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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. T…

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 Ge…

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 j…

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…

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 …

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 …

> 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…

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, whe…

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 th…

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 a…

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 he…

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 …

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'…

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…

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 fr…

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 h…

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 …

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 certif…

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…

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…

Smart idea, thanks.