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by ptaipale 8y ago
I guess "phone company" is used here loosely, to describe the provider of VoIP call center and recording service provider employed by the service (which is owned by the municipal/county co-operation organisation SKL, Sveriges
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Not HTTPS. Plain unencrypted HTTP on port 443. No authentication for clients either.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Another aspect is that with the equipment where we worked for a competing product, Huawei was cheap because it cheated in electromagnetic compatibility requirements, while our products were strictly required to comply. I suppose the reason
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Usually also those who die after the war are counted in its casualties, if they died of injuries suffered in the war. As most towns and villages in Finland, my home town's parish has a "Pro patria" stone tablet at the premise
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Reading this, it is interesting that Word for Windows 1.0 was usable at all. But I did use it quite a lot. It had problems, but generally, the "save often, each time with a different name" enabled one to get good results in editin
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by ptaipale 8y ago
And public contract it is in many other places, like where I live (Finland). Local government pays ambulances, I pay a sum to the local government out of my pocket after I have used ambulance.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Not everywhere, though. In Denmark, private operators have been handling emergency services since 1926; currently one company (Falck) is handling 65 percent of municipal fire brigades and 85 percent of ambulance services. No particular nast
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Or, as a very recent example of arrests, Carlos Ghosn.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Citing lines from movies is perhaps a bit different. Well-known movies have for decades been a part of building culture (national and international). For instance, I notice I regularly reference a pacifist war movie (from 1955, with two re-
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by ptaipale 8y ago
My experience is less extreme than that, but I became familiar with the Star Wars saga by reading the story in a weekly magazine which ran a few pages every week; it had still photos from the movies. This was West of the Iron Curtain (Finla
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by ptaipale 8y ago
It devalued instantly after the unexpected voting result, but has since then recovered. Compared to historical shifts over past decades, the impact of Brexit is not very visible on a chart. The falls from 1970 to 1975, or 1980 to 1985, or i
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by ptaipale 8y ago
I understand why people are distressed, because the press and other media make a lot of noise about imminent disaster. However, markets price in ahead of time any impacts that they foresee, and we can observe that - Britain's governmen
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by ptaipale 8y ago
If you look at actual numbers, brexit isn't doing much to the British economy. There's plenty of doomsaying in oral and written communications, but when people and institutions put their actual money in the game, the expectation s
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by ptaipale 8y ago
The U.S. economy is about 75-80 times bigger than Finland (due to sheer size of country). A few tens of millions (35 M$) is for Finland about as significant as 2,7 billion $ would be for U.S. Not insignificant.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
That equating Swedish (in terms of residency, citizenship and belonging to nation) with whiteness is just wrong.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
I suppose that would be because of EU regulations against money laundering.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
One thing that is wrong or even illegal is that the "foreigners" are not actual Twitter users that they purport to be; instead, they are fake accounts forming part of a coordinated effort to influence opinions. This is not limited
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Regional pricing isn't new, nor introduced by Amazon - international companies have worked this way for ages: maximise profit by doing different pricing in different markets for the same product. Or varying the product so that it is no
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by ptaipale 8y ago
One could ask the same question about things like United Nations Human Rights Council. The answer is that money, and representation of all governments is what counts. It leads to rather absurd outcomes.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Not really. We all know that sites give us cookies, it's the standard behaviour in the net, and the constant nagging by all web sites "accept this" and "accept that" and "continue as usual" has led to a si
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Don't complain to publishers. Complain to EU lawmakers who make this cookie acknowledge silliness mandatory.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
BTW, this has changed with many brands about 15 years ago. Cars made until that tend to disappear from traffic due to corrosion. In around 2000, it became common to galvanize the steel bodies of cars. Renault actually advertised this at the
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Denmark and Germany are in EU, but that does not mean that statistics are made in the same way. Also, the "vehicle in use" is not necessarily such a clear definition. For instance, several of my colleagues own historical vehicles
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by ptaipale 8y ago
The two sources is different, so it might be good to be wary about comparing them. Could be right though. But anyway, these average ages may be due to little used old cars being taken out of registry, to avoid annual fixed taxes? This has n
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by ptaipale 8y ago
There's a difference in the way people see this here in Europe, because here a "probable cause" is not needed for searching for drugs. Particularly at the border controls, everyone is subject to searches. (Same applies for e.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
I don't quite follow. Why would drug dogs need to be tested for accuracy? Is the indication of a dog accepted somewhere as evidence? I have been assuming that dogs give false positives every now and then, and there's a search for
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by ptaipale 8y ago
I would think this pricing is more based on a commercial positioning decision than actual economics - the manual is cheapest, and it maybe has less options for other fancy accessories, so that there is a very cheap "prices begin at&quo
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by ptaipale 8y ago
I taught my daughter using a car that had no power steering. But it was a Nissan Micra, so it was still physically possible for her to turn the steering wheel while the car was parked...
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by ptaipale 8y ago
That's partly a thing of volumes: the models that sell a lot go cheaper than models that need to be ordered specially for specific wishes. So, in the US, everyone assumes automatic and manual gearbox isn't any cheaper. In many Eur
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Yes, but there are also adaptive cruise controls with manual gearbox, and it's a useful combination in highway traffic. Or even in suburban roads: I don't have it, but I use regular cruise control quite a lot on roads that have tr

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