Why? It's Linux, that's why. :)

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

Except that where there is one case of delta, there are many....and hey, most of us here are quite OK about and agree with the lockdown. We're in it for the common good of everyone in the country and we're OK with putting our individual rights and freedoms to the side for a little while.

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

Haha, not quite, too high up the food chain I think. But he always drove convertibles with his foot flat to the floor even in his 70's. But he did wear the classic horn rimmed specs :) I found an old photo of the EE design/engineering team with the P.1 (prototype) from around 1954/55 - yes, he's wearing a sports jacket :-D

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

I thoroughly approve of your choice. Why you ask? My mothers uncle worked for English Electric and designed the wings for that beast (and for the Canberra).

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

I had something similar happen a couple of years ago, except I had a slightly different setup - Netgear router and 3Com OfficeConnect gigabit switch. Three PC's, two servers & printer plugged into the 3Com switch. One day the wife starts complaining about lousy internet speeds. My PC and servers OK. A few days later I started seeing the same problem. Reboot things, seems OK, then over a couple of days goes west again, to the point that it's unusable. Replugged things into the router and presto! All good. Replugged back to the 3Com switch and once again speeds are woeful. Replugged back to the router and gently retired the 3Com switch to the recycle bin. I wouldn't mind betting your OfficeConnect thing is sick.

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

Two from personal experience, and OK, they're from years ago but the gangs were far more visible at that time (1980's and 1990's) and their profile is a bit lower nowadays. 1. Old boy (80+ and partially blind) who lived a few doors down the road from us in central Wellington had his front fence and the front of his house tagged by the graffiti brigade. The next day three large Black Power guys who lived nearby appeared and repainted the whole place. 2. My dad had a puncture on the Wellington motorway on a truly sh*tty winter day. As he was struggling to jack the car up to get the tyre off (my old man had NO mechanical aptitude whatsoever) a car pulled up behind him, out jumped a couple of gang members who proceeded to change the tyre for him. They do have a bit of a moral code where kids and elderly people are concerned. Pretty small things I know, but having said that you don't ever want to look at them the wrong way! An d crime and drugs are their earner, and the violence that goes with it.

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

I guess we have been lucky in that we get to pick and choose who we let in, immigrant or refugee. On the face of it the Islamic refugees etc seem to have moderate outlooks and just damn glad to have been given a place in what we all considered was the safest place in the world.

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

No, it wouldn't stop shootings like this, but it would reduce the instant global platform for these bottom feeders... Side note - the fact that he live streamed the shootings and there were essentially no controls in place by FB to stop it (except wait for someone to report it and then react - too late because people have downloaded it to repost) is under big (relative word as we're a small country in a big world) scrutiny here. Don't know what will come of that - words followed by f**k all action?

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

Getting rid of the internet might be a good start....

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

It wasn't as you put it a "protest". As RossMW has said, nowadays the haka is used as a mark of respect or in the case of sports, (eg All Blacks) a challenge. Add to that Maori culture has a different take on life, death, the land, etc. Black Power certainly aren't spotless but they have been known to do the odd good need. It ain't all black and white.

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

Except they're not really bikers anymore (if they ever were). Last time I saw a mob guy on a motorcycle was about 1982 And that was a Honda CB360. Now they're just a gang. Some might ride motorcycles but bikers ( a la Hells Angels, Highway 61, Rebels etc) they aren't.

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

I'd like to think that as a country and a people we're better than that.

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

He had a gun license and bought the weapons legally, but the semi-automatics were illegally modified with high capacity magazines (that requires a different gun license than the one he had).

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

Correct.

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

In a nutshell, as an Australian he could travel & live freely in both Australia & NZ (kind of like USA & Canada?). While here (NZ) he legally got a NZ "A category" firearms license - so he could legally buy rifles, shotguns and semi automatics with maximum 7 round capacity magazine (yep, that includes AR-15s, AK-47s etc). To have a larger capacity mag on the semi-auto's requires an "E category" license and getting that requires more hoop jumping, but not that hard really. He didn't but acquired high capacity magazines one way or another. Illegally, as he didn't hold the correct firearms license. Another thing, when you buy a firearm here, only the seller and the purchaser know thats' what you've bought, firearms themselves are not registered. So no one really knows just who has what at any time. I was surprised to find out that, actually, for all the scorn we give the USA about "gun rights", our gun laws are more open than the USA's. Australia's gun laws mean that he couldn't have bought those types of firearms in Australia.

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

Absolutely. I look back at some of my earlier stuff and immediately think "what the hell was I thinking!?" :laugh:

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

In the past I have just said, "I'm upgrading the payroll system right now" and whatever and whoever it was vaporises and disappears. I used that every day for a week once (of course one of my responsibilities is the payroll/HR system). Got loads of actual real work done. It's amazing how the possibility of no pay come payday puts things into perspective. :)

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

Hmm. But is Django unchained? :)

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

Bosses daughter?

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

But I was "working" at home that day, honest :-D

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone