I’m not talking about you or me doing this. But Japan, China, the UK and the EU are holding trillions of US debt…

No, there are tools like “hex editors” that allow to edit a file in a more controlled way. I don’t think opening a binary file in notepad would do anything good to that file…

Oh, gosh. Details, please!

Well, a software (I.e. a. exe file) is a long list of numbers. Some are commands like “do something when the user clicks there”, some are data, like text on a button.

If you are very familiar with those intricacies, you can change a few bytes here or there to change what the program does.

The easiest way to deal with the US at this point is simply to drop US bonds on the market. That could easily destroy what Trump has not yet destroyed of the economy.

Just like Linux 20 years ago.

When I was still in school, I was the computer nerd. A doctor in town, who’s son was in my class, asked me to fix an annoyance he had with a software he used. He offered a generous compensation. It took me less than an hour to analyze and patch the program on the binary level. On a per hour base, I earned more money than he normally did…

Neil Gaiman. I’m afraid there won’t be a third season of Good Omens.

In other words: the idea of a battleship is as outdated as the idiot in the White House who had it.

It is better for rasterized images that are not photos. In most cases, SVG is better for drawings as such. As in “don’t even start this raszerizing shit”.

There are photos, where JPG is way better. On the other hand, I often use SVG for drawings, it simply scales way better. PNG is somewhere in the middle.

In Europe, the taxes are taken out of the game, not out of the prices. So the lottery pays out only half of the money taken in, but at least the cash price amounts are honest numbers.

Looks like Americans like to be pulled over in slices:

• Restaurant food, the menu lists prices, but you basically have to add the servers pay on top.

• Shopping, the price tags list product prices, but you have to add a number of taxes on top of it.

• Taxation, taxes are low, but you have to pay for a lot of things like health care and education through the nose.

More B=softer=darker, but also losing sharpness faster

More H=harder=lighter, but keeps its point longer.

I’ve got a range of pencils from 4B to 6H. Every pencil hardness has its use.

They go into hiatus to somehow find a way to defend pedophilia. Because it can’t be bad if Trump does it.

Or a gold-plated one.

Being catholic, I never heard bigger bullshit in my life. Is that an American thing?

You don’t need the ID that often here, either. You need it in conjunction with certain official acts or legal requirements, be it for openng a bank account or voting.

I only had to show my ID to the police three times in my life. Two times as accompanying ID for the driving licence, and once when I accidentally drove my bike into a locked down high security area through a little known shortcut…

Here, the federal level ID card is simply something to carry in your wallet, along with the driving licence. We have no state level IDs. The driving licence is not considered an ID document on its own.

Having or carrying around a bulky passport is not necessary. You only need it for visiting countries outside the EU.

But now you know about the “supposed to have” part. I prefer having my ID card in my wallet, but not having to be afraid to be randomly abducted by the KKK in uniform.

That’s why I’m happy to live in a civilized country.