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This anti-union/anti-leftwing nonsense roars ignorance of everything (including fundamental shifts in capitalism and inequality right now) and immaturity.
Without the unions, your children would still be going into coal mines and you'd still be paid in tokens that you could only use to buy stale, obscenely priced products in your scumbag capitalist factory owner's shop. And you may dream on about fire regulations or any protections in work or to conditions of employment.
It's the rise of the labour movement - a movement whose members were beaten, starved and murdered in their opposition to the coalition of right-wing business people and slaveen politicians (a special Hello to John Bruton's heroes, the Home Rule party politicians who owned half the slums of Dublin at the start of the 20th century and were best pals in the 1913 Lockout with William Murder Murphy and the DMP) - which brought all the great social advances of the 20th century, from free healthcare to free education to social housing.
It is no coincidence that now that these things have been achieved people have decided they're not paying for union membership, unions are weaker, rightwingers are resurgent and society is more unequal than at any time since 1930. Good old Ireland, for example, will give low taxes to ultra rich foreign corporations, but screw Irish kids by reintroducing education fees. And this, we are told by the establishment media, is "progress" and "a necessary reform". In 2016, this pattern of "rob the poor to feed the rich" is screaming at anybody who'll listen. The penny is dropping very, very, very slowly on the significance of the current rise of the right (since the 1970s, but intensifying in recent years), the concentration of far more of the world's wealth in far fewer hands, and the extraordinary growth in generational inequality largely brought on by the removal of the state from providing social housing and facilitating house building. (it is, for instance, exceedingly unlikely that somebody born into a nice area in south-east Dublin will ever be able to afford to live in a similar house there, no matter how much more education they have than their parents)
This society owes its greatest debts to James Connolly, Jim Larkin, Liam Mellows, Peadar O'Donnell, Jim Gralton, Noel Browne and the other brave souls who stood against the repressive rightwing power of West Brit politicians/Castle Catholics and the RCC. It's not so long ago since the latter in the form of the Fine Gael-led Dublin City Council, refused to give Nelson Mandela the freedom of Dublin city as he was a "terrorist".
Christy Moore's finest son, James Connolly (Prosperous, 1972), dedicated to the great Woody Guthrie:
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[Deleted User] wrote: »This anti-union/anti-leftwing nonsense roars ignorance of everything (including fundamental shifts in capitalism and inequality right now) and immaturity.
Without the unions, your children would still be going into coal mines and you'd still be paid in tokens that you could only use to buy stale, obscenely priced products in your scumbag capitalist factory owner's shop.
It's the rise of the labour movement - a movement whose members were beaten, starved and murdered in their opposition to the coalition of right-wing business people and slaveen politicians (a special Hello to John Bruton's heroes, the Home Rule party politicians who owned half the slums of Dublin at the start of the 20th century and were best pals in the 1913 Lockout with William Murder Murphy and the DMP) - which brought all the great social advances of the 20th century, from free healthcare to free education to social housing.
It is no coincidence that now that these things have been achieved people have decided they're not paying for union membership, unions are weaker, rightwingers are resurgent and society is more unequal than at any time since 1930. Good old Ireland, for example, will give low taxes to ultra rich foreign corporations, but screw Irish kids by reintroducing education fees. And this, we are told by the establishment media, is "progress" and "a necessary reform". In 2016, this pattern of "rob the poor to feed the rich" is screaming at anybody who'll listen. The penny is dropping very, very, very slowly on the significance of the current rise of the right (since the 1970s, but intensifying in recent years), the concentration of far more of the world's wealth in far fewer hands, and the extraordinary growth in generational inequality largely brought on by the removal of the state from providing social housing and facilitating house building. (it is, for instance, exceedingly unlikely that somebody born into a nice area in south-east Dublin will ever be able to afford to live in a similar house there, no matter how much more education they have than their parents)
This society owes its greatest debts to James Connolly, Jim Larkin, Liam Mellows, Peadar O'Donnell, Jim Gralton, Noel Browne and the other brave souls who stood against the repressive rightwing power of West Brit politicians/Castle Catholics and the RCC. It's not so long ago since the latter in the form of the Fine Gael-led Dublin City Council, refused to give Nelson Mandela the freedom of Dublin city as he was a "terrorist".
Christy Moore's finest son, James Connolly (Prosperous, 1972), dedicated to the great Woody Guthrie:
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The words of a Townie :pac:
Emergency Services find them useful
Do they?
The system completely lacks any intuitive basis so when you hand an Eircode over in an adrenalin driven emergency situation the operator has no immediate way to determine if the information you are providing is internally consistent......or so my neighbour the paramedic tells me......
