Posts by Steve Barnes
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
I believe there is a case for limiting the number of companies that one can be a director of, especially so in the case of sole directorship. Is their any other reason to have many companies other than fraud?.
Serious question there. I know that accountants often hold directorships in other peoples companies for tax reasons but that is tantamount to fraud in my books. -
I have always had a problem with the regulation of reporting suicide.
The problem seems to be the fear of copycats. I can understand worrying about copycat instances of Murder, Rape, Abduction. Even Drug taking, Drinking , Smoking, whatever But suicide?
If you feel life is so bad your only answer is killing yourself surely it is better to know that you are not the only one and that it is not that weird to think about it,. All those other instances are things that some people may do once, regret and, hopefully, never do again and be prevented from continuing by a responsible society. Suicide, on the other hand, is a one off. It is unique amongst behavioural problems and needs treating with compassion and understanding. This cannot be helped by pretending it doesn't happen. -
I'm really surprised I haven't written on this thread.
-
Which two Councils are you thinking of?
ARC and Auckland superdooper City Cuntcil. Sorry, I didn't make it that clear.
-
Much as I am a great fan of rail I have to agree with those doubting the wisdom of rail to the airport. Most people, I would assume, don't travel by air that much so the additional expense of a taxi or better still, a shuttle to their door, can be justified with all the luggage and the gifts for friends and family. The business traveller would, almost definitely, take a taxi (you get paid how much an hour to sit on the bus?) and that leaves too few to justify the train.
If, as been suggested, rail was to go beyond the airport and be part of an efficient National passenger/freight infrastructure project, then I would be all for it.
Maybe, if Joan Hubbard could only remember where she put that sugar sack full of cash and canned Steven's Super Holiday Highway, we could, probably, afford it.
:-) -
Botany Downs and environs is an obvious choice.
Except that in the planning of Botany Downs and environs there was no provision for rail, there is no longer a corridor.
-
Only one is local, the other regional
Actually they are both regional and as have said many times before, what did we need this extra layer of bureaucracy for?.
If decisions needed to be taken on a regional level then we had the regional council, if we needed local control we had the local councils. In fact, at the time of the first rumours of a supercity I did suggest actually reducing the size and increasing the number of local councils, as we used to have before the last big idea. So how about this. We use the new wards as councils, disband the supercity before it even starts and beef up the powers of ARC.
Nah, never happen, the whole thing was about getting rid of ARC for not being obedient to central Govt. and reducing the power of local bodies to make way for control by the powers that be.
Suckers, the lot of us. -
Given Auckland's very large geographic area and huge population (by world standards - 1.4 million is very big outside of Asia), it is simply not possible for an independent to fund a campaign... or at least very unlikely
Which begs the question, did we need a Supercity? or is it that as funding a campaign would be prohibitively expensive for an independent it guarantees the job goes to those that already control the purse strings.
-
I'm wondering why there seem to be no women in the running
Oh, they're running, one glimpse of Rodders and off they went, we've seen how he chucks 'em around on the dancefloor.
-
Come on down Tim Shadbolt, or should that be come on up?.
Waddaya reckon Tim? Willing to give it a go?.
Bit late this time but next time?.