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!

lawyers will try, i would assume, for a small fortune. meanwhile a bunch of aggravated slashdotters will no doubt make a solid couch case, hang on ...

we do know pretty well how "copying" and "reproducing" works and it's definitely not that.

otoh the process of creating these models has been universally called "training" and "learning" for a while, and that's because there is a obvious conceptual similarity with these human processes, even though we do not know exactly how neurons go about it, or to what degree their process shares mathematical principles with, well, deep learning.

my use case is very much the same as yours without any of the problems which funnily boil down to just one thing: spotify. yeah, i'm a boomer but not using cds, just good old-fashioned audio files stored on my phone and a decent old-fashioned player app, works like a charm. even switching playlists is just a few taps but i never do this if i'm alone unless the car is stopped for some reason, it wouldn't even cross my mind.

i've tried spotify a couple of times, never liked it at all. which is fine, horses for courses, but it's kinda annoying that it has become so pervasive that people keep sharing song links flatly assuming you use spotify and spotify demanding you're logged on just to listen to a random soundbite ... whatever, not happening.

on a general note, handling the phone while driving has been a traffic violation almost everywhere for a while now, yet here we are with car manufacturers expecting you to perform basic functions via tapping and swiping through an app interface on a screen. it's just idiotic. i don't do any of that either while the car is rolling.

the relevance of eu law in uk wasn't the point of this subthread from right after your intervention. nobody minimally informed discusses that.

your bravado and subsequent castling was. analizing those 5 points i just enumerated with a bit of attention and minimum of intelectual honesty could give you insight as to how you come across as a douchebag to others, and reflecting on that might reveal valuable clues as to why, so you might eventually get yourself a happy life without succumbing to the futile need to belittle strangers onlie to compensate. however i'm guessing you will waste this opportunity like all others before, which totally explains why you're such a douchebag, and ofc you will be ridiculed again but i suspect that's the least of your problems because ... you do not care!

embarrassing, yes. "destructive to the lives" ... you should stop munching on so much yellow press. yes, there were 7 deaths indirectly linked ... that's just a little over the daily average of fatalities from traffic accidents.

other than that it was one day and a night of pure chaos but people got around it quite well, even fun at times. i lived through it and besides the initial confusion and some traffic jam it wasn't a bad experience, on the contrary, some important stuff to be learned about community, resilience and our way of life. recommended.

extremely cheap and very very cheap can be relative if you account for consumption. us' average consumption per citizen is 3-4 times higher than world average, double that of europe or china, so any raise in costs hit americans 3-4 fold.

more around 8 years where i live. it depends on many factors: price of energy, installation costs, tariffs and whatnot, state deductions and regulations (in spain you can not sell surplus energy, only get it deducted from your bill (at a quite low rate)).

then again paying off is just one of the considerations. i'm expecting huge disruptions in the energy market almost everywhere and a huge spike in inflation any time now. so i just got my roof plastered and am now energy self-sufficient, next is trading my old diesel car for an ev and i'm set for what is to come (energy wise). next is building up my orchard. so it's more of a survival thing. it's also the right thing to do environmentally, but i have no illusions about that; we're fucked already anyway.

not much:

1- you reacted like child trying to ridicule someone online you thought was wrong
2- you were proven wrong
3- you referred triumphantly to the "withdrawal act" that you apparently didn't even bother to check
4- you were proven wrong again with a quote from that exact same "withdrawal act" you didn't bother to check
5- you're obviously still wrong but now, all of the sudden ...

... you do not care!

can't make this shit up; and i'm afraid you're not even trying to be funny.

apps don't need any "distribution service". they can be (and do so on many devices) downloaded from anywhere and installed by the user, and promoted by a zillion ways. the entire "appstore" concept is basically hijacking that freedom and plurality by concentrating the market on a single point to exploit the control of that market access once that concentration is established. as i said, that's ok for me because i just don't partake. everybody else can do as they see fit, crying rivers afterwards is not required but feel free to do so, adding insult to ("capitalist") injury.

not really sure what triggered your nonsensical insults this time around, were your fanboi feelings hurt or is this just the autistic anticommunist zealot living in your head acting out again?

they don't provide service but market access. the whole point of the iphone app ecosystem is mercantilism. if people are only interested in creating apps to rake in money then i don't find it really outlandish that the market access provider charges whatever fees he can justify to get a cut, including having to pay for the privilege of developing in the first place (!!!). wether the provider can get away with it or not is something i'll leave entirely to the whales, sharks and sharklets in the ecosystem to figure out, may they eat each other's livers out.

for me an extra 15% of 0 is still 0.

Incorporation of direct EU legislation
(1)Direct EU legislation, so far as operative immediately before exit day, forms part of domestic law on and after exit day ...
Interpretation of retained EU law
(1)A court or tribunal—
(a)is not bound by any principles laid down, or any decisions made, on or after exit day by the European Court, and
(b)cannot refer any matter to the European Court on or after exit day.

as of 2023 (effect 2024) "retained eu law" was renamed simply "assimilated law", the "general principles of eu law" were stripped out (which can totally change the interpretation of law), and it was made subordinate to "common law". anyway, it was already "uk law" for all intents and purposes the very day after brexit. furthermore it has undergone many changes since brexit (as has eu law), so if you want to sue in the uk better forget about those eu binders: they do not apply in the uk. surprise! surprise!

or you can simply keep calling it "eu law" or "lalala law" for all i care if that makes you happy.