Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Friday Fever, in reply to Islander,
good luck with getting out of those
I can't rule out gnawing my arms off..
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But wait, there's more. Te Budget visualised as treemaps. And no, my non-Chrome browser didn't "struggle" as Chris warns.
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Hard News: Friday Fever, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I will make you sit through Elton John and Foreigner, and maybe a bit of Air Supply
I trust those shackles are sturdy
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to Robert Urquhart,
Much of the country can only dream of being able to connect at your ‘ridiculous’ 1Mbit.
Services like the aforementioned hi-res videoconferencing require fast uploading as well as downloading. It's a measure of how crap our networks have been that most people keep thinking in terms of passively pulling data down ('faster pron', etc, etc).
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Enter The Crimson Permanent Assurance
Brilliant. That was the image conjured for me too.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to SteveH,
Is high-resolution video conferencing really going to bring money into the economy?
More like the lack of it will keep money away - and thwart other forms of success like better connected communities and extended families, reduced social isolation, stronger civic participation, etc.
It's just one service example (and as others have noted we can't imagine all of them yet), but you can imagine the game-changing nature of having high enough resolution to substitute many face-to-face meetings and their associated travel expenses. Multiply that over the whole economy and society.
And yes, having more than one pipe to the world would help.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to David Haywood,
If Steven Joyce absolutely insists on building unnecessary motorways then why doesn't he hand them over to the private sector to build them as toll roads?
Oh he will. That's on top of the public's $11b investment which, like his broadband boondoggle, will underwrite any private sector risk.
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Lilith __,
Or...Torchwood!
They may have had enough rifts already in Otautahi to last a lifetime
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to George Darroch,
Similarly, morally conservative viewpoints are not generally celebrated, despite being held by a wide section of society
Good point - I'm recalling the handwringing surpise from the left when Bradford's anti-beating bill aroused such heavy dislike from many other New Zealanders (regardless of the politicking around it). Also people's tendency to think the Maori Party is firmly of the left.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to David Haywood,
I'm constantly gobsmacked that a bigger deal isn't made of this. How can the government be selling off strategic infrastructure in energy at the same time as taking full ownership of luxury-length roading
For some reason the opposition parties have largely grasped this more slowly than smart folks like yourself. Full credit to Joshua and likeminded advocates for hoisting this matter into the light over a long period.
For the Greens, Gareth Hughes seems to understand the matter but suffers from the party's overall comms/engagement weakness (which media attitudes play a large part in, admittedly).
For Labour, Shane Jones has inherited the portfolio relatively recently but the main problem seems that the obvious political value of this issue seems to sail right over the heads of their woeful strategists and comms folk.
And no one seems to be forcefully joining the dots between a digital future and the need for secure, sustainable and affordable energy.