Re: "the UK's Norfolk Pension Fund"
American company, sued in an American court, for actions in America. The fact that the shareholder is domiciled overseas has no bearing on the matter. If it were otherwise, international investment would cease.
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My understanding is that Spirit also do work for Airbus and other manufacturers. And they don't have bits falling off. So the "screw it, ship it" attitude is only for Boeing jobs. Which means what they will be hiding is Boeing either explicitly or on-the-quiet instructing Spirit to skip steps for speed.
Chinese cars are not cheap because Chinese industry is super-efficient. Whatever the globalists say. They are cheaper because labour costs are low, due to the poverty of the workforce, and the poor employment rights. Parts are cheaper, as the raw materials and processes can be provided without regard to the environment. And the energy costs are almost zero, being provided by subsidised coal-fired power stations.
So, we are simply outsourcing our worker-oppression and pollution to China, and we should recognise that in our tariffs.
To be fair, the council were sold a product that was supposed to be fit for purpose. It turns out that despite the product being supposed to be designed for this kind of application, it does not even support the legally-mandated functionality. So yes, the council are on the hook for messing about, but really, they were sold a pup to begin with.
APC UPSes are notorious for killing SLA gel batteries. This is because in order to maintain tip-top maximum runtime (without spending money on bigger batteries) they float-charge them at 13.8V per 12-volt battery. That is right on the upper-uppermost limit for float charging. In a few years (as little as 3 for 3rd-party batteries) they get hot, swell, and (if left for too long) emit nasty smells.
Of course, APC would happily sell you a nice new set, premium quality, premium price, that would then be carefully cooked in 4-5 years.
Floating at 13.2V would give years more life - but reduce the headline runtime and kill the golden goose of battery replacement. No, there is no setting for float charge voltage!
"Affected individuals have also been offered a free 12-month Experian Identity Plus membership for credit monitoring."
12 months? That data is leaked for ever. The victims will always be vulnerable.
Experian Identity Plus is expensive if you buy it. Victims will need to keep paying after a year, and so the membership for these leaks should be perpetual.
Once these companies start factoring the cost of lifetime Experian membership for all victims, they may spend more than the 50p they currently do on security.
The problem is that we also don't know where it gets its training data from, and is it collecting, even if I am not using it? I should not have to trust in vague assurances.
We know that the marketers thought they could make money out of this thing by getting devs to use it without thinking, and so make it a sticky feature that people will then pay for.
" Laws cannot, and do not, attempt to cover every edge case of behaviour.", That's why Apple's lawyers are paid so well.
In a actual courtroom. a persistent and well-prepared advocate can say "but the law does not say that" and win. Ultimately, the law is as-written, the interpretation is for the court, not the politicians that write the law.
If intention was part of law, Human Rights law would not have the all-pervasive effect that it has.
As Whitehall squashes any attempt to build anything other than huge mega-reactors, which will never be finished.
I suspect this is a mixture of leftover-hippie "Nuclear power? No thanks!", and an attempt to stall all other energy sources until "we have enough wind power never to need it".
Not only have Rolls-Royce effectively been told to do one, but a proposal to make use of Sellafield waste by a new company was dismissed. They are now going to build in France.