Korea manages it between Seoul & Daegu - it's cheap, faster than flying, and delivers you downtown. Of course the usual neoliberal clowns are incapable of even conceiving a decent, reasonably priced service. We simply cannot afford such raging incompetents...
If you had read it, you would have found that the applicable power law for NZ ranges from 4 to 6. That means that the relative damage caused by increasing axle weight from one tonne to 2 tonnes is between 16 and 64 times that caused by a one tonne axle - ...
This one in particular. We need less infrastructure talking heads and more old school engineers.
I did a bit of tramping in my younger days. One of the things I came across with some frequency was bush railways. One is not far from Saruman's tower in Glenorchy, where (of course) it was used for logging the nearby entwood. Barry Brickhill, the famous ...
I recall getting a pledge card with a handful of crap on it I neither needed nor wanted, and Labour voices claiming they'd under promised and over delivered. As a consumer of their services I would have characterized their performance rather differently.
I'm going to side with Clausewitz on this one - that military force forms a continuum with diplomatic efforts. China has been part of a diplomatic discourse about Taiwan for quite some time. Under Xi - the improperly appointed President for life - the ...
"In New Zealand heavy vehicles are charged for using the road based on the damage caused passing over the road. The current approach to charging has its origins in American research that found doubling an axle load increased the damage as a power function ...
Well of course not - neoliberals reproduce asexually by budding.
Rubbish. The lot of working people in NZ has been deteriorating for decades.
Ad is, I feel, only saying in public what our political sellouts to the trucking industry have been saying behind closed doors for decades. People like Richard Prebble, who didn't get a seat on the Mainfreight board for being a marvel of dexterity on the ...
No Joy for voters hoping for improvements in freshwater quality.
Look she was no Helen Clark, Thank God. After the black decade of the nineties, when voters held their noses and voted for the Rogergnomic betrayers in the hopes of even modest improvement, Helen did nothing.
I've a feeling that demilitarizing a sizable border zone will be Ukraine's only way to conclude the war - at least while Putin avoids defenestration.
By March this year New Zealand’s median sale price was down 13.9% on a year previously. In Wellington it was down 20.6% and Auckland’s was down 15.2%. Pain. Corporations feel no pain. Ditto speculators. NZ median house prices blew out in 2022 to an average...
As is generally the case with new law, I hope they approach the issues with decent prudence. We've seen some sketchy definitions of hate speech from time to time, and some of the want-to-haves associated with the Treaty are due quite robust rebuttal, ...
Oh I agree - but I expect that there are multiple sources available, and notice that tWiggle has not been moved to produce any to validate his or her assertions. This is characteristic of the gender identity arguments - not fact based - make claims about ...
It IS hate to associate clothes printed with rainbows with paedophilia. Is that a fact? The connection is weak, but real. It is weak because commercial entities in search of the pink dollar are omnivorously exploitive - their only link to LGBT & whatever ...
We're certainly in a dystopian reality, with little measurable action on our main social issues and mass low quality immigration having resumed to further stress our housing and infrastructure, all the while pushing climate targets further and further out ...
I think the Government played the largest role in that via mandates Tragic really - but I guess it puts you in line for a Darwin award.
Why bother creating a straw man? We know that online communities like 8Chan, Kiwifarms, and to a lesser extent Counterspin, played a role in radicalizing and provoking violence among people resident in NZ. Do you propose that such groups enjoy unlimited ...
Partly perhaps. But equally, a damning indictment of the weak and corruptible MPs that allowed the wholesale theft of public assets, and the weakening or removal of the prudent regulations that once constrained the incontinent greed of our lazy, ...
Mmm - I have a feeling that the policy is not inherently impossible - but it requires governments that pursue it to be both scrupulous and rigorous in preventing the growth of inequality. They simply did not live up to the required standards.
The arguments that underwrote the last thirty years of neoliberal fantasy were largely that 'lowering tax takes will grow the pie and increase society's wealth over all'. This has been comprehensively debunked in practice. It's time to try something that ...
Frankly, artificial intelligence is probably the only intelligence they have access to. It probably has more human qualities and charm than most of their MPs too. Luxon likely feels safer when it's rifling through the barbecue cutlery than when Nicola or ...
I believe the address was successfully disrupted. This seems to be an interview from earlier the same day.
I think she may prove less polarizing than Posie Parker, from the interviews I've heard. A good person perhaps, to progress the issues.
A viable population would be one that replaces its natural mortality, probably with a margin for losses from predation or accidents. The instances you chose rely on original sex - contemporary medicine is not up to performing gynogenesis in mammals as they...
Interesting. It looks like some attempt at fairness may be happening somewhere, but my perception of Stuff on this issue is that everything they print is in accord with trans activism preferences. I guess they're out of practice, but journalists are ...
Putting on my evil overlord hat here - I'm not sure why anyone would bother with a trans genocide - they are not a viable population.
'Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.' Terry Pratchett.
It's a dangerous world. I do hope Luxon takes no unnecessary risks with his shadow cabinet.
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