Argh, the first genocide in the history of the world, when the population suffering genocide went up. A genocide, which, according to UN figures, requires Israel to flatten three buildings to kill one resident of the Gaza Strip. The problem with the left is that they are now equating the deaths of large numbers of civilians in war with genocide. On those grounds, the Allies committed genocide against the Germans and Japanese in WWII. See how stupid that now sounds?

So if I have an apartment complex deliver fibre to the basement and then Cat6a to the flats at speeds up to 10Gbps, I can't call it fibre internet because the last bit is over copper? Noting that unless you are plugging an SFP-based ONT into a suitable NIC in your computer, the last bit is coming over copper or even wirelessly.

Tylenol or paracetamol as the rest of the world call it (never get what it is with Americans and trademark names) usage has not particularly changed over the last 50 years but rates of ASD have. Right there we have an issue with the notion that it causes ASD. Yes paracetamol can in an overdose cause liver toxicity so can Vitiman D you berk. Dose is everything.

Same for vaccines. The number of childhood vaccines has basically stayed the same since I was a child 50 years ago, but again the rates of ASD have gone *UP*.

Occams Razer is out because the math is simply not mathing.

The Dell Optiplex 7090 SFF sitting next to me ready for my brother to pick up to replace his Windows 10 machine is both running Windows 11 and has PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports.

It is generally very hard to migrate off any virtualization platform without new hardware. That generally limits the speed at which you can migrate off to hardware refresh cycles.

Hah just migrated off VSphere to Proxmox on the same hardware. Something of a crazy scheme but the license increase made it the only sane choice.

If your expensive trained professionals need expensive retraining to use a different virtualization solution they are in my view not up to the job in the first place and you need to let go of them.

Nobody is too young for an official ID, period. You can obtain a passport, which serves as an official ID, at birth; otherwise, you will not be allowed into a foreign country. I know the rate of holding passports in the USA is much lower than elsewhere, but that is irrelevant as to whether a citizen of the USA can obtain official ID at any age.

The fundamental problem is mass immigration. Since 2012, there has been a net immigration of 2.12 million; going back further, the figure is even higher. If you were to strip out the immigration, magically, the housing and water shortages disappear in a puff of smoke.

The primary reason is mass immigration. Add a few million extra people, and boom, you need a lot more water. Yes, the water companies have been bad at reducing leakage rates, but that is only an issue because of the extra demand due to mass immigration.

Tell that to the people living in the highlands and islands when the Co-op got hit earlier in the year. The nearest other supermarket is 100 miles away, and all of a sudden, it's no longer funny. I was in one a month after the attack, and the place was stripped. The only frozen goods were some ice cream and ice cubes. The only breakfast cereal was high-end muesli. Hell even the alcohol shelves were almost empty.

Now imagine that instead of M&S and the Co-op, it had been Tesco and Sainsbury's, now ~45% of your food supply is gone. Losing just Tesco at 27-28% market share would lead to significant shortages in the shops for weeks.

To my British ears, most of my compatriots who make no provision whatsoever for any disruption in their grocery shopping are as mad as hatters. You don't need a cellar full of tin goods to last months, but if you couldn't go a week without going to the shops at any given moment, then you are a fool of a Took.

No, I pay into a pension fund run by my employer (well, actually, I work in the UK higher education, so it's a joint fund for UK universities but you get the drift). My employer pays in too. Should my employer go bust tomorrow, the pension fund is protected and the pension is safe.

They made an offering their advertising there was consideration (I handed over money) and there was exceptance (they took the money). Consequently we have a legally binding contract.

Been on mine since 1993 these newbies.

Why don't they add something actually useful like a compose key.