andrew.joll.nz
Chartered Accountant, IT Consultant, radio and electronics enthusiast, vintage computers.... general all round geek. He/him.
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I made up for it by buying Broadcom when they were just a chip company, before they bought VMware. Kicking myself for not buying much though! Again, it was back in the early days of using the app.
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I somehow got the impression that Mel would not approve of you shaving?
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I looked out for audio gear but it just looked like a ton of balanced to unbalanced converters which I don't need. I guess TV had no use for say an Aphex 2020 Mk II or III with the composite output option!
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Some of the stuff in the auctions I saw looked pretty cool, but I don't really have use for any of the equipment and stuff as big as that would be just silly.
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I like the sound of expanding Awarua.
Although it is also a reminder that I may have picked the wrong dairy company when I was new to Sharesies....
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At least Copilot got the 12 word thing right....
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There is no evidence they violated the agreement until well after the US withdrew. As for 15 years? That's a heck of a lot better than being able to do it any time. Israel has nukes, attacks it's neighbours and has no independent oversight. Why shouldn't Iran have them?
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At RRP the margin from distribution on HP and Canon is around 20-25% but I generally do them for clients at 10% just to help out.
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"Four cities studied" - Queenstown is not a city.
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There was a place in Church Corner, Upper Riccarton that was pretty damn good. Not sure if it's still there, didn't even bother going anywhere near there the last time we were up, the kids don't live anywhere near.
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*now
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Yellow Ethernet cable plugged in to the one Starlink router that handles all secure military traffic how.
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And they could have used a 555.
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We haven't been on top of COVID since 2021. The government gave up a couple of years ago.
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So what does this mean for official MOH guidelines of waiting six months between an infection and booster? I'm just over a bout of COVID after being slack and not getting a booster since May 24 (so two overdue). I don't want this again!
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A rapist and a wanted UN war criminal that both have nuclear weapons had a circle wank and decided to bomb a country that has no nuclear weapons
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You missed:
1/4/24 Israel bombs an Iranian embassy (before the Iranian attacks on 13-14/4)
31/7/24 Israel assasinates a Hamas leader in Tehran.
Netanyahu is a wormonger who does everything to escalate conflicts, nothing to de-escalate.
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The "rogue, thug country" with nukes is Israel. Netanyahu has been going on about Iran bring at "90%" for over a decade. It's still not true.
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All over Al Jazeera, stuff.co.nz, 1news.co.nz, newstalkzb.co.nz etc here in NZ.
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Well shit.
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Not sure who is defending Hamas in this discussion - certainly not me. They are indefensible, just like the IDF.
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There are no safe places, and why should they flee their country? Why should Israel force them off their land? The whole "Hamas is everywhere" crap from the IDF has no credibility. And no illegal settlements? What do you call those settlements all over the West Bank? You know, those illegal ones?
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Oh yes, all those "fat" Palestinians we see on a daily basis. So you're saying that the children we see with distended abdomens aren't starving - they're just a bit chubby? That's absolutely sick.
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Did I mention we don't get ants?
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Frost overnight, yes - but I thought you get occasional frost in Tauranga too? :)
Invercargill is right on the coast, so while it can get cold with southerlies and sou'westers we don't get really extreme temperatures. It can get very windy though!
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It doesn't tend to snow in Invercargill - we might get a flurry maybe every two or three years, but it'd easily be ten years between any snowfall that actually settles. Most of the news items you'll see will be inland or Dunedin.
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Here in Invercargill it's only 1 degree cooler, and we tend to not get stuff like tropical cyclones :)
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Ooh that sounds good. I'm doing crumbled beef schnitzel with wedges and honeyed carrots.
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And brown people are being rounded up and abducted by authorities in the US. You're both pretty shitty countries.
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Yes, since 1977.
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I was referring to the US. You know, the subject of the post.
Israel may have more freedoms. Their leaders are sure keen on displacing and killing Palestinians though.
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Flee where exactly? When Israel keep bombing safe zones and hospitals.
They broke the ceasefire, blockaded aid (and still limit it). They do nothing about illegal settlements. By supporting Israel, the US is supporting a genocide.
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It is.
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Doesn't look like it.
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Looking from the outside, you're both really bad, just in different ways. I guess the difference is that you are the ones who keep funding genocidal warmongers who actually have nukes.
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Oh Wednesday I was thanked for putting 1.5l bottles of drink laying flat lengthwise on the belt. I've always done it thay way. I mean, what kind of person wouldn't? Perpendicular to the belt they'd roll, standing up they'd fall over.
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Great machines - I only stopped doing them when I moved from CA to IT and we got a better margin and on-site warranty on HP Brios and Vectras. Still have a TL PII out in the workshop.
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I set up a fax/email, email/fax setup for a lawyer when I took over their support in 2021. They use it regularly.
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Yup, that's generally all you saw in that era. Dot matrix on multipart forms so there was an office copy. I was supporting clients with that kind of thing until the mid 00s.
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One of my first purchases with my own money - jumped straight in with 2400bps so I could do BBSing with my 286.
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With plenty of couches?
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Nope. It's all just Auckland.
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Yup. We're in Invercargill City, but not ILT and lines by TPC not EIL because our suburb was in Southland County. Also apparently Queenstown Hospital being Southland DHB was a major reason Otago DHB pushed for amalgamation (Southland's stronger financial position didn't hurt either).
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Switching neutral? I normally only ever switch live. Neutral straight to mains transformer.
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Claims Netanyahu has been making for well over a decade.
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*on McKinsey
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Have you seen the John Oliver piece of McKinsey? Very interesting - they have their fingers in a lot of pies...