Posts by Don Christie
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I agree, this is very good news, and a great speech. Good on Mayor Bloomberg for paying his fellow Republicans to do some researchiness.
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Oh yeah, no PO, no invoice. Worked a treat.
You need SAP for that rule? Why, did they patent it or something?
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And in case you were wondering, Auckland could have looked no further than...Auckland for a solution - http://www.adaxa.com/
But no, your $$s are heading into never never land.
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Senior council officers said a single new computer system was necessary to improve service to customers, reduce the risk of system failures, boost IT efficiency and capacity, meet regulatory and legal requirements, and produce savings.
Recipe for disaster, right there.
Keep them small, agile and moving in a common direction...that's the recipe for success, integration and finding points of co-operation.
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Russell - does anyone know how much of that money will be spent on New Zealand companies? Is this a chance for the Auckland tech. community to shine and grow?
Or will the money be pissed away on overseas businesses who seem to find the idea of paying taxes in NZ laughable?
Anyone in Auckland care to ask for some contract cost breakdowns?
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I'd be surprised if there was now a sudden rush of threat letters from lawyers demanding enormous amounts of cash from alleged infringers
Why would you be surprised? It has happened in every other country that has passed this sort of legislation. Indeed, it already happens here.
By the way, I don't see why we shouldn't criticise the act because it is less bad than before. The fact is, it is not much less bad. The language of the act still makes a presumption of guilt and termination is still on the cards.
There is another reason to make a big fuss now...the TPP agreement where the US has made demands that far exceed most peoples' worst expectations. That is happening right now. Next round of negotiations in Vietnam end of June. If the NZ public looks like it doesn't care then our negotiators (who do try and represent) won't care and, more importantly, the politicians who will make the final compromises won't care.
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Russell, it is a shame you chose a straw man comment to supposedly illustrate the position of those that disagree with this Bill (Act).
Your presumption of restraint on the part of so called "rights holders" seems misplaced. Currently Lime Wire is being asked for $75 trillion by the US recording industry. That's about 6 times the US GDP and more than the world's GDP. Services such as Youtube are constantly taking down content that has no business being removed, because the presumption of guilt is a less risky position to take, even if it is not exactly what the law says.
Nuisance lawyers are springing up all over the world. There business model is to use laws like this to threaten and shake money out of Internet users, such as you, your children and Melissa Lee.
Frankly, the ignorance demonstrated by those who spoke in favour of the bill was far more terrifying than your commentator on NBR. Lee and Young - take a bow.
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Craig
On the bright side, at least Labour here isn’t seriously facing the downright sadistic beating voters handed to the New South Wales ALP over the weekend.
It is more of an indictment on the Libs that they were not able to kick out a corrupt state administration years ago. Australian State politics, a foetid, festering carbuncle on the name of democracy....
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Clinton’s admission that there is ongoing dialogue with The Colonel implies that all avenues were not exhausted before bombs were dropped.
Exhausting all avenues takes time, as many bloody dictators know. Whilst the exhaustion takes place they just carry on with their mass murder.
Obviously there is a balance to be struck, but surely Gaddafi had taken this issue past the point of no return?
I wonder what this thread would be like if the international community was still squabbling about whether to intervene whilst Gaddafi had regained control of Libyan cities and was still conducting house to house murders.
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I know a lot of people have become thoroughly disillusioned with the Western military establishment
Conal, the UN is stationed in countries all across the globe, both militarily and economically. Sometimes it is helpful sometimes it is not. What it does have is a clear and constant mandate to intervene.
Most of the time non-western troops are used, often for the reasons you described.
And, that thing you mentioned about Hitler. It was quite a big deal I gather.
But maybe it will all end up Leonard Coheny
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah