Great joke, hits very close to home. Thanks.

Even though it is not a point of the article, same thing happening in Croatia, but all along the coast and its islands. Germans and Austrians on one hand, Russians and Ukranians on the other side. With a good dose of Croatia's mafia. All of them buying up properties and building villas nobody spends more than a week or two per year in, and pushing out locals to less desireable places or even emigration.

Maybe HD should start investing in electrical technology and marketing instead of living off of the fruits of their labour 40 years ago? They know their customer base is falling of a cliff, and they should have acted sooner.

1. Create a distinctive sound produced by an electrical motorbike (call it "HD experience" or whatever)
2. Put that motorbike in some popular movies
3. Repeat step 2 as many times as you can
4. ???
5. Profit

They seem to me like Ballmer laughing at iphone.

Definitely! Was working on cruise ships with those satellite systems and you're absolutely right. I would even say that equipment on those ships is several orders of magnitude more expensive as it ran into millions of dollars. That one Starlink dish is orders of magnitude smaller than those huge C-band and Ku-band dishes and bandwidth is higher. Install two or three of those on each ship and you have ten times better and at least hundred times cheaper internet. I'm sure that most of those satellite internet providers are scared shitless. Also you can have those dishes on much smaller vessels and it is still much cheaper and simpler compared what they have now. It will revolutionize the maritime satellite internet access.

Agreed. What I just don't like are those jarring accents they gave them in the show. They've could have just changed some words around like they did in the books (or it looks like to me). This way they sound like they've never spoken those sentences in their lives before (and it shows) which is sounds very grating.

Agreed. And I find it a bit amusing and disappointing at the same time that my colleagues (fully grown people) are praising this show to high heavens. The plots are usually brain dead stupid, everything is black and white, stormtroopers cannot hit anything but beskar and those tropes are deader than Vista. Not even to mention how is having a main character not even show his face crippling any emotional relationship between the viewer and the character. The episodes look like they were shot in a 5x5m studio (and they are). It is a terrible show but people are praising it because it is Star Wars themed. If it were something else, it would be a 4/10 show.

Slashdotâ(TM)s problem isnâ(TM)t really those extreme groups or anything like that. The problem is the redesign of the site. It turned off a lot of users and it is still doing that. When I show the site to a potential new user, they always complain about the (default) comment design which is very confusing and frankly unusable.

Are you actually complaining that someone got a token of appreciation from a company while you get pretty much jack shit from your current company? Also it isn't that someone has an obligation to work there, one can always leave. I would take job security over job insecurity every time and I'm talking here as a guy who had to change 4 jobs in 7 years. I'm not talking about salary here, I presume Audi pays very well, and that is beside the point here.

IQ tests were invented at the turn of the 20th century to quickly sort out disadvantaged children who needed additional, special care in education. Later it was put on its head to somehow find "geniuses" and focus on those. As somehow those needed more help than anybody else...

I'm not sure what is the argument though, the population in my country actually dropped in last couple of decades.

As a guy born in Yugoslavia, I can say yes, there definitely was strong sense of community which included helping each other, your neighbour was/became your (sometimes) a best friend etc.

It even made sense. It was not even about renovations, it was about building houses as well. See, in the period of sixties to late seventies, there was a relatively big economic progress. A lot of industry was built factories/shipyards/refineries etc which needed a lot of workforce. So all of those companies built very affordable housing (it was almost free) and those who didn't want those (flats usually) they got land so they built houses on their own. All the building companies were building larger object, but people resorted to building their own houses. Usually, guys who were working professionally did most of the work when they were not at their job and masses of houses were made. Large parts of the cities and towns were made that way. So an average guy would learn from a professional how to say build a house, some other guy would learn how to wire electricity and then the knowledge would spread. There isn't a mistery in building a house, and the quality of the work was good to excellent (for the circumstances). I've never heard of a house collapse or such in the last 40 years.

On a sidenote, there was no such phrase as a "housing problem" we're having now. Houses were usually made by the government or yourself or some companies. And everyone had one. A lot of people had two (normal flat/house and a summer house on an island or in the mountains). If you were richer you might even had both summer houses.

This leads us to the present day, and the situation is shit. Building a house is extremely expensive as includes expensive material (not much better than the one used 40 years ago), endless expensive permits, land in a designated "building zone", certified architects and certified projects, certified companies (soft monopoly) for job X,Y...Z. The stuff gets really really expensive compared to an average salary here. So it is done only buy very rich or foreigners. Foreigners from say Germany or other countries have much much higher standard of living and have no trouble paying for those houses (which they do) and again raising prices for everyone else. You could ask a friend to help you to build something, but you dont' have permits and you will get in trouble sooner than later (unless you're a country-level politician).

Flats sold are mostly the same flats made in the seventies. If it is a newbuild than it is for the relatively rich or someone who is willing to take a 40 year bank loan. There is no other way.

What I wanted to point out, that the "modern, western" type of housing market we have only benefits the rich or foreigners, and it was intentionally made that way. Also the standard of living actually dropped in a generation. If you didn't have a fully paid up house of our own by your late twenties there really was something wrong with you. Also everyone had cars, and on the coast, everyone had a boat. Everyone worked, and nobody had to worry if the job they are doing will last into next month. People lived austere, but they lived, they didn't have to survive like today. So there is a lot of apathy, depression, and low morale. So no wonder neighbours don't even talk to each other anymore. I could write a book about this actually, there are so many reasons for everything=)

You can run wsl with conemu. And yes, works great.

And MIPS is in my opinion more marketing than anything. The very next day Trek announced their system, MIPS company claimed that Trek's system is basically rubbish (which they possibly couldn't even get their hands on).

MIPS is just an added slip plane between the helmet and the head which doesn't make sense to me. I've never seen a helmet strapped so hard to the head that it doesn't slip even a tiny amount, and also hair and skin will make the helmet slip a bit which makes MIPS totally redundant and I would say even more dangerous.

They are a shady company, they "invent" some BS, they partner up with some helmet manufacturer, push it for free probably, then market it up as the second coming of Safety, magazines start to review other helmets as "they lack MIPS/safety" and other manufacturers bend over and buy MIPS garbage not to seem like they ignore "safety". I applaud Kali and Trek for not giving in to those gangsters.

My dad bought couple of pairs from them and he's very happy with those glasses. The only problem is he has to have them delivered r to some non-croatian address because the customs won't let release them. If you order anything "medical related" it has to go through legalized monopolies over here =(

It is just a matter of having a guild/association. Those organizations raise the perceived value of their members. That's the reason doctors and lawyers are praised to high heaven (even though they can be complete and utter trash), while us "IT guys" are looked down at like nothing more that glorified plumbers. Everyone deserves same kind of respect, but that is another story.