In the UK, if a the registered owner is unable to name the driver, or unable to provide a satisfactory reason why they can’t, it’s a £1000 (~NZ$2000) fine.
I’m pretty sure some people might use company owned vehicles to get out of demerits, but it’s expensive.
More PE teachers.
We’ll have an entire industry of PE teachers, rostered nationally to ensure PE is taught, and genitala are inspected.
In NZ we can transfer fines to other people, why not demerits? Other countries handle it fine.
Don’t want demerits for when you’re not driving? Don’t let dickheads drive your car.
I’m not 100% caught up on NZ driving penalties.
But my understanding is you can only get demerits in person, from another person, at the time, on the side of the road.
This seems like a flaw. I can cope with a low-tier speeding fine easily. $30? Shit, that’s “don’t buy a coffee that month” territory. I can just not do that all year, if I get caught speeding by a camera every month it’s not great but it’s handleable.
Demerits? I’m not fucking with that shit. I can’t offset them with lifestyle changes. Too many of them and I’m up shits creek.
But you’re not getting demerits from fixed cameras or camera vans. Ie, all the speed cameras on motorways. You’ve got to be speeding enough to get pulled over. And if you do, it’s still up to the officers discretion.
Without the mandatory hours, why even have a restricted class?
What’s the difference between our law abiding citizen ‘NightShiftNate’ getting his restricted, waiting 12 months with no driving (because he only needs to drive at night), then applying for his full.
Or NightShiftNate just getting his full immediately after getting his restricted?
I’d argue the latter is better, as it gets him on the road straight after his training is fresh in his mind, and confidence is up.
VW can’t use the factories they have.
Ironically, “running the country like a business”.
Have policy outline an objective, Set KPIs, thresholds, etc. If the policy fails to meet them it gets automatically canned. Otherwise it’s safe.
Want to lower road deaths, that is your policy “lower road deaths by 2030 by 10%”. (Largely) A goal everyone can get behind.
But you’ve got to specify how you measure it, allow all parties to add their own metrics like “average journey time must not increase by 5%” or “maintain 99% licensing in rural communities”.
How you achieve the policy is (mostly) irrelevant. Want to do it by lowering speed? Fine. But that might increase journey time significantly. You could improve driver training, but that might impact rural communities.
Subsequent governments could cancel it, but only if it’s failing its KPIs, or if their new policy is “don’t lower road deaths” or “make cars go faster”
But how far should that consent exert its authority?
If this was anything other than nudes then totally different laws would apply.
Ie. if it was a terribly embarrassing non-pornographic film that woman sold it online. You put yourself online doing something you didn’t want family to see and now your upset. At best I would imagine she could claim it was piracy.
But because it’s pornographic, she’s suddenly allowed full authority over her works? In my opinion she gave up that right when she sold it for commercial gain.
If anyone else with a modicum of fame turned around and went “yeah I didn’t want my professional porn redistributed, here’s every website with my tits on it that did a crime” they would be laughed at.
So the school lunch program was just “can the existing (working) contracts managed by the government, write a contract with a single company to do what the government was doing, pat ourselves on the back”? All while expecting the new middleman to do the same job, for less, and still be profitable.
Not sure what I was expecting tbh. Just more smooth brain small government thinking.
Why didn’t they just get the prisons service provider to do it? Prisoners get a full monthly menu made by a nutritionist taking into account all dietary requirements. Like prisoners, School kids don’t go anywhere, and there’s (probably?) a prison an hour or two drive from most schools so (probably) not a massive logistical nightmare.
Are we feeding our prisoners better than our kids?
I re-immigrated after 15 years away shortly after COVID. Why the fuck I chose NZ and not Australia is beyond me.
Sure, compared to London, It’s very nice here. To my knowledge nobody has been mugged, raped, stabbed, murdered or any combination of in any local parks. Unlike the near weekly occurrence in London. Schools don’t have 10ft fences around them and metal detectors. 45mins in a car gets you somewhere interesting.
But it’s cold, the houses aren’t built for the weather and they’re (along with everything else) expensive; the pay is bad, and even if the pay was better the workplaces are petty and unproductive, not that there’s many opportunities;
Maybe Oz would have been a better choice? But equally, could just be a “grass is greener” situation.
I had an idea a while ago on how you could lightly regulate social media platforms.
Require them to:
Will this stop them funnelling customers into rabbit holes? No, probably not.
But it would make “targeted indoctrination” harder as they would have to try and indoctrinate multiple people at once. And it would make it more transparent just how many people are being fed propaganda or whatever you want to call it.
It seems like a long game, with a lot of work (and a bit of luck) to get to somewhere of note (ie, an MP position).
Running as an independent is about as likely for success as Seymour’s school lunch program.
So you need to get yourself into a party. But you can’t just rock up to your party of choices offices and have them put your name next to their logo in the next election.
And if you do slog through however many years of volunteering and lower level staff jobs, there’s still no guarantee you’ll even get a shot at a candidate opportunity.
And if you do get a shot, you’re at the whim of the party, at least until you’ve made a name for yourself.
This. But Pandas and Numpy.
Pandas and Numpy and Bash.
You can get wide mouth thermoses from briscoes/m10 etc. Then you can send yesterday’s leftovers for lunch.
We send ours with curries, spagbol, chilli, dumplings etc. anything that can stay moist and warm.
But can it run a degoogled Android rom well?
Ah silly us.
We spent a decade hating on IE, it’s slowness, poor support for any standards, plugins that fuck your shit up, etc.
But it was obviously the best because it had that huge market share.
Could you imagine the enshittification cries if they did this. “Mozilla to add subscription model to your browser”.
They have other products that have subscriptions you can pay for to support the company.
Instead of using Mullvad, use Mozilla VPN (it is literally exactly the same, you just pay Mozilla not Mullvad)
If you’re a web developer, Subscribe to MDN Plus.
Hate spam? Firefox Relay.
I don’t believe Mozilla doesn’t have the best interests of the browser at heart, I believe that they do think their browser is the their number one product.
But that’s the problem. It’s free software, going up against a juggernaut whose browser is just another side project to drive engagement with their core product.
A juggernaut who just so happens to be one of Mozilla’s primary source of income. All it will take is a little bit of legislation somewhere in the world to make that deal less attractive and Mozilla could be dead in the water. And it will take all of those forks with it, paving the way for Google to become the true web Hegemony.
Mozilla needs to diversify to ensure they can continue to provide stewardship to the browser.
But trying to make money in 2025 just seems to summon the enshittification brigade.
Free software is not free. Someone has to make it.
Why a second? Your first couldn’t have been any more than 5 years old.