It’s been a long road getting from there to here.
I hate their current abhorrent nationalism and imperialism, but their anthem is kinda great.
It’s the famous “As long as your not Google, Amazon or Apple” licence.
Plot twist: OPs father actually works at the United States Mint (but in an office job)
Worked shortly as a bike delivery guy for a small independent German bookstore. They did deliveries in the small town and you could order books by phone or email. The atmosphere in the shop was chill. The owner was an old really well-read hippie, who was really friendly.The pay was rather shit but I’d say it was overall a good job.
Under the GDPR, employers in the EU can only monitor employees’ work emails if it is necessary, proportionate, and serves a legitimate purpose, such as ensuring compliance or security. Employees must be informed about the monitoring in advance, and clear policies should be in place to respect transparency and consent requirements. Any monitoring must also balance the employer’s business interests with the employees’ right to privacy, ensuring minimal intrusion. Some countries like Germany have really strict interpretations of how to apply the GDPR here.
I usually eat a simple Porridge, but if I want to make something fancy on a weekend I make pancakes for my family.
Yeah but people are highly aware of it and there is even a disclaimer in Email Signatures that everything is tracked. If you are dealing with government ministries in European countries some of the (unofficial) information exchange is done without written record, either at in-person conferences or even through non-work phones.
Highly illegal in the EU. Also highly stupid everywhere else. The big question is “How secure is your user espionage system and can an outsider get acces?”. The data from something like this is a social engineering goldmine.
The one recommended by the health insurance companies kills you early and fast after your pay-in period without causing large healthcare costs.
Haha, but my only intrusive thought is that the wizard cat is a cute chonker
It’s Twilight Zone, but only the twists
You’re taking a vacation from normalcy. The setting, a weird motel where the bed is stained with mystery, and there’s also some mystery floating in the pool. Your key card may not open the exercise room because someone smeared mystery on the lock, but it will open… The Scary Door.
Smoking was discovered independently in many cultures with different substances used by different cultures. In the Americas, it was tobacco, while the Scythians of Central Asia used cannabis in ritualistic hotboxes, as evidenced by archaeological finds of smoking tools in kurgans. Other regions, like India and Southeast Asia, saw the smoking of opium and herbs.
In this scenario Lenin does not manage to take over Russia and the warning to the world by the real life examples of Germany and Italy about the dangers of fashism does not happen either. Authoritarianism raises its ugly head later in a world with better weapons and more destructive potential for humanity.
We knew well enough that a pandemic was a realistic risk and had SARS-1 and MERS as warning shots but we’re still not very well prepared at the outset of COVID.
It is one of this places that were built by anarchists without any license and look, smell and feel quite funky. The audience though is really nerdy. So the closest that comes to mind is a Hacker space in a large European city.
Well, here we go again! The internet was supposed to be freedom, but now it’s just a playground for Big Brother and corporate greed. Y’all see this Y2K “bug”? IT’S NOT A BUG, it’s a SCAM to reset everything and put us under CONTROL! Bill Gates, Al Gore, ALL of ‘em are in on it. Soon, you won’t be able to load a page without the Feds watching you.
Wake UP, people! You think AOL and Micro$oft care about “innovation”? LOL. It’s all about taking over! AOL’s already bought up Netscape! What’s next, paying to send an email? Think your ICQ is private? LOL, it’s government spyware!
And don’t get me started on the mods here. I see you silencing REAL posts about how the UN is behind all this. Keep banning me, I’ll be back! They wanna control speech before the big RESET. Mark my words, the internet will be a corporate mall by 2005, and y’all will pay just to read THIS.
P.S. If this post vanishes, you know why. I SEE YOU, MODS!
Fine, Free bird it is.