Posts by Chris Waugh
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Spring of a young photographer… Two photos my daughter took. Her aim is improving, still I cropped out a few people around the edges.
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Kinda redundant considering how people out here earn a living.
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Trees have got to rest, too.
And the opera stage could use some of the TLC the buildings around it are getting.
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Through the trees, the almost mid-autumn moon.
And somebody got stuck into the trees. Pity, while they were removing things, they couldn't remove the slogan warning of fines for people caught swimming in the dirty water. The pond was drained and filled in years ago.
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Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
Thank you, that does make more sense.
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Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
Not sure whether you are being facetious
Not at all. You may well be right about what the job involved, but even if it was limited to the major markets of East and Southeast Asia, that's still more than one time zone, and the markets of the Middle East and Persian Gulf, presumably important for their oil, are definitely in Asia but much closer to Europe in time zone. Hence my reaction: It doesn't make any sense.
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Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
where I was responsible for the risk management of all derivative products in the Asian time zone.”
But that just doesn't make any sense! At all! Or do these banker types live in an entirely different world with all its geography creatively rearranged?
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Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
No worries. I could've been clearer about what I meant.
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Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to BenWilson,
Well Russia would certainly be improved if Kasparov were elected, instead of being (quite rightly) too scared to return.
Trouble for him is Putin is no slouch at the long-term game, either.
Back in NZ, I think Key's lack of strategic smarts is starting to show, and that gives me hope he'll be out of the picture soon-ish. The big question is who comes next.
As for chess, when it first entered the thread I took it purely as metaphor, but I think it's a valuable one. I suspect chess and similar games were invented precisely to teach kids the kind of strategic thinking they'd need for careers in government and/or the military. It does worry me that I look at the likes of Putin and Xi Jinping and think these guys would be pretty handy on a chessboard, then look at what passes for leadership in the "West" and wonder where the strategists are.
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Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
that our PM is not a “chess player”
Yes! The lack of chess players at the higher levels of politics is generally quite worrying. Key certainly is not one, and for that I am glad.
“It’s not my job to talk about Labour’s stupid policy…”
Did Cunliffe fire back with "Good thing, because you've been talking stupidly about Labour's intelligent policy all day"?
