Yes, sadly, and I live in Dunedin too - but I don't begrudge others getting out earlier than me if they're safe ... I can imagine for example say Waimate coming out of lockdown, with cops sitting on the roads out of town, and then Timaru with the cops ...
Of course there is already a big incentive - while a month is the nominal length of the lockdown it will be longer if the virus is still around. I expect some parts of the country to come out earlier than others, that will because they did the right thing ...
Some of us still remember the MOW as the enemy, damming our rivers ruining our lakes ... does no one still remember .... Way back up in Cromwe-ell Gorge Tons of co-oncre-ete they-ey will-ill forge All our farmland they will drown Right back up to Albert ...
My grandmother walked with a brace her whole life because of polio. I got a shot. i got rubella (german measles), I was kept away from school for a month, because everyone in NZ knew someone who knew someone who had had a child who had a birth defect ...
Yeah, that photo above, Woodhouse doing that WTF look
We still don't have a vaccine for SARS, the previous serious coronavirus outbreak (~20 years ago), it's unlikely we'll have a vaccine this year, maybe not even next. We have to plan on not having one, most of us will get it until we build up a herd ...
Or just use electric rail
Bridges thinks the solution to everything is "tax cuts" except when it's "more roads" An d yet these are two things that are mutually exclusive, you can't have both, you can have more roads and more taxes to pay for them, or tax cuts and drop roading ...
Given that the IRD just got rid of cheques it would be a CF, it would take months to get everyone's bank details down so that they could send the money (rather than a 2 day print/mail run of cheques)
Every Western Country does this, cherry picks bright students from 3rd world countries, educates them, and hopes they'll stay and boost their economy. I used to work designing chips in Silicon Valley, probably 1/3-1/2 of the people I worked with had come ...
We talked about doing it as a public service - the real trick though is to be able to produce something that the various councils will accept as a ballot
For years Dunedin had a proxy-National "Citizen's Party" who usually ran the council. They were an old-boys club, to run as a candidate you had to join them at one meeting and be nominated at the next, meetings happened every 3 years, unless they really ...
Here in Dunedin we get 40 people to rank - there's about 10^47 possible answers .... I'd like an online tool that helps me do the ranking: drag and drop with possible links to candidate's election material This is not online voting, because we'd still ...
Or simply give NZF Northland .... even though they've ruled that out for now it's really a late binding decision
Nope in a FPP election a governing party needs fewer than 50% of the votes to govern, not so for MPP where you need at least 50%+1 confidence and supply
You're asking the wrong question, should be: "which ones were National Party members at the time?" Simon is on tape admitting that he'd been to dinner at the donor's home, and was going to invite him over to his and had arranged a quid pro quo for the ...
Time to remind people that the WhaleOil clobbering machine was essentially for sale to the highest bidder - don't like some people who are doing science on sugary drinks? accuse them of horrible personal malfeasance by just making stuff up. Want to run for...
Well having trucking companies no longer externalising many of their costs allows us to have a more efficient transport system - a lot of stuff we send long distance today will likely end up going by rail - overall we'll all pay less (while end users may ...
I mostly agree, but I think that much of that can be mitigated by charging trucks their true road costs (something closer to 1000 times what a car is charged, depending on the truck's weight), as I mentioned above that's likely to move truck freight to ...
I don't have a problem with paying my share (ACC too). I do think that things like lowering the RUC to encourage people to convert (or in California allowing electric cars into car pool lanes) is a good thing, I don't mind taxing petrol or diesel to reduce...
I lived in California for 20 years, no WoF, but a yearly smog test, it's long past time we did the same and got the worst of the vehicles off of the road Dunedin diesel buses, I'm talking about you in particular). We bought a 2nd hand Leaf a month or so ...
It's been well known of for several years, essentially the smelter chose the lowest bidder to get rid of it, then washed their hands of it. The lowest bidder went bankrupt leaving it lying around Southland (I think at one point it was stored in several ...
What's interesting is that it might give Labour more control over Shane (especially if he's the guy who gets the seat, giving Winston space to retire)
This is a big gamble - essentially NZ First is made up of people who, back when we were a 2 party state, used to vote Labour and people who used to vote National . I think Bridges is gambling that by saying he wont do a deal with NZ First he can splinter ...
This money went into an electorate account - it may be the party's particular electorate committee, and more importantly their secretary (rather than the national one) who's on the spot here. In fact National may be avoiding a lot of the law by spreading ...
That's sort of part of the point, growing trees sequesters carbon, but unless you put it somewhere permanent it doesn't sequester it for ever, my 100 year old wooden house has done a good job of that, but it wont last forever, where will the wood go ...
(I haven't done the math for a year or so ... I may well be off a bit .... let's do it again) It's essentially high-school chemistry - the Hall–Héroult process does a mixture of these two reactions: Al2O3 + 3C -> 2Al + 3CO (and then 3CO->3CO2) 2 Al2O3 + 3 ...
Of course we should stop digging it up, we're burning the Amazon, but over geological time the earth has been burying biological carbon bringing us to the current (or rather geologically recent) equilibrium that we (and out culture/agriculture/etc) have ...
Was way worse than that on New Years days - a thick foreboding evil looking orange cloud - we had the lights on all day
I think that rail from Chch to Queenstown is non-starter - are you going to ruin the Kawarau Gorge? (like we ruined the Cromwell Gorge?) how will you get it over the Lindis? (or do you plan on shutting down the rail-trail so you can the old rail line back ...
IMHO they are now, the new (well second hand) Leaf arrives next week - most of our travel is around town, we don't need a long distance car
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