When it gets to this point, the choice of the population is to starve to death or create a new, parallel system that serves em.
The population will need to find a way to do all that while paying rent/mortgages, which might prove difficult.
Years ago I worked at a gift vards/loyalty cards SaaS provider. Two unusual clients were a school that had gone cashless and a domestic cleaning franchise.
Someone transfers some money to the platform and then unbanked people make redemptions at different points of sale.
For most users, that means they'll need to subscribe to Microsoft 365. This, in turn, means their data and meta-information will be kept in a US-based datacenter
Is that really how it works? Don't they have multiple regions and special arrangements for US Gov+military and for China? I certainly have noticed in product docs that some services are not available or arrive late if your tenant is in one of these "special clouds".
the typical UK household uses substantially less electricity than a typical North American one. At around 2000kWh/mo, which is not unusual consumption at all, that would be a day and a half for me.
Wow! I didn't know indoors weed farms were so mainstream in the US. That explains why everyone is so chilled.
Salazarism" is distinguished over fascism in that it lacks nationalistic and religious elements. Trumpism contains those elements.
One of the least creative slogans of the "Estado Novo" regime of Salazar was "Deus, PÃtria e FamÃlia".
Salazar was devout and so was everyone in Portugal - or else.
Another slogan they used would translate to "Proudly alone", in the sense that the Portuguese Empire was self-sufficient, international trade and travel severely limited. Look up the image/map showing that Portugal is not a small country.
Those were dark times.
Among developed nations, and especially those with large militaries, the challenge is not too many people but too few people.
My opinion is that the challenge is too many people of the wrong age and too few people within the right age range.
Not everyone has, or wants, a cellphone. Even among those who do, many have just a candy bar or a flip phone. A bill like this can never become law - it's tantamount to forcing an entire populace to purchase a smartphone. It has serious civil liberties and logistical hurdles.
What I would do is make the acceptance of these cards mandatory to banks, employers, public services, etc. when they request proof of identity. I wouldn't make it mandatory to own the card/app/QR tattoo.
Their very long Hardware lineage was always adjacent for them, perhaps less so in the Surface and XBox business units
I think it's more like: Oh, it's a Dyson, they're the best hoovers.
An entire country's grid goes down and you figure they instantly understand the root cause?
3 countries. Spain, France and Portugal.
However, not entirely. The islands in the Atlantic and Mediterranean were not affected, and most of France was fine.
So as you said, we cannot know what happened but we can begin to understand and eliminate some potential causes.
The Chinese anchor theory is not looking great right now.
An IT problem that starts in Spain and interferes with Portugal mainland grid leaving out the islands is very odd.
This.
There is no advantage for the employees. The Internet never forgets and eventually the safe space where ND people talk about health matters can be taken away or weaponised.
And the next pandemic is going to make COVID look like a summer vacation. Because it's not going to be a COVID variant it's going to be a bird flu variant and those are many times more lethal.
Let me add that if it happened now, as actual hostile activity from China, the USA would be defeated permanently.
Sorry but that is an objection that comes from misuse of the equipment. Whether outside is 0C or 20, you pick a target temperature and let the thermostat do its thing. You don't allow the house to get to 15C and then complain it took too long to go to 22C.
d) hire a hitman.
At some point there will be an interested party or an industry that does the maths and we'll be talking about conspiracy theories for decades.
Well, that is not true, for obvious reasons. Azure is not 100% based in the USA, and Microsoft has companies set up in many different countries.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.
