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Comment Not an empty pump (Score 1) 19

"Despite a more than 40% slump since mid-February,"

IOU was far from alone in a fall in share price from Mid-Feb. Afterpay itself had a high of ~$160 in mid February and fell 37% by end of March. Currently back up around $120 (which is still 25% down from $160).
Other BNPL companies followed exactly the same pattern through that period (e.g. Z1P , SZL).

IOU is far from an empty pump, see below - they have a Malaysia Money Lending License already, which is required to lend within Malaysia. As far as I know Afterpay does not at this stage.

https://themarketherald.com.au... [themarketherald.com.au]

"Earlier this year (2021), IOUpay secured its Malaysian Money Lending License, meaning it is fully compliant in offering its BNPL service to consumers and merchants in Malaysia."

Comment Australian government doing the same. (Score 1) 54

Australian Department of Defence and Australian Tax Office paying a combined ~6 million USD for the same.

https://www.itnews.com.au/news...

This is on top of ~3.6 million USD to extend Server 2003 (!!) support in 2018.
And ~1.1 million USD to extend Server 2008 support. (both mentioned in the above article).

That's just two government departments for a country 1/5th the GDP of Germany.

Comment Re:Bots? (Score 1) 176

From one of the tweets in theguardian article: "Total alleged Leftist arsonists sits at 183."

From your NSW Police link:
"Since Friday 8 November 2019, legal action – which ranges from cautions through to criminal charges – has been taken against 183 people – including 40 juveniles – for 205 bushfire-related offences.
Of note:
24 people have been charged over alleged deliberately-lit bushfires
53 people have had legal actions for allegedly failing to comply with a total fire ban, and
47 people have had legal actions for allegedly discarding a lighted cigarette or match on land."

Big difference between 183 cases of arson and 24 cases of arson + a bunch of fire ban violations+discarded cigarettes.

Comment Re:Read the stats (Score 1) 205

Why not just run the report and prove how much traffic there was.

Because the report would only show how many redirects there were and not how much traffic there was at the destination. If you don't understand what a DDoS is, just say so.

If you don't understand how that would show whats going on then you should probably get off your high horse before you fall down and hurt yourself.

Have the FCC to release traffic #s.
JO release how much traffic hit the redirect.
Any DDoS should show up in the difference.

Unless the DDoS was directed at the redirect, but you would expect that to kill the redirect not the end point, which is not what happened.

Comment Re:So use what you have (Score 1) 308

... Add another 50 of the largest possible nuclear plants and you reach your no-carbon goal.

But all of this assumes enormous efficiency gains. If the efficiency stays about the same, double those numbers. Technology has gotten somewhat better since he died, but not enough to significantly change the numbers.

Is that "50" a typo, or are you suggesting that it would take 100 of the largest possible nuclear plants to generate 1/3 of the UKs current energy usage.

Comment Re:I'm not surprised. (Score 2) 917

If a manager propositioned someone on day one there would be quite a lot of people who know about it

How? A manager propositions a staff member. That's two people that know about it. The manager isn't going to tell anyone (unless he is an idiot as well as a lowlife slimeball). Why would you assume the staff member would tell anyone other than a confidential report to HR and upper management. Unless either of them are grossly unprofessional then that report shouldn't reach office gossip level.

Comment Re:Stay away. (Score 1) 514

Excellent use of using a percentage to reach a bad conclusion.
3% is a small percentage, but that doesn't make international tourism, insignificant to the USA economy.

"While the majority of activity in the industry is domestic, expenditures by international visitors in the United States totaled $246.2 billion in 2015, yielding a $97.9 billion trade surplus for the year."
https://www.selectusa.gov/trav...

Taking a $100 billion dollar chunk out of your trade surplus so that CPB can trawl through peoples personal emails, texts and photos while "real" terrorist and criminals take trivial steps to bypass getting caught by these methods seems like a really stupid choice.

Comment Re:Arrest him and throw him into Gitmo (Score 2) 627

The officer may be guilty of misrepresentation, but I blame NASA for not telling folks how to handle a NASA phone. CITIZENS have no requirement to answer any questions or facilitate a search. Leave the phone and keep walking.

Good idea. The suspicious* dark skinned guy being questioned by armed** CPB agents at an airport should just put the phone down in front of them, pick up his hand luggage and walk away through the airport ignoring their requests to stop. What's the worst thing that could happen right?

*why else would they want to get into his phone.
**I assume CPB agents are armed. If not I am sure there was someone of authority close by with a deadly weapon.

Comment Re:And here we go again... (Score 1) 659

And for what exactly?

Why would that matter?

What the hell was the point of inauguration attendance claim?

What is the point of the three million vote fraud claim?

Have you seen any mention of Trumps divestment of his personal business lately?
How about Trumps tax records?
Or is the media focused elsewhere such as irrelevant inauguration attendance and impossible to prove voting fraud?

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