In the future, home detention won't be seen as such a cushy sentence any more.

Think you can handle 4 weeks? Try 4 months.

elpenguino:

 

In the future, home detention won't be seen as such a cushy sentence any more.

 

Think you can handle 4 weeks? Try 4 months.

 

Home detention would be fine sans kids 

blackjack17:

 

elpenguino:

 

In the future, home detention won't be seen as such a cushy sentence any more.

 

Think you can handle 4 weeks? Try 4 months.

 

 

Home detention would be fine sans kids 

 

For certain offences, home detention now includes @blackjack17 's kids :-)

elpenguino:

 

 

 

For certain offences, home detention now includes @blackjack17 's kids :-)

 

Don't we have laws about cruel and unusual punishments?

Hopefully people will start to get past the idea that Infrastructure automatically means roads.

Seems like spending money on yesterday's problem, particularly if WFH sticks to any appreciable degree in the longer term.

There's a monumental amount of "non-sexy" pipes-in-ground stuff that's end-of-life, at capacity or has no built-in redundancy/back up that's in desperate need of some serious spending.

A bit less short sighted political thinking and a bit more actually thinking about current and future needs when it comes to infrastructure spending would be awesome.

And don't forget affordable housing. Kiwibuild might actually stand a chance if the economy tanks to a degree that makes the 1930s look like a picnic and most of the country's house builders are standing idle.

Hopefully it will result in councils spending on infrastructure and core services, rather than vanity projects and other non core things. My old local council didn't even do rubbish pickup and also ditched roadside recycling because of costs.

IMO are large driver in needing a huge number of houses, is due to immigration inflows which has significantly increased the population, and also house being purchased for investment to be used by tourists and airBNBs etc. This virus could put a stop to both of those for some time IMO.

IMO both these would be positive for NZ. The world needs to change , we can't just keep growing populations all over the world, the earth has suffered as a result. I am wondering if the earth has reached peak human population. 

evilengineer:

 

Hopefully people will start to get past the idea that Infrastructure automatically means roads.

 

Seems like spending money on yesterday's problem, particularly if WFH sticks to any appreciable degree in the longer term.

 

There's a monumental amount of "non-sexy" pipes-in-ground stuff that's end-of-life, at capacity or has no built-in redundancy/back up that's in desperate need of some serious spending.

 

A bit less short sighted political thinking and a bit more actually thinking about current and future needs when it comes to infrastructure spending would be awesome.

 

And don't forget affordable housing. Kiwibuild might actually stand a chance if the economy tanks to a degree that makes the 1930s look like a picnic and most of the country's house builders are standing idle.

 

Water needs removing from Council hands into a more national, specialised organisation. It's the only way to have any sort of sane approach to investment and service provision.

Flying cars.

I hope all you bloody engineers on here are working on this or it's all a waste

snnet:

Flying cars.

I hope all you bloody engineers on here are working on this or it's all a waste

frankv:

snnet:

 

Flying cars.

 

 

 

I hope all you bloody engineers on here are working on this or it's all a waste

 

Flying cars are never going to be a thing, sadly.

Too many things that make a car work well (e.g. driven wheels, suspension) weigh a lot and generally speaking don't exist on aircraft. Too many aircraft-essential things (wings, propeller) detract too much from the car experience, even when folded. The economics aren't there either... the entire vehicle would need to be built from light, expensive materials. Every driver would have to also be a licensed pilot. Regulations for aircraft manufacture and quality control would price it out of the car market.

Hence all the work going into automated multicopters... no licenses required, no design compromises for road travel, and in theory can take you exactly where you want to go.

Oh, engineering isn't the problem. Have you ever driven on a public road? 99% of drivers haven't got a clue where they are, let alone where anyone else is. You want to add a third dimension to that as well!?

frankv:

 

Hence all the work going into automated multicopters... no licenses required, no design compromises for road travel, and in theory can take you exactly where you want to go.

Are multicopters not flying cars, sort of?

Rikkitic:

 

Are multicopters not flying cars, sort of?

 

Not in the sense that cars drive on roads.

frankv:

 

Rikkitic:

 

Are multicopters not flying cars, sort of?

 

 

Not in the sense that cars drive on roads.

 

 

 

"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." - Dr Emmett Brown

SaltyNZ:

 

99% of drivers haven't got a clue where they are, let alone where anyone else is. You want to add a third dimension to that as well!?

 

The beauty of private aviation is that, unlike driving, you rarely get to kill third parties. Pretty much it's you and your passengers. Darwinism applies.

Geektastic:

 

Water needs removing from Council hands into a more national, specialised organisation. It's the only way to have any sort of sane approach to investment and service provision.

 

Possibly. Although water supply and disposal is always going very localized.

Maybe regional shared services where neighbouring councils club together would be more appropriate.