Back when I was a kid, I got taken on a tour of a "high reliability" data center. Mind you, this is in the era a drum memory. The setup for this company was, frankly, insane

Walked into the data center - TWO mainframes, side by side, totally redundant. I thought that was cool, as either machine could cover for the other, with NO loss in performance. The guy laughed and said "Well there is another data center with two machines across town, so if this building goes down, we're good,(NYC)". He said there were another two data centers in London, Chicago, Frankfurt, Berlin, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and finally Alice Springs, ALL redundant. Yes, performance would take a hit if too many went down, but he was saying the DR plan included limited global nuclear war, which was why the data center in Alice Springs. I gather there were regular tests. Never heard of them losing any data

Wish I could moderate this up.

Ah, folks, well known issue in communications. Even if you can't crack the encryption, looking at WHO is talking when, and who is talking to whom (or who broadcasts, and who replies) is well known in ELINT fields, like for decades. The ways around it are known too - false transmissions/replies etc. If I always, and I mean ALWAYS send data at the same rate (by sending non important traffic at all times) make traffic analysis hard, or if I build in code to randomly add bursts of traffic, all this starts to get complex, as now you have to do statistical analysis to see if there really is something there or not.
Crypto/ELINT guys have worried about this kind of stuff for decades

The issue in NYC right now is the lack of bookstores
In the Bronx? NONE. In Queens? One small indy (a 2nd about to open) and one used book store that I know of (not counting College campus 'textbook' stores)
Manhattan has dozens, particularly if you count "specialty" bookstore - You know, like Fil Caravan Inc. which is just Middle Eastern Culture, or Bauman Rare Books - which carries books from the 15th thru 20th Century (note, not 21st - Bring a card with a LARGE line of credit. I saw one book I'd have loved to read, but the 5 digit price tag said 'ah, no')

I guess I'm not now

Thank you for the correction - I more meant that the LPE exams are "Nationwide", but then you have to register for each state - My bad

TL:DR;, Engineer is a title, granted by the state, not something you get for having an Engineering Degree

Except that Oregon has it simple, you have to be a LPE - Licensed Professional Engineer. That is a NATIONAL license. You take 4 years of approved schooling, and then sit the two LPE exams, and you are an LPE. Interestingly MOST of the exam is Civil Engineering (things like slump of concrete)
They are not the only state that registers engineers, and almost all of them it as simple as be an LPE, and register
Were you see this - real example. Want to put a ham radio tower in your yard? SOME municipalities require the drawings for installation to be "wet stamped" - aka the fact that the Mfg of the tower has down all the numbers that the design is good to XXX, and that the footing should be X sized, they require an LPE from that state to review the drawings, and stamp the drawings with his OK (they can not be photocopied) - aka they are "wet stamped"

Thing is, when an LPE signs off on plans, he is taking the legal responsibilities for those plans. Things go wrong, it is HIS/HER (I'll use he, as the vast majority of LPEs are male) ass on the line for lawsuits and possible criminal responsibility, NOT the company he works for!

This by the way is why we are not "software engineers". If we WERE, it would require a certified Engineer to sign off (first we'd have to agree to what a Certified Software Engineer IS), and that Engineer would be taking legal responsibility for any flaws in the software (not the company, although they may provide his insurance as a benefit)

It is a bit like being a "Member of the Bar" - the degree doesn't mean crap till they are admitted to their local Bar - and you can be Disbarred, and you can't call yourself a lawyer or practice law until you are a member of the bar - You'd have a law degree (JD) but not be a lawyer

BTW, where my daughter is going to school, as an example you can take
Mechanical Engineering - which is recognized by some large number of states, and allows for you to sit LPE
Mechanical Engineering Technology. Only a very small number of states allow this one for you to be called an Engineer.

He can post whatever he wants, but in a lot of states, you can't use the term engineer without registering (and folks, this is why the title "Software Engineer" is Bull). Basically the state wants you to have your Professional Engineering license, which requires certain schooling, and then taking the tests. Joke? Unless you are doing civil engineering, it is generally not REQUIRED, but you can't call yourself an Engineer. You may have a PhD in say Electrical Engineering, but you can't use the term "Engineer"

Unless it is a status email or email where the party I'm emailing knows the info has to go to the boss (as he may want say) I don't CC, but frankly over the years, I've done this when, frankly I _DON'T_ trust the person!
I've had more than one situation over the gasp 40 YEARS I've been working where you'd tell coworker X, and they would deny you did, and you'd have to jump through hoops to make your manager (and sometimes their manager) believe you
The problem is often solved by "CC:Their Manager, Your Manager"
Gee, you mean it makes the person say "CharlieG doesn't trust me" - well DUH.
    I won't do it until the first time I'm under the bus because of you, but after that, I'm trying to not only cover MY ass, but also send the message "No, I DON'T trust you" - not only to you, but to my manager and YOUR manager that I no longer trust you.
BTW, there was also probably an email to my manager (in my case, my 'manager' is the CEO), and your manager about why they were being CC'd (aka how you threw me/the project under the bus) that YOU were not CC'd. When you get to the level I'm at, this is usually about a person who reports to a fellow manager, and the CC/BCC might even be going to the CEO/HR as part of a documentation trail

Had a friend who had a pet, then upgraded to a CBM-8032. Sigh, which I could have afforded them, the best I could do was the Vic-20. I did spring the what, $300 or so for the 300 baud Commodore modem, and I forgot the name of the terminal software that used graphics to give you 64 columns. Allowed me to NOT use the keypunch machines in college, but to log in - they gave me a 'terminal account' because I had my own terminal - my account was locked that I could not use an on campus terminal

Commodore Vic-20, with the 5 K ram cart, and a modem - you do NOT want to know what this cost in 1980. I upgraded to the C64 when it came out. By then had two 1541 disk drives

Um, there is a local block that admittedly had a major speeding problem (through a park), and in the active section of the park, they put in no less than 5 speed bumps, about 50-75 yards from each other. The road USED to have a 30MPH speed limit, but was lowered (Like the rest of NYC) to 25MPH. If you take those speed bumps at even 20MPH, you WILL take out your suspension even in a truck with a heavy duty suspension. MAX you can take those bumps safely is 10MPH. Now 1-2 of them would keep you down to 25MPH for the whole stretch, but 5? Come on guys. Folks are now bypassing taking streets with houses and kids - at 25-30MPH. They effectively lowered the max speed of the safest road to 10MPH, and left the road with the kids at 25MPH - smart move

Back when I was having serious pain issues, m MD prescribed me Tramadol. You know what it did? NOTHING that I could tell anyway. Had no effect on me

Does it shock anyone? Most folks just want to use their phones, use the email and SMS, and play a few games. They can't be bothered. Heck, a lot of folks have to have techy person setup their email other than a Gmail/Apple email, as they have no clue, and they have NO clue how to change their password either

If there is a regular enough problem that is short enough to bypass on local streets, maybe said traffic engineers should spend their time actually FIXING the problem that is causing the traffic jam