An interesting idea. Cross-signing sort of achieves this.

How would certificate revocation work with multiple signers? If one signer said the certificate was revoked, but the other said it wasn't, which would you trust?

.. and at 2,950 kilograms, someone doesn't know how much a 2023 Rolls-Royce Spectre weighs.

Your assumption is wrong. Gender can be known and it is still fine to use "their" as a pronoun.

From A Comedy Of Errors, Shakespeare, first published in 1623 - Act 4 Scene 3:

There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend,

So feel free to claim that I'm encouraging "pronoun dog whistle games". I don't care. You are wrong, and your foghorn of false indignation is far louder.

English lacks a specific common-gender third-person singular pronoun and there are examples of "their", "they", "them" and "themselves" being used as singular third-person pronouns going back hundreds of years. It is certainly not incorrect.

IMHO, it's a purely political move by the US administration. Likewise the references to the "chinese" or "foreign" virus. And how the US administration can ban flights from Schengen countries, but the UK is fine given all our government has done so far is say "old people are going to die" and "wash your hands a lot".

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Nearly as much as went into writing this comment.

The ECHR is not an EU construct. It was created by the Council of Europe and Turkey is a signatory to the ECHR.

Yeah - some ATMs in the UK still don't use magstripe, although the numbers are decreasing and their usually easy to identify (the displays look like something out of War Games).

Whenever I travel to the US, one of the first things that I notice is different is the lax approach to card security. In most of Western Europe, pretty much every card transaction uses the chip. I can disable the mag-stripe on some of my cards (through the banks' online systems), and using magstripe anywhere increases the chance of a transaction being picked up by the banks' automated fraud detection systems. Then when you get to the US, you go into a restaurant, settle up by card with no signature and no pin, and then the restaurant can manipulate the transaction later to add whatever tip you wrote on the bill. Madness!

Also free G-suite T&C's are different from paid/enterprise

Great! Build a storage service and sell it to us. See how far you get.

Go read the G-Suite T&Cs. They are not the same as the consumer Gmail product.

My girlfriend bought a new car and discovered the previous owner's Irish Folk Music CD in the CD player.

I've been involved in negotiations with a couple of contracts relating to Google Apps for Enterprise/Education.

In each one, the "scanning" has been explicitly mentioned in the contract. In each one, scanning for the purposes of advertising has only happened if the domain administrator allows it to happen. If it is turned off, Google will not scan mail for the purposes of advertising content.

There are of course other reasons why google will scan your email. Spam/Antivirus filtering and indexing to enable search functionality are two that come to mind.

Basically, all Google have done is remove the domain administrators ability to allow ads, and I'm not aware of anyone I know who used Google Apps for Education/Enterprise with it turned on anyway.