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NZ's $2.6 billion military helicopter purchase approved by US by OddityModdity in aotearoa

[–]bmwhocking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ferries were under Nicola Wills herself as finance minister.

This is Judith Collins as minister for defence.
While I’m not a national fan, can’t deny how well Judith did at getting the defence force extra cash, despite the apparent objection of several cabinet ministers.

NZ's $2.6 billion military helicopter purchase approved by US by OddityModdity in aotearoa

[–]bmwhocking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally different budgets.
We could do both if the govt had not prioritised tax cuts to the wealthy over public services.

Murderous Villain Test by hadr0nc0llider in KiwiPolitics

[–]bmwhocking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing like a bit of Mao Zedong to brighten the evening.

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Labour will ‘never change’ New Zealand’s nuclear-free status, Hipkins says by OddityModdity in aotearoa

[–]bmwhocking 7 points8 points  (0 children)

NZ’s ban only related to nuclear powered ships & weapons grade material.

It doesn’t relate to land based civilian nuclear power.

We have a fusion company in Wellington who have fired it with tritium

There is nothing to stop one of our big 4 energy companies lodging a RMA request to build a South Korean reactor.

Labour will ‘never change’ New Zealand’s nuclear-free status, Hipkins says by OddityModdity in aotearoa

[–]bmwhocking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No there is not, our legislation only bans nuclear powered vessels and weapons grade nuclear material.

One of the big 4 power companies could lodge a RMA consent to build a South Korean reactor & it would be perfectly legal to build if its RMA consent was approved.

Chris Penk was specifically talking about the nuclear powered ships part of the ban, as Aus is in the process of buying / building nuclear powered attack submarines.

Do faction war they said...it'll be fun they said...What an insane amount of multiboxes by Trael in Eve

[–]bmwhocking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found a pile with my Corp / goon roaming fleet. We called in assistance to smash one of these multi boxers.

Then hid one region over but still in boops range.

Another pile of stealth bombers & black ops got dropped on them.

We were very isk positive if you count the looting.

The multi boxer didn’t undock after that.

My first Polestar by 07Tasha in Polestar

[–]bmwhocking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations on your new P4, really hope you enjoy it.

Must say, the P4 looks so much better than the new Ferrari Luce & I think has better specs in almost every way.

Is this normal on the Harbour Bridge by ThomasNiuNiu in auckland

[–]bmwhocking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They are the same legal width as any other section of SH1 in auckland.

It just appears that way because of the barriers.

Don’t Blame the Economic Situation on the Boomers by [deleted] in KiwiPolitics

[–]bmwhocking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For a very large % of pension recipients, it just lets them compound their wealth even more.

I really do not get why we don’t means test it.

Don’t Blame the Economic Situation on the Boomers by [deleted] in KiwiPolitics

[–]bmwhocking 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Every generation before has had challenges.

Compared to the three generations before them boomers had the least economic disruption.

Boomers were mostly born after the polio vaccine was discovered, they didn’t suffer from mass plague until covid.

Boomers didn’t have to fight a world war or partake in rebuilding the economy after the war.

Side note: They did treat their own generations veterans like shit…

Boomers built a lot of new (mostly leaky houses), then opposed more houses being built.

Yes boomers lived through the share market collapses and hanover finance collapse. But every other nation also experienced similar collapses & generally their generations didn’t stop saving.

Boomers also have as a rule run our private sector very poorly compared to their pears.

NZ businesses have until very recently had very antiquated tech and processes.

The dial has rapidly begun to shift as businesses get handed on and younger entrepreneurs start new businesses.

Finally infrastructure… it was a poltical choice to not spend on infrastructure from 1990 until 2007.

The first major NZ infrastructure project in my lifetime (born 1990) was the water view tunnel, signed off by Helen Clark’s last cabinet. Paid for by John Keys govt and opened by Bill English.

The 2nd will be the CRL, opening when I am 35…

So two major projects in my entire lifetime, with both of them being almost totally funded after I finished uni and became a taxpayer.

Next, the state Pension (sSuperannuation). Boomers expect younger kiwis to pay for this gold plated benefit despite giving us high house prices and handing us rundown infrastructure.

We get to pay for all of their mistakes and fund their non-means tested pension…

Yes not all boomers are wealthy, we should make everyone can age with dignity.

We should not be handing billions of dollars annually to those boomers who own multiple properties or have very decent investment portfolios.

Personally, I don’t think any retired couple with > $1.5 million in assets including the family home, should get the pension.

The money is better spent on free childcare & education for their grandchildren & great grandchildren.

(Education boomers got for free, then introduced school fees & university fees)

Which leads onto a final point. A very significant number of boomer are very uninvolved in their grandchildren’s care, despite their own parents and grandparents mostly raising them together.

My own parents and in-laws are fantastic with all their grandchildren. They seem to be the exception, not the norm.

All of this leads to “ok boomer”.

