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#3085060 5-Jun-2023 11:45

Geektastic: Diesel Fuel At NPD in Christchurch $1.66

Diesel fuel at BP in Queenstown $1.99

Christchurch has a port, Queenstown doesn't.

its a 5-7h truck ride to get stuff there 35,000L at a time.

might not add up to 30c per/L but most stations in queenstown have the same price which suggests some form of price gouging.

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#3085068 5-Jun-2023 12:28

Z or BP, Wellington Central: 199c/l for diesel

Waitomo Tinakori, 161c/l for diesel..

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#3088910 12-Jun-2023 11:00

What a bargain

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#3092160 19-Jun-2023 17:23

Some Watercare guys turned up to investigate reports of a blocked stormwater drain somewhere nearby and wanted to get into the manhole below the house. However the GIS map shows it about ten metres away from its actual location, which may not sound like much but there's heavy bush down there and it's buried under debris so no hope of finding it unless there's someone there to tell you where it is. They can't locate anything so want to try another manhole on a neighbour's property. I tell them that not only the manhole but 20-30m of stormwater drain, along with a good chunk of two sections, ceased to exist on 30 January, and maybe that's the cause of the reported "blockage".

Can't help thinking that things would operate a lot more efficiently if the left hand knew what the right hand was doing.

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#3092191 19-Jun-2023 19:19

5 months is too soon for them to be responding to the section collapse. My bet would be that the blockage possibly contributed to the washout and was reported ages ago. The ground surrounding the pipe was probably saturated.

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#3092310 19-Jun-2023 21:48

Bung: 5 months is too soon for them to be responding to the section collapse. My bet would be that the blockage possibly contributed to the washout and was reported ages ago. The ground surrounding the pipe was probably saturated.

Sure, that definitely caused the collapse, had engineers come in after the failure and determine that. Good point about the delay in getting it checked, if I'd known I'd have asked them when it was reported.

Anyone know if this makes Watercare liable due to negligence? If the blockage was reported, say, 12 months ago and they did nothing to resolve it...

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#3092320 19-Jun-2023 22:43

They protect themselves. I had friends in Wellington have part of the neighbour's section collapse on their house. To an amateur the fact that a council sewer ran through that area raised suspicion that maybe it could be responsible. "Oh no" they declared "it was just coincidence".

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#3093293 22-Jun-2023 07:13

Received the following connection request on LinkedIn... anyone think there's much demand for MySQL courses in Ohakea?

Hi
We're an international resourcing company & we're seeking a freelance trainer to deliver our onsite Training " Introduction to MySQL" on 28 august 2023 in Ohakea, New zealand
If you are interested, please share your email address so i can share the more details to you.
Thanks!!

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#3093306 22-Jun-2023 07:54

cddt:

Received the following connection request on LinkedIn... anyone think there's much demand for MySQL courses in Ohakea?

Hi
We're an international resourcing company & we're seeking a freelance trainer to deliver our onsite Training " Introduction to MySQL" on 28 august 2023 in Ohakea, New zealand
If you are interested, please share your email address so i can share the more details to you.
Thanks!!

Weird
I'd say 100% scam material

There's only one organisation at Ohakea and in my experience they rather definitely didn't hire a random 'international resourcing company' to deliver their IT training.

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#3095928 28-Jun-2023 17:40

One in 10 adults said they had been a victim of fraud or deception, up from one in six in the previous survey.

From: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/132436545/huge-rise-in-fraud-and-deception-crimes-crime-and-victimisation-survey-shows

My maths teacher was obviously wrong! 10% is obviously bigger than 16.7%!!!

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#3097788 30-Jun-2023 15:45

Creepy if they can actually pull it off by getting into home routers

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#3097842 30-Jun-2023 17:05

hsvhel:

Creepy if they can actually pull it off by getting into home routers

https://www.instagram.com/p/CuCkBreKya8/

Huh...why can I not see that..

Oh thats right I have most social media sites going to 0.0.0.0

Part of my anti-scam regime ....

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#3097846 30-Jun-2023 17:10

sir1963:

Huh...why can I not see that..

Oh thats right I have most social media sites going to 0.0.0.0

Part of my anti-scam regime ....

I think being smug like that is the new "i don't even own a television" lameness.

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#3097847 30-Jun-2023 17:13

msukiwi:
One in 10 adults said they had been a victim of fraud or deception, up from one in six in the previous survey.

From: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/132436545/huge-rise-in-fraud-and-deception-crimes-crime-and-victimisation-survey-shows

My maths teacher was obviously wrong! 10% is obviously bigger than 16.7%!!!

Ten is bigger than six so obviously the value is increasing.

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#3097856 30-Jun-2023 17:23

richms:

I think being smug like that is the new "i don't even own a television" lameness.

Or now just commonsense to reduce your exposure surface.

I also have a large hosts file

I actively post scams to scamwatch, phishtank, google anti-phish, as well as forward scams to IRD, NZTA, etc etc

I have WOT installed and actively rate web sites on that.

I have a VM that I "follow links" on, and video the URLs as they jump from one forwarding site to the next so I can see who they are and report each URL.

So I am sure as hell not going yo jump on "click bait" headlines/URLs

its just common sense nowadays.

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