In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation (of which, if the trailers are anything to go by, the Apple TV adaptation is going to be awful), reverting to coal and oil use instead of nuclear is seen as a sure sign of the former Galactic Empire’s slide into barbarism. Similarly, green
Siraj Ahmed Shaikh Giedre Sabaliauskaite Coventry University Siraj Ahmed is a Professor of Systems Security at the Centre for Mobility and Transport at Coventry University. His main research interest lies in systems security, essentially at the intersection of cyber security, systems engineering and traditional computer science. Giedre is an Associate
KSK There are many things in life I don’t understand. Why water is wet, for example. Why decreasing the OCR did not result in anything other than the uncontrolled increase in house prices in a market awash with almost free money. But what goes up tends to come down.
David Seymour ACT Leader Uncertainty about whether workplaces can require vaccination certificates under the status quo is creating great anxiety in workplaces. Government needs to deal with this uncertainty by giving clarity on how health and safety, privacy, and discrimination laws interact. ACT has a plan that would deliver certainty
Charles Wright I have an anxiety disorder, and I can’t breathe while wearing a mask (I start to panic). I know it’s irrational, but at the same time, I can’t help it. Many months ago now, I asked the Ministry of Health what to do, and they
Chris Sweeney rt.com Chris Sweeney is an author and columnist who has written for newspapers such as The Times, Daily Express, The Sun and the Daily Record, along with several international-selling magazines. Information Op-ed In a case being submitted to the US Supreme Court, Lorie Smith is railing against
David Seymour ACT Leader If we’re allowed to have picnics in parks with food bought from the supermarket duopolies, then we should also allow restaurants to have alfresco dining. Jacinda Ardern and her Government’s great plan for Auckland was to stay locked down but with picnics. Before lockdown
Damning whistleblower testimony followed by an epic outage, all along with a multibillion-dollar loss: it’s almost enough to make me feel a bit sorry for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Almost. First the outage: outages are the spectre that haunts every online company. Internet downtime is effectively a “closed” sign
In his novel Night Watch, one of Terry Pratchett’s characters pauses to reflect on the delicate instrument that is even a moderately complex society. “When the machinery of city life faltered, the wheels stopped turning and all the little rules broke down,”: the life that every citizen takes for
Harry Hunt Numbers in this article are based on approximations. John is the average person: he earns $49,600 – $57,300 per annum. Bob is the above-average person: he earns $91,600 – $119,200 per annum. Sally is the below-average person: she earns $29,400 – $35,000 per annum. A
David Seymour ACT Leader The real story behind Air New Zealand waiting four months to make vaccination mandatory is that the Government’s ICT is not ready. As Greg Foran told Q+A “In terms of customers, we’re got some operational things still to work through, you know, staying
Reclaim the Net reports on the unvaccinated being banned from business premises. Australia’s often draconian measures in response to the epidemic continue to intensify, with reports now saying that one of its states, New South Wales (NSW) is threatening to jail unvaccinated people who try to enter business premises
It is only a short hop, skip and a jump from preventing people from working because they are unvaccinated to preventing them from entering a supermarket to purchase the essentials of life if they are not vaccinated. We don’t discriminate against people for being HIV positive in the workplace
Devotees of the vaccination cult are enthusiastically dragging the unvaccinated over barrels until they succumb to the jabs: for the tardy recalcitrants it’s not a personal choice, it is imperative; they are ordered out of sight and told not to come back until they have been jabbed. “Leaning heavily
“There needs to be consequences, for those who make a personal choice to not get vaccinated. It’s around PPE and testing, or it’s around excluding them from the workplace.” Fyfe argues that domestic use of vaccine passports should be part of enforcing those consequences, denying those who choose
conexboxes.com Due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, more people want to build a new home, move somewhere larger, or renovate than ever before. As a result, there is a huge demand for homes and building materials. However, there is also a shortage of various construction materials, as you
