Fisheries powers are pretty strong from what I remember many years ago. If you're caught with undersized/too many can be instant confiscation of boat/vehicle
"High performers don't waste their time arguing with the void on social media. Congrats, you just burned the only free hour you had after work."
Bro, you're literally just like those you despise. Talking of badges, don't prick yourself with that "Sheriff of Linux" badge you made it out that bottle lid.
Edit: Sorry, where the hell did that link come from!? I swear it wasn't there when I last looked!
Theoretically, let's say, bozo the clown is sitting in a gondola floating through Venice, and someone on the rooftop above has a large steel net and at each corner is a very heavy weight.
How heavy would those weights need to be when the net is thrown over the canal, to drag the gondola and occupant to the bottom of the canal?
No Donald, it was a joke, you just don't get it. But even even if it wasn't a joke, he didn't mean it. But even if he did mean it, it won't really happen.
He's never even heard of 86 and has nothing to do with it
I'm quietly glad he's been demoted (I'm a kiwi and a Lawson fan) so I see this as a positive if it means he's driving a car that's not a complete turd. It might take some pressure off and let him focus on racing rather than just trying to keep the damn thing pointed in the right direction.
Yes! Yuki deserves a shot after all these years, I just hope he can do something with that car and doesn't meet the same fate.
Belt CVTs - I'm right there with you, but take a look into the more modern geared CVTs such as Toyota e-CVT in their hybrids - I think Honda have a similar tech. It's a planetary gear system that provides infinite gears without the rubber band feel that plagued belt CVTs and hella-reliable.
I'm a petrolhead at heart and would love more options for manuals but in lieu of that, a geared CVT is by far the next best transmission and 100x better than a traditional auto.
Even better, jump in one and take it for a drive - because there are gears, it feels more connected to the motor - almost manual-like response and no sluggish delay like a traditional auto.
You literally pick your revs by pushing the throttle more or less, they're magic for hills or when the car is packed since you're never waiting for revs to climb up into the power nor holding a speed because any faster and you have to change again which takes you out of the power again. If you want more power, you simply modulate that with the throttle and the revs rise instantly to accommodate.
New plan: we all kick out the US and we'll invite most of the rest of the friendly countries name it the one-hundred thirty-eyes and we'll have blackjack and hookers.
The areas don't reflect the population, it reflects the wealth of that percentage of the population. Using the map is just so fun way to represent the values.
So, bottom of the south is the total wealth of the bottom 50% of the population (2.6m). From Kaikoura north is the wealth of the top 10% with the Auckland/Northland representing just the 1% (around 52k people) who own about the same as the bottom 50%
You've misread the graph (or I didn't make it clear enough, this was 10min job!)
The land represents all of NZ's wealth with each area highlighting the proportion owned by each percentage of the population. It is not a distribution of wealth by geographical region.
The source for the data used to build the graph is on the bottom of the image.
The source for the rest of my claims however, many can be found by a moment's search, some others are anicdotal based on many years of watching news, learning, observing and life experience (hence the mention of the vibe).
Many of these (asset sales, welfare, tax changes, wealth redistribution, NIMBYism, trusts, productivity, union membership, productivity) and their impact on New Zealand and wealth distribution will be familiar to any kiwi who pays attention or who takes an interest.
People much smarter than me have written plenty of articles, published papers and worked through the stats over the years.
I don't think we're unique in the world, this impacts most countries but I believe the average kiwi doesn't realize how bad it is and so thinks NZ is still a fair-go country.
Caused by dozens of issues over the past 50+ years:
No1 on my list would be the demonization of unions (deserved in some cases, probably not in most), leading to reduced membership and weakened labour bargaining power
Gradually shifting tax burden from those who could afford it (thus redistributing some of that wealth into public assets) and onto the lower-earning masses who can't. By way of policy, tax rates, financial structure (trusts etc)
Ongoing pro-business policy on the right with compromise worker/business friendly policy on the left
Requiring business to prioritise profits for owners/investors, without employees having equal footing in this consideration.
Anti competitive/duopoly businesses in almost every major sector
All of the above leading to wage suppression
Nepotism and racism leading to those who go to private schools more likely to land lucrative roles
Privatisation of national assets. Sold to only those that can afford to invest (amplifying inequality) then once there is a profit incentive, only increases the costs for consumers.
Govt getting lumped with cleaning up the carcass after private business has bled an asset dry to retain it for the national benefits or to avoid environmental damage (Kiwi Rail, Marsden point)
Demonization of welfare meaning anyone hitting bottom just gets pushed further into the dirt
Demonization of any attempts at wealth distribution. CGT increasing the top brackets, UBI etc.
Low productivity. Shitty businesses run by owners/managers who can't see past the end of their nose.
Productivity improvements fought by the labour force because productively gains aren't shared (less jobs)
NIMBYism
Short term thinking by both Govt and voters. Often caused by immediate need as more and more people become desperate and in hardship.
Probably many, many more but in summing up, it's capitalism, it's nepotism and racism - it's the vibe.
Next time AF1 goes for a jaunt to pedo-island, the air traffic controllers that trump is insulting have an opportunity to become really American heroes...
Fisheries powers are pretty strong from what I remember many years ago. If you're caught with undersized/too many can be instant confiscation of boat/vehicle