A subject close to the heart of the most amusing Plato the fish. His blog is at
www.multiversity.blogspot.com.
A couple of quotes re HR;
"Please desist from addressing communications to HR as the Directorate of Human Rubble."
"Can I just mention that your ideas to rename HR whilst amusing are unlikely to be take up by the university"
In light of the realisation that the term Human Resources is antithical to our diversity policies (which by the way were crafted by HR) I hereby suggest some alternatives:
* 'The department of paper, rules and dogma'
* 'Directorate (in an equal opportunities non directive type of way of course) of Valued Employees'
* 'The communist party' - I think party has a nice focus to it, different to directorate comrade
* 'The group of really nice people trying to get other really nice people to comply with the rules and policies we design to make it look as if we are really useful department. ' * 'Slowing things down and stopping untidy innovation team'
* A bit radical this - 'Administration.'
* 'Directorate of creative mavericks and ideas control'
* 'The Empire' - why is the only part of the university that appears to be in full blown growth, 'Human Resources'? Read the back blogs if you like a good laugh!
We had a discussion program on TV about his subject recently.
Most striking were the words of a teeneager. His perspective was he was happy to pay for the work of up and coming artists, but was not going to pay for more bling for some multi millionaire rapper-he got a round of applause.
LOL, you always SAY you would use your guns to protect you from your govt, but Bush and his cronies used your contituion as toilet paper and you did nothing.
We do not have nanny ISP's here. Unlike yours ours have taken a strong stance against govt filtering of the Internet, whereas your ISP and telcos actively assisted your govt to spy on you secretly. So much for your much vaunted freedom, and privacy.
If you have a look at our history, we managed to become independant from the UK without killing anyone, as the US could have done in time. One of the great tragedies of modern history is the US becoming a country before it was mature enough to handle that status, becoming the international equivalent of an 8 year old with a loaded machine gun.
The Swiss being a responsible people can manage guns in their society without regular massacres, which the US simply does not seems to be capable of.
A society born in violence becomes violent it seems.
There is surely no more futile and stupid human condition than patriotism. No real good has and will ever come of it.
Well said Sir, I do agree with your statement on good regulation, that does seem to be the issue.
Ironically it was a conservative (Right wing) treasurer that reregulated our banks, and did so very well, protecting them from the excesses that ruined the US banks.
I cannot relate the regulations/deregulation that are used in the US, only see the results of them, and compare that with the end result of reregulation in Aust.
I understand the reasoning that went into the Fannie/Freddy thing originally (To help the disadvantaged buy their own home), but it seems the execution was poor.
When faced with the same concept we gave first homebuyers a subsidy to assist them in buying their first home. This has worked quite well for us.
Of course in "stuff you I'm alright" attitude that pervades postings here, you would all jump up and down and complain about contributing to the welfare of your poorer fellows. I am always stunned by the selfishness shown by financially comfortable Americans towards the poor ones.
Thats why you have such a violent society, you can have less crime, in direct proportion to the ammount of welfare you pay the poor.
If you want an example, see the ongoing disaster that is Health care in the US, where dying people are discharged from hospital because thay cant pay their bills, and insurance accountants get to decide what treatment you get!
Social justice works in a lot of countries, as does wealth redistribution, nothing fanciful about it. Have you noticed yet that in your country the trickle down theory does not work, all that happens is the rich get richer.
You simply ignore the fact that it works almost everywhere else neatly dont you? I guess you dont like the facts interfering with your faith.
We re regulated, and our banks survived without a dollar from the taxpayer so far. How is it working out for the US- $100 billion so far! Yeh I can see how well that works.
Libertarians are as delusional as the religious.
Flat tax system, you must be joking.
The only people whom benefit from a flat tax system are the rich.
The right to own a gun is enshrined in your US constitution, which basically means you are stuck with the worlds highest gun crime rate.
The best thing we ever did in this country (Australia) was remove all but the most essential firearms (Farmers and the like), and all semi automatic rifles from our society. Since then there have been NO gunrelated mass murders, unlike the US which has at least one a year. The proposition that more guns make anyone safer is ludicrous.
The simple fact that we do no need guns in our society in Australia, negates all of the laughable points you make. IF they were true, our society would be extremely violent. It is not.
Yeh, sure more guns are the answer, so the criminals get bigger guns, so everyone needs to get even bigger guns and so on until everyone has a tactical nuke.
In civilized countries, one does not "need" to own a gun at all. If no one had guns, those who do would be much more easily indentified and the guns removed. When you make seeing someone carrying a gun out of the ordinary, then you will make progress.
