This might not be a popular opinion here, but I'm really not all that hurt by the fact that he didn't try to go through with the electoral reform stuff. I don't think it's going to have enough support to have a chance of passing until we spend another couple of decades or so dancing around it. Backing off a campaign promise because you come to the conclusion that it isn't really feasible isn't the worst thing a politician can do (and bulling forward even though you've been repeatedly told it isn't a good idea gets you Donald Trump). That a centrist party made electoral reform a campaign promise at all indicates that the idea is gaining traction, and while faster would be nice, I'll settle for progress in baby steps over no progress at all.
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Given the number of people who have developed pink sparklies towards him over the course of the series, it's a good thing that our ojisan's wife is an understanding sort!
The stat likely includes a lot of machines used for work and provisioned by an employer. The company I work for allows me pretty free reign with mine in terms of installing software, but wiping the OS and replacing it is the one thing I wouldn't get away with.
Or, y'know, simply make collecting data on anyone for the purpose of ad personalization, and the delivery of such ads, illegal, full stop. Penalize anyone found to be advertising on such a network, too.
(Hey, I can dream, right?)
I haven't been able to identify the source from which I first got the information, unfortunately, but other stuff I've found while looking makes me think there may indeed be a comms issue: ODIN, the new software platform for these birds that's now being put into production, is repeatedly described as "cloud-based". That and one site's cryptic reference to "F-35 crypto ignition keys" do not exactly inspire confidence in me. Or at least, if whatever I read first was a misinterpretation, I can kind of see where it was coming from.
My understanding is that there's some weird shenanigans going on with an encryption key or something of that ilk that has to be renewed daily from US servers for the aircraft to continue to function, but I'm not sure how reliable the source I got that from is. However, I wouldn't buy F-35s either, if I were a nation-state shopping for aircraft.
I imagine that would save lots of people.
Lots and lots and lots. All the issues with scarcity of donor hearts and tissue compatibility would just go away, and the main constraint on heart transplants would become the availability of a cardiac surgeon. Far fewer people would die while they were on a waiting list, and there would be much less incentive to drop anyone healthy enough to survive the surgery off the list entirely.
As long as they keep the same protocol (and therefore third-party clients continue to work), I don't care if they replace the current first-party client with a new dumpster fire.
Thing is, we've got a large amount of very thinly populated Arctic land that we have to defend. Granted, modern equipment allows us to defend more land with less people, but it's expensive even without the requirement that it has to function in extreme cold. Maybe we could make it work, but we'd have to throw a lot of money at it, and the political will hasn't been there up to this point.
Eh, if there's a usable French manual, we've got plenty of people who can translate it. (Korean not so much, maybe.)
I completed Erased last week.
I had to dredge around for a while before I realized which series this was (I have it filed in my brain under the more-wordy original title, "Boku dake ga Inai Machi"), and yeah, it's pretty well-done for what it is. In retrospect, I kind of wonder if Tokyo Revengers doesn't have a bit of this series in its DNA.
No, no, far more useful to exercise our right to arm bears. Would you charge at a grizzly with a machine gun?