Try the education version. It has none of the annoying crap, and more of the useful stuff, than the standard and even pro editions have.

Had it been by the proper national archive authority I'm sure this wouldn't have happened. They are very aware of this issue and mitigate it actively. That's why archival is expensive.

It's about historical wills, where there are copies for anything relevant.

Yes I'm sure you can come up with fantastic scenarios why you need to store old shit. You know, like hoarders. But the government has other fish to fry as well and digital scans are fine for most purposes.

The Dutch Tax & Customs authority hasn't had new paper entries in the archive for years now. They still have two very large and expensive climate controlled and guarded storage areas for historical papers and objects that remain relevant. But do you think the 7 billion documents that are created from digital data and need to be stored over a 7 year period will be useful to store as paper? Including the destruction of 1 billion paper copies each year?

In that case I'd really like to see the business case and also the plans for a few very large buildings. And a powerplant to be run off the waste heat.

Back to 4chan it is then.

Indeed. They keep complaining about how easily the left gets triggered but seriously... are these adults?

In a scientific article there is little room for "mostly correct" and "generally applicable".

You can be pregnant due to sexe and legally a man due to gender. I know these things have been conflated in the past but we're at the point where they are no longer tied together as much as in the past.

I've said it before, but under Satya Nadella the strategic moves of Microsoft have become a lot smarter and much more focused on the long term. I'm not sure people underestimate him, but I'm also not sure he gets enough credit for that shift in focus.

Thanks, I always wondered why trash collectors and sewer workers were paid so much more than managers and doctors. This clears it right up!

You're talking about South Korea. "Recent World Economic Forum and United Nations reports rank South Korean gender empowerment among the lowest in the developed world." It was only in 2005 that families were no longer registered as belonging to the male head of the family. It's the same country that has serious issues with rape, pedophilia and basically defined the term "upskirting".

I'd say feminists in South Korea have a point, and the elections merely prove that point.

Source: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/e...

Indeed. They're pricing it at the level "the market will bear" which is one of the most annoying ways to price goods I can think of. Well, now they can no longer finetune it to extract the maximum profit from each area, and I'm totally fine with that. I really hope we will get a common market for digital goods as well.

In the short run, things may get more expensive for people in lower-income areas. In the long run, I expect this to balance out.

Who on Earth would do that? There's plenty of free sites in the world that don't ask this. And even then, there's always the Piratebay. Arrrrrrrh!

I understand where you're cumming from.

You hope it will work out, but there is no scientific basis for this hope, nor do they have a track record that suggests this will be doing anything more than putting additional taxes on porn sites.

As collateral damage, the side effects of a data leak are now greatly enhanced and extortionists and espionage agencies are going to be having a lot more to work with. This will make those sites even more desirable for hackers to, ah, penetrate, than they already are.

First, I'd say that you need to demonstrate that currently this is an actual issue, with 5 year olds accessing porn sites. I know I asked my son about it and he thought it was all pretty gross and far too yucky to even contemplate looking at pictures like that. But I'm sure there are some abused kids that also look at porn sites. In which case the issue seems to me that there is abuse, not that we have porn sites.

  It's always very easy to impose burdens on other people that you don't have to pay for (as the British Conservatives are so fond of saying, it goes well until you run out of other people's money) but let us first see what this brings in benefits. Oh, I know: none. This is just a cost imposed on porn sites as an extra tax to appease some of the voters who think this will improve something in their lives. Nobody can say exactly what this measure is supposed to achieve, but hey, at least the inept Conservatives are "doing something" (tm).