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a_paddy··on Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel takes part
There is precedent, Russia is currently suspended, also for committing war crimes.
a_paddy··on Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel takes part
Ireland is a small windswept island country, which until the late 20th century had very little migration of any time (apart from a few cases of forced plantation). The vast majority of the country white Christians with a small population of Jews and even fewer ethnicities from out side of Europe. This Irish as a whole are not anti-semitic, but they are appalled by the fate that has befallen the people of Palestine.
a_paddy··on Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel takes part
I'm genuinely interested in hearing what you consider shameful about the current discourse about Israel?
a_paddy··on Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel takes part
How is this antisemitism? This is happening because of actions of a state, not the religion of some of it's population.
a_paddy··on Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel takes part
Participation is based on membership of the European Broadcasting Union, an alliance of public service media broadcasters.
a_paddy··on Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch
In some European markets, Garmin is the dominant smartwatch brand having dethroned Fitbit.
a_paddy··on Belgium to Recognise Palestinian State
Previous submission was censored
a_paddy··on Reverse Engineered Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5
No, the previous post focused more on the Lumafield scans of the Raspberry Pi boards. This one is about reverse engineering the schematics of the CM5.
a_paddy··on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
Zigbee would be even better.
a_paddy··on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
I assume only if you're setting it up to work "offline" with the app. Issuing a key pair to the hardware and the app from their ecosystem's trusted authority does seem like a secure way to do it.
a_paddy··on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
The RODRET is the AAA version.
a_paddy··on Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
LW is simpler still and incredibly robust. It's a pity it has been turned off.
a_paddy··on Daily Automated Testing for Milk-V Duo S RISC-V SBC (IKEA Tretakt, Apache NuttX)
A TP Link or Belkin smart plug could be controlled locally via REST, removing multiple cloud dependencies.
a_paddy··on Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico
And the coordinates of where it "landed" are less important when it's drifting in the middle of the ocean.
a_paddy··on McDonald's Loses 'Big Mac' Trademark in European Union
The classic example of this is Apple (a.k.a. Apple Corps and their subsidiaries Apple Films, Apple Records, Apple Studio etc) versus Apple Computer.

In this case, the original complaint was by McDonald's saying that customers would confused the "mac" in Supermac's with the Big Mac. Using your analogy it would like having a company called "Mouse House" that sells anthropomorphic mice characters.

a_paddy··on McDonald's Loses 'Big Mac' Trademark in European Union
Yes, McDonald's still has the trademark on hamburgers.

They have lost it for the "Chicken Big Mac" and in relation to opening/operating restaurants. I think the original disagreement was due to McDonald's blocking the Supermac's brands expanding outside of Ireland, their reasoning being that customers would be confused between the Big Mac and Supermac's. Supermac's defense was that McDonald's hadn't exercised their Big Mac trademark with respect to operating a restaurant for over 5 years, hence now they've lost it, opening the door for Supermac's to expand into the rest of the EU.

a_paddy··on A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today
Brexit? The British left Dublin 102 years ago.
a_paddy··on How Boeing Lost Its Way [video]
Surely sales is driven by producing the best product
a_paddy··on Underwater Chain Saws
I don't believe any of Stanleys claims until Project Farm tests it.
a_paddy··on Raspberry Pi 5
Through hole components resulted in previous Pi's being slightly slower to manufacture, the Pi5 only uses surface mount components which should increase Sony's build cadence.
a_paddy··on The All-New Amprius 500 Wh/Kg Battery Platform Is Here
That's almost double the density of Tesla's batteries
a_paddy··on IKEA made a smart air quality sensor to track indoor pollution
IKEA's marketing material say it's not compatible with the Tradfri Hub, so might be using Matter over Thread. Although the DIRIGERA does still also support ZigBee, they are moving away from it.
a_paddy··on Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone
Ireland is another option outside of Schengen but inside the EU.
a_paddy··on An Post (Irish postal service) launches new digital stamp
Great to see innovation like this. Looks like it's a technology also used by the Norwegian postal service. The print at home stamp services made the fatal flaw of assuming you have a printer at home.
a_paddy··on Framework Tablet Assembly Manual
Is the Framework mainboard going to be to the x86_64 community what the Raspberry Pi/Compute Module has been to the ARM maker community?
a_paddy··on Apple Cash
An IBAN is just the sort code and account number, with a prefix, so would be just as easy to remember.
a_paddy··on Why Northern Ireland has no flag
The Ulster Flag? The yellow and red one?
a_paddy··on Why Northern Ireland has no flag
Less a limitation, more of a choice. Other articles, such as the ones on Australia or Cyprus, are able to disambiguate between the country and the landmass.
a_paddy··on Why Northern Ireland has no flag
Association Football a.k.a. soccer, is governed by two separate organisations, however many sports likes gaelic football, hurling, camogie, rugby, cricket, hockey etc are governed on an all island basis, as their governing bodies predate the partition of Ireland.
a_paddy··on Why Northern Ireland has no flag
"Ireland" is the official name of the country as per it's constitution. The "Republic of Ireland" is a description of the country given its status as a republic, and has been commonly mistaken as the name of the country due to editorial choices by some UK media.

Even Wikipedia erroneously catalogues "Ireland" under "Republic of Ireland".

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