In other shocking news, water is wet and the Sun is hot

THIS!

You can only have redundancy to a certain level before the cost (in dollars, time, etc) becomes prohibitive. Decide what you can live with for your circumstances and plan accordingly

Which "green laws" are you talking about? Give me the statutes?

Stop parroting Murdoch's lies
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fau...

^^ THIS

Our current Prime Minister is a follower of a "Prosperity Gospel" church. He actively hates the poor and disenfranchised!

Not only that, but there was the article about the woman who had her benefit canceled because she was appearing before the senate hearing in to robodebts https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fau...

Then the article about the literal death toll this policy has https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fsto...

And cricket is played in more countries than almost all of the US-centric sports combined.

Hell, just the Indian cricket watchiers would outnumber the entire population of the US

I know this may come as a shock to you, but more than just americans read this site.

Although over time the number of US specific "news" stories that have taken over the site, the number of non-US readers has probably dwindled.

The other thing to remember is, the internet is international. What is "free speech" where you are is not necessarily "free speech" where the reader is. Your laws don't apply everywhere (for whatever value of your).

Also "free speech" does not mean freedom from consequences.

If you're not doing this as part of your testing, you don't really have backups

This

Any company serious about long term storage of data is still using tape. Particularly for archival storage of data

Australia leads on a per-capita basis. We don't have as many people, but we make up for it by torrenting a metric shitload of stuff!

Being in Western Australia, it's always annoyed me when US-ians refer to Washington as WA as if no one else uses that abbreviation

When I first looked at it I thought it said "UKIP Chief" and as wondering what Farage was rambling about now

Every Australian knows, if you take the proper precautions and put Vegemite behind your ears then you don't get attacked by Drop Bears

they had multiple failures. The primary air con failed, and so did the backups

http://blog.iinet.net.au/statement-chief-technology-officer-mark-dioguardi/