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... oops nearly fell off my chair
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OK I'll take the bait.
What has Justin Trudeau been up to or is it Scott Morrison?
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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Justin Trudeau - Our hot PM[^]
I can't find one of ScoMo, but I could probably find you one of Abbot in a pair of budgie smugglers.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The democratic process in the republic dictates that anarchy and tyranny remain low so that the community can participate in a federal election rather than be totally controlled by the oligarchy so as to elect a new monarch for the next 4 years, or so we all hope and pray for.
There - I referenced all 10.
Government Types[^]
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Hand this man a beer.
...before he opens his mouth again and gets really dangerous
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You get the government you deserve.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Yes, and please include your home phone number in the "forum rules" section
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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In the same vein as "false-economy", but in regards to progress -- "false-progress".
Such as, "We haven't written the code, but we created a branch for it!"
My boss is just so intent on "showing progress" even when none exists.
He: We need to develop a faster-than-light ship by the end of the year.
Me: That's impossible.
He: We just have to show progress.
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If there isn't, might I suggest "faux-gress"?
Edit: Damnit, someone beat me to it!
Urban Dictionary: Fauxgress[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That isn't quite this, but I hadn't heard it.
I'm also trying to avoid things which inhibit actual progress, such as "My pants are still in the dryer, but I put my shoes on!"
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We don't know what it is, but we know a lot of things that it isn't.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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False economy means cutting costs now but causing it to eventually cost more.
Potemkin village[^] might be closer to what you're looking for, but it doesn't quite seem to hit the mark.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: In the same vein as "false-economy", but in regards to progress -- "false-progress".
Usually replaced by "We've appointed a committee"
Also, "meeting notes", q.v. *
If copious, please forward to Richard MacCutchan . . .
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"We've assembled a Tiger Team to review the requirements..."
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Fake Progress, or Show-off Progress, or Pseudo Progress.
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Doesn't "imaginary gains" come close?
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Oh there's tons of things you can indicate as progress:
1. meetings
2. phone calls
3. architecture diagrams (all done on a whiteboard conveniently erased by the next meeting room attendee)
4. planning - this is a great one. Planning documentation, planning unit tests, planning integration tests, planning UAT, planning planning.
5. requirements gathering
6. requirements review
7. Gantt charting
8. resource scheduling
9. tooling
10. database setup
11. test environment configuration
None of those things actually needs to have been done!
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: My boss is just so intent on "showing progress" even when none exists.
How about making it a simple portmanteau word: showgress.
(I had thought about 'congress' as in pros and cons)
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I think Big Brother has a registered trademark on showgress, along showmance, etc.
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True story: "We haven't released anything in 2 years, but we have 500 unit tests!"
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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For some reason, a far-too-large segment of the population if most nations, regardless if they're politically left, right, centrist, religious fanatic or agnostic, believe that trying to avoid the spread of COVID (or in the fullness of time, something new) by taking precautions crushes their liberties. That they (and their families) somehow are not going to get infected. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Maybe if someone will just get them to understand the simple truth of the situation. No matter what your beliefs, bacteria and viruses do not discriminated:
They see us as food
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modified 3-Nov-20 10:28am.
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Worse: we are a huge "orgy room" for them to breed in, as well as a food supply!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's not helped by the press - who as soon as any announcement is made, go out of their way to find someone who disagrees and put them on prime-time TV news endlessly. If they ask enough people, of course they can find some idiot who disagrees! Do I really need to know what some random 83-year-old woman thinks about lock-down?
Sadly, the news these days is delivered up by people who shouldn't even be working for a provincial newspaper. It's cheap, shoddy, blinkered 'journalism', more interested in pouring petrol on the flames than providing us with facts.
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5teveH wrote: providing us with facts. You probably very old, if you still remember the days newspapers used to deliver facts...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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