Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Legal Beagle: MMP Review: Trusting Voters, in reply to Clarke,
Which is why local government would be way more functional if we ran it like national government:
- councillors elected as part of parties (local or national)
- the mayor/leader elected by councillors and hence able to command a majorityAt the moment, it's just a personality contest do see who's enough of an idiot to attract sufficient publicity to top the poll.
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Starting reading that article and this stood out:
the largest mass murder on the continent in the nation's history
Exempting the Trail of tears and all the other genocide of Native Americans, naturally.
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Allan Moyle,
There is also the option to make parallel OIA's to determine the formats being used and forge-posting massive numbers of 'responses' to John Harteveld, purportedly from the school's email adresses.
I knew SMTP didn't have sender verification for a reason...
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
They could just do what they're required to legally. Provide the data, in a plain envelope, with nothing identifying the name of the school.
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Bamiyan, an area supposedly controlled
I think the insurgent groups have an ability to throttle the amount of trouble in any area, including allegedly 'peaceable' ones, as they wish. If things get hot for them, they can hide their weapons and melt back into being farmers. When they need to, they go back on the attack.
The British got nowhere in Afghanistan in the 19th century. The Russians got nowhere in the late 20th (maybe if it had been Stalin rather than Brezhnev, they might have done, and we'd have a pacified, relatively liberal state inhabited almost entirely by Russians). I don't think (total genocide being no longer acceptable) that the US and its allies are going to get any further - we'll be heading home in a couple of years, so why not do it now?
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Rob Coup,
If I'm a parent and I have a perfect, accurate and fair understanding of the data, then that is going to lead me to send my (average ability, no special needs, well parented) offspring to the school with the best results.
That's in their interests. Rational self-interest.
It isn't in the interests of all the kids with issues, or whose parents don't give a stuff about league tables and just want them out of the house. Or of the struggling schools, who suddenly get more of the problem kids and less of the average to good ones.
And it isn't in the interest of the community that gets to deal with the kids who went to the sink schools after they leave.
But no, we must have openness, because that's the ideology and we're sticking to it.
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Idiot Savant,
They could add it on to the school fees. They're illegal too, but that one doesn't get enforced. Or write an insincere apology. Or have a minion do it, and deny any knowledge when pressed.
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Rob Coup,
So you'd have no objection if the results were to be aggregated and published as the details for schools AAA-ZZZ?
Once information informs negative actions against the people involved, it isn't suitable for publication.
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Rob Coup,
It isn't legitimately public information*. It's the private information of the community of students that form the school.
Do you think medical records should all be shoved up on an open website, so we can analyse how doctors and patients are doing, with pretty graphics and that?
* yes, I know that isn't what the law says. The law doesn't recognise the rights of communities adequately in these sort of cases.
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..And the consequences of that
What would Gina Rinehart do, eh?
One thing people who don't support this could do is stop buying Fairfax papers, using Trademe, plugging their products and articles, etc?