No, the driver failed to implement some common sense safety protocols.
Stop believing manufacturers have to take responsibility for the ends users unwillingness to take any responsibility for themselves.
Our native bird the Kiwi is flightless,
Our Native parrot is inquisitive , intelligent, and destructive, it can remove the rubber trim off a car in minutes !
There are no carnivorous animals in NZ apart from the introduced ones (Cats, Dogs, stoats, ferrets, rats)
There are no snakes, none, nada, zero, zilch.
There is one mildly poisonous native spider (The Katipo) though Australian Red Backs are here to now, but rare.
No Crocs or Alligators
Sharks, yep we have them, but attacks are very rare.
The most dangerous things in NZ are foreign drivers followed very closely by NZ drivers. Our roads are narrow and windy.We drive on the Left.
We DONT tip, we have a minimum wage here.
We have
Great scenery
Great wines
Great surfing spots
Generally friendly and helpful people (yes every culture has assholes)
We have Gun Control
We have a good essentially free health system for residents/tax payers (paid for in taxes, doctors "co-pay" is about $50).
Oh, we do have earthquakes, and volcanoes.
But over all we probably have a very laid back life style.
New Zealand places greater emphasis on life. We don't believe we have the right to kill.
We have gun control
We have a MUCH lower murder rate
We dont have the death penalty.
Per 100,000 people, we have fewer police officers
Per 100,000 we have fewer people in prison (the USA is about 1% of its adult population)
Our rankings for Health, Education, welfare, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, democracy, honesty, corruption, happiness, etc etc etc all typically are BETTER than those of the USA, sometimes by a large margin.
And looking at your anger issues, I would say that we are far better off than you. Money and size has not made you better off.
Judging from your ignorance, I can see why the US education system is not ranked that high.
The main overseas income earner for New Zealand is Tourism. Dairy is 2nd.
Oh, I have Family who are Maori, and step kids who are Samoan, however I am unsure as to how what ethnic groups are in New Zealand makes a difference to broadband availability.
New Zealand actually took a stand with Nukes, against pressure from Australia, the USA, England, France and to this day Nukes are still banned. Our armed forces are highly regarded around the world because we get along with anyone.
Actually most of the noise about bad trade deals comes from the USA, Trump is especially loud on this.
New Zealands economy is one of the most open in the world.We don't use huge tax payer subsides for our agriculture, unlike the USA where about 10% of famers income comes from subsidies.
Monoculture means one culture, New Zealand has many cultural groups here, Maori, English , German, French, Samoan, Tongan, Chinese,etc etc etc etc.
Again, US education system.
Please tell me you are not one of the 7% of Americans who thinks Chocolate Milk comes from brown cows.
And as for the size of our country, well in most things we out perform the expectations based on the population size.
But then again as a country we are less corrupt than the USA, and generally out perform the USA on things like Education, Health, Welfare, Social mobility, freedom of the press, free speech, "happiness", crime, etc etc etc etc.
Well in New Zealand, Tax payer funded fibre is working out great for us.
Unlimited data, no traffic shaping, net neutrality, access to multiple ISPs , no port blocking.
100/20 comes in around NZ$75-95 a month, but you can pay higher if you want more bandwidth.
Turns out that governments SHOULD be looking after those that pay taxes and get to vote.
Thats one of the advantages of proportional representation, those elected are more likely to get voted out if they screw up, so they do more to keep the voters happy and less to keep big business happy.
You know, if Trump didn't increase the Military spending the way he wants, and puts all those tens of Billions into broadband, within 2-3 years the US would STILL be spending about 50% of the entire worlds budget on things to kill people with, but you would then be able to watch it streamed live on decent broadband.
Priorities...
No, you will need to go there.
So instead of the US making money off tourists, the US will become the tourists and spend their money in other countries.
And as for international tourism to the USA in general, watch the numbers fall. Our family won't be back, too much aggravation and risk
Far easier to go to Europe and Asia.
JFK has over 30 million passengers through each year.
That means 82,191 passengers need vetting each day.
Assuming they each take one hour (e.g. each person can do 8 per day) and you have 3 8 hour shifts, you would need 3,424 people just to handle the traffic at JFK.
