A tax break is considered a subsidy in all international trade agreements.

In most of the EU states, mining data on people and putting it in a database without the expressively given consent by each of the people in question is illegal, even if the data sources are publicly available.

So yes, even credit rating agencies are only allowed to process data the person in question has allowed. Most contracts which are related to credits like mobile phone planes or opening a banking account thus contain wordings regarding the cooperation with credit rating agencies.

You should actually read the articles, because the issue at hand is somewhat more complicated.

Pencil drawings? Copyrighted?

We are related to lizards in a way that the last common ancestor of today's lizards and us lived about 290 mio years ago.

Btw. lizard is no cladistic category. Lizard is a habitus that often appears in certain groups of amniotes. But the lizards within the amniotes are not closely related to each other, or at least not more closely than to other amniotes. The lizardlike crocodiles are more closely related to birds (both are archosauria) than for instance to the Komodo dragon, though they look very similar. The Komodo dragon instead is more closely related to snakes and to the ancient marine mosasaurs than for instance the wall lizards.

There was a similar story with mineral waters. A german fountain had problems with the revenue for their bottled water, so they raised the price per bottle, and suddenly, the revenue took up. Apparently, the bottled water is now seen as a high-market brand, and people are buying it because it must be good at that price.

You could add the Audi Q7 to the list, which is badge-engineered from the VW Touareg too.

The VW Touareg and the Porsche Cayenne.

In former times, it was for instance the Porsche 914 and the VW-Porsche 914/4.

To use a real world analogon: Burglary is still a crime, even if someone didn't lock his front door. Yes, you should lock the door. But it's still a crime to steal, even if you don't lock it. The Belgian Privacy Protection Commission now has listed some ways to lock your door - basicly they did already what you repeat now. Thus your remark could be rated "redundant".

Platinum occurrence in the Earth crust: 0,005 ppm. Gold occurrence in the Earth crust: 0,004 ppm. A difference of 20%, and platinum is slightly more prevalent.

The volatility of precious metals is known since the Ancient times. Precious metals have never been a good storage for monetary value, their main advantage was their ability to be measured easily (either by weighing them or by counting minted coins), and to be carried around easily - advantages you also have with paper money or with the numbers on a banking account.

Compare for instance the prices for platinum and gold, two precious metals with very similar properties: Same frequency of occurrence in the Earth crust, same properties (density between 19-20 g per cubic centimeter, does not oxydate easily, can be cast and cold formed), same usages (mainly jewelry, some industrial usage, some coined or cast into bars to be stored as assets). Their prices have been so volatile recently, that platinum was about twice the price of gold, and vice versa within just a decade. Compared with that, the dollar/euro exchange rate is an example of long time stability.

This is plainout wrong, Whites became powerful when they still had Serfdom. And while England in fact abolished real Serfdom during the reign of Elizabeth I, it replaced it by the Copyhold tenancy, which only get abolished in 1925(!). Russia conquered most of Northern Asia in the 16th and 17th century, but abolished Serfdom in 1861. Nothing with personal and economic freedom among their own people.

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70 years?!

Where do you live?

Industrial fossil burning started in Europe around 1710, when Thomas Newcomen built his first steam engines (while Thomas Savery had it patented in 1698 already, Newcomen's construction was of practical usability and was widely used).

In the mid-19th century, Western and Central Europe was fully industrialized, and coal was the main energy source. The retreat of the glaciers was noticeable around 1900, and has accelerated since then.

Additional, since more than 200 years, lots of sanatoriums to treat tuberculosis have been built in the Alps, and in parallel, tourism flourished here. Thus we have a huge collection of postcards and other pictures of the Alps including their glaciers reaching back that far (first colored drawings, since about 150 years also photographs), and thus we can easily document the glaciers' successive retreat for the last 200 years.

Climate change to ever rising temperatures at least for Central Europe is thus well documented for centuries.