Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Dunne is MP for the most white-bread part of the Wellington region. I think his constituency knows to vote for him over National and National know not to try to hard.
Harawira lost because Labour regarded keeping fat Germans out of NZ politics as more important than denying Key a clear majority.
Mana won't come back under current conditions, but if those conditions change (see above) and Labour / Greens fail to offer an alternative to austerity, then a Syriza/Podemos type party will fill the gap (unless TPTB just ban them).
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Will the Chinese economy avoid a banking collapse / FX crunch / rioting and if not, how will NZ parties cope with a new normal of bank failures, negative equity, zero demand for milk and a property crash?
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Wikipedia:
Some definitions of plebiscite suggest that it is a type of vote to change the constitution or government of a country.[1] Others define it as the opposite
See also the Saarland plebiscite (or referendum)
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And just on cue, I give you an example of a well documented open source API:
http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/9.3.7.v20160115/apidocs/org/eclipse/jetty/servlet/Holder.html
Well done, Eclipse Foundation.
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Hard News: The unstable Supercity, in reply to nzlemming,
QGIS
Nice. I will try that next time I need to bash geospatial data.
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I think an example of the sort of stuff they might want to do is find all the water lines that are coming up for maintenance, determine which properties they serve and export a list of the people to send notification to, all without getting a programmer/DBA in to write a custom query.
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Hard News: The unstable Supercity, in reply to Roger,
Looks great, but where's the source?
Also, it looks to me to be a viewer tool. By GIS, I'm thinking of something like ArcGIS or MapInfo that allow a user to manage and analyse geospatial data.
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Hard News: The flagging referendum, in reply to linger,
They could fly the flag they killed foreigners under indefinitely if they wanted to.
I don't think the old flag would be proscribed - and any attempt to do so might come unstuck (R v Morse said you can burn flags, so I guess you can fly them).
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Russell Brown,
You know, just providing feedback. If you feel there's a demand for that sort of thing, there probably is. I'll expect Redbaiter, Tinakori and all that lot to be along shortly.
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The idea that IT is just a servant to the business has been orthodoxy for a long time, but does it produce results?
In some places, this has broken down: Amazon is a tech company that sells books and stuff. Google is a tech company that sells advertising. These enterprises are doing very well out of looking at things that way round (and you’ll notice, they do almost no outsourcing).