Sure they are, as long as foreign nationals pay their own taxes with them.

Depends. Do Mericuhns pay their taxes in Dollers?

If I can’t pay my taxes with it, it isn’t a real currency.

It’s heartbreaking, really.

The UK is like a kid who just got his face covered in mud by bullies, and goes “aren’t my friends wonderful for playing with me?”.

“Can you explain some of the issues with the current administration?”

This guy: Hold my beer.

What a legend!

Thank you, I wouldn’t have known how to react to the child’s amusing statement without the emojis instructions.

As a software house, running our own infrastructure would be a nightmare in so many ways… Just thinking of all the hardware that needs to be deployed, and how many sites worldwide we’d need just to provide the same level of service we have now, and then being able to scale up massively during peak time but have all that capacity go to waste during low season, then dedicated teams on all sites to handle emergencies 24/7, the massive loses of revenue anytime the services are down…

“Just in-house it” is definitely not the answer, there’s a reason AWS makes so much money.

Thanks for the straight answer, brother.

This is surprisingly myopic from someone who supposedly works in the field.

Where do your full stack applications run, my friend?

Because unless you’re in China or Russia, the answer is either AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

Nobody is looking to reinvent the wheel. The call is for the EU to invest heavily in infrastructure, like building its own chips, creating its own data centres, and yes, developing its software industry to provide alternatives to all the proprietary/closed stuff.

Unlikely.

Both Butch and Suni are seasoned astronauts, and they were certainly aware of the risks of flying a new Boeing craft.

Their return now is something that has been planned ever since NASA decided to bring the capsule back empty, way back in September.

Could you enlighten us uncultured people?

In the meantime, related:

I’m a firm believer that hardware must never be linked to any sort of subscription to function. If it does, then it’s because the hardware only serves as a way to access the content, but in that case, it must allow competition between providers for that content.

If I buy something, it’s mine. No one should be allowed to dictate how I use it, I want to be free to do what I want with it.

What the heck are you on about. That’s the worst possible solution to this, are you some sort of masochistic?

If Siri is something that needs to be paid for, don’t bundle it with the system. Charge extra from the start, and people can opt in to that shit.

Also, they run a massively profitable software store, and THAT is what justifies and pays for the bug fixing and security patches to the overall OS.

The “cell a year” practice isn’t to cover development costs, it’s to bring in massive profit by milking the consumeristic herd that buys their crap.

Can you ship moose ribs to Europe? Never had them, but seems like something I’d enjoy.

Yeah the world’s doing its part, but it’d be nice if Americans did theirs.

Other than Bernie Sanders, the rest sure like to bitch a lot, but actions speak louder and they’re not getting out of their couches…

Same. Especially as a European, I wish we could avoid critical dependencies on American companies.

No no, it’s 3. It was a cold day.

The correct answer was 3??

I was alone…

I was all by myself…

No one was lookiiiiing…

Oh of course, sorry about that… (winks) officer.