This.

You go out of state*, buy your Tesla and receive the title. You then either get a temporary operating permit to drive it home. Or load it on a truck. When you arrive in Michigan, you register the vehicle with the title documents in your possession.

*All done virtually. You do the paperwork wherever you want (in the Tesla showroom) but it is effective in whatever state you and Tesla agree on.

... no CLI then?

In the distant future, archeologists will unearth the food court on the lower level of our local mall and discover the altar upon which thousands of chickens were sacrificed to the god Colonel Sanders.

Plus, they cancelled a hockey game. Canadians are lining up at recruitment centers for the chance to take ISIS down.

Because of the bones? That's doesn't sound any scarier than the BBQ rib joint down the street.

OK. That fixes an event that can take one data center out*. But why mirrored? Why aren't these systems distributed and colocated with the municipalities that they serve? And why a globally unique call ID that overflows at 4E7 records?

* I helped develop a system that achieved its reliability through the use of distributed servers. And then had the IT people put all the servers in one rack, in one building. For cost savings, of course. The building sits right on top of the Seattle fault. So you'll have to excuse me when I don't take details like this for granted.

It's helping Google. Because people that manage their own folders and filters end up shit-canning all the sponsored e-mail that Google wants you to see.

Its the frog in hot water theory. If a taxing agency takes it out in one big chunk, people will notice. If they take it out a little at a time, not so much.

Also referred to as death by a thousand cuts. No single agency will be held responsible for the resulting economic collapse.

For 911 services in 7 states? Set aside issues about the backup system for the moment (which may be a second server in the same data center): Why do all the 911 calls have to funnel through a single system? Emergency services are largely local. Not many people have to make 911 calls across a large region. So why isn't the energency call routing handled by local systems? And calls routed to local service centers?

Even if there was a common software glitch in all the handling systems, I doubt everyone would hit some call limit in a database field simultaneously.

A codpiece?

Small electronic devices that bend easily. No, wait. That's Apple's product line.

Thanks to mandatory seatbelt laws, we don't need airbags anymore. Have them disabled and removed.

Who's second are they using?

Time to whip out my Dr Strangelove DVD and review the bit about mineshafts.

Or a wax job that leaves anything less than a Hitler Mustache.