Posts by Rich of Observationz
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It's FPP though. You have a choice between Phil Goff and whoever is the front-running righty. If you vote for Chloe, it's a vote for said righty, sadly.
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Hard News: There in half the time:…, in reply to Kevin McCready,
There's an optional smug generator available as well.
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It's less than a 20th the price of this puppy too - but it doesn't do 218mph.
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$2549 is quite an alarming price. I've seen Chinese stuff a lot cheaper, but guess it's much shorter life.
You can also get petrol engine kits, but I believe they're not road legal. Endless fun for making petrol powered speedy things though...
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If somebody wants to take a hitcher between AKL and WLG, then a cost recovery price would be: 642km * .72c / 2 = $231 - which is clearly too much to charge, it'd be cheaper to fly. If they charged $50, then if they were doing the trip anyway (especially if it's for work) then that's $50 - or $150 for three riders.
On that basis I'd say an intercity car pooling service would be viable?
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I suspect that's why the drafters put the bit in about a ride-sharing facilitator being required to keep records of everything. Maybe people will patronise such a service for longer trips, e.g. Wellington to Auckland?
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The other thing that occurs to me around USB-C is that it appears to have (at least on my Nexus-5X) to have fairly weak retention, possibly on purpose. Some legacy stacks (OSX/Novation/Ableton for one) don't recover when a USB connection is interrupted - I'd be wary of USB-C on something like a DJ controller unless this got fixed (most of them seem to still have old-school USB-B full-size connectors).
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Hard News: Friday Music: Apple and the…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
You didn't make the Snapper USB stick did you? They were heinous....
To me the attraction of simple connectors for prototyping is that you can solder them in easily. The USB-C is probably some horrendous BGA-like arrangement or similar that's fine if you're on a precision automated process and not otherwise.
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A few things:
- while the methodology for sentencing might be designed as fair, it's much more likely that a rich, white defendant is going to meet the criteria for leniency than a poor, brown one.- NZ's problem is acceptance of violence, not (so much) abuse of alcohol
- allowing a discharge with conviction for violent offences reinforces this. I'd like to see that option abolished, unless it can be shown to be manifestly unjust to convict because of the circumstances of the offence, not the circumstances of the defendant. (Maybe that should be balanced with a complete erasure of a record after some years good behaviour, including non-notification of foreign countries).
- why are there two offences based on the same conduct?
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How do Bluetooth headphones sound these days? I've always considered the best connector is no connector.
(and while modern connectors are amazing triumphs of miniaturisation, they're also of questionable longevity and increasing difficult to hack with - compare the USB-A (4 pins, can be implemented as a piece of PCB) with the new USB-C (20 pins, reversible, tiny)).