Posts by Paul Campbell
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server farms at Tiwai point is a perennial suggestion .... cooling by dipping big coils in the southern ocean ..... having more fibre running across the Pacific would be a requirement - redundancy and speed would be a must have
(changes in the speed of light would also help)
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to tussock,
Or they could build another HVDC connection from the dam up to the Waitaki one, upgrading the giant inverters to handle the load. But that still doesn’t spread it far enough, because you’re adding the extra generation. They’d need to add more HVDC and get it all the way to Auckland.
Or they could just hook them to to the South Island grid (likely a link from Roxburgh to Benmore) and rather than losing 1/3 that energy going over Cook Straight they encourage industry in the lower half of the South Island by charging 1/3 less. Our local economy has be decimated by National, jobs removed and/or moved to Christchurch, no one wants to say anything because, well Christchurch, but we're hurting here and we have a government that doesn't care a whit about us
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I think the number of countries with compulsory voting is pretty small, Wikipedia lists ~30 if which only 11 actually enforce the law
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yes but a rising tide of civil servants is more of a stereotypically Labour image .... in this case I assume this storm serge is caused by fired civil servants washing up on the tide
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I think the "internet voting will raise turnout" idea assumes that all the people who are not voting have ready access to the internet (and the confidence to use it for something as important as voting)
On the other hand those "rank 40 names" STV city council votes might be a great thing to do on line for those who do commonly vote
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As Hager quoted Slater (spit) – sturm udn drang like Dirty Politics depresses turnout and the right benefits.
Seems to me the left needs:
- an ongoing enrollment process for their potential voters, starting today
- up the pressure on the dirty politics thing – nail the Nats as the weasily slime they are far out from the next election so that it is in effect over by the time the next election has come aroundRemember Nixon got reelected after Watergate, it was after that his world fell in
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looking at the results here in Dunedin I can see two things. Firstly almost all of Winston's votes came from Labour. Secondly people vote FPP in electorates and MMP in the local party vote ... those on the left choose the left wing electorate candidate they think can win in an FPP race
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Yes it is a lovely day here in Dunedin, we went up to the local kindy, found somewhere to tie up the dog ..... lots of people seem to be taking their dogs to vote today ....
Voting is sooo easy here in NZ .... I'd watched my partner vote in the US many times .... everything from President to dogcatcher ballots were so complex
And we still get to count ours manually - hooray!
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We've taken our kids with us when we vote all their lives, we've talked about how to choose who to vote for, and how and who and why we choose to vote .... but when they started to vote made sure they knew it was their decision.
My son proudly harassed National's Woodhouse at Uni over his anti-gay marriage stance
This year they've both moved out, we've kept up the "you are going to vote aren't you" gentle reminders, I'll send them a text tomorrow. We'll both go to the church at the top of the hill early tomorrow then go for a coffee.
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If it's a push poll it's subtle, when I returned to NZ 9ish years ago, and was new on the local electoral roll I got the most blatant National push poll that I eventually hung up on