Where the hell did he shoot at? Just horizontally along the street?! In the centre of a city?! I'd assume a warning shot is shot upwards so that it will most only be able to hit someone if they happen to be standing in one specific spot and not so that everything in the next couple hundred metres, including people inside the buildings behind the windows, are at risk.
Okay, the dude was pissed drunk, but shouldn't he still have some instinct of what the hell NOT to do with a gun?!
Just use something where you compile everything from sources in a way that just works, such as NetBSD. Not technically a distro, but whatever, should do the job just fine :)
Klarna can also be used for payments directly from your bank account. They probably didn't have another platform for handling that internationally. Much nicer than using a bank card for the payment!
(Well, okay: That site has elected to disable that feature. I tried choosing Helsinki, Finland as delivery location and payment by Klarna, and all I got was this:
Kiitos kun harkitsit Klarnaa
Arvostamme kiinnostustasi fiksumpaa maksutapaa kohtaan. Valitettavasti joustavat maksuvaihtoehtomme eivät ole juuri nyt saatavilla tällä alueella tai tälle valuutalle.
Tiedämme, ettei tämä ole paras mahdollinen tilanne, mutta toivomme pian tarjoavamme maksuvaihtoehtojamme useammissa paikoissa.
So, they don't want to use Klarna for what would actually be a fair and sensible thing, only for the bad stuff. Heh.)
Why does this work?
Or, more precisely: Why does the dirty plate cause this balling-up?
Nah, we in Finland tend to disagree.
My grandfather was evacuated from Karelia because Soviet Union occupied his hown town. And he would have deserved to get back to his childhood sceneries.
But now he's dead, of old age.
When I visited Karelia, I saw how everything was destroyed. It is one of the poorer parts of the Russia. Everything is incredibly derelict and rotten. You can kind of see some Finnish roots here and there in the architecture, but all in all, it's no longer reasonably salvageable. It would drain mad amounts of money to get Karelia into a condition suitable as human habitat. Countries have had different borders during the centuries. There's a certain time after which a change of borders is a fait accompli. I'd say that time is when the people who were at least 5-year-old during the beginning of the occupation have died of old age. So, some 80-ish years.
Also, we wouldn't be able to get Karelia back without its inhabitants. Because of the status of Swedish language in Finland (6 % speak it, and it's official an equal language with Finnish over here!) it would be almost impossible to not have tri-lingual street signs in Helsinki if we got all those Russians. The first parliamentary elections after the new territories would have joined would look completely alien to what we are used to.
It used to be the heart of Finland's industry. Viipuri used to be the cultural capital of Finland, more important for Finns of 1930's than L'viv is to Ukrainians of 2025. But the industry has been destroyed decades ago by mismanagement and the vibrant culture of Viipuri is dead for good.
I don't think much more than maybe 2 percent or so of Finns would want that land back. Maybe, if we only got some forests and fields and wouldn't need to think about what the hell to do with all those derelict villages? But otherwise: A strong no!
Where's this information from that people are complaining about night trains being axed even though they are not being axed are flying anyway? That contradicts my experiences. Usually you need to buy places in night trains a long time in advance because they tend to run full-booked.
Also, China has high-speed night trains.
We could do the same. The infrastructure is in place for a night train from Stockholm to Barcelona. I would leave around six and arrive around ten. China is doing that, why are we not?
Hamburg HBf is an extremely congested station. That means, it's difficult to find a slot for your train there and the risk of delays is especially high in Hamburg.
Also, at Hamburg HBf the train would need to be reversed, which takes some half an hour of time with a train that doesn't have a steering wagon in its other end.
This could be alleviated by running through the Hamburg-Harburg station, which is reachable from HBf by S-Bahn in a bit under 15 minutes, but by doing that, you lose a lot of the potential for changing trains from Scandinavia and Finland to this night train for Paris.
Even though for me personally a route through Hamburg HBf would be very welcome, I hope it won't go that way. It seems to be, all in all, much better for the European railway network that the train will take the more direct way from Berlin to Belgium.
In France the track usage fees are very high, and you need state support to be able to cover them. Germany, for example, doesn't give such subventions to night train companies.
European Sleeper can run to Paris because they have chosen a route where they minimize the kilometres run on French territory.
But indeed: Where are those lines really fighting closure? Currently all of Europe's night train wagons are in use, and if some connection is closed, the same amount of capacity (the same wagons) will appear elsewhere in Europe.
I don't think we'd be having trouble with the availability of wagons if things were as you claim.
Hamburg must be just a mix-up by the French reporter. Hannover must have been meant, I believe.
"Fedisser" says nothing to me. Anyone care to translate that word?
If there's any risk you might lose something you've printed while outside, it's very good if the material is biodegradable!
This lead me to wondering: Do the Fahrenheit people talk about sub-zero as well?!
I had never thought of that possibility. 0 degrees is just generally cold, but -17,778 degrees is already in the area of "seriously cold".