Posts by Bart Janssen
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If they wanted to marry someone they hadn’t had sex with, that might be enough to make me lock them in their room and not let them out until they’d come to their senses.
Presumably you'd have to lock someone(s) else in the room with them.
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how you find out what the fuck you’re doing
I see what you did there :).
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to Lilith __,
as opposed to canal-boating #tow
Also trawling :-)
And under the bridges live ...
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
good combo - weird personality with weird market - outcome unpredictable.
Personally I'd avoid Fairfax shares like the Plague or Rheumatic fever.
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to Russell Brown,
I’m still not clear on exactly what magic …
From the little I have studied the stock market, after the initial float unless you issue more shares the company gets no new money to use for investment. BUT if the share value rises then the company can use that “value” to buy other companies (paying with shares) or to leverage loans at lower interest rates.
At that point it really does become a little like magic. If some good business person invests then other people have confidence in your company which you can use to do stuff.
Like I said, stock markets can be weird.
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to Russell Brown,
I think dumping 20% of the company would see the stock tank.
My guess is you are right but stock markets can be weird. If she sells 20% of the shares then someone will have to buy them. She will likely want the biggest return for her shares so if someone sees value in Fairfax then it's just as possible for the price to rise.
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Speaking as a plant developmental biologist ie not an expert.
The target is probably achievable BUT the problem depends very much on figuring out why certain areas have high rates of infection. If the underlying cause is too little affordable housing then the only solution is building houses and spreading the families out a bit - I can't see an education policy doing that.
But the problem might really be a simple lack of knowledge in those communities where incidence is high. If that is true then the policy may work IF and only IF they pay for people to go out in those communities and go house to house and talk to people.
Getting these kinds of changes requires figuring out exactly where to put the effort, my feeling is that even the experts are making guesses as to what exactly might work - very well educated guesses - but they could be wrong. And at that point some public servants will get their pay cut.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to tim kong,
What Jackie said.
Pay parity is, in my humble opinion, one of the key aspects of our NZ education system
I happily sit corrected
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Scott Chris,
is enhanced when presented in an objective way
Scott you are mistaking numbers for information. It's a relatively common error especially when funding is dictated by people who spend their lives working with numbers.
Your version of the statement actually conveys less information but it has numbers and hence can be summarized. Essentially if you want the information form the first version you need to read and process the information.
I agree funding bodies generally are not good at that - hence the default to numbers. but I strongly disagree that the use of described informative English is in any way inferior nor does it diminish the reputation of the person giving it.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Is there anything that can be done without being accused of PC gone mad?
Yes, fund decile 1,2,3 and 4 schools so damn well that they can afford the best teachers and more of them so that the decile 10 school are no longer the only choice. Wait isn't that what we're trying to do now.
Actually to hell with it why not fund ALL our schools so that they can afford the best trained teachers and lots of them so our next generation can have the proven advantages of high quality education.
But that will cost money so we need to get the culture of paying taxes back into society.