And we dont even account for holidays,sick days, etc, etc. Then there will be the supervisors, computer support, Managers, payroll, etc etc etc so lets take that to 4,000 people.
Now, Where is the money to pay them coming from ?
Make them pay you say, OK fine, that will mean competing airports in Canada and Mexico will see a rise in passenger numbers because costs are lower and thats on top of all those people who are choosing to avoid the USA anyway now. This will see thousands of people jobless in the Tourism industry, tens of BILLIONS in lost overseas revenue.
How do I know this, because I am one of a growing number who are choosing to avoid the US.
So go ahead break your country. There is absolutely no law that says the US can not become a failure.
Having been to the US a number of times we as a family have made the choice not to go there again, its simply not worth the aggravation.
We can fly to Europe via Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and other transit stops, there is no need to go via the US or even near the US. International flights may end up shifting to Canada/Mexico to attract customers.
This of course also means flying on non-US airlines.
It means we spend our money else where. We, outside the USA, get to vote with our wallets, and we are.
Become isolationist, build your walls, hell even shoot yourself in the other foot, we are no longer worried, the real harm is to the US, not us.
You need to pay MORE federal taxes because he is going to cut his business taxes in half along with the taxes of all those wealthy people.
Money don't grow on trees son, it gotta come from somewhere and the best place to get it from is the poor, because hell they got nothing to loose anyways.
With the rich paying less taxes, they will be able to afford a much bigger yacht and 4 sports cars instead of 2.
And if Netflix are forced to pay, they will pass on the cost to the subscriber, its not a hard sum after that to figure out who is actually paying.
Its also likely that Netflix and others will choose to invest more heavily in countries who have net neutrality.
Just remember, 96% of the worlds population (and therefore potential customers) live outside of the USA
So, in the end loss of net neutrality will end up like the US health system, costs everyone a sh!t load more in the long term with zero additional benefits and a lot of people not having access..
Name any other large, well populated, educated, industrialised nation with large amounts of natural resources that was not bombed during WWII.
During the 1940-1970s the USA was able to build on what they already had, the rest of the world was effectively rebuilding roads, rail. schools, hospitals, and all the other infrastructure required. More to the point, they were able to build and sell the things the rest of the world needed.
During the 1950s the USA account for over 50% of the entire worlds GDP, today its about 20%.
The world is no longer reliant on the US, sure it impacts all the world, but so does China and the EU.
The US is 4% of the worlds population, so 96% of the worlds population and 80% of world trade are not US based.
China can (and will) surpass the USA, so will India and Brazil, may not happen in my life time, but it will happen, and I am not so sure the US is capable to accepting that cultural shock. I think high up in some sectors of the US government they understand this which is why they are meddling in the politics of Asian countries, they don't want as Asian Trading Bloc because that is 60% of the worlds population, and the area of greatest economic growth potential. Growth potential in the USA is almost nil, its a saturated market.
And while Trump et al keeps shouting USA USA USA and USA first, the rest of the world keeps on improving, and putting the USA further and further down the ladder. For example, the world is not longer reliant on Boeing, there is Airbus, and China is getting into the act too. ARM is doing well, Its British not US. Samsung is doing well, again not US. And there are thousands of examples where non-US products are better than US ones.
Its not like the US has failed, it more like the rest of the world has grown up and is no longer dependant. And because of that, the natural progression is that the US will fall behind in many fields.
The problem with the USA is that it now eats too much of its own dog food. https://www.theguardian.com/ne...
The USA is 14th for Reading
The USA is 25th for Maths
The USA is 17th for Science.
And the US fares little better for Health, welfare, life expectancy, democracy, corruption, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, equality, social mobility, etc etc etc etc.
You are number 1 for Prisoners (per 100,000),Military spending, health spending (though results don't match), generosity (charity donations)
China should be the worlds biggest economy soon, the EU is probably not far behind (would have been faster without Brexit)
Being American does not automatically mean you win, it requires far more than that.
When Trump heard about this and was told they needed the wind to blow hard he claimed he was the biggest blowhard ever, a great big beautiful blowhard, the biggest blowhard that has ever been in government.:-)
There have to be consequences when a country treats their visitors the way the US do.
You mean by arresting assholes that break our laws and shooting dumbfucks who intentionally try to kill people?
