I was a kid from a small town in '80s Poland (the poorest part of it). The local secondary school had a whole Elwro-equipped classroom.
Many of my friends had 8-bit computers: the first one I encountered in 1986 was a ZX Spectrum, owned by my friend whose father worked in UK. I recall visiting classmates between 1986-89 and playing for hours on their Spectrums, C64s and Ataris (800XL, 65XE). The local community centre had Atari 520ST (or maybe two?) and it was available for the local kids to play with.
I estimate that in '89 my town of 5k had at least 20 computers.
Pegasus arrived in 1991 but many of the 8-bit owners already upgraded to Amigas, which were really common in my area.
I am in the same situation. Sometimes I wonder if I should have responded to a bit higher offer sent by someone who possibly was a super wealthy Saudi kid (I am talking racing-lambos-in-the-desert-rich kind).
In 2016 someone figured out how to successfully repeatedly reset the password without my knowledge (via support maybe?). But since my e-mail was not compromised they didn't manage to change the password (or I was quick enough to set it again before they executed some second step of their scheme). I upgraded the security measures to 2FA and some insanely long password and it ceased.
Since November 2020 I am subjected to a brute-force attack - someone is trying to log in and I am getting an email notification about it each time. In the beginning it was once every five (!) minutes, later every 15 minutes. It went like this for over a year, now it seems to be throttled with emails arriving once every few days.
I am suprised that for such a long time Instagram didn't implement anything to counter such activities.
Unit 3 was just behind a wall, but 1 and 2 were quite far away (300-500m).
They all had multiple serious incidents before and after the Chernobyl Disaster (1982 - partial core meltdown at #1, 1984 - incidents at #3 and #4, 1991 - fire at the turbine hall of #2). This was the most unsafe nuclear power plant in the whole USSR and the operators were in grave danger all the time.
I just checked the scan "confirming" that it is accepted by Poland and that proof is a temporary 14 day visa issued in June 1990 in Berlin embassy by a 65y old communist diplomat/spy (according to publicly available documents). With a stamp of "Polish People's Republic" - a name that was changed to "Republic of Poland" at the end of 1989. I guess that was a moment in time where anyone in that embassy could happily stamp an outdated visa on anything for $50.
The most spectacular example of regenerative braking are trains that are used in Scandinavia, heavily loaded with iron ore that is transported to the coast:
"In Scandinavia the Kiruna to Narvik electrified railway carries iron ore on the steeply-graded route from the mines in Kiruna, in the north of Sweden, down to the port of Narvik in Norway to this day. The rail cars are full of thousands of tons of iron ore on the way down to Narvik, and these trains generate large amounts of electricity by regