I'm in New Zealand. My credit card is used only for online purchases. A lot of shops have signs saying "Cash or EFTPOS only", or "No Paywave". Even in shops that do take credit cards, I'll be asked if I have anything else. It's why I stopped using a credit card for shopping.
That's the only way retailers can fight back.
Yes, Australia has been metric for 50 years. So I'm guessing the distance apart is something like 25 metres.
The difference is that '25 metres' will be understood by everyone, everywhere in the world (except for one isolationist country).
Okay, you've got me. The origin was a remembered newspaper article explaining what the term meant. Now that I actually look it up, all I can find is a Collins dictionary definition of the word 'munt' as being a South African/Zimbabwean derogatory term for a black African. No proven connection with 'munted' that I can see. So there you go; perhaps it is Australian after all, and what I read was a reporter's guess.
The term 'munted' was never heard in NZ before the big Christchurch earthquakes, in which the city got munted, twice. It's actually a South African racist term, and not very nice in its original usage in that country. The older term, still more commonly used, is 'buggered', which has an equally bad origin.
I had my BNZ credit card declined when I was trying to order online. That was a real scare. Managed to complete the transaction by doing direct transfer of funds from another bank. Online purchases are really the only time I use a credit card. Not many people use credit cards for purchases in NZ shops, and if you do you're likely to be hit with a surcharge. That's because of the high per-transaction cost to the retailer, compared with EFTPOS which is a fixed per-month cost.
There's another thing. There are twelve of those little rotors, looking like blades from a motor mower. With no protection. What could possibly go wrong?
Of course Apple is unprofitable in NZ -- it doesn't have a presence in NZ.
There are no Apple stores, so if you buy online the goods are shipped from overseas with 15% GST passed on to the NZ government. If you buy from a local shop, the shop pays the normal taxes, not Apple.
So, what is Apple supposed to do differently?.
Instead of a sales tax, NZ has a GST (Goods and Services Tax), which is a flat 15% on almost everything. You even pay GST on some taxes (local property taxes, excise taxes, etc). Is that simple enough?
What about the Martin Mars? Used as a water bomber in the US. Wingspan of 61 m. Drops 27 tonnes of water.
This Chinese thing has a wingspan of 37 m and drops 12 tonnes of water.
I think I know which is biggest, and it isn't the AG600.
Frankly, Clinton had the right idea with the national health id. If we could create an ID that everybody had that was only used for medical identification, that'd be great. But I doubt that'll happen, so we will be stuck with a huge data deduplication problem.
It's not easy, but it's more doable than people think. And heck, open source as a means of standardization is a fine part of this equation that is completely ignored.
This works well, with no problems, and has since the 90s. Before it was launched it was very thoroughly checked out by the Privacy Commissioner. All data held on the national database is encrypted.
http://www.health.govt.nz/our-...
I was always under the impression that they were actually 9 cm discs. Being Japanese (Sony) in origin, they were in rest-of-the-world measurements, not American.
The simple fact is that there is nothing in my everyday life that is measured in pounds. I am, however, familiar with a one kilo block of cheese, and I know that my car weighs one tonne.
The basic problem is that Discovery seems to think that the internet is confined to the USA, and therefore chooses to use regional American measurements.
One thing that is not mentioned is the importance of smell to a kiwi. This species evolved in the total absence of mammals, and as a consequence has developed many features and behaviours that mimic those of mammals. One feature is their keen sense of smell, which is unusual for a bird. Their nostrils are at the tip of their long bill, rather than at the base, and they hunt for invertebrates by smell. They are also territorial, and mark their territory with strong-smelling faeces. They may be the only birds to do this -- so headlines about 'deodorising the kiwi' are probably rather simplistic.
"Man" sells bottled ghosts? Wrong. Slack journalism, just jumping to assumptions. It was a woman -- Avie Woodbury --and they sold for NZ$2800. How do I know? She was interviewed on telly yesterday.
like a honing pigeon.
(I can understand that some people don't listen to what they're saying, but it IS possible to check for stupidities before putting a web page up.)
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Because there's no number on the card, you won't be able to use it with a zip-zap machine during a power cut.
I'm in New Zealand. My credit card is used only for online purchases. A lot of shops have signs saying "Cash or EFTPOS only", or "No Paywave". Even in shops that do take credit cards, I'll be asked if I have anything else. It's why I stopped using a credit card for shopping. That's the only way retailers can fight back.
I saw the headline and thought "Gosh, only 3 pounds, that's really cheap!"
