wasn't it forcing the world to sell oil only in dollars that did that ?

have a search to see a list of countries that tried to sell oil using other currencies and you will see a very close match to the list of US Invasions

its called download but thats just a name , it means nothing other than some marketing people though the target market would think it is cool

I've been involved in quite a few uk festivals and know several organisers and IMNSHO opinion this could have been rejected by the organisers.

Download has a reputation in the festival scene for being one of the grimmest most corporate of festivals, think mainstream moshing meatheads on speed
and lager , not hugging hippies on ecstasy. Its quite likely the police strong armed download about this because of their target audience but its just as
likely download came up with this themselves to reduce policing bills. Having seen policing bills for other festivals its quite likely download were
hit with something in the order of millions and hired someone (lots of ex-coppers consult on this ) to analyse how to mitigate it and they came up with this.
Note the almost total lack of outcry from festival goers about this, downloaders just don't care, if this was tried with glastonbury there would be riots.

The RFID purchasing thing is way more dangerous in my opinion , this has been tried as several festivals and has resulted in a lot of festival
traders getting ripped off by organisers who simply loot their traders revenue if they fail to make enough money (which happens a lot because
festival running is subject to a bewildering array of regulations that don't make sense and cause unpredictable expenditure). People who work
at festivals know full well that accepting anything that isn't cash is a gamble on the skills of the organisers. It turns festival organisers into banks
which is a terrible idea.

the police strategy of applying more and more over the top requirements on festival organisers is driving festivals into smaller and smaller events,
this is typically because the explosion of festivals is a direct response to similar controlling behaviour regarding events and venues in cities. Its a dangerous game to play , over zealous legislation drives events underground where they are potentially less safe (although often much more sensible), where they generate no tax revenue and have no access to sensible venues. This also dramatically increases the possible harms of drug use , contributes to a lot of post drug use psychosis and creates a vast revenue for criminals.

Until the government and the police recognise and protect the right to have fun and gather socially as the vital part of our culture that it is we will continue to
have all manner of baffeling social problems as people do it anyway in less than safe circumstances.

we invade their countries , we interfere in their political systems , we call them terrorists.

can't really make it any more obvious than that.

it would be seriously remiss to not countenance the fact the we in the west are severely provoking muslim culture in a way that it has never done to us.

civilisation is something that the people do and that rulers mostly tend to undo

i know , i was saying that mostly is the wrong choice

it must have been obvious to the designers how irksome it would be
to people who are used to the bash tab complete.

while $enlightened
        print 0xMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

useless use of cat award to you anonymous coward

sudo less /var/log/messages instead of sudo cat /var/log/messages | less

and

sudo -i if you want to make an interactive shell

also , never ever ever leave your shell unattended , just lock your screen

guesisng those three ommisions where why you posted as anonymous

but its a wired autocomplete , i like a list of options not choose the first one.

its a dubious assumption that the first option is the most likely

nope , dc over long lines means lots of energy via heat loss

how much would be paid in subsidies for fossil fuels if he had not had solar panels installed ?

this answer is very hard to work out because of the complex politics of energy subsidies but my hunch is that its not far off the cost of solar installations per person
over a lifetime.

the habitats provided by older trees are much harder to replace.

these have an effect on wider parts of the environment such as keeping soil in place or supporting other flora and fauna. This can have much wider effects that are very hard to gauge.

also not all trees have the same effect on the nutrients in the soil around them , replanted trees tend to be the ones that grow fast but do not necessarily compliment their surroundings as much as their predecessors and often deplete them. Most woodlands are a diverse mix of various species of tree which
came about because thats what worked for the woodland , replacing it with what works for humans or economics is not such a good plan IMHO.

We have loads of fibres we can reuse if we want to but we dont

well its deep pockets or deep packets , i know which i prefer.