Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of storing data in Australia

Re:Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of sto... by BLKNSLVR on Thursday March 28, 2019 @11:15PM (#19518852)

Australia's (and Australians') attachment to the monarchy is one of those things that will change dramatically over the next twenty-odd years as the 60+ year-old set, who have anachronistic romantic notions of the monarchy, die off.

The "royal weddings" (good lord, kill me now) do their little bit in fluffing up pro-monarchy anachronistic romantic notions in some of the younger set, but nowhere near the amount needed to sustain the 'no to a republic' vote even in the next ten years.

My assumption is that a lot of these same monarchists are fundamentally racist as a direct result of the various wars, which is semi-understandable. Humans don't tend to change their minds beyond a certain age, no matter the changing context.

There's a quote somewhere about "beliefs don't change, their proponents die out". I'm finding it applies in almost universal contexts.

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Re:Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of sto... by marcus_holmes on Saturday March 30, 2019 @04:22AM (#19528430)

> Australia's (and Australians') attachment to the monarchy is one of those things that will change dramatically over the next twenty-odd years as the 60+ year-old set, who have anachronistic romantic notions of the monarchy, die off.

Also the general opinion appears to be that we'd rather be a Republic than have Charles as our king ;)

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