They can't: Montserrat is part of the UK
The other issue is that the GDP may not be enormous, but the capital wealth "domiciled" there is... significant. See also the island of Jersey....
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Who is "they"? The Soviet (sorry, Russian) conscripts who appear ill-equipped and poorly trained? I agree, there's grave doubt operational commands from Comrade Colonel Boss are passed through Starlink, but I have zero doubt that emails and the Chinese WeChat messages and video calls home to mom do...
Quite a lot, actually. When the US Government is your major customer and entirely incidentally the regulatory agency covering inauguration and operation of your product, you do want to walk a fine line between doing what they ask and adhering to whatever principles you may have picked up over the past couple of days doomscrolling your ego-stroking toy...
(And rockets are controlled items, so Musk couldn't take his toys from the US to a different jurisdiction even if he wanted to, and he probably doesn't because approximately 100% of operational SpaceX launches use US government assets -- the Eastern and Western ranges, to name but two...)
Yup, for the delivery of the product. Sorry to burst the bubble, but resellers have nothing to do with warranties, only to do with delivery of what as promised.
You do, though, *also* have a contract with the manufacturer, which is where the warranty comes in. Product safety recalls happen, mysteriously without resellers getting involved. And resellers go out of business...
Incidentally, if Amazon delivers defective product, they'll pay for you to return it and credit or refund you or replace the item! Whooo-Hooo! Success! Just what people claim they don't do!
(There's a bizarre thread going on here that Amazon is simultaneously party to a contract and allegedly not honoring that contract, which is nuts because Amazon is just as subject to trading standards legislation and they know it, because they DO have L!!)
Cloudfare is just a content delivery network. They'll provide delivery for any content, so where they're located is irrelevant.
The website is owned by Situation Publishing (a fact they cunning hide in the "About Us' section). The editor in chief is Chris Williams, who seems to be based in San Francisco...
Sorry for the delay...
But your assertion seems a bit suspect: in the UK, for example, the Consumer Rights Act of 2015 imposes obligations on the retailer for a period of 6 months (Part I, Chapter 2, Subsection 14). Every other obligation is on the manufacturer, and it is unquestionable that a solid-state memory device failing sooner than expected (which is what we're talking about) is much more likely to be a warranty issue, not a trading issue.
So the situation where fake goods are delivered in place of genuine would indeed be a reseller problem (as long as the "fakeness" is real; I see a lot of cases where low-duty-cycle products are expected to behave like high-duty-cycle ones, which often results in a "caveat emptor" situation where a product was not fit for the purpose the purchaser intended, but the reseller had no way of knowing that). And indeed it is more than a little dishonest to pretend that Amazon et al don't address these sorts of problems (post-paid return shipping, refunds to original methods of payment as well as store credit, etc). I mean, Amazon does operate outside of the US, so to use your words, Amazon handles situations in precisely the same way as any other reseller where "consumer law in may more civilized locations around the globe works".
Or are you alleging that Amazon (et al.) in the UK, Germany, France, Ireland, Norway etc. do NOT adhere to local consumer law?
So it appears to me that you are unaware of how companies like Amazon operate, how consumer law operates, etc and are just eager to bash Amazon. And indeed there are plenty of things for which Amazon-bashing is appropriate, but those do not seem to have anything to do with the situation under discussion.
Even with this vulnerability, it is worth noting that using BitLocker with this type of TPM offers security benefits:
1: Once removed from the PC, the storage device is unreadable without either the TPM or the recovery key.
2: Purging the TPM renders the storage device unreadable without the recovery key.
So while imperfect (oh, how imperfect) systems with this TPM/BitLocker setup are pretty good at avoiding the formerly ubiquitous "I bought a job lot of e-waste and now I know your bank details" problem.
(For any kind of non-trivial security, you need a 2FA approach of some kind, and I'm of the old school which believes that the 2 in 2FA means two factors _in addition to the thing being unlocked_. So a SmartCard and PIN, for example. Somewhat to my horror, I've been seeing people claiming a dongle + a laptop is a 2FA solution, because you need the dongle and the PC to get the data).
Yup. That's exactly what happens.
You are apparently unaware that the people who spend time in the simulator _also_ spend time in another environment that includes absolutely no big red buttons? Or is it your contention that the other environment is a "multi million dollar / pound / Euro lawsuit waiting to happen".
Still, the difference between the two environments is that the simulator has limits that it cannot exceed. The real environment is limited only by the physical world.
Ho!
Last week I joked to my hosts in India that the whole colonization thing has come full circle! I mean, the UK is run (possibly using that term loosely) by the spouse of an affluent Indian citizen. Granted, her spouse is an ex-pat whose family settled outside the Indian homeland, but that's the case with the Mayor of London, too.
