I think it's predictable that FFG would jump to "How can we workaround this issue by outsourcing the task to someone else?" instead of actually fixing the entire issue that they created over the decades of asset stripping and outsourcing of the country's defence.

My question is: What deployments of the Irish Defence Forces does FFG foresee that the UN Security Council would not approve? If Ireland is truly neutral, as they claim, then surely seeking UN Security Council authorization for any deployment would be the most neutral approach possible.

About time. It's great we are in CERN now but I remember my secondary school science teacher lamenting that we weren't part of CERN, that was a decade ago. Better late than never I suppose.

I don't understand the point of removing these workarounds as they are only used by power users or IT businesses. Your average user will use a MS account when prompted which is fine but let others use these workarounds. And all you need is to try domain join it and it won't ask for a MS account...

My hypothesis(total guess), is it was an accelerationist type attack. If those "antifascist engravings" on the bullet casings is actually confirmed, I think it would be a bit too on the nose to be an anti-fascist especially as this current suspect fits my mental image of a crazy who wants civil war.

"Tell me Mr Anderson. What use are lips if you cannot...sing the star spangled banner!"

A few months ago, I would have only recommended Le Chat (Mistral) to the die hard EU sovereignty yokes. But tbh, in the past month or so, it has come a long way. Thinking, deep research, general annoying bugfixes. Has a lot of catching up to do with Claude etc but I'm weening myself off ChatGPT now.

That would align nicely with the rest of the UK governments plans to sell off everything to the Americans.

lol pretty much. Or if there isn't a kill switch, the NSA will have some form of backdoor. Any protacted stand off with USA and you won't be able to get spare parts or Lockheed to service them. Entirely pointless.

Honestly don't think drone delivery has much future. Maybe in the USA where there is limited democratic process but not in Europe and def not in Ireland. The economics of the whole thing don't make sense, not to mention the privacy, environmental, security, and logistical problems of it.

Or even better go to any of the other countries in the EU? Pretty much everyone can speak basic English and you have basic EU rights.

If the UK ever wants to rejoin the EU, they will need to be made to adopt the Euro and there should be a timeframe set on adopting it. We can't go through a Brexit every time they change their minds on whether they like us or not. Maybe if they used the Euro they might consider themselves European.