Apple tells me that the remote wipe is likely irrecoverable without serious forensics.

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So this Northern surplus is purely theoretical (irrecoverable accounting accruals), as the South that bought the goods cannot pay back the accumulated dept.

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The council is continuing with legal action which is aimed at winding the UK company up to stop it trading and prevent further irrecoverable funds becoming due.

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Parliament's true friends are those who want it to evolve in ways that make it more effective in that job, not those nostalgic for a largely mythical and wholly irrecoverable past.

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