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NZ's Parliament was regularly described as "more Westminster than Westminster" until we moved to MMP in the 90s.

It has its bugs but it's far better than FPP and many alternatives.

However, the governor will not be apologizing for calling it ‘bags’ instead of ‘cornhole.’”

Mergers would work, too. Turn some of those tri-state areas into mono-state areas.

Oh, indeed. I'm just pointing out that terrible & illegal DRM is hardly a new practice.

You can't really have effective copy protection on any disc that can be played in a basic CD player; they're just too simple.

So Sony's approach was to put an autorun installer for a 'music player' on the disk too. If installed, it attempted to lock your CD drive from being used by any other software and couldn't be easily uninstalled. And they pirated open-source software (yes, that's possible) to build it.

SMH My Head.

Try the Sony BMG Rootkit, contained on music CDs:

In 2005 it was revealed that the implementation of copy protection measures on about 22 million CDs distributed by Sony BMG installed one of two pieces of software that provided a form of digital rights management (DRM) by modifying the operating system to interfere with CD copying. Neither program could easily be uninstalled, and they created vulnerabilities that were exploited by unrelated malware. One of the programs would install and "phone home" with reports on the user's private listening habits, even if the user refused its end-user license agreement (EULA), while the other was not mentioned in the EULA at all. Both programs contained code from several pieces of copylefted free software in an apparent infringement of copyright, and configured the operating system to hide the software's existence, leading to both programs being classified as rootkits.

Most of the current ships are 60Hz which doesn't work with the NZ grid.

The new ferries were explicitly going to be 11kV 50Hz to provide disaster response capabilities including power. Then they got canned.

The Dutch (Netherlands) and the Belgians are not the same...

Well, that's certainly the answer.

I wouldn't have thought you'd want to put a building quite that close to the waterfront even in a Fjord, but apparently they did.

SpaceX has enough of a lead over everyone else that I don't think them simply being denied government contracts is feasible, in a too-big-to-fail way.

You'd see some kind of forced nationalisation or being strongarmed into selling to another defense contractor on national security grounds.

Elmo might choose some kind of "if I can't have it, no one can" sabotage though.

I don't think the US/Canada usually does that style of power pole, with three phases on a crossarm and no neutral below.

Barriers on what looks like a pretty low-traffic low-risk road too.

I would think somewhere Scandinavia or central Europe. NZ wouldn't put barriers like that up.

Rock wall near bottom of picture screams old.

Indeed. Just need to remember that AI can and will hallucinate entire studies or court cases into existence.