Surely the data centres should pay for their utilities including electricity!

The rest of the world wonders when this non war will end so that the painful economic consequences will stop.

I waited quite a while before buying an EV. The wife wanted a Tesla but I couldn’t stomach buying from Musk so we have a Chinese one. Cheaper so it wasn’t that much of an investment and comparable to most non EV alternatives.

As they sell them in Europe we can be sure that that meet the more stringent European standards too. The idea that Chinese vehicles are all crap has passed its use by date.

Isn’t it just that when the Chinese recognised that they needed to dominate and innovate in the car market all the other manufacturers doubled down on doing business as usual? That the Chinese have a dynamic, robotic car industry with a 1 billion person market is really going to make it difficult to compete.

The Chinese market isn’t perfect by a long stretch as they don’t respond to market signals very well hence the over supply of ICE vehicles because their population has gone EV. That means they have a lot of ICE vehicles on their hands. Especially since Trump closed the Straight of Hormuz.

Just look at the isle space for soft drinks in the supermarket. Even the zero sugar ones are bad. Can’t see Albo taking this one on.

Yep, it affects everyone.

But they are in America, North America to be precise. I assume what is referring to is the US.

It’s just symptomatic of the destruction of social and diplomatic capital (pardon the cold calculating economic word) that this old demented fools is engaged in. His economic destruction and greed and theft is another story.

There’s a TV show on the ABC in Australia called Planet America that analyses presidential elections for Australians. Since Demented Don’s ascension it hasn’t stopped yet. Just too much to discuss.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/planet-america

What you say about local names is correct, however the issue is that Demented Don has just decided that this is a good way to punish Canada. It is still surprising that a president can make such a change by executive order and there is no uproar in the US.

It’s the Onion, right?

When is an 8 year old considered legally competent to sign legal documents? Not in Australia and I thought not in the US.

It all comes back to whether an 8 year old can legally sign anything.

Isn’t this just common practice? It’s called load shedding.

He’s said to be very smart so I suspect that you don’t need to be charitable.

You actually need to have your own servers or actively use multiple platforms as well as backup your data. No platform is forever and some are only there at a whim. Google has a bad habit of unpredictably locking up your data too.

Captain Bonespurs rides again!

Cruel and unusual punishment. Isn’t that unconstitutional?

I checked the plans and the standing charge increased so unless you have a really large usage it probably won’t save anything and could cost you a lot.