Well it wasn’t long before the Ruddster became Jerk of the week, and what better reason than Climate Change. This line in Monday’s Crikey says it all:
The surrender is virtually complete. Our biggest polluters have won, and the rest of us will be paying for it under a joke of an emissions trading scheme that encompasses a significant transfer of wealth to our largest polluters.
Rudd was elected in no small part for his committment to climate change. A 5% reduction is about as pathetic as it gets. And to make matters worst the big polluting industries all get exemptions or subsidies, so what’s the point. The idea is to create an economic incentive to reduce your carbon emissions, this trading scheme doesn’t even come close.
Last week, when watching the 7:30 Report I was surprised to hear Rudd refer to “environmental extremists”. I thought at the time “there goes any chance of a half decent ETS”. Looks like I was right and he’s already had a good swipe at a pretty large group of people who see this for what is it: a pretty half arsed Emissions Trading Scheme.
And for that, you Mr Rudd, are Jerk of the week.
Really, he should have been first cab off the rank. For wanting to censor the internet, Mr Conroy, you are Jerk of the week!
Thankfully, according to this article:
And the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has written to critics saying that the so-called “live” trials would be “a closed network test and will not involve actual customers”. Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said this was a sign the Government was slowly backing away from the heavily criticised policy.
It was never going to work, it was a bad idea in the first place and should have been dropped as soon as it became apparent that the technology to do this just didn’t exist.
So the Melbourne City Council Elections are a bit of a fraud really. Residents get one vote, businesses in the City of Melbourne get 2… and that’s how failed State Liberal Leader became the Mayor of the City of Melbourne.
Fortunately I no longer live in the City of Melbourne, but the idea of putting cars back on Swanston st is about the dubest idea there is. So is creating cheap parking on the outskirts of the CBD. He thinks that too much city traffic is generate from people circling to find a park. What a joke, even the RACV, the most pro-car organisation there is, thinks it’s a bad idea.
So for being a right-wing, closed minded Mayor-elect, you are JERK OF THE WEEK!
An honourary mention goes to co-councillor Carl Jetter who was reelected on Doyle’s ticket who said the problem was cyclists, not cars on Swanston St:
“I am sick of being run down by cyclists again and again,’’ he said, calling for bicycles to use Russell Street instead.
* Yes I know it started off as Tool of the week but it’s my blog and I’ve decided to make it Jerk of the week.
At the end of October, with a little bit of excitement, I attempted to upgrade to the latest version of Ubuntu (Intrepid Ibis – or was that the last one.. or next one).
Anyway, half way through something went wrong. It stalled on something. I left it for about 2 hours but nothing had shifted. So I did the unthinkable, Ctrl + c. I canceled the installation.
Note to self – never cancel the installation.
So I was left with a laptop that had a lot of packages uninstalled or not working and when I tried to run the upgrade again it told me there was a failed upgrade and I could not proceed.
God damn it, this meant backing up my entire computer, doing a clean install, the copying all the files back. To make matters worse, I STILL don’t have internet at home. In fact I don’t even have a dial tone. Haven’t had one since 22 Oct (but only reported the fault on 5 Nov). That’s a story for another time and involves sheer incompetence on behalf of Telstra and iiNet, apparently I’m being compensated but all I want is an internet connection.
On Saturday I went over to Mum’s and went to town on her internet connection. Included in this was downloading the Ubuntu CD image, mounting it, then running the upgrade form the CD.
What do you know, works like a dream.
I sympathise with Alastair:
In many ways Ubuntu Intrepid is a little bit of a let down. Probably like many Ubuntu fans I remember the heady days of early Ubuntu releases when each one was so noticeably better than the previous. Each new release was like opening a pile of new birthday presents with no idea of what to expect.
I guess you just feel a little less like a frontier pioneer these days. But this is a good thing and a sign that Ubuntu has really come of age. To demonstrate this, I was particularly happy with two things:
The only thing left is bluetooth and the SD card reader, although I haven’t checked the card reader yet. However I did notice that suspention and hibernation are both pretty slick now.
Update: SD Card reader now works!!! Pretty stoked. The other one I have to test is the microphone – I’ve manged to get it to work before but it’s always been a bid dodgy.