I think it was Tom Sharpe who commented on one of his Little Englander characters that rather than the "<pejorative> begin at Calais", these days they rather end there...
[ To be clear, I don't think the national or cultural origin of Sunak -- or indeed Khan -- has any bearing on their job performance. Everybody deserves to be judged on their abysmal results... ]
The most common example of water-from-tap business is where the tap is attached to a coffee maker (usually plumbed-in). The concept is that the water from the tap (usually with a red knob) is the same temperature as the water that hits the coffee grounds in the brew filter.
I have contemplated getting a 208V socket added to my (US) kitchen, so I can power a BritKettle (tm). I believe I have 208V to the hob, so it's more a matter of ensuring the socket is installed per building regs and the owner (i.e. me) does the dodgy part to put a US plug on a British kettle (or install a US->UK plug adapter on the wall, so I can just plug the BritKettle in).
However, one of the perpetually amusing things with these sorts of tea (or coffee) making rituals is they often get very excited about how the water must be boiling... but who tells the tea leaf whether the water was boiling or just off? Obviously, no-one, so the real message is that the hotter the water, the faster the brew and the less likely the result will taste "stewed", and the "hottest" water (ignoring superheating, etc) means boiling water. This is of some relevance to me, as it's well know that water boils at 93.8C [1]!
Which leads to the conundrum: is it worth getting the 208V socket in order to get water at less than 94C? My suspicion is that it's probably not, and the effort would likely be better spent getting a "boiling tap" added to the sink for the equally important task of making peas...
Yup... power is power: Brit 13A socket @ 240V = 3120W. Yankee 15A socket @ 110V = 1650W. Usually each is implemented as a bit less (e.g. 3000W and 1500W, respectively).
The only advantage to using a microwave per advice from the US Embassy London is that you tend to only heat a cupful; functionally the thing is only delivering the same power (granted the power transfer into the water is more efficient, but the generation of the waves is less efficient than just an electric heating element).
There's a typo in the second paragraph: it reads "The show, titled "George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead," was uploaded on Tuesday to YouTube by actor and comedian Will Sasso and podcaster Chad Kultgen.",
which should of course be:
"The show, titled "George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead," was uploaded on Tuesday to YouTube by sleezeball and plagiarist Will Sasso and slimebucket Chad Kultgen."
You might think so, but the hole in the fuselage is specifically designed for an emergency exit, and those work better if they open outwards.
You can Google a 737 Max (-8) doing an evacuation at Stockholm last month; it's a "Ryanair Buzz" aircraft, which sounds like a low-cost version of Ryanair but may be something different!
Although it's called a plug, it's really more of a hatch that can be opened (with a bit of messing around with the interior insulation, etc).
The seat count issue has been addressed else-post, but the point of this hole in the fuselage is that if you want more than 189 seats in the aircraft, you need an additional pair of emergency exits, and this is where they go. So Thai Lion Air currently operates three 737 Max-9's, but all theirs are configured for 221 seats, so the exit is installed and they aren't impacted by the emergency directive.
The Max-9 broadly exists as a 757-200 replacement, with similar capabilities but lower operating costs.
You're correct that corporations are people, but for reasons that pre-date Citizens United (2010); all that case did was assert that _because_ corporations are people, _then_ they have the same free speech rights as human, specifically with regard to election funding (I agree that it was idiotic, as non-US-citizens are also people, but can't fund US election campaigns).
The case that concludes that corporate personhood was a thing was an earlier case, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company. At the time, Southern Pacific was controlled by a group of four businessmen: Charles Crocker (of Crocker Bank and Wells Fargo notoriety), Leland Stanford (founded a university), Mark Hopkins (after whom the San Francisco hotel is named), and Collis Huntington (uncle of the guy whose name is on the Huntington Collection in San Marino, CA). Collectively these four were known as the "Big Four"... of the Robber Barons.
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company was decided in 1886 (118 U.S. 394, 396).
As engineers, we tend to like elegant and efficient solutions. But time after time it turns out that inelegant and/or inefficient approaches Work Just Fine if you throw enough resources at the problem, which is usually easier and often much cheaper. For example, Fibre Channel is extremely elegant as a technology, but for only a trivial amount of money you can get an appreciable fraction of a terabit of Ethernet, which will sledgehammer the problem; deterministic solutions are great, but with enough gigahertz cores you can sweep most of those concerns under the rug; spatial efficiency is cool, but another few gigabytes isn't going to break the bank... etc.
