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AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

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gilbetron · 1789608314 · focus · HN ↗
11.3 Force Majeure. Except for payment obligations, neither party nor any of their affiliates will be liable for any delay or failure to perform any obligation under this Agreement where the delay or failure results from any cause beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, labor disputes or other industrial disturbances, electrical or power outages, utilities or other telecommunications failures, earthquake, storms or other elements of nature, blockages, embargoes, riots, acts or orders of government, acts of terrorism, or war.
1. 00deadbeef · 1789624743 · focus · HN ↗
  It's not terrorism because it's self-defence and it's not war because Donald Trump says so
  1. mitxela · 1789626009 · focus · HN ↗
    It's beyond the reasonable control of Jeff Bezos. Even though he supports trump with billions of dollars, he didn't ask for this particular war.
    rcbdev · 1789628167 · focus · HN ↗
    I just gave the crazy man a lot of money knowing he wants to start a holy war. I did not want him to fund this particular holy war that turned out to be disadvantageous to me!
    mitxela · 1789630249 · focus · HN ↗
    Kind of like building your house on a floodplain and claiming insurance for a flood. They'd still say it was an act of god.
    TeMPOraL · 1789649848 · focus · HN ↗
    Well, flood is an act of God. "Floodplains" is another lie invented by those "scientists" to get you pissed, probably on a break from their usual attempts to convince you magnets are not a genuine miracle.
    nunez · 1789659814 · focus · HN ↗
    Unless you have flood insurance in the US which is what those policies are specifically meant to cover and are backed by FEMA (for now)
    jLaForest · 1789661182 · focus · HN ↗
    Not true. Bezos could have purchase air defense munitions for his data centers. There is also the argument that this strike is the result of Bezos financially supporting Trump's second term and that without his support Trump's war would never have started
2. f6v · 1789630157 · focus · HN ↗
  > including acts of God
  Serious question: how do we know something is or isn't an act of god?
  1. matkoniecz · 1789633769 · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God
  2. e12e · 1789652266 · focus · HN ↗
    In this case I suppose we can take the Ayatollah's word for it?
  3. rtkwe · 1789652997 · focus · HN ↗
    It's a legal term of art not directly tied to religion any more. Act of God is basically "natural disasters"; eg: hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, etc.

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