The immediate consequence here is that Amazon EC2 customers will need to deploy copies of the same server instance in multiple regions to guarantee 100% system uptime, assuming, of course, that the wildly unlikely scenario that multiple Amazon cloud computing regions experience outages at the same time never transpires.
And in fact, the economics of the so-called modern monetary theory (MMT) school who are loudest on the consequences of a fiat money system are advocates of big government programs like a government job guarantee.
Of course, there's no guarantee that such a system will indeed be a part of Apple's seemingly imminent streaming service, but the patent application was filed way back in November of 2009, which certainly means it's had plenty of time to implement it if it chose to.
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But a temporary guarantee system offers the best chance of stemming the panic, and if it were internationally co-ordinated it would be both more credible and less risky than a collection of disparate national promises.
It said the current system of dealing with asylum claims by Afghans is "slow, not transparent and offers no guarantee of success".
Critics also said encouraging individuals to buy health insurance could undermine the system of employee-based health insurance, with no guarantee a new system would emerge to replace it.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Netherlands' finance minister, said in a statement he had "looked at every alternative involving private parties", but found none that could guarantee the stability of the Dutch banking system.
All Diamond products come with a one year limited warranty, a Diamond guarantee of quality manufacturing experience and a recently upgraded, US based, customer support system.
Even where they have not, depositors often assume that there is an implicit guarantee, because the government will step in rather than risk a collapse of the whole system.
"There's no guarantee that they are going to be able to get the offensive material out of the system quickly, " said Geoff Haggart, European head of filtering firm WebSense.
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