Hey I have an idea. Why don't we invite some competition to the marketplace. Maybe Alipay or Wechat. Even better why don't we start using premined crypto coins. Even better why doesn't the government mint it's own premined crypto and set up some servers to handle the transactions.
The mere threat of any of the above should get Visa to back off.
The only independent news outlets I know are youtube channels and podcasts. They don't rely on corporate or government money.
They are not unbiased of course and neither are they "professional" (whatever that means).
NZ is too small to foster a robust independent press so we are stuck with foreign owned corporate media or public radio. So far RNZ has managed to remain independent but looks like this government is going to end that.
Yea that does seem super expensive. In all honesty though the way to go is multi story multi residence buildings AKA apartments. Best bang for the buck and better for the environment.
Robot development isn't going to end today. Last year this race couldn't be run at all, next year I bet one will run autonomously. Ten years from now they will be running obstacle courses.
Also why did they make one of them a dwarf 😂
It's probably a flex. Look how small we can make our motors and circuits. Also I am sure there are tons of industrial uses for short robots such as working underneath cars and such.
Prefab housing has been a thing for a very long time all across the world. There are massive economies of scale and automation when you build panels in a factory and just assemble them on location.
I don't know why they never caught on NZ but I suspect it's a combination of regulations and lack of will from the public.
Having said that even 335,000 seems like an insane amount of money for the house alone. Given you can't buy land for under 500K in most places that still puts the total value at about a million dollars or above.
Some dude got a 103,000 USD speeding ticket.
In europe some countries base their fines on your income. That seems like a fair system. Everybody should be equally hurt. Check this out
Yea doesn't seem likely at all even if they somehow impeach Trump and remove him Vance is even worse.
It doesn't matter. Law doesn't matter. Ethics don't matter. Morals don't matter.
What matters is that the billboards are up, the media covered it, it spread on social media and half the country now believes the greens will abolish the police if they are in government.
It's hilarious watching people pretend these people care about anything other than hurting the greens and labour. They will break any law and cross any line to do it.
They will say it's satire. The NACT voters will believe they are only saying that to get away with it and hurt the left.
The smaller ships are only a little bit smaller and they have no bids on the ships so they have no idea how much they are going to cost. They are going to skimp on the port upgrades which will probably end up not working at all.
So far they have no idea how much any of this is going to cost and you can be sure there will be overruns.
It's just technology. It's just a kind of a database. There is no reason the government can't create it's own currency and run it's own transaction servers. It's all open source so it could literally be done in a week if we really want to.