That's one of the most elegantly expressed thoughts I've ever read.
Bravo.

He wasn't "let in", he was made there.

The downside is that you *can* experience some pretty horrific latency when accessing stuff that isn't physically located in NZ.
That's just the laws of physics

What's the difference between Australia and an apple?

If you leave an apple for long enough, it'll grow a culture.

(And no, I'm not a Kiwi)

It's pretty good - from my experience, NZ has few noticeable flaws.

Is it safe?

Only sum of the time

I guess that makes me a dinosaur - I used to work at Symbian...

I 'C' what you did there.

I forgot, right?

Speak for yourself.

Ah, I see that you were.

Get a Pebble - mine lasts over 4 days between charges.

Don't do that - sooner or later we're going to run out of GUIDs. There's only so many of them - and once they're gone, they're gone. That's it. That's your lot.
There won't be any more.

Same as the last 4 digits of Pi

I think you mean AF447 - an Airbus A330