Hi all,
Labor opposing East West Link - good news, at least for me.
There is no contract signed yet - so all uncertainty claims are quite
strange. It is up to the government in power to create certainty - by
waiting with the contracts until after the election.
The process is before the courts because the link did not go through a
proper planning, assessment and consultation process yet. The lack of
process created the uncertainty.
So the government can correct it by honouring process. This would make it
a decision made by a government which asked for a mandate from the
electorate.
Below my letter to Terry Mulder (terence.mulder(a)parliament.vic.gov.au).
Maybe you would like to contact him too?
Thanks
Peter
Dear Terry,
the Labor decision to dump the East West Link is a good one for us in
Melbourne.
Please cancel the project if you care for Victoria. It may save hundred of
millions or billions of dollars of claims when the project finally ends in
the bin, as it should.
The East West Link is not a properly planned project. I contacted you before
about my concerns. Some of the events and claims are truly bizarre if you
are familiar with the area as I am.
I work in Kensington. I frequently use the bike track along the Mooney Ponds
Creek you want to overshadow with another bunch of lanes. I also spend a lot
of time waiting for and in trains from and to Craigieburn and Upfield which
never go on time.
It is not a surprise that the whole case is before the courts. The rush to
lock it in resulted in a shoddy process which defies logic and did never
satisfy requirements of proper consulting with the public. Even now, the
design is still work in progress, and some of the "corrections" over time
looked as professional as me designing a model train with my son. How can
this being assessed? How can the community have a sufficient input in this
process?
How can you sign contracts with this uncertainty? It will be a liability for
any future government and all Victorians.
A tender process where you continue with one bidder only is another detail
not making sense. I never do that if I want a good deal.
You were elected with the Liberals claiming support for the Metro Rail Link.
You did not advance the project. Instead it became another train wreck of
"planning on the run".
Please bring that back into action instead of tinkering with the East West
Link if you want to do something for Victoria.
Thank you
Peter
[contact details]
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This is my response to Russell which was lost when the LUV server was down.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Scott <luv(a)inoz.net>
Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [luv-talk] Opposing marriage equality
To: Russell Coker <russell(a)coker.com.au>
Cc: luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Russell Coker <russell(a)coker.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Michael Scott <luv(a)inoz.net> wrote:
> > You've made a generalised judgement about "those people", you've
> stretched
> > death threats against a 14yo actor
>
> That's death threats against a 5yo actress.
>
Actor/Actress. Who's being sexist now?
>
> > for a show which includes lesbian
> > partners to your subject title "Opposing marriage equality", and YOUR
> link
> > refers to one of "YOUR" people actually shooting someone!!
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Research_Council
>
> # In 2010, the FRC paid $25,000 to congressional lobbyists for what they
> # described as "Res.1064 Ugandan Resolution Pro-homosexual promotion" in a
> # lobbying disclosure report.[38] The US House of Representatives
> resolution
> # condemned the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill,[39] a bill which, among
> other
> # things, would have imposed either the death penalty or life imprisonment
> for
> # sexual relations between persons of the same sex
>
> # The Southern Poverty Law Center designated the FRC as a hate group in the
> # Winter 2010
>
> # A shooting incident outside the FRC headquarters in 2012
>
> I've quoted the relevant sections of the Wikipedia page above.
Relevant to whom?
> After the FRC
> spent a lot of money lobbing in favor of the death penalty for gay people
> in
> Uganda they were listed as a hate group. After that a FRC security guard
> was
> shot.
>
> Shooting a security guard is the wrong thing to do and the shooter is
> serving
> jail time for it. Causing people to be killed by unjust laws in Uganda is
> also the wrong thing to do.
>
I couldn't agree more.
You've generalised about ALL people who disagree with same sex marriage,
because some nut jobs made death threats against a young actor.
A nut job shoots a security guard outside a FRC building, and you don't see
the irony? Should I be worried about YOU shooting me because of my beliefs?
Do you believe that I would make death threats against somebody ASSOCIATED
with a TV show, because the TV show had a same-sex couple?
YOU'RE drawing that line.
Hi,
I chose to support a project and pledged monies on that project.
What I want to know is:
"Is it normal to get lots of /nothing/ updates,
and I mean *LOTS* ?"
I'm already sold on the product and the updates don't tell me anything
new of any significance.
Also, I was surprised that "stretch" goals were being used as a means to
up-sell, rather than reward the supporters
-- you want a gold one? Okay as an original supporter you can have
it for $10 more per unit.
The marketing rubbish on an already subscribed campaign is extreme. So
much so, that I would consider pulling my support (not sure if I can or
not).
Thoughts?
A.
From: "thelionroars" <thelionroars1337(a)gmail.com>
>
> For those not familiar with Jolla and Sailfish: http://jolla.com/tablethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS#Privacy
Responding to privacy concerns in light of the PRISM spying program that
came to light in summer 2013, a company representative said the US
National Security Agency (NSA) would have no access to Jolla's servers.
"Jolla servers are not in US, so we are not subject to any US rules or
regulations regarding disclosing information."
I rather work with devices which do not store my private data on servers
at all.
Regards
Peter
Hi,
I chose to support a project and pledged monies on that project.
What I want to know is:
"Is it normal to get lots of /nothing/ updates,
and I mean *LOTS* ?"
I'm already sold on the product and the updates don't tell me anything
new of any significance.
Also, I was surprised that "stretch" goals were being used as a means to
up-sell, rather than reward the supporters
-- you want a gold one? Okay as an original supporter you can have
it for $10 more per unit.
The marketing rubbish on an already subscribed campaign is extreme. So
much so, that I would consider pulling my support (not sure if I can or
not).
Thoughts?
A.
Hi,
What happened to the luv mail server?
I just got an email [to the list] that was sent on the 12th November.
An email was in my mail server's queue since the 16th (2:05am) -- just
got my mail server to process that email.
A.
Tony Abbott wants to increase GST and apply it to more items. The Liberal goal of increasing taxes on poor people is going well.
Of course they could reduce the threshold for GST on imports and apply it to all those Kogan phones imported from Hong Kong for example, among other things that would help companies that actually run the businesses in Australia. But even taxing $500 phones would tend to hit the wealthier people and the multinational phone companies instead of poor people and farmers.
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