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  • And this is why the UK has separated hot and cold water taps.
    Your hot water used to come from a rainwater tank on the roof, and it was illegal to pipe it to a mixing faucet because if something went wrong with the cold water site it could pull undrinkable hot water from these tanks and faucets and contaminate all the drinking water.

    Works for these plug-in solar panels too - illegal here in Finland, because if the grid went down, these types of panels could keep feeding the house, out to the street, and electrocute a line worker.

    (Also because installing solar panels is a well protected job over here, can’t touch that occupation and their revenue stream)




  • There are a lot of requirements to be able to join the EU, and many of them are deal breakers for the UK that they never implemented - like having to switch to the Euro and joining Schengen. They would undoubtedly demand to get the same special exceptions they had before, and require every EU country to unanimously agree to give them, which almost certainly would never happen.

    And even before that, one of the requirements is a “significant, stable and long-lasting majority public opinion in favour of rejoining”. One interpretation of this was requiring a few years of at least 65% public approval for the join.










  • Yet it is.

    You can go to a company and ask to buy their office building. Or the name trademark. Or staff. Or customer database. Or website. And you continue this until you’ve acquired literally everything the company has except the actual company itself - it’s called an “asset acquisition” - so you get all the stuff, but because the original company technically still exists it’s left with most of the liabilities.
    Most, because some liabilities thankfully do transfer.

    In this instance:

    According to VPNSecure’s owners, their acquisition netted them “the tech, the brand, and the infrastructure/technology—but none of the company, contracts, payments, or obligations from the previous owners.”

    …how you can claim not to have gotten the contracts, yet be in a position to cancel them sound a bit of a, well, lie.







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