I'd like to see the thermodynamics that enables a planet in a "habital zone" to retain helium in its atmosphere.

Unfortunately, not soon enough.

If that were the only impact, it wouldn't matter.

But the fact is that Trump regularly posts official public policy announcements that move markets, so getting the bullshit early can make you money.

There may be life. But the odds of us communicating with them is practically nil due to their having high pitched, squeaky voices.

It should be, but the Emoluments Clause has never been enforced and "Emoluments" isn't even clearly defined, legally speaking. It's pretty much a dead letter.

The only practical backstop here is impeachment and conviction, but the Republicans in Congress aren't going to allow that, not until and unless their voters begin to care.

The AC who replied is technically wrong: The immunity ruling only applies to official acts, and Trump's participation in TMG is not official. However, Trump would probably claim that he had nothing to do with this decision and the immunity ruling also effectively prevents investigation of any personal crimes that were committed because it blocks investigation of anything that touches on official acts. So as long as Trump made the call ordering it from the from the Oval Office, it's unlikely that any evidence could be obtained. If someone in the know at TMG testified against him, that would work, but it's very unlikely anyone with a conscience has direct knowledge.

Which is why, under the GDPR, they not only have to hand over copies of everything from you the have, they also have to delete it all unless they have a valid business reason that pertains to their business with you. Also funny how fast the react when you do a GDPR request. No comparison to their basically non-existent customer support. Apparently those past fines for illegal behaviour had some effect.

I definitely have to understand someone's pain to empathize with it.

I don't sympathize with all pain. We grow from pain.

The mind boggles.

I think it's pretty f-ed up to say a company has to give their IP and trade secrets to their competitors (aka, your friends) so they can take their business, and then call it fairness. It isn't, it's theft.

Kinda sounds like China's business model, eh?

I agree they can't toss the EU completely away...

However, why couldn't Google just yank their servers out of the EU..and station them all around the EU. Sure, there might be a little performance hit, but at least they'd not be compelled to follow the EU rules, and I doubt the EU will firewall all things google, you know?

I'm also highly allergic to cats...

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Really? What vulnerabilties did you find?

Or are you talking about something completely unrelated?

Well yeah. I mean come on we know about IT stuff around here. If you are trying to back up vary large transnational systems two axis on the chart or granularity, and cost on the operational side, and granularity and time to restore on the recovery side. Sometimes you can mix them, ie a not vary granular operational backup, but if you are willing to put enough time an engery you can restore individual records or groups there of by say restoring a whole partition (as in database) querying the data you need and injecting it back into the transaction environment.

It does not surprise me that Microsoft can't wont do individualized account operations for just anybody from a technical perspective or from a customer service perspective in terms of customer rep time and engineering time to deal with one persons issues.

What they are charging for these services does not allow for that. The other reality of these SaaS service is cheap does not therefore translate to good individual value. As we have seen with the Sony article yesterday, IP in your account like a movie or video game title reality is its a rental for as long as they feel like it no matter how the terms sounded, and if it is data pictures, videos, personal files, you better damn well have copies elsewhere because while the causes might be different your data is just as likely to vanish one morning as it was back in 1988 when the ST506 MFM disk in your PC AT suddenly refused to read, but curiously was fine after a new low level format..

If only the vast majority of people "questioning authority" were not merely looking for a new authority.

Clinton was known for renting out the Lincoln bedroom, and stealing porcelain. He wasn't the first corrupt president, wasn't the last, and wasn't the worst.