I did a two week driving holiday there in 2005, so a long while back now. I did the north island, everything from Rotorua up past Whangarei to North Cape. Every day I was driving I saw someone overtake down the middle of the road into oncoming traffic.
You're probably right about the turning rule, like I wrote, it's been a while since I was there.
That you did have a father-son pair as president, and are now considering the wife of a former president for the role, speaks volumes about how undemocratic your system of government actually is.
I love the habit in NZ of overtaking on a two-lane road by using the middle of the road and expecting on-coming cars to pull over out of the way. Scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it, but after a while I came to love it.
The batshit crazy NZ driving rule from about ten-fifteen years ago now, was that traffic turning across oncoming traffic (that would be a left turn in the US) had right of way!!!! It made some kind of sense as it allowed traffic queuing to turn to instead clear the road and not build up...but it was something I never got used to, and am glad they changed.
Those living in the US really need to watch this. The guy's manner makes me cringe a bit, but his message and subject matter are both absolutely stunning.
"I can't conceive of doing it on my daughters Nissan."
I've found Japanese makes some of the easiest to work on. Armed with a metric set of tools you'll probably find it as simple as removing some of the air inlet components and then going straight for the plugs with a suitable tool.
Sure, modern compact engine bays can appear to be formidable, but we're talking about changing the plugs, not the timing belt! Now that would be a PITA!
So what do we call "racial discrimination" towards ginger people (or blond people, or black people, etc...) if you don't believe the word "racisim" is appropriate?
Don't be such a racist cunt. You may as well have written "nigger". Why do some idiots believe that "ginger" is acceptable while euphemisms of "black" are not?
"The answer for mass surveillance is mass misinformation, false data to poison their databases and computers can generate false information, at a far greater rate than real information can be created and spread, so as to drown out mass surveillance. If they are going to treat the majority of us like criminal, well, we might as well 'pretend' to be criminals so as to confuse the fuck out of them."
I agree completely, but it does not quite gel with the first part of your post, which I also agree with.
Ideally (huh!) the populace can realize that mass surveillance goes against their best interests and they can use the democratic systems available to them to change things...if only it was that simple...
"because there is a problem of people being verbally abusive to other riders,"
Absolutely, and this problem has existed for centuries in all kinds of environments.
Do we really want to sacrifice our privacy, expose ourselves to the possibility that the state could investigate our "thought crime" or reconstruct a record of everything we have said in the past few years?
All for the sake of dealing with loud mouth dickheads on the bus?
When I lived in the US for a while I really go the impression that everyone was trying to rip me off and I had to be constantly vigilant with every bill. It was quite draining, and while I'm not saying elsewhere is perfect, I certainly have experienced fewer of such problems here in the UK than in the US.
The current attitude of Microsoft towards Win10 is that it's designed to "satisfy" two types of users: massive corporate IT deployments, and clueless home users.
The majority of the rest of us (sorry, not prepared to make up stats to support my claim with a metric) that work in small (1-20 users?) companies or make and sell small-volume products based on "Windows" are all royally fucked by the new policy.
But that's OK, the cost of managing a domain server is now part of the cost of using Windows, which makes TCO much higher and Linux and OSX/macOS a much more attractive proposition.
I buy a piece of hardware in good faith that it contains a genuine FTDI USB-serial chipset. The manufacturer also believes that their vendor has used the correct chipset, but actually, the cut-price manufacturer has swapped in a counterfeit chip.
I let Win10 take control of my computer, and in due course it applies all updates as per the MS requirements.
At some point in the future FTDI releases a driver update that *bricks* counterfeit chipsets. This update is applied to my computer by MS without my approval or knowledge, since updates on Win10 are no longer under my control.
So WTF just happened?
How is this better for me?
PS: Anyone skeptical can Google and learn a bit, my scenario as presented above is 100% valid and based on recent events.
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I did a two week driving holiday there in 2005, so a long while back now. I did the north island, everything from Rotorua up past Whangarei to North Cape. Every day I was driving I saw someone overtake down the middle of the road into oncoming traffic.
You're probably right about the turning rule, like I wrote, it's been a while since I was there.
Love NZ, it's a great place!
There are roughly 300m people in the USA.
That you did have a father-son pair as president, and are now considering the wife of a former president for the role, speaks volumes about how undemocratic your system of government actually is.
Which is a great reason why we should have mandatory re-testing. Start with every 20 years at least, and ideally every 10.
I love the habit in NZ of overtaking on a two-lane road by using the middle of the road and expecting on-coming cars to pull over out of the way. Scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it, but after a while I came to love it.
The batshit crazy NZ driving rule from about ten-fifteen years ago now, was that traffic turning across oncoming traffic (that would be a left turn in the US) had right of way!!!! It made some kind of sense as it allowed traffic queuing to turn to instead clear the road and not build up...but it was something I never got used to, and am glad they changed.
