Odd. A good deal of Europe won that war. Well, at least 'til we decided it would be a great idea to copy the idiocy of the US in that matter.

Societies depending on slavery (or any kind of cheap labor) are by definition behind when it comes to invention, industrialization and progress. Simply because R&D is expensive. If it's cheaper to stick to employing humans, there is zero incentive to develop machines.

So it's like today?

You have NO idea how hard it is to refrain from pulling a Godwin right now...

Mostly cause you have to feed and shelter slaves. It's simply cheaper to pay people to work for you. If you need proof, try to feed&shelter your family on a slave-level job today.

Religion, Ideology... a rose by a different name...

Reading Genesis (the book, not the band) alone is sufficient proof thereof.

Good News: No, you don't need to configure anything.

Bad News: Yeah, it's as bad as you remember. The biggest difference is this really condescending message at the top of your screen, saying, "Hi! You're a second-class citizen, so we're sending you to a second-class interface using second-class bytes! NOM NOM!!"

... Or something - I can't remember the exact text; I just remember promising myself I'd find the developer who wrote that and emasculate him with rusted baling wire.

A decent mail client with GMail over IMAP is probably best. Only downloads headers unless you actually load the message.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed just how unlike the real Caliphate this is.

Incidentally, QNX has an interesting design in this respect, in that it maps the the source buffer (a page at a time, IIRC) into the address space of the receiving process, and does the copy directly. Or it might map the destination buffer into the address space of the sending process; not sure about that. This allows messages to be arbitrary-length.

One of my buddies is buying a Leaf.

The problem is this: once you test drive an electric car, you're done with shitty ICE forever. Nothing has better torque, better acceleration... and that's what the gold ol' 'murkin cahs are sold as, muscle.

Put them up against something electric, and these so-called "Muscle cars" are just saggy old curlbros trying to get big arms to draw attention away from their massive beer bellies.

Of Scotland leaves the UK, they are still part of the EU, unless they decide otherwise: after they have left.

On what delusioned world do you live?
Why should Scotland not have an opt out on the Euro? Hint: they are not even in! And yes, every Euro country can leave the Euro at their own will, nothing prevents them.
Oh, perhaps you did not notice, but UK, England, Scotland etc. are not in the Euro zone, they still have their 'pound'!
Btw, the majourity of the EU has book law. 'Precedence' only happens if 'top courts' rule 'beyond the law' ...
So regardless what is happening, it hardly is a 'precedence' !

I like to point out that Catalonia belongs to Spain, not France.
But of course all the regions you name will be sooner or later autonomous 'states' in the EU.
And many more, like Lorain, Alsace, Bavaria etc.

I'm not sure about Amazon or eBay, but I know my company does it due to how DNS works. Our CDN wants control over the DNS for the domain we use for them, so they can serve static content from the closest possible location. That doesn't jive with our application, as we need control over DNS for the many domains we also host, so the solution was a dedicated domain for CDN use.