UK Government's Payment Infrastructure Is Now Open Source

Re:UK Government's Payment Infrastructure Is Now Open Source by Cozumel on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @06:23AM (#15071047)

Yeah, what did the Romans ever do for us?

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Re:UK Government's Payment Infrastructure Is Now Open Source by duncan_bayne on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:31AM (#15072164)

13 million dead:

    All Punic Wars: 1.0M
    Gladiators: 1.0M
    Slave Wars (Servile Wars): 1.0M
    Cimbri-Teutoni War: 0.3M
    Social War: 0.3M
    Mithridatic Wars: ca. 0.5M
    Gallic War: 1.0M
    Juleo-Claudian Paranoia: 0.028M
    Jewish Wars: 0.4M
    Boudica's Revolt: 0.15M
    Decline and Fall: 7.0M
    TOTAL: over 13.0M

Source: http://necrometrics.com/romestat.htm

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Re:UK Government's Payment Infrastructure Is Now Open Source by toomanybeersies on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:20AM (#15072640)

To be fair, that is over almost 1000 years. 13,000 per year is less than how many die each year in Mexico due to drug violence, and much less than the Syrian Civil war.

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Re:UK Government's Payment Infrastructure Is Now Open Source by Cozumel on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @03:59PM (#15084553)

It's a Monty Python reference. /sigh

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Re:UK Government's Payment Infrastructure Is Now Open Source by duncan_bayne on Monday August 28, 2017 @10:49PM (#15121770)

Yeah, I got that :) But it's also a valid question, with a valid answer.

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