In New Zealand, there is a provision in the copyright law that handily makes having a copy legal, while also making it impractical for most people.

Prior to the addition of the format-shifting provision, making a copy was always illegal (eg that recording on your VCR was illegal). Adding the provision made it legal, but subtly also not generally useful.

The format-shifting exception allows the owner of the physical media to make a copy themselves, for their own use. If they transfer ownership of the physical media they must destroy the copy (they can’t even pass on the convenience to the next owner).

Since making copies is more technical than is practical for the masses, most cannot take advantage of the provision - and that’s the way copyright owners like it.

Presented to 1dp in million km², I’m not sure how much Oceania could practically change.

New Zealand only has 0.26M km² and some of that can’t be forested. A lot of Australia can’t be forested without a few (quite a few?) generations of crazy effort and some handy scientific breakthroughs.

I wonder if it would be more useful to have it shown as a percentage change as well as an absolute change (depending on the source data of course).

eg

• North America 🟢 1.3% / 0.1 km²
• South America 🔴 -17.5% / -1.8M km²
• …

I’m uncertain of the weather dynamics and the effects on atmospheric-water movements, but maybe Northern and Southern Hemisphere totals would be useful too.

Regardless. Sobering numbers in a long list of sobering numbers

(arguably, after looking at such numbers for years, and seeing no sign of an en masse shift in policy and behaviour, maybe not so sober)

Shh. Don’t let the current NZ government hear. They’ll want to bring zero-hour contracts back… Anything hurting this many workers is likely to be very popular with their donors.

Two comments pointing in a pixelated direction… Gotta be something to that…

Thanks.

I thought the pre-election debate was bad enough for that… but it made no difference to the result (at least not in the right direction).

This is possibly the first US President where lies-per-minute might be a useful metric.

Why would you watch it, when you can get an itemised list of the lies later anyway.

Waaaiiit. Is this thread the joke?

It’s not a big step to my study and decent sized displays. I don’t watch much on the phone of any real duration… It’s just not the same. And a fair bit of the casual watching is technical material - tiny screen sucks for that.

And then the big screen for watching movies together.

Partly I wonder if it’s just because some people like to watch the world burn…

Attaboy Mr President. You win ‘race to armageddon’… The ‘Pillock of Peace’ will be all yours once there’s no one around to make war.

November (7th?)… It’s gonna be a long year.

We don’t have the greatest controls here. A large amount of law passing has been passed ‘under urgency’ for the weakest of reasons - let’s you bypass most of the debate and public opinion. This government has no shame (not that a sense of propriety should be the control we count on to rein in political ambition and ideology… or possibly obligations to donors… ahem).

Mind-blowing indeed… since he managed to overlook all those deaths, the loss agency in their governance, the inequalities of wealth, education and health, the fact that home ownership looks likely to become a statistical anomaly for Maori.

…and you know, let’s remove use of their language and references to the treaty from education…

Please don’t lump all ‘old white men’ in with that arsehole.

You’ll hurt my feelings.

Amongst a smattering of largely ineffectual feel-good changes, there is a lot of horror from this government - in laws as well as words shaping our social landscape.

It boggles my mind that in two short years we seem to have stepped back into the 80’s for race relations, social policy, opinions on law and order, and on matters of the environment.

It’s a disgrace.

I do hope, come November, that enough victorious voters of this round are shamed enough to recognise their error - and that enough of those that didn’t vote because “it wouldn’t count” get up and make a damned difference.

Whatever reruns were playing on the channel we had… Beggars can’t be choosers (though I note, some beggars are quite choosey - odd).

Hysterical laughter is excusable. Something has to give or you’ll pop a blood vessel.

It gets crazier by the day.

And the Centi-stat is born. Expressing facts in hundredths.

This brilliance knows no precedent! Now we just need an official units symbol to really seal the deal.

(I mean yes, we do have ‘percentages’… but clearly the people have spoken)

Gosh. If only there were some way for Russia to avoid this… Let me think…

Three years… amateurs. If my Note10+ still had software support I probably could go another couple of years.

…And given they’ve taken some features away on the S25 Ultra and S26 Ultra, I’m not actually sure I want to pay such a premium price to stay with Samsung (as much as I do like this device).