If those types of people avoiding this country is a consequence, we could use more of it. Fuck them.
And yet last week I read of a US school boy being put in Juvi because he burped in class repeatedly.
The USA has an incredibly punitive justice system, it has the highest prison population (per 100,000) in the world, and has done for generations.
You would think if this actually worked, the US would have lower crime stats than other 1st world countries, it doesn't, they are MUCH higher
You would think that repeat offending would be low, its not, its amongst the highest in the 1st world , over 80% within 5 years
Your idea of using brutality and revenge as a means of discouraging offending has failed , it has never worked.
Something that might help is the USA understanding its "interests" finish at its boarders.
Something else that will help is that the people in the countries the US drops bombs on , and kills their children, destroys their homes and schools and places of worship, causes wide spread anger and hate, much like yours. Why is a bomb dropped by a US drone and killing children OK, why is this not also a terrorist attack ?. The US has no moral high ground here, none.
Are you that stupid to think that only Muslims murder ? How were the 640 people in the UK murdered last year killed ?
Drivers, you must hate people who drive cars, over 1800 deaths in 2016 many of them children too.
Wait I know, how about people who drink and drive, they cause about 1/3 of the road toll, thats nearly the same number as people who were murdered.
Know any Irish people, do you hate them the same way, or are all the deaths caused by the IRA OK because the Irish look the same as you ?
Do you hate the US, because guess where the funding and weapons came from.
What about Germans, and Italians , bombs being dropped on London and all during WWII
Your irrationality, bigotry, racism and hate make you not that much different from those you malign.
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No, the driver failed to implement some common sense safety protocols. Stop believing manufacturers have to take responsibility for the ends users unwillingness to take any responsibility for themselves.
Our native bird the Kiwi is flightless,
Our Native parrot is inquisitive , intelligent, and destructive, it can remove the rubber trim off a car in minutes !
There are no carnivorous animals in NZ apart from the introduced ones (Cats, Dogs, stoats, ferrets, rats)
There are no snakes, none, nada, zero, zilch.
There is one mildly poisonous native spider (The Katipo) though Australian Red Backs are here to now, but rare.
No Crocs or Alligators
Sharks, yep we have them, but attacks are very rare.
The most dangerous things in NZ are foreign drivers followed very closely by NZ drivers. Our roads are narrow and windy.We drive on the Left.
We DONT tip, we have a minimum wage here.
We have
Great scenery
Great wines
Great surfing spots
Generally friendly and helpful people (yes every culture has assholes)
We have Gun Control
We have a good essentially free health system for residents/tax payers (paid for in taxes, doctors "co-pay" is about $50).
Oh, we do have earthquakes, and volcanoes.
But over all we probably have a very laid back life style.
New Zealand places greater emphasis on life. We don't believe we have the right to kill.
We have gun control
We have a MUCH lower murder rate
We dont have the death penalty.
Per 100,000 people, we have fewer police officers
Per 100,000 we have fewer people in prison (the USA is about 1% of its adult population)
Our rankings for Health, Education, welfare, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, democracy, honesty, corruption, happiness, etc etc etc all typically are BETTER than those of the USA, sometimes by a large margin.
And looking at your anger issues, I would say that we are far better off than you. Money and size has not made you better off.
Judging from your ignorance, I can see why the US education system is not ranked that high.
The main overseas income earner for New Zealand is Tourism. Dairy is 2nd.
Oh, I have Family who are Maori, and step kids who are Samoan, however I am unsure as to how what ethnic groups are in New Zealand makes a difference to broadband availability.
New Zealand actually took a stand with Nukes, against pressure from Australia, the USA, England, France and to this day Nukes are still banned. Our armed forces are highly regarded around the world because we get along with anyone.
Actually most of the noise about bad trade deals comes from the USA, Trump is especially loud on this.
New Zealands economy is one of the most open in the world.We don't use huge tax payer subsides for our agriculture, unlike the USA where about 10% of famers income comes from subsidies.
Monoculture means one culture, New Zealand has many cultural groups here, Maori, English , German, French, Samoan, Tongan, Chinese,etc etc etc etc. Again, US education system.
Please tell me you are not one of the 7% of Americans who thinks Chocolate Milk comes from brown cows.
And as for the size of our country, well in most things we out perform the expectations based on the population size.
