Looks like this year they also got a skull to join them.

Because I have to use this shitshow of a software at work because some companies use “license managers” that don’t work under Wine.

Well, this is the fault of the western car brands. They fough transition to EVs with tooth and nail. They wanted to keep fossil fuel cars at all costs. And now they either have nothing at all, or they have to scramble to keep up.

Best justice money can buy. Almost as good as in the US.

At a few billions net worth, the law ceases to be a problem, obviously.

I wonder how they will spin it if the crew gets fried at re-entry - whenever this may be…

I only tried GNOME long enough to see how crap it is, and have been a happy KDE user for years.

They cannot afford wasting propaganda on the “Enemy”, they need it to keep the starving population under control.

On the other hand: How can they afford those balloons?

Eight inches, not seven. Got a story with that…

Back when I was in school, I was working on the side on expanding an ERP system for a customer. Said customer got a stack of printouts from their main supplier each January: The new price list. They meticiously typed that 300+ pages list into their own ERP system, and then checked it for errors. This took the boss and his wife a good part of January and February. Every year.

So I told him that the main supplier already has that data in a computer, why does he not ask to get the price list on disk, and I see whether I can get them into the system via a software import. He called them, asked me back if “IBM Format” would be OK, and I said yes. Surprise: The supplier had an IBM mainframe and sent us an 8" floppy. Luckily, the boss knew the right people with the right equipment and got me a copy on 5.25" and in ASCII (the original was in EBCDIC).

It took me one day to figure out the format, write an importer, and run it to completion. Boss and wife were very happy.

I draw the line right behind them. Where the real search results start.

Will they serve it though?

There is a thing called “international arrest warrant”. Of course they are rich enough to hide somewhere where the Swiss have no contract with, but I don’t think they would enjoy that…

On top of that, they come cheap, like many people from Egypt did. If I understand this correctly, you can buy a kind of “Hadjj package” with hotel room, access to AC’ed facilities during the day, food and - most important - drink, and even medical supervision (or at least easy access to medical services). But of course you have to pay for this.

So it is cheaper just to get a tourist visum and do everything outside those guard rails. With the results that this years Hadjj produced. A bunch of Egyptian travel agencies sold the cheaper variant, and then left their customers without any real support inside Saudi Arabia.

Could be, if the neighbours did smart up.

Good start. They are actually not the only ones in that area where rumors of similar treatment of employees are making the rounds.

Tibet is part of China and brooks no interference from external forces.

I’d like to see Putins face when the Chinese start say things like “Russia is part of China and brooks no interference from external forces.”

Looking for CSAM is only the excuse they put out. Who knows what they are actually after. Maybe they just want to find compromat on people.

That will only kill a European if the American who ate it sat down on the European.

Why Egyptians? Is there a special reason that singled this group out for some reason?

I only look into kbin.social occasionally to see if they finally got their spam problem under control. They were nice maybe a year ago, but now it is a dumpster fire with half the main page being ads for drugs and junk services.

Nope, not the King. He might have a lot of stuff, but quite a lot of that is basically unsellable. So his crown might be worth a gazillion, but parliament would probably interfere if he tried to sell it off. And it would be an issue what is actually his to sell and what is really owned by the state.