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"More successful" here obviously means that their empire lasted a longer time, since that's what we're discussing. They may have been less successful in other ways. I don't really see what my feelings have to do with the discussion.

The Macedonian Dynasty in the Byzantine isn't quite comparable to Chinese dynasties. In China, a dynasty change, AFAIK, meant that one group overthrew another group and established their own nation, with its own laws and government structures. In Byzantine the change to Macedonian Dynasty happened as a result of internal politics (+ assassination). The nation remained the same; just the guy in charge changed.

If we only count the Byzantine Empire, they lasted about ~1100 years (330-1453). Wikipedia says the Shang dynasty lasted only about ~600 years, leaving the Zhou as the longest with their ~800 years. Assuming Wikipedia is correct, the Romans seem to have been more successful.

Basically the crowdsourcing here means that YLE published a article saying (shortened): "Tell us what kind of web trolling you have been targeted by and in what situations. We'll compile an article of peoples experiences"

The term "crowdsourcing" isn't really used in Finnish. Apparently there exists a translation for it ("joukouttaminen"), but I haven't ever heard anyone use it (not that I've looked too hard).

A "corrupt shithole" is as bad as tens of millions killed/starved? I don't think you quite understand what Stalins rule was like.

That doesn't work. Browsers are smart enough to limit what you can do with :visited.

See for example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Privacy_and...

I imagine that would only apply to sites which store PII[1]. The database should be located under the same jurisdiction (which doesn't mean every country, since some will have treaties to allow exporting to certain places (EU for example)) as the person whose data it is, and the data should not be transferred through other jurisdictions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_inform...

According to this[1], that seems to be true for Germany, but the other rich European countries (western and northern) are pretty close to the USA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_birth_rat...

I'm sure that every military has its share of cave complexes built into solid rock. My mandatory service in the Finnish Defense Forces took me to 5 such places, of which at least 3 had multiple levels (I can't say for sure how large any of those were, because they were generally of limits to conscripts; I was only in them because my tasks (mostly installing fiber optics and such) required it).

In this context, medieval times are "modern society". They already had social, religious and legal norms against killing. Also, most people lived in the countryside or small villages where they didn't have many chances for killing people anyway, so the murder rate in larger towns must be a lot higher than the overall 35 figure.

I would say that you're exactly correct, when you say that the EU can never lead to a successful federal bloc. The EU is not a federation, no matter what kind of nicknames one invents for it. EU citizens and member states don't want it to be a federation (some do of course, but they are probably fewer than the people calling for the EU to be disbanded entirely).

It's pointless to compare EU to USA. They are not the same, they were never meant to be the same, and no one wants them to became the same.

Wouldn't having it in the same place every time make it more expensive/difficult for people to go see the games live? When the location changes every time, there will be a different set of people who go watch the games because it's nearby, but who possibly couldn't afford to (or wouldn't want to) travel to the other side of the world for them.

A small correction to what you said, the allegations (that you quoted) were lowered after Assange appealed (but the rape still remains, although as a "lesser degree").

Your [4]:

> The decision was appealed by Assange on 22 November to the Svea Court of Appeal, which two days later upheld the warrant but lowered it to suspicion of rape of a lesser degree, unlawful coercion and two cases of sexual molestation rather than three.

I'm not a lawyer, and I don't know much about Swedish law, but based on Finnish law (which tends to be very similar to Swedish), the maximum combined sentence for all the charges would have been 7 years in prison.

The combined sentence is capped to the maximum for the most severe charge plus 3 years (when the most severe max is at least 4 years). In this case the most severe one is "lesser degree rape", for which the max is 4 years (that is still open).

Based on what I've read about the case, I would have been very surprised if the actual sentence was anywhere near the maximum. Probably more like a year for the rape and another for the other three charges, if they even hold up in court.

As I've understood, the accusation for rape in this case is for Assange starting to have sex with the alleged victim while she was sleeping, without wearing a condom (the "not wearing a condom" is the key part here; otherwise it apparently would have been technically illegal, but "consentual" in practical terms). Are you really saying that that is "only slightly less bad" than murder?