Yes, Australia has been metric for 50 years. So I'm guessing the distance apart is something like 25 metres. The difference is that '25 metres' will be understood by everyone, everywhere in the world (except for one isolationist country).
Okay, you've got me. The origin was a remembered newspaper article explaining what the term meant. Now that I actually look it up, all I can find is a Collins dictionary definition of the word 'munt' as being a South African/Zimbabwean derogatory term for a black African. No proven connection with 'munted' that I can see. So there you go; perhaps it is Australian after all, and what I read was a reporter's guess.
The term 'munted' was never heard in NZ before the big Christchurch earthquakes, in which the city got munted, twice. It's actually a South African racist term, and not very nice in its original usage in that country. The older term, still more commonly used, is 'buggered', which has an equally bad origin.
I had my BNZ credit card declined when I was trying to order online. That was a real scare. Managed to complete the transaction by doing direct transfer of funds from another bank. Online purchases are really the only time I use a credit card. Not many people use credit cards for purchases in NZ shops, and if you do you're likely to be hit with a surcharge. That's because of the high per-transaction cost to the retailer, compared with EFTPOS which is a fixed per-month cost.
There's another thing. There are twelve of those little rotors, looking like blades from a motor mower. With no protection. What could possibly go wrong?
'Aye'??? What does that mean, eh?
Of course Apple is unprofitable in NZ -- it doesn't have a presence in NZ. There are no Apple stores, so if you buy online the goods are shipped from overseas with 15% GST passed on to the NZ government. If you buy from a local shop, the shop pays the normal taxes, not Apple. So, what is Apple supposed to do differently?.
Instead of a sales tax, NZ has a GST (Goods and Services Tax), which is a flat 15% on almost everything. You even pay GST on some taxes (local property taxes, excise taxes, etc). Is that simple enough?
What about the Martin Mars? Used as a water bomber in the US. Wingspan of 61 m. Drops 27 tonnes of water. This Chinese thing has a wingspan of 37 m and drops 12 tonnes of water. I think I know which is biggest, and it isn't the AG600.
Frankly, Clinton had the right idea with the national health id. If we could create an ID that everybody had that was only used for medical identification, that'd be great. But I doubt that'll happen, so we will be stuck with a huge data deduplication problem.
It's not easy, but it's more doable than people think. And heck, open source as a means of standardization is a fine part of this equation that is completely ignored.
This works well, with no problems, and has since the 90s. Before it was launched it was very thoroughly checked out by the Privacy Commissioner. All data held on the national database is encrypted. http://www.health.govt.nz/our-...
I was always under the impression that they were actually 9 cm discs. Being Japanese (Sony) in origin, they were in rest-of-the-world measurements, not American.
The simple fact is that there is nothing in my everyday life that is measured in pounds. I am, however, familiar with a one kilo block of cheese, and I know that my car weighs one tonne. The basic problem is that Discovery seems to think that the internet is confined to the USA, and therefore chooses to use regional American measurements.
Except that most people in the world, including myself, have no way to relate these medieval measurements to anything meaningful.
... Koha is Maori for 'treasure', and this free software is certainly a treasure for libraries that don't want to spend a fortune on software.
The Maori for treasure is ‘taonga'. Koha is simply a gift.
That website (Journal of Cosmology) is right up there with the worst ever designed.
One thing that is not mentioned is the importance of smell to a kiwi. This species evolved in the total absence of mammals, and as a consequence has developed many features and behaviours that mimic those of mammals. One feature is their keen sense of smell, which is unusual for a bird. Their nostrils are at the tip of their long bill, rather than at the base, and they hunt for invertebrates by smell. They are also territorial, and mark their territory with strong-smelling faeces. They may be the only birds to do this -- so headlines about 'deodorising the kiwi' are probably rather simplistic.
You still have public baths? And you think this shows you are advanced? Here, all homes have baths and/or showers.
"Man" sells bottled ghosts? Wrong. Slack journalism, just jumping to assumptions. It was a woman -- Avie Woodbury --and they sold for NZ$2800. How do I know? She was interviewed on telly yesterday.
But it says the same thing even when I fill it with standard A4 letter-sized paper!
like a honing pigeon.
(I can understand that some people don't listen to what they're saying, but it IS possible to check for stupidities before putting a web page up.)
PowerPoint? POWERPOINT?? Keynote, please. Remember, Gore is on the board of Apple.
Hens lay eggs. They don't lay down.