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| Thread ID: 69799 | 2006-06-12 19:01:00 | Power Crisis. I find it amusing | JJJJJ (528) | PC World Chat |
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| 462651 | 2006-06-14 05:23:00 | We were confidently assured that deregulation of the electricity system would solve all problems. The magic of the MARKET would guarantee that. And power would be much cheaper. Isn't it wonderful when the truth of economic theories is demonstrated? (So that's what the J word meant. :D) I'm sure all the blame can be placed on that would be, wanna be, aspiring, electrician, a certain Max Bradford. "Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light It struck him dead, and serve him right. It is the business of the wealthy man, To give employment to the artisan." Hilaire Beloc. The problem was Bradford was not a registered electrical engineer, and not even a left wing artisan. He certainly did not understand the electricity supply industry, just impracticable right wing ideology. :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 462652 | 2006-06-14 05:59:00 | I'm sure all the blame can be placed on that would be, wanna be, aspiring, electrician, a certain Max Bradford. "Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light It struck him dead, and serve him right. It is the business of the wealthy man, To give employment to the artisan." Hilaire Beloc. The problem was Bradford was not a registered electrical engineer, and not even a left wing artisan. He certainly did not understand the electricity supply industry, just impracticable right wing ideology. :) With comments like that we are done for.Max Braford is to blame for a earth wire breaking,talk about lefty tripe. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 462653 | 2006-06-14 06:14:00 | I just knew you would rise to the bait Cicero. :) But ponder this, is it any more ridiculous to put the blame on the person who initiated all the disastrous changes, than as we are seeing, people trying to sheet the blame for a broken wire onto 'the government': politicians who wouldn't know an ohm from an ampere ? |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 462654 | 2006-06-14 06:46:00 | It is the nature of bureaucrats to not take any blame. That is the reason things don't get done,local councils passing a need for a decision round,all afraid to make a move,in case they are called to take responsibility for there actions. Again the nature of nanny state and it would seem mmp,precludes any decent actions taking place. I might add I wouldn't give you tuppence for Bradford,most of the National party will turn left if its keeps them at the trough. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 462655 | 2006-06-14 07:06:00 | I suspect, and really just prattling off the top of my head, that in the same way as when railways were privatised, routine maintenance may be less than it used to be in the days when the public service mopped up unemployment and provided jobs for all. We used to have blokes going round tapping wagon wheels and looking at tracks, drinking tea in their little huts, or leaning on their hammers looking at the trains going by. Yet, we didn't have all the track problems then as since privatisation. Maybe under NZED there wasn't the same incentive to cut costs to the bone whilst maximising dividends to the government, neither did the public service employ all these highly paid CEOs and their hangers on. Heads of department had risen through the ranks so generally knew their stuff. Maybe there were the equivalent of the wheel tappers going around checking on the wires and insulators and things more than now. I tell you one thing I've noticed over the years. There used to be access pylon 'roads' kept open and clear where the pylons march over the bush and hills and valleys, at least locally that is. Now, those roads are choked with gorse and scrub, and many are inaccessible. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 462656 | 2006-06-14 07:23:00 | Why does everyone assume that the F in any acronym stands for F***? J.A.F.A could very well be a poor innocent misinterpreted acronym just like R.T.F.M (Read The Friendly Manual :p) | Greven (91) | ||
| 462657 | 2006-06-14 08:17:00 | It is the nature of bureaucrats to not take any blame. That is the reason things don't get done,local councils passing a need for a decision round,all afraid to make a move,in case they are called to take responsibility for there actions..........Which in turn reflects on the mentality of the idiots who elect them, or to be precise, reflects on the human condition that never forgets mistakes, but hardly ever acknowledges achievement. Thus the best way to stay in the good books with the public is to say lots but actually do as little as possible. Obviously the only real answer is a complete dictatorship run in the best interests of myself.. We need to get rid of all democraticly elected fools and put me in power for life :p :D :thumbs: ;) |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 462658 | 2006-06-14 09:53:00 | Which in turn reflects on the mentality of the idiots who elect them, or to be precise, reflects on the human condition that never forgets mistakes, but hardly ever acknowledges achievement. Thus the best way to stay in the good books with the public is to say lots but actually do as little as possible. Obviously the only real answer is a complete dictatorship run in the best interests of myself.. We need to get rid of all democratically elected fools and put me in power for life :p :D :thumbs: ;) I agree, a benevolent dictator is the way to go. T, I would like to see a balance,but the chances are slim I would suggest. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 462659 | 2006-06-14 11:40:00 | Sorry - I really had no idea that Just A Friendly Aucklander was insulting. I think the point was the way TV 1 news presented a cafe closed in Auckland before they got round to what was happening in the South Island. Most people outside Auckland notice the constant bias towards Auckland stories, largely no doubt because it is easy to get the cameras to them. Wellington gets as much stick as anywhere but I don't see people here getting upset at comments made about the city. Although!!! - calling The Stadium "The Caketin" as they do on One Auckland News has to be designed to get up our nose - no one in Wellington calls it that. | Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 462660 | 2006-06-14 12:30:00 | F is for Freak, freakin, flippin, foolish, . . . . . whatever,who cares . And Jaffa is just a word, and an excellent one at that . Shame on you for deciding everyone is saying feck . Luckily you do not speak for me in any instance, God knows what you would claim I was saying . Damn Jaffa's, Now they think they control the internet, The English language, And the minds of the people . Muhahahahahaha . :xmouth: Anyhow, Your makin yourself look silly, Cut the crap and take the word out of the filter . |
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