It's also the "default" in Windows 11 to require a recovery bitlocker key every time you do a minor modification to the "bios" like changing the boot order

Ah but you see, chip cards were a French invention so obviously the US is going to turn their head from it and pretend it doesn't exist for more than 20 yrs

Yes it's "fake till you make it" without the making part

But if you repeat the idea as your own so it becomes

(Yes the president can't tell Greenland from Iceland, but neither half of those "tech bros" who failed geography at school

Yeah but honestly VSCode with Github copilot plugin works in a similar way. Might not be as good but it works

Let me propose a different title:

Article by article: how lawyers created impractical regulations that made sure big tech monopolized Europe and made sure small players had more trouble participating, and how the legal-industrial complex is fighting to keep milking that cow

Farmers like to complain and always get new privileges with every protest

I for once are happy they are getting a reality check for once

I hope you won't get a reality check if one day there is a famine in Europe caused by outsourcing the entire farming to other continents. The very first thing any enemy force would do is a naval blockade, the rest is patience and lots of deaths.

Farming already is heavily subsidized in every EU country. The whole sector only exists as is precisely because of the fears you point out. And that is perfectly fine, because statistically speaking it already is a rounding error both in share of employment and share of GDP (1.2% of EU GDP), only kept alive for the exact purpose you talk about.

So even if these lobby talking points would be true, and everything had to be 100% subsidized, that wouldn't be a problem.

Buddy, we are talking about a quota that is less than 2% of the beef produced in EU.

If having 1% of beef imported causes a famine, then the farming in Europe is actually pretty awful.

And while we don't have cubicles and TPS reports anymore, people have different grievances and ways of expressing their cynicism.

History does not repeat but it rhymes indeed

We don’t even have cubicles anymore, it’s all everyone shoved onto the same table now.

Indeed it’s telling how bad things haven gotten that many would yearn for the cubicle now

Cubicle, you say? LUXURY! We had to code 12 of us to a desk inside a cardboard box in the middle of the road. At the end of every day, Pointed-Haired Boss would replace us with A.I. and fire us, only to re-hire us the next day at half the salary.

(With apologies to:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen

There are still many companies with cubicles, although they do seem to be getting rarer.

Well, and pre-cubicles, it was just a bunch of tables in a big room surrounded by managers in offices.

The open workroom was a relatively short fad pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright. If you look at office buildings before that, they're much more similar to houses and apartments. Lots of rooms connected by hallways, staircases, and atriums. You can imagine the difficulty and expense of lighting a large open space without electricity.

In Europe I see a lot of companies with open space workrooms with some cubicles, maybe 30-40% of workers at those companies seem to work in them.

No, it wasn't. Most companies had separate offices, individual or with 2-4 desks in them.

With clean desk policies in some organizations, you would be lucky to have a seat. Initial 5-10 minutes are spent on finding a place to sit.

even worse lol

it's like "I hear you hate cubicles, so we can solve the cubicle problem and save money at the same time"

Next, they’ll get rid of the table…

like cage free eggs

Or "Clean Code™"

Drivers who use their indicators, getting a little tired of all their incessant signaling.

Yeah they shouldn't be surprised if someone solves this outside the legal system