Usually I use sales@company.com so that they get their own spam.
It didn't work when I entered why@example.com before posting. It did afterwards when trying a single use address.
Either way, I got the fonts, but not the spam. Hooray!
Nakba
First time encountering this term, so for those also like me:
The term is used to describe the events of the 1948 Palestine war in Mandatory Palestine as well as the ongoing persecution and displacement of Palestinians by Israel.
Exactly what I'll be doing.
That's a really nice font.
They can fuck right off with the email registration for downloading it.
Usually I respect the honesty more than the subterfuge.
But when it's Nazi's. Nope. Wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.
I've known someone responsible for the accidental death of another, it screwed them up entirely, permanently.
I have complete and unconditional sympathy for both these people.
Not quite. But sorta, yeah.
Learning to "not fuck with it" or ways to do so and rollback are valid lessons themselves.
Being able to segregate "production" and "development" environments is very valuable.
100%
The alternative being variations on:
Hi my name is [redacted], I have [X] years experience.
Please run
sfc /scannow.You can find more help at [Irrelevant KB URL].
Please rank me 5 stars.
Ticket closed
Theoretically one could also prohibit rebooting.
IIRC kexec is pivot_root but for the kernel.
Queensland: Gold coast and sunshine coast
NSW: manly (Sydney)
West: Perth
There are probably better ones but I'll have to defer to locals.
Anything you need to buy is more expensive than anything you already have.
Especially if youre worried about power costs.
Reuse wha you have, replace when you need to.
I smell a scapegoat.
And not encoding any data. Well a laser pulse is kind of datum.
They are introduced in NZ and have destroyed the native bird populations.
We trap and hunt them here.
That's exactly the kind of scenario I can buy into.
Especially the communications: couriers become the norm again. In-system lightspeed comms are feasible, but interstellar? You'd better send a package that hard way.
I especially like the gravity constraint. Iain M. Banks' novel The Algebraist works on a similar principle. Pairs of portals can be created, but you need to po physically tow the other portal to its destination in real space/time.
Distance. Almost every SciFi completely fails to represent distance even remotely closely.
This isn't a gripe about FTL, it's a gripe about non-FTL! Fancy FTL avoids the problem.
Star trek does it quite well in most cases, it takes days at warp foo to get anywhere. Voyager took years.
New Star wars butchers it; e.g. The Mandalorian episode with the no lightspeed/hyperspace plot device: oh no it took hours/days to get between star systems. Days! Imagine taking days to travel unfathomable distances!
New Dune (KJA's books) inexcusably get it wrong. Claiming that "slow" travel between systems took months.
The mote in God's eye does it extremely well with its pairs of jump points (shoutout to Mass Effect here too). Sometimes it's quicker to use a jump point to another system, crawl to another (nearer) jump point and then jump back to the first sytem rather than crawl directly across the original system.
It takes light very long time to travel across our solar system, let alone interstellar distances. It's like these writers have never even considered how long a container ship on earth takes to travel and still be viable.
The adoption agency says the dog could not be called a rescue or used for anti-racing activities.
Well, at least one person in the Greyhound racing industry is an awful person: Rachel Rae in this case.
Hekia Parata has told a select committee the bill is "unnecessary" and a waste of resources and tolerance.
The article itself is poor, as it cherry picks just parts of some of the submissions, but there's an interesting point glossed over which is not well known.
> Julian Batchelor - representing Stop Co-Governance - made his submission using a presentation on the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing there would be no need for Treaty Principles if the "true, bonafide, English final draft of the Treaty was in the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975."
Emphasis mine. I find it ironic that Batchelor thinks that a draft should be enshrined in law and that they've implicitly acknowledged that an original English version doesn't exist.
There is no actual final English draft of the Treaty, at least if there was one it has been lost to time. It's accepted by historians that Hobson, Busby, and Henry and William Williams assembled the several drafts they had between them on the evening of 5th Feb 1840. The Williams' then translated (which took all night, literally, they finished at sunrise on the 6th) Te Tītiti and deliberately used the transliterated term kawanatanga (governorship) introduced by the missionaries for use in the New Testament rather than rangitiratanaga (sovereignty) because they all knew that no chief would sign away their rangitiratanga (or arguably believe they could surrender it). Hobson, Busby and the Williams' were particularly concerned that Māori be spared the experiences most British colonial natives had in the past.
Te Tīriti was then translated into English and these two documents were sent back to the crown.
That didn't take long.
From the shitty article, it's not clear who manages that list and gets to expand it. Is it the police or parliament or the judiciary? Also, no exploration of what the police want to add to the list.
Hopefully it's just low level gangs that don't make the national news headlines... but part of me suspects that it'll include any anti-establishment groups like Greenpeace and SAFE and the Palestinian flag any iwi and anyone else critical of the government.
