Actually, some of the accidents were when a human driver was in control. It's quite possible that the human driver could have avoided the accident, but alas, he didn't.

Russia is also an Asian country, but the majority of its population lives in Europe. Thus it makes it an European country. (And the Russian fabs are in Europe too.)

Geographically, the border between Europa and Asia is considered to be the Ural Mountains and the Caucasus Mountains.

A lot of it can be attributed to statistical effects. Lets say, we make the cut-off between a small or medium business and a big corporation at 500 employees. Companies will cross this line all the time. Some grow larger than 500 employees, others shrink until they are below 500 employees, or they go bust and fire more than 500 employees. In all those cases of crossing the 500-employees-line, it will always be a small or medium company adding jobs and a large corporation slashing jobs. That's built into the definition! So in your statistics, you will see small companies adding jobs and large companies slashing jobs - but that's because you define small and large companies in a way that this result is inevitable. It has nothing to do with the potential of an individual company to add or to slash jobs.

The "more liberal" license might be the problem. While the license for the actual code you get is quite liberal, it doesn't propagate. The GPL ensures that there is always more GPLed code, once you start out from a GPL base. The BSD license is in some way an evolutionary dead end, because it is so liberal that it does not guarantee its own propagation. If I want to contribute to a project and want a guarantee that in turn, I have access to the contributions of people who are using my code, I can't rely on the BSD license. A BSD license means that the only development you are guaranteed to get is your own development. Anything else is just by chance. Your code might be useful for lots of other people, but you stand empty. There is no ROI for your development work if you publish something under BSD license. If you publish the same code under GPL, and even a single other developer shows some interest and adds something to your work, you are guaranteed to get rewarded by additional functionality.

I guess you stumbled on a logical error (and you didn't read the article). 1. Very old light reaches us all the time, not just since the start of the Hubble. Thus light from very far away objects has hit Hubble from the beginning, but we weren't able yet to identify it. So there is a function of time, but it has more to do with our increasing ability to make sense of Hubble data. 2. The article talks mainly about the limits of Hubble. As it has a limited mirror area, the amount of light it can collect is limited. Objects farther away have to be brighter to be visible with Hubble. 3. Hubble works only with light that can be reflected by its mirror. The longest wavelength it can detect is 1 micron. As light that comes from far away is redshifted, its wavelength increases. Usually we use the Lyman series of absorbtion lines of Hydrogenium to measure the redshift. As soon as the shortest wavelength of the Lyman series is redshifted to a wavelength of more than 1 micron, we can't see it anymore in Hubble. Thus the farthest object of which we can estimate the distance with Hubble can't be farther away than the redshift of the Lyman series to 1 micron allows. Yes, also X ray can be redshifted to UV and to visible light, which then could be detected by Hubble, but we can't measure the redshift (yet), because we don't know how to identify the absorbtion lines that exists in X rays.

Actually, data available from the Künstlersozialkasse, a health insurance for musicians and other artists in Germany, suggests that that curve is a hyperbola, as expected from a phenomenom in a social context.

Actually, you don't have this U-curve with musicians. But many people just see the low end (the child of the neighbours screeching away on the violin when you want to take a nap), and the top end (the star violinist in the news). This creates the false impression of an U-curve. But there are hundreds and thousands of violinists you usually don't see, because they play in some university orchester in a small town you've never visited, or they play at marriages and 50th birthday parties, or they earn their money as bar violinists. And most of them are average.

I guess, Angela Merkel knows. At least she wrote a program to simulate electron movements for her PhD thesis.

I used a pair of pictures of me as a child, which were taken when I was about 13. They look nearly similar (two shots out of a sequence done by a professional photographer). The AI estimated my age at 26 for the first and 42 for the second one.

No. There is no "both". There is that "innocent until proven guilty". And it's the task of a court, consisting of a jury and a judge, to determine his guilt. For the police, at the most he is a suspect. It's not the police's task to neither judge nor to execute their judgement.

He is the victim. He is a human being with the constitutional right not to have his spine broken by someone. He still has his constitutional rights even if you think he is a bad person. And there is that thing about human rights. You have them as a human, completely independent of you behaviour. I know that some people dream of stripping other people of their human rights because they dislike them. But that's a thinking we usually call totalitarian.

For instance, it would be feasible to use off site storage even for often used data. You could upload your movies to some file service and stream from there. No need for your own backup concept. You could even have your office file stuff on a remote filer and wouldn't notice much of a speed bump.

From the beginning of both the plane and the car.

You can always look at the options. Is it feasible to fly to the local supermarket? If you have a helicopter, maybe it is. Does it make sense? Except for the ego boosting factor, probably not. Is it possible to drive from New York to Paris, France? If you get your car on a freight ship, it is. Does it make sense? In most cases, not, except you want that car to be in Paris for some reason.

So yes, flying and driving by car are comparable. In many cases, there is a clear winner. But in a lot of other cases, there are several factors to consider until the best option can be determined.

Probably no, as about 10 inches of water shield nearly all radiation that comes from the wreck of the plane.

Yes, it is a geological term derived from a german word, but Lagerstätte doesn't mean storage space. That would be Lagerplatz. It is also not to be confused with Lagerstatt, which means bed. The correct translation is natural mineral deposit.