It's kind of hard to declare an explicit swing from Liberal to Green (or any swing) in Oz because of the way that preferences work there - in particular who comes 2nd vs. 3rd in the initial vote may determine who wins - in the end it's really just FPP-lite...
We used to have a 39% tax rate, National got rid of it and increased GST to 15% claiming that it would be neutral, or course it was really a regressive tax on the poor used to fund a giveaway to their rich mates. Let's undo National's jiggery-pokery, ...
Are you saying that getting arrested for breaking the law is a violation of human rights? well let's empty out all the jails then Like many people here I've been arrested for protesting real things (not imaginary conspiracy covidiot stuff) in the past, ...
And remember for a virus to replicate it needs to take over the internal workings of a cell, make copies of itself and then destroy the cell to release them - this is by far the main cause of damage to your body from infection. Covid is a disease of the ...
Yeah I couldn't remember if it's an RNA or DNA virus which is why I said "DNA/RNA" - the point though is bthat without that b it to take over the workings of a cell a spike protein alone doesn't destroy a cell ( might block a receptor)
The main difference that without the viral payload (the DNA/RNA required for reproduction) a spike protein by itself doesn't take over a cell and result in its destruction
This is OK if you live in Auckland, but I live in Dunedin - how would I come back from a biz trip and self isolate for 10 days at home without spending a bunch of hours in an airport or on a plane sharing my potential virus? Probably the best thing I could...
My cat only uses her microchip to command the cat door to open
Not only that, the 1956 health act was written by a bunch of old men ..... who had been young men who had come back to war to live through the Spanish Flu .... they had real practical experience of a major pandemic, they saw it all play out and when they ...
It's too early to tell, omicron has been around for 2-3 weeks - for delta it takes a week or two to make it into hospital, then a few weeks to die, such is modern medicine, we really don't know yet how good or bad omicron is going to be. Saying that it's ...
"Still looking for the next National PM"
They now have a strong caucus? their caucus hasn't changed, they're just moving the deck-chairs around
Rather than having charlie on the money I think we should simply switch to the "governor general is elected by 2/3 of parliament" rather than appointed by some foreigner with advice from the govt. Probably some additional parliamentary procedure should be ...
Where? Wind, solar, geothermal, the tide that rushes thru Cook Straight lots of sources - but before we deal with aircraft let's start by taking the power from Tiwai and use it to shut down some coal and gas fired generation. There are also efficiencies we...
I'm actually happy with this system, I have preexisting conditions (more than one) and even though I'm double vaxxed once there's covid in my community I'll largely be staying home (back to level 3/4 for me). What will be great about this scheme is that ...
It was also common at the time for maybe half of teenagers to leave highschool at 15-16 (during or end of 5th form), we used to have whole schools just for warehousing them and teaching them non-academic skills (Queens High School was a more 'academically'...
I'm pretty sure you're wrong, Muldoon has been cloned, full boys-from-Brazil style - there are 4 of them already in parliament, bullet headed balding 50-something white guys - one has already had a go at being dear-leader, Luxon is the 'taliban' candidate ...
It's worth remembering that that health act was written by a bunch of old men who remembered (as young men) bringing back the Spanish Flu from WW1 - they wrote a strong act putting the medical community in charge of future pandemics, not the politicians. ...
I think that Israel is not really a particularly good example to draw any conclusions with - it's an apartheid state with large portions of its population not being vaccinated by the govt. In reality the current round of vaccines do provide respite from ...
It's not really the storage, more you need to be able to tolerate a wider range of operating levels so you have the room to run things up and down again (you have to do this even more for bespoke pumped hydro systems) - I'd rather we don't ruin more of our...
It is similar I'm proposing that we put the wind NEXT to the hydro, and share the transmission infrastructure and not incur extra losses across the strait. First step to handling future energy needs is to shut down Tiwai (the smelter is responsible for 1% ...
No, this is like pumped hydro without the pumps, and the extra lake. Also the pumping operation is not 100% efficient unlike just letting the lake fill. The one downside is that you have to tolerate a wider range of lake levels in the existing lake, but ...
We need wind co-located with hydro - then add more hydro generating capacity, let the lakes fill when the wind blows and empty faster when it doesn't - this is cheaper, more efficient and doesn't flood more valleys than pumped hydro
Yes, she wants everyone to mass debate
The act describes an "artistic work" as a made object and distinguishes it from literary, dramatic, and musical work and expects that these lat 3 might be performed (unlike and "artistic work"). The definitions of a dramatic work is left open though the ...
A few years ago I was pissed off by the police saying they were trialing facial recognition software without any public discussion so I publicly declared the rest of my life to be "performance art". Now under section 171 of the copyright act everyone who ...
Bullshit - our 2nd hand Leaf cost under $20k (would be under $17k after this change) - try counting the number of Leafs on the road compared with Teslas - must be 50 to 1 (since I see lots of Leafs every day and see maybe one Tesla a year) - this bullshit ...
The different of course is that other industries pay tax on their profits
The difference between level 1 and level 2 is pretty minimal - more than 100 people at events (no one is going to fill a stadium in 24 hours much less 30 minutes) and the rules for servers in restaurants change in ways that can be changed in 30 seconds - ...
You mean all the clothes with all the zips thing - only real dicks need more than one fly
As someone who doesn't live in Auckland and doesn't listen to AM radio why is this guy relevant?
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