> Some weapons are REAL useless.

That was my biggest complaint. There were a couple weapons that were way more powerful than the others and didn’t require any special build or play style change.

Still a very good game and a recommendation for most people

Somehow it never occurred to me that underwater drones were a possibility even as I’ve literally watched underwater robots do things.

Probably a hell of a lot easier to build and don’t have nearly the same weight challenges as it doesn’t have to, you know, fly.

You are also going to have vehicle information in most situations. So if he drove to the gas station, they also have his vehicle info which would be easily verifiable as a vehicle he owns, which he got out of and bought the ticket.

Also the fact that zero other people are claiming the ticket is fairly significant.

And this is all a huge assumption that the camera doesn’t clearly show it’s him.

Contracting out a mountain of lawyers is a terrible value proposition. They charge hundreds an hour and you need hundreds of them at 40-50 hours a week year round. Much cheaper (and effective) to have your own legal dept.

Compliance can be a mixed bag but generally it’s much cheaper to create your own programs. And as you said, certain compliance functions will be required to be in-house. Depending on the industry, you also have to consider the types of data you’ll be exchanging. Financial data is highly sensitive so you can’t just offshore resources in Vietnam or somewhere else in SE Asia.

As an international company doing financial transactions you typically need expertise in every single country you operate in as you need to be compliant with the laws and regulations in every single country you operate in. You can get in to a ton of problems if you don’t have effective AML and KYC compliance programs.

Some countries (China) often require on-soil infrastructure as well.

It’s really hard to appreciate the complexity of international business until you’ve had to deal with it. Customer service is a tiny segment of their business. Mountains of lawyers and compliance professionals are what drive the employee count.

They also certainly have numerous product teams developing different tools for different types of customers. Things like Open Banking are becoming much larger and more prevalent.

If you live in rural Maine where outages could be days? Sure.

But the large large majority of people do not need a second source of heat. Why should a hundred million people spend money on secondary sources of heat they won’t need?

There are way more people who need primary sources of AC for heatwaves than need a secondary source of heat.

Freed on bail doesn’t mean there aren’t stipulations involved. Turning over your passport is a common condition for bail.

Small, well funded, efforts are much more agile than massive bureaucracies. Additionally, organizations like the UN have to consider broader situations and enforce some degree of fairness. Trying to bring entire nations out of poverty is a generational task that likely won’t succeed. Trying to bring specific communities out of poverty is a multi-year task which has a real chance to work.

Further, picking and choosing which communities fail and which get the multi-year support is a challenge for government bureaucracies. Helping zero communities equally is a better political solution than helping a few.

Smaller groups don’t have to deal nearly so much with the politics or bureaucracies and thus can have more impactful change.