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Every month is wild. Do the electricity prices change based on the season or why can't they just calculate the average over a year?

Recently we also got more and more smart meters here in Germany, as there are a few power companies that calculate your price by the hour. But that's not based on your maximum consumption but on the time of the consumption. If you use the solar and wind power on a windy summer day it's basically free, whereas the price goes up when it's expensive power from gas plants on a windless winter night. So you can lower your price by washing or charging your car at the right time.

That probably would not work that way in Norway as you have a lot of hydroelectric power which is available much more continuously, as far as I understand.

Are there really people in the US driving from house to house reading the meters? In Germany you just get a letter (or an email nowadays) asking you to read the meter and tell them. Unless the values you're providing are obviously wrong, noone questions you.

If you lie there you'll be found out when you move out of your apparent or when the meter is changed after 20 or 30 years.

No problem, we don't kinkshame here.

It was xz, a software most people probably use without even knowing it as it is a library which is included in a lot of other projects. The vulnerability targeted openssh which is one of these users.

That being said: Do you also audit the dependencies of the software you're installing? I usually don't, unless a customer pays me for it. However, before I pull any dependency into one of my own projects I take a look at it's dependencies. If a library for a simple task brings tons of dependencies with it, I rather not use it.

They were still good windowses for their time, especially when you compare them to DOS and Mac OS 9 which would have been the alternatives. For a fair comparison with professional OSes with full memory protection like UNIX you'd have to look at Windows NT, but there the preimise is true as well (as far as I can tell by googling, I only ever used 2000 Pro): 3.1 was bad, 3.5(1) good, 4.0 bad, 2000 good, 2003 meh.

It was a known rule that every second version of Windows was good. 95 was good, 98SE was good, XP was good, 7 was good, but sadly they never released Windows 9, so we're still waiting for the good version to come after 8.

How, do you believe, babies are made in the first place?

Why not call it a Germanic-Romance romance?

We stopped buying these death machines from you years ago (in fact, we never really started buying them):

But that didn't stop you from making more of them or making them more deadly each year.

I didn't know you guys had special briefings where you gain your intelligence. Over here in Europe we prefer natural grown intelligence maybe with a hint of help from schools and parents.

But it explains a lot if he never attended.

The last time I remember having the same opinion as the pope was in 2003 against Bush Jr.'s war. If anyone will ever get me to become a catholic, I'm pretty sure it will be a US president.