As this would amout to cutting people off from their ability to make phone calls, and the people aren't at fault in this case, this will not happen. And no, leaving emergency numbers available is not sufficient, because people might have to call their relatives, their lawyers, their physicians or other. non-emergency-numbered contacts.

Not in this case. If someone tells me, that he mistrusts Cisco products and would rather not use them, that's fine. If somone tells me that "even he knows better than to use Cisco", I have to assume that his qualification is that of an armchair expert.

If someone's understanding of network security consists of "Don't use X", I know I will never hire him for any consulting work.

Funny thing, Montana is a big grain-producing state, and we have possibly the most unpredictable, and definitely the most absurdly-variable climate in North America.

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Oh, and we also grow potatoes, but only in very limited areas (potatoes need more predictable conditions), whereas grain is grown here pretty much anywhere the ground is near enough to level.

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BrightLine right now operates in Florida. So there is that.

Still, the clauses pose a serious financial risk to the employee. If their former employer sues them, even on base of non-enforceable non-compete clauses, they still have to lawyer-up.

Non-compete clauses create a bind, be them enforceable or not.

Your bytes have crossed many a Linux until they arrived here at Slashdot, and are they frozen?

Network equipment often runs some version of Linux, including big iron stuff like Cisco Nexus. And they are running a watchdog, which works similar to a dead-man's-switch in a train engine: If it does not get activated in regular intervals, it restarts vital services or even the whole system.

M-x switch-gear, C-x stop-engine, M-x C-x stop-and-ask-directions

Very highly doubtful. Apple's better memory management through compression & faster access to the on-module RAM have made the expectations of those used to x86 laptops overestimate the RAM needed for all but the most demanding workloads, as has been seen time and time again by those who actually used one. Come on admit it, you're basing your opinion on a win/linux PC & not through actual use of a M1/2/3 Mac with 8Gb.

Fiction:

12 books from the Deverry series
The Three Body Problem trilogy
Monkey
Treacle Walker
Various books on Powershell

Non-Fiction:
Linux Administrator's Guide
Linux Network Administrator's Guide
Both OpenZFS books
Ansible
Terraform
Various books on Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL optimisation
C++ manuals
Various Cisco manuals
OpenPF manual

You are the consumer, not the industry insider. If the sale was happening with the promise of an ever improving hydrogen infrastructure, and this didn't come to pass, then the promise leading to the sale was not fulfilled, and this could be seen as culpa in contrahendo.

If that argument holds, the court will decide. But as with every contract, they can be ligitated if one side feels wronged.

I understand the law suit. The car was sold to you as the future of movement, and without a steady hydrogen source, you don't get the movement.

A car is a tool to move people and stuff from A to B, and without fuel, it ceases to fulfill its promise, on which it was sold.

If we don't manage to use electricity to merge neutron stars, it's probably not feasible. Until then it's like making gold from lead by nuclear processes: doable, but the price per atom is not market compatible.