This. The Xiaomi Mi A1 is very good, about $200, stock Android, only thing it doesn't do is NFC. Very pleased with it.

Russia is the successor state to the Soviet Union, and the ship being a naval vessel rather than a private merchant ship continues to belong to them even after it is sunk. These are both well-established concepts in international law (and also the basis for the Spanish case relating to that galleon).

The unused stamps were sold but have not (yet) been used, they are 'forever' stamps which do not lose their value so could be used at any time in the future. Getty's terms of use explicitly state that licensing responsibility lies with the user (which is IMHO rather shady, but they do state it up front).

Queen Elizabeth is not a politician, and her image is on the stamps in the same way and for the same reasons as it appears on coins and banknotes, as a symbol of the State. for the same reason decorative UK stamps do not have the country name (unlike stamps from other countries) just a small profile of the Queen.

Not if the plug has an earth pin its not (the French type, used in many other European countries).

Also there are varying standards for multiple adjacent sockets - a lot of wall sockets put two sockets one above the other, pins aligned hoizontally, which works for some wall warts but is crap for the 90-degree angled plugs, wheareas a lot of power strips angle the sockets at 45 degress, which in turn is crap for wall warts which come in two alignment types 90-degrees apart.

The only system which seems to have been designed with some consistency and attention to clearance is the British 3-pin.

They could also "defend" it by offering an inexpensive licensing deal for small festivals.

Marines were originally created to serve on ships back in the days of sail and needed to be trained and able to handle the conditions on a sailing ship, including climbing (and shooting from) the rigging, helping man the guns, carrying out boarding actions and so on. This at a time when ordinary ground infantry just had to march and fight in long lines. This is why the Marines in any country with a major military developed a mentality and role as an elite force capable of fighting on land and sea which carried through to today.

In a large operation like D-Day in 1944 the Navy indeed just delivered large numbers of Army soldiers.

The biggest maintenance problem for the A-10 is that the wings are coming up on their fatigue life and need replacing.

They can appeal to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Several cities already have trucks with just one driver which automatically pick up trash. Here are a few off the top of Google: Albuquerque.Calgary. Minot. Salem.

Meaniwhile Tesla, Uber and others are designing self-driving trucks and are already testing them on the roads. It's obvious that putting the two together is just a matter of time.

How many % of the population are actually waiters and lawyers and doctors and trash collectors?

Sales cashiers are being automated away through self-checkout. McDonalds staff are being automated away through ordering booths and robotic burger flippers. Drivers are forseeably going to be automated away through self-drvinf vehicles. Call centers have voice-recognition AI, web pages have customer query chat bots, trash collection can be easily roboticised once self driving vehicles happen. Factories are already automated. The numbers of available jobs in industries which require either manual labor or scriptable interations is falling and will continue to do so.

But the Parliament stopped the experiment half-way through without respecting the outcome ....

Because you have to start somewhere and the easiest place is people who would already be getting unemployment benefits anyway. The point was to gradually expand the trial, but it got nixed (likely for political reasons).,

Because most people want to have more than just the basic necessities of life: a nicer car, a nicer house, holidays, gadgets, whatever. That requires money and so requires finding a job.

Reducing stress while looking for that job makes it easier, it means that you can look for a better job or get training without worrying where the next meal is coming from.