Policy announcement - 

https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2024/...n-walking/

I have a Gigabyte B460m D3H motherboard with an ASUS Core i7 10700t CPU. The current BIOS is version is F4. From what I can glean from the Gigabyte site, the current BIOS looks like F26 (any chance someone more knowledgeable could check?).

Should I consider upgrading or remain at F4, I have no perceived problems at present.

This vigourous response to a BBC interviewer by the Guyana president is a good presentation of the potential hypocrisy of implementing emissions restrictions on developing countries.

It may eventually be an end to their govt. but it seems unlikely to happen quickly & the ultra orthodox tend to be very right wing.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68684069

"Israel's High Court has issued an order in the long-running dispute over ultra-Orthodox military exemptions, deepening a crisis in the government.
It instructed a funding freeze for ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, educational institutions whose students are eligible for conscription.

Haredi parties in the government have reacted angrily, while a secular party has threatened to quit over the issue.
Ultra-Orthodox exemptions are opposed by a majority of Israelis.
The Haredi community comprises about 12% of the population but those in full-time Torah study are exempt from mandatory military service.

Conscription applies to almost all other Israelis, apart from Israeli Arabs, from the age of 18 for both men and women.
The government is debating a bill which reportedly seeks to strike a compromise by allowing exemptions with limitations.

But the draft plan is fiercely opposed by Haredi parties. Two of those parties - Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ) - hold 18 seats in the 72-seat emergency government.
On the other hand, the secular, centrist National Union party, which holds eight seats, is insisting exemptions are scrapped altogether.
The party's leader, Benny Gantz, a former army chief of staff, has threatened to pull out of the government over the current plan."

This could be the holy grail of plastic recycling and increase the incentive for collecting waste plastic.

And I wish them every success, I hope they win their case & are awarded bazillions...from the McBishops very own fortune.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala...LznMWA5xrs

"Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki is facing a potential defamation lawsuit by Taranaki drag queen duo Erika and CoCo Flash.  

A short article, you don't need to listen to the pod cast:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/3502295...cap-wealth

Came across this on FB, definitely an interesting view of this govt.

https://www.facebook.com/661042032/posts...TRUfFvQoCf

For 'adultery'; so basically if a male says she committed adultery a woman will be murdered in an especially cruel manner. Because the Taliban are ignorant misogynistic idiots.
And they're certainly not men - they are boys, ignorant,misogynistic & evil boys.

I so wish it was possible to remove every woman & all children from Afghanistan & leave those ignorant, cruel bastards to cope without women & children.


https://www.theguardian.com/global-devel...20adultery.

"Safia Arefi, a lawyer and head of the Afghan human rights organisation WomenÔÇÖs Window of Hope, said the announcement had condemned Afghan women to return to the darkest days of Taliban rule in the 1990s.

ÔÇ£With this announcement by the Taliban leader, a new chapter of private punishments has begun and Afghan women are experiencing the depths of loneliness,ÔÇØ Arefi said.

ÔÇ£Now, no one is standing beside them to save them from Taliban punishments. The international community has chosen to remain silent in the face of these violations of womenÔÇÖs rights.ÔÇØ
The TalibanÔÇÖs supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, announced┬áat the weekend┬áthat the group would begin enforcing its interpretation of sharia law in Afghanistan, including reintroducing the public flogging and stoning of women for adultery.

In an audio broadcast on the Taliban-controlled Radio Television┬áAfghanistan┬álast Saturday, Akhundzada said: ÔÇ£We will flog the women ÔǪ we will stone them to death in public [for adultery].

You may call it a violation of womenÔÇÖs rights when we publicly stone or flog them for committing adultery because they conflict with your democratic principles,ÔÇØ he said, adding: ÔÇ£[But] I represent Allah, and you represent Satan.ÔÇØ



The news was met by horror but not surprise by Afghan womenÔÇÖs right groups, who say the dismantling of any remaining rights and protection for the countryÔÇÖs 14 million women and girls is now almost complete.

Samira Hamidi, an Afghan activist and campaigner at Amnesty International, said: ÔÇ£In the past two and half years, the Taliban has dismantled institutions that were providing services to Afghan women.
ÔÇ£However, their leaderÔÇÖs latest endorsement of womenÔÇÖs public stoning to death is a flagrant violation of international human rights laws, including┬áCedaw┬á[the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women].ÔÇØ

Hamidi said Afghan women were now in effect powerless to defend themselves from persecution and injustice."

I have the above product.

How do I inform them to update my email address.

Cheers