Homeschooling is considered child abuse in Germany because it doesn't make sure that your child is getting a proper education and definitely prevents them from getting the necessary graduation certificates to enter higher education and have a shot at a good job. It destroys the career chances of your child for no good reason. Parents aren't qualified teachers and even if they are teachers by trade they will not be able to cover all the subjects that are part of the school curriculum up to eighth grade (which is the minimum school length and even that only qualifies you for jobs on the level of burger flipping).

If you don't like the way public schools are run feel free to put your child into a private school. If you want homeschooling for crazy reasons like teaching your religious beliefs in place of history then get lost. I hear the US offers asylum to people like that.

France has an even higher electricity usage increase during the winter because the French heat with electricity (Germans mostly use oil or gas). Their nuke plants can't keep up with the demand during winter so they have to import.

Trains are one of the biggest electricity consumers in Germany.

To be fair the games market has grown since then. The SNES didn't sell nearly as many units as the PS3 and XBox 360 and on top of that Chrono Trigger wasn't released in one of the three major territories (Europe).

I think they were on the EA Partners program which is meant to be a kind of hands-off thing where EA just handles distribution. They got 75M$ in investments and stated that 3M sales would be needed to break even so assuming they used up all that investment on the game that's about 25$ per copy sold.

I got the driver package labeled "IT professionals only", that didn't include the crapware and was 1/10th the size to download.

Well, their invention was bankrolled by a mad dictator hoping for a miracle weapon and the production was initially handled by slave labor...

I think the following days will show whether the price is appropriate.

If it's still that flat connector used on my third gen iPod it'll hurt no matter where you put the port.

Sounds like a The Who cover band.