However, I believe new opportunities cannot be found when all hope is believed to be lost.

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This is your capital and needs to be treated with kid gloves, not to go to the lost and found.

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In 2011 Greece lost a European Court case, and was found to be in breach of the Convention on Human Rights, over the conditions under which detainees are being held.

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Rackspace and HP, two of the largest providers using OpenStack, have been found to not actually be compatible with the OpenStack project, an irony not lost on many industry observers.

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The investigation is ongoing, but one of the risks (and these vary by state) this company faces is if it is found that the contractor was misclassified, the company could be required to pay lost benefits going back several years, which really adds up.

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