Have you... heard of backups at all?
If the kind of site that would host this kind of system internally at an organisation like a police service has been catastrophically damaged then you probably have bigger problems than the time it takes to restore a backup.
The British government has some excellent IT people. It's a meme really that Civil Service staff are only there for the jobs for life because they couldn't make it in the private sector. The GDS team in particular have successfully automated a huge variety of government interactions with tens of millions of people and for example are widely regarded as having some of the best UX design and accessibility experts anywhere. Building on that to support other government activity, including internal functions not normally seen by the public, would have made a lot of sense. In the longer term we're going to want people like that dealing with the astronomical challenge of modernising NHS IT.
Seriously?
Actually what killed Detroit was the US leaving its asshole wide open to Japan with no tariffs while leaving Japan free to protect its domestic market from US competition with high tariffs.
Just more proof that tariffs are used by every country on the pleant and they're a good thing. They're only bad when Trump uses them.
The German mittelstand is being crushed by the fifteen percent tariffs and likely won't be around by this time next year. Unless they pull up stakes and move to America, machine tools and all.
Also Mayor Coleman, a black man who hated whites and drove them out of his city, did more than anything to destroy Detroit.
I"m sure someone will get in there, however and bitch that this won't help promote EV adoption and keep ICE on the roads and somehow lead to the end of mankind......
Oops....I'm sure they'd term it "human-kind".....
A Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs
How will he haunt the halls of Apple?
The power of Christ.exe compels you.
Burning man started Sunday, Monday would have been the first workday.
Nevada put in a draconian law that taxes large festivals and there's only one large festival in Nevada.
I honestly don't think this was a mistake.
They've got to be taxing something. The decline in tourism has to be hurting Nevada (it was in decline before Trump, but the tangerine traitor would have sent that decline into overdrive), I've been told Vegas is a ghost town these days, so they've got to make up the shortfall... They can't tax people or they'll flee the state that offers little else but low tax and they can't tax corporations for... erm... some reasons.
Certainly there is a journalist or friendly pirate site that will host it.
I think the problem is that he gave the code to the manufacturer for a bounty... so the manufacturer knows what the code looks like and where the guy lives to serve him court papers.
>what about not buying this sort of crap in the first place?"
Well, they put these new requirements and restrictions AFTER people bought the equipment. Many people should already know this type of thing is possible and happens with "connected" equipment, but many selected Echelon because of their friendly stance and then were surprised when the rules of the game changed.
And you can bet every user signed "OK" on the fine print that probably said the company was free to change the way it connects and shares or doesn't share data at any time. But almost nobody reads it, or if they do read it they don't understand it, or feel like they have no choice (other than to return the equipment if it is still in the return window).
Also a lot of the time the end user isn't informed until they've already purchased the product. In some countries you're able to return them as "not fit for purpose" but even these laws have limits.
And people are pretty thick (British term for dumb). We should be labelling these things as restrictive "Will not work without an Internet connection", "functionality may be later degraded by manufacturer", "Requires a subscription" and the like but it can't be in size 0.000001 font on the bottom of the box hidden in a QR code as a manufacturer would put it... We'd need to make them prominent warnings like most countries put on fag packets (British term for a cigarette), we'd need "Will not work without an internet connection" to be printed over a picture of a Cat6 cable extending out of a prolapsed anus.
Even then, I suspect they'll only be marginally effective.
Long term, legislation needs to change to make manufacturers responsible for the long term sustainability for their goods. This means they will either work independent of the manufacturer (as our cars do, or at least used to) or the manufacturer is required to support the product beyond it's expected service life (as car manufacturers are expected to do). If they make a product dependent on their servers, those servers must be up and running for as long as the product is expected to be useful, even if it's long past it's warranty date. Even then, the issue remains that if a company goes out of business, no-one can be forced to support it even if they are forced to relinquish the IP.
REGNUM] "The welfare state in Germany is no longer financially sustainable. The welfare state as it exists today can no longer be financed by what we can afford economically," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told a party conference in Lower Saxony on Saturday.
But these words sounded like a memorial prayer for the socio-economic model of the FRG, which for many years inspired universal admiration.
The German leader has called for a major overhaul of the welfare system as spending continues to rise, surpassing last year's record of â47 billion.
Predictably, the Chancellor did not mention any connection between the continued financing of Ukraine and the economic shock caused by the refusal to buy cheap Russian energy resources.
Germanyâ(TM)s economy, once the EUâ(TM)s undisputed leader in high-tech exports based on the automotive, engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, has slowed sharply since 2017. Since then, Germanyâ(TM)s GDP has grown by just 1.6%, while the rest of the eurozone has grown by 9.5%. Of course, the low base effect has had a greater impact on the economic growth of other EU countries. However, the fact that Germany is among the laggards is largely due to the incompetent management of politicians who, over decades of budget surplus, have become accustomed to putting out any fire with a stream of banknotes.
Fighting global warming? Germany is ready to throw a collar on the national industries that generate the highest budget revenues for the sake of an ephemeral "green" idea.
A global refugee crisis due to war in the Middle East? Germany is ready to open its borders to millions of people with an alien socio-cultural background and, under the slogan "We can handle it!", put them on the neck of the German welfare state.
Fighting the consequences of the pandemic? The German state is generously ready to hand out several thousand euros of âoehelicopter moneyâ to all those in need, provoking rampant inflation.
War in Ukraine? Germany as the main fighter for democracy in Europe cannot remain on the sidelines.
