Stupid World

[mashman]

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.

Tis the way of the world innit. You're a dying breed, at least try to go with some grace.

[mashman]

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

Hasn't the decision already been made?

In other news. Developing a service that reads salary information from a database and passing it to a bank in the format they expect isn't technically tricky. They coulda paid me 1 mill and I'd have had it ready for testing within 2 weeks. T'would allow people to be paid properly whilst holding a record of that payment, meaning that they could fix the functional and reporting bugs in Nomopay without the associated Novopain. Some fuckers just make things way more tricky than they need to be. Just as well joe public doesn't understand how easy it would have been to put in a temporary fix to pay the teachers.

[mashman]

We can’t afford such generosity to the elderly

"And if ministers grasp the nettle now, Britain will be in a much better place with families able to prepare for their own future, higher levels of saving, and, eventually, lower burdens on the taxpayer. If that was the message of the Queen’s Speech tomorrow, we would all be better off."

I remember hearing this back in the 80's. Where the fuck do naive cunts like the writer of this article come from?

[mashman]

For the woman who wants hubby's hidden trillions... praps the tax man might want to have a wee look at what has been hidden too. Hell, it might even go some way to offsetting the billions of people who suffer for the 0.1%. Maybe they'll share voluntarily?

[mashman]

Amazon received more money from UK grants than it paid in corporation tax

"Amazon’s UK operation generated £4.2bn of sales last year, but it used a subsidiary in Luxembourg to help it reduce its corporation tax bill in the country to just £2.4m in 2012. According to documents filed at Companies House, the company received £2.5m in government handouts over the same period."

... ya getz what ya vote for.

[mashman]

Website launched to raise funds for sued couple

"
A website's been set up to help raise funds for a Nelson couple, who have been successfully sued for more than $1 million for causing a fire.

A High Court judgement has ruled Steve Garnett and Tracey Lynch caused a large forest fire at the Tadmore Valley, southwest of Nelson in 2009 after dumping ashes.

The ashes sparked a blaze that destroyed a large forest area and a home.

Tracey Lynch says the website set up by a friend to help raise funds is a kind gesture in challenging times.

"I can't believe that people would do this. I've read a lot of things, there's a lot of negative going out with the positive but we're grateful for whatever people contribute."
The couple's appealing, but face their assets being seized should they not be able to pay the $1 million.
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$1 million because of an accident? Sounds like a money grab by a reluctant to pay out insurer. Fuckin money.

[blue rider]

bwhahahahahahahah

http://pundit.co.nz/content/i-think-...r-constitution

Our constitutional arrangements work on an implicit bargain - the principle of comity - that the Courts and Parliament don't mess with each other's turf. I think that bargain just got broken.

and a new policy is worked out to pay family members who care for their disabled relatives.....or not.....

As announced in the budget, that policy takes two forms. First, the Government passed legislation that gives a statutory underpinning to the "family care policy" setting out who will (and who won't) be paid. This statutory underpinning is in section 70C, and will say:

[When the law kicks in], neither the Crown nor a DHB may pay a person for any support services that are, whether before, on, or after that commencement, provided to a family member of the person unless the payment is permitted by an applicable family care policy ...

With this statutory provision in place, the Government will work out with DHBs over time just who will be eligible to be paid (and how much) under the family care policy. At the moment, it looks like only those relatives caring for persons aged 18 or more will be ... and spouses looking after each other won't be. Furthermore, the payment rate looks to be at the level of the minimum wage, which is less than externally contracted carers would get.

"We took a case for all disabled people," Cliff Robinson of Thames said. "It seems like, after all our years and years of fighting to get a decent scheme, we've got a half- baked one. There will be challenges to this."

Well, what form might such challenges take? Remember section 70C above - it specifically prohibits any caregiver being paid anything unless the family care policy allows it. If the policy says you don't get paid, then Parliament says you can't be paid. But getting around that problem is easy enough ... the family caregivers can just challenge the family care policy itself, on the grounds that it discriminates on the basis of family status.

That's just what the Government is seeking to get Parliament to do under section 70E(2):

[When this law kicks in], no complaint based in whole or in part on a specified allegation [that the policy unlawfully discriminates] may be made to the Human Rights Commission, and no proceedings based in whole or in part on a specified allegation [that the policy unlawfully discriminates] may be commenced or continued in any court or tribunal.

You might need a moment to let the implications of this sink in. By passing this law, Parliament is telling the judicial branch that it is not allowed to look at a Government policy (not, note, an Act of Parliament) in order to decide whether it is in breach of another piece of legislation enacted by Parliament (the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990). In other words, the judiciary's primary function - to declare the meaning of law and its application in particular cases - has been nullified.

The Judiciary.....such a quaint institution....who needs it.

[mashman]

Only one of these articles highlights stupidity:

I read "A mosque has been praised for serving tea and biscuits to English Defence League supporters after the far-right group arranged a demonstration there."

then

"Chinese hackers have accessed designs for more than two dozen US weapons systems, a US newspaper has reported."

Leadership is a state of mind.

[blue rider]

http://www.3news.co.nz/Behind-Sanita...1/Default.aspx



Sanitarium......a religious charity ....bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha........

[Banditbandit]

http://www.3news.co.nz/Behind-Sanita...1/Default.aspx



Sanitarium......a religious charity ....bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha........

Like that's news ....

[blue rider]

Like that's news ....

well considering that some of the funds to feed hungry children in school will go to Sanitarium, a company that thanks to its "religious charitable status" does not pay tax, it might be news.
but hey, some government leeches are better than others.

[Scuba_Steve]

"Justice" brought to you by Time Warner, 20th Century Fox, or maybee Monsanto?

"The courts may be privatised in a justice shake-up that could save the Ministry of Justice £1 billion a year."

[mashman]

Running out of cash, Australian miners get creative to survive... and it's the kids that needs the Financial Literacy classes in order to learn to be thrifty when the good times roll ... some people just don't have a fuckin clue.

Blockupy hold anti-austerity protests in Frankfurt; surround the ECB; against austerity and food price speculation; German tanks protect Deutsche Bank... EH? People from one country giving a shit about people outside of their country and the hard time they're having at the expense of the world financiers? What next?

British taxpayers to pay 'millions' towards secretive Bilderberg meeting security... the good old taxpayer. Always good for a buck or two towards a swanky meeting for overly self-important people. They should invite me along.

Actual US Poverty Twice Official Figure ... statistics statistics... always enough to pour doubt on the official figure or indeed pour doubt on the figure that's "debunking" the official figure. Best they ignore the issue of poverty entirely and focus all of their time and energy of finding a solution to be able to measure it.

[blue rider]

interesting read
Managed Democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9175.html

http://carnegieendowment.org/2005/10...democracy/1ul9

[blue rider]

from daily kos

a nice compilation of links in regards to government spying on citizens....thought crimes you know!!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/0...eport-Say-What



i think i might get some carrier pigeons.......lol