Do you have public info on how staff are allowed to ignore management directions on getting work instead of sleeping?

Oh but I can't see Any problems with taking all of that information and having a bunch of people not yet out of College be tasked with keeping it secure. They've surely been properly educated on both physical and software security standards when they have one of the world's biggest collections of Government staff data, no questions. Yes? Please?

Nah, this is par for the course these days.

Ever seen one of those 'live hacking world map' displays? A Lot of stuff coming from China, but quite a lot of stuff going To China to.

Governments be hacking, yo.

The Australians are worried they're going to be the 52nd state :/ The Americans are worried that his Presidency might Not be limited...

Ask the Tibetans (1950), Koreans (that one is a bit different honestly), Indians (multiple times), Vietnamese (1979, China invaded their former ally), or the Somalis. China has fought in quite a few wars at various scales, don't pretend otherwise.

That's one example of defending jobs where they probably shouldn't have, compared to the decent pay, safety protections and things like weekends off that Unions have fought for. Every organisation needs oversight and rebuilding from time to time, but the existence of Unions is quite necessary to counterbalance the hyper focus on profits at the expense of all other factors that so many business owners/shareholders have (which actually hurts the business in the medium to long term).

I doubt it was designed to last forever, it's just that the US political class is too deadlocked to agree on anything better to replace it.

Funnily enough "Liberal" doesn't Leftist like many people think it does, it's really about protecting personal freedoms. Perhaps a third of the time I think we're fighting over the meaning of words instead of actual facts :/ In the USA "Liberal" came to mean Progressive because of FDR's New Deal, and it's stuck. It makes Australian politics kind of confusing because there's a Liberal Party which is actually well named (generally they're centre right), but because American political language is so pervasive people think they should be Leftists.

Don't they violate the technical USB standard though? Meaning if there's a problem, the warranty likely won't hold?

If those companies weren't putting so much money into share buybacks and dividends then they wouldn't face these kinds of problems.

I think a lot of people don't like the idea of there being More politicians and Gov budgets going up with more salaries.

Indeed, there are all kinds of people in every industry, and it's still the less empathetic who tend to end up towards the top in most businesses as they're usually more willing to push hard to get results, not a lot of softly softly strategies from them.

Indeed, traders mostly chase quarterly gains and large pay-offs, they don't get much credit for a buy and hold strategy that benefits the entire company, the staff and the customers over 5-10+ years. That kind of thing doesn't show off their 'creativity, talent and verve', but stability is what creates long term economic success not another tulip bulb bubble.

Is Every mention of the current US Pres getting downvoted??

This is perhaps one killer app feature for online banks that I can get behind