Posts by BenWilson
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Speaker: Market failure in the research world, in reply to Mark C. Wilson,
The depressing thing is that researchers themselves are probably the only ones who can fix the system, and the technical problems are trivial.
Yes. It's an extreme form of objective alienation, considering how smart the victims are, and how much influence they can wield, and even just considering their own personal finances. In the words of the prophet:
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds" -
Who'd a thunk that a commercialized model of academia could lead to the commercialization of access to academic research?
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I doubt if he really believes any of that stuff.
Yes, I'd be amazed if there is any blood test that could truly detect virginity, although there certainly are plenty that can detect a lack of it.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I’m sure that Mr Hooton is made of sterner stuff.
So...he drinks the blood of the deflowered AND holds it down???
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
That is the reason the PM and his Chief of Staff are ultimately responsible for this scandal, even if their stories of not knowing anything about it are correct.
Yup. But it's just a flesh wound to Key.
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Nah, it's gotta be a top hat. Really tall and shiny.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Is the day looming when the SIS is privatised in the interests of efficiency and independence?
I was a bit surprised to see that the official inquiry outsourced the IT stuff to KPMG. Who did, so far as I can tell, absolutely nothing. The work that went into getting the mail from Slater to confirm what went on consisted of them asking for it, and him giving what he felt like, them noticing that he'd not given them everything they asked for, him giving a bit more and them leaving it at that.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Tom Semmens,
ambient values
Nice phrase! Can it be portmanteaued? Ambivalues? Government by ambivaluation.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
The fault lies with De Joux (and his bosses) who should at least have said to Tucker: “you know this is illegal under 4AA(1)(c), pull your head in”
Or with a political culture that makes doing illegal things something that people are prepared to do their utmost to excuse when it's someone very close to the PM, not to even mention things that are highly unethical.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Idiot Savant,
He’s violated the Public Records Act.
Which part, btw? It's quite a long Act.
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