This problem only exists if you are trying to write a computer programme to decide. If on the other hand, you have a person in the decision-making process (such as, but not only, a judge), then it is perfectly possible for a reasonable decision to be made ...
At least they've got one idea! If they get the votes (i.e. about 0.8% of the electorate) then it doesn't seem a problem. It's what we (the electorate) voted for. At least, the electorate knows the single issue party's position on one thing. The position of...
Not sure what the problem is you are getting at here, with lobbyists and "people starting a party and pushing their ideas through...". You seem to be describing "single-issue" parties (e.g. The Cannabis Party, or Ban 1080 Party, or Internet Party). There ...
@Ben Clark "She also refused to apologise. I’m not sure why – it’s not her or her government to blame" I guess a formal apology en masse to victims might encourage other victims (of which there are surely many) to come forward and claim some sort of ...
@Wayne Depends on what was said and what was done as a consequence of those conversations, of course. DPF's crappy blog and its apparent role as an outlet of National spin and disinformation speaks for itself.
I don't think the concept of "the Deep State" extends to it somehow magically pushing Trump over the line in electoral college votes. Trump won electoral college votes, simply because he won county votes in states that matter. He won those because ...
Sure, if you fear reprisal and violence from the police it might be sane to comply with illegal requests like this from the police --- which suggests that something is monstrously wrong with our police force, of course. Although it is also completely sane ...
Yes. It is an offense to not provide (or provide false) name, address and age information to the police when requested. But the police are only legally entitled to request this information if you are driving a motor vehicle (and they are stopping you under...
@Leftie I'm not sure that's Bill's response really explains why a union that has evidence of illegal activity by employers would refuse to attempt to take any legal action against those employers (and / or prompt MBIE et al to take appropriate actions). ...
Perhaps the union doesn't take legal action, but unclear why they would not, unless there is a lack of evidence. In which case the union should be either investigating or prompting some relevant authority (MBIE?) to investigate.
@La You are too generous in your reading of BM.
@Leftie "Try and get a worker who needs the job to report on a big company. " Which is the whole point of a union. If the relevant union has evidence that workers are being offered inducements to not join the union, then the union should be able to take ...
@Leftie See Part 3 of the Employment Relations Act. http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2000/0024/latest/DLM58317.html esp. Section 8 on Voluntary Membership, and section 11 on Undue Influence.
@BM "I’d say there’s a lot a people out there who have the same view as me" I agree. There's certainly a lot of people who are victims of right-wing propaganda.
"A lot of companies encourage employees not to join the union. A major bus company for example, will pay drivers a bit extra as an incentive not to join." I'm pretty certain that is illegal. Also, if true, that surely speaks to the effectiveness of the ...
Why do you think a business donates to / supports a political party? Why is it OK for a business to support a politcal party but not a union?
@BM "...[a union's] job is to protect my rights not get involved in politics." Hilarious. [edit: I can see why you edited out that ridiculous statement above].
@BM Which union are you a member of? If you are worried about your union supporting a political party that you don't like, then you should engage with the democratic processes within your union and convince the membership that it would be in their best ...
@BM A union, by definition, is a political organisation. Also, are you happy with the idea that businesses (i.e. business owners) can support and donate to political parties?
@Draco T Bastard Look, it's pointless arguing about the capacity or otherwise of the NSA (or similar Euro/Russian/Chinese etc agencies) to screw with an online voting system. However, I think that it is criminally insane to assume such actors could not ...
If the NSA's skills at securely using the internet are so great, why does the head of the NSA periodically come out to NZ in an US airforce jet. Why doesn't he just use Skype for Spies? Likewise, why are the NSA bothering to intercept the communications of...
@RJL "An online voting system won’...
"I’m pretty sure that our people are just as capable as the USians." Exactly. Which is why the Americans will be assuming that any system connected to the public is compromised (and their counterparts elsewhere assume the same). Which is why (except when ...
"And then there’s the fact that I will have an email sitting in my inbox that can be traced back to the government server." That doesn't sound plausible. An online voting system won't be busy emailing back to everyone a record of how they voted. It might ...
If NSA and friends wanted to compromise any such system I doubt GCSB could stop them (assuming the GCSB didn't actively aid them, of course). Especially as it is (presumably) a publically accessible system built from commodity hardware, and interacting ...
The risk of a compromised server is mostly internal compromise. With in-person (and postal) there is ultimately an actual physical artefact (the voting paper) that can be counted and recounted. This is difficult to compromise on a large scale without many ...
Sure, GCSB / SIS should not be monitoring the content of any sort of online voting system, if we had one. Of course, attempting to keep an online voting system secure would perhaps be (if we took the disastrous route of having one) one of the few ...
@Groundhog... I see. So, you realise this makes you a victim of the exactly the tactics described in the book?
Have you read it?
@reason Of course, the reason that Slater gets fast OIA responses is because he is a sock puppet that has been coached on what to request. That is, he is only requesting information that Collins has already identified that she wants to release, but that ...
@srylands: "Ridiculous. The guy did show poor judgement pulling her pony tail. But is the leader of the nation going to step down because of that? The rest of the world would be disbelieving." The bit that the rest of the world would be disbelieving of, ...
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