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Posted by: harm_less - 13-08-2023, 06:30 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics
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Finally a political party has seen the light (pun intended) and intends to incentivise the uptake of domestic PV solar uptake. We have seen EVs subsidised over the past few years by way of the Clean Car Discount system but as EV numbers grow we have seen little to support the added electricity demands of charging those vehicles on both a household and grid capacity basis.
Apart from the financial benefit to individuals, including landlords, in adding a few PV panels to their dwellings the environmental advantage of removing demand from our grid which is presently contributed to with thermal generation overall this is a well balanced policy.
https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1690498505465585664
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| Maui fires |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 13-08-2023, 03:20 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs
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So far at least 89 people are known to have died but may well be more.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66489815
[b]Additional expert support has been deployed to Hawaii, where forensic work is continuing to find victims of the devastating wildfires.[/b]
At least 89 people are known to have died but there are fears this number will rise further, with hundreds still unaccounted for.
Many more remain in emergency shelters after fleeing from the flames.
Firefighting efforts are continuing in parts of the island of Maui, including around the devastated town of Lahaina.
Mr Greenberg added that while close to 1,000 people are still yet to be contacted, some of these may be safe but out of reach for a number of reasons.
Hawaii Governor Josh Green visited Maui on Saturday and told reporters he was expecting to see "significantly higher numbers" of fatalities in the coming days.
"It will certainly be the worst natural disaster Hawaii ever faced," he said.
"It may be the worst fire that America ever faced."
The main road to Lahaina was briefly re-opened to residents on Saturday, before quickly being closed again.
The Kahakuloa road is open, but locals say it's far too dangerous to attempt to drive that way. The road - known simply here as "the backroad" to Lahaina - is barely wide enough for one car, has many hair-pin turns, and a steep drop-off.
Residents are furious about the decision to keep the main road closed to the potentially homeless survivors.
Hundreds who fled with proof of their residency are waiting in traffic, hopeful that they will be allowed through. But with the queue of cars stretching for about a mile, and news that the road has shut once again, they don't know whether they'll be forced to turn around.
Liz Germansky, who lost her home in the fire, is angry about the response. "The government's getting in the way of people helping," she says, while sat in the same traffic queue.
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| FFS leave GST alone Chippy |
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Posted by: Wainuiguy - 13-08-2023, 11:06 AM - Forum: Opinion and Politics
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics...pp-android
A policy that will save the average family $4-5 a week. A policy trumpeted loud last week in breathless emails to the devoted saying they had a "massive" cost of living announcement this Sunday. Except Nicola Willis had already announced it 10 days prior.
A policy Labour's Finance Minister says is unworkable
A policy Labour's Revenue Minister likely resigned over
A policy that is almost universally being panned by tax experts and economists
If Chippy thinks this is the win he was wanting then by next poll he will be sorely disappointed.
GST is almost the perfect tax.
Everyone pays it.
Poor people pay less of it and rich people pay more.
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| One of the CT brigade on the run |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 12-08-2023, 03:59 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs
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Yet still posting online.
He sounds just lovely; or something. Possibly mentally ill.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3...ing-online
"A conspiracy theorist who has been on the run for more than a year on charges of threatening to kill former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has continued to have a presence online according to experts in the field.
Richard Trevor Sivell, 40, was arrested in March last year by armed police at a rural property near Te Puke where he lived in a caravan and appeared in the Tauranga District Court the following day on the threatening to kill charge.
He was released on bail, but then failed to turn up to his next appearance and hasn’t been seen since. A warrant is out for his arrest.
The Disinformation Project, an research group studying disinformation in New Zealand, has been closely following Sivell’s online activity since before his arrest. They believe they have linked him to two Telegram channels set up in recent months, as well as various “sock puppet” accounts, where the user disguises their identity.
The organisation says an analysis of the phraseology and language used on the Telegram channels as well as various other data points, suggest with a high degree of probability that they are controlled by Sivell.
Disinformation Project director and founder Kate Hannah said posts on the accounts used phrases unique to Sivell.
One channel contains a list of numerous politicians, academics and journalists, amongst others, to be arrested and brought before a “military tribunal” for “crimes against humanity”.
Hannah said the account had been particularly active in recent weeks, with Judge Paul Kellar added to the “Nuremberg” list after he jailed Nathan Raureti Symington, who had shot at pictures of Ardern with firearms and a crossbow in a video titled “Enemies spotted in the wild”.
Hannah said she also featured on the list and her picture had been posted again out of the blue last week. She took it as a threat.
”The name Nuremberg ... is referencing the execution of war criminals ... at the end of World War Two and the Holocaust, so it is a death threat and it does sit with me as I go about my every day business.”
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| SSD Prices |
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Posted by: king1 - 11-08-2023, 07:00 PM - Forum: Computing and Technology
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Hasn't the price of them come down markedly of late?
Take a 500GB Samsung EVO 870 sata
- a year or so ago it would be something like 90 -100 odd dollars...
- last time I bought some month or so ago were around $75 I think it was
- today around $50...
NVME drives have probably slowed the demand for 2.5" SATAs
Wondering if Samsung might be struggling a bit of late... closing down their kiosks in NZ I heard, a new business only portal for buying direct, and now slashing prices on SSDs.
Anyone used the Netac SSDs? Dove Electronics have them and are /were quite a bit cheaper than the Samsung SSDs...
I have always preferred the Samsungs, never let me down yet at least
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| Oh dear - Gloriavale heads not happy. |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 11-08-2023, 03:32 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs
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They claim they didn't get a fair hearing fgs. They're going to the appeal court because they claim the women workers are really 'volunteers.'
As if they have any choice in the matter - having been brainwashed from birth, they're extremely unlikely to be able to refuse to take part in working.
 
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1327278...v2-KUFIDKW
"The leaders have gone to the Appeal Court to ask for leave to appeal the Employment Court’s decision to recognise former Gloriavale women as employees and not as volunteers.
The decision meant the women had rights under employment law, including minimum working conditions and pay.
The leaders did not appeal a similar finding in an earlier case brought by three former Gloriavale men who were found to be employees when they worked in the community’s commercial businesses from the age of 6.
The leaders’ application claims the Employment Court misdirected itself on the meaning of employee.
It also claims the court conducted the trial in a manner that breached natural justice, with the judge “failing to recuse herself, in circumstances that gave rise to a risk of apparent bias” and admitting evidence that was prejudicial and irrelevant.
It said the Court of Appeal should grant leave to appeal because the judgment was likely to affect the rights and interests of many other community members who lived and worked in similar circumstances, including other communal and religious groups.
The women’s lawyer, Brian Henry, said the leaders had a right to seek leave to appeal.
“They didn’t appeal the boys’ case. This time they have decided to appeal the girls’ case.
“We will work through the process and I will be seeking an early hearing because it has huge ramifications for a lot of people, particularly the young girls inside Gloriavale,” he said."
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