They still have them here. And yes I agree, they're much easier to handle when going by car. I do prefer them when I forgot my shopping bags, especially since I recycle them with the other waste paper I have

I don't quite see the no true Scottsman fallacy I made but it doesn't really matter. Just replying to say i agree with your reply, and have in fact made the point more eloquent than I was able to make. So thank you

And you yourself fall for the faux agile: that you value one thing over the other doesn't mean the other thing isn't important anymore. But if you have to choose you choose interaction over processes and tools. In practice this means you stick with a process, unless it means it stands in the way of progress and / or interaction between people. Then you dump it. A process isn't inherently evil, see also: the scrum process

So, uphill both ways really? ;-)

Half a mile is your casual bike distance? And 3 to 5 a hard trek? Thats what I used for walking as a kid. Biking was something to be done for hours. Talk about a culture difference! :-)

https://youtu.be/KtiTm2dKLgU Seems there was a construction flaw , sounds likely!

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Norway is completely in love with electric cars,so they seem to think it works at least as good as an ICE. And the ICE car I used to drive only started heating up after a good bit of driving. Meanwhile the electric heating part is almost instant on in my current hybrid car.

Well, yea I have. I pay 57 euro for 100mbit glasfiber plus telephone plus cable. Which is reasonably standard over here. In a very heavy(by comparison) regulated market. I also have the option of, I believe, about 5 different providers. I'm not keeping track because it seems every 6 months another one pops up. This is because the infrastructure is by law open to all regardless of the operator (who mind you makes a very tidy profit from it). So I was wondering how it affected you negatively. Because over here it seems to get cheaper and cheaper

I think they might be more efficient though, running an engine at a fixed rpm(in diesel electric) is easier to optimise then a variable rpm engine (with direct diesel drive)

So I'll bite: how much did your internet bill go up when net neutrality was introduced?

But have yet to understand that Slashdot doesn't use unicode

But less extremes at either end of the financial scale, more free time, better health care. At least for the majority of democratic socialist (lite) countries . It's probably a cultural thing but as much as people in the States are against socialism in any form, most of the democratic socialist countries would hate to loose the socialist part. I guess it depends on what you find important, Americans are very individualistic whereas, for instance, Europeans have more of a "for the good of all" mindset. Could be the history of wars in Europe.

As I recall, there was a clear standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC... and Microsoft choose to ignore it.

Not completely, but it is definitely over engineered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...