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#3041261 24-Feb-2023 13:06

Rikkitic:
This is true in a much broader sense. Nearly everything done by the biggest is done better by smaller competitors. For example, third party Windows add-ons have always been far superior to the Microsoft defaults.

Jamie Zawinski did a good writeup on this many years ago, contrasting McDonalds with Jamie Oliver and why, in order to function, McDonalds ends up the way it has. Unfortunately I can't find it at the moment...

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#3041434 24-Feb-2023 16:14

A snr lawyer with decades of experience no less.
Um don't you just drop the excuses and just say your behaviour is unacceptable.
Offer to retire and never practice supervise staff again. Given his repeated history.
Show true regret and acceptance there is something wrong with you, you need to fix.

Christchurch lawyer who took female interns to sex shop was a 'creature of his generation', tribunal told
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/131324531/christchurch-lawyer-who-took-female-interns-to-sex-shop-was-a-creature-of-his-generation-tribunal-told

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Dean Palmer took two interns on a boozy lunch before visiting a sex shop, but there were no sexual overtones in his "fatherly" behaviour, his lawyer says.
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Plea of... Twilight of his carrer and removal of licence would be devistating !?
65 seems given his behaviour its time to retire and never put himself in that temptation ever again.
Given he has had chance to amass resources and even gets the icing on the cake of a pension.

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#3041561 24-Feb-2023 19:04

The "Nintendo Wiki" has a "Class A" article about the game Majora's Mask, which has an error in the very first sentence (it incorrectly says that the Japanese title is Majorca's Mask; it's actually Mujura's Mask).

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#3041595 24-Feb-2023 19:59

Am I losing my marbles? (Probably - As I see white)

Carjam from the NZTA (or whatever they are today) say:

freitasm

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#3041598 24-Feb-2023 20:02

Reported to police?

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#3041599 24-Feb-2023 20:06

freitasm: Reported to police?

Hold time......... .......

.... Bic Runga etc...... ..... waiting!

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#3041602 24-Feb-2023 20:10

7 calls ahead of me in the 105 queue.....

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#3041605 24-Feb-2023 20:11

Upload your photo of it to carjam :p

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3041607 24-Feb-2023 20:15

It was probably wrapped red when being used as a courier van in a previous life, then had the wrap removed when sold.

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#3041608 24-Feb-2023 20:16

freitasm: Reported to police?

Thanks for confirming that not ALL of my marbles have escaped my head!

Now 3 ahead of me in the queue.

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#3041623 24-Feb-2023 20:43

It is common for vehicle colour to be listed incorrectly. Did I miss something about this vehicle?

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#3041624 24-Feb-2023 20:45

Well that's an hour of my life I'll never get back.

The vehicle is actually in the next door driveway. Call taker put in a job.....was "laughed at" by the "on the ground" unit!

Van leaving the driveway now! Parked down the Street!

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#3041626 24-Feb-2023 21:00

gzt: It is common for vehicle colour to be listed incorrectly. Did I miss something about this vehicle?

Given the address where it went, and the number of unregistered etc vehicles associated with it, all I wanted was for them to update the system to show it as white, given the photographic evidence!

Last week I gave a "heads up" about a large party..... 2 1/2 hours later the riot squad ran at speed up Hansons Lane and dispersed it finally.

Most of the drunks were parked in our Street and were free to drive home! Not one Car or Officer entered Arthur Street!

The Blenheim Road / Hansons Lane worksite was totally decimated!

Probably totally avoidable!

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#3041642 24-Feb-2023 22:22

msukiwi:

Well that's an hour of my life I'll never get back.

The vehicle is actually in the next door driveway. Call taker put in a job.....was "laughed at" by the "on the ground" unit!

Van leaving the driveway now! Parked down the Street!

You should have told them John Keys cup of tea was in the vehicle.

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#3042262 26-Feb-2023 15:53

@msukiwi

I think where you live is not good for your health in the long run.

Qui nihil scit, omnia credere debet.
Firewalls do NOT stop dragons.
In effect we have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who someone is.

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