A couple of entropy cultists went and destroyed a famous, beautiful, century-old tree – apparently just to destroy something people liked.
They face a maximum of ten years in prison. I imagine the Eldrae would be a little less merciful.
“Get up so I can kill you again”
They will, after all, be planting a replacement sapling taken from the cells of the old.
And saplings need fertilizer to help them grow.
And conveniently, opines the justice, there are two sacks of shit right here in this court.
Let justice prevail through ironic amusement, and a deliberate insult to this particular entropy-cult.
From the article
The message noted that VPNSecure was acquired in 2023, “including the technology, domain, and customer database—but not the liabilities.”
Yeah that’s not how anything works In general you acquire the assets you acquire the liabilities.
I suppose the person who sold it to you could agree to be liable for the liabilities and debts while nominally selling the assets to you but in that case you don’t cancel the those lifetime subscriptions you start billing the previous owner for them they after all agreed to retain the liabilities of their former assets.
I wonder if somebody will get a class action going.
Yeah, there’s a reason why “We have a contract, do we not?” is a phrase that has, there, acquired some considerable notoriety.
(Because if you hear it, you’re about to have a real bad day. And if you don’t pick up on the implications, you’re about to have a real bad year.)
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Relevant to this thread in general:
Speaking of people who should be sentenced to become fertilizer, the people responsible for chopping down every peony flower at the University of Michigan peony bloom, leaving behind only these flyers:
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…I do so want to be reasonable, and civilized, and just, and kind. I do. So it would be nice if people could stop giving me visceral sensations along the lines of “The only thing Grand Moff Tarkin did wrong was not going far enough.”
It really would.
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“You’re not really giving me reasons to join your cause”
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I mean, they are a bunch of entropy-cultists, so…
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There is some major drama here in Australia, after the second-largest phone services provider, Optus, managed to block all calls to 000 (emergency services, our equiv of 911) for over 12 hrs. Just the 000 calls, everything else was functioning fine, so the problem “wasn’t noticed” despite multiple people trying very hard to alert Optus about it.
And yes, this has resulted in multiple deaths.
Details are still unfolding, but large amounts of shit are flying through the air and it looks like the CEO is going to fall on his sword over it, because the fault was 100% on their end AND they’re legally obligated to have failover mechanisms specifically to prevent any interruption to emergency calls.
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That is really disturbing.
Not only does the CEO need to fall on his sword, the company themselves needs to be sued out of existence!
I have heard many not-good things about Optus from Australians of my acquaintance, but even by those low standards… damn.
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Yeah, they’ve plunged downhill in a massive way over the last 3 years, and before that their main claim was “big telco who isn’t Telstra”. (Telstra is the former government telecom company, privatised a few decades ago, and still the only option for many people in rural areas because they do prioritise coverage as their biggest differentiating factor. So all my family use them.)
The Optus outage in 2023 was bigger but in a way that was sort of good, as at least it was immediately obvious to everyone - it took out their entire network. Which meant that work arounds for emergency calls were put out very rapidly, and the post-mortem verdict was “you fucked up, but not to the point of criminal negligence. Here’s what you need to fix”.
This time? It turns out they’ve been dragging their heels and did not implement the fixes at all, and instead of a crisis triggered by external factors this one is entirely their own doing. And they either didn’t notice, or possibly some levels of Optus were covering it up instead of sending it up the chain because there was a big important finance meeting taking place at the time and it would have spooked the investors.
So basically it keeps getting worse and worse and I’m expecting heads to roll, and quite possibly someone hit with criminal charges for the deaths.
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If someone doesn’t get hit with those charges, it may be time to change OzGov.
Admittedly that’s unlikely. Mostly because full investigations take time, prosecution takes longer, and we’ll probably have the next election happening before that point.
It’s pretty clear Optus will be fined, the breach of contract is the one bit that it cut-and-dry, the real question is what ELSE will happen. Especially since it managed to happen again last week! Although only in a tiny area and only one ambulance call out affected, but wow are people angry. Justifiably.