Except that the fine is only part of the penalty. They are also required to offer to buy the car back from every person which would equate to $1000s of losses on every vehicle, with some of those vehicles having a premium placed on the buy back price, fix the vehicle, and then pay the fine. Overall this will hurt a huge amount.

In total we are talking close to 2 million vehicles. If you assumed 50% buy back rates, assume $500 per car costs to buy back, $500 to rectify problem, $1500 to get the vehicle back into the market you are starting to look at seriously high costs. This one incident alone could wipe out over $2 billion dollars.

Does the US not have the equivalent of these?
http://periodicdisclosures.aec...
https://www.parliament.qld.gov...
http://www.icac.nsw.gov.au/

A recent ICAC investigation captured a sitting premier and forced his resignation over a bottle of wine...

Alternatively a second step can be put in for review. I would expect that any surgical table fatalities have to be written up and assessed for what could have been done differently. In this post-mortem environment there is limited time pressure so a conclusive call can be made as to whether this patient was a high risk patient or not. It yes, then lodge it as a high risk fatality, if no, lodge it in the black mark column of "should have survived".

As a side note one of my close friends is an Emergency Intensivist, and the way she describes her job is "I'm the doctor you hope you never have to meet, because if you do meet me, you are about to die." So as a result her fatality rate is huge and it will always be such, even if she was the best doctor in the world.

It gets orders of magnitudes worse if you have two vdevs joined together in a single pool. I have 5 x 1.5g and 5 x 2g in a joint pool and I lost a 1.5. The re silvering process was days.

Until you and everyone else in the neighbourhood sets up their own shitty broadcasts all over the top of each other as there is only a finite about of frequencies and the entire spectrum is saturated with white noise. So you start needing a powerstation and a GW transmitter to be detectable above all the other people and we are back where we started with needing big money to be a broadcaster and get heard.

Given I have seen sysadmin delete the backups to free up space you cannot always handle stupidity.

And seriously? You cannot corrupt already written data? WTF. ZFS has a whole system built into it to periodically check if data has corrupted once on the disk. Its called scrub. Do you think they would have gone to a huge load of effort if no on disk corruption ever happened?!?!?

ZFS is very good at ensuring that there has been no "in transit" corruption by doing a crc check of the written file before removing the original. It is fantastic for that. But it doesn't protect you from the data corruption it only warns you when it occurs. If you have a controller spack out on you then you will end up with corruption. If the corruption happens fast enough or your are not monitoring it enough that corruption can destroy the file system.

If you have redundant controllers and you catch it before the corruption spreads to the mirrored drive then you can recover. If however you lose a controller and have issues on your other controller you are stuck rebuilding from backups.

Kinda depends on the failure. If your raid controller decides to die in a spasmodic on off on off way you can easily corrupt all your file systems in one go, zfs or otherwise. At that point if you didn't have redundant live storage pools it gets harder.

Or of course there is the issue where someone does something stupid, like deleting files from live machines without thinking about what they are.

It would require a massive shift for that to happen. As a general rule we have consumed more each year than we did the year before with minor exceptions around major economic traumas.

http://www.tradingeconomics.co...

American houses are larger - 1725sqft in 1983 to 2598 in 2014
Life expectancy is longer - 69.7 in 1960 to 78.78 in 2012 (US)
Disposable income per month - 1959 $351 US Billion to 13429.30 US Billion 2014
Housing ownership rate - 1959 62.9% 2014 63.7%

So basically in all of those measures the US is better off today than it was in 1960. Even your comment about people living with their parents is not true as home ownership rates have remained pretty constant. You live longer, you have more disposable income and you live in bigger houses.

This only holds true if the stand of living and the level of consumption per individual remains constant. It is easy to look around your house and see that that isn't the case. Today we have far more stuff then our parents ever did. Our houses have been getting bigger and there is a much more disposable attitude.

There is no way they would not respond to a human calling in. However many many calls to the fire service are from automated systems. If you can get a drone on site in 4 minutes and your first crew on site in 12 you have an additional 8 minutes of information on the event to plan responses. Currently they will be making assumptions based on the source of the call. Ok this is an industrial site with lots of false alarms, send 1 crew. This is a site that never had a false alarm with high population count send 5 crews.

Having a drone on site in a shorter period of time will allow them to go. Oh shit this is a huge fire send everyone, or only small or no heat signatures detected the 1 crew on route it enough until further advised.

You don't need to route the traffic from their network to yours. You are making this way way way more difficult than it needs to be. Setup a router at the grandparents end which has everything running through it. Set it up with a squid proxy and all the traffic will be loggable there.

Next configure that route to be a vpn server and you connect into it whenever you want. Once connected you can read the logs and check your sons internet habits and you can access the rest of the network to fix their machines.

Unless I am missing something there is nothing in your spec that actually requires a site to site connection. Christ you could probably get away with a few non standard port forwards and just ssh directly into your sons laptop.

Intercepting their ships would be an act of war. Iran has the capability to close the Strait of Hormuz and this would cripple the western world, you start attacking their assets and they may just push that button. Oh sure the US could use that as an excuse to launch an invasion of Iran but Russia would not sit idly by and allow that. At the very least they would begin supplying advanced weapons to Iran.

In addition Iran is currently what is holding ISIS in check. They are supporters of the Assad Government and are supplying weapons and skills which are hugely critical in preventing ISIS from dominating the area. You smash Iran and you will cause the entire region to disintegrate into a cluster fuck.

Also your belief that you could actually isolate Iran to that degree is sadly mistaken. Push that hard and China and Russia will be there to support Iran for their own benefit. China will buy the oil for peanuts supercharging their own economy while the west suffers oil price shocks the likes of which make the 70s shocks look like blips. Russia will do the same. They will purchase Iranian oil for peanuts and sell their own supplies onto the now hyper-inflated western market, you will see an even more resurgent Russia with a huge competitive advantage.

Usually a channel is dug and the cable is laid in a conduit for the beach crossing. But that only goes a certain distance out and it is about the most expensive part of the cable lay. Even assuming they trenched 100m out that could easily be less than 4m of water over the cable and well inside the depth that a large storm would influence.

Actually we do know that they weren't caused by the same event. In the article it points out that the microwave link was knocked out by a previous storm event and the cable was severed prior to completing repairs on the microwave system. The microwave system succumbed to physical damage from storm debris.