Posts by Steve Barnes
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It would not have worked in anybodies favour for this to have gone to trial, the police knew they had no real case and as jonkey was the instigator of this fiasco then a not guilty verdict would have looked bad for him and the police don't want to upset the "Smiling Assassin" while he is wielding the hatchet of spending cuts.
It served its purpose as a smokescreen in the run up to the election, to hide the inadequacies of the incumbent government and the policies of the opposition.
I feel that this is not the end of the matter however as Ambrose now has a story to tell and there are plenty of people who are willing to listen to a victim of a rogue state. -
Has anyone elsegot this problem?
EOS 1000D
Canon EOS utility does not start when connecting camera.
It used to work fine until a couple of weeks back. Windows update I suspect, bloody Microstuffed.
Now when I plug in the camera nothing happens and I have to start the utility manually, not a real problem but it is messing with the storage order.
In the preferences there is a check-box for "Automatically start EOS Utility when camera is connected" but the setting won't stick.
This only happens on the desktop, not the laptop (Laptop is set to ignore windows update)Also my A470 just refuses to put images where they are supposed to go as I cant get the system to do anything other than open it as a folder and i have to drag and drop files and create folders each time.
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Hard News: Back to mediocrity, in reply to Russell Brown,
You've reminded me that I forgot to complain about the bloody beer.
Apparently It's all your fault for being a hooligan.
The poor caterers have to use plastic cups or open your beverage can because, if they didn't, you would kill thousands of innocent women & children.
And remember. Rugby is not just a game, it is a marketing opportunity that must be protected at all costs. -
Public CEOs enjoy big pay hikes
The highest paid of the heads was Mighty River Power's Doug Heffernan, at $1,769,342.
Remuneration for the bosses of Solid Energy, Meridian Energy and Genesis Power also topped the million dollar mark, at $1,410,00, $1,220,620 and $1,180,000 respectively.
Funny that those are the same companies that jonkey has in his bargain bin.Not only will those massive salaries contribute to the soaring cost of electricity but the profits will flow offshore to help good ol' NZ sink further into the mire.
"CEOs in the public sector do carry enormous responsibilities and they have big jobs - nobody's questioning that - but everyone in the public sector is under a lot of pressure, and when the people on top of the pile get rewarded well in excess of everyone else, it's not a good look and it really just doesn't feel fair."
This always gets me. So much responsibility the poor dears, it's not like any losses from their fuckups comes out of their pockets is it? In fact, if you look at the Ports debacle, Tony Gibbon is lording it over a massive downturn in productivity which will cost the shareholders (us) dearly but he will still get his squillion dollar salary and if the worst comes to the worst he will be kicked out with a "Golden Parachute" so much for the cost of failure with all that responsibility eh?.
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
I find the soldiers on corners of perfectly quiet places such an intrusion in our lives.
You still have soldiers guarding the remains from prying eyes even after they have been plundered?
That, is disgusting.
I bet it wouldn't take much to put together a series of shots to give the impression that we are now a fascist state.
Come to think of it you only have to look at Parliament. -
Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to DexterX,
Really phuck working for yourself
Cos working to hard can give you a heart Atack acc acc acc
You ought a know by now... -
Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
snap… meet Cashel
Apparently a Cashel Maul is quite scary.
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Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to Sacha,
Another use of contracting to deflect any responsibility.
I was talking to a guy last night who is a manager for a large real estate agency, he told me he was regarded as a contractor and as such if he wanted to take a holiday he had to find and pay another manager to take his place in his absence, about $2500 a week.
He couldn't see what was wrong with that picture, in fact he thought being a contractor was great and everybody should be one.
Managers eh? such quality thinking. -
Apparently it is not in our interest to know what our govt. thinks about all this...
Transport Minister Brownlee won’t divulge government interest in Auckland port disputeThe CTU wrote to the minister in February requesting, “all information and advice that has been prepared by the Ministry of Transport for the Minister of Transport since 1 January 2011.”
“The reason we declined the request is because it is out of scope,” a spokesman for Brownlee. The minister is reviewing the files and may yet release them, he said.
Brownlee declined to release any documents to the CTU under the OIA, sayint the release wasn’t in the public interest.
I would call that arrogance.
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Can anybody give me any assurance that this is not a list of jonkey’s previous Employers/Mates?
It all fits a little to neatly for my liking.The following suppliers were appointed by The Treasury as members of the Joint Lead Managers Panel to provide joint lead manager services for the extension of the Mixed Ownership Model programme as required by The Treasury:
1. Deutsche Bank AG New Zealand Branch and Craigs Investment Partners Limited
PO Box 6900, Wellesley Street, Auckland2. First NZ Capital Limited and Credit Suisse (Australia) Limited
Level 39, ANZ Centre, 23-29 Albert Street, Auckland3. Forsyth Barr Limited and Merrill Lynch
Level 13, Forsyth Barr Tower, 55 Shortland Street, Auckland4. Goldman Sachs New Zealand Limited
Level 38, Vero Centre, 48 Shortland Street, Auckland5. Macquarie Capital (New Zealand) Limited
Level 17, Lumley Centre, 88 Shortland Street, Auckland6. UBS New Zealand Limited
Level 17, 188 Quay Street, AucklandContract Title… Extension of Mixed Ownership Model – Joint Lead Managers Panel and First Transaction
From the Government Electronic Tenders Service website.
Which, I must add, is one of the worst designed websites I have seen in years.But wait… there’s more…
The nature and potential duration of the services to be provided means that it is not possible to specify the value of services to be provided.
A blank cheque will do fine thank you.