Posts by tokai 14 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jan 2018
Newspapers are experts on deliberately making click-bait headlines like this to gain attention.
Headline: “Expert reports on bananas causing cancer”
Article: “They don’t”
Headline: “x hates y”
Article: “x denies they hate y after repeated rumours”
I’d be very surprised if this wasn’t completely deliberate, yet they’ve reversed once found out (once they’ve received the advertising intended from this marketing exercise)
If you ignore all the usual benefits, two major ones I found (tend to drive below 100miles) were:
- I almost never have to visit a petrol (charging) station again (they're not particularly pleasant or a good use of time), I just plug in at home or work
- The cars are much more relaxing to drive (quieter, smoother, no obvious gear changes etc)
I think another question might be has there ever been a successful *Public sector" ERP deployment...
The business cases and efficiencies always seem based on the relatively stable and process driven areas of manufacturing, logistics and industry, however they never seem to cross-over well to public health, councils, social housing etc.
No fan of the government’s handling of this, but New Zealand comparison is a red herring.
Due to their unique/isolated ecology, Biosecurity has been number 1 in their culture for decades with well funded organisations (DOC etc) and protocols (bag checks, cleaning procedures etc) already in place at airports.
More importantly, the risk of an outside agent destroying their environment has been taught at schools etc for a long time and hence Biosecurity/the impact of a pandemic was already part of the public psyche/no behaviour change needed.
It’s great what NZ have achieved, but they were starting from a very different place to the U.K. (we still b***xed it up).
To be fair... the NZ PM has done a great job, but it’s a very very different case.
Due to the issues of NZs unique environment, the country was already well aware/prepared for how an outside agent could destroy their country (and had experienced some detriment through funguses, possums etc) with very well funded Biosecurity organisations (and the DOC etc) already in place pre Covid, already conducting checks/disinfections at airports with well rehearsed plans.
More importantly, the NZ people have had the Biosecurity risk to their country drummed into them since school, so there was far less behavioural change needed to comply with covid restrictions.
Not at all a Tory/Boris fan, but the NZ comparison is not fair.
Until voice recognition can reliably identify individuals, it would be cool if you could name each device locally.
I.e. if I say “Alexa” or “Siri” it only gives me very basic guest type access.
However I’d I say “AmazonMcSpyFace” instead it sort of salts my following voice command, giving me higher privaledges.
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of these, they possibly already allow this.
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