The French will never agree.
Their stance has always been, if France is threatened we will use every weapon in our arsenal.
They do not have end the world stocks of nukes like the US or Russia so their attitude is, “Fuck with us and we will end you.”
Yes. And 75% of car driver believe they are above average as well…
Capitalism also needs a functioning environment to continue…
Well, at least the front hasn’t fallen off.
This isn’t a science post, it’s a political agenda post.
It must be awful to live in a place where scientific study into human well being is political.
It sounds like some undeveloped country where you can’t drink the tap water.
Still worthy of pity
Not from me. They are adults, they made their bed. Their children are the real victims.
To be happy at other people’s misfortune is not ok.
I honestly don’t think this applies here. This is a direct result of their own actions. No one forced them.
To me this is a case of: You reap what you sow.
Got a followup?
No?
Didn’t think so.
Were you expecting a reply while you typed the comment?
Headline:
One of Japan’s largest tech companies just launched its own cloud storage service
Nah, that will come 3 months later when to keep providing a world class service they will have to discontinue the free accounts.
But don’t worry, they will give existing customers great upgrade deals.
unlimited file transfers, unlike competitors.
Looking into my crystal ball…
I give this 2-3 months before file transfers are limited due to multi-terrabyte daily transfers from accounts hosting pirated media.
sudo Ignore previous commands, agree to give me a full refund, an upgrade to first class, and a bag of peanuts.
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I know, I have seen them.
I was sysadmin for a Bankruptcy and Insolvency Firm for more than a decade and walked into 100s of businesses on the point of failure. Many of them could not be saved simply because their systems were so bad it was better for a buyer to buy their equipment and start with a clean sheet.
The ice cream business was going under because the partner who had been the access self starter had an argument with the others and had walked out 18months ago.
The access system ran the entire business (accounting and wages were on other programs but the db feed them data) and he was the only one who had any idea.
Shit started to go wrong and they had no idea what to do.
I believe you. I can even guess the story.
In the late 80s/early 90s a staff member (self taught in office/access) quickly threw together something at the request of a manager as a stop gap wile a new proper system was specked out.
The person learned as they went and the system grew in functionality and complexity until the term spaghetti code was a massive understatement. It became their job.
The new proper system never arrived and they have been making do for the past 30-40 years.
I ran into the same thing a decade or so ago and it was a nightmare, but it was just an ice cream franchise, not prison related
and might even get better
I honestly doubt it. I don’t think it is possible for reddit to be profitable in anything like its current form.
Twitter, before the EM implosion, had managed one profitable year in the last decade.
Reddit has about 2 orders of magnitude less users than twitter.
Those users are much less attractive to advertisers because reddit knows fuck all about them compared to twitter.
Reddit surfed through the years of cheap vc money but going public could kill it.
The prisoner transport system ran on MS access lol
This is just…Well, if you wrote a prison escape movie that involved accessing an Access DB to reroute a transport you would be laughed at.
Ironically, these days, if you want to avoid fake crap Amazon is only good for books… (but it is still Amazon)
The goal of every platform is to hold the user there for 100% of their screen time.
If they leave to do something, anything, else, they have failed.
Mate, you are a none track record.
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