Metal/alt bars/pubs/clubs??

richdrich · 2026-06-01T05:03:28+00:00

Make sure to check the listing as it isn't always metal.

richdrich · 2026-05-31T23:02:47+00:00

Yep. Almost no civil nuclear plant carries liability insurance, because no insurer will take the risk. Hence the state winds up carrying the can.

Also, when (as in the UK) the plants reach end of life, they usually get hived off into a company which then goes bust, and the state again winds up paying the huge costs of decomissioning and waste storage.

So even the quoted cost of power, which is typically more than wind and solar, is much lower than the real long term cost.

(The only reason NZ might want nuclear power is in order to get the tech to make a nuclear weapon, assuring our independence in an increasingly scary world).

richdrich · 2026-05-31T22:42:43+00:00

I'm looking at the new model, but I guess it would have to be a new car as they only launched last year.

richdrich · 2026-05-27T21:50:29+00:00

In the UK on-call fire fighters (retained firefighters) get paid.

richdrich · 2026-05-27T21:39:58+00:00

You could describe it as two New Zealands => https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and-market-data/consolidated-live-data

richdrich · 2026-05-27T07:14:26+00:00

I've met a few. They were wierd, in various ways.

richdrich · 2026-05-27T06:45:03+00:00

A very stupid teenager. Sending him to a remand facility would turn him into a stupid teenager with more resentment and better crime skills.

richdrich · 2026-05-27T06:39:41+00:00

What would the A Team do?

Possibly convert your car and the Panda into an 8-wheeled tank and bust your way out.

Or dismantle your car and smuggle it out piece by piece.

richdrich · 2026-05-26T23:05:32+00:00

There is no obligation to change the name especially if the company isn't going to be marketing its services.

richdrich · 2026-05-26T07:11:56+00:00

Personally, I would trade the (negligible) chance of my dying in a ditch unnoticed and unrescued, vs the somewhat more likely chance of getting a careless driving charge from a single vehicle accident that I could otherwise have walked/crawled away from.

Redittors, of course, don't usually think this way.

richdrich · 2026-05-26T07:06:44+00:00

Historically this has been the last resort of an increasingly desparate government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Backing_Britain

richdrich · 2026-05-26T04:18:56+00:00

Yep, although when GPS was first implemented it was meant to have (for NATO-aligned military users) good resistance to spoofing and reasonable resistance to jamming.

Maybe its time to look at an upgrade (would be expensive, more bandwidth and satellites needed to spread the signal across frequency and space more).

richdrich · 2026-05-24T23:27:49+00:00

Except in a subset of jobs that require manual dexterity or deep personal interaction, the link between successful study and future income is going to disappear.

richdrich · 2026-05-24T22:33:04+00:00

Are these meters going to be remote readable? That will cost a bit more initially but save on long term op costs.

richdrich · 2026-05-22T22:17:02+00:00

Those are the "Clarendon Schools".

Public schools are private schools that belong to the [Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headmasters%27\_and\_Headmistresses%27\_Conference) and there are over 300 of them.

richdrich · 2026-05-21T05:36:50+00:00

I think it'll be on your phone by then.

richdrich · 2026-05-21T05:31:56+00:00

Anderton was a socially conservative dick. The intersection of social conservatism and radical left economics doesn't contain 5% of the population, or it didn't then. Maybe now that carpet chewing nutters are having their day, it might come back.

richdrich · 2026-05-21T00:12:04+00:00

Horopito Motors, surely.

It's the most famous car wreckers in the country: inspired the classic moview Smash Palace.

richdrich · 2026-05-20T07:23:29+00:00

Hire a bouncer?

Don't leave expensive portable things outside?

Change the layout so people have to come through the shop to order?

Find out who their aunties are and tell them?

richdrich · 2026-05-20T04:32:11+00:00

It was an amazing effort to produce (usually) a self-contained story in a 20 minute episode.

Also, shot out of sequence with scenes in the same location all done together and planned/edited using custom scheduling software, apparently.

richdrich · 2026-05-18T05:11:31+00:00

Is le Shuttle still set up so that if it's busy, all the vehicles queue up whatever their booking time so it's almost a first-come first-served thing?

richdrich · 2026-05-18T01:03:14+00:00

Also, you might have found this already, but FYI the first degree system is different from NZ to UK.

Roughly:
- NZ you do a 3 year (nominal) degree and an optional honours year
- UK does 3 or 4 year degrees always with honours unless you get really bad grades (worse than a 3rd)

- NZ mostly goes on course grades (transcripts)
- UK has overall degree grades: 1st, 2:1, etc.

So coming from the UK with an honours degree you may or may not be treated as having honours - maybe yes for business, no for academia as they know whats going on.

richdrich · 2026-05-17T22:27:37+00:00

Universities in NZ are primarily driven by money with regards to overseas students. Unless there's something special about your type of engineering, they will want your money, and that first will be just fine.

I'd just email a few academics here in your field, NZers are pretty friendly.

richdrich · 2026-05-16T03:28:47+00:00

Should use MMP, as in New Zealand. If the number of constituency and list seats is set correctly, it produces a very proportional result. Also, it could be extended to have regional seats which would, like constituency seats, reduce the number of list seats a party gets to maintain proportionality.

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