Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Hard News: It's not funny because it's…, in reply to merc,
Gerry serves at the behest of the Queen
Brownlee: Good morning yer majesty. What can I do for your eminent egrescence?
Brenda: The road from Paraparaumu to Levin?
Brownlee: I know it well.
Brenda: It's a bloody disgrace. I'm informed by young Willy that it took him over 10 minutes to get through that puker-ow bay place, even with Plod giving it the full blues and twos.
Brownlee: Some people pronounce that 'pu-ker-ua'
Brenda: Then they're probably darkies. Anyway, it's got to be sorted before Phil the Greek sets foot down there. He can't be more than 15 mins from a suitably appointed garderobe at his age. Get some concrete poured - four lanes should do it, but make sure you don't use the builders we had on the Windsor Castle extension.
Brownlee: Right you are, your galactic and exalted majesty, I'll get right down to it. Now, could I trouble you for one of those Buckingham Palace mugs that I saw Grump Gillard had on my last trip to Ozzie?
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ukgovt.com
I think you mean Her Brittanic Majesties Most Exalted and Imperial Government, don't you. It isn't 2012 or something.
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peer reviewing is still mostly free labour provided by the institutions and their academics
So why don't either the UK government or a consortium of governments set up a peer review co-ordination body (in the UK, maybe around the research councils which do most of the funding)? With suitable process automation, it wouldn't cost that much to run.
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Steve Barnes,
No, it had a special statute that overrode existing legislation (and the wishes of the Auklanders). Mind you, they kinda signed up for it by voting NACT.
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other useful skills
Such as blagging the government into giving you law changes and corporate welfare?
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Danielle,
If you want to hear the noise a dodo made, unmute away:
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If people grow up in a society where alcohol isn't normalised and is hard to get, they won't have a problem with alcohol abuse. Yeah, right
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Hard News: It's NetHui Week, in reply to Russell Brown,
Had a skim. They don't mention the impact of the Internet in enabling the fisking of ridiculous concepts like "consumer surplus" (this prices goods and services we have today in terms of what people would have paid for them at a historical point. For instance, one might ascribe a huge value to an airline ticket, on the grounds than someone in 1850 might have given a huge amount to travel to NZ in a day of relative comfort, rather than months on a leaky sailing ship with a 10% mortality rate. Then, you regard that value as actual money, so by being able to fly to the UK without dying of typhus, we have "earnt" many years of wages, subjected of course to inflators, deflators and fudge factors).
Also, if the Internet contributed so much to economic growth, why was growth mostly faster in the decade *before* internet access became widespread? (I use US growth as a proxy - that country probably has the highest level of Internet adoption).
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Hard News: It's NetHui Week, in reply to Stephen Knightly,
Did you hear about when Dracula got management consultants in? They said he needed to interact more with stakeholders....
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I feel I should go to these things to help ny career, but have this massive aversion to standing in a room balancing a sandwich and a glass of wine while chatting to a bunch of (almost entirely) blokes who I don't know.
(I used to go to expos in Europe when I was doing sales support - that was better as we went in a gang and had a booth area to hang out/nest in).
My suggestion for anyone gregarious wanting a start up business is a networking service for the curmudgeonly - you fill a form in with what you want to achieve and who you'd like to meet, and they rep for you and set up some coffee dates, job interviews or whatever.