It happened to me today. For a lot of my nuke classes, we use government databases for tabulated information on neutron and photon cross sections. The websites that host these databases have all been shutdown. This means that I actually had to physically track down an ancient thing called a "book" to do my homework today. It didn't even give links to the studies/methodologies that were used to get the data.
Mark my words; someone is going to pay for this.
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Considering I don't live in your country, no. But what happens in the states has a big trend on Canadian government. Inevitably, where the states goes, our government will eventually go too, or at the very least, have troubles. Needless to say, I'm happy to live in the middle of nowhere, where the government has about enough power or influence as a 12 year old standing in front of me and saying, "Get the -blam!- out of the way."