The government is not involved in the slightest in this story. ARIA is an industry association without any government influence. Also the charts have nothing to do with music availability and doesn't protect anyone. It's just showing who is popular, and knowing that it's Claude or ChatGPT is fucking worthless.

a) this isn't the government and has nothing to do with the government. b) You can listen to what you want. They can just choose what they consider to be "music" and how they count it. It's their chart after all.

ARIA isn't even the only chart in Australia.

The music chart doesn't cover TV shows either does it? The chart is still the chart. All they are doing is properly defining what "music" is.

Define adequately. There's literally no testing scheme that covers every possible failure scenario. Even when you have like hardware and software to stage a trial upgrade first, you can still somehow find yourself in the shit for completely unpredictable reasons when you go live.

This applies to phonelines, to networks, to computers, to wireless infrastructure, to literally everything with software. We're long past the days where code is so short and executed so slowly that all hardware and software interactions are 100% predictable and testable.

This is still a thing. The problem is with any modern complex network eventually the routing happens through a system that is brought together somewhere in the middle. Just like cloud providers with all their redundancy can be brought down by a broken DNS configuration so can communications system at a point where they connect to the same network. The old analogue days made things easier with analogue multiplexors but these days a mismanaged routing configuration is a single point of failure, even if hardware isn't.

I do question why a faster rollback mechanism wasn't in play when the upgrade was botched.

But then I saw Motorola and don't question anything anymore. I've dealt with Motorola infrastructure before, in two countries (admittedly only for 5G and land-mobile radio systems), but they were very much a group which sent out people to work on critical infrastructure whose capabilities extended to following the written instructions in the manual and needing to call someone else for help when that didn't go exactly 100% according to plan.

That number is actually quite good. Chicago for example has about 750 calls / hour, which is higher than New York on a per capita basis. San Francisco has about 114 per hour and it's 1/10th the population of New York so very even.

Many 911 calls do not lead to dispatch automatically. Some are repeats. Some are false alarms. Some are from people who genuinely don't know any better. The timing probably helped a lot. You expect higher call volumes earlier in the night.

Mercedes own marketing materials disagree with you.

The final drive system of any vehicle is a small automotive grade SoC. It's becoming clear that you have no idea how any of these systems work together. You can add that along with your own laws to the list of things you seemingly know nothing about.

So ... he literally was stopped by his health? Have you considered asking your school to refund your parents for your defective English tuition?

You don't need China's help to be against the fucking stupidity going on right now.

The rot however must be addressed from the very top. It is clear here that Trump appointed 3 activist republican judges (by your standard) so we should impeach him for it too and cut the problem off at the had.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported despite an injunction against the government to do so. The government then pretended that they couldn't get him back, but ultimately caved when that turned out to be a lie as well.

For the record I'm not American, I don't live in America, and my primary news sources are not American media companies. Yet even I can provide you a cite without googling: Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Given we've heard of his deportation despite an injunction in place to prevent it *against the government* in international news, I can only assume Americans would have heard about that too. I'm sure there's more. We've also heard news stories of DoJ laywers being held in contempt and ejected from court rooms due to their interaction with the courts.

BE already is in the EU. They are one of the OG members. ;-)

Yeah self-centred self-righteous arseholes just hate being called out as self-centred self-righteous arseholes because it means they need to put effort into trying to ignore their self-centred self-righteousness. The easiest way of doing that is for them to cut funding to researchers showing them they are self-centred self-righteous arseholes.

I'm not surprised most Americans are glad to see the back of any researchers pointing this out.

I know right? So why did 70 million people vote for a person who promised no new wars, while an international agreement that was preventing Iran from having nukes was in place?

One of the first things Trump did was make it easier for Iran to get nukes by tearing up the protections in place. The second thing he did was legitimise their reason for wanting nukes. If your reasoning is the only reason, then there's 70million fucking stupid people in the USA.