I loaded up a big nasty Excel 2007 spreadsheet in Libreoffice and was pleasantly surprised to find everything working.
I'm sure there are some bits missing, but it's closer to 99% than to 50% feature-complete.
"Regular people didn't lose any money from this."
No, they just lost their health and dignity.
Those living in the US really need to watch this. The guy's manner makes me cringe a bit, but his message and subject matter are both absolutely stunning.
"ginger twat" == "black bastard"
Neither have a place in civilized society.
*Obviously GPPP == GGGP ....so fucking angry right now!!!
Yes my friend, it is a thing.
For exhibit A, see the GPPP post that started this whole thread of BS.
"You're not giving them anything for free."
You are giving them free rent on your rooftop space.
Not saying it's worth it either way, but it's a cost that has to be factored into the assessment.
"I can't conceive of doing it on my daughters Nissan."
I've found Japanese makes some of the easiest to work on. Armed with a metric set of tools you'll probably find it as simple as removing some of the air inlet components and then going straight for the plugs with a suitable tool.
Sure, modern compact engine bays can appear to be formidable, but we're talking about changing the plugs, not the timing belt! Now that would be a PITA!
Wow, no wonder you have race issues in America.
So what do we call "racial discrimination" towards ginger people (or blond people, or black people, etc...) if you don't believe the word "racisim" is appropriate?
Do we have to invent a new word?
Neither is skin colour you fucking idiot.
"ginger twat"
Don't be such a racist cunt. You may as well have written "nigger". Why do some idiots believe that "ginger" is acceptable while euphemisms of "black" are not?
"The answer for mass surveillance is mass misinformation, false data to poison their databases and computers can generate false information, at a far greater rate than real information can be created and spread, so as to drown out mass surveillance. If they are going to treat the majority of us like criminal, well, we might as well 'pretend' to be criminals so as to confuse the fuck out of them."
I agree completely, but it does not quite gel with the first part of your post, which I also agree with.
Ideally (huh!) the populace can realize that mass surveillance goes against their best interests and they can use the democratic systems available to them to change things...if only it was that simple...
"because there is a problem of people being verbally abusive to other riders,"
Absolutely, and this problem has existed for centuries in all kinds of environments.
Do we really want to sacrifice our privacy, expose ourselves to the possibility that the state could investigate our "thought crime" or reconstruct a record of everything we have said in the past few years?
All for the sake of dealing with loud mouth dickheads on the bus?
Seems really stupid and unbalanced if you ask me.
Sorry for being blunt before.
When I lived in the US for a while I really go the impression that everyone was trying to rip me off and I had to be constantly vigilant with every bill. It was quite draining, and while I'm not saying elsewhere is perfect, I certainly have experienced fewer of such problems here in the UK than in the US.
"I'd be suspicious of anyone over the age of 35 who hasn't had at least one by that time."
And this is why, dear USA, your country is fucked.
Fuck off Microsoft shill!!!
Fuck off Microsoft shill!!
"What the HELL makes you think this will "no longer happen"?"
Because the shareholders will be $1 billion "poorer".
Fuck you.
The current attitude of Microsoft towards Win10 is that it's designed to "satisfy" two types of users: massive corporate IT deployments, and clueless home users.
The majority of the rest of us (sorry, not prepared to make up stats to support my claim with a metric) that work in small (1-20 users?) companies or make and sell small-volume products based on "Windows" are all royally fucked by the new policy.
But that's OK, the cost of managing a domain server is now part of the cost of using Windows, which makes TCO much higher and Linux and OSX/macOS a much more attractive proposition.
Good work Microsoft.
Minimizing version fragmentation can be handled by software authors and users.
If your app is "secure" then hard-code a version dependency into the app: problem solved.
If you want to use a single OS version in your workplace, then implement appropriate policy: problem solved.
There is no need for the OS vendor to fuck everything up for everyone for the sake of this cause!
"A lot of Microsoft customers used to do actual work on their computers."
Fixed that for you.
Explain this to me:
I buy a piece of hardware in good faith that it contains a genuine FTDI USB-serial chipset. The manufacturer also believes that their vendor has used the correct chipset, but actually, the cut-price manufacturer has swapped in a counterfeit chip.
I let Win10 take control of my computer, and in due course it applies all updates as per the MS requirements.
At some point in the future FTDI releases a driver update that *bricks* counterfeit chipsets. This update is applied to my computer by MS without my approval or knowledge, since updates on Win10 are no longer under my control.
So WTF just happened?
How is this better for me?
PS: Anyone skeptical can Google and learn a bit, my scenario as presented above is 100% valid and based on recent events.