but what if predictive text was turned on....that is a whole new level....autocorrect cat fails.....its gonna go viral I tells ya

Red Dwarf, where we drink our gazpacho warm

I think you will find they are called "burger flippers" rather then "students"

Wow 60 kWh in 3 days....that is a lot. I live in a small house in New Zealand. We use gas for water heating and electric for everything else.

We have a smart meter so I can track my usage. We use between 3 - 6 kWh/day, on average a 60 kWh battery should last about 2 weeks.

Why is that child wearing a condom on its head?

http://www.geonet.org.nz/quake...

Welcome to New Zealand, magnitude 4-5 quakes last month: 43, + 3 mag 5 - 6 just for fun.

At only 1.43 times the size of Oklahoma, NZ is a much more rockin' place to be. (181,195 km^2 vs 268,021 km^2) Also earrthquake cover is much higher then $23USD/year.

Check out https://www.loomio.org/

The New Zealand Pirate Party has been using it for a while now to debate policy etc...

There have been many times when a little rain basically means that the road markings are invisible, with or without street lighting. Having the markings themselves glow would be very useful in that situation.

Wanted to mod "funny" for such a perfect reply.....but is sadly true.

There is a very easy way around this issue, have the cameras centrally connected. Each day they download the current list of "valid" plates. If a valid plate is scanned, ignore it, that means no storage of time of scan, or location of the camera that did the scan etc... If however an "invalid" plate is scanned, upload all informaton about the plate.

If further investigation finds that the "invalid" plate is infact a "valid" plate then discard all info about the scan.

You could speed up the frequency of the database updates, but I doubt that it would improve the hit rate much, the only difference would be a priority update when a car is reported stoled or involved in some other crime...

There is no need to store data on people driving to work and home, picking up their kids and generally going about their daily lives. This is a massive invasion of privacy, and should not be accepted as "normal".

Disclaimer, I live in New Zealand, I hope my government hasn't slipped this far down the police state slope.

Not every system is so simple, but this is great in principal.....a machine should not be able to damage itself if something goes wrong, such as a failed limit switch or someone bypassing said limit switch to get the machine to overrun. Human safety is a whole other mess.

How is it right that the current generation has to pay for the crimes of a past generation?

If you steal something should your brother pay for it? How about someone you don't know but has the same colour skin? Or someone whos ansestors came from the same country as you did?

As for your last line "Morally and legally, Aotearoa belongs to the Maori. My culture is not Maori, it's European. So I left and came home to Europe." I call bullshit, as a 2nd gen Kiwi I am a native of New Zealand as were my parents. My grandparents were born in the UK, but that doesn't make England home.

But.....but we are riding the train already and don't know how to get off.....

Not sure, is it on the back of a truck or being dropped from a height?

Are we considering an "ideal" situation or should air resistance be factored in?

As both a Dilbert and XKCD fan, I appricaite them both for different reasons.

DIlbert often highlights the funny / depressing work side of my life. (Control systems engineer) e.g. http://dilbert.com/strips/comi... recienlt just about made me choke on my coffee.

Where as XKCD appeals to my geeky nature, though also applicable to work situations sometimes e.g. https://xkcd.com/927/ but there are so many others that come up in ever day life for those of us that are geeky