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Only if you're on O2 or 3 and haven't disabled the adult content filter.

What law do you think he's broken?

The foreign tampering wasn't at the ballot box.

That people can show up with a suspicious pile of metal and convert into cash seems to be what creates the opportunity for the thief.

The UK does that - a scrap dealer can only pay by bank transfer or cheque. That way there's a paper trail.

There was a guy who planned to bomb us-east-1. Someone reported it and the feds gave him a fake device.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56719618

You may be able to rent your quantum computing time if that gets cheap enough to be practical, but I doubt many people will ever own one.

You already can rent time on one - IBM and others offer it - but they are not cheap.

As a big fan of the KLF I once learned that it’s great to burn great things up.

For anyone who doesn't know, the KLF took a million pounds in cash, and set it on fire. For no obvious reason.

The FBI is aware of a software misconfiguration

That's not a misconfiguration, that's incompetence.

How do these people get hired?

The auto factories propose to actually create jobs, though.

The right of reply is widely considered part of journalistic ethics.

If you accuse someone of something in print, you should at least give them the opportunity to refute it.

For some strange reason people aren't all that keen on building something that'll increase their utility bills, pollute everything, and threatens to take their job.

eBay and PayPal almost always side with the buyer.

Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sinbad the Sailor were well-known long before Disney.

There's even a major Chinese company named after one!

There's even a version with Brians May and Blessed.

When they first rolled out Universal Credit, they decided to do it using Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

It didn't work very well, so GDS rebuilt it in-house.

"Legal tender" only means it must be accepted to settle a debt.

Cash handling isn't free, and for smaller businesses might actually end up being more expensive than accepting electronic payments.

Here is the piece in question: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-09/chinese-off...

It's very clearly labelled as an official response from the Chinese government. So it's what the people they're accusing have to say, and that's why they published it.

Whether or not to believe them is left to the reader.

It's a letter to the editor from the Chinese consul in response to an editorial.

Roald Dahl would agree with you. Fiction is the perfect place to explore complex emotions around the unsavoury parts of life, in a safe manner where the reader is in control.

Stuart Semple changed his name to Anish Kapoor, because only Anish Kapoor has the rights to use Vantablack for artistic purposes.

I think there might also be export restrictions, but I'm not sure.

Or there is a warrant, but it's secret.

It's not Railway's fault that he didn't read the docs and thought it'd be a good idea to play Russian roulette.

Even an office PBX has listen, whisper and barge. Why wouldn't a telco-grade switch have it?

It'll be because of ads. You can only advertise prescription drugs to medical professionals.

Over a decade ago, on the website of a cable news network named after vermin, you could watch an uncensored video of terrorists setting someone on fire.

The original idea was this:

I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.

This is what happens when you make education a business. You end up testing credit score instead of aptitude.

Prohibition regarding alcohol was not accepted by almost every demographic strata.

It's very difficult to ban something when even the police do it. I'm guessing that the number of cops who like a drink is somewhere around "most".

They've been banned since 1997, though Lithuania has withdrawn and Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Finland plan to.