Not a replicant

Talk about clickbait … Article title: trump can pull the plug on the internet and europe can’t do anything about it (my emphasis) First line: the U.S. could unplug Europe from the digital world (not “pull the plug on the internet”) And then further down: “The fatal vulnerability is Europe’s near-total dependency on U.S. cloud providers.”

So first, it’s “the internet”, then it’s “unplug europe from the digital world”, then it’s “europe’s dependency on US cloud providers”

So it’s NOT “the internet”, and it’s NOT “unplug europe”, it’s disconnect european customers from US cloud providers.

Methinks Monseiur Pollet doesn’t understand very much about the internet.

No, just “farmers”. Qualified by what they raise, e.g. “Bill, a cattle farmer from Dalby” or “Harry, a wheat farmer from the Downs”

These tariffs are having some funny consequences.

1. US places tariffs on Australian beef
2. US has shortage of lean Aussie beef (for those hamburger patties, you know), so demand is still high
3. Tariffs have the effect of weakening the AUD against the USD
4. Oz beef is traded in USD
5. Oz farmers are now earning more for their beef exported to the US

much better than anyone before him within the last few hundred years

John XXIII was pretty progressive, wouldn’t you think?

The speed of transcoding video using FFMPEG on a non-GUI installation of Debian, on an old small-form-factor PC - 2nd-generation i7, 16GB ram, 240GB SSD.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is still up and running

www.bom.gov.au

Ignore the “NOT A HTTPS” website, it’s getting there.

Latest forecast track map for Alfred has it making a sharp turn on Tuesday and landfall on Thursday.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtml http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20065.txt

Yes, I know it’s not https, they’re working on it.

Neil Young + Crazy Horse Bob Dylan + Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

iddqd

Aussie Dollar? 😜

Can someone get Lord Sugar drunk and have him express a similar view about the US?

“err, hic the unites, uniting, united states should separism, seapar, separate the head of state role from the, ,uhh, head of government. They can have gonger, er, congress appoint a cereminimum, er ceremonial head of state with reserve powers to dissolve congress… burp”

That’s far too subtle to even register on Trump’s feeble brain cell.

I worked in local government that used Unix workstations for GIS (Graphic Information Systems) - mapping of the local government’s property boundaries and many other layers. The DB was held on a DEC Alpha, and it was all very pricey, albeit very good at its job. ESRI ARCGIS, etc

When the time came to replace, they moved it all to Windows. The workstations were beefed-up PCs running NT4.0 and the DB was on a server with NT 4.0 server. DEC was gone by then, absorbed into Compaq, Alphas were discontinued, and no-one wanted to migrate to SUN or HP.

What do you mean by “The British should be held accountable”?

Who, exactly? And how, exactly?

The monarch, the government, the entire population?

Reparations? If you sell everything - crown estates, crown jewels, all the art, everything - are you going to deliver $7.28 to every single person in a former colony?

How about we look forwards, instead? There’s little to be gained in trying to make current-day nations pay reparations for things that their ancestors did.