In Germany the law regarding foldable knives is summed up as such: If it can be opened with one hand AND is lockable, it’s banned, regardless of length.

It can be lockable, or it can be opened with one hand, but not both of these features at the same time.

But that doesn’t lead to a general permission. Other restrictions might apply as well, due to some other characteristics. There’s just a specific ban for lockable knives with a one-handed opening mechanism. And since there are varying sizes and features of Swiss army knives, you’d have to judge them based on the specific model.

But again: this is specific to Germany. Even different EU countries have sometimes very different laws.

88, because it covers visually impaired better. That higher contrast pays off. But I remember you could do some color theming for the 98 version, so maybe it couldve been fixed in that regard. And I agree on the design being generally easier to understand.

You probably haven’t, but the reasons why are actually still a bit more complicated.
Having a typical Swiss army knife on you usually isn’t a problem. But the afore mentioned designated areas are often found around train stations, especially in larger cities, and a few years ago the law designated vehicles and areas of public transport as such areas per se.
That’s one scenario, where you might end up getting in trouble completely unaware.

Again, there are exemptions, that should enable you to take your Swiss army knife on the train and travel with it, without getting in trouble. But the phrasing is pretty wishy washy still. One exemption, for example, allows carrying knives for “generally accepted purposes”, whatever that is.

In theory, you should be perfectly fine travelling with a small pocket knife, but no guarantee, that the individual law enforcement officer would accept your purpose of transport and travelling. So you better make sure, you look white and at least middle class enough…

And god forbid, you actually end up in a situation, where you’d have to use said knife in self-defense and hurt someone. You might end up having to defend your purpose of carrying a knife in the first place in court.

Can’t tell you how it is in the UK, but here in Germany, you’re only allowed to carry knives with short blades (<= 12 cm, IIRC) in public, anything larger than that has to be stowed away safely, so that it cant be reached easily. A locked container would be ideal, but the precise definition is a bit wishy washy, and there are also designated areas, where even the small ones are not allowed (or fall under the same restrictions. I’m not really sure).

Furthermore, there are knives, which are just generally outlawed depending on their construction; like spring-loaded knives and butterfly knives, for example.

If there are at least similar regulations in the UK, the Sikh’s ceremonial daggers, could fall into a category that would usually be banned, but with an exemption for religious reasons.

Some of the rules here are a bit silly, imho, but the fact, that we don’t treat a small paring knife the same as an army combat knife at least makes sense to me.

There are some cases, were it could be justified. But if you’re just trying to be a PITA: Get forked!

I have trouble keeping up a reading habit, but I’ve read 5/6ths of the Lord Of The Rings over the last year. Just can’t seem to find the time/motivation to finish it, although I quite enjoyed it and I expect Tolkien to focus even more on the inner struggle of the ringbearer in the final book. That was the biggest advantage of reading the books thus far, over watching the movies.

Apart from that I’ve read the German Romantic (as in era) novella “Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts” by Eichendorff. But despite it checking the boxes for that era and adding to my canon of bourgeois education, it didn’t give me much. It was rather shallow lighthearted entertainment.

But I guess you could say I lean towards the classics. I don’t know if I’d recommend it, for finding stuff that is actually good. But skimming through modern books in my library, I’m often already put off by their covers.

Lawsuits are always interesting to verify that Libre licenses can actually preserve software freedom.

The case isn’t as crystal clear, as you’d expect, in my opinion. Although I see ONLY OFFICE acting against the spirit of the license.

They want me to use a government controlled web based office suite?

It’s even a fork of ONLYOFFICE, a Russian developped office suite, might be relevant info for you, if you want baseless paranoia.

It’s an open-source codebase, licensed under AGPLv3. That’s pretty neat, if you ask me. And being web-based it fills a bit of a different niche, than Libre Office (and I bet it will be pretty compatible). Nobody’s gonna stop you from using that, except the same people who would’ve formerly chained you to MS Office.

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I read it as un-ionised and didn’t make a lot of sense.

Thank you for the detailed explanation. The part with the colon threw me off the most here. I’m glad you called it abusing, too. So I don’t have to feel so bad for not knowing that.

Thank you, kind inernet stranger!

Can someone decipher that headline for me, pls?

I’m not a native Enolish speaker, but usually Iconsider my skills to be passable. But headlines just throw me off completely sometimes. it just doesn’t follow the same rules.

I don’t know either. But in this case, the combination of insider trading and the power to create the circumstances that enable your gains in the firstplace is absolutely nefarious.
Especially since it’s combined with a complete disregard for any collateral damage.

That might also differ by location.

Is it though? The thing about torrenting afaik is, that you’re not downloading only but also uploading. The latter is the illegal part, even if you own a legal copy.

Sometimes you have better luck running old Windows stuff on Linux through WINE than on modern Windows. And sometimes you don’t, it really depends.

And have the numbers spaced 2.5 minutes apart?! MADNESS!

Well, time measurement and the division of the day into 12/24 hours is of course entirely a human concept and thus a bit arbitrary and made up, so yes, you could divise a system with 8 hour splits, sure.

But the 12-hour system makes sense as soon as you buy into the 1 hour = 60 minutes convention and split that up into 5-minute blocks. There are 12*5minutes in an hour, so after 12 hours your hour and minute hand reach the same position again, thus the reset.

That doesn’t work so well with 8 hours, because you’d have to divide the hour into 60/8=7.5 minute blocks, which is pretty awkward.

Or you’d have to define the hour as having 64 minutes and divide it into 8*8 minutes blocks. And theres a dualist religion in my favorite fantasy RPG world, that would award you sainthood if you did that, but that’s not the world we live in.

You’ve never seen an analog clock?

That’s where it comes from, and that’s where it makes perfect sense. (An 8 hour reset wouldn’t) No need to carry that over to digital clocks however.