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True but as reported he was not seeking parole
Noitall
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He should feel thankful heβs breathing air, deserves a bullet
wizard of Tauranga
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The same argument for a hollowed out and small govt, could be made that even with huge in-house expertise, NZ is simply to small.
Our whole country is a small city for the US, Asia or Europe. I agree we need more resilience within govt but NZ will always be too small to be a serious country, independent within complex areas like IT.
Itβs like saying the Cook Island could have international capabilities if it just had more experts. Scale is a significant road block in many areas in NZ.
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Expanding on Nz being too small.
In the resent landslide in Mount Maunganui, there is criticism the police and council didnβt react to a report of a βpotentialβ slip above the camp.
For context there were over 30 slips just within Mauao and PΔpΔmoa regional parks - probably 100βs over the whole city. There was major flooding everywhere including the Papamoa motorway closed for the first time in history.
Emergency services were at 100% capacity dealing with active and immediate emergencies and I donβt blame them for not having the ability to attend to a βpotentialβ issue during a civil defence emergency.
Tauranga has too small a population for the land area it covers (150k people). If Tauranga had 1m+ people it probably would have had the manpower and resources to evacuate the camp and saved those lives.
So size and scale matters and NZ will never be able to be a serious country with scale just as Tauranga can never be a serious city like Auckland in preparation, planning and capacity.
You say capability erosion but I would counter that we are to small and never had the capability. NZ govt as a percentage of GDP is average by international standards. If we doubled our GDP - with the same govt percentage our capacity within govt would double. This is the way forward for me. Grow the pie rather than fighting over too small a pie.
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Not laws but we are supposed to have rules regarding this. I remember this as this came up last election Willie Jackson was in a debate telling everyone about a National policy that didn't exist.Wales is the first country in the world to enact laws that make it illegal for politicians to lie during electioneering
Sounds like a good plan
His excuse was he gets pressured and makes stuff up.
I know others lie. There wouldn't be jokes about them on a similar level to second hand car salesmen, real estate agents otherwise. Also, I know others have lied during an election, just using the above example as it is the time I recall the rule being brought up.
Noitall
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Wales has just recently passed a law that will see politicians sacked for deliberately lying if found out to be the case
snake77
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I have mentioned previously about our NZ number 8 wire mentality seeps into business. I have done projects for companies and the amount of old systems you find is staggering. Either old Operating Systems that can only protected certain ways as they are no longer supported, the old system needs to be up 24/7 but can't work with modern replication systems.
IT budgets are often cut. Both in the private and public sectors. It is frustrating, Internal IT you have plans to improve the business or know what is due to be replaced. As a consultant you make recommendations after working with customer due to finding security issues, hardware out of warranty, systems that need improvement. Then you hear back from the customer the board have cut budgets.
The public sector it does go from spending a lot to reigning everything in depending on the government at the time.
A lot of the time management only start asking questions after something has failed. Then get told that it was from something they declined. Or worse no one realises it during or after the event. The worst one I've seen was during a cyber event where there were issues from the Engineers all the way up to management.
Resiliency has a cost to it which is often what scares the people signing off the budgets.
Modern infrastructure you should be build resilient. Businesses or government departments need to realise down time costs money. Or in the health sector lives.
The staff need to know how to recover from a failure. Either recover the system or failure over to the remote site etc. You can bring development in house. But, you are unlikely to stop the reliance on third parties. If you have something happen the vendors specialise in the specific products/situations.
I did a project a few years ago and data sovereignty was brought up. The customer mentioned preparing for mΔori soverignty laws. NZ data needing to stay in NZ. I am expecting to see this brought up more often in future projects. Cloud vendors in the past did not have NZ as an option. More have a presence now.
snake77
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IT Systems will fail it is how you deal with them. Twelve hours in the health system is unacceptable.
We have also had the breach earlier in the year and one of the hospitals or health boards hit by ransomware a few years ago.
The ransomware events when a company is hit are the events I hate seeing reported.
Twenty years ago when I wasn't in the IT department the company I worked for got hit with a virus. I was on leave the first day, returning on the second. I went down at 7am to help to get the business up and running. At 1am in the morning it was me and the IT team still working. I was so tired when I got home I left my keys in the door.
That was a traditional virus where you get a patch and you plug that hole.
A cyber event you go into a company and you see the delivery trucks lined up or machines that run the business shutdown. It is sad to see. Depending on the situation you can have all staff trying to peice their company back together. I've been on site as a consultant working 8/9am through to 7-9pm for a couple of weeks before it scales back.
Long days, barely any breaks. Trying to help people save their jobs.
The media want the scoop. Are you paying the ransom, whats wrong etc.
Most companies are still built to withstand a failure (hardware or system) or a disaster. Not modern threats like ransomware. The recovery from these is different. Traditional DR plans are not suitable.
We have also had the breach earlier in the year and one of the hospitals or health boards hit by ransomware a few years ago.
The ransomware events when a company is hit are the events I hate seeing reported.
Twenty years ago when I wasn't in the IT department the company I worked for got hit with a virus. I was on leave the first day, returning on the second. I went down at 7am to help to get the business up and running. At 1am in the morning it was me and the IT team still working. I was so tired when I got home I left my keys in the door.
