This used to be the case in Germany but is no longer so. If I recall correctly, the number of prank calls (or misdials, or pocket dialling, or whatever) made them decide to remove this feature.

I don't know whether this is the case in all of Europe but wouldn't be surprised.

How can it be an end if it's in the middle?

Also, the "more legroom" is also a thing of the past in many places... the seat next to you will be free but the seat pitch is the same throughout the aeroplane on many short-haul flights.

I thought of that panel, too.

Heck, there exist dialects of Mandarin written with an alphabet (Cyrillic, in this case).

And which questions did you ask Google to confirm that it was really them calling you?

From what I've heard, developers sometimes just put new code in for a new feature and it seems to me as if there's no overarching careful design or "code-base grooming".

So, especially "chicken scratch". (Though granted, it usually works.)

You've never read an article on how development at Facebook works, I take it.

Ah, is there where it's from! Thanks!

That's half of it; the other half is that the keys are only visible after removing a tamper-evident cover. That's the part that lends confidence to the fact that the coins cannot have been spent already and that only the person removing the cover knows the key. (Well, they and the person who minted the coins and "loaded" them -- but not the previous owner of the physical coin.)

And you know that if the radioisotope batteries had come to pass, that sentence might be true for first-world countries with a stable political infrastructure and a wide network of agents, but in some countries, people would be taking them apart on the street and harvesting still-usable components... and quite possibly doing so not only to their own used batteries but also to some sent to them by "authorized agents of the manufacturer".

Just look at what's happening with electronics, with people "cooking" circuit boards to harvest the metals on them, etc.

Malapropism?

Such a cost increase would probably be due to similar bungling on the part of the seller, I imagine, who is not able to articulate clearly what, exactly, he wants. It's not like QLD was buying off-the-shelf software that required no customisation.

"A burger, please!"

"Wait, no, I'm allergic to peanuts. Did the packaging of any of the food you sell say it may contain traces of nuts? Please throw away all of the stuff you have cooking, sterilise the food preparation area, and re-make my burger."

"That's a meat burger! I can't eat meet. I meant a soy burger, of course."

"Well, if you don't have one, go out and buy one."

"If they only come in packs of 100, whatever, I don't care. Buy a pack and make me one burger."

etc. etc.

They could remember being hunted.

That is correct in Greek but not in Latin.

"Homicide" is a Latin-Latin compound (the first part is from Latin "homo", human), not a Greek-Latin one like "homosexual" (the first part is from Greek "homo", same).