Yes, unfortunately, it still feels like there’s really only two telcos in the country - with various rebadged products (skinny, et al - I’ve list track of who’s actually who).
Then again, our population density is probably off putting for any prospective telcos eyeing up the market!
Fucking bootlicker.
God, I bet he’d barbeque well…
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That certainly sounds like the work they’ve got me involved in (migrating staff onto a common computer platform)
there’s just no way moving the users and computers away from the hospital where all their data and systems reside is going to be an improvement for anyone…
Honestly, I’m thinking of getting my whole team to apply. Fuck these assholes
That’s really quite gross
We should get comcom to look into it so they can do absolutely fucking nothing, like the last few scams they’ve rubber-stamped
I kinda sympathise though - the shops there have always struggled as long as I can remember (which, in fairness, probably isn’t that long). Newtown has been dead for about a decade, easily.
Yes both parties are being dicks and the florist is probably conflating issues and blaming the bike lanes incorrectly.
It seems like one upside is, countdowns expansive parking is, I believe, available for people to use (I vaguely recall signage about it)
Oh no… Not again?
Classic national. Great article, though
Considering the crazy shit they’re pulling with their nationally orientated IT projects, it’s madness. I’m all for change (and leadership!) but it’s like a scorched earth strategy currently…
I’ve been waiting for the external agencies to recognise we’re all talk lately. This is good (in a way), hopefully there will be some consequences, but I doubt it, or if so, it’ll be so delayed that these clowns will continue willfully ambivalent
I realised there’s the cable car too, although that’s a funny great area.
Certainly the prospect of building a tunnel under the guts of the city for several km (where it’s likely to cross a fault line) is edging towards this kind of nightmare: https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/files/2011/03/10_10-Canterbury-22.jpg
I can’t see how a tunnel would sustain that, which seems like a death knell for the whole idea…
So there’s 3 tunnels that we run vehicles through, day to day (that im aware of). Terrace tunnel, mt Vic and the bus tunnel. The city would struggle with either of them collapsing, and I understand the ones under mt Vic are already in dire straits, going by some of the points hopeful mayors that they were campaigning on. I’m no expert but your claim feels like a huge stretch.
As for earthquakes, there’s one that was readily found via a search in 1855 and that “considerably reshaped the geography”, so, respectfully, I completely disagree. https://www.wcl.govt.nz/heritage/earthquakes.html
edit sorry, I should have clarified earlier, it’s the major quakes I’m concerned about. Not the frequent little ones
It’s an amazing idea, but the seismic implications are enough to discourage it, I’d have thought.
How the heck does one build it with a straight face when we have so many quakes and have been expecting something major for decades?
I agree, some sort of manifesto clarifying how they’re connected would help too prevent the current government dismissing them.
Fair point, but it’s probably not the system they have an issue with, it’s the current embodiment/makeup. I don’t know if that’s a meaningful distinction - we’re basically splitting hairs aren’t we?
Are you meaning something like a vote of no confidence?
Looks like that to me.
Surely those millions would be better spent on high-density housing somewhere, rather on the epitome of the 1%?
I really don’t care for heritage buildings whatsoever
Asked how he got the numbers so wrong on interest deductibility, Luxon said, “we didn’t”.
Does that mean they lied originally, or he’s lying now?
I wonder how much it actually cost though…