The 5 year limit, btw, only applies to the accusations for "Unlawful coercion" and "Sexual molestation" (times two). The rape accusation will remain open for another five years (unless the prosecutor decides to drop it).

Is five years evading law enforcement really that much better than ~1 year in prison? (One year based on the fact that the five year limit only applies if the maximum penalty is at most 2 years[1], and presumably a first timer would not spend the whole 2 years in prison (and the actual sentence in this case might be below 2 years anyway))

The general principle, as far as I know, is based on the idea that the need for punishment is lessened by time.

[1] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preskription#Preskriptionstide...

And that's why you shouldn't combine arguments from two separate persons. Just because they both disagree with you, doesn't mean they agree with each other.

Wikipedia has this[1] (sourced [2]):

> On July 21, 2015, the operators blocked access to the service from all Finnish IP addresses, stating on Twitter they did this in order to avoid escalating a dispute they allegedly had with the Finnish government, that they refused to provide additional information on.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.is#Worldwide_availabil...

[2]: https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/623524336184524800

I suppose you're implying that Microsoft sold your new account name to spammers? It could also be that you used a name that you, or someone else, have used at a different place and the spammers simply try sending mail to all the big email providers with that name in the hope of reaching someone. That would seem like a more probable explanation to me.

That seems to be a problem with sourceforge. I was trying to download something else earlier today and had the same problem.

Finland, at least for now, doesn't allow mass collecting of data. There is no foreign intelligence either (except of course military sigint along the border). Finland isn't part of any military alliances, so there is no sharing of intelligence with allies.

These might of course change in the future. Since the Snowden leaks, there has been lobbying to give the military and Supo ("protection police", roughly the Finnish NSA, but police rather than civilian) the right to spy abroad and mass collect data. The Ministry of Transport and Communications is opposing the mass collecting part, but everyone else seems to be supporting it.

Some of the media and politicians are constantly trying to convince people that we have to join NATO ("The European Defensive Alliance" as they like to brand it), but I doubt that is going to happen any time soon.

Of course most data traveling to/from Finland passes through Sweden, which shamelessly spies on it.

How would ad networks respond to that? I can't think of any technically possible way for them to do that (except somehow getting operating systems to build in some crazy DRM scheme).

Why not just use Access (I suppose LibreOffice has an equivalent too)? It probably would be more work to set up, but you would have a proper database with the ability to use SQL for queries.

Considering all the bad things Japan did during their wars, it seems strange that you would bring up Pearl Harbor as an equivalent of Hiroshima. Pearl Harbor was a major military target and almost all casualties there were military (only ~100 civilians). All in all, the attack seems like a legitimate military action in every other way, but for the fact there wasn't a formal declaration of war first (at least as far as I know; I haven't studied the pacific war that much).

How so? I don't have any female friends (I don't have any male ones either). If I started looking for a girlfriend (which I currently don't), I would indeed be looking solely for a romantic relationship, so I don't see how having female friends would be a prerequisite.

That said, I don't think that matters for the site in question. I'm just not a part of their target audience. Doesn't mean their idea doesn't work for other people.

I'm not sure what that 8% includes (municipal/city workers? military? police?), but in Finland the government claims on their website to employ 79 000 people (~1.5%). No idea if the numbers are comparable.

My mistake about UK/etc. then, but my point still seems to stand; in most countries it's only the ruler personally that's immune. If Sweden does something that harms me, I can't demand that the king be punished, but I can demand compensation from Sweden (as long as the legal proceedings take place there).

If you read through the list, you'll notice that USA is the only one where the government has sovereign immunity. In all other cases it's only the monarch/president/pope personally who is immune. The article does agree that countries are immune from legal proceedings in another state.

Did you try the "Embeddings -> Forbid <AUDIO> / <VIDEO>".

I think it would be possible to configure noscript to allow scripts, but require a click to play media (I haven't actually tried it like that, since I just keep almost all scripts blocked anyway).

You can solve all three of those with Wolfram Alpha too, with no need for apps. Seems like Google knows how to solve the last two, but not the first one. Perhaps with some different syntax it would be possible too.