Posts by Paul Campbell
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Some background: The SDHB isn't actually a board at the moment, no elected members, it's controlled by a Wellington appointed executive tasked with reducing costs any way possible. This means the operating theatres leak when it rains, food is shipped from Auckland, people get served unidentifiable reheated mush.
And most importantly no real public accountability. It's being run by Wellington accountants, not doctors. If they can avoid short term costs to avoid long term savings it probably looks good on their spreadsheets.
The underlying problem is a percapita funding system that designed for big cities that falls down with a single board responsible for almost half the South Island
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Probably "yuge" should be thrown somewhere in the mix, or under a passing bus
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The Standard article explains how Slater's case almost got swept under the carpet
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The Standard brings us up to date prior to the upcoming court case
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I have one nit to pick with the Audioculture article … The Enemy certainly played at the Cook back then – they were excellent, soooo much manic energy, the early Toy Love were a bit of a let down
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I think the problem with public ebikes is getting them to a charger, as I understand it the public bikes in China have their electronics powered by solar cells or in-wheel generators (there’s a bunch of intrigued Shenzhen hardware hackers mentally reverse engineering them), some use your phone to unlock them and to track where they are
Mind you some people are not happy with them ….
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there are multiple comanies doing the public bike (not ebiuke) thing, one of the latest uses bluetooth and your phone to unlock the bike and to report its location for the next user
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Yeah, half of those electric bikes in Shenzhen are really moped replacements, the local government banned 2 strokes so the busy smoky mess that is the streets of Hanoi, Saigon, Taipei, etc … is clean and quiet, and look like mopeds, they also have large electric tricycle delivery guys who hang out on various corners waiting for work when you move house you rent a fleet of them.
There are laws about power which are flouted, and there’s a general feeling that ebike riders are a bit feral, they ride on the wrong side of the road, zip backwards and forwards thru traffic, drive on the footpath, and ride without lights at night to save batteries …. The cops have been having a crackdown, confiscating tens of thousands …. they don't consider ebikes necessarily a solution to congestion
Ebikes there are much cheaper than here 2-3000 kwai – NZ$4-600
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Crossing the street here today in Shenzhen I dodged more ebikes in 2 minutes than I see in NZ in a month .....
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You know the removal of church's tax exemption is just the sort of natural disaster that Tamaki woiuld blame on the gays ....