I enjoy it, it has forced me to get good at making notes though (and pc based rather than in a book so I can search them) otherwise I’ll come back to try and do something I’ve not done in 6 months and not have a fucking clue where to even start.

In my team I’m cover. I dont have my own tasks, I have to learn enough of everyone else’s to be able to do them if they’re on holiday or sick. It has massively increased the ‘mastering’ time.

I feel like they dropped two 0s off what the fine should be.

While overall poverty rates have improved considerably in recent decades, several individual countries have experienced a rise in poverty. As previously mentioned, 696 million people still live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than $1.90 (INT) per day

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poverty-rate-by-country

He could just gift all of those people $1400 each which would keep them above the poverty line for two years and still have a shit load of money for himself.

Photography, Star trek, fountain pens

Name one

Ask it for many R’s there are in strawberry

the “trucks” in your example are the users computers/phones.

No it’s the packets being sent from the 4chan server.

Stopping every single packet (or in the real world truck) to check it isn’t feasible, do that and you get 20 mile queues up the m20 (and the digital version of that). Plus any government trying to so it like that would get accused of tax payers money due to the insane amount of resources that would be needed.

Placing the responsibility on the company makes sense, so does issuing penalties for non compliance. The company that has a fine issued against them can of course ignore it if they’re set up outside the country that issues the fine. But they should then expect the country issuing the fine to escalate. If they don’t pay and don’t comply they can expect to have any assets in the uk seized and eventually get blocked from operating entirely. And probably have any executives arrested of they enter the country. Ofcom can’t just jump to getting a court order though because they need to be fair and give 4chan a chance to comply if they want to.

The problem with the online safety act is that it exists at all, and that they expect people to use third party authentication services many of which are operating from countries with poor data protection regulations. That said, as iit does exist the logic of saying that companies are the ones responsible for what people access from their servers does make sense.

now, some enterprising individuals have taken it upon themselves to buy, smuggle, and then sell those beverages inside the UK

Wouldn’t it be more akin to those individuals putting the alcohol into 4chan’s trucks that are taking other stuff to the UK? (and worse with 4chan’s knowledge)

In that case do you think it’s unreasonable that the uk government imposes penalties for 4chan refusing to remove the alcohol that they know is there from the trucks.

And then if 4chan then refuses to pay said penalties start to not allow them to bring any trucks into the uk at all?

It’s a process. They need to issue the fine first to give them a chance to pay rather than jumping to blocking it. If they continue to refuse to pay that’s where it’ll go.

About 1.5% of Musk’s net worth when it was at it’s height when he was US President.

Also it’s much easier to triple a small number than a big one.

Someone who was 15 in 1985 would be in their mid 50s now, not 40s. Sorry.

It was more the daemon crashing or my router randomly deciding to block the traffic then getting moaned at because ‘that bloody music thing’ wasn’t working again.

Oh god. I don’t want to go back to having to have a raspberry pi with an external drive running subsonic and hoping it stays stable enough for my wife to blast musicals on her drive to work.

Ah ok. That makes sense where it came from then.

I think there was a lot of speculation and jokes about that’s what would happen next from people on here and other places.

They’ve said nothing of the sort.

With regards to this most people are just ignoring the law. VPN use has gone through the roof.

The wording on ofcom is “should not” not" must not". It’s not illegal, they just don’t want people to do it and want people to think that it is illegal.