Posts by Rob Stowell
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to BenWilson,
In learning it, they found that they already had all of the tools before, of course, they had to because the issues they were designed to solve had come up many times over the years. So they were just learning stuff they already knew how to do
O how familiar this sad tale! :)
We have been prodded into sharepoint training. I wish I could think of something - just one thing- it could usefully do that we can't do already, far more simply, elegantly, or thoroughly.
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to John Holley,
Prompted me to buy from Amazon The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong by Matthew Stewart. Read it an you will understand!
Short version in this Atlantic article (if reading a whole book just to remind oneself how loony modern 'management practice' is seems too much like loading 47 tons of pig iron daily :))
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Please.
This is a spoof, right? Cos if not, I do give up. Lost my vote. -
what would have to be destroyed and lost before we did put every digger and truck and tradesperson in the country to work to make it whole again
Thanks for the sentiment- it does help! But it's a hard question to answer. Japan doesn't appear to suffer from this paralysis.
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(deleted as the conversation had moved on :)
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You could ask a philospher, but they are like lawyers
Nah. About a third the price. Or you can find an unemployed philosopher who'll talk all day for nothing :)
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I can only hope that the present google streetviews are archived before they are replaced by more up to date ones
I tried to suggest this (in a couple of ways) but google can be very impenetrable. OTOH they've also helped out in practical ways where they could- very handy, especially for people who have 'MAG' (mates at google)
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I have the crazy feeling that the devastation is less real than my memories.
Yes. It’s also weird how you can virtually stroll through the central city in google streetview- and the buildings are still there (I can’t get a link to streetview to work, but in streeview’s world, on a rather gloomy grey day, the RC cathedral still overlooks Barbadoes St traffic…)
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The important thing is that the ratings agencies are buying them and the foreigners are buying our sovereign debt at record low yields
The cynic in me says that the rating agencies determining sovereign debt are as switched on as their colleagues who “rated” all those mortgages in the US. An awful lot of smoke and mirrors and they bought it? Phew.
Not smoke and mirrors- NZ govt is (thanks Michael) still in a relatively good position debt-wise. Plus the ‘record low yields’ (4%ish?) may be low for recent NZ govt debt. But they are quite high by world standards- esp for a govt with an AA rating. US treasury bonds, what are they at? 1%? Not much, anyway (unless the current buffoonery around raising the US ’debt ceiling” has caused a blip).
There is a solution to this but it requires some considerable bottle.
Devaluation? Nah. Or a huge, sudden govt sell-off of the NZ$?
It would make a good movie: the poker-faced currency trader courts disaster but becomes a NZ hero by halving our foreign debt in 6 tumultuous weeks. Co-starring Liz Hurley.
If only one could script the next few years as a Hollywood musical. The reality looks a lot crueler.