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I too see a block (Belgium) but due to the Brussels business court. That said, your message is funny and completely false, it seems Vodafone. ziggo needs to update their lawyers.

The council of Europe is a human rights body based in Strasbourg, broader than the EU. It is a kind of democracy watchdog and has no sanctions or telecoms authority.

There is the European council, which is the EU body composed of the 27 heads of government, which indeed has sanctioned Russia today by withdrawing it's broadcasting license (X) but I cannot find any source that says that says that telecoms have to block it's content.

And of course this all is not Russia today, but maybe they use some of the same servers, which might explain the question raised here how Anna's Archive keeps the lights on.

X https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions-agains...

It was the biggest ship of its time, but we have much bigger ones now (both on tonnage and passenger capacity).

I'm afraid I have to ask here for a citation for your very confident but to my knowledge wrong statement that Russia (I suppose you mean the USSR) financed the green movement in Germany. Russia is equally a builder and supplier for nuclear energy, so makes significant profit on that angle and has no reason to fight nuclear.

Also the initial green movement was not against nuclear power per se but rather a peace movement against nuclear weapons, the concept just expanded over time to cover also civilian nuclear power, notably after Tchernobyl.

In contrast Russia is indeed known to finance both the far left (which has a lot of 'Ostalgia') and far right (whereby nationalism works against Western unity and strength) movements.

Public utilities and services are the default and work well in the majority of developed countries. This is true for everything from local transport to water distribution. As the joke says "universal healthcare is so difficult to get right that only all developed countries except the US have managed to put it in place".

Much more, Amazon also loves to remove all reviews that mention that the product is counterfeit. Several times I did receive clear counterfeit goods via Amazon, but there is no way to warn others as these reviews are blocked.

There were many laws on surveillance proposed in the EU context as there are many parties that make proposals. But there's no actual such law in place. And the EU is bound by GDPR and EDPR and actually does a huge circus to respect them, so I'd trust them more than any other party, be it my provider or the mega corps collecting data for ads.

Copyright has nothing to do with free expression but was intended to protect the interests of publishers. When the printing press arrived basically any popular book or booklet was quickly copied by others. This meant the original publisher (and sometimes the author, but usually they were paid one-off) saw nothing of the profit.

Early this month, my wife and I spent 3-weeks in Japan with our 3-year-old son. Our second son is only 10 months old and didn't join the trip. We felt it would be hard to keep up with his feeding and sleeping schedule with the intensity of the trip, so he stayed home with his grandparents.

Wow, I cannot imagine being these parents. Who leaves their 10 month old son three weeks with the grandparents to go on vacation? I cannot judge someone else from the distance and I don't know their life and context but from just this article I get the impression these are parents that have their children mainly for esthetic reasons.

The government doesn't make tanks, it just shells out gigantic amounts to companies to make them.

That said, there are plenty of successful government actions across the world, where Europe or Japan probably have a good advantage with solid public services. Think streets, healthcare, energy infrastructure, water infrastructure, rail, ...

The official migration guide for Migadu invites you to use thunderbird and basically move all emails and folders from one account to another. No blame to them, but it's stunning that that's the best solution we have for migrating email

No one is starving in the netherlands. There's a difference between offering a canteen but charging for it with some able and some not able to pay, and a general expectation that all bring food from home. Many Dutch, German, etc companies will also not have canteens but rather people bring a sandwich or last night's leftovers from home. The standard warm meal is the evening meal.

Great to see this feature, and it looks smooth and easy to use. I'm left wondering whether it will sync across devices and notably also to FF on Android?

Thanks John! Looks like a smooth product and I've signed up for the waiting list. Quick points of feedback already:

* I couldn't find on the site for which OS I can use it. Only here the clarification of electron made it obvious - but might be helpful for others if you clarify it. * I use Migadu and basically create myself infinite emails to handle different contacts. I don't see any clarification if sending is by default only on the 'main email' (foo@bar.com) or I can also use custom emails for each response (ideally the same as the one on which the email was received (footala@bar.com, foospotify@bar.com, foocarquote@bar.com, etc). I'm not expecting custom filtering for this as a standard of course, just hoping for the ability to send. * Any calendar integration? Can I create/manage events e.g. using my Google calendar? If not, how do you envisage this being done? * Sweet and simple presentation overall - good luck!

Very nice initiative, the language space is overcrowded with commercial offers that have an incentive to keep you locked in. Apart from LanguageTransfer there seem to be few other good offers.

