Posts by Sacha
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Despite Mr Slater being involved in the formation of this policy - and his prior conviction - he seems unrepentant about his online handling of private information.
It would be a useful test for any new regime to consider specifically how it would deal with people like him who believe the rules apply only to others. Or your average surly teenager, in other words.
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Up Front: Safety Net, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
a different kind of sub
a yellow one
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Yet Ray's beef is with downloading teens rather than the music industry that has done so well from his efforts?
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Up Front: Safety Net, in reply to Emma Hart,
the great leveller - upwards
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Up Front: Safety Net, in reply to Russell Brown,
the people who say this are perfectly clever. They're just over-thinking it
and over-estimating how 'clever' the rest of us actually are :)
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Gareth Ward,
really keen to see where/how this occurred
links upthread have some details
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Gareth Ward,
But the Council are the ones who insisted on that level of return in the first place. Only public pressure will force a backdown and as you note the levers are highly politicised at each level - including the various right-wing attachments of those put in place by the governement to run ACIL and the Port Board.
Welcome to the inevitable dysfunctional outcome of National and Act's neoliberal fantasies, just like we saw in the 80s and 90s. They don't seem to have much understanding of how people and organisations actually behave.
Despite perenially low electoral support, we have let these clowns get away with influence well beyond their competence for decades. Time for that to be vigorously and comprehensively put to an end - and not by some romantic call for cloth-cap socialism instead.
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Russell Brown,
"I want to make it clear that when I say 'militant action', I'm talking about taking a stance on an issue in a strong but non-violent manner, in the way that Lucy Lawless took a stance recently with Greenpeace," Jackson said.
"As I said very clearly in today's broadcast, I do not advocate violence."
and what he said earlier:
"You don't go stop and then the scabs come in and they take your jobs. Go and bust your picket or your placard on their cars. I support that action."
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Jackson told port workers to harass port chairman Richard Pearson to get a result.
"I'm into militant action. Go and occupy. If I was them I'd go and sit on that Pearson's car, right. I'd sit on his car, occupy his car. Occupy his office. Occupy everywhere. Do what you have to do."
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Cracker: On the Weekend: Rotoroa Island, in reply to Hans Versluys,
We don't grow the best wine in the country
Marlborough and other regions would agree
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to llew 40,
I'm just not convinced that the nature of the owner (i.e. public or private) is the primary factor in good or bad organisational performance.
Well put.