It's not just that.

Its the US shouting "protectionism" while simultaneously restricting a lot of tech transfer to China in an effort to try and block their development.

If China cant rely on other countries for what they need, because the US forces restrictions on other countries trade with China (see the banning of an European countries chip UV manufacturing technology sale to China), then of course they are going to reduce their reliance in all areas on other countries.

Silicon has grades of quality, and while many beaches are made of silicon, barely any of it can be used for high quality purposes.

Until recently, EVs were exempt from road user charges, but in the past couple of years they have been phased in.

Basically, for petrol vehicles the taxes are built into the fuel costs - but because diesel vehicles are used a lot for non-taxable purposes (eg farm use off of public roads), there is no road user charges on diesel fuel. Instead, NZ has the concept of a Road User Charge fee that you have to buy per 1000KM of usage on the public road - the fee varies depending on type of vehicle and weight of vehicle, so heavier vehicles pay more, as do those who travel more.

EVs weighing up to 3500kg currently have to pay a RUC charge of $76NZD per 1000KM, which is the same for diesel vehicles in the same weight class.

Yeah, sure, trust the hacker.

And it doesn't matter that it's not been released right now, that can change at any point in the future - the fact is, the data is out of the control of the original site now, so you should be acting like it's public.

Or the data can be cross referenced with data from a hacked ad provider or common JavaScript cdn provider, either now or at a later date, to provide probable identity information...

Again more bullshit from you.

Sure, devices have been known to catch fire while charging, but it's far from a normal occurrence, so you are allowed to use and charge devices in a flying aircraft.

But a damaged device is another matter entirely - stop trying to justify your own stupidity with ridiculous comparisons.

You are the idiot here.

Battery fires do not require the device to be charging, and the summary notes that the device was already showing deformations caused by operation of the seat, so the integrity of the battery was a real concern.

Diverting the aircraft was a sound decision based on safety.

Fuck people like you.

Aircraft safety is paramount, and a damaged device is a fire hazard - calling the airline stupid is the real stupidity here.

They arent trying to understand, they are paid trolls attacking anything negative to the US right now - reactions to Trumps tariffs are high on Russia agenda right now as a follow up to the tariffs themselves, because getting people het up about American companies not toeing the line increases confrontation.

See how quickly several other people chimed in with supporting comments talking negatively about the company? Its a coordinated effort.

Then those "certain people" can plug the optional power cable in and use that, while the rest of us can use the single cable for both power and data.

You really do slurp up the right wing propaganda over there in America dont you?

Theres nothing wrong with the UKs freedom of press or freedom of speech for the average person - sure, hate speech is banned, which is good. It also means we dont have anywhere near the issues that you do in America.

By the way, your President recently called a boycott of a private companies products "illegal", and many of your states have laws which make boycotts of Israel illegal. Is everything ok over there?

Photographers are already using their software of choice to work with raw formats. Often, that software takes advantage of specific hardware and software features of the $$,$$$ to $$$,$$$ cameras and associated equipment that created the raw files. Staying within the family for software to work with digital negatives and images is not a big jump when someone has already invested in a single platform of camera bodies and lenses, and most photography software that is worth using in the long run provides timely enough support for new camera models. When professional photographers' time is worth $$$ to $,$$$ per hour, the fact that the software or standard is open source might not matter to their teams' workflows or bottom lines.

I've installed and supported GIMP for dozens of groups in the past, but I've stopped doing that because kids who learn that software gain significantly less advantage for employment and further education compared to learning more popular desktop and cloud based image editors.

> Climate science is getting utterly wrecked

climate science is junk science, so there's that

Why would they? Despite the moaning on here, a lot of people like both IOS and MacOS - and for a lot of people it is a differentiator for them from Linux/Android and Windows.

Other things this government has done and subsequently blamed on others

Cancelled the “three waters” centralised management and budget plan for fresh, storm and foul water, pushing back the cost onto local councils. Despite these councils largely professing to hate “three waters”, they made no allowance for this, so were left with no budget and cancelled infrastructure replacement.

Tried to tear up the treaty governing the Crown relationship with Maori natives.

Cancelled the ferry replacement program for the main road and rail link between the two main islands of NZ, and then refused to reveal their own plan or the cost of cancelling the existing contract. Turns out the cancellation cost was north of $300million NZ dollars, and they still dont have a contract in place for delivery by 2029, which is when the already decrepit existing ferries are due to be retired.