That said, looking at the current offer it seems to lack the one thing Duolingo offers: Duolingo (for all its many faults and pedagogical uselessness) takes the burden of decision making away - I don't need to really think what to do next. Here I don't have this guidance - do I start with basics? Or introduction? Or something else?

Crucial in my view would be to provide a path or at least a tree to guide the user where to go. This will make it easy to jump in and get carried along.

Sorry to rub salt in the wound, but a power cut every month seems very high for a rich area in a rich country. Having lived decades across different cities across western Europe I've experienced power cuts maybe two or three times - and otherwise only on vacation in developing countries.

Our services here all have more or less publicly owned infrastructure with private providers handing the contracts and energy supply. I guess that must be a happy middle ground, and having a private corporation handling infrastructure seems a bad idea all around.

Hmm, I appreciate that there is a cost to generation, but a monthly limit of 100 questions seems quite low for a 20$ plan for hobbyists. How am I going to iterate, make changes etc when I have to keep glancing at the limits to make sure I won't get stuck for this month? It feels a bit like an electric car with 200km range.. fine for staying in the city, and yes you can drive to another city, but if you do you're going to be stressed and thinking about the next charger the whole ride. So similarly I feel if i eree to sign up I'd end up frustrated.

Would it not be better for the audience and use case to use a top up model? And might you be able to offer a 5-10 message free plan?

I would argue their main valuation comes from lock-in. They managed to basically grab the entire public sector and big corp OS and office software space, and continuously expand from this into communication, process management, etc.

No or government in the world currently functions without Microsoft...

May I ask what you mean by this? They pay 20-500% more for the same #/% of ownership as other investors buying at the same time? Or do you mean they charge their customers such a high premium? Is there any data on this available?

While I agree in principle, we can't throw the rule of law overboard just because others don't respect it. It was a commercial vessel with Maltese/Bulgarian links and russian crew if I'm not mistaken. While I'd hope that such vessels stop serving russian ports and would get rid of any involved crew there would be a need to prove intent do directly penalise and impound the vessel/owner.

Try and dig a bit outside netflix; there are plenty of excellent old Dutch (or failing that, German) children's shows.

A strict system does not contradict making accomodations for those that need them. All countries do it differently but in several European countries you even have graduation certificates that may indicate if you followed a special curriculum or had some accomodations, if relevant for the final result/report.

Looks like the project partners made a video about it, with some good visuals. But i can't find the actual paper.

Press release with link to the video is here: https://frankfurt.de/de-de/aktuelle-meldung/meldungen/frankf...

I cannot claim any special expertise on this but the CDC lists loss of taste and smell as a common symptom of flu and covid.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm

Adult content - is this

* Just porn * Erotic content (eg lingerie shops) * Any sexual content (eg Wikipedia article on anal sex) * Or also e.g. medically relevant (sex ed, abortion provider sites, ...) * Gore, violence, videos of people dying ... * Information on or shops for drugs * Content on terrorism, weapons, manuals to build bombs * Content on Al Qaeda, Scientology and other extreme/dangerous religious stuff * ...

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Smart idea, thanks.

I've been using this one since underground stopped being useful.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....

Sadly at some point they weren't able to pay for the dark sky API anymore and since then the quality of forecasts is a bit less convincing. I'm still rather shocked by the low reviews though, for me it works well and I love that you can add a dozen cities and see the forecast.

No, at most it sounds like retaliation.

They did not follow health guidelines until the person complained and then they still don't follow them but instead claim to follow them. Why just claim? After the 14 day phase the guidelines don't suggest any quarantines unless people show symptoms.

Having a home library has many more functions than just storing books you've once read. It's a signaling device; it's a way to show your character:; it's a way to have a possibility to share materials with others; it's a way to show your children your values; it's a reminder of things you've learned; it's soothing for many to have books around; they can be a useful reference or inspiration; ...

Books are not just a throwaway product like a daily newspaper - they have many roles to play.

I am moving away from kindle for exactly these reasons above; I'm sad I don't have these benefits with the many books I read digitally.

In a bigger environment you'll have more than one person handling payments, contracts, commitments, ...

Seems the key issue is that they can't supply enough which creates a shortage for the Netherlands as the machines (?) rely on this specific product. It's called lock-in and is every company's dream. But the situation is severe enough that a strong government like NL and the EU won't let them get away with it. If you're a big company one the things you really want to avoid is the European Commission coming after you for antitrust rules, that's where for once legislation has teeth and the price tag for abuse can be steep.