' journalism and her belief that the world-views of journalists are not already shaped and constrained by their backgrounds and education--and, as Chris himself declared, 'that ugly word----class"
I have no major quibble with Trotter on this occasion - it's the idea that he gets called if those particular people are unavailable. He had a good laugh at that notion himself, to his credit.