New Zealand proves you wrong.
But then again as a country we are less corrupt than the USA, and generally out perform the USA on things like Education, Health, Welfare, Social mobility, freedom of the press, free speech, "happiness", crime, etc etc etc etc.
Well in New Zealand, Tax payer funded fibre is working out great for us.
Unlimited data, no traffic shaping, net neutrality, access to multiple ISPs , no port blocking.
100/20 comes in around NZ$75-95 a month, but you can pay higher if you want more bandwidth.
Turns out that governments SHOULD be looking after those that pay taxes and get to vote.
Thats one of the advantages of proportional representation, those elected are more likely to get voted out if they screw up, so they do more to keep the voters happy and less to keep big business happy.
You know, if Trump didn't increase the Military spending the way he wants, and puts all those tens of Billions into broadband, within 2-3 years the US would STILL be spending about 50% of the entire worlds budget on things to kill people with, but you would then be able to watch it streamed live on decent broadband. Priorities...
Oh please! He owes like around 42 billion! CHAAA!
Yeah but take away the amount he ads in for his over inflated ego and he's in the red ... russian red.
Until he releases his tax returns...maybe not.
Hell I can say that my "name" is worth 450 Trillion Dollars, that does not make it true.
If you remove is over inflated ego and his misguided sense of worth from the equation, $45 Million may be more than what he's actually worth.
No, you will need to go there.
So instead of the US making money off tourists, the US will become the tourists and spend their money in other countries.
And as for international tourism to the USA in general, watch the numbers fall. Our family won't be back, too much aggravation and risk
Far easier to go to Europe and Asia.
JFK has over 30 million passengers through each year.
That means 82,191 passengers need vetting each day.
Assuming they each take one hour (e.g. each person can do 8 per day) and you have 3 8 hour shifts, you would need 3,424 people just to handle the traffic at JFK.
And we dont even account for holidays,sick days, etc, etc. Then there will be the supervisors, computer support, Managers, payroll, etc etc etc so lets take that to 4,000 people.
Now, Where is the money to pay them coming from ?
Make them pay you say, OK fine, that will mean competing airports in Canada and Mexico will see a rise in passenger numbers because costs are lower and thats on top of all those people who are choosing to avoid the USA anyway now. This will see thousands of people jobless in the Tourism industry, tens of BILLIONS in lost overseas revenue.
How do I know this, because I am one of a growing number who are choosing to avoid the US.
So go ahead break your country. There is absolutely no law that says the US can not become a failure.
Having been to the US a number of times we as a family have made the choice not to go there again, its simply not worth the aggravation.
We can fly to Europe via Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and other transit stops, there is no need to go via the US or even near the US. International flights may end up shifting to Canada/Mexico to attract customers.
This of course also means flying on non-US airlines.
It means we spend our money else where. We, outside the USA, get to vote with our wallets, and we are.
Become isolationist, build your walls, hell even shoot yourself in the other foot, we are no longer worried, the real harm is to the US, not us.
You need to pay MORE federal taxes because he is going to cut his business taxes in half along with the taxes of all those wealthy people.
Money don't grow on trees son, it gotta come from somewhere and the best place to get it from is the poor, because hell they got nothing to loose anyways.
With the rich paying less taxes, they will be able to afford a much bigger yacht and 4 sports cars instead of 2.
No.
If anything China is slowly becoming the voice of reason.
The objective of being is power is not so you can punish the poor, its there to ensure the wealthy dont get punished.
And thats exactly what will happen if anyone gets caught.
Russia interferes in the internal politics of other countries as much as the USA does.
End of story, and no one is surprised, they all thought it was common knowledge.
And if Netflix are forced to pay, they will pass on the cost to the subscriber, its not a hard sum after that to figure out who is actually paying.
Its also likely that Netflix and others will choose to invest more heavily in countries who have net neutrality.
Just remember, 96% of the worlds population (and therefore potential customers) live outside of the USA
So, in the end loss of net neutrality will end up like the US health system, costs everyone a sh!t load more in the long term with zero additional benefits and a lot of people not having access..
Switzerland etc don't have oil, gas, coal, etc etc etc, so not really a good example
Chinas population is over 1.37 Billion
USA population is 321 Million.