That was a traditional virus where you get a patch and you plug that hole.
A cyber event you go into a company and you see the delivery trucks lined up or machines that run the business shutdown. It is sad to see. Depending on the situation you can have all staff trying to peice their company back together. I've been on site as a consultant working 8/9am through to 7-9pm for a couple of weeks before it scales back.
Long days, barely any breaks. Trying to help people save their jobs.
The media want the scoop. Are you paying the ransom, whats wrong etc.
Most companies are still built to withstand a failure (hardware or system) or a disaster. Not modern threats like ransomware. The recovery from these is different. Traditional DR plans are not suitable.
Noitall
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10K views Β· 81 reactions | Sound on. The unethical New Zealand Sheep industry again. This time leaving a trailer jammed full of sheep in the hot sun, just sitting on the side of the road. | Matt Coffey
Sound on. The unethical New Zealand Sheep industry again. This time leaving a trailer jammed full of sheep in the hot sun, just sitting on the side of the road.
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Need more of this reported. Disgraceful practices
Copied from Fb, 100% factual.
And 100% this government.
And 100% this government.
Noitall
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81K views Β· 488 reactions | New Zealand and the United States are in discussions over a βnon-bindingβ framework relating to critical minerals, as US President Donald Trumpβs administration seeks to reduce its reliance on China. The Herald understand
New Zealand and the United States are in discussions over a βnon-bindingβ framework relating to critical minerals, as US President Donald Trumpβs administration seeks to reduce its reliance on China....
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Luxon certainly gives the impression itβs America they want to work with from a mineral point of view rather than China
We've sold out long ago with this Government81K views Β· 488 reactions | New Zealand and the United States are in discussions over a βnon-bindingβ framework relating to critical minerals, as US President Donald Trumpβs administration seeks to reduce its reliance on China. The Herald understand
New Zealand and the United States are in discussions over a βnon-bindingβ framework relating to critical minerals, as US President Donald Trumpβs administration seeks to reduce its reliance on China....
Luxon certainly gives the impression itβs America they want to work with from a mineral point of view rather than China
wizard of Tauranga
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Also facts:
* We were in a recession for a year before National took over.
* Labour cut public service budgets before the election starting the contracrion
* the recession and the unemployment figures were forecast by treasury before the last election.
* inflation is significantly lower than when National took over. But inflation will mean all prices must be higher than 2 years ago.
* doctors visits - thereβs been significant wait since COVID.
* the reserve bank and OCR control most of those items (growth, inflation, etc)
That covers most of these points just with a basic understanding of economics.
Despite that, yes the recession was long and hard. But weβre coming out leaner and meaner.
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Refer back to WWE for storylineβs - save this prediction!
Coming up to elections - fake agro and posturing. Outrage dialled to 11. Each party picks a few βsignature movesβ (crime, tax, co-governance, woke/anti-woke, whatever) and pretends NZ will go downhill if their policies ares enacted.
Big bust up and everyone claiming they are the real deal. They need visible enemies so the crowd knows who to boo. Peters will get all mock upset and says heβs the king maker and hereβs his list of demands. Positions as the wise elder where everything would be perfect if only National and ACT listed to himβ¦ Everyone declaring themselves βthe only real optionβ, βstanding up for Kiwisβ, βtelling it like it isβ.
Post elections (outside the ring) everyone has a beer and laughs at another good show! Backslaps for solid performances all round.
Political theatre at its finest.
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Primary schools are reporting record levels of children arriving without basic skills such as talking, eating and toileting.
Data from the Auckland Primary Principalsβ Association shows 92% of schools report new entrants donβt know the letters in their own name.
The long tail of Covid as Iβve talked about in the past. These are the damaged kids born during Covid coming through now that were highly evident in ECE.
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Data from the Auckland Primary Principalsβ Association shows 92% of schools report new entrants donβt know the letters in their own name.
The long tail of Covid as Iβve talked about in the past. These are the damaged kids born during Covid coming through now that were highly evident in ECE.
Concerns as growing number of new entrants lack basic skills
Primary schools are reporting record levels of children arriving without basic skills such as talking, eating and toileting.
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Winston must be the only politician ever who is in government and the opposition at the same time.
And it's that time of the election cycle again when he gets to pull out the " Northland Port railway spur " issue that he has been posturing with every election cycle since forever. Expect more from him and his team during the year
That's certainly a contributing factor.Primary schools are reporting record levels of children arriving without basic skills such as talking, eating and toileting.
Data from the Auckland Primary Principalsβ Association shows 92% of schools report new entrants donβt know the letters in their own name.
The long tail of Covid as Iβve talked about in the past. These are the damaged kids born during Covid coming through now that were highly evident in ECE.
Concerns as growing number of new entrants lack basic skills
Primary schools are reporting record levels of children arriving without basic skills such as talking, eating and toileting.
Quality ECE versus others ECE is one as well.
I'd also like to see more awareness given to minimum expectations for 5 year olds starting school for those parents who perhaps think that their kids learning starts then on key basic skills/knowledge
New entrant teachers know the difference and good schools have relationships with the local ECE
Damning report finds Kiwi 5-year-olds starting school unable to talk, write name or use toilets
Principals suspect there's a link between not going to preschool and a lack of skills.
