Captain Pissweak posted:What's with the LNP and running twelve year olds. 12 year olds hold overly simplistic worldviews and high levels of egocentrism
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 09:52 |
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Wheezle posted:The touching up on that photo is disturbing. Yeah and they made his eyes disproportionately small.
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 10:04 |
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Well reptiles do have small eyes, right?
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 10:56 |
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Wheezle posted:The touching up on that photo is disturbing. Reptillian right eye
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 11:45 |
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Chris Pyne has finally decided to have a presence on Twitter, something Albo couldn't just let slide unnoticed: https://twitter.com/AlboMP/status/484520036262875136
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 13:04 |
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Wheezle posted:The touching up on that photo is disturbing.
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 13:51 |
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Mattjpwns posted:Chris Pyne has finally decided to have a presence on Twitter, something Albo couldn't just let slide unnoticed: If you're in the mood to get angry check out the background photo on Pyne's account page
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 14:08 |
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Jonah Galtberg posted:If you're in the mood to get angry check out the background photo on Pyne's account page Or alternatively, check this gem out
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 14:22 |
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He looks like a 12 year old wearing his team fortress hat.
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 14:43 |
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For Brisbane tertiary students: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-05/qld-students-angry-over-ttcc-delays-transport-fines/5573270?WT.ac=statenews_qldABC News posted:Responding the the ABC's questions, a spokesperson for Mr Emerson also denied there was a backlog. That's a flat out lie right there, Mr Emerson, considering my fiancee's application was put in 4 weeks ago and lo and behold, no sign of a card to be seen yet. As the article says, the TTCC scheme doesn't even stop rorting, you just have to enroll, get the TTCC, drop your classes before the census date and you're still set for 12 months. The dumbest part is that there's no grace period for students starting in the second semester (like me) or even next year onwards, when everyone will have to do this ALL OVER AGAIN. What a loving waste of money and time.
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 14:46 |
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Zenithe posted:Or alternatively, check this gem out Worst sniper cosplay ever. CrazyTolradi posted:For Brisbane tertiary students: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-05/qld-students-angry-over-ttcc-delays-transport-fines/5573270?WT.ac=statenews_qld
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 14:57 |
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The whole TTCC thing is just a major train wreck. I've worked at Telstra for five years and one thing I've learnt is that when you have a new product with new processes and new people learning it, there are always delays and backlogs and it usually lasts a year until someone goes and changes some process and starts it all over again. Whoever they outsourced the processing too is obviously having these teething issues, but the Department and the Minister probably don't give a poo poo because it means they don't have to pay them as much and it's just a bunch of worthless lefty students anyway (because no young LNP student would ever lower themselves to use public transport when they have a car their parents bought for them). It can't be coincidence, either, that there are record amounts of ticket inspectors out patrolling. Not just larger numbers, but mostly focused on routes used mainly by students. Yeah, that isn't targetted at all. EDIT: Claiming they're losing $8mil per year to people scamming student cards means nothing, because this whole thing would cost more than that to setup and run. Not to mention IT DOESN'T STOP ANYTHING. Good work guys. CrazyTolradi fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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ewe2 posted:Yeah the middleware goes down all the time. I know one of the guys who coded the centrelink DB, he's up here working the front desk of the local centrelink office. When Websphere breaks, he just gets a link to the mainframe and talks to its basic interface instead. He's a cool dude. The m204 system (ISIS) that Centrelink/DHS still ultimately relies upon is actually pretty solid and is 'fast enough' considering there's 8+ million active customers on it. Though it's spread across about a dozen (plus more for redundancy) big z-series IBM mainframes, so it really ought to be. It has 30+ years of government policy to deal with, and it actually does it surprisingly well. The volume of customer data itself isn't really the issue - it's extracted from ISIS and put into more modern RDBMSs for a whole bunch of different purposes, and they definitely have the hardware to be able to manage it. It's the myriad intertwined systems and processes that make migration to a more contemporary platform (whilst still making sure everyone still gets their payments on time) so difficult. There's only at best a dozen major active m204 customers left in the world, with DHS being one of the biggest, so there's a huge vendor risk, plus support and fixes are expensive as gently caress. It's completely incompatible with anything modern as huge parts of the core payment logic (the aforementioned 30 years of government policy) are very tightly coupled to mainframe-era concepts (batch jobs, the bespoke transaction-like model for managing record changes) and the associated hacked-in internal event/notification and QA systems. This is in addition to the usual legacy system issues of lack of skills in the marketplace (most/all m204 devs learn it on the job at DHS) poor documentation and poor understanding of parts of the (massive) codebase. There's been some very boneheaded management decisions (in addition to the 'efficiency dividends') that have dramatically worsened things, also. They're in the process of moving everything to SAP, despite the existing enterprise architecture being fundamentally incompatible with it, that no staff knew how to write ABAP code (the COBOL-derived SAP-specific language), it being extraordinarily expensive, and it frankly being utterly terrible at almost everything. The development environment makes it very tough for teams to collaborate, and the change management process is straight from the 1960s. Two years later, and they're only just starting to actually be able to reliably interact with ISIS, and this is mostly done by copying data out of it. The scary thing is that once you've shifted your business logic on to SAP, it's really not easy to get it out again (much like m204). Front line and technical staff uniformly hate it (especially as they've been locked out of directly accessing ISIS), and so I can't imagine it's done much for the customer experience. pantsfree fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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pantsfree posted:Great effortpost Thanks for that detail! Horrified that they're moving to SAP, they are the biggest rip off merchants. I hear the only way to make money with SAP is to become a consultant rather than a customer.
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 19:25 |
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God I love working in an actually modern govt IT department. We're migrating from Java/Oracle to Django/Postgres Although then again when our systems go down, a park ranger isn't sure where the bunyips are, but nobody starves. quote:There's only at best a dozen major active m204 customers left in the world, with DHS being one of the biggest, so there's a huge vendor risk Yeah I hadn't actually come across m204 before. Seems like another one of those old "4GL" database things that used to be the rage in the 80s. I used to work with an absolute horror called "NATURAL" that attempted to have a "natural language" themed programming language that made Cobol look terse, to front end ADABAS. Horrible stuff. Thankfully, mostly a historical footnote. Incidently if anyone wants a programming language thats guaranteed to get you work where you can command your own salary, but in exchange you must hate your life and seek only the comfort of death. COBOL is still a thing. duck monster fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Jul 5, 2014 |
# ? Jul 5, 2014 23:04 |
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I can COBOL. I almost accepted work for Y2K when six and seven figure sums were being thrown around. Fortunately I'm not that stupid.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 00:05 |
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One of the big concerns the organization had was the difficulty in attracting and retaining talent due to m204 being uncommon and highly specialized... ... So they move to SAP, which is uncommon and highly specialized. Skilled SAP devs can command stupid high salaries, basically guaranteeing that they'll be poached away from DHS as soon as the organization has finished spending a tonne of money training them. They'll then end up contracted back to DHS as consultants.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 00:15 |
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Hey Sydgoons, Bust the Budget rally at Town Hall at 1pm. Afterwards I and maybe QM will be at Hotel Sweeney's on Clarence St from 3 for a meeting on union organising and militancy, or basically a drinking session with anarchists and trots.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 00:28 |
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 00:34 |
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The TTCC is disgusting and targets Students both domestic and on exchange. It's designed to just give Translink cops another reason to fine you. Translink cops are the worst thing Queensland has ever introduced. So annoying and disgusting, like poo poo stuck to a toilet. QLD Labor should promise to abolish the TTCC and all this Translink Schutzstaffel bullshit but I remember Translink prices under Bligh were pretty loving expensive too. No way to win.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 00:41 |
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Anidav posted:The TTCC is disgusting and targets Students both domestic and on exchange. It's designed to just give Translink cops another reason to fine you. Translink cops are the worst thing Queensland has ever introduced. So annoying and disgusting, like poo poo stuck to a toilet. QLD Labor should promise to abolish the TTCC and all this Translink Schutzstaffel bullshit but I remember Translink prices under Bligh were pretty loving expensive too. The public transport prices were going to increase under Bligh, but only for a few years at their rate (15%), where as LNP have just continued every year to raise it at 7.5%. It sucks because Translink is basically just doing what it's told by the Minister of Transport. If you have issue with anything Translink does, write to Scott Emerson because all this is because of his directions and Translink are just following ministerial instructions, as any goverment department is required.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 00:47 |
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Fruity Gordo posted:gently caress I just remembered that a couple of months ago in auspol I told someone that I would try to help them find a shrink using my connections and I didn't do it, I asked my main shrink and he had no one and then a few days passed befor I saw my cbt lady and I totally forgot omg I am so sorry. If you're still here please do let me know I honestly have the worst memory with names and I know that's really bad when I pretend to be a forums genie That was me. Im doing better now ive stopped abusing drugs and started doing exercise again so my head is a lot clearer about poo poo. Bootstraps do work
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 01:35 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Worst sniper cosplay ever.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 01:44 |
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quote:Asylum seekers: my country, my shame
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 01:46 |
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Craig Emerson is amazing, even after retirement he remains an absolute true-believer in Labor's platform of nothingness.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:25 |
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Thanks for posting this, great read.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:26 |
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God drat I'll never be able to play tf2 again. Also I'm now looking for a VPS for the openttd server, as I don't have a suitable computer or connection. Anyone know about vultr.com ?
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:29 |
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Lol, Malcolm Fraser godwined the Libs on twitterquote:Handing A[sylum] S[eekers] back to S[ri] L[anka] redolent of handing Jews to Nazis in 1930s.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 04:07 |
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CrazyTolradi posted:The public transport prices were going to increase under Bligh, but only for a few years at their rate (15%), where as LNP have just continued every year to raise it at 7.5%. It sucks because Translink is basically just doing what it's told by the Minister of Transport. If you have issue with anything Translink does, write to Scott Emerson because all this is because of his directions and Translink are just following ministerial instructions, as any goverment department is required. Scott Emerson is basically a "yes man" without any real personal politics. I doubt writing to him would have any effect, as I don't believe he makes decisions based on anything other than what he is told to by the party. It's hard to imagine him viewing politics as anything more than a job to him; he goes in, does what he's told and reads off a sheet when interviewed. I've known the guy personally for a fair while (before he entered politics) and he never really seemed to have much political thought.
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quote:Asylum seekers who are offered substantial amounts of money by the government to leave the detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru must spend their own cash before receiving the payment. "gently caress off, we're full" being used unironically.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 08:17 |
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http://leesalittle.com/2014/04/05/2256/quote:Liberals attempt to use SES to hand out vote cards in exchange for donation Whoops. E: Oh poo poo, this was back in march, oh well.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 08:56 |
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duck monster posted:Yeah I hadn't actually come across m204 before. Seems like another one of those old "4GL" database things that used to be the rage in the 80s. The Commonwealth Bank still uses a very similar program for its credit card management. I used to have great fun using it to trace transactions and then explain to housewives that someone had used the joint credit card to buy internet porn.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 11:35 |
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Sir Coq of Nandos posted:The Commonwealth Bank still uses a very similar program for its credit card management. I used to have great fun using it to trace transactions and then explain to housewives that someone had used the joint credit card to buy internet porn. Interesting, particularly given CBA has spent AT LEAST $1.3bn on SAP in the last couple of years. ONE POINT THREE. BILLION. DOLLARS. To be fair, their internet banking platform does give me a significant erection every time I use it, but still. THE GDP OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. I went into a Telstra store recently to set up some business fleet plans, and the combination of green-screen terminal emulation/virtualisation AND a mid-to-late-'90s web-based mandatory application form manager (MyConnect?) that apparently hasn't been updated since inception (because it can't, for whatever reason) was agonising to behold.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 23:32 |
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Small Keating posted:Interesting, particularly given CBA has spent AT LEAST $1.3bn on SAP in the last couple of years. As a soon to be ex-Telstra employee, I'll say that our legacy systems are probably the most reliable systems I've ever had the pleasure to use in any company. you can throw a brick at them and they won't fall over. These are Telecom systems that date back to before the sale (obviously), and some of which before my own time and I wouldn't use anything else given the choice. Legacy is only used by business or government customers these days, due to the fact that Siebel (our residential customer service front end) can't support the complex products in which area I work. Siebel, and it's kin Maxim (used for business/enterprise/government customers record/interaction management), are a different story. Siebel was designed as a banking system, so I have no idea who thought it'd work as a telecommunications CRM/order provisioning system but it's taken them years to get it to the current level of not being poo poo and it's still kind of poo poo. Thankfully I don't have to touch that, but I do have to deal with Maxim, which is basically what orders come in on for business products (which we then have to raise in legacy systems). A good friend of mine is in our enterprise and government NBN area and they've started using Maxim as a provisioning platform as well which leads to nightmare scenarios and clusterfucks of typical Telstra proportions. The different between these is that the legacy systems were all built in-house, when Telstra was Telecom and the people who made them worked closely with the people who were going to use them. The former systems (which are web front ends running on Java) were contracted out to Oracle, with the end result being a stinking pile of poo poo where good money is thrown after bad. It's somewhat concerning that Centrelink and other government departments are making this transition from in-house legacy systems to contracted out systems that run on a web client. It'l likely take them a decade and billions of dollars to get kind of right, and still have major issues. Final note: Most Telstra shops aren't Telstra owned, but are franchises with very limited/watered down systems so that they can't gently caress up anything too badly. This more applies to business customers, which pretty much no Telstra shop has decent access to do anything. Even Telstra Business Centres are just franchised stores running under the Telstra banner.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 23:53 |
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Interesting observations re: the internal working of Telstra, thanks for the goodpoast. See also, the iGen (simultaneous print/digital order management/approval workflow monstrosity) rollout at Sensis/White/Yellow Pages. $300+ million down the drain for a product that not only did not work as expected but was actually completely broken. I was managing a smallish campaign that involved Sensis spend at the time, and iGen did some amazingly crazy things (followed the entire workflow for managing changes to ad copy, then at the last moment swapped out the approved ad for an ad from the same company that had last been lodged in the system about a decade earlier, complete with out of date phone number).
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 00:11 |
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So the work we did modelling the Medicare co-payments has come out this morning. We have got decent media coverage so far. Hopefully, TV news decides it's a decent story and asks for interviews later today. Pretty much we have shown that the combined cost of the new co-payments for GP services, pathology tests and imaging test combined with the increase to the PBS threshold is going to cost families far more than what has been reported. For those who want to read the full twelve pages, it can be found here http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/fmrc/beach/bytes/BEACH-Byte-2014-003.pdf For those who want the condensed SMH version - it's here quote:New research has backed concerns the federal government's proposed Medicare co-payment will hit vulnerable groups the hardest and could deter them from seeking medical care. If people are interested, I could create a list of ten misconceptions about the proposed co-payments, which could be tidied up like Sisgmunds did for the GP visits and then have Goons spread it though social media. Would people be up for that?
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 00:23 |
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Freudian Slip posted:So the work we did modelling the Medicare co-payments has come out this morning. We have got decent media coverage so far. Hopefully, TV news decides it's a decent story and asks for interviews later today. Yes please. I am trying to tell my friend (who is on Centrelink benefits) and yet she thinks the government is doing the right thing when she will be the one who will be hit hardest under this proposed change. Thank you Freudian Slip. You are the best.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 00:26 |
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Freudian Slip posted:If people are interested, I could create a list of ten misconceptions about the proposed co-payments, which could be tidied up like Sisgmunds did for the GP visits and then have Goons spread it though social media. Would people be up for that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AeVkHQ2uCA
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 00:26 |
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So have we literally refouled refugees seeking asylum or what?
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 00:27 |
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Freudian Slip posted:If people are interested, I could create a list of ten misconceptions about the proposed co-payments, which could be tidied up like Sisgmunds did for the GP visits and then have Goons spread it though social media. Would people be up for that? This sounds like a brilliant idea. I'll certainly do my best to spread this.
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