The Falklands have massive fishing rights over a massively rich area. It has nothing to do with a few thousand people and a few sheep. The UK couldn’t care less about the people. Same for Argentina. You don’t fight a war over a forlorn rock. Same with Gibraltar ( as the UK has shown with Brexit. Gibraltar is strategically important for Spain and the UK, nothing more. The people are just an excuse)
It has nothing to do with the people. Politicians and oligarchs wave a flag, as they do in any other country, to stir up the masses, but the whole thing is about fishing rights.
I drive a 1999 Skoda Octavia, VAG, with the 1.9 TDI, with the mechanical pump. The thing, with proper maintenance, is ultra reliable. Doesn’t leak or burn oil. It hasn’t had a major repair in 27 years/400.000 km, just consumables, like a clutch, belts, a starter motor, stuff like that.
Two people I know that have bought VAG cars the last 5 years are constantly bitching about their cars.
Engineering is not the problem here, it’s management making engineering decisions.
The Chinese make generational planning. Western make quarterly decisions to appeal to speculators, not investors.
Western car makers, and Japanese/Koreans, definitely have the know how to make good value EVs, and some do (see Renault and Hyundai). If western and free market oriented Asian makers made long term investment and decisions they would compete just fine.
That is not a bubble, it’s a shortage caused by a bubble.
Man, Russians should really stop smoking.
x-plane 12!! Finally!! I mean, X-plane is Linux native, but I really wanted to play the Windows version in Linux.
I have been using recertified, or used enterprise class drives which have a crystal disk info good health report. These have waaaayyy higher MTBFs than consumer grade, as in 10x more, so a drive with 40.000 hr. on it, may have 10x *theoretical *the life left. do remeber that the M in MTBF means mean, it doesn’t mean guaranteed time between failure. Enterprise drives tend to be noisier.
A alternative that works well for me for many things is buying from Lidl. They source from China, or wherever, but through European importers. They have a three year warranty, parts or replacement at least for that period, their branded products meet EU safety standards, and are good value. Not everything is perfect, but I’d say that about 80-90 % of what I buy meets or exceeds my expectations. Selection is orders of magnitude lower than Amazon, Aliexpress, etc, but their online catalog is growing fast.
Tools in particular are great value, they have a great battery ecosystem for their power tools, and even have a prosumer line (parkside performance, the black ones), that are impressively close to pro stuff from DeWalt, Makita, etc…)
The article is clanker slop. It’s mostly reiterative, a clear sign of clanker slop. Clankers are reiterative in their slop. A lot of clanker slop is reiterative.
Europe’s royal shuffling is rife with things like that. Most royal families have blood ties with each other, and historically have agreed to place one of theirs on another countries throne to keep collective hold on the continent.
“The German Kaiser (Wilhelm II), Russian Czar (Nicholas II), and English King (George V) were all first cousins. Their grandmother was England’s Queen Victoria, making the English and German kings first cousins. The English and Russian kings were also first cousins, as their mothers were sisters.”
Colonialism has generally never played nice for the conquered, however, some, like the Romans, and to a certain extent the Moors, Ottomans, Spanish, and others were somewhat integrating, excesses and plunder non withstanding, and contributed to the conquered. Belgian Congo was pure evil.
I have Belgian blood, BTW.
So, because they love cricket, they can’t love basketball? Spain, which has 2 orders of magnitude less the population, is a powerhouse both in football and basketball.
I’ve driven one (The original, Citroen EV AMi, of which this is a badge engineered version) in Madrid. It’s well suited to European cities, and probably to NY, Boston, Pittsburgh, SF, and some others of that type of layout. That thing is a glorified golf cart, as many have said. Naked tubular frame covered by a cheap plastic shell, about as safe as the aforementioned golf cart, but street legal. nearly zero equipment beyond a cigarette lighter power socket. In Europe it costs around 7.000€, and I find that a huge ripoff. I could probably put together such a low tech cart for under 2.000€, not hyperbole. With economies of scale, Stellantis can probably make them for under 1.500€ or less. They want to sell them in the U.S. for 10x the mark-up…
Well, at least there is the legendary Stellantis reliability.
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Weir Al’s fans would like a word.
They don’t recognize bills. They recognize a pattern of tiny yellow rings in the bills, the Eurion constellation, which can barely be seen by the eye. This supposedly will stop copiers and printers from scanning or printing any document that has these.
Bypassing these is trivial.
Figures they would do that there. Actually, swamp coolers should work well there (I’m assuming it’s dry there). Mist systems also work surprisingly well in dry climates.
I cancelled all my streaming subscriptions when they all started pulling price shenanigans.
Now I either use Stremio, properly “Arrified”, or sail the high seas with qbitorrent, which, by the way, has a very good search function not enabled by default, and which many people don’t know about. (Google qbitorrent search jackett)
To look for things I usually go to rotten tomatoes.
Also, there are frequent posts here or on other sites where people post their favorite shows/movies, which are often great for discovering less known shows.
Well, the world has gravity pretty much pat down.