That's why the only reasonable course of action is to develop nuclear power _and_ green energy FAST in Europe to STOP giving money and incentives to Russia (and the middle east). Other things are just peacock posturing.

This, if you have a very isolated house. A friend of mine set up an extremely loud battery powered horn, fixed to the ceiling, so hard to reach, in his mostly uninhabited country house. Several times he came back to find the main door fractured but nothing stolen inside. He said that the braying is so loud it makes you puke if you stay more than a few seconds inside the house. Can't use that method in an apt building though !

I'm as anti-gun as the next guy, but I'm sure there's quite a few people I'd enjoy shooting down. You just need to be picky.

How does having the serial # of your 6Tb hard drives helps you when it walks away with 20 years worth of family and work pictures ?

...It's called a side mirror in your car !

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

There's been a large construction in the street where I work for the last 2 years (a new tram). I keep seeing construction workers driving caterpillars and such while fiddling with their phones. This morning again I screamed at one. There are a lot of cyclists on this street (including me) and there's been two crushed to death so far.

Travelling Salesman

Couple years ago there was a town where some pranksters had it seeded and growing everywhere, even in that plaza fountain in the middle of town hall.

I subscribe to french Linux Magazine and Linux Pratique, two mags from the same editor and I enjoy reading them. First of all they have lots of info that you'd have to fish around the net to find. And here you don't need to even search for it. It's always up to date (well, the current month, d'oh), unlike web pages. And it's a good way to find NEW information, things you've never heard of before. And also it's a break from the computer, allowing you to sit and think for a while. The first mag is more for admins and has very in depth long and very technical articles. The second one shows how to use various user programs or short scripts.

Haven't you ever noticed that plenty of retired people "never have time" when you ask them to do something ? They are always busy doing things. Well, not all of them, but those who had an active life and maintain it afterwards. Between fixing the house, the garden, building things, antique stores, ebay, hiking/biking around, etc...

Since you ask how it works in other countries, I find that in France they've streamlined the process to make it the easiest possible. Unless you are self-employed, the state knows how much you make since all jobs have obligatory declarations. So you receive a form that already contains all your info and how much you owe. If you agree, you just scan a QR code present on the page. It takes you to a webpage that just ask for confirmation and that's it. It litterally takes 10 seconds to file. Then topay, you either have already setup automated retrieval thrice a year from your bank account, or receive a form with another QR code that asks for permission to retrieve one third of the sum from your account. That's it.

Things like kids (declared at birth), significant others (declared at weddings), buying houses (declared during the purchase), etc, are all known to the state and taken into account. Pretty easy in most cases.

I don't think there's much possibility to hack the system since to only option you have is to agree or not. And if not I guess you need to file manually.