Because the outcome is a lot worse for society than unpaid rent if they don't have a roof over their heads.
New Zealand really loves to chase the wrong end of the stick and focus on benefit-bashing. The reality is that there's a much higher magnitude of tax fraud than there is benefit fraud, so how about we focus on the big ticket items first?
The tariffs would be on Denmark or even possibly Europe as a whole.
Pbtech is one of the major retailers. Their reputation is so-so (in terms of service level and dealing with warranties) but at least will give you a good benchmark on what you can buy and it's cost.
Assuming this is the few years old model (G513QY) it works great. Been running it primarily on Arch BTW for the last few years and there were some challenges initially but all the drivers etc. have caught up. Only thing I'm still stuck with is getting VR running in Linux, but in theory that's possible.
So public healthcare?
You are right though. It was named a Bill, now it is named an Act :-) https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/publications/bills-acts/
The irony is that this particular area has some of the most traffic and multilevel car parking of anywhere in the city... Copenhagen is great but not perfect.
While I get where you're coming from, I'm of a very different opinion.
The whole Republican movement is paid for by backers that need consumers to bleed dry. The whole machine is based on having lower income people needing to spend money to get by, and to form their tax base. You take away the consumer and the worker, you take away their power. Kids are the next generation of consumers, and add a huge amount to family consumption even before they are born, so the effect will be noticeable well within four years. You only have to look at the sentiments from the Russian government regarding having children after they've sent all their men away as cannon fodder - this comment would get me fined or imprisoned there.
All that said, power to those who choose to have kids, but it shouldn't be considered as any sort of boon to society. Humanity functioned with less people previously, and can easily do so again if we unsubscribe from the infinite growth model. With the climate crisis we find ourselves in, it's also possibly the best mitigation route.
I do agree with you on the adoption route and hope many more people consider the option.
It's not true or is meant as a joke. Our slimeball prime minister greased on right up to Trump. Unless poster is referring to another politician which doesn't represent NZ as a whole.
This exactly. I'm an engineer but day-to-day I'm mainly using the Office shite (I tried for suite but ended up with former and happy to run with it) to do my job. The amount of extraneous effort I have to make to do tasks that would have been simple in 2005 is completely ridiculous. Yet on my home computer running Arch BTW, I can do everything instantaneously, the only downside is that some supplier I don't really care for wants my presentation in pptx. If it wasn't for work data security requirements, I'd just use my personal equipment for everything because I'd be able to work so much faster.
Edit: not to mention a lot of FOSS software is better than the professional bullshit (AutoCAD needs to die), it's just a lot more effort to get up to speed with because colleagues around you don't know it (yet)
Agreed, if we move on from the topic about not paying rent and onto a discussion around violence/harrassment or destruction of property, that's a policing issue. KO as "landlord" could impose some penalties such as rehousing to a less desirable location or imposing fines, but throwing antisocial or violent people out onto the streets are simply going to make our streets full of more anti-social and violent behaviour that the public-at-large will then encounter. Longer term, we need to adapt our policies across the board to set the next generation up for success so people have less need for social housing and then everybody is better off. But in the circumstances we have today, it helps nobody to kick these people to the curb.