On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:19:54PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Ben Jensz wrote: > [... dude, please learn to quote] > > And neither do Air NZ, or Virgin Blue/Pacific Blue, have international > flights to Dunedin. > > All require an additional flight to Dunedin, whether it be from > Christchurch (the closest international airport), Queenstown > (one route from Sydney, via Air NZ), Wellington or Auckland. > > Mind you, if you've got heaps of money, and, don't mind the 16-20 hours > of travel, that it is expected to take to get from Perth to Dunedin, the > conference may as well be in Europe or Africa, for the proximity to > Perth, and, the cost. Given it only takes 24 hours to travel to London, of all places, are you really sure it's going to take virtually a day of straight flying to get to New Zealand, which is just next door? > I expect that people from the NT, would have similar problems, in > attending a conference in Dunedin. Yeah, and people from Tassie, Victoria, et al, had problems in getting to Perth. You can't please all of the people, all of the time. > Oh, and, don't forget, for those that do not already have a passport, > that is an extra hundred dollars (plus photo's, if you need them done), > to add on to the conference costs, the GST's (NZ GST on the conference > fees, and Australian GST on the Australian components of the fees, and > on the NZ GST and on the NZ components), the air fares, the > accommodation, the international travel insurance, which would need to > include international medical insurance, etc. Air fares and accommodation are reasonably core components of any conference, dude, and last time I had 4 passport photos done, I paid the kingly random of $10 (by comparison, beer is about $6/pint, so just drink that little bit less), and you have to pay .au GST on LCA's in Australia. I don't think taxes will be any problem whatsoever. As for international insurance, you can get it if you want, but no-one's slamming it down your throat. Passports are really the only avoidable stumbling block - I'd personally prefer not to have to shell out an extra $180, but if I get an international holiday while I'm there, why not? > Why not just buy a Windows Server 2003 multi-user licence, or RHEL3 and > SAP? It would be cheaper, apparently, than attending such a Linux > conference. You're more than welcome to. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> "The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_, available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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