Posts by Russell Brown
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
You see the problem when you have a “partisan” column. All the Tory trolls come out of the woodwork and play with each other.
Boring, boring boring…
Ha ha. You might want to think about your response there.
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to John Palethorpe,
Like.
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Mr Mark,
Dang ! I meant to preview the above comment rather than post !
Second half of that sentence was more than a little tortuous.
Bugger, bugger, bugger !
If you mouse over the comment, you should see an edit link come up – it's good for 10 minutes after you post.
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Sacha,
Yes. Imagine if Labour had figured out where they stood beforehand?
Well, the Greens could have taken a look at it. It was a little amusing that James Shaw's position on dealing with the TPP in government turned out to be a better-worded version of Little's "we'll have a look at it".
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Richard Mayes,
I’m sorry if the term irritates you!
Yeah, you're prolly not that sorry. But the original post is snarky too.
If I was put in charge it would be “haters gonna hate syndrome”, but that’s not original either…
It seems to be a widely agreed line of argument, because it has the effect of delegitimising all contrary views. But it's cloddish and fanciful. There are some people who are mostly into flag-change opposition because they hate Key (there are also, as Morrissey observed, some bad people on the right). But they're entitled to do that.
Personally, I'm intent on participating in the process in good faith. But we have reached a juncture where the choice is between a flag I don't much care for and a new option I think is a bloody cultural calamity. So, you know, sorry, but I'm going with my cultural tribe on this one.
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to linger,
Seriously? Conflating “ignorant” and “deranged”? In response to multiple comments pointing out why this was a bad-faith thing to do?
Just reply to it. I delete genuine trolls, but I don't want to prevent argument.
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Sacha,
Hey, most of our politicians can’t discuss TPP clearly either. The deliberate opaqueness has been a large part of the problem, by design. The ongoing misinformation campaign doesn’t help either.
I actually think it got used in a Key-Derangement way too. Informed opposition was dismissed as mere partisanship. And, yeah, I'm not sure I can think off one politician capable of discussing the IP chapter, with which I have issues.
But by the same token, elements of the opposition made me wary of identifying closely with the protests. We lacked for good generally-pro-trade-but-not-this voices.
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Alfie,
Oh dear. Troll alert!
No, argument made in good faith, I think. Not trolling.
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Sacha,
Some shows, true. Others had no trouble finding articulate protestors. Funny, eh?
To be fair, I didn't think some of the people John Campbell interviewed had much of a handle on the facts either.
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From a comment on another recent Standard post:
Deloitte were lying about the cost, and they knew it
The estimated timeline was somewhat more realistic, but the cost estimate of $200m was complete deception
Auckland Council have also outsourced contracts for Data Center, infrastructure management as well as other IT service contracts
To give a simple example: Building of a Virtual Server (base only) cost approximately $2k internally. Same server cost approximately $9k under the outsourced contract
Senior Managers in the department had a major falling out with the Head of IT in 2013, a number of them resigned. The fall out was over the outsourcing of services with cost involved, which represented tens of millions worth in service and maintenance contracts, alone. The numbers emphatically supported keeping the services internal, yet the external contracts were signed
The Head of IT, Mike Foley was walked out the door in November 2015
It would be very interesting to know what conversations were had before Foley's abrupt exit.
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