This cannot touch me.

yes, it is unreasonable in all contexts. if a crime is evinced, you charge the person and seize evidence. Charging an inanimate object with a crime is bypassing the 4th amendment.

Any patient wearing one is stating clearly they have no common sense or concept of the value of a dollar. As such they can overbill them without worrying about being called out on it.

Offline backups and live images.
infected? shut down the network, reboot the image on the system. Restore lost data from offline backups.
Find the hole (likely some dumbass that has already been told 37,000,000 times to quit opening strange attachments- fire them with extreme prejudice), fix it, and put it all back online.

No ransom paid, minimal if any loss, and this trend dies off like it should have the day it was born.

India is one of the countries where tens of millions of Internet users have free access to Wikipedia Zero, but cannot afford the data charges to access the rest of the Internet, making Wikipedia a potential gatekeeper.

Not sure how you missed that tidbit. When you only have access to Wikipedia, how do you propose investigating the school further? Bearing in mind if you cannot afford internet you sure as hell cannot afford a trip to the school or a PI to gather info on the school and alumni.

hint: melting salt makes it no more toxic than freezing it. You don't want to stick your hand in it, just like you would not want to stick it in molten iron. but in neither case has the toxicity of the substance been altered in any way.

Well, human bodies. burying in a rotting landfill is still the most efficient way to break down evidence.

In order to save my hope for humanity, I assume they do not actually believe what the oil companies pay them to say.

Accountants are still very much in demand. I worked in the energy sector recently, and they have buildings full of accountants taking care of lease and partner payouts from wells and pipelines. My brother's wife is a CPA, and she finds it impossible to be unemployed. As soon as it is even rumored that she may be out of work a line forms at the door to beg her to go work for them.

You have to ask yourself- if mankind is better off for it, why would it matter if we are no longer the top dog on the planet?

BIODEGRADABLE --- in 300pt font across the entire object

only in UV light --- in .0000015 point font on the bottom, on back, half covered by a seam, color matched to the material.

That's why. they are pushing them as biodegradable but not being very forthcoming on the limitations of that ability.

Because it still works would be my guess. Why buy a replacement when the one you have is perfectly good?

My emergency kit in the car has a plastic poncho from DisneyWorld. It is very bright yellow and highly visible. So what if it happens to have Goofy on it. I have not been to DisneyWorld since 1992.

We had to separate glass, plastics, and paper. The a truck comes around and dumps all three bins and the garbage cans in to the same trash truck without any form of separator.

And to induce more rage- they won't pick it up if it is not sorted properly.

My reaction, at first. Then i thought about the US calling it 'China Syndrome" and why it is called that.
Uraguay is opposite Japan on the globe.

I was disappointed when they took all the desktop and server OS out of DreamSpark. That was a great source of licenses for virtual machine learning environments.