People in Germany will usually pay for their groceries either with debit card ("EC card") or in cash. Anything small, take-awayish is almost always paid with cash and people look at you funny if you ask if you can pay with credit card or other similar new fangled stuff. I don't know about the Swiss, but we Germany sure do love our cash way too much. I went on several business trips to Sweden and the difference in culture when it comes to paying for stuff is huge. A Swedish business contact related a story of how she ended up holding a weird piece of metal at the end of a business transaction and it took her a while of research to find out that was normal Swedish coinage that had been in circulation for years - and she'd never seen it because she and her coworkers never use cash for anything. It was as hard for them to understand our love of cash as it was for us to understand their love for cashless payment. I think the reason we love cash so much is two fold: for one we love us our privacy and hate if people keep track of our spendings (or anything else in fact) and also there's this sense that if civilization ends tomorrow, then cash is probably more use than phone-based micropayment systems. It's the bird in the hand, so to speak.

This is more of the same. More rules that everyone will blissfully ignore. No punishment for anyone. Why do you think so many countries agreed? Because it's just a feel-good empty gesture, nothing more.

I mean, c'mon, easy. It's where we all come from, no matter what race color or creed!

Do you actually play MMOs? These guys tend to spam their godl sales any which way they can, flooding your inbox and every chat they can access. Pretty damn annoying.

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[ ] omgomgomg I can't wait!
[ ] I'm somewhat excited, and I know what this is all about
[ ] Wait, I don't even have a "smart" phone
[x] wtf are you drivelling on about?

I love it when people make really stupid assumptions based on their own fanboy experiences :)

It was on the radio here, at 5am, and I was still half asleep. I only heard Clinton, running-mate and Cain, and I thought she had picked John McCain as running mate.

I thought that was terribly terribly clever of her...

Cisco basically says you can use Open Source software on your device (the one you're manufacturing) as long as it's not something like GPL3-licensed. Because that would require you to make the software updatable for the user. Their opinion has no bearing on using the likes of OpenWRT or derived AP offerings. None at all.

Anyone who's actually taken a closer look at the relevant FCC regulation (or its equally restrictive ETSI counterpart) will struggle to come up with ways to fully comply with this regulation without locking down the firmware. If you have a WLAN chip that has efuses/internal EEPROM that contain country settings, and if the chip reads them instead of the driver, then all is good. In every other case, it's very difficult.

Of course, neither FCC nor ETSI care about that at all. And manufacturers will probably come up with intentionally lousy ways to lock down their firmware because they still want to sell their products and nobody really wants the default firmware :p

Not true in all cases. Here for example you always have both traffic lights and the usualy signs in case the traffic lights are out.

Where then? I'm curious :)

Most? Absolutely not. This, from my personal experience, is definitely false. Most roads have lines. They just don't bother with some rural roads that don't see much usage and that're in such bad condition that nobody in their right mind would speed there anyway.

Have you ever seen a busy intersection where the traffic lights are out due to a malfunction? Flows better? In your dreams. The result is total chaos and traffic jams.

He should have been made to wait much longer. If you compare the size of a Tesla car with that of an iPhone and if you consider the lines of people forming in front of the Apple store and the waiting times involved every time a new model is released, well, he should've been made to wait in line a few weeks! Bad marketing! Baaaaaaaaaaad!

Wow I really want some of what you're smoking! :D

Lol, yeah that's why I drive one :D Nice try, utter fail. Besides, the current "diesel crisis" is not about particulate output, it's about NOx. Try doing your homework before calling people names :)