Comments on: Terminator http://www.ambitgambit.com/2008/01/23/terminator/ Ambit Gambit Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:35:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark Bahnisch http://www.ambitgambit.com/2008/01/23/terminator/comment-page-1/#comment-2140 Mark Bahnisch Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:03:26 +0000 http://localhost/ambit/?p=2710#comment-2140 Looks like we won't have to wait til Feb for it to be dead in the water. Poor old Lawrence. He might actually have to think up some policies rather than internal organisational navelgazing. Looks like we won’t have to wait til Feb for it to be dead in the water. Poor old Lawrence. He might actually have to think up some policies rather than internal organisational navelgazing.

]]> By: Andrew Bartlett http://www.ambitgambit.com/2008/01/23/terminator/comment-page-1/#comment-2141 Andrew Bartlett Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:25:12 +0000 http://localhost/ambit/?p=2710#comment-2141 This looks a pretty spot on assessment to me (regardless of what the right Sci Fi analogy is). Still, I can understand why some Qld Nationals would be kken on the idea, as it's the only way they can remain at least part of being the senior partner in any future state government. What I don't understand though is why so many Liberals seem to be supportive of the idea, including some federal Libs. I can only assume they figure it will help with the selling/marketing somehow, or maybe be a circuit breaker to their own long-running local infighting. I agree with the comment that the merger "substitutes institutional change for policy and personnel reform." It reminds me of the Democrats over the past six years, where the reaction to plummeting public support was to blame internal party processes and focus on restructuring the organisational wing - as if that had anything to do with the vanishing public support. However hard it might be to make instutional change, it's much easier than having to admit to your own mistakes, failings and inadequacies. This looks a pretty spot on assessment to me (regardless of what the right Sci Fi analogy is).
Still, I can understand why some Qld Nationals would be kken on the idea, as it’s the only way they can remain at least part of being the senior partner in any future state government. What I don’t understand though is why so many Liberals seem to be supportive of the idea, including some federal Libs. I can only assume they figure it will help with the selling/marketing somehow, or maybe be a circuit breaker to their own long-running local infighting.
I agree with the comment that the merger “substitutes institutional change for policy and personnel reform.” It reminds me of the Democrats over the past six years, where the reaction to plummeting public support was to blame internal party processes and focus on restructuring the organisational wing – as if that had anything to do with the vanishing public support. However hard it might be to make instutional change, it’s much easier than having to admit to your own mistakes, failings and inadequacies.

]]> By: Graham Young http://www.ambitgambit.com/2008/01/23/terminator/comment-page-1/#comment-2142 Graham Young Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:37:04 +0000 http://localhost/ambit/?p=2710#comment-2142 Very neat. Very neat.

]]> By: Mark Bahnisch http://www.ambitgambit.com/2008/01/23/terminator/comment-page-1/#comment-2143 Mark Bahnisch Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:50:33 +0000 http://localhost/ambit/?p=2710#comment-2143 <blockquote>Mark Bahnisch has taken to calling Lawrence Springborg "the Borg" which brings to my mind images of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Terminators.</blockquote> Close, but no cigar, Graham. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_%28Star_Trek%29" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_%28Star_Trek%29</a> <blockquote>The Borg are a fictional pseudo-race of cyborgs depicted in Star Trek.</blockquote> <blockquote>They operate towards one single minded purpose: to add the biological and technological distinctiveness of other species to their own, in pursuit of perfection. This is achieved through forced assimilation, a process which transforms individuals and technology into Borg, enhancing individuals by adding synthetic components.</blockquote> It's quite a neat coincidence, hey?

Mark Bahnisch has taken to calling Lawrence Springborg “the Borg” which brings to my mind images of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Terminators.

Close, but no cigar, Graham.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_%28Star_Trek%29

The Borg are a fictional pseudo-race of cyborgs depicted in Star Trek.

They operate towards one single minded purpose: to add the biological and technological distinctiveness of other species to their own, in pursuit of perfection. This is achieved through forced assimilation, a process which transforms individuals and technology into Borg, enhancing individuals by adding synthetic components.

It’s quite a neat coincidence, hey?

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