China has about 4 times the US population.
China also has faster, easier access to all of Asia which accounts for about 60% of the worlds population (USA is 4%)
Much of the current problem started with WWII.
.
The USA was lucky, not great.
Name any other large, well populated, educated, industrialised nation with large amounts of natural resources that was not bombed during WWII. During the 1940-1970s the USA was able to build on what they already had, the rest of the world was effectively rebuilding roads, rail. schools, hospitals, and all the other infrastructure required. More to the point, they were able to build and sell the things the rest of the world needed.
During the 1950s the USA account for over 50% of the entire worlds GDP, today its about 20%.
The world is no longer reliant on the US, sure it impacts all the world, but so does China and the EU.
The US is 4% of the worlds population, so 96% of the worlds population and 80% of world trade are not US based.
China can (and will) surpass the USA, so will India and Brazil, may not happen in my life time, but it will happen, and I am not so sure the US is capable to accepting that cultural shock. I think high up in some sectors of the US government they understand this which is why they are meddling in the politics of Asian countries, they don't want as Asian Trading Bloc because that is 60% of the worlds population, and the area of greatest economic growth potential. Growth potential in the USA is almost nil, its a saturated market.
And while Trump et al keeps shouting USA USA USA and USA first, the rest of the world keeps on improving, and putting the USA further and further down the ladder. For example, the world is not longer reliant on Boeing, there is Airbus, and China is getting into the act too. ARM is doing well, Its British not US. Samsung is doing well, again not US. And there are thousands of examples where non-US products are better than US ones.
Its not like the US has failed, it more like the rest of the world has grown up and is no longer dependant. And because of that, the natural progression is that the US will fall behind in many fields
"There is just too much you cannot do."
Such as ?
ROTFLMAO, dream on.
,Military spending, health spending (though results don't match), generosity (charity donations)
The problem with the USA is that it now eats too much of its own dog food.
https://www.theguardian.com/ne...
The USA is 14th for Reading
The USA is 25th for Maths
The USA is 17th for Science.
And the US fares little better for Health, welfare, life expectancy, democracy, corruption, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, equality, social mobility, etc etc etc etc.
You are number 1 for Prisoners (per 100,000)
China should be the worlds biggest economy soon, the EU is probably not far behind (would have been faster without Brexit)
Being American does not automatically mean you win, it requires far more than that.
Trump is supplying the wind.
:-)
When Trump heard about this and was told they needed the wind to blow hard he claimed he was the biggest blowhard ever, a great big beautiful blowhard, the biggest blowhard that has ever been in government.
There have to be consequences when a country treats their visitors the way the US do.
You mean by arresting assholes that break our laws and shooting dumbfucks who intentionally try to kill people?
If those types of people avoiding this country is a consequence, we could use more of it. Fuck them.
And yet last week I read of a US school boy being put in Juvi because he burped in class repeatedly.
The USA has an incredibly punitive justice system, it has the highest prison population (per 100,000) in the world, and has done for generations.
You would think if this actually worked, the US would have lower crime stats than other 1st world countries, it doesn't, they are MUCH higher
You would think that repeat offending would be low, its not, its amongst the highest in the 1st world , over 80% within 5 years
Your idea of using brutality and revenge as a means of discouraging offending has failed , it has never worked.
Something that might help is the USA understanding its "interests" finish at its boarders.
Something else that will help is that the people in the countries the US drops bombs on , and kills their children, destroys their homes and schools and places of worship, causes wide spread anger and hate, much like yours. Why is a bomb dropped by a US drone and killing children OK, why is this not also a terrorist attack ?. The US has no moral high ground here, none.
Are you that stupid to think that only Muslims murder ? How were the 640 people in the UK murdered last year killed ?
Drivers, you must hate people who drive cars, over 1800 deaths in 2016 many of them children too.
Wait I know, how about people who drink and drive, they cause about 1/3 of the road toll, thats nearly the same number as people who were murdered.
Know any Irish people, do you hate them the same way, or are all the deaths caused by the IRA OK because the Irish look the same as you ?
Do you hate the US, because guess where the funding and weapons came from.
What about Germans, and Italians , bombs being dropped on London and all during WWII
Your irrationality, bigotry, racism and hate make you not that much different from those you malign.