You know that the last Cod War was just 40 years ago, right? Iceland prevailed in three Cod Wars between 1958 and 1976 against the UK and (later on) also Germany.

The last time, Iceland waged war (the Cod Wars), it prevailed - despite not having a fleet nor an army. Be careful!

Just because a police officer in the UK has the right to arrest and interrogate suspects, it is not legal for him to arrest and interrogate people in other countries too. And the lawsuits are in other countries.

Irrelevant. The moment they aren't banned in other countries and getting to be the norm there because of decreasing accidents, less traffic jams, better utilization of roads and lower impact on the environment, some will rethink their stance and reintroduce them again. It might be a 10 years delay, but I think self driving cars will be the norm.

I for instance would buy one as soon as they are affordable.

The Thirty Years War is in fact a series of several wars fought in parallel or in succession. But it started out as an inner German civil war, and until 1631 it mainly was. Bohemia was multilingual, true, but it was a domain of the Habsburgs, which in turn were Germans. The mainly protestant Bohemians seceded from Habsburg and choose Frederick V, Elector Palatine in 1618 as their new king, who was German too, which started the war (and caused Frederick V to be called "winter king", because his reign endet in the Spring of 1619). Then Germany was split into two alliances, the League (the Habsburgian Emperor and mainly catholic German countries) and the Union (the protestant German countries with the exception of Saxony).

The League tried to conquer the Union states with two armies, the Bavarian army led by Gen. Tilly, and the Imperial army lead by Gen. Wallenstein (Waldstejn), who was Bohemian despite his German name. They devastated most German protestant countries till 1631, when the King of Sweden entered the battle to "save Protestantism".

When France entered the battle, it was trying to oust the Habsburgs from Spain or at least to weaken the Habsburg influence in Europe.

I doubt that Anita Sarkeesian ever wants to be seen in the same camp than SCO. It's just a silly attempt of you to try a "guilty by association".

Why should they reward SCO with any money?

First of all: Software has a special place in the world. Software is a distilled form of knowing how to do things. Software is a way to actually store work: You do the work once and then use it again and again without further effort. Software itself doesn't degrade, it just might lose its uses. Software can be endlessly replicated with an effort that is minuscle compared to the effort necessary to create it in the first place. Once in the world, software is not a scarce good.

And yes, it is your choice what do do with the software you write yourself. No one will ever tell you different, except your employer. It is also your choice to smoke, to tell racist jokes, to not ask for help, to let your house rot away and to spend all your money on blackjack and hookers. Richard M. Stallman has no rights to your software at all.

But you too have no right to other people's software, because they have the same rights to do with their software as they like. If you want to get access to it, you have to play nice. You can spend huge amounts of money, which is the market economy way of doing things. But why? Software per se is no scarce good. The only reason you would have to spend huge amounts of money for a good that is easily replicated again and again is because other people don't play nice too.

Richard M. Stallman set up some rules how to play nice when it comes to software. You are not required to play nice. But then expect others not to be nice to you too.

Europa's leaders always could talk to each other, because they came from the same set of aristocrate families and because they spoke either Latin in the Middle Ages or French later. The German Emperor Wilhelm II. for instance was the grandson of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, nonetheless they waged World War I against each other. And during the Hundred Years War between England and France, the kings of England were still talking French as their native tongue, as they were descendents of northern french dukes (and they were in fact battling for their continental heirloom in Northern and Western France, the so called Angevin Empire). The Thirty Years War, the most devastating war until the World Wars in Europe, was mainly fought between Germans.

What ever the reason was for the many wars in Europa, the different languages weren't.

As far as I know, every organic material is sensitive to UV light, thus this is no new problem. Plastics degrade in the sun. All of them. This resin is no different.

Yes, right, In my native language, it's called differntly, thus the translation back into English failed.

Actually, there is no EU law to forbid data retention. To the contrary, there was a EU law (a directive) that every member state has to have a data retention law. And this directive was pulled because in the current form, it was considered unconstitutional. Thus no member state is required to have data retention anymore, and if they have, it has to conform to the verdict of the European High Court.

It gets really complicated here.

First, the EU directive on which this law was built upon, itself was already pulled because of being too unbalanced. Thus the Netherlands are no longer required to have a data retention law at all. So, from an EU point of view, no one in Brussels actually cares anymore if the Netherlands have a data retention law. They can do so if they want, but that's an entirely different matter (and even a new one has to take into account the verdict of the European High Court which pulled the old directive).

Second: If a new directive was in place which conforms to the verdict of the European High Court, the member states have to work out new data retention laws which also conform to the verdict and to their respective constitutions. If they don't manage to do so, they will be sued for EU contract violation, and then they have to argue why their new data retention law is not in place yet. This could even work out to the theoretical new directive being pulled too, if not enough member states are able to create constitutionally acceptable data retention laws.

But all those laws define requirements for telcos and internet providers, they totally leave out the ability or the legality of secret service agencies to gain access to the data and create their own data retention. My guess is that the whole data retention bruhaha came up because the spy agencies already did all those things without a legal base, and now the governments wanted them to be legalized in a way that the results could be used in the open. Maybe some envy between police forces and spy agencies also played a role, and the police wanted to have the same abilities.

It does in the second link: District court of The Hague.

The problem was that with ever changing hardware due to hotplugging during the runtime of a system, the concept of different runlevels was rendered obsolete. You can't have a runlevel for every hardware configuration that is possible. And if you have mobile devices, you have to take care of different power states, of connectivity, power saving modes and lots of other things that change during runtime. You simply can't solve that with a concept that was developed under the premise that the system gets powered up once and then runs forever without any further changes, until it has to be powered down for hardware maintenance.

So there was a system required that while running can adapt to different hardware configurations on the fly and automaticly solves the interdependencies for different demons, drivers and configurations.

While that is in principle possible with a set of scripts, it easily becomes un-maintenable, as every new hardware or state to support might need a hands-on on every script that might directly or indirectly affected by it, and you'll soon get runtime errors because a required service is not started, or a service, that is no longer required, is eating resources that long should have been freed. There was a system necessary for each demon and service and driver to report their requirements, and to calculate the new set of required resources and running processes, and to automaticly stop, reconfigure and start the approbriate things.