Edit: sigh, I guess I have to word that second paragraph better. Try applying the lesson in this poem and see if you think this legislation could be expanded andused in a similar fashion t events it describes:
> First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— > Because I was not a socialist. > > Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— > Because I was not a trade unionist. > > Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— > Because I was not a Jew. > > Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
We're at the first stanza, except it's "gangs".
They have pleaded with the ACT leader to stop what they say are abusive violations of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
> One said Māori were like seagulls: if you feed them "more come - and then they start crapping on you."
> Another said that over the years there'd been a "self-serving reinterpretation of the Treaty to benefit the Māori elite".
> Yet another reckoned that before Pākehā brought colonisation and war Māori "were killing each other anyway".
> There was talk of what percentage of Māori ancestry should count, and an assertion that Prime Minister Christopher Luxon wasn't brave enough to investigate Māori organisations with charity tax status.
Holy fucking shit. I hope that even Seymour might have winced at these comments.
A right wing politician speaking to a room of rich white racist retirees who think the natives are too uppity and need taking down a peg or two; if ever there was a generation who I wish would just shuffle off this moral coil.
"Overwhelmingly, those people who die will be young Māori men," the spokesperson for People Against Prisons Aotearoa says.
Oh FFS.
Regardless of the racially charged headline... the only reason to arm police with sidearms is to make it easier for them to kill people extra-judicially. That's the only function a side arm has.
Police already have easy access to firearms in their vehicles.
Apparently 68% of police see Judge Dredd as an idol.
Heaven forbid the media helps people practice democracy, the article's author/editor has no interest in providing a link to the petition, so here it is: https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/kati-stop-the-introduction-of-the-treaty-principles-bill
Interestingly it was already submitted to parliament with 203,653. As of writing it's up to 284,911.
Amusingly one of the figures from the article is a comparison to ACT's votes: 246,473. One might argue that any claim by Seymour of a "mandate" are dubious.
The image in the article shows a car blocking the footpath.
Every person complaining in this article was actually blocking the footpath: because they don't think the kerb crossing is footpath they think it's their driveway, I imagine it's the same for the berm crossing that is actually public property too.
> a vehicle parked alongside any part of a kerb crossing provided for a driveway or within 1m of the prolongation of the side of a driveway must be regarded as obstructing entry or exit.
It's endemic where I live, I assume it's the same everywhere.
I do however agree that the council should probably have advertised that they were going to start actually enforcing the rules.
I get it, storage of your vehicle is more important than everyone else's use of the roadway.
There's "all the perks you can think of" - but no applicants.
Then it's not a $40/hr job!
> Careers NZ says there is a shortage of plumbers and those who are experienced can earn more than $53 an hour.
Right there, the final paragraph of the article.
A memo sent to all nursing staff in Waikato was clearly aimed at Indian, Filipino and Pasifika nurses, a doctor says, while nurses say it "reeks of systemic racism".
This is the thin end of the wedge. Whichever racist PoS manager at TWO whom sent this is simply emboldened by our current racist PoS government. It gets worse from here.
Objectively, even to the stupidst person, that a distressed patient and stressed nurse will be most effective when using a shared native language in interactions with the patient.
Communication with the rest of the staff obviously should be in the common language.
It's extra stupid because while we can assume a nurse has competency in English there's no guarantee the patient or patient's support does.
Some South and West Auckland liquor stores fear they could lose up to 40 percent of their business under new liquor sale rules.
Yes. That's the point.
Liz Whiteside, 71, has written to all seven regional councillors and chief executive Darryl Lew, taking them to task over soaring rate bills.
> I don’t agree with throwing money away on a service I am not receiving.
Ah, yes. That argument. She's fine with other people paying for her superannuation though.
Alternative headline: Pensioner Benefits Whole Life from Unsustainably Low Rates
A special fuck you to these kinds of people.
Action is desperately needed as power companies profit while growing numbers of manufacturers and households power down, commentators say.
Remember when we were told that privatisation of power generation would lower prices?
First Person - When he walked into the prison yard for the first time as a teenager, having never been there before, Dr Rawiri Waretini-Karena already knew most the men in there.
This is a somewhat challenging read but important enough a topic to read with an open mind.
IMHO The author should have explained what traditionally happened to child abusers: probably ostracized from the hāpu or just outright killed (utu).
I take issue with the article's assertion that it's a "sneaky payrise" as if it's somehow dishonest.
I've done this before after accumulating several years worth of leave due to a previous employer having strange ideas about project management and the mythical man-month.
I suppose I was kind of pressured into it, but I also liked having a pseudo-bonus that year.
The current spending plunge is the worst in decades, data shows.
Oh, is that the sound of a free market correction?
Is NZ oversupplied for retail? No, it's the consumers who are wrong.
"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"?