I've spent time with an AI laptop the past couple of weeks and 'overinflated' seems a generous description of where end user AI is today.

There's no specific date in the Commerce Commission notification, it just says 12 months from today. I'd read that as by September 5, 2025.

Usually the Commnerce Commission goes through a consulting or engagement stage before setting down rules. That appears to have been done, so the mobile companies have 12 months to fix their maps.

In that context, it's not really piracy, it's cultural preservation.

Sure... I know lawyers say otherwise,

It's my theory that when all the externalities are taken into account, cruise ships cost New Zealand's economy far more than they contribute.

Of course there are the environmental costs. They probably outweigh any income on their own. But also, and it's just a 'for instance' every time a big ship docks in Auckland, the ferries are disrupted. On some days they are cancelled for hours which means hundreds of people have to make alternative travel arrangements. If that was fully costed, it would come to thousands of dollars for each docking.

And then there is the admin needed... I'm certain the cost of customs and passport control works out at more than $20 per passenger.

File this one under: How to win friends and influence people