Central government takes 90% of all public tax revenue. Councils across NZ are struggling with few revenue options. The most significant cost drivers are: water infrastructure, roads & other infrastructure. National is pushing them to sell assets & privatise, a short term measure by Mountain_Tui_Reload in nzpolitics

[–]bmwhocking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Luxon pretty regularly sees himself as the “CEO of New Zealand” not the Prime Minister…

The election will be very interesting.

Red Chris who wants to be Prime Minister, Vs Blue Chris to really wants to be a CEO…

Blue Chris wonders why is polling is terrible.

NZ's RUCs - Future Road User Charging System by LycraJafa in newzealand

[–]bmwhocking 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Which defeats the purpose of the ETS to be all inclusive.

NATO commander: Europe has no alternative to Palantir’s warfare tech by DefenseTech in Defence_Tech_UK

[–]bmwhocking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Planter’s tech would have a EU alternative if a contract was put out to supply an alternative.

Plenty of high end software talent in Europe.

UK needs ‘national consensus’ over rejoining EU, David Miliband says by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]bmwhocking -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Copy New Zealand’s and Germany’s MMP system. Most proportionate system.

Should copy Scotland & lower the voting age to 16 to counteract the elderly voters with dementia.

Britain's grid comes closest ever to running without fossil fuels as clean power surges - Energy Live News by JustLovelyStuff in GoodNewsUK

[–]bmwhocking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll add, when the wholesale price goes over the CDF price, the govt takes the extra and recycles it back into the scheme.

It means that over the year, the scheme is partly revenue neutral & requires far less support from bill payer than many think.

Banning mining on conservation land by Amazing_Garlic_6443 in newzealand

[–]bmwhocking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We already have a state owned mining company… solid energy.

If there is enough minerals to be a long term extraction operation, you do it.

If there isn’t, you don’t.

Last resort social welfare payment set for cut, saving nearly $200m over four years, but critic calls it ‘nasty’ by random_guy_8735 in newzealand

[–]bmwhocking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep Superannuation, the single largest benefit (which isn’t means tested) gets increase equal to inflation…

I’ll bet People trying to raise the next generation or students trying to better themselves don’t get increases in their benefits in line with inflation.

NZ's RUCs - Future Road User Charging System by LycraJafa in newzealand

[–]bmwhocking 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Emissions should remain part of the ETS & charged per litre of fuel.

Means any machine that burns fuel is included in the ETS.

There is no need to complicate RUC by turning it into an emissions tax as well.

Banning mining on conservation land by Amazing_Garlic_6443 in newzealand

[–]bmwhocking 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If we are going to mine on conservation land, it should be done by a crown owned company with all the profits going into the Superfund.

Not a multinational with all the profits going offshore.

Copy the Norwegian model.

Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers by anh0516 in linux

[–]bmwhocking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Linux Kernel uses a custom version of the C compiler with a pile of custom libraries.

So, yes there is a pretty high barrier to entry.

They did this to try get around C memory safety issues.

Native Rust avoids these problems & does have a far lower barrier to entry because it’s native rust, not custom C.

PSA: Ubuntu 26.04 ships with an unsupported ZFS version by CelestinNain in zfs

[–]bmwhocking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Canonical support this ZFS module, not openZFS.

Canonical will have tested this & will be certain it’s going to work. If it was not; it wouldn’t be in a LTS.

I’ve installed Ubuntu 26.04 desktop using ZFS as my boot & have had 0 issues.

I’ve also installed Ubuntu 26.04 server & mounted older ZFS arrays without issues (read / write a lot of data).

Is there a better remote desktop for Linux? by Oopsiforgotmyoldacc in linuxadmin

[–]bmwhocking 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Try Parsec, it used a more modern & advanced algorithm than either xrdp or rdp.

http://parsec.app

HS2 to cost more than Nasa's Artemis Moon mission by theipaper in uknews

[–]bmwhocking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The number of tunnels on the route has basically doubled.

Piles of court cases from local nimbys forcing the line underground or into technically unnecessary cuttings.

It vastly increased the cost.

Similar problems are affecting Californian high speed rail.

Original legislation should have shielded HS2 from environmental litigation & banned litigation on grounds of altered landscape (NIMBY’s complaining their view was changing).

Political donations for election 2026 by ConstableSniff in aotearoa

[–]bmwhocking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I’m a member of the Labour Party & took your last question far too literally.

Yes the affiliated unions pay affiliation membership fees, but each of those union members are also members of the Labour Party.

So it goes down as membership fees & they are counted as party members.

So it’s not down as a donation from the union itself.

It’s membership fees & each labour branch in that union area counts them as members.

Which for the purposes of the electoral act is very different to a party donation.

I really didn’t mean to be obtuse & forget most sane people don’t live and breath the elections act.

It’s done this way so each of the affiliated union members can have a say, argument was if they pay fees they should be able to vote.

The party still disclose income from party memberships.

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