I find it hard to imagine that being small change to anyone, but I can see someone writing it off as a loss.
Between income tax and sales tax when they spend it, the government will probably see half of it anyway.
Exactly what I thought, nobody is going to own up and say it was theirs.
I’d love to know how that much cash ended up in a ceiling space though, someone must know it’s there, but has decided it’s not worth the risk to come back and get it. Or they’re in prison.
Definitely very strange.
It’s owned by Westland Mineral Sands Ltd, although I’m not sure if that means they are the legal owner, or lease the vessel. It’s very odd, that’s for sure.
Given an ever increasing amount of vehicles are either plug in hybrid or EV, this is probably the best way to do this.
It’s also an election promise, and part of the coalition agreement, so not really a surprise.
I mean, the alternatives are far worse.
I’m curious, who here would pay $35 to visit Te Papa? I haven’t been there in years, and I work in Wellington, I could just drop in after work.
Also, the fact they don’t actually check if someone’s from NZ or not beyond asking will spread quite fast, and I suspect a large chunk of visitors will say where they’re staying in NZ, rather than their country of origin.
When you behave like that, you’re not just disrespecting the judge, but the whole legal system they represent. Also, disrupting court proceedings should never be OK.
Their opinion seemed to be a combination of hatred for capitalism and Elon Musk, and they came off to me as being grasping at straws to justify that opinion.
The point is that even though someone does something fun money, that does not mean what they do is not harmful.
Who said it wasn’t? You’re arguing against a point nobody made.
Where did I say I was a fan of him?
You’re making judgement calls about the technology because you hate the owner of the company, which is kinda sad.
Starlink sats are only visible to the naked eye when they’ve just launched, once in orbit they’re only a problem for ground based optical astronomy, and even then it doesn’t seem to be as much of a problem as everyone makes out.
I get that you probably hate Musk, but a lot of the points you’re making are just nonsense.
They do have more equipment on them now, so it’s possible they’ve gone up in cost.
Why are they more necessary? They both do the same job.
Do you also think cell towers are “polluting the landscape”?
That makes absolutely no sense.
I doubt it, not at the rate they throw them up.
10% for the next 25 years is an insane amount of money, and no way will it be cost effective.
We have a habit in NZ of completely over-speccing projects, then either cancelling them or never proceeding in the first place. It’s what we did with the ferries, it’s what we did with that idiotic cycle bridge idea, the Petone-Grenada road… And now this. Which will get binned the moment a Labour coalition takes over.
The spec for the Petone-Grenada road initially called for it to be 100 km/h end to end, which is completely over the top considering the terrain the road would traverse.
At least the Melling Link project seems to be moving.