The French don't seem too happy about their govt trying to change the age for the pension - only be two years but perhaps the view is that this would be the thin edge of the wedge & once begun, it may well continue with further changes to the age.
They seem only to have elected this govt because the alternative - Marine Le Pen was a step too far.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64986741

A thought provoking article - slightly scary too. I think its clear that we need to make changes, & soon.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...fAkmycpDkM

"Imagine that while your country practised social distancing, your neighbouring country responded to Covid-19 by packing citizens into gymnasiums by the tens of thousands. Imagine if, in addition, they instituted genetic and pharmaceutical interventions that helped their citizens maintain productivity under such adverse conditions, even though this had the unfortunate side effect of devastating their immune systems. And to complete this dystopian vision, imagine if your neighbours simultaneously reduced their number of doctors tenfold. Such actions would radically increase death rates not only within their country, but yours. Pathogens do not respect national boundaries. They are not Spanish or Chinese.



The meat that we eat today overwhelmingly comes from genetically uniform, immunocompromised, and regularly drugged animals lodged by the tens of thousands into buildings or stacked cages ÔÇô no matter how the meat is labelled. We know this, and most of us would strongly prefer it be otherwise.




But we would prefer a lot of things in the world that arenÔÇÖt so and, for most of us, the future of animal farming is low on our list of priorities, especially now. It is understandable to be most concerned with oneself. The problem is, we arenÔÇÖt doing a good job of being selfish.


It is on chicken factory farms that we have most frequently found viruses that have mutated from a form found only in animals into a form that harms humans (what scientists call ÔÇ£antigenic shiftÔÇØ). It is these ÔÇ£novelÔÇØ viruses that our immune systems are unfamiliar with and that can prove most deadly.

Onedrive again. It's turning out I have 3 Onedrive accounts of 5gb each. I mean who knew, right?

Two of the Onedrive accounts are under the 5gb but the other is complaining of being 2gb over limit.

So I need to untangle this mess but it's not easy to understand.

Any thoughts on how I can sort this without deleting stuff I want to keep?

Is any one particular Onedrive supposed to be tied to an email address or is it tied to a Microsoft account?

Looking for a nice tutorial, looks like I need to start from basics. Might be missing some important detail.

I'll start there. Add details as we go. Thanks

A sale that happened on March 2nd was finally paid for yesterday but as the buyer had replied at all to us or Trade Me within a week Trade Me issued a refund of success fees earler this week. We'll send off the item on Monday but doubt that I'll approach TM about this as too much hassle for such a small amount.

We are having a run of late or nonpayment for TM sales and I suspect that payment instructions for our bank transfer details is being delayed by TM in an attempt to make us use Ping. Anybody here have any experience of TM's promptness in providing these details for those sellers who shun their Ping system?

Did you follow the Apollo programme? 

The rockets on the Apollo 11 were powerful. The five┬áengines created┬ámore power than 85 hoover dams.┬áThe┬ásound of the launch was so intense that they had to dump 3m litres of water onto the pad every minute just to dampen the sound waves so they couldnÔÇÖt bounce back up and destroy the rocket. They have a large water tank near the launch pad to supply the water.

Interesting move; on the grounds of war crimes specifically that of removing Ukrainian children to Russia. And also a warrant for the arrest of the Russian commissioner for children's rights.

Perhaps that may make it easier for one of his underlings to somehow arrest & remove him.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300...imir-putin



Some children were able to be saved by Ukrainians who realised what was happening & hid children or falsified records .

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrain...ca0be54baf

if anyone is interested...

Killer Australian mum who tried to swap kids for iPhone deemed fit to keep custody of children days before their death
9 years is not enough! Poor bloody kids.

https://tinyurl.com/2ovtbwzh

Te Whatu Ora, By giving it a lovely maori name that probably cost $100s of thousands to change, it must work better.  Right?

Google says it means "The Living Eye"

Google Translate says "The Seven Lives"

I prefer mine "The Farty Orcas"

My wife used to work for them once, says its best translation would be "An Effing Shambles"

Just saw the surgeons saying the same on the midday news.

I don't claim to know the answer. Thats not my job, but surely, they should be able to get it right after all these years.

Anyone suggest alternative translations for......

Te Tare Taake   maybe "You got it, we want it".
MSD               maybe "Wev'e got it, you want it"
Kaianga Ora    maybe "Homeless Creators" 
Waka Kotahi    maybe "Wacko  Road Lot"

Geez, one gets bitter as one gets older?

Ken

A couple of ex public servants, hoping to make money after the quakes. Its difficult to believe that didn't know what they were doing was wrong.



https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/1...stchurch