The problems of loosing root.

lprent still reeling about not having root access to the server his blog is hosted on takes out his frustration by letting beta version 'authors' loose on the world. His latest catastrophe is Zetitic.

It's probably safe to assume that the name Zetitic stems from Zetitic Philosophy which is defined by Tom Bishop (notably a flat earth proponent) ;

"The Zetitic Philosophy is an exercise in skepticism to come to the absolute truth of a matter. It's a form of Empiricism in which all possibilities are assessed, facts collected, where the conclusion arrived at is essentially a quotient; which, if the details are correctly worked, must of necessity be true, and beyond the reach or power of contradiction."

Well, lprent has a lot of work to do, all Zetitic has done is tried to confuse the behaviour of Labour with the behaviour of business. Just 3 word substitutions unravels the opening paragraph.

"Our glorious business Labour party leaders spent the last 10 years of record growth pocketing wasting huge profits and whinging for against tax cuts. They should have been investing in our economic future. We’re meant to buy this myth that these are the smartest men in the room. Most of them can’t understand something as simple as climate change or that booms don’t last forever. They’re anti-intellectual, greedy, and shallow."

Zetitic makes some sense when he starts talking about Air NZ, his point about CEO's getting big pay rises while workers get buttons is one I have discussed on the standard before. Apparently it's OK for the PM to get a 9% ($30,000) pay rise while the public service needs to fight for 3% - but it's different when it's a CEO in "business".

Zetitic finishes well, 1 more substitution was all it took to discuss Labour's final years of government.

"They treat our country like a Chinese bear’s gall bladder. They milk us all they can without actually making us collapse. Billions a year sucked out of our economy in return for inferior quality bank social services.

So what do we do about it? Buggered if I know… tax cuts?"