In Germany and Austria, there was a tax on salt for cooking until recently (1993 and 1995, respectively). To avoid that people buy the cheap road salt and use it for cooking, such a bitter component was actually added, usually magnesium chloride (sometimes also capsaicin).
Many German sources still say you shouldn’t eat road salt for that reason, so maybe this is still done (though it is of course possible, that those sources are just outdated).
Scott E. Fahlman proposed using :-) and :-( to mark jokes and not-jokes respectively in internet posts in 1982, and they (and lots of variations) have been in use ever since. IBM’s Codepage 437 character set (as used by the original PC) had two dedicated smiley characters even before that.
There was no golden age of the internet where there were no emoticons.
Born in the early 80s, the 90s been my youth. Reading through the comments here I realize there’s nothing I miss from the 90s. Every single thing mentioned here has either been replaced by something better, or isn’t gone in the first place.
According to Wikipedia, they were arrested 3 years ago, not 5. Of the 9 people arrested, 2 were released after 3 days, the other 7 were charged, but only 1 of them was still kept detained after “a few months”, and he was released for health reasons in April (though he still is charged).
2,671 Mrd. in vier Jahren, also 667 Mio. im Jahr. Viel Geld (und stolze 8,2% der Rundfunkgebühren), aber ich würde es schon noch deutlich weniger als 1 Mrd. nennen.
Ehm, no? Didn’t you read the article? Trump knows someone who says he’s the most honest person in the world! So obviously he is not lying.
Is there really not a single answer saying “I would rather not make everybody’s lives more inconvenient just because I could”?
If there would be the kind of budget you’re talking about, they’d just buy a house, or rather three (one to live in, two to rent out, to re-finance the other one) and that whole question would be obsolete.
but is a given that the more expensive the wedding is, the shorter the marriage might be.
So have a dead cheap wedding and the marriage will last forever?
Also eher der theoretische Darwin Award - “wenn er dies und jenes anders gemacht hätte, dann hätte es passieren können, dass…”.
The search warrant was issued in January and the data was handed over in February. No X in sight there.
A 13 years old game being ported to 10 years old consoles; not exactly what I would consider world news.
Traurig wieso? Weil der Flug so billig ist oder weil sich eine Airline erdreistet, auf einem Flug mit vermutlich ca. 150 Gästen Erdnüsse im Wert von 168 Euro verfügbar zu halten?
Dann nenn es halt “geringfügige Verspätung” (wobei 5 Minuten halt schon bedeuten können, dass der Anschlusszug weg ist*, dann ist nix mehr mit geringfügig), aber nicht “pünktlich”.
(*: Dem versucht die Bahn ja entgegenzuwirken indem die eigenen Fahrplanauskünfte und Ticketbuchungen Anschlussverbindungen mit weniger als zehn Minuten Umsteigezeit ignorieren. Weil man schnelleres Umsteigen eben auch mit einem “pünktlichen” Zug ggf. nicht mehr schafft.)
64% der Fernzüge der Deutschen Bahn sind pünktlich, vorausgesetzt natürlich man setzt den Pünktlichkeitsbegriff der Deutschen Bahn zugrunde, nachdem jeder Zug mit weniger als 6 Minuten Verspätung noch als pünktlich gewertet wird.
https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen_fakten/puenktlichkeitswerte-6878476?
Blink has a younger code base that’s easier to build on. Gecko has been around since the early 90s and has some ancient evils lurking deep within.
They both are of very similar age actually. The old Netscape rendering engine originated in the early 90s, but Gecko was a rewrite from scratch that was first used in a browser in 1998.
Blink is based on KHTML which is based on khtmlw, which was written at some point in the mid-90s, but as well saw a complete rewrite in 1999.
Yeah, an article with such a headline should be banned from all news-themed communities since 2016 at the very latest, when he proclaimed that autonomous driving is a solved problem.
I thought he should be beat up and arrested?!?
Together with Greece, they were the first country to join after the 12 founding members - years before Germany and decades before Spain and the other half of the current NATO members.
Gesamtwert laut anderen Artikeln: 554 Euro. Also 3 Euro das Kilo. Definitiv eher Scheibletten als Parmesan.