I have never seen a gun in public other than attached to a policemans belt, and I would like to keep it that way.
Adding more weapons NEVER helps a situation. Its like school shootings, some moron always says of everone was armed they could have stopped them. Bullshit, all that would happen is everyone would open fire on those carrying guns, regardless of whether they were the actual shooter or not, as they would most likely not know who waqs the real shooter.
Frankly, the US has as much of a violence problem with guns because it does not have a modern social welfare system, you can have as little crime as you like when you are prepared to pay a liveable ammount to those who cannot get work.
Now of course, the micro dick gun nuts who inhabit this site will mod me down, but I have enough karma to see that lot off many many times.
The Austarlian banks have weathered the crisis without great trouble, no bailouts needed so far. Why? Because they were reregulated in the 90's, not allowed to make up silly investment viehicles that lead to disaster.
Hate to bring reality to your shiny libertarian ideals, but as you should well know reality has a liberal bias.
Good regulation would have prevented the problem as it did in Australia. No ammount of rationalization and false analogies you make will change that.
Honestly, I cannot believe you really think reducing regulation would magically fix the banking crisis. Like the bankers will suddenly become honest.
I to believe that. If you have no assets, you can be sued, but they wont get anything. Only those without assets have true freedom of speech these days.
You really dont have a clue do you?
It was not an aircraft fault that caused the Concorde crash, it was debris on the runway that caused damage. Concorde was a very safe aircraft.
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A subject close to the heart of the most amusing Plato the fish. His blog is at
www.multiversity.blogspot.com.
A couple of quotes re HR;
"Please desist from addressing communications to HR as the Directorate of Human Rubble."
"Can I just mention that your ideas to rename HR whilst amusing are unlikely to be take up by the university"
In light of the realisation that the term Human Resources is antithical to our diversity policies (which by the way were crafted by HR) I hereby suggest some alternatives:
* 'The department of paper, rules and dogma'
* 'Directorate (in an equal opportunities non directive type of way of course) of Valued Employees'
* 'The communist party' - I think party has a nice focus to it, different to directorate comrade
* 'The group of really nice people trying to get other really nice people to comply with the rules and policies we design to make it look as if we are really useful department.
'
* 'Slowing things down and stopping untidy innovation team'
* A bit radical this - 'Administration.'
* 'Directorate of creative mavericks and ideas control'
* 'The Empire' - why is the only part of the university that appears to be in full blown growth, 'Human Resources'?
Read the back blogs if you like a good laugh!
Precisely the point, well played!
The death penalty is never justifiable, as long as it is applied by an imperfect legal system.
That said, the case of the young lady is particularly bad, what happened to the much vaunted
freedom of speech of US citizens?
At least it was beyond the enviroment, there's nothing out there. there is no enviroment.
We had a discussion program on TV about his subject recently.
Most striking were the words of a teeneager. His perspective was he was happy to pay for the work of up and coming artists, but was not going to pay for more bling for some multi millionaire rapper-he got a round of applause.
http://xkcd.com/488/
Yeh, The nuclear arsenal isnt there to protect against the Russians, its there to defend against the French.
Not quite right I am afraid, I believe Japan does too.
Ooooh, lets see, if currently tax is based on a sliding scale in proportion to income, and we have a flat tax instead, rich people will be worse off-
Wanna but a large bridge near Sydney cheap?
Oh and the word gullible has been removed from the dictionary.
LOL, you always SAY you would use your guns to protect you from your govt, but Bush and his cronies used your contituion as toilet paper
and you did nothing.
We do not have nanny ISP's here. Unlike yours ours have taken a strong stance against govt filtering of the Internet, whereas your ISP and telcos actively assisted your govt to spy on you secretly. So much for your much vaunted freedom, and privacy.
If you have a look at our history, we managed to
become independant from the UK without killing
anyone, as the US could have done in time. One of the great tragedies of modern history is the US becoming a country before it was mature enough to handle that status, becoming the international equivalent of an 8 year old with a loaded machine gun.
The Swiss being a responsible people can manage guns in their society without regular massacres, which the US simply does not seems to be capable of.
A society born in violence becomes violent it seems.
There is surely no more futile and stupid human condition than patriotism. No real good has and will ever come of it.
Well said Sir, I do agree with your statement on good regulation, that does seem to be the issue.
Ironically it was a conservative (Right wing) treasurer that reregulated our banks, and did so very well, protecting them from the excesses that ruined the US banks.
I cannot relate the regulations/deregulation that are used in the US, only see the results of them, and compare that with the end result of reregulation in Aust.
