The rope attached to the anchor chain is called the "warp". Hence warping.
I can't believe how many (I don't know, shills?) there are about this.
I'm not American, I'm sitting out side, looking in, and watching the USA become a fascist dictatorship, and I'm terrified.
Every other democracy's right wing looks up to the USA for inspiration for their own fascist agenda.
If this all goes sideways from Americans, we're following shortly afterwards.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
It's ok, the the president can now just have them assassinated as a defence of the constitution.
It's not that the Bourne trilogy did so well, it's that the Austin Powers trilogy did so well. That took the comedy from Bond.
Good points.
Aluminium is notable as one of the few materials that is cheaper to recycle than mine and refine.
Not quite, IMHO, seeking the imaginary ideal of yesteryear is what conservatism is, everything new is bad. The right wing of any political system is regressive and also looks back to this same imaginary ideal.
Well. To Java that's just a string of utf-8 characters, assuming you haven't bastardised the encoding, and it's just yanked out of an HTTP entity. So of course they're different.
If you're using some json parser and object mapping library (like Jackson) then all bets are off 'cause it could be configured any which way.
On every other language and library it's whatever the defined behaviour is.
3/10
The thing that rubs me the wrong way is that it's not that #3 or whatever isn't recyclable, it's that it's not commercially viable to recycle it, as if burying it is somehow of more commercially viable.
It literally comes down to some penny pinching now at the expense of a few generations down the line having to deal with land fills.
It's only commercially viable to bury most of our waste because we exclude the environmental and intergenerational costs of doing so.
Part of their job is to respond to OIA requests.
That those requests might take effort is irrelevant, or at least considered by higher-ups before directing staff to assemble the OIA material.
The PhD had among the strongest reasons for her principal requests: research. That she felt that something was slightly off is relevant: if her requests have been responded to without proper care then her research is flawed.
She likey was looking for evidence that some of her requests were not properly responded to... instead she found a personal attack.
She looks like she's wearing a human suit.
It's a technicality. The parents have the authority.
There's no mention of the minor's choice.
"This is a problem throughout our country."
What in the actual fuck.
How cartoonishly evil does our government have to get?
This, along with Luxon's "I don't care..." about bootcamps from this morning, is just plain evil.
Perhaps, just roll with me here, we don't need another $10b of roads and could be happy with $9.9b of roads, so we could instead feed our most desperately poor and struggling citizens?
This is Captain Planet level evil.
This is a bit of a personal rant, so please read it with that bias in mind.
There's a weird culture of management arrogance at TVNZ. It's persisted over the last two and a bit decades of personal experience with the company, despite restructures and staff turnover.
It seems to manifest in two ways:
- distrust of staff, as in management not trusting their reports at the bottom of the hierarchy
- cognitive dissonance between what is and what should be
Consultation with staff for restructuring has never been genuine: the plans are always already made and the "consulting" is actually just "telling".
Planning for the future has always been an ivory tower exercise by management, apparently because management have the "overview" but then don't place any value on the worker's knowledge of the actual work. Staff know there's plenty of penny-wise pound-foolish bullshit work done "but it's the TVNZ way so keep doing it".
In this case there's one of two root causes:
- ineptitude: no one thought that they'd better check employment contracts for relevant clauses they'd negotiated
- malevolence: they did but chose to ignore them
Police estimate the harm from alcohol to be about $7.8 billion a year.
TL;DR:
- Alcohol $7.8b
- All illicits: $1.8b
- Meth: $0.365b
I wanted a figure for cannabis and found this from 2020:
> PDF https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/the-nz-illicit-drug-harm-index-2020-10-feb.pdf
- All illicits: $1.9b
- Meth: $0.824b
- Cannabis: $0.911
I notice that the per kilograms measure for harm is also useful to account for volume of usage, but think that per 'dose' would be better.
- Meth: $1.1m per kg with 743kg consumption
- Cannabis: $0.35m per kg with 58000kg consumption
These figures include 'associative crime' as harm. So it apparent counts the cost of buying it as harm, it also counts the tax loss of that expenditure, so IMHO it skews unfavourabley to higher expenditure. But put that aside.
These figures show that all illicit drugs combined are less harmful to society than alcohol, and tautologically the harm is inflated by illegality.
New research suggests even building a giant wall in the sea would not be enough to stop sea level rise stemming from two crucial Antarctic glaciers.
This is exactly why I made sure when buying my house/section that it was more than 5m higher than sea level and inland from the coast. Not that that will mitigate the societal collapse following the glaciers'.
The world might be able to geoengineer saving one maybe two glaciers. But not all of them, not Greenland's icesheet and not the entire Antarctic icesheet.
So, our government's "crack down on beneficiaries" also includes disabled children.
Apparently disabled people are, what? Leaches sucking the life out of the economy or something?
How long until disabled people have to "work" for their support? Or perhaps we should just put them on a train and take them to a "work camp"?
The announcement comes just two days after Newshub’s owners said its news operations on TV3 will end in June.
A quarter of a century ago TVNZ knew that "digital", or rather the Internet, was the way of the future. I know, I was there.
It created nzoom.com for those that remember it.
A decade ago, it was still a "broadcaster" with an adjunct "digital" presence with TVNZ Ondemand.
Only on the last few years has it started to truly operate "digital" (internet) first, I'm afraid that it might be too late and we see another newshub-scale catastrophe in the next few years.
Simeon Brown says "economic impacts" need to "count" alongside safety.
Alternative headline: National to spend $30m to sacrifice some of your lives so our trip is slightly faster.
> The changes have been endorsed by transport researchers and street safety advocates as effective measures to help reduce the number of Kiwis killed and injured on the roads.
That's all there is to it.