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Yeah. A few times before the 8th century BC aswell.

I wonder if there's any written records to be found. Written sources from that time is rather scarce since they were systematically destroyed a few decades later.

Unless you find food made without fertilizer that result in NOX emissions then the Tesla won't help with this particular problem.

Just like going from combustion engines to electric vehicles will require major infrastructure changes, as will going from modern industrial farming practices to climate neutral ones require large changes in the way we produce, consume and think about food. You're not just going to be able to tell farmers to stop using fertilizers without a viable alternative.

Sweden and Denmark, or Sweden and Russia (or, occasionally, all three) comes to mind, but they've kept things civil between them for the last couple of hundred years.

I block both.

Tracking isn't really legal without consent, though. If a page tracks visitors without explicit consent the site owner is breaking the GDPR.

First of all, thank you for the offer. I don't want this account directly liked to my person though, so I must decline.

Get an adblocker to block the consent modal. The Internet will be a much nicer place.

How did you get in touch with Google at all?

They're displaying my full name, along with an invalid phone number at my address on Google Maps. That means my name has been on multiple maps used by others using Google Maps as a map source.

I've tried contacting them through their "remove my data form" but they don't reply. I would like to try something else before reporting them to the authorities and risking getting my Google account shut down.

I honestly doubt the current U.S. administration would do anything if say, Denmark started internal inquiries about whether their politicians' decision to participate invade Iraq was made on false grounds. If they did, the EU would probably not be happy about trade sanctions.

Denmark was obviously just an example, but there are a lot of U.S. allies, trading partners and so on, that all have assisted or participated in the war on terror.

Besides, the Democrats could probably just blame it on Bush anyway.

Well, that why U.S. politicians won't be held accountable. That doesn't stop the rest of us from holding our politicians accountable, though.

While cassette tapes can be somewhat dodgy, they are repairable to a degree that's difficult to achieve with modern media. The cassette decks are also very repairable.

Personally, I can no longer tell the difference between digital media and a high-quality cassette recording of it. That's probably due to age though...

Holding the U.S. accountable for the war on terror isn't going to happen. The rest of us need to hold our own politicians accountable for collaborating with the U.S. though.

There's a vast majority of users who struggle even with simple things like setting up an email account in Outlook. Those users will struggle with simple things like deliverability, and for them, an article like this is a godsend.

If you're capable of running your own mail server then you know more about this stuff than most people who use e-mail do, and the article isn't for you.

Recent versions of mailman is perfectly capable of handling both SPF and DKIM and thus bypassing problems with authentication.

Argh, and I just deployed a Debian 10 system last week! Serves me right for not checking when the next release was due . :D

Not at all. E-mail is _hard_.

Building a brand in that space is difficult, acquiring competent staff isn't that easy either. After that, you need massive amounts of work for warming new IP ranges up, spend lots of time on abuse management (because spammers will attempt to abuse any new competitor within that space), and probably spend a lot of money on marketing. Because, you know, otherwise people will just go to Mailchimp.

From my last bill (Finland):

Electricity: 0.053 €/kWh Transfer fee: 0.043 €/kWh Electricity tax: 0.028 €/kWh VAT: 0.023 €/kWh

So, about 0.146€ per kWh. The transfer fee is to the local utility company, and we can't avoid that, nor the taxes.

We're paying extra for having power generated by solar/wind only, but the cost of the electricity is only about 1/3 of the actual price.

> What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?

No, but he would be. She would merely be in possession of it.

For the record, Denmark has, indeed, punished a large number of underage offenders for spreading child pornography through social media. It's mostly been regarding clips spread without the participants' consent though.

Not sure whether other countries go by the age of sexual consent, but I've personally never heard any other definition of child porn than "sexually explicit/suggestive content involving people under the age of 18". Assuming that's valid everywhere, then it would indeed be child pornography since the Dane was under 18.

EU-wide harmonization of such laws would be a welcome step to take before privacy-invading measures were to be taken, and such legislation definitely should address underage sexting.

