Don’t blame lobbying, blame a lack of decent humans in a position of power. How much lack of function do you need to take orders from a lobbyist as a representative?
Are we electing people? Or puppets? Mostly rhetorical.
"don't blame them, they were tempted with bribes!" is to use the younger generations terms, cope. It wasn't that these were upstanding people lead down the wrong path, they were corrupt from the start.
It's still impossible to prove the files were deleted even if they don't release after the initial payment. All it takes is a single individual in a group to make a backup or have a default policy of keeping a backup "just in case".
One should assume at this point that it's not a question of whether the files will be leaked but when.
also, governments like china, North Korea , Russia, Iran are basically silent endpoints for this stuff, so assuming it's valuable data, the ransom request should trigger whatever intelligence protocols you have.
Turns out the bowl is relatively easy to replace via the Zojirushi website as well. I've done it twice and even contacted them once to ask if they had any in stock. They responded in a day and then updated their web store inventory.
Mine was discontinued and I can’t seem to find the bowl anywhere. At this point it has cost me something like a penny or less per use, so in terms of what I spent I’m not unhappy. I just wish I wasn’t using the same old decaying bowl, haha. It’s in bad shape.
Actually, like you mentioned maybe I should reach out directly and ask. I might get lucky.
To add context, I don't believe this comment was intended as a joke and others shouldn't down-vote it as such due to the sibling comment made in poor taste.
