OnPoint: Budget 2011: Radioactive Space Donut
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Reinforces my feeling that we certainly spend enough money on transport, we just tend to spend it on stupid stuff.
The Highway to Hell is paved with our gold.
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Rex Widerstrom, in reply to
black on olive green not that readable
Yes, breathtakingly breathtaking aside from the fact I have to squint like an old man at a salad bar (in IE9).
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Graeme Edgeler, in reply to
Interesting that transport is now the 6th biggest area of expenditure.
I think the point is that, given this is just a combining of two departments, it was probably already the 6th biggest area of expenditure (or close) and we just didn't know it.
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Rail was another big infrastructure winner, with $250m to go towards the KiwiRail turn-around plan, which aims to turn it into a self-sustaining freight business within 10 years.
Well, that came as a surprise, is Steven Joyce in a coma or something?.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
What's the deal with transport in 2009? It shoots up by over 10x 2008's budget.
Yeah, I'm pretty all the rail infrastructure work and new rolling stock could have been put on layby and/or constructed by slave labour...
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Sacha, in reply to
layby
Heh. Did David put you up to that one?
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Joshua Arbury, in reply to
Rail was another big infrastructure winner, with $250m to go towards the KiwiRail turn-around plan, which aims to turn it into a self-sustaining freight business within 10 years.
Nothing new there though, it's just the second tranche of the KiwiRail turnaround plan that was agreed upon a couple of years ago.
The Wellington $88 million was a bit of a surprise. Rumour is that the new Matangi trains draw too much power from the system, which made the extra $88m essential to avoid the quarter billion spend on those trains from becoming money flushed down the toilet as they can't run.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Rumour is that the new Matangi trains draw too much power from the system,
I suppose the reason nobody figured that one out was because eMail has replaced envelopes so they find it hard to calculate these things.
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Sacha, in reply to
Nah, they made the mistake of asking Treasury, eh
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
they made the mistake of asking Treasury, eh
Fnahh.
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CatherineP, in reply to
Firefox and Chrome are free. Sounds like your organisation is wasting money on software that costs money to buy (yes I know all software has costs to support and run).
Yes indeed. I am advised by our Chief Information Officer that a pilot of Firefox is underway and will presumably be rolled out if it can be shown that it won't break any of our
arcane grandfathered obscure apps used by two people
of which we have many.
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Alan P, in reply to
I've always used ctrl-click to open in new tab.
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arcane grandfathered obscure apps used by two people
It's when the arcane grandfathered app is SAP or something, is used by everyone, was bought in 2003 and will cost tens of millions to upgrade that problems occur.
(Before AJAX was really practical, a lot of technologies replaced their fat clients with pseudo-thin clients based on ActiveX and the like. These are the reason much of the world is stuck in IE6. Of course, they could support dual browsers, but that would cost money purely to provide an employee benefit).
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OK -- I've taken the drugs in a darkened room -- the figures don't look any better?!!
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Greg Dawson, in reply to
It’s when the arcane grandfathered app is SAP or something
ffffff Don't speak its name. I have some lovely analysis showing the increase in our debtor days as customers moved to using SAP.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
Rail was another big infrastructure winner, with $250m to go towards the KiwiRail turn-around plan, which aims to turn it into a self-sustaining freight business within 10 years.
Well, that came as a surprise, is Steven Joyce in a coma or something?.
What Josh said. KR isn't now getting $1b of taxpayer money towards its turnaround plan. Rather, this is instalment two, of three, of the taxpayers' $750m towards said plan.
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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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Kumara Republic, in reply to
And no, my non-Chrome browser didn't "struggle" as Chris warns.
Firefox drew a blank.
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Keith Ng, in reply to
OK -- I've taken the drugs in a darkened room -- the figures don't look any better?!
Clearly, wrong drugs.
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No drugs needed with Opera here's the new specs for the one with all the ones Opera 11.11 And that's before we talk about the integrated Mail app M2 which makes outlook express look like shite.
Yeah, I know I bang on about it but it is really quite cool and no, I don't work for them.
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bmk, in reply to
I have given it a go and it's very fast (even faster than Chrome) but I can't find an ad-blocker for it. Do you know of one that exists? Because if I can't block ads then I will be sticking with Chrome.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
The Ad blocker is built in, right click / Block content, done ;-)
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bmk, in reply to
I discovered that but then you have to do it on every single webpage which is a real pain. I prefer something you can install and it will block the ads on every page without thinking about it.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
prefer something you can install and it will block the ads on every page without thinking about it.
Some would say that ad blocking is theft. The owner of the site, that you want to visit, may get some recompense for you seeing that ad. I only block ads when they become annoying as I enjoy most of the site that I visit and feel that, If I am being entertained or informed, looking at a few ads is a very small price to pay to look at something that I am interested in.
If searching the world wide web is so annoying just don’t do it, simple.
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bmk, in reply to
I find web browsing an unannoying activity when using Chrome so guess I will stick with that, which is a pity because Opera is fast. Ads just really bug me if I have to block them individually it becomes too much of a pain when I have become used to having them blocked for me.
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