Posts by Bart Janssen
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Nice post Russell
Just thought it might be a nice place to mention that events like this are why in the first instance I like to treat the police with respect. They do a job that I certainly don't want to have to do myself and most of them do so with honour.
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Bollard ... sequins
Disturbing image
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Man that's depressing
Yeah for a while. And then you remember there are more things in life than work. Or more accurately there are more important things than bureaucracy at work.
Reading David Hayward's latest on PAS for example, or Emma Hart's :).
Or looking through old boxes at home and discovering embarrassing photos.
Or just eating a nice meal with one's significant other(s), how do you get a booking for 16 Emma?. -
I have encountered a government manager with such abysmal communication and reasoning skills and lack of empathy that I can't for the life of me figure how they even got through the job interview let alone getting constantly promoted and affecting actual people's lives. Can't be that hard to fire them or demand human decency, surely.
Did you check out his/her boss?
Good managers respond to gaps in their own ability or knowledge by surrounding themselves with competent people whose knowledge they can rely on and whose advise they take willingly.
Crap managers respond to their own weaknesses by surrounding themselves with even worse lower tier managers whose sole ability is that they never identify their boss's failings.
Hence, if you see a crap manager hold onto his/her job for any length of time, the bet is their boss is even more crap.
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Alan didn't happen to have a polaroid of Mary-Sue did he?
Perhaps wearing some trashy lingery he'd bought her?
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Poor Sacha
Named after a cake.
Hmmm Stephen do we know how Sacha is pronounced by his Mum?
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you'll have to be more sly than that to get it out of us.
We could torture you. Maybe with Torte Lore
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Thanks for the Traffic clip.
My wife always gives me that long suffering look when I play Traffic, my favourite band, loud!
And now my workmates are looking at me oddly too :).
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The joy of hindsight
Myself, I'd like to see how it got this far without the evidence to support the conclusions that seemed to have been drawn by people we trust to know better.
Two weeks ago there was no way to know this wasn't deadly serious. And reports from Mexico while confused suggest it indeed was serious. Please don't beat these guys with your hindsight.
Surely someone should've, given the dire over projections of the past few year from WHO and their directors, asked for a little more than what we now know were clearly inconclusive results from Mexico.
There is no time for that with flu. You ask and investigate BUT at the same time you must prepare for the worst.
Consider it like a Tsunami warning, you detect the earthquake and send a Tsunami warning immediately, which you can later retract after investigation. Any other action is foolish.
Oh, and in 1918 we flew in these and if we needed surgery this is where (a very fortunate few) would've found ourselves. Even in much of the third world medical science has advanced quite somewhat over the best part of a century ago.
Yes you are right but it has NOTHING to do with the lethality of cytokine storms which is what killed in 1918.
Remember this from 2006
Our best medicine can just, sometimes, maybe keep someone alive through a cytokine storm but it takes luck and the absolute best ICU. 1918 flu is just as lethal now as it was back in 1918, our current medicine cannot help much at all and a pandemic of 1918 strain would have a very similar death rate. That's why they were shitting bricks.
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I guess it's like the wildflowers beside the motorway, seeing something other than your point of focus slows you down.
I think the Auckland Museum is great - we frequently take visitors there. Although when we're being tour guides it wouldn't be practical, the idea to involving more of the senses in the experience of the gallery seems delightful.