If I illegally obtained an item, was sentenced to a fine and to sell said item, and the proceeds of the sale covered the fine, then I'd say I got off lightly. In this particular case the fine wasn't handed out solely for the two items that the perpetrator was sentenced to sell, it was also about illegally obtained machine guns, automatic pistols and lots of ammunition.

> What's the statement here?

That gun control laws are still being enforced, no matter who breaks them? That you can't get away with breaking the law just because you commit a crime that most people don't think is that bad?

> The law was written to prosecute people who are up to no good.

We're talking about someone who confessed to the crime he was sentenced for, and last time I checked, the law is supposed to be equally applied, no matter who you are. Intent does indeed matter, and if this had been some moron with intent to use the tank, we wouldn't be talking about a suspended 14-day prison sentence and a fine.

> If you want to drive around and destroy things there are more cost effective options

Definitely. I'd argue that the relative scarcity of tanks, however, is clearly correlated to the fact that military hardware ownership is pretty much limited to the military. I could -- in theory -- kill someone with a hammer I bought for 1€ at a flea market. That does not mean we should abolish gun control laws because "there's cheaper ways of doing it anyway". Nor should we allow private tank ownership, because I could clearly cause damage more cost-efficiently with a bulldozer.

That being said, I agree that this particular individual doesn't seem to have been a threat at all. Someone potentially stealing the stuff from the old man, however, wouldn't even have to think about things like costs.

> I think it's just as likely that the fine was sized so that between being forced to liquidate everything and paying the fines he will die penniless.

Well, he's been given two years to sell or donate the tank and the AA gun to a collector. There are definitely people who are interested. The final price depends on supply/demand and I'm not an expert when it comes to collecting military hardware.

Whether he'll die penniless or not, well, he was able to afford a tank and an AA gun, as well as a number of other weapons, and ammunition. Apart from that, he also had room for it all. That indicates he does have some money available (assuming he didn't spend it all on the hardware and resorted to living of instant noodles).

Or, just have the compressor ready at the dock, and wait with the unloading until the hydrogen has been compressed.

But yeah, simply running a compressor powered by hydrogen should suffice. I assume the airships would require some surplus hydrogen anyway, in case there's a mid-flight leak or something.

I think it's one of those cases where the authorities have to make a statement rather than a matter of believing he'd do sometthing stupid with it.

WW2-era or not, a Panther is a lethal piece of hardware, and apparently he's been seen driving it around at some point. And if one person does it then someone else can too. And the next one might not be a harmless old man content with merely collecting military hardware.

He also had an anti-aircraft gun, multiple machine guns, pistols, and lots of ammunition. The same logic applies there; old or not, it could be very dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands and that's why we have gun control laws.

I suspect selling the collection could easily pay the fines, so it's not like he's being punished that hard.

I worked for a call center for a few years, first job once I was done with school. A lot of the people who were hired were simply shipped in by the local unemployment agency. After being unemployed for X days, the government simply offered to pay parts of their salaries for six months as a means to stimulate local employers to hiring more people.

The result was that various firms like Teleperformance and the like placed call centres in areas of high unemployment, and thousands of people were put on the phone lines with insufficient training, made to work under sub-par conditions for six months, before getting promptly sacked for arbitrary reasons just before their probation period was over.

These are just businesses abusing the system. Not accepting the job offers would have meant financial ruin. The people who are subjected to this usually have no other options available, and they're then run into the ground and promptly discarded once they were no longer useful.

Israeli scientists managed to germinate some dates that were 2000 years old. They were probably stored in a friendlier environment, though.

I didn't intend to put words in your mouth. That was simply how I read it, and I asked for a confirmation. Thank you for clarifying.

So, you're saying a high labour supply justifies home surveillance of workers as well as their their families?

I wonder if it would be possible to get them to germinate. Old seeds have been successfully germinated in the past, but I suspect the underwater-thing might have made it impossible.

Good question! :D

Between failing agricultural industry, increased food and electricity costs, and heavy taxation due to increased government spending, it will be hard on the economy. It's not the place will be rendered uninhabitable - it's simply not going to be an attractive place to live.

Those go beyond 'intetesting' tbh.