They were paid for a service that they did not deliver.

They delivered exactly the same service as any other carbon credit seller, the appearance of doing soemthing while doing absolutely nothing.

Because first world nations are spending their own money.

Excuse me? As a taxpayer I can very much assure you they are NOT spending "their own" money. They are spending the money of the citizens of those countries.

They spend either my tax money, OR by printing more money destroy the purchasing power of money I have. Either way they are spending my money.

Poor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for trillions of dollars of climate finance,

Why, when no first world nation does the same?

At this point trillions of dollars have gone into climate related slush funds with much of it siphoned off to make some very rich people incredibly richer, with a tiny portion actually going to real efforts to help the environment.

Why shouldn't the third would be allowed to dine at the same trough? Sounds like a racist thing if I'm being honest.

The rest of the world won't, because their own currencies are currently inflating more than the USD.

The U.S. is squarely in the middle of the list of world inflation (you can sort by tapping on column headers).

But the bigger problem is inflation ahead, which is illuminated quite well by the debt to GDP ratio map, where only a handful of countries are worse off... the interest payments for the U.S. debt are nearing exponential increase.

Got Gold?

Non-sequitor

No, Non-seatbeltitor!

They'll mock it because this is absolutely terrible advice.

Bet you don't wear seatbelts or buy insurance either. What a waste of money!

Good luck!

Gold has an artificially inflated price

As per usual everything you say is exactly backwards of the truth - the value in relation to the USD of gold should be much higher by historical measurements, but the price of gold has been controlled for decades.

What is happening now is the rest of the world knows the real value of gold and governments, banks and people in many other countries are hovering up gold as the current massively discounted price.

The really fun point comes when governments realize they will never be able to pay off debts and the gold revaluation occurs (as the U.S. already did once in history, but you would;dn't know about that).

Gold is insurance against government financial malfeasance, I leave it as an exercise to the reader to what degree they feel like the government they live under is fiscally sound.

In fact, the incurring of debt is not directly related to expenditure at all. It's a mathematical fantasy. The USG never defaults. Who is going to enforce that?

It's really simple, the rest of the world is going to enforce that by at some point no longer taking USD (or in reality simply taking a lot more) for payments for real things they have, like oil or lithium or food.

Buy gold.

Gold is what has persevered wealth through periods of debt based financial reset. like the one we are entering into...

You don't have to sell everything and put it all in gold. But consider putting at least 10% of your assets into something tangible...

Many replies will mock this, but 5000 years of gold preserving wealth is a pretty good track record.

Some will say that BTC can serve a similar role but I doubt it; it's been hijacked by the same banks that are bankrupting nations now.

In that one room the parents had sex. Right besides their old folk and the children.

In case you hadn't noticed it's no longer the dark ages, nor normal to have children watch - or participate in- you having sex with your furry friends.

The law has one purpose and it is to gather a listing of adults accessing material which the state government can use to retaliate against

And you think they do not already have that info because... ?

They do not need a law to have that info.

You do' not think it's worth any attempt at all to keep adult material away from kids until older? You would like a six year old walk into a strip club? Because that's basically what you are saying you want to allow.

Kids are just not ready for some adult stuff until older. And that's the real fight here, some people think it should be OK to expose truly under-age kids to any degree of sexually related material.

It's about restricting access to webpages with "adult content", which includes, for example... information about abortion, information about LGBTQ issues, and probably some other stuff I haven't thought of.

Nope those are not covered.

This article made me wonder, do any other storage providers not bill for unauthorized access attempts? That seems like a pretty big potential billing hazard.

I can see why providers might charge for that, it is taking up resources, but I would also hope providers would do some work to help drop unauthorized requests in a way that would not bill you, or maybe some very minimal fee.

At the very least a good lesson to monitor an S3 bucket access logs as soon as you create one to make sure nothing else is pointing at it! And maybe to use some really complex bucket naming, or at least reverse domain format, to eliminate that possibility.

The alarm clock has always been an exception to each and every rule regarding sounds.

Another way it's an exception is that it is allowed to play sounds at times other apps are not - like if you have sleep mode on, or have turned on the mute switch!

And, so do you still have your VP?

Of course I still have my VP, I use it daily for work and other things. It's been awesome, and was especially good on a recent international flight.

I still find it incredibly useful to have a normalized large working environment wherever I am, I've had to travel a lot recently (some work, some vacation) and no matter where I go I have a full computing setup easily on hand.

I cannot express how much more vastly useful the AVP is day to day than any Quest unit. Quest is for play, AVP is for work.