Thinks: Politicians are idiots, so its not going to ahppen anytime soon

Disclaimer: The stats are for America!

I presume you do not spend a lot of time designing/maintaining databases then. Massive numbers of pixels ON A HUGE SCREEN are ideal for SQL.

What is the name of that app that allows people to write PHP by throwing cow-pats at the screen? (I know there must be one, cos most of the PHP I have seen looks like a pile cow dung!)

I propose a fibre optic verion of Lightning: I am going to call it "Frightening"!

You might want to find out why. You probably are not doing it right. Tape may not be perfect, but its better than anything else long term for high capacity (Paper is better for ruggedness and lifetime, but wont work for 20TB).

The benefits of tape are:

Data will probably last 30 years (I have read 30 YO tapes myself) HD interfaces go out of fashion every few years.

You can have a pool of tapes, and recycle them when you no longer need the data.

Tapes will survive serious abuse. (A lot more than HDs anyway) definitely included the back of a station wagon (except in tropical climates).

You can use Amanda, Bacula or tar for free. (I recommend tar if you want to keep the data for 30 years).

Of course, you might want to make more than one copy of your data. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006K1FSKA

Because they are Apple. No other reason needed.

(Also using OBSD on Sparc64 servers)

Or perhaps not. The results could cause serious depression.

Get off my lawn

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It is because if one party talks louder, the other party assumes thst more volume is required and an increases his volume too - result: positive feedback (procedure works in absense of phone).

When one party talks so loud that the microphone is overloaded, the other absolutely screams to blot out the distortion!

This is well documented in the annals.