Oh, absolutely. There would be people there with decades of experience in a very niche field, and if you let them go, you’ll likely never get them back.

It’s weird from top to bottom really.

I’ve absolutely seen companies take on work at break even, or even at a loss, just to keep staff employed and the business ticking over through a quiet patch.

I’m not sure many people do remember him fondly, it’s only the far right critters that seem to have any fondness for him.

Imagine Heather Duplisee-allen and David Seymour making public statements saying you’ll be missed.

I’d say he’ll be missed, but I’d be lying.

Visa can shove off, if they don’t like retailers charging transaction fees, they should charge less for their services.

What if the vehicle isn’t owned by an individual though?

Because they don’t know who was driving.

If you’re pulled over, you have to present your ID, which is recorded on the ticket, a camera ticket just goes to the registered owner of the vehicle.

Insurance costs for new drivers in the UK are notoriously high, especially young men, to the point where insurance can be more than the cost of the vehicle.

UK and some US states do. Maybe Australia?

Pretty good summary, to be honest.

Your analysis of why Labour lost the election is just way off, I’m afraid.

Peter Jackson is an investor with these guys? Neat.

Don’t they use the same image and style as the billboards they used during the last election? You could make an argument that they are parodying the actual green party billboards.

I don’t know how strong that argument would be though.

It also doesn’t say anything good about the helm and autopilot system that nobody noticed it was off.

In virtually any other similar system, human input will override the system. That’s how it works in vehicles, that’s how it works in aircraft, I’d have expected there to at least be an alarm that the autopilot was engaged.

Virgin are working on a system where a high altitude aircraft will deploy a rocket, and a similar system was developed using an F-14 as a launch vehicle.

I’m not away of a single stage system doing this before now though.

Yeah, it had ballooned to more than double their initial estimate, quite frankly, I don’t trust Labour’s numbers on any of this.

It’s not explicitly said in the article, but the ships will be sister ships, from my understanding, and will be replacing the entire fleet.

Also, the original vessels were $550 mil for the pair, no way is the cancellation cost more than that.

I think the major cost saving is having smaller ships means less port side infrastructure, so even if we do upgrade the port to modern standards, it will still be cheaper.

My understanding is we’re buying two ships, which will be identical.

Also, forty rail cars is a lot, each one is equivalent to a fully loaded truck at least.

One person’s trash policy is not another’s treasure, sometimes it’s simply a failure.