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"Ah-way", IIRC, and yep the C was a hard C.
"Ooh, aren't I lucky, I got a chunky bit!"
You could also have mentioned Heavenly Creatures and The Frighteners (filmed in my home town, was a blast seeing Michael J. Fox roaming around).
I suspect they mentioned LotR because you know, well known and, fantasy.
Not really comparable to Barry and the team vs. the evil aliens, or Harvey Weinstein personified in a walrus puppet.
But I'm rather glad you're aware of Jackson's earlier works.
> The rest of your comment is very conspiratorial and repeats the sort of trite anti-capitalist sentiments that you see on places like /r/NewZealand. Hardly fitting for a tech forum like this one.
It's what they did in the 90s, and it's what they are doing now. Obviously I'm not yearning for the days of Muldoon, and I acknowledged that the reforms have made our agricultural sector incredibly competitive. But you pretend like it didn't also do a lot of damage and saw critical national infrastructure asset stripped.
I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings by having an opinion different to yours or saying mean things about the political parties you support, but I'm allowed to have my own opinions.
Or the Federal govt can strongarm your state into compliance by withholding Federal money?
I imagine California is in a position to tell them to jog on, but sheesh.
And if you do choose to accept it as unvarnished truth, welp, that's an ideological choice, not a rational choice.
The current government would dearly like to bring in more private providers to our healthcare systems, so are following the classic neoliberal playbook.
1) Underfund public services
2) Point out how poorly they're performing
3) Bring in private companies to do it "more efficiently"
4) Pay them the money that you refused to pay the public service. And then some more.
5) Private companies make bank
6) Services further worsen.
7) But hey, shareholder value was great.
If you want an example of this, just research the history of our railway system.
Or, you know, the last National government when the Minister of Health directed funding for surgery from the public system to the private system.
And then resigned to become the CEO of a private healthcare company.
Which is why when NZ comes in the top 3 of "least corrupt" countries, I painfully point out that we're in the top 3 of _perceived to be_ least corrupt countries.
Once again, The debacle that was NZRail -> TranzRail -> Toll -> KiwiRail is illustrative.
Toll, an Australian company, ran down our rail network even harder than TranzRail did, and then forced the government to buy it off them at a massive premium by threatening to just shutter our entire rail system.
And we gave fucking knighthoods to the two merchant bankers who advised the government to sell NZ Rail... _and then bought it_ in a consortium with an American company which asset stripped it and then chose not to maintain the railway lines because it provided them a significant tax write-off in it the US on accounts of depreciation or similar.
And of course, Sir Fay and Sir Richwhite now reside in overseas tax havens, although IIRC one of them still owns an entire island here.
Oh, and the NZ government had to pay for the release of one of their children when they were detained driving through Iran for their Instagram account about how everyone is kind.
Ah, neoliberalism.
(As you can tell, I have some strong feelings on this. Because I lived through it. Was it all bad? No. It gave us one of the most efficient agricultural sectors in the world.
Was it mostly bad? Well, inequality surged upwards in conjunction with neoliberal policies. So, yes.)
You're paying them in expectation of a return.
Charitable giving is exactly that - giving, with no expectation of return.
Bloody hell, my teenager earns more than that for 1.5 hours of gardening.
I'm not sure if you're trolling, because if you're not, your concept of economic incentives is busted. Completely busted.
But hey, you avoiding FOSS is probably the best outcome for both you and FOSS maintainers, so I do appreciate your decision there.
Is it more than $18? And is the bug fixable in an hour?
Your sense of entitlement is like 98% of the reason FOSS developers burn out. GG champ.
This EP is from 1961, featuring the actor Ronald Reagan, and was played at coffee meetings of "concerned mothers" organised by the wives of American Medical Association members.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrlDlrLDSQ
As part of "Operation Coffee Cup".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Coffee_Cup
These kind of things are why you don't have free healthcare, anything that provides social good but challenges private profit is immediately labelled socialism by vested interests who have sufficient money to propagate their falsehoods.
It always amazes me what a sufficient plurality of Americans label as socialism that other countries consider to be "a good investment in society".
And quick question for you, when were F-14s built, and when were F-35s built, and has anything changed between those times?
Does this foreshadow a massive Federal government data hoovering? Which, sigh, I'm sure DOGE will feed into an LLM.
Tends to be that an optimal file size for Parquet is about 1GiB, once again, the "many small files" problem of Hadoop remains.
Then it's things like, can you organise your data in such a way to take advantage of RLE etc.?
I worry with Iceberg that people think it's just a case of "use an Iceberg table in Snowflake" and boom, amazingly fast querying of data in S3!
I'm glad you observe the distinction though.
You obviously haven't opened a history book either, but at the very least, go to Wikipedia before making confident statements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament
Subtle hint - 1707 to 1999.