Posts by Rich of Observationz
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That's really interesting, the way the OIA doesn't have an explicit clause for "information protected by another statute" and the language at s.50 " the use or disclosure is not required or permitted".
The only *required* information is the result data that is published - but is anything outside that that doesn't identify a vote "permitted"?
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Not initially, they just get their post blocked and an email:
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Hard News: Victoria Crone and what…, in reply to Russell Brown,
The names mean nothing to me, but I may have just discovered the elusive profitable online business model: pay to be a twatcock.
Basically, start a wingnut blog with subscription levels, and the more the subscriber pays, the more of a dick they can make of themselves, up to the level of Imperial Grand Wizard, where they get access to home addresses and can go around the other commenters' houses and get medieval on their asses.
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Hard News: Art with a job to do, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Civil War I reckon. It’s just about to boil over. Weetabix Kids vs Redcoats.
I’m off to Machine Gun City to get me one of those cheap AKs they’ve been advertising. Reckon my gun license will be ok:
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Hard News: Victoria Crone and what…, in reply to Sacha,
Nothing like that bad, no.
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Hard News: Victoria Crone and what…, in reply to George Darroch,
Well, as one of the “entrepeneurial and tech sector” people, i’m certainly not going to be swayed on my vote by any pitch to my alleged “shared values”, because I don’t really have any. (We’ve had a “geek candidate” run for mayor in Wellington twice, and I’ve never voted for him, mostly because he shows no sign of understanding what council actually does or wanting to learn).
And aren't parties that do this failing to reach a whole sector of the population who don't go to church (80%?) or participate in any old-school community groups. (I might have a community, but they're widely distributed and heterogenous).
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Exactly how does a career in sales and marketing qualify one as magically able to sort out a highly complex enterprise systems merger? It’s like expecting Jamie Oliver to be able to run Fonterra, because he knows about food (or conversely, Henry Van der Hayden to take over the chef’s job at Logan Brown).
Even if she was a technical expert at Xero, there’s a world of difference between developing a greenfield, SAAS, SME accounting system and integrating existing corporate legacy systems with a massive amount of baggage – which can’t just be hand-waved away because as we saw with Novapay, all the boring shit has to work or people don’t get paid (etc).
(See also http://theoatmeal.com/comics/computers)
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I’m not sure why either Phil Goff (“Kiwi Chinese”) or Victoria Crone (“the entrepreneurial and tech sectors”) expect people to block vote according to an ethnic or professional affiliation.
How about appealing to individuals with policies that might fix stuff?
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This sez that if you have a single candidate you dislike above all others, leaving them unranked or ranking them last is equivalent.
I’ll leave whether this extends to multiple disliked candidates as an exercise for the reader.
(Of course, one might feel better by not ranking X, but it won’t stop them winning any more effectively).
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Hard News: Art with a job to do, in reply to izogi,
I'm not sure - it would seem hard to have done a manual count in the time available.
So maybe they could analyse unused preferences at no real cost. But it's not legislated for - I'm not sure if that would make it illegal for the Commission to perform that analysis - my guess, given the prescriptive nature of the process is that it would.
