Posts by Steve Barnes
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Bit more up to date...
Loving this at the moment...
Sound a bit like NZ's answer to Dylan, Mike Scorey. Wonder what he is up to now, must find out... -
Hard News: Friday Music: An accompanied korero, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Voices New Zealand Female Choir, with harp and two horns
I guess the Devil is in the detail with a heavenly choir.
Anyhoo.
First record I bought, went halves with my brother.....Followed by this one...
All down hill after that.
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
we shoulda got a room over at the Friday music thread...>
See you there.
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Sacha,
MMP supports niche parties as well as big ones.
Size doesn't matter, popularity does.
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Thank you Ian, that was one of the first records I ever bought. :-)
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Speaker: David Fisher: The OIA arms race, in reply to Angela Hart,
I think we had politicians who were trying to make this a better place,
But the voters just wanted tax cuts and the supposed opportunity to get rich like John Key, suckers.
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Speaker: David Fisher: The OIA arms race, in reply to izogi,
My own argument for invoicing, even if agencies can find the money, would be that it turns a difficult-to-enforce law into a financial line that would have to show up on budgets, and have be explained in those terms to people who care about money.
I have to agree with you there. The fact of the matter is that the trip to the ombudsman's office shouldn't be necessary, information requested through the OIA shouldn't be necessary. The information is ours to begin with, we, the public, own the public service, we have a right to know what they are doing on our behalf.
eta..
As Popbot says above, some in the public service appreciate this fact. -
Speaker: David Fisher: The OIA arms race, in reply to Sacha,
If the argument for private provision is more efficient or innovative service, I have yet to see evidence of that in this industry.
I have yet to see it in any industry. The only argument for privatising that gets offered is that public bodies are inefficient and, let's face it, the public service often appears to be about empire building at the public expense and that is the root of that problem.
The only reason for privatisation and this is what we see coming from National, is to give lucrative contracts to their supporters and companies that members have shares in, a corrupt practice if there ever was one. The ideology is one of greed and avarice. -
Speaker: David Fisher: The OIA arms race, in reply to nzlemming,
I have noticed that NZTA and MBIE have got a lot better technically at document redaction over the last three years ;-)
There is a way of extracting redacted data from documents that relies on word length, repetition and probability, unfortunately this method is unreliable at best for redacted sections and either way it is only a probability rather than actuality. Still a great deal of fun for sleuthing nerds. ;-)
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This 1970 clip of Lilburn "demonstrating the sounds produced for a modern dance performance
TVNZ archive is about to be gutted, anything considered not worth keeping will be dumped. I can't tell you how I found this out but noises should be made and LOUD ones.