I did not say you were unskilled or that police were skilled. Everything is relative.

I checked training time at for some of the occupations that OP mentioned. I don’t live in the US so ymmv.

Car mechanic: 1 year. Painter: 1 year. Chef: 70 weeks. Plumber: 60 weeks.

Extra because you mentioned it: Police is 2 years in the school bench and 6 months of on the job training.

How long was your training as a waiter?

None of what you describe are unskilled labor. The term I’d use is tradesmen.

Unskilled would be cleaners, grocery clerks, waiters etc.

No.

1. It’s already a bit too short to reach the sofa in the living room.

2. Even if it did, why? If my neighbors did the congestion would possibly decrease. They don’t know how and if I touch their stuff I’m doomed to be their perpetual tech support.

Yeah I think everyone knows it’s a bubble. Some think they will get off before it pops, and I don’t care, like I said I bought it to be happy either way.

I bought European defense stocks so I get happy whatever he says.

Jokes aside about 30k maybe? Not sold anything and I did not care enough to check. Hopefully he does not get to stay in office for another 4 years. I’ll just buy more meanwhile.

Using a chain saw to hammer in nails is always going to be shit no matter who designed the chainsaw.

It’s the wrong tool for the job on desktops.

My girlfriend changed to her grandfathers name because she hate her father.

Not in any way related to the US or their laws.

A splash of oil and vinegar makes the salad taste much better.

Having a swig from the bottle would be unpleasant.

No, met up with some friends living in Birmingham.

Most friendly: Namibia probably.

Least friendly: UK.

Some context: Live in Scandinavia, and been in all those countries. Other countries I’ve been to: Chile, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium (technically, walked across the border from Netherlands), Austria, South Africa, Zambia, Kazakstan.

Napalm Death - You suffer.

I personally think it drags on a bit too long for karaoke.

2 or 4 depending on how strict you are.

Only if you draw a face on it and marry it.

I’ve tried a dozen ways.

All diets work, if you stick to them.

Try a few and go with the one you find easiest to stick with.

Long term you’ll have to figure out how to change your habits if you don’t want to stick on the diet forever. Or you’ll regain it again.

LibreOffice, OpenOffice compete with the office suite. Google docs is American but is a big competition with the online variant of office.

Linux and to some extent BSD compete with windows. Munich, Germany had a project to switch away from windows in favor of Linux. Or got cancelled after some other guy got elected, I don’t know the details.

There are a dozen cloud storage competitors. But that is something Microsoft is not dominating the market at anyway.

The government won’t care about gaming but the public opinion would turn against the xbox and windows, which would cause Sony and Nintendo to celebrate.

Yes, technically they could cause massive disruptions. Not likely they will.

1. They would not get paid.

2. Europe would suddenly have a very good reason to spend billions of euro on funding competitors.

Sounds like it would require a huge amount of reverse engineering and during the process you don’t have a usable car.

At work we run some software that while you can get it to run under Linux it’s not worth the effort even for me to bother.

One supplier is slowly moving towards the runtime being available on BSD at least. They also somewhat decoupled from visual studio in the latest release, while still being mandatory still it’s a step in the right direction.

Books don’t emit light in the visible spectrum so it does not make it easier on the eyes in low light conditions.

Historically it’s also cheaper because paper is some shade of white and it’s cheaper to not soak the page in ink.