you mean the The American Booksellers Association, The Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, and the Independent Online Booksellers Association definition of "rare books".

in a more general definition "rare" has nothing to do with "high demand" or "age" or "significant historical or aesthetic value". that just limits the books that booksellers are interested in. it doesn't mean they can't be in the interest of anyone else or can't have value, just that booksellers don't see a way to turn them into products (yet).

you need to stop munching on this delusional war propaganda nonsense. this data is public.

reality check: russia's economy is growing despite the war and the "sanctions", even the imf projects 1,1% growth in 2026 and 2027. bank of russia is more cautious forecasting between 0% and 1%. noteworthy is that this growth happens without debt.

ukraine, however, is sadly another story. all the flamboyant pr strikes on wildberries, refineries and civilians have indeed caused damage but the biggest impact is on the russian population (which understands what is going on and contrary to the west's belief doesn't ultimately blame the government but ukraine and the west) but it has a negligible effect on the overall economy, and none at all on the military operations, which are actually picking up speed. the bigger cost is actually on ukraine, not only have they expended a year's worth of subsidy (in drones) in ineffective strikes and are now broke, russian retalliation is now trashing drone assembly shops (can hardly call them factrories), logistics, energy facilities (winter is coming) and has landlocked ukraine by disabling all ports in odessa, meaning no more grain exports. ukraine is completely bankrupt, and the eu has long run out of money. they are now borrowing from the future of european citizens to continue a war they can't possibly win.

i think a decade is way too optimistic for recovery in europe. the war isn't even over yet. ukraine is definitely done, for good, it might not even survive as a country, they have not only acute troop shortages, they're running out of population. latest government announcements hints at reducing mobilization age and mobilization of women. to the last ukranian it's a fucking tragedy and your idiotic propaganda is abject and truly disgusting.

i would like peace on earth :-)

you can try. if you build your own browser from scratch (or alternatively use something like lynx) you could "mitigate" to the greatest extent, but subtleties in http header values and handshake and the very fact that you deny everything will make you stand out, not to mention you would likely be tagged as a bot and denied access to begin with.

i'd say it's not even a very good technique since it is so ... noisy.

you can't really "fix" fingerprinting unless you reduce a browser's capabilities to the point of it being practically useless (for "modern" use). blocking, hiding in the crowd, randomizing ... it's not even a cat-and-mouse game, it's like trying to put out fires with spit.

whatever you use (and privacy oriented browser set ups are a good idea for many other reasons) assume that your device is being tagged.

Licking the foot really paid off for big tech, didn't it?

the comical angle of this bigotry outburst is that they said no such thing, they didn't give any specific reason at all so they could hardly be "lying". that's the logical assumption ars technica reached because anyone following launches knows about launch windows and the importance of weather conditions, and there happens to be a nice fat typhoon around.

but why let reading and basic reasoning get in the way, right? know what? i don't really care who gets first base on the moon but ... china will :-P not only that, for quite a good while they will be the only ones in position to actually do something there.

And people not giving a shit about their local city council allows the halfwitted petty little tyrants to build the Torment Nexus using your tax dollars. Yaaaayy!

-what in the hell type of highly in demand experienced computer engineer would want to move to Idaho?

yep even for ICE vehicles they can do the same. The Tesla model of everything as touch controls is fundamentally flawed and dangerous, most manufacturers are realising their is very good reasons to have physical buttons be it an EV or ICE or something in between.

A lot of the newer Chinese EV's have a nice balance with a touch screen for all the controls and then a set of physical buttons and controls for all the things you commonly touch while driving. Hell my Zeekr even has 2 programmable buttons you can set to whatever function you like.

how can glorifying mass murderers be "the lesser of two evils"? dude, what a spin! X'D

russia has nazis too. some are quite dark and violent. the difference is that they are fringe, criminal and underground, not in parliament.

i mean, this whole cliché-filled diatribe isn't really worth arguing about, and way too tedious to counter, but this ...

... will haunt you the day russia culminates the "smo" and moving on while europe is probably to their eyeballs in serious political and economic crisis, which is not far away. :-)

isn't this just plain racism? is that your argument now? get a grip.

you mean that the official web of the ukranian presidency spreads propaganda?? oh noes ...

https://www.president.gov.ua/e...

dude, they're not even hiding it ... anymore.

this publisher mainly does school textbooks. some argue that "cultural historical anihilation" is exactly what is going on some of those books, i've read quite some jarring things about them but then i have no direct access to any of them, so can't confirm. then again it wouldn't surprise me from a country that literally re-buries actual nazi collaborators responsible for mass murders as national heroes with state honors. so much for "culture and history".

so i don't know why those books were blown up. it could be a deliberate "message" to those publishers. unlikely, but possible. it could also be that something else was in those warehouses, or just beside. war is a bitch. specially of you're losing. but i wouldn't expect "the guardian" to try to answer any of those questions seriously, but rather rush to foregone conclusions, as you seem to be doing.

alas, they are just asking for money. i mean, even more money. go donate! for "culture and history". or don't, it's going to come from your taxes anyway ...

i just learned that merely this already qualifies as reproduction (thus a copyright violation, no question) under us law. yikes!