Stupid World

[mashman]

Same old boring shit from a better loser I see.

I hope being right makes you happy.

Fixed for ya.

Not even close. Til then I'll just be a better loser.

[blue rider]

Same old boring shit from a bitter loser I see.

I hope being right makes you happy.

being right about what?

two sides of a coin,

Heads up

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/...ry_safety.html

by Glen Greenwald, . Its ok if people die because choices, different countries yadda yadda yadda


Tails up

http://digbysblog.blogspot.co.nz/201...ot-die-in.html

by David Atkins, how we can choose for people not to die on their workplaces yadda yadda yadda


I advocate neither party as i consider both labour and national criminally incompetent with a penchant to do only the things that will assure the future employment for themselves once they leave parliament. Everything else is in the too hard basket or the New Zealand is so small basket. Which ever is convenient at the time.

But as a worker, a taxpayer and generally a human being, i would like to know that no people were injured, burned or crushed under a crumbeling building whilst they make the cheap garment on offer in our Malls.

oh, hang on, yes, that is why "most" of my shopping is based around "Made in New Zealand", not because I want to be right, but because I know it is the right thing to do.
"Most".... where ever possible and in many cases it is.

[blue rider]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/0...h-with-reality

unemployment, followed by falling into poverty followed by famine and than what......

it is worth following the links. Sad read.

[mashman]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/0...h-with-reality

unemployment, followed by falling into poverty followed by famine and than what......

it is worth following the links. Sad read.

Fuck.........

[mashman]

For those days when you just want stuff. Take it as there's noone to stop you

"Contract farming will not improve the lives of small farmers in the area. It will instead make them dependent on a single corporation for everything from their seeds to the sale of their crops. One of the proposed contract farming projects in the plan envisions a return on investment of 30% per year for the company while farmers in the project will be forced to devote 5 out of the 5.5 ha they will be allocated to the production of cassava under contract production with the investor."

"Corporations will also benefit from several Special Economic Zones (SEZs) that are proposed in the plan. In these zones, companies will be free from paying taxes and customs duties and will be able to benefit from offshore financial arrangements. These SEZs will be located at the main sites that the project is planning for processing and trading facilities, which will cut deeply into any revenues that could accrue to the government through the planned development of agro-export industries."

Aye... money is just a mechanism of exchange. Pass my glasses Mr Magoo.

[jonbuoy]

But we all want the best deal on commodities and luxuries - how are we westerners going to get rock bottom prices without exploiting thirdworlders?

[mashman]

But we all want the best deal on commodities and luxuries - how are we westerners going to get rock bottom prices without exploiting thirdworlders?

heh... very true. Although if they start shifting production to the third world, how are the westerners going to afford to buy the commodities?

[Ocean1]

heh... very true. Although if they start shifting production to the third world, how are the westerners going to afford to buy the commodities?

Where have you been living? The west has been exporting jobs to the 3rd world for decades. Most of them are now firmly 2nd world nations as a result.

I was interested in a recent bout of angst and woe from a committee established to investigate NZ's apparently poor performance in workplace health and safety. Apparently we're twice as likely to get hurt at work as Aussies and four times as likely as Poms.

Teh committee was of the opinion that in fact ACC was the main reason for the difference, NZ employers being somewhat protected from the more usual wholesale private litigation and subsequently less motivated to protect their employees.

I thought the difference was more likely to be the fact that we don't all work behind a counter for Sainsburys, or some insurance company call centre, or stocking shelves for Coles. Y'see the west has been exporting workplace accidents along with the work, a fact I'd have thought any committee qualified to manage that roll would have considered in their report.

Fuckwits. Wonder how much that little gem cost us.

[mashman]

Where have you been living? The west has been exporting jobs to the 3rd world for decades. Most of them are now firmly 2nd world nations as a result.

I've been living on the fence with several billion others. No need to know the reasons or ramifications of business being moved overseas. No need to give a shit. But it turns out that I've been living in a Stupid World. Just took a while for me to notice/give a shit... and I'm slowly catching up in regards to the reasons and ramifications.

I was interested in a recent bout of angst and woe from a committee established to investigate NZ's apparently poor performance in workplace health and safety. Apparently we're twice as likely to get hurt at work as Aussies and four times as likely as Poms.

Teh committee was of the opinion that in fact ACC was the main reason for the difference, NZ employers being somewhat protected from the more usual wholesale private litigation and subsequently less motivated to protect their employees.

I thought the difference was more likely to be the fact that we don't all work behind a counter for Sainsburys, or some insurance company call centre, or stocking shelves for Coles. Y'see the west has been exporting workplace accidents along with the work, a fact I'd have thought any committee qualified to manage that roll would have considered in their report.

Fuckwits. Wonder how much that little gem cost us.

... as I started reading that I was wondering if they had compared industry to industry or whether it was a per capita measurement. Supermarkets are dangerous places ya know. I wonder if they have assigned a risk weighting to ACC given that they seem to have classed ACC as a risk factor. No doubt that sort of thing isn't cheap, as we'd have to have the best and brightest in their fields being consulted on such a vital piece of research. Risk management must pay well.[/IMG]

[Ocean1]

Risk management must pay well.

Looking at the ACC account summary currently on my desk I can tell you that it pays stunningly well.

Wherever you get anyone paying for someone else's lunch you get huge distortions in the local reality field. Nevermind, won't last much longer, teh piggybank is almost empty.

[mashman]

Looking at the ACC account summary currently on my desk I can tell you that it pays stunningly well.

Wherever you get anyone paying for someone else's lunch you get huge distortions in the local reality field. Nevermind, won't last much longer, teh piggybank is almost empty.

In comparison to?

Which piggy bank?

[Ocean1]

In comparison to?

Which piggy bank?

Working for someone else.

The one from which they take the lunch money.

[mashman]

Working for someone else.

The one from which they take the lunch money.

Work is work.

Well there are those who are betting that that is the case in various parts of the world.... hopefully the straw that breaks the camels back.

[Ocean1]

Work is work.

Yeah. But working for someone else tends to foster the misconception that someone else is responsible for your work. A piece of bullshit ACC likes to take their cut from occasionally.

[blue rider]

lets cut some services, demonise some people, call for austerity and fiscal responsability.......boot straps for everyone .....


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/educ...o-Novopay-bill