It's time for everyone to migrate away from windows. It's time to make Microsoft an irrelevance. I found it surprisingly easy to switch though I am just a humble retired embedded C software engineer and have never been an IT guru.

Reclaim your PC. It's time to remind yourself that PC stands for Personal Computer, and the idea of being dependent on a non-local login and some cloud out there is just fundamentally the wrong IT values.

Computers used to be fun! Do you remember those days! They can be yours again! Switch and stop being so be paranoid that someone is treading all over your privacy in ways you can't even be aware of.

I have some inside knowledge. This mess up goes back a long way. About 10 years back the bureau realised they had a major security problem. Bad actors could get into the bureau's systems and mess things up pretty badly. Security is important because people's lives depend on weather being predicted accurately. Think aircraft, ships, flooding, fire, the whole bit.

To their credit they decided to do something about it, and getting money to fix it wasn't an issue, the government was on side. To their discredit, what they decided to do was hire some consultants to tell them how to fix it instead of asking their own people, giving their own people training in how to do security or integrating people with security expertise into their existing teams. The consultants said start again. All their systems, not just the public facing web site which is a small proportion of their IT.

They ridiculously and obscenely underestimated how long it would take to start again. They hired a whole department of new people under new managers who knew nothing about weather and made no workable attempt to integrate this department into their existing power structures. Their existing people were sidelined, respected middle managers were pushed aside, the shop floor was told not to complain upwards because it would only make extra work for the middle managers and nothing would be achieved. So of course their best people got pissed off and some of them left. Of course the public would not be aware of any of this nonsense until this ridiculous new web site was made available, created by people who had little of the bureau's existing expertise.

Some CEOs and heads of state exist in a make-believe fairy land that they order their underlings to create for them so that they can live inside it.

The proposal seems to be to store that extracted CO2 as a super-critical fluid. Some big names have taken this seriously, eg Bill Gates and Al Gore. But if this was done on a grand scale, how can there possibly be enough subterranean volume to take it all up, considering that the waste is rather less carbon dense than the original fossil fuels? I simply don't trust the estimates of the available volume to take up all that CO2.

I'd be rather more impressed if they then used some non fossil-fuel source of energy to react that CO2 back to pure carbon or liquid fuels and added the cost of that energy into the process. It would complete the carbon cycle.

The magic roundabout is easy to understand if you think of it as 5 tiny roundabouts connected in a ring by 5 very short roads.

As he freely admits, Gilbert Chlewicki did not invent this interchange. There have been French examples since the 1970s. As usual the wikipedia article on this subject is more informative than the TFA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diverging_diamond_interchange

TFA uses the word Liberal. American readers are reminded that the meaning of the word liberal is as different in Australian English as that of jelly and rubber.
Australian English
jelly = jello
rubber = pencil eraser
Liberal = member of Liberal Party of Australia
Liberal Party of Australia is an alliance of conservatives, liberals and liberal-conservatives.

liberalism = a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law
liberal does NOT mean progressive in Australian English.

The Liberal Party of Australia is closer to American republicans than American democrats.

The British are aware as well as anyone that World War II was won in part because the allies were able to defeat German codes. WhatsApp may not get much traction from the British government. This will be an interesting fight.

Your problem. Us grumpy C programmers didn't ask anyone to make C++ backwards compatible.

I have an HP LaserJet 6MP that's about 30 years old. I don't use it much but I could still get a cartridge replacement last time I needed one. Still works with latest windows. From the good old days of HP when they charged a high price up front for first class equipment.

Then this is your variant. If your opponent has even a minute portion of a chess brain, you'll lose immediately. The pain of losing, being greater than the pain of being asked to take your move back, will quickly educate you into not moving into check.

Ok, with no evidence for this whatever, I boldly claim that CowboyNeal likes to keep things simple. With this in mind:
1. no confusing concepts like checkmate, stalemate or check; there's no prohibition on moving into check;
2. if you take your opponents king you win;
3. if you can't move you lose.
All other rules are the same as chess except that castling has to be reworded in order to avoid using the check concept.

Note that this is chess, except that stalemate is a loss for player to move. It is similar to "kick the king" chess.

https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bills/r6940_aspassed/toc_pdf/22113b01.pdf;fileType=application/pdf

(2) The amount of the penalty for a contravention of subsection (1) by a
person other than a body corporate is an amount not more than $2,500,000.
(3) The amount of the penalty for a contravention of subsection (1) by a body
corporate is an amount not more than the greater of the following:
        (a) $50,000,000;
        (b) if the court can determine the value of the benefit that the body
        corporate, and any related body corporate, have obtained directly or
        indirectly and that is reasonably attributable to the conduct constituting
        the contravention - 3 times the value of that benefit;
        (c) if the court cannot determine the value of that benefit - 30% of the
        adjusted turnover of the body corporate during the breach turnover period
        for the contravention.

No, and just as well, because if he had died twice each death would have taken more than half as long.

No, that doesn't work. Timetables, business opening hours: do you really want one set for summer and another for winter? It's easier to change the clocks.

The point is that summer time doesn't suit tropical and equatorial latitudes as well as it does temperate latitudes. In Australia, the state of Queensland which is in the north east of Australia and the Northern Territory do not use summer time. The southern states all use summer time. Mexico ending summer time makes sense.