I think you mean that the politically appointed head of the national ambulance service is muted in his criticism of the system
I'm sure you won't mind if I take the word of a [unionised] practitioner with current experience of answering calls over the word of a desk jockey 0 -
Do they?
The system completely lacks any intuitive basis so when you hand an Eircode over in an adrenalin driven emergency situation the operator has no immediate way to determine if the information you are providing is internally consistent......or so my neighbour the paramedic tells me......
I think you mean that the politically appointed head of the national ambulance service is muted in his criticism of the system
I'm sure you won't mind if I take the word of a [unionised] practitioner with current experience of answering calls over the word of a desk jockey
Can they not just Google the eircode?
I can give my address as townland, town, county. Just like the postman, They ain't going to find me!
Private couriers same problem, with an eircode, no problems so far. Apart from an post who refused to acknowledge it.0 -
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Can they not just Google the eircode?
I can give my address as townland, town, county. Just like the postman, They ain't going to find me!
Private couriers same problem, with an eircode, no problems so far. Apart from an post who refused to acknowledge it.
Seriously, how would that work.....
"MY GOD!!! MY HUSBAND IS HAVING A HEART ATTACK"
"WHAT'S YOUR ADDRESS AND EIRCODE"
"I DON'T HAVE MY EIRCODE"
"CAN YOU GOOGLE IT?"
makes you wonder how ambulances found us before Eircode.......plus I just did a quick experiment and transposed two digits in the second part of the Eircode for my address (the Unique Identifier) - I put the '6' where '7' should be and the '7' where the '6' should be - the result was an address 25km away in a different county.
A simple postcode would've been better.......unless you were the consultants;)0 -
Seriously, how would that work.....
"MY GOD!!! MY HUSBAND IS HAVING A HEART ATTACK"
"WHAT'S YOUR ADDRESS AND EIRCODE"
"I DON'T HAVE MY EIRCODE"
"CAN YOU GOOGLE IT?"
makes you wonder how ambulances found us before Eircode.......plus I just did a quick experiment and transposed two digits in the second part of the Eircode for my address (the Unique Identifier) - I put the '6' where '7' should be and the '7' where the '6' should be - the result was an address 25km away in a different county.
A simple postcode would've been better.......unless you were the consultants;)
A simple eircode would have been better, I agree whole heartedly. I mean the emergency services to look it up, not the patient. If I ring and say my house, my street, g8t l0vr. They should be able to pin point my house
Ambulances etc were often sent on wild goosechases before eircodes. For example http://www.newstalk.com/Baby-dies--ambulance-goes-to-the-wrong-address0 -
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A simple eircode would have been better, I agree whole heartedly. I mean the emergency services to look it up, not the patient. If I ring and say my house, my street, g8t l0vr. They should be able to pin point my house
Ambulances etc were often sent on wild goosechases before eircodes.
Maybe you get us the Eircode of that new location you've shifted the goal posts to
If you have house and street why do you need Eircode? Is there likely to be more than 1 address exactly the same in the area ECAS routes the call to???
Originally you said the justification lay in the need for unique addresses in rural locations.....Can they not just Google the eircode?
I can give my address as townland, town, county. Just like the postman, They ain't going to find me!
Private couriers same problem, with an eircode, no problems so far. Apart from an post who refused to acknowledge it.
Again, makes you wonder how we got our post, our Amazon packages, ambulances and Gardai before Eircode?
Again, it was a good idea poorly executed.
EDIT: From the Examiner "However, one senior fire officer said: “As it is, Eircode is worse than useless. We were expecting that the postcodes would be incorporated into satnav systems to make our jobs easier but it appears to be a right waste altogether.”"0 -
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Maybe you get us the Eircode of that new location you've shifted the goal posts to
If you have house and street why do you need Eircode? Is there likely to be more than 1 address exactly the same in the area ECAS routes the call to???
Originally you said the justification lay in the need for unique addresses in rural locations.....
Again, makes you wonder how we got our post, our Amazon packages, ambulances and Gardai before Eircode?
Again, it was a good idea poorly executed.
Yes, it's the name of the townland covers i'm guessing, 100kmsq. There are loads of houses with the exact same address.
Post was and still is done on local knowledge, not eircodes.
Amazon etc. Until more recently, Mostly came through an post. Couriers now will work off eircodes.
Ambulances and Gardai, were regularly sent astray, I have given one eample. The Gardai used local knowledge, with the clousure of garda stations this is no longer the case.
Why so determined to be stuck in the past?0 -
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