But such a system is not yet in place right? They would have to set up something ad-hoc to keep track of licence plates and how much they fueled up at each petrol station around the country, which seems like something you cannot realistically pull off on the short term.
So it is basically the honour system? I wonder how effective that would be against fuel tourism from Austria
I wonder whether they have a mechanism of enforcing the “per day” part of that limitation.
What is stopping someone from driving to one petrol station, filling up 50L, and then driving to a different petrol station to fill up another 50L?
undoubtedly criminal origin
What makes you so convinced it is a bill of criminal origin? To my knowledge Germany is generally still a cash-nation, moreso than other European countries
And many shops don’t accept 200 or 500 euro notes at all
This entirely depends on where in the world you are from.
The English-speaking world generally refers to America as two continents.
The Spanish-speaking world generally refers to America as one continent.
Neither are correct, both are correct.
It’s still a good thing that they are adhering to the rulings of the European Court of Justice.
There are other European countries which I don’t expect to do the same thing (cough… Hungary… cough…)
I think the majority of people at this point don’t have a computer with a CD / DVD burner anymore. And at least over here the supermarket also does not sell blank CDs / DVDs anymore.
Most people would have to go out of their way to acquire the means to burn their own CDs
And that is the tactic commonly used to slowly boil the frog.
Japan and the US during WW2 were not allies. They were enemies.
That is pretty much why Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in the first place.
Today the US and Japan today are allies, however.
The two situations are not exactly comparable. You shouldn’t treat your allies like you treat your enemies
Africa, Asia, and South America
So we are not counting North-America, where the ICE raids continue then?
While other NATO countries may have sustained their switch to renewables, we are not free from our dependence on oil and gas yet. And unlike the US which is a net-exporter of fossil fuels, Europe is a net-importer.
This looming energy crisis is also seriously affecting European countries.
I believe there are two main reasons why European countries are not keen on helping the US out of this:
It also would have been helpful if the US involved us in the plans to start a war with Iran, as allies on an equal footing. But instead the US unilaterally (or together with Israel I guess) decided to bomb the Ayatollah, expecting the European vassals to just fall in line.
“This is not our war”
The term “AI” is vague and used too liberally imo.
When people talk about AI, they generally refer to Large Language Models (LLMs), which is what ChatGPT, Mistral, etc are.
Most accurate machine translation is not that. It’s a different approach to machine learning that has been around in some capacity or another for a long time.
In the Netherlands you do get taught in drivers ed to use a painted bikelane as a turn-lane if allowed (dashed line instead of solid line) and if safe (you aren’t running someone off their bike in the process)
The idea is that you use the car to block cyclists from unexpectedly overtaking you on the right, reducing the chances of hitting a cyclist accidentally. It forces cyclists to overtake you on the left instead.
Important to note that you are not allowed to stop in the bike lane while doing so, and that cyclists going straight have right of way over cars turning right.
It would seem that the sweet spot for HDDs is as high as 16 to 24 TB at the moment (at least here in the Netherlands).
You can get a 24TB Seagate Barracuda for €479,- right now, which comes out to about €20 / TB.
If you specifically want a NAS drive though the best “bang for the buck” appears to be a 28TB Seagate IronWolf Pro for €688,- coming out to about €25 / TB.
Edit: Personally I run 8TB drives in my server, which are currently €209,- (€26 / TB) for a regular Seagate Barracuda, and €289 (€36 / TB) for a Seagate IronWolf Pro. Funnily enough 4TB drives would actually be better for NAS drives at €132,90 (€33 / TB) for a WD Red Plus.
There is no real clarification what that budget is, so I will assume that the budget is tight.
My advise is assuming that you are looking for the best bang for the buck.
The case looks like a good option, assuming that those are 3.5 inch bays.
It should give you plenty of space for expansion in the future if you want to do that
RAM prices are pretty nuts right now, so I would definitely not go balls to the wall with 128 GB of RAM.
16 GB of RAM should be more than plenty for a NAS server. Maybe you can even get away with 8GB?
I’m using 16 GB of DDR3 RAM in my own NAS server (which is also running Jellyfin and Nextcloud) and it’s running fine.
Speaking of DDR3… Have you considered buying your CPU, motherboard and RAM second hand?
From what I hear the prices of DDR3 RAM are not nearly as elevated as those of DDR4 and DDR5 RAM, and DDR3 is plenty sufficient for a simple NAS.
Be sure not to skimp on the power supply. Most consumer power supplies are not built for running a NAS worth’s of HDDs.
I’m running a Corsair RM550x in my server, which is capable of supplying 130W on the 5V rail.
Good luck with your server build!
In terms of hobbies I would say photography, videography, generally messing around with computers and other electronics.
I also enjoy casually cycling and driving, as well as traveling to see new places in general. Usually I combine that with the photography and videography.
Oh my bad, I completely misunderstood what you were saying. I read your comment as saying we should not be looking to obtain nuclear weapons because it’s ancient tech, instead looking for diplomacy.
I do think that collaborating with France is a good first step towards quickly rebuilding the nuclear ubrella that was lost with the US falling away as an ally. It gives us time to breathe while we look at maybe building our own nuclear arsenals.
Nuclear weapons are still an exteremely effective deterrent.
Diplomacy is great, but if you can’t defend yourself, more powerful and aggressive nations will take advatage of you.
Europe used to be under the American nuclear umbrella until recently, but with Trumps antagonism we can no lonnger rely on that.
France is offering their nuclear arsenal to act as the nuclear umbrella in America’s place.
If it is per gas station they could hypothetically require gas stations to individually keep track of licence plates and how much they fueled up in their own bookkeeping. See the same licence plate twice in a day? They don’t get to fuel up.
That way they could also enforce the rules by randomly checking ledgers
Edit: As for the fuel tourism, I’m not sure if banning the transport of fuel is enforceable. The EU has free movement of goods and people, so it is perfectly allowed to buy your petrol across the border.
As a historical parallel, back in 1973 the Dutch government rationed the sale of petrol by distributing fuel stamps. The consequence was that in the border regions people just went to fuel up in Germany where the petrol was not rationed.