Chemical fert is not required to grow grass, and it didn't used to be used at anywhere near the same rate for a profitable operation.

However once the price of land skyrockets and/or govt imposes enough costs like this, then now it is required to be profitable.

Speaking of monoculture, this change makes it more profitable to retire land used for sheep & beef farms and plant it in pine trees.
Mono for Mono.

Most Dairy farms here in NZ make enough money so will not be planted in pines - as long as they keep pumping on the nitrogen to grow the grass for the roaming milk converters to eat.

So remind me, where is the win here again?

How much for 0.01%

Me thinks most have missed that it's 1% of 1% we are talking about here...

People involved have posted that the boot wash method doesn't kill the spores anyway.

My experience is that even if they did you would need a vastly superior system to remove and/or disinfect all of the dirt from your footwear than what I have seen installed.

The proper solution is to not go in, or to completely clean your footwear at home prior to going in to the Kauri areas. The dirty water should be disposed of down the sewer. This is fairly impractical. So they are closing the tracks, and rebuilding and re-routing some of them to stop them getting muddy.

I have heard the the symptoms of Kauri dieback can be treated with a phosphite injection.

Do you know anything about the longterm effectiveness of that treatment with other similar species?

Privacy implications compared to what?

Cloud is the only practical option, as the funding isn't there for anything else, and they are all as bad as each other. That cancels out in the comparison.

Maintenance wise Chromebooks win hands down. Logically it is the only choice they could make.

The kids who are capable will have another computer anyway.

I think the real problem with this ink will be the cost. Same as the low resistance conductive inks which are already available, they are too expensive.

I'm not feeling it...

Er, if you had been around in the Lotus 1-2-3 days, you would have seen those same people doing _real_ programming with Macros.

That worn old road is exactly what MS went down when they created the psuedo OO macro language behind Excel.
In doing so they alienated all of the business gurus who could handle macros in 123 and get stuff done.

When Excel arrived they were stuffed because they couldn't handle the cryptic way macros are written in Excel.

He works for VIA, and they do the same thing...

To be fair on him he has tried to make progress, but after a few years of big talk there is still no open source way to use the full features of VIA hardware.

So don't buy VIA because of the fancy features in the silicon - cos there is a good chance that you won't be able to use them.

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Err, a human generated getter is the same as a machine generated getter. Abstract that...

If you need javadocs to understand machine generated getters and setters, then you are an idiot.