Posts by Steve Barnes
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The policy looks sound, it has public support
Could somebody find this member of the public and give them a sound slap?
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that either this Government thinks we are all stupid (Of course we can make ACC cheaper, all we have to do is allow insurance companies to take profit) or they are.
"You have heard of the Heisenberg uncertainty principal haven't you?" (to be said with the same disdain reserved for those that soil your furniture) "Children do not have intelligence until you measure it" -
many private sector contractors.
Which was my point. It has been many years since the council actually employed the people that do the work. Instead we have private companies and their associated management and ownership overhead which takes funds away from the core activities that we have a council for. We no longer have "Council Workers" you know, road sweepers and garbage collectors, the Water and Power board Workers.
Instead we have some kind of mysterious bureaucratic middle management structure that just seems to be self perpetuating without any apparent purpose and the "Core Activities" have become cash cows for the private sector. -
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide has backed off from law changes to stop councils getting involved in social policies, such as pensioner housing, and force them to focus on core activities.
And what, prey, are those core services?.
In Auckland;
Sewers = Watercare
Water = Metrowater
Power = Vector
Waste disposal = Wastecare
Road Maintenance = Auckland Road Maintenance Alliance
Public Transport = Maxx
I won't go on. My point is that all they seem to do is write cheques with our money and run the Library. There is one other thing they do and that is to stop you doing anything until you give them more money (Planning and Building). My recent experience of this has shown me that the consideration given to the general community with regard to the effects of building consents is minimal at best.
And don't get me started about tree protection grrrr... -
Did anyone check Tolley for Act membership before she stood?
ACT. Who are they again? The Association of Caring Types? Abyssinian Cat Ticklers? or Armageddons Crushing Terminators?
Anyone up for a few beers at Kingsland's wonderful Mac's Bar? around 2 ish? -
Ah. Friday, time for some fun.
Hopefully no persons of interest were harmed in the making of this movie. ;-) -
As it's Friday I thought I'd post this little effort wot I put together last night with extranormal's State text to movie.
Apologies to all concerned. ;-) -
I don't think Windoze can go much further without dropping the bloody awful "Registry" and quit running parts th OS as "Services"
but to do that would mean a total ground upward build. Which would in all likelihood end up similar to BSD, with about as many applications in the box i.e not many.
As the vast majority of applications were written for windows a change of that magnitude would be self defeating I suspect. -
Oh, and for all the "Snow Leopard is just a service pack" crowd:
Windows 7 is really Windows 6.1.Ah. But. From the same Article Gareth, that you forgot to link to ;-)
Contrast that with Apple Inc.'s approach. It used a consistent numbering scheme for versions 1 through 9 of its operating system. When it got to 10, the current version, it started adding the names of big cats to the sub-releases: Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard.
And with regard to Global Warming can we expect a "Mud Leopard" "Sub Release" next ?.
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Doh...
That video clip was supposed to be this one. -
So. When are you having the party?