Sometimes shit like that makes me think software engineers should do a world wide strike on preparing for 2038, and let the Epochalypse happen.
jmcs
That needs a working kernel. Maybe Linux can be made to fallback to a cool frambuffer image if things aren't too broken, but with windows good luck.
Russians are world champions on driving tanks through muddy soil. Or at least trying to.
That's not how it works. The 45% doesn't apply to your entire income, only to the part above the threshold. For example, if you work in Germany, you only pay 45% on what you earn above €227k, and you'll always pay 0 taxes for the first €11k.
You don't understand how progressive taxes work. No one is punished for earning more. Even if you reach he maximum rate, the maximum rate is only coming out of your disposable income (unless you are a complete idiot living no only above your means but well above what's reasonable).
In this case they are easy to appease. Just replace the woman the courts have ordered to be set free with the attorney general. They can even charge more since the piece of shit will need special accommodations.
The OS getting fully bricked because of a third party software update is still very much a OS level fuck up.
At least the glass was fixable, the microplastic on the other hand...