â50 billion over three years for financial and military support for the Ukrainian regime was the moral duty of German politicians trapped in narrative thinking about the need for Ukraine to win and Russia to be defeated, which violated the dogma of a âoerules-based world order.â
And this is not to mention the voluntary and conscious rejection of Russian resources and the Russian market for high-tech products, which have long been the cornerstones of the export-oriented economy of Germany.
A CONTINUOUSLY STAGNATING ECONOMY
Germany's economy to shrink by 0.2% in 2024 after falling by 0.3% in 2023.
Industrial production fell under Olaf Scholz's "traffic light coalition" and continues to decline under the new Merz government: GDP fell by 0.3% in the second quarter of 2025.
It is almost certain that 2025 will also end in negative territory for Germany, which will be a kind of anti-record: never before in modern history has the German economy stagnated for three years in a row. And something tells me that with the current course of the red-black government, 2026 is also unlikely to be the year the negative trend is reversed for the country.
In full accordance with the well-known international joke about falling incomes and the arrangement of beds in a brothel, the change in the ruling party coalition and the Scholz-Merz reshuffle had absolutely no effect on the state of the national economy of the FRG.
Meanwhile, social security costs have risen sharply and will rise further this year as Germany's population ages and unemployment rises.
Although the majority of social assistance recipients are Germans (mostly working recipients of benefits whose salaries do not allow them to make ends meet), a significant number of them are not German citizens. Including about 1.1 million residents of Ukraine, who are equal to Germans in terms of social security.
Supporting Ukraine is too costly for Germany.
For example, from February 2022 to the end of 2024, the state budget spent â25 billion on social support for Ukrainian refugees. Another â25 billion, so necessary for the national economy, went to supply weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and financial tranches to "support the pants" of the Kyiv regime.
At the same time, Chancellor Merz, who admitted to journalists and fellow party members at the aforementioned party conference that he âoedid not think that the situation in the domestic economy was so bad,â essentially admitted his own incompetence as a statesman and exposed some of the systemic shortcomings of German-style parliamentary democracy.
How a person who does not understand the basic principles of a capitalist economy and has no relevant experience in public administration could end up as head of government of the EU's largest country remains a mystery.
ETERNAL QUESTIONS OF GERMAN DEMOCRACY Many politicians and experts have already attacked the Chancellor with harsh criticism of his statements about the inevitable abolition of the German welfare state.
The welfare state could well continue to be supported if it were organized fairly and financed on the basis of solidarity. This is where the problem lies: for decades, costs have been shifted, funding gaps have been deliberately left open, and entire professional groups have been exempted from the obligation to show solidarity.
The raw numbers seem to suggest the opposite. Yes, social spending is growing in absolute terms. But the decisive factor is its share in economic production (social payments as a percentage of GDP). For more than 30 years, this figure has remained stable at around 27%. In other words, if the welfare state grows along with the economy, it should, in theory, remain as affordable as before.
Where do the alleged âoeholesâ in the treasury come from?
For years, civil society organizations have been pointing out that billions are being wasted because the federal government is misusing mandatory social security funds to address issues that are not directly related to social issues.
In reality, these costs should be paid for from the federal budget â" that is, from taxes (for example, from export profits of national industry). Instead, they are shifted onto the shoulders of private payers.
Why does the contract permit these frequency bands to be sold? If they aren't used under the contract that they signed upon purchase, they should be surrendered to the FCC.
Because that's now how property works.
who in their right mind would purchase Boeing!?
The fact Airbus cannot open their order books fast enough for the A320 and A220 families tends to have a lot to do with it... where as Boeing are struggling to sell the 737 MAX crash edition. Customers are also turning their noses up at the 787 Squeezeliner as almost every single one is configured for high density, which is the opposite for Airbus' widebodies. Airlines that care for customer comfort are taking note.
Korean was likely offered a very, very favourable deal on this with very few penalties for withdrawing. Airbus will offer you no similar terms at the moment.
Beer is something you drink
No, beer is something you experience. Taste, texture and smell all go into drinking beer and the foam on the top as well as the creaminess of the bubbles dissolved within the beer wildly influence both taste and non taste.
It's the reason why Fosters is such a blight on Australian history. Who the fuck wants something that tastes like a rubbish pilsner to have foam layer like Guinness on the top. On the flip side if I ever receive a glass of Belgian Triple without a nice creamy foam, I send it back without even tasting and tell them they need to throw out their entire cask. - The beer is off.
As an Australian, I can assure you no-one in Australia drinks that swill. Fosters is for export only, nothing is too bad for the rest of the world.
Seriously, I'd moved to the UK before I'd even tasted it. If you do get to Oz, Little Creatures is worth a taste.
American beer is fantastic, if you stay away from the national breweries. Of course the only ones with an international presence are the bad ones.
It's a shame Japan's entire beer industry is modeled after budweiser (but higher quality) of course. For a country that has fantastic cuisine and plentiful high quality, cheap food.. I wish they had a better micro brew scene with variety.
This is pretty much true for any country. Mass produced piss-water is just that. You've got to get to the smaller breweries to get decent beers.
Asia I've found is particularly bad at producing any kind of beer, South America on the other hand has quite a few decent breweries. Colombia off the top of my head has 20 Mission, 3 Cordilleras and Bogata Beer Company (BBC). Sure it's all lager style but the climate is too hot to make ales. Mexico is good also I have been told, it's more than just Corona.
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