Posts by Steve Barnes
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You mean the paradox that it is not on Wikipedia, unlike the Abilene Paradox?
I might do... I might not.
Contrair?
Mio? -
Capitalism
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And then you have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox The Abiline Paradox
Trouble maker? Moi? -
And another thing...
I think I'm going with Vector on the fiber rollout, I have shares in them. ;-) -
Mrs Bratwurst sound like a silly sausage and should not, under any circumstances, be allowed in charge of a backhoe.
Actually the proposal I made to ACC included the point that Sewers were less likely to be subject to accidental damage than plastic conduit under your average grass berm. -
I keep hearing these judgement calls , good Art V bad Art. I can't agree.
If something is done as a form of expression and fails to express that expression it is not bad Art it is merely a failure of expression. I would go as far as to say attempt of expression and its failure in itself classifies as Art, not so much a large tent as a marquee. Art for Arts sake, on the other hand is but an interpretation of expression rather than an expression in and of itself.
One of the arguments I'm hearing is like "If you wear a beret and a smock all you need is a canvas and a brush then you are an artist". -
and no one has appeared to realise that ducting would be an excellent investment.
Ant those "No-ones" are the Councils we are fighting to keep. It has been said that this sort of thing won't happen under the New Improved Cleaner Whiter Stronger Righter Supercity.
I still stand by the idea of fiber in the sewers, and not just AllBran, a sewer, after all, is a conduit. So we could have a conduit within a conduit within a conduit all for the price of two conduits, innit?
Conduit can be ducting too. -
A run for our money you mean surely?
Ha, not "our" money, we live in Auckland ha ha ha... ooops. yes our money is. your money down in Wellington. Thanks Rodders.
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I put a proposal to Auckland City Council a few years back about running FTTH through the sewers, you can guess the response "Too Hard, too dangerous for teh workers, blahh blahh blahh" I was Not the first to come up with this concept.
But I digress. I recently changed from Vodafun (oh yes, it's so much fun and young and groovy and nauseatingly aimed at teh yoof) to Telecom, who I had been bagging for years. Why change?. Well even though Telecom is not "Wholly" owned by NZ it has, I believe, a greater interest in NZ than Voda. has and as has been pointed out before, by Andre,
"recent American immigrants who have refused to believe that Telecom isn't state owned", I would suggest they are not alone in that opinion. I changed for the "greater good of New Zealand"
I doubt if I am alone in the sentiment that Telecom is ours regardless of who the shareholders are and as such we should buy it back.
As to how we buy it back it doesn't really matter but I would love the irony of a people driven hostile takeover bid and an exchange of some shares in National Provident for instance.
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