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• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Sadly I was volunteered to trial Win 11 at work (because Win 10 will be a security risk before long). They asked this week if they could set me up, and I told them to wait until after year end...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Cadbury used to produce chocolate bars in NZ. Then one of the rounds of consolidating production of products meant that we get our bars from Australia (probably Tassie). However AU chocolate is spec'ed to tolerate higher retail temperate than the...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  What a fantastic time to announce a proposal for "the world’s tallest ‘glass and a half’ Chocolate Fountain" at a "real-life Willy Wonka-like attraction." https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/cadbury-chocolate-experience-would-be-a-tasmanian-tourism-game-changer/...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  The main NZ part of the international day-care sex-abuse hysteria was the Christchurch Civic Crèche case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ellis_(childcare_worker) At much lower states, our role-playing group at secondary school in the 1980's were aware of the satanic panic, and were prepared to...
• Commented on Finding true love in the cosmos
  Yes on the dusk mine search https://twitter.com/SmartUACat/status/1671924007866712066?t=O_bQFOI7OPXSZXS7Jx88jw&s=19...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  NZ has a significant number of 50ft flatdeck wagons, which used to allow 2xTEU and open their end doors to load (or have a genny added from the abattoir to the port). Now we have a bunch of country-specific 25ft...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  I imagine the POA on NZ flights are because the timing of your return will have a large impact on price. It is a somewhat thinner market than most, the film people tending to have their own....
• Commented on Place your bets
  British Colonial Government could be rather pragmatic. Terra nullis was applied because it could be at acceptable cost (for the gains). When settlers in NZ tried the same approach (with a sliver of a legal figleaf) they quickly met both...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Silver lining of NZ weather hits. The week after the intense Auckland event Cyclone Gabrielle came through, smashing the northern and southeastern parts of the North Island, a dozen dead, a few still missing, infrastructure destroyed etc. The airshow planned...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Another factor could have been a possibly damaged self-destruct mechanism going off in say a school....
• Commented on I can't even
  The gap in RAF maritime patrol capability was mitigated by sending Seedcorn crews to multiple allies including the RAAF and RNZAF. The concept continues with AWACS - it's a bit more extended than a simpler change in aircraft type (eg...
• Commented on Roe v Wade v Sanity
  I understand the preference is now Enslaver's Treasonous Rebellion? To show where the responsibility for circumstances lies....
• Commented on Bad news day
  Cases in NZ are skyrocketing because we decided to delay border opening a couple of months in order to get most people boosted before they were exposed to Omicron (plus starting juvenile vaxing in January) . This was successful, with...
• Commented on Omicron
  In New Zealand, non-squeamish drivers swerve to hit (Australian, bovine-TB infected) possums as a service to the community....
• Commented on Omicron
  I'm somewhat relived that my 80yo mother got her booster this week, as I expect that Omicron will breach the NZ border sometime this summer (probably in the next few weeks). I am strongly encouraging her to stay with us...
• Commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
  A person in the group of about a dozen waiting our 15 minutes after Pfizer had to be gently assisted from his chair to the floor for a short lie-down. Was an extra 15 minutes wait for me as the...
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  NZ attitude to healthcare in general is not great, our ICU ration is even worse than Australia's. This is a major reason the politicians were convinced of the elimination approach relatively early. We have flagged no more lockdowns after this...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
  In NZ, Mobil's pay-at-pump solution is an app that geo-locates the station that you are at, you enter pump number & max$, then authorise payment to unlock the pump. No card reader on-site needed, although the station I use most...
• Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
  As I shared on Twitter https://twitter.com/WhySharksMatter/status/1365391528923967493 @WhySharksMatter Hey friends? If you see one of your friends or colleagues getting the vaccine when you're not eligible yet and you're the same age, consider that they may have medical conditions you're not...
• Commented on A Quick Infomercial
  Weight and balance calculations are part of any aircraft pre-flight checks. Get either aspect wrong enough and you will be in trouble. When you are near limits or have small sample sizes you have to be more precise, otherwise you...
• Commented on A Quick Infomercial
  I've taken a DC-3 to a couple of airshows here in NZ, involving mutli-hour flights. Everyone is weighed, and the briefing included "If you purchase bottles of wine at any of the fine vineyards in the area, please report to...
• Commented on Covid on Mars
  "Airline trade association IATA is working on a secure mobile phone based solution that interfaces between passengers, their passport plus health data, labs, and airlines." https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2021/01/27/inside-iatas-verified-covid-testing-vaccination-app/...
• Commented on What happens now?
  Yes, the tour at Waitangi gives examples of up to three pronunciations for some places, as well as differing vocab for some things - which is great for raising awareness for international visitors or those who's education is out of...
• Commented on What happens now?
  apparently both the UK and US pronounce it "marry". While spending 4 years living in the UK South East, I can't remember any particular issues with Brits saying Maori, but you constantly deal with a vowel shift anyway. There is...
• Commented on Submarine coming through!
  It's not in the harbour, it's outside! (Just) My mate the geo-physicist noted that Rangitoto was atypical activity for the Auckland Volcanic Field. A last hurrah, or the start of a new phase? Hang on, scratch that last bit, earlier...
• Commented on Submarine coming through!
  At least the new exclusion zone around Mt Ruapehu's crater lake (central North Is NZ, just south of the big lake formed by an eruption 26,500 years ago) doesn't reach as far as the popular path over the adjacent mountain,...
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  JBS @377 If you mean convert mm to inches or inches to mm, I don't even have to search This is in the context of recipes, so linear distance probably only relevant for tin size, and the level of precision...
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  If you don't know how to search for '$StatedMeasure as $DesiredMeasure' and evaluating the multiple results nearly all to tools giving the same answer, you aren't making full use of the modern world :-)...
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  Right, I was aware of sticks as sub-units of NA butter....
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  Apparently many Brits have an issue with the concept of tea/tablespoons in recipes, because they vary so much. The answer of course is the measuring spoon sets that are easily available everywhere that commonly use them in recipes! I'm converting...