https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/three_water...=taxpayers

Otherwise known as the traffic light system

The summary A4 PDF explaining the framework.

View at covid19.govt.nz
(An embedded pdf viewer in here would be great.)  


or open below...

  COVID-19-Protection-Framework-22-October-2021 (1).pdf (Size: 83.53 KB / Downloads: 5)

We're selling some very good vintage stuff and some scrappy stuff. People are watching the good stuff but not buying, even when we lower the price. The only stuff selling is around $10 or less.  We've been selling on Trade Me for years and this is usually the high sales time of year. What's going on? People are buying online elsewhere, judging by the courier delays. Has the interest in second hand decorative pieces disappeared?

I get so brassed off with THAT woman the more drivel she speaks the less I like her. She was asked why couldn't we go into the traffic light system earlier and this was her reply.

"Setting the date now gives people, communities and businesses time to prepare to move safely and smoothly into the new traffic light system."

REALLY!!

Does she not think that the likes of Aucklanders need time to prepare, oh thats right they have been sitting on their bums for the past 3 months doing nothing, by crikey they should have been preparing!

Those poor interpreters its a wonder Ardern doesn't hit them in the face or even take off the way she flaps her arms around.

of foreign influence in New Zealand - looking at two examples in particular

http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2021/11/chin...ican-hate/

So, the budding hoarder next door has built an ugly shed, cobbled together from rusting cast offs, close to the boundary line.  The shed posts are about 1 metre from the fence but the rusted iron roof is closer. The local Council took a look and told me that yes, it's 70cm from the shared boundary but I will need to get a registered survey to prove where the boundary line is. I thought the Council would have this info? Can I look at the Council info for free or do I need to pay for a LIM or for the Council to retrieve the info? Worse case scenario (since the hoarder is likely to extend his hoarding shack closer to us in the future) how much does a registered surveyor cost?

As a non-farmer, I read their position statement on their website and there are a few things I can sympathise with as well as some stuff I could support if I understood it better.

I saw that some supporters of the movement have had to step away, either briefly or permanently, over concerns about it being hijacked by anti-vaxx and anti-govt protesters and I can definitely understand that - I would be reluctant to voice support for the valid and reasonable points of protest Groundswell has if it continued to both harbour and encourage fringe protesters that are less interested in farmers and more interested in pushing COVID conspiracy, pro Trump, and anti-govt (like Ardern being a communist bitch, for example) views.

It was good to see the organisers distance themselves and condemn certain protest slogans and placards displayed at the rally a couple of months ago but I also can't help but think that just because some of those farmers agreed to put such views to one side, it doesn't necessarily mean they don't believe them.

If anything, I think these protests have been really interesting both from seeing how the organisers manage the PR alongside an already tense NZ political climate, and how their own supporters have tried to control, reclaim and/or reject things that don't seem aligned with the original intent.

I'm still glad they got to have their say though, and that the protests were pretty peaceful. They conducted themselves far better than those Destiny Church "Freedom" fuckwits, that's for sure.

Watched the trailer. Bugger. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk


Another brilliant sci fi book/series turned into yet another action movie. Because the world so needs yet another action movie.
And they all have American accents on Dune, too - who knew.

I had a client last week with a facebook account they could not get access into for no apparent reason.
Said invalid email, but was always the one they used.
Turns out the account was hacked and being used for SPAM.
I managed to reset the password only through clicking on the link in the email that said the accounts email address had been changed and went through the usual "secure my account" procedure and reset the password and remove the hackers email and add back the original email account, phone number, etc.

The account had a fairly secure password and this password was not used on any other online accounts they had.
Anyway a few hours later that same day I get another call from them saying the email was invalid again.
Turns out the same hackers email was back on the account again and their email removed.

Went back through the same procedure, i have no idea how the account got hacked a second time, but im wondering if it sent the hacker the same notification email saying that the address was changed that let them revert the changes?

Anyway, this time I enabled 2FA, I could not find any malware on their devices which was only a macbook and an android phone.

Really bizarre, ive seen the odd hacked facebook account, but never seen one get compromised twice before.

Get a weird enjoyment out of political polls, even if they're utterly pointless. Tonight's poll makes bad reading for "Crushed" Collins and good reading for Seymour the dancer.

Newshub-Reid Research 21/11
Lab 42.7 (-0.3)
Nat 26.9 (-1.8)
ACT 16 (+4.9)
Grn 7.2 (-1.3)
Mri 2.1 (+0.2)
NZF 2.5 (-0.9)
TOP 1.2 (+0.2)
Con 0.9 (-0.7)