What the article doesn't say is that at this stage, for a "motion to dismiss" to succeed, the court must treat every allegation in the complaint as true. So if the complaint alleges that Amazon encouraged the illegal use of the thing, then the court (at this stage) has to assume that's true. The next stage -- discovery -- is where the plaintiff tries to assemble supporting evidence for the allegations.
It's also noteworthy that not every USB host port provider was entirely consistent with their reading of the OHCI standard. The Intel UHCI was better (as you had to buy a license to use it), but it wasn't until about the time of the EHCI (USB 2.0) that everyone kinda figured out how to do xHCI. And of course it was Microsoft's job to fix the problem caused by NEC/VIA/whoever producing something a bit different from Intel's version.
Boeing isn't a private company; it's a publicly-traded company (ticket "BA"). They are answerable to their shareholders, the largest of which are investment companies!
SpaceX is a private company. Also answerable to shareholders, but 70%-odd of them are called "Elon". Makes getting board approval to engage in high-risk ventures much easier: if Elon says "do it", it gets done.
And I think that's your point: the smaller the number of shareholders, the easier (defining the US government as being an entity with 300 million-odd shareholders)!
I wonder if the peculiarity is a consequence of Cruise imposing restrictions on the use of their data, which would be atypical (generally the cops just get a warrant and say "gimme") but I could imagine a scenario where Cruise claims the data contains proprietary info and negotiate restrictions. They certainly have clout with the local authorities which might have prompted kid gloves...
I wonder if the calculus for the fine was based on an assessment that DISH should have retired the spacecraft a while earlier but opted to use propellant for station-keeping instead of orbit-raising, and so bought themselves X days/weeks/months of operational service life. And while $150K may not be hugely significant, but it may be a significant message that this sort of calculation won't work going forward.
Overall, I've seen reports that two factors are in play as reasons why the council was insolvent:
An equal pay legal bill, amounting to £760m or so of unexpected expense, and...
Oracle's f'up, amounting to £80m over budget.
Obviously, the core of the problem is the former. But Oracle isn't helping much!
You do know that crew rest areas are a cabin configuration choice, right?
American Airlines use (or used) A321s for premium transcon routes (mainly LAX-JFK, but also SFO-JFK and I think LAX-MIA). These were configured with international first class seating (lie flat seats, arranged 1+1), then international business class (2+2) and finally regular coach (3+3).
Allocating one of those 1+1 seats for flight deck crew rest would be utterly routine.
(And 4700nm and Mach 0.8 would take ~10h15. So we're not dealing with a huge challenge -- worst case you'd only need the relief pilot for a couple of hours!)
First, although no-one would use an A321XLR on LHR-LAX, they couldn't as that sector is over 4,700nm (it's 4,741nm).
Second, there's much whining about the thing only having a single aisle. But a regular 777 has seats in 3-4-3 anyway, so it's not like your getting any less space: the 777 has 4 middle seats per row, the A321 has 2.
Key point for me would be journey time. If I can fly DEN-EDI non-stop I'll take it over faffing around in London, Amsterdam or New York.
(when aircraft type is a factor in my decision process, it's the cabin altitude that determines, not often the seat layout, although JAL's 787s win big on both...)
True. A large part of the problem circles around to the fact that governments (of pretty much any stripe) have spent years cutting revenue (i.e. taxes) and raising them to something sane is unpopular with The Man On The Street.
Of course for The Man On The Street raising the 45% rate (or even part of the 40% rate) isn't going to make much difference, but it will bring in a little more cash, which will make rebuilding schools/hospitals/the NHS/NATS/etc easier (if not easy). Still, I'm sure the 25% corporation tax rate couldn't possibly be adjusted without the country collapsing in dire despair!
Bizarrely, the corporation tax rate seems to have been over 40% in the 1980s (proprietor: M. Thatcher), which is obviously a misprint in the history books or something!
I wonder if you're misremembering something: the "unfilled job position" thing sounds more like an H-1B visa.
There are a whole bunch of ways to get a green card, including family, and (relevant here) refugee/asylum status. But one of the mechanisms is the "employment" one, but that doesn't require the same level of scrutiny as the H-1B; if you can show you're exceptional in some way, or a multinational manager or do a job that requires an advanced degree, you get higher preference than people without, but only when you get down to the "unskilled worker" level (generally) do you need a labor certification, but those are not quite the same as the H-1B certifications in various mysterious immigration ways!
To be fair, this article is critical of GA in the context of financial transactions (say, tax preparation) which is not really the business El Reg is in!
At the end of the day, I'm pretty sure this website is running on one of Intel or AMD CPUs.... does that mean they can't be critical of Intel and AMD?
Fundamentally, as I see it, the dishonesty lies in not disclosing what you're doing, not the doing itself.