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811.
by Svip 11y ago
Serbs across the Balkans sought to create a Pan-Serbian state, which would have included Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Southern Hungary. I'll concede that Narodna Orbrana was a reaction to Austria'
812.
by Svip 11y ago
I apologise, I wasn't clear. I meant that they wanted a war at the scale of the Franco-Prussian War. You are not wrong about the writings of the time, and indeed, the powers themselves believed that the mere threat of such a war woul
813.
by Svip 11y ago
I agree. I apologise if my phrasing implied approval of this strategy, that was not my intent. Our current leader suffer the same weakness as our past leaders: Failure to foresee the consequences of their preferred (and tested) strategies
814.
by Svip 11y ago
While Bosnia was definitely occupied by Austria, it should be noted that the assassins were Serbian nationalists. This makes sense, though, because Serbia was interested in annexing Bosnia (Austrian held or not). As the Second Balkans War
815.
by Svip 11y ago
There is one significant difference between then and now: The world powers wanted a war back then. Emperor Wilhelm II's push for a 'small war' between Austria and Serbia was just the sign of how things were. But Austria&#x
816.
by Svip 11y ago
No, if a lorry is doing more than 96 km/h (older) or 90 km/h (newer), then they are messing with the limiter and basically putting it out of function. A lot of lorry companies do this, unfortunately, to "comply" with the
817.
by Svip 11y ago
That's actually a EU standard. Modern lorries are limited to 90 km/h (55 mph) today, to comply with EU standards. In most European countries, lorries are limited to 80 km/h on motorways, with a few (including the UK) going f
818.
by Svip 11y ago
In Denmark (.dk), any citizen can get their address information removed from publicly available records. That means that any private individual or company cannot get access to your address information unless you manually give it to them.
819.
by Svip 11y ago
I don't think the Danish ambassador to the US said 'schnapps', he clearly meant 'snaps', which is somewhat different (and far more akin to Danish traditions). But I see this misquote often when reading about this s
820.
by Svip 11y ago
As someone who uses tapes on a regular basis, I have doubts that there is any metric or science to back up the argument that cassette tapes have 'better sound' than vinvyl record or digital audio for that matter. Part of what I en
821.
by Svip 11y ago
If people want something conservative, why don't they try SeaMonkey? That's still run by Mozilla and under active development. I've just noticed a tendency for these Firefox discussions to completely ignore SeaMonkey.
822.
by Svip 11y ago
I think he needs to update his grammar.[0] The definition of program does not allow for anything but definition s (i.e. declarations), except in blocks (see compound-expression ). So his examples in his tutorials[1] do not conform to t
823.
by Svip 11y ago
That's not a lot of analysis. Why not ask: Which Bond actor was the most profitable per film (i.e. the average box office rating of an actor)? Which actor was the most efficient (i.e. the average actor salary subtracted from the avera
824.
by Svip 11y ago
I think he might be talking about Stalinism. Or at the very least, just Stalin.
825.
by Svip 11y ago
Oh how quickly we forget. The 20 candidates between the two major parties isn't actually significant. I decided to check out the primaries from the U.S. Presidential elections since and including 1980 to see how many mayor candidates
826.
by Svip 11y ago
When the Nordic Council becomes the Nordic Federation, I hope they re-invent Old Norse as New Norse as the official language of the Federation. You know, like they did with Hebrew when they re-declared Israel back in the 1940s.
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by Svip 11y ago
That's only viable if the country in question makes the same products. One example I heard was kitchens. They don't make kitchens in Greece, so they have to import them. But you are right, if there was a significant industry in
828.
by Svip 11y ago
Back in 2011, it was worth more. But the peg was actually at 1 euro = 1.20 francs,[0] but in mid-January it went to 1 euro = 0.81 francs in one day, that's 30%. Meaning that buying things with euros in Switzerland became 30% more e
829.
by Svip 11y ago
Aren't there negative consequences to having one's own currency when it comes to import? For instance, Greece has a tiny export market and mostly import goods. If they were devaluing their own currency, surely their trade partne
830.
by Svip 11y ago
Of course it's easier to replace than rebuild. I doubt I would be keen on rebuilding a fuel injector, even an old one. But replacing a carburettor on a 1983 is trivial.
831.
by Svip 11y ago
I would like to provide some articles on Citroën's special suspension, brakes and steering. And I mean Citroëns from back when they were Citroëns.
832.
by Svip 11y ago
Do you take submissions for articles?
833.
by Svip 11y ago
Modern cars are very locked-in with computer systems. So fixing many aspects of modern cars is no longer possible for most car owners like it used to be. This seems like a neat site for people with older cars. Although, if you are owning
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by Svip 11y ago
I will concede that. However, I doubt he was speaking about the creditors in a nice manner. And regardless, it certainly wasn't his first diplomatic gaffe in his tenure as finance minister. However, if his words are commonly misrepre
835.
by Svip 11y ago
I think you are leaving out that he wasn't exactly a decent diplomat or politician, calling the creditors "terrorists" and publicly offended the German finance minister. In fact, I'd consider this the biggest reason he
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by Svip 11y ago
Perhaps. But Germany back then, before the war and now, has/had a large industry and infrastructure to work with (albeit a large part of it destroyed in the war). Greece doesn't have that. I don't disagree we should consid
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Danish High Court Uphelds Gottfrid Warg's Conviction: 3.5 Years (Danish)(version2.dk)
2 points by Svip 11y ago|0 comments
838.
by Svip 11y ago
Indeed. In PowerShell, you have to write 'programs' to get things done, in Bash (as an example), you write commands to get things done. I'd like to think that commands are allowed to contain shorthands. I don't see a
839.
by Svip 11y ago
The problem with this solution is it would then become the optimal strategy to simply buzz as soon as the answer is being read in the hopes you know the question once the host has finished reading the answer. That would make the game far
840.
by Svip 12y ago
Appears the European Parliament agrees on the ISDS aspect. That's... at least something.

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