I understand the reasoning that went into the Fannie/Freddy thing originally (To help the disadvantaged buy their own home), but it seems the execution was poor.
When faced with the same concept we gave first homebuyers a subsidy to assist them in buying their first home. This has worked quite well for us.
Of course in "stuff you I'm alright" attitude that pervades postings here, you would all jump up and down and complain about contributing to the welfare of your poorer fellows. I am always stunned by the selfishness shown by financially comfortable Americans towards the poor ones.
Thats why you have such a violent society, you can have less crime, in direct proportion to the ammount of welfare you pay the poor.
If you want an example, see the ongoing disaster that is Health care in the US, where dying people are discharged from hospital because thay cant pay their bills, and insurance accountants get to decide what treatment you get!
Social justice works in a lot of countries, as does wealth redistribution, nothing fanciful about it. Have you noticed yet that in your country the trickle down theory does not work, all that happens is the rich get richer.
"Instead this lead to open competition in pay rates for CEO's, and CEO pay skyrocketed."
Or perhaps these pay rises would have happened anyway, who knows? Either way nothing is proven by that statement.
Correlation is not causation remember?
You simply ignore the fact that it works almost everywhere else neatly dont you? I guess you dont like the facts interfering with your faith.
We re regulated, and our banks survived without a dollar from the taxpayer so far. How is it working out for the US- $100 billion so far!
Yeh I can see how well that works.
Libertarians are as delusional as the religious.
Flat tax system, you must be joking.
The only people whom benefit from a flat tax system are the rich.
Funny, it worked very well here, must be my imagination eh?
The right to own a gun is enshrined in your US constitution, which basically means you are stuck with the worlds highest gun crime rate.
The best thing we ever did in this country (Australia) was remove all but the most essential firearms (Farmers and the like), and all semi automatic rifles from our society. Since then there have been NO gunrelated mass murders, unlike the US which has at least one a year.
The proposition that more guns make anyone safer is ludicrous.
The simple fact that we do no need guns in our society in Australia, negates all of the laughable points you make. IF they were true, our society would be extremely violent. It is not.
Understand?
"a large part of the general population is too stupid for words"
About 85% I would think-and thats probably generous.
Yeh, sure more guns are the answer, so the criminals get bigger guns, so everyone needs to get even bigger guns and so on until everyone has a tactical nuke.
In civilized countries, one does not "need" to own a gun at all. If no one had guns, those who do would be much more easily indentified and the guns removed. When you make seeing someone carrying a gun out of the ordinary, then you will make progress.
I have never seen a gun in public other than attached to a policemans belt, and I would like to keep it that way.
Adding more weapons NEVER helps a situation.
Its like school shootings, some moron always says of everone was armed they could have stopped them.
Bullshit, all that would happen is everyone would open fire on those carrying guns, regardless of whether they were the actual shooter or not, as they would most likely not know who waqs the real shooter.
Frankly, the US has as much of a violence problem with guns because it does not have a modern social welfare system, you can have as little crime as you like when you are prepared to pay a
liveable ammount to those who cannot get work.
Now of course, the micro dick gun nuts who inhabit this site will mod me down, but I have enough karma to see that lot off many many times.
How incredibly naive you are.
The Austarlian banks have weathered the crisis without great trouble, no bailouts needed so far. Why? Because they were reregulated in the 90's, not allowed to make up silly investment viehicles that lead to disaster.
Hate to bring reality to your shiny libertarian ideals, but as you should well know reality has a liberal bias.
Good regulation would have prevented the problem as it did in Australia. No ammount of rationalization and false analogies you make will change that.
Honestly, I cannot believe you really think reducing regulation would magically fix the banking crisis. Like the bankers will suddenly become honest.
Jeezus!
You must be joking, we were DEREGULATED into this mess. Good regulation would have prevented the mess.
But why let reality spoil a good pro capitalist rant?
A CF 3G mobile card would be handy to have too.
Reasonable mobile broadband!
IPAQ 4700, 2700 AND 5500,3800,3900 all support both SD and CF cards at the same time. last 3 need a sleeve though1
Me and Bobby Mcgee eh, quite so......
To quote another song, "freedom, yeah freedom thats just some people talking:.
I to believe that. If you have no assets, you can be sued, but they wont get anything. Only those without assets have true freedom of speech these days.
Yeh, we know mac users prefer style over substance, that is a given.
You really dont have a clue do you?
It was not an aircraft fault that caused the Concorde crash, it was debris on the runway that caused damage. Concorde was a very safe aircraft.
Yes really, your own link provides no clear evidence either way. Sounds about right to me.