No we can't actually. What would be the grounds for such a law? Discrimination on national origin would require careful justification. "We don't like those guys" isn't a sufficient justification.

Some internet commenters might make it an anti-American thing, but most real people don't.

1) we don't operate on hatred; 2) we don't ban things, we regulate.

Yes, for all practical matters, the company that operates Volvo in China is Chinese, and will have to abide by decisions of Chinese authorities. Just like the branch that operates Google in Sweden has to obey decisions of Swedish tribunals.

That may be the case, but that was not what the OP and this /. post are about. Headline: "Which Apps Aren't Available on Linux?" OP: Explorer -- Windows Explorer."

Can you describe the advantages (with respect to what KDE offers)?

There are many rules that can't be enforced, for example that you're supposed to have written it yourself, not your professional writer daddy. The enforcement is the threat that being caught in a fraud will upend your starting career.

I'm not a big Windows user so I'm not totally sure what you're referring to, but your use case ("Being able to drag things into and out of the Open... dialogue, consistent right click behaviour to rename or extract or get to Properties") seems covered in all KDE apps, plus GTK apps that will use KDE dialogues if you set GTK_USE_PORTAL=1

Split windows, tabs, single instance or multiple windows, integrated command-line, selection mode, file stash, inline renaming, configurable double click in white space, configurable context menu, configurable previews, etc. Dolphin beats Windows so much, it's not even fun, Windows Explorer is so pitiful to use. Plus Windows explorer is SLOW.

I agree but as a side note this is only a rhetorical argument. Europeans don't go by the streets talking about "free healtchare". This only occurs as an internet argument (like "Communism vs. Capitalism"). In practice it isn't free, just affordable. For example in Education, Spain has tuition fees of 1000 € per year; Germany technically does not charge tuition, but 300 € per semester for administrative support.

They purchased 18 Ariane-6 flights. The third contracted Ariane-6 flew on June 17, delivering 36 satellites https://www.arianespace.com/fo...

The paper mentions "90kbp genome" (90,000 DNA base pairs) and "DNA polymerase for genome replication".

For pedantry: DNA isn't strictly needed. Life is defined by ability to feed on an environment, grow, and self-replicate, independently on the biomolecular mechanism to implement it. We happen to only have live examples based on DNA, so that's what they used so can copy existing DNA code. We assume that early cells were based on self-replicating RNA enzymes rather than DNA+transcription. In principle nothing prevents to base life on nucleic acid analogues, forming biopolymers other than RNA/DNA, as long as the resulting biopolymer can encode its own self-replicating mechanism.

As per statistics (and my argument), entry-level developer gets you 2 600 € per month in France https://resoforces.fr/salaire-...

For Southern Europe 2000 â is considered a good salary.
a) that is not southern Europe
b) it is not a good salary
c) it is a joke

It is an overall mid-career salary for Spain (Southern Europe).

This is a GLOBAL average. For France the pay grade of 2 000 €/month (30 k€/year) would Junior level for a developer (look here for current job offers: as "developer", typical is 40 k€/year before taxes, remove 25% for taxes, then divide by 12: https://www.apec.fr/candidat/r... ). For Southern Europe 2000 € is considered a good salary.

Nordic:
* Finland: Requirement for 4G is 15 min https://www.kyberturvallisuusk...
* Norway: used to be 2-4 hours; was increased to 8-24 hours after the Spanish blackout https://www.telenor.com/who-we...

Non-Nordic:
* Netherlands (as comparison): These people say the network crashes in 4-8 hours https://www.localmesh.nl/en/co...

The problem: Europeans consume about 140 single-use bottles per person per year; each cap weights ~2 g, making it 126,000 tons per year for the 450 millions EU residents; Everything that does not go to the city trash ends up in rivers and the sea; caps are frequently discarded to the ground. Keeping the caps with the bottles saves many tons of plastics from the oceans.

Not overreach: Legal ground is the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which requires Signatories to "ensure environmentally sound waste management to prevent and reduce marine litter from both sea and land sources."

What the EU did: The EU did not wake up one morning and decide to mandate this. It is though a Directive. These happen when several Member States decide to regulate the bottle caps, and request the EU to "harmonize", which is to publish a common legislative ground that simultaneously apply in the 27 Member States, rather than each of them taking steps in different directions.

Why the EU is a good idea: The EU makes possible coordination of policies at the level of the 27 Member States that would not otherwise be possible. It avoids waste associated to the production of bottles to different standards; it allows better exchange of goods within the Internal Market since all bottles are produced to the same standard and can freely circulate.

References:
* Directive 2019/904: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/lega...
* Lay summary: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/l...

They predicted (have been predicted for at least twenty years) that the Gulf Stream might shut down in the near future. If that happens, then we get a sudden, steep cool down. But it hasn't happened yet so it is not a factor in current events.

Read it again, it did refer to high-level waste from processed fuel (which happens to be liquid). This waste is relevant because it is the one that will remain extremely dangerous for millions of years, which is why they vitrify it.