The govt is merrily chipping away at workers pay & conditions. Last year minimum wages went up by 2% when inflation was 4%. This year, it increased by 1.5% when inflation was 2.5%. The council of trade unions has estimated that a full time minimum wage worker is now cumulativelty $2,438 worse off in real terms.

And that Delightful Person Nicola  Willis wants to remove the requirement that govt contractors have to pay the living wage. This means that , over time Parliament's workers - cleaners, security guards & caterers drop from the living wage ($28.95 an hour) to $23.50, a pay cut of nearly one fifth.

Aren't they just wonderful. Or something.

Still, with any luck they do seem to be heading towards being a one term govt; so much so that you have to wonder if that wasn't the plan: get in,do as much damage as possible, then get out...

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/24-04-...ew-zealand

As usual MS falling over.

Kids & G/kids could not fix it, so got the experts in.

Problem: Outlook got cocked-up and shut us out.

Changed email to GMail meantime.

Expert fixed the problem and co-joined Hotmail and Outlook on the one screen, giving Hotmail the head emails.

Have a build-up of Outlook Inward showing 5 unread messages.

Using the "filter" option doesn't show anything unread in either email titles!.

5 isn't so bad!, after having to read 197 inwards emails.

Thanks in advance,

lurking

The judge accused Winston of lying. Why they're bothering to look into this incident is odd - he's a politician fgs.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5640...duct-panel

240 killed in plane crash disaster,  another Boeing goes down...

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/563962/...s-over-240

Ive got a dell latitude 5500 laptop and want to update its BIOS.
Whats odd is it doesnt even come up as a valid service tag when i enter it into the Dell page.
Service tag is 6YFSX33

Another thing I noticed is that the latest bios revision available on Dell is 1.38 but my current revision is 1.6

Any ideas?
Im having this freeze on bootup where the GRUB bootloader is reading "loading initial ramdisk"
A BIOS update is supposed to address this issue apparently, but its a bit of a mystery why my bios revision doesnt match.

The service tag in the BIOS matches the one on the sticker, so its unlikely the motherboard has been swapped out or anything.

Iran - three years after the 2022 events

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1l8hekp

Women taking control of their lives even after the hijab crazyness

After the bid to reach Israel ended in arrests of protesters attempting to get food & medical supplies to starving Palestinians.

Israel is attempting to portray it as a 'selfie' opportunity - surely not very successfully, given the entire world has been watching events in Gaza. And I'd say that most of us have seen the desperate people & starving children on the news.
She's not lacking guts,that young woman.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/563771/...reach-gaza



https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/563585/...-activists

Because Nicola Willis wasn't providing sufficient funding for the next five years in her budget.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5637...k-governor

they should have done the world a favour and dropped her over the side

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/3607169...is-mandate