NTRabbit posted:

There would have been several points in this process where someone would have been able to stand up and say "Are you serious? Internet gon' poo poo all over this" and either nobody did, or they didn't hire anyone who could. Entirely avoidable, and they're both getting a well deserved pasting.

ewe2 posted:

I'm willing to bet the argument was "can we get away with it?" not "is this going too far?" What a shame no one put Carrspace in the generator, that would have been an awesome reason to quit twitter.

Birdstrike posted:

I guess we forgot.

NTRabbit posted:

No, the argument would have been "marketing says this is going to have a great ROI and engagement level so we're going to do it" and not a single person stopped to think about whether it was the right thing to do or whether people would abduct an easily exploitable system for trolling purposes.

All easily fixed by including someone with greater intelligence than a walnut - ie anybody not in Marketing - in any part of the decision making process. Which clearly they didn't do, because every single CM and SM person I know is laughing their heads off and/or cringing at their sheer rookie level idiocy right now.

They got burned and they deserved every single bit of it

ewe2 posted:

I'm willing to bet the argument was "can we get away with it?" not "is this going too far?" What a shame no one put Carrspace in the generator, that would have been an awesome reason to quit twitter.

ewe2 posted:

I thought there were some nice fresh memories in here, and then I went to twitter...

Gough Suppressant posted:

Apparently the settlement for East-West link will be $339M, more than the $230M the state government first offered, less than the $2Bn the consortium first demanded(obviously a ridiculous ambitclaim)

NTRabbit posted:

There would have been several points in this process where someone would have been able to stand up and say "Are you serious? Internet gon' poo poo all over this" and either nobody did, or they didn't hire anyone who could. Entirely avoidable, and they're both getting a well deserved pasting.

Worth noting the same agency is responsible for "Camp Gallipoli"

It's bad enough little Johnnie turned ANZAC Day into the flag wearing monstrosity it is now during his culture wars, we shouldn't be encouraging corporations to profiteer by dogpiling on as well.

Gough Suppressant posted:

Apparently the settlement for East-West link will be $339M, more than the $230M the state government first offered, less than the $2Bn the consortium first demanded(obviously a ridiculous ambitclaim)

Avshalom posted:

Endman posted:

Honestly, the most offensive part of that was that my championship was usurped in 2014 and 15

Avshalom posted:

Graic Gabtar posted:

Ah cool. So then all of our transport problems will be solved right?

Matthew Beet posted:

I dunno, you're in Sydney aren't you?

Murodese posted:

I think MUYB just killed himself at the realisation that he shares a state with you

Avshalom posted:

SMH posted:

The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption has lost a high-stakes legal bid to investigate Crown prosecutor Margaret Cunneen over allegations she perverted the course of justice.

A majority of the High Court ruled on Wednesday that the ICAC was acting outside its powers by investigating the silk, in a decision likely to have far-reaching implications for past and future corruption inquiries.

The commission had appealed against a majority decision of the NSW Court of Appeal, which shut down its inquiry into allegations that Ms Cunneen advised her eldest son's girlfriend to feign chest pains to avoid a police breath test after a car crash.

The High Court dismissed the appeal, ruling the conduct alleged in the Cunneen case did not amount to "corrupt conduct" as defined in the ICAC Act.

The Cunneen decision is the first time the nation's highest court has ruled on the scope of the ICAC's powers since the watchdog opened its doors in 1989.

The commission had adopted a more expansive view of its powers and the ruling may result in some of its previous corruption findings being overturned.

It may also restrict the findings that can be made in current inquiries.

The commission had delayed releasing its reports on two explosive inquiries heard last year, Operations Credo and Spicer, pending the outcome of this case.

It is now unclear whether it had the power to conduct significant parts of the former inquiry, which probed allegations the Obeid-linked company Australian Water Holdings gouged millions of dollars from public utility Sydney Water.

The ICAC heard allegations in that inquiry that Australian Water – previously headed by Obeid associate and Liberal fundraiser Nick Di Girolamo – submitted bills to Sydney Water for a range of lavish expenses including limousines, dinners and interstate trips.

"I'm going to drop the f-word – fraud," counsel assisting the inquiry, Geoffrey Watson, SC, said at the time.

Those allegations are unlikely to be regarded as fitting within the definition of "corrupt conduct" in the ICAC Act, and accordingly the commission may not have had the power to investigate them.

There are a number of discrete definitions of corrupt conduct in the ICAC Act and the Cunneen case centred on just one of them.

Under the Act, conduct of a private citizen that could "adversely affect" the exercise of official functions by a public official is corruption.

The Act says such conduct could involve a number of specified criminal offences, including perverting the course of justice.

An independent review of the ICAC Act in 2005 said that this definition of corruption "requires no wrongdoing on behalf of the public official" and it was a type of "indirect corruption".

But the High Court took a different view. Its ruling means a number of the watchdog's previous findings of corrupt conduct against private citizens, including five businessmen involved in a coal venture at the Obeid family's rural property, may be overturned.

Ms Cunneen stood aside from her role as the state's deputy senior Crown prosecutor in October last year.

UrbanLabyrinth posted:

Hahaha, it turns out Woolies didn't even have permission to use ANZAC.

You Am I posted:

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/15/intergenerational-report-dr-karl-regrets-campaign-role-and-lack-of-climate-focus

Dr Karl now realises that signing up for the intergenerational report ad wasn't really a good idea

quote:

“It was my fault for not realising the nature of the beast that I was involved with. I really thought that it would be an independent, bipartisan, non-political document.”

Lid posted:

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a complex and shifting individual.

You Am I posted:

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/15/intergenerational-report-dr-karl-regrets-campaign-role-and-lack-of-climate-focus

Dr Karl now realises that signing up for the intergenerational report ad wasn't really a good idea

Graic Gabtar posted:

That's rather curious.

The ABC article doesn't have comments enabled.

Rather odd for an ABC story that contains the words, "Hockey's ineptitude".

Gough Suppressant posted:

Apparently the settlement for East-West link will be $339M, more than the $230M the state government first offered, less than the $2Bn the consortium first demanded(obviously a ridiculous ambitclaim)

You Am I posted:

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/15/intergenerational-report-dr-karl-regrets-campaign-role-and-lack-of-climate-focus

Dr Karl now realises that signing up for the intergenerational report ad wasn't really a good idea

SynthOrange posted:

Victoria to pay $339m to East West Link consortium over contracts

The Victorian Government will pay $339 million to the consortium behind Melbourne's East West Link after it cancelled the contracts for the road project.

Welp