I read The Road long before I became a father and part of me is, I guess, afraid to read it again now that I have two kids—perhaps because I remember how devastating it was then and suspecting it would be 100x that now. But I do intend to reread it sooner or later.
Its funny you say thay it's the browser slowing you down on your PC. I have an MBP from 2011 and the browser (Safari) is the only thing it can still run extremely well.
Lenovo only officially supported 4 GB, but you're right - the MB supports 8 GB, and I can confirm it works: that's what I have in mine. That and an SSD make a huge difference.
I want to be able to open word and excel file on my phone, but i don't want to give microsoft access to everything on my phone including dick pics, sextape, bank sheet and other personal data.
Because android allows such bad practice, blocking internet access can be usefull.
Having bought a second hand copy with no manual, I printed that badboy out at 25% scale (4 pages per double sided sheet), as it was actually needed to go through the tutorials. Took hours and ended up about 2 inches thick.
This is not cynical - it's a common/smart play with little downside taking advantage of a bad situation (e.g., like the CEO being hated in general by the community).
I was going to buy a Pixelbook Go since it's a well-made laptop and I like the simplicity of ChromeOS. Then I realized that the first app I'd install is Firefox since it's vastly superior when it comes to ad-blocking especially on Android.
Is it "heroic" to enter a war with no official support from the West then call on the West to help you? This isn't a movie. This is people dying because he won't give up his right-wing dream of a "free Ukraine" that will still have to do business with its giant neighbor and will always be under that neighbor's influence. Canada is the same for the US. It needs to play the game. Taiwan is the same for China. It plays the game.
Is it "heroic" to stop men from leaving the country so they can fight a war they have no interest in fighting? That seems a bit like he's infringing on their freedom, no? Why is this ignored?
I think OP wanted to make a point that Z is not all sunshine and rainbows.
Ditto all of the above. The book doesn't ask anybody to take all the rules and apply them daily at an extreme. It doesn't ask the reader to remove their free thought. It's more "think about these things as you go through life" and you'll inevitably achieve more power.
But how much is it worth to Australia? There have probably been at least 107 Killian Instagram shots taken there, no? Also, hard to trust an article that misspelled the city's name...
That's how it's spelled in spanish. (I live in Sydney and am learning spanish.) I did however find the inconsistent use of "." and "," for decimal point unusual..
I got hugely into architecture about 20 years ago, and it was my favourite building in the world. I'm a pianist, and for a while back then had a regular gig playing piano in the restaurant near its centre. I'd often look at the ceiling while playing—it was like being inside a giant typewriter—and think how lucky I was!
It's priceless. It's impossible to imagine Sydney without it.
Food... or fresh/unpolluted water. For food, I think it's a little easier but societies that have a hard time producing would have to adjust what they eat and how they eat it. Also, less meat, less red wine, more beer and more potatoes. The latter are much more sustainable.
E.g., In Canada, we'll have to accept we can't have bananas, pineapple, kiwis, mangos any time. We'll have to stick to locally grown apples, way fewer (but higher quality) blueberries and probably eat all the things Icelanders eat like smoked fish.
There's a course on Coursera called The Nordic Diet which is about Scandinavia as a whole adjusting its national diet to eat more local produce. Talk about foresight! That's just one of the principles at least. It's a Danish-run program. E.g., They eat more lingonberries since they grow all over the place?
There is definitely a possibility to go much more local by just foraging. I ate probably tens of kilograms of golden chanterelle, bilberries (local equivalent of blueberry)& lingonberries last fall - the forests are spilling with food and a lot of it rots because people don't take advantage of it.
Healthy, free, very tasty food - and you get exercise and fresh air while foraging. Clears your head very nicely too if you do computer work. Almost makes me wish summer was over already and I could be in the woods picking mushrooms and berries.
Foraging can't sustain the current population levels. People in Europe were foraging after WW2. Population was much lower than today, people still starved.
If you're in a situation where you would need alternative ways to feed current population levels then foraging will be required even if it's not enough on it's own. It's a matter of adding whatever can be added to the total pool of resources, and not about finding a single source.
Post WWII, didn't just forage, they also rationed food, bred rabbits in parks, went fishing, planted potatoes in their backyards and so on. If any of those options hadn't been available things would have been much worse.
In Norway, there is a large import tax on foods like cheese and meat, to encourage buying locally. This seems to work, as most shops only sell Norwegian produce.
This is also motivated by local food monopolies where they don't want competition from cheaper and higher quality cheese producers in the rest of Europe.
It's certainly maintained by that, but Norway has a couple of centuries history of political focus on food security, ever since the British naval blockade of Denmark-Norway during the Napoleonic wars, and then strongly reinforced by the nazi occupation. The strong focus on keeping the rural areas settled also in large part stems from that, though of course it is also self-reinforcing in that people who now benefit from policies designed to do so tend to want it to continue for their own reasons too.
There's a lot of cultural significance of food security, going back to e.g. decades of making primary school children learn about Terje Vigen (Ibsen's epic poem about someone trying to brave the blockade to feed his family), coupled with a lot of cold war thinking that at least up to the end of the 80's saw food security as part national defence during a time where we still had air raid siren tests many times a year in case of Soviet invasion.
While that has certainly softened up since, most Norwegian politicians still grew up with that.
The EEA Agreement provides for a free trade area covering all the EEA States. However, the EEA
Agreement does not extend the EU Customs Union to the EEA EFTA States. The aim of both the free
trade area and the EU Customs Union is to abolish tariffs on trade between the parties. However,
whereas in the EU Customs Union, the EU Member States have abolished customs borders and
procedures between each other, these are still in place in trade between the EEA EFTA States and the
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on imports to the EU from third countries is not harmonised with the customs tariffs of the EEA EFTA
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