For what its worth, people TALk a lot of sh$t here but our murder and crime rates are actuallly pretty low.

US intentional homicide rate is 5.763 per 100,000 population. That's considerably higher than the wild west known as the Philippines at 4.348, and Liberia at 3.087. It's more than five times Scotland at 1.038, Germany at 0.911 and Australia at 0.854. It's over ten times Northern Ireland at 0.521, and twenty times Japan at 0.229. US murder and crime rates are not low.

As a visitor, I've had random Americans yell death threats at me on the street. Never had that happen living or working as a foreigner in China. Do you have any actual experience or are you just parroting the domestic propaganda you've been brought up on?

It's a stupid "joke" about supposedly getting hungry again not long after eating Chinese food.

It checksums filesystem structures, but not file contents. It's also designed in a way that makes it fragment very quickly (both the filesystem structures and file data), so it performs very poorly on media with non-trivial seek times or slow random reads. It feels like a bit of a one-trick pony.

The spacecraft reacts against the Earth, the source of the magnetic field it's working within. The Earth is just so much more massive than the spacecraft that it doesn't affect it very much. It's much like when you jump, you're reacting against the Earth by pushing against it directly. It reacts against the Earth via electromagnetic forces rather than physically pushing against it.

A corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal (Frosty the Snowman)? Or an attitude and a carrot for a nose (Frosty the Yobbo)?

The actual original arcade version of Ninja Gaiden, or the completely different game on the NES? Because the punishingly hard NES version that a lot of people remember only really had the name in common with the arcade original.

And demanding tribute from the dominant service is an attempt to make them less competitive.

No, enforcing consumer protection laws facilitates competition.

Now, show us the exact damages that google is illegally doing. If so, why are they not in criminal court. EU has criminal courts as well, don't they.

They were already found guilty in criminal court. Now that guilt has been established, parties harmed by their illegal actions are suing for damages. You're either playing dumb or didn't even read the summary before commenting.

I'll await your answer of what crime it is.

Even the summary gives you a reasonable run-down on that.

Are you illiterate? "Payed" is something to do with ropes, "seams" are what you see on your clothes. And that doesn't include all the other words you butchered.

It isn't a fine. They're being sued for damages. The money goes to the litigant, not to "Sweden". If Google want to avoid constantly paying damages, they should consider not constantly doing illegal things. It's ironic that you're accusing Europeans of wanting to be anti-competitive when this whole thing is about (American) Google's anti-competitive practices.

Attacking Iran just created a generation of people who hate you. You've succeeded in eliminating a lot of moderates. If anything, that will increase terrorism.

Copper interconnect and silicon-on-insulator were both pioneered by IBM. They have had serious semiconductor R&D over the years.

Jira and confluence both used bbcode formatting (similar to what Steam forums, phpBB, UBB, etc. use). Around 2012, a major update to Confluence switched to using an XML format for storage, which was a lot harder to edit. They provided an updated WYSIWYG editor at the same time, but it was a pain if you wanted precise control over formatting or tables. So you were stuck editing in a proprietary XML format.

At the same time, they started using markdown for formatting in some of their other products, e.g. Bitbucket.

From my point of view, Jira and Confluence were useful tools before 2012, but they did their best to ruin them, while also making them prohibitively expensive.

Volvo is still Swedish, but they don't sell cars. They sell trucks, earthmoving equipment, marine diesel powerplants, etc. They also own various other brands (e.g. Mack trucks). Volvo-branded cars, like Polestar, are a Geely brand. It's kind of like how Rolls Royce is still British, but Rolls Royce-branded cars no longer have nothing to do with them, being BMW products.

Out of curiosity, what application do you use for displaying sheet music? Is there a good FOSS Android app for this? I still use paper sheet music.