Posts by JackElder
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Petra,
Petra – are you using Firefox? If so, try clicking the links using your middle mouse button (or your scroll wheel); this opens the link in a new tab.
(That's a general Firefox tip, not a PAS-specific tweak).
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Is it time for the Friday video yet?
A coworker of mine is leaving town. He and a couple of mates put together a quick film about how much they love Wellington:
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Definitely would like both the "newer/older" links at the top, and preferably an option to skip to an arbitrary page. As Kracklite noted, if the last time you checked a thread it had twelve pages, and now it's got 15, it's easier to just click a link "12" rather than click "older" three times.
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Sacha,
Ah, thank you for that. The serif font was really getting to me.
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As an Indian food-related aside...
Has anyone here tried a chicken tarka?
It's like a chicken tikka, but a little 'otter.
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"To "civilianise a significant number of posts currently filled by uniformed personnel not required to deploy operationally", enabling it to shift uniformed personnel to the front of the organisation."
For one thing this sounds like we're going to open ourselves up to contractors
I don't think that there would be too many contractors involved. The defence forces already have a number of civilianised positions - I interviewed for one a few years ago. It was very definitely on a "full time employee" basis rather than contractor. I was under the impression that there were a lot of back-office jobs (analysis, logistics, etc) that were part-fulfilled by fulltime civilian employees rather than uniformed staff. It sounds like they want to expand the number of these positions, which doesn't seem unreasonable. I wouldn't worry about a Blackwater-style shift to the contracting model in the NZ defence sphere.
(For those imagining me in uniform, I'm afraid I didn't take the job.)
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Being able to circumvent queues and crowded foyers by bellowing out "let me through, I'm a doctor!" would one of the unacknowledged benefits of having a PHD
I do that now. People don't check your qualifications as you go, you know.
See also: why go to medical school when all you have to do is buy a white coat and a clipboard to get most of the social benefits?
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Friend of mine was once attending an upscale Jewish wedding in New York. Someone was taken sick, and the compere asked if there was a doctor in the house. Cue ten guests standing up and starting to make their way forward. Compere then clarified: "Not anesthetists or cosmetic surgeons" - seven guests sit back down again.
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Pointy bits on churches:
Remember: God really wants you to build a bunker.
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It will start with minor laws, the checks and balances types, such as the RMA. No need to actually fix those laws, lets just ignore them under emergency powers.
To be followed shortly afterwards by "Look, we've been ignoring the RMA in Canterbury with no problems. Based on that, we don't anticipate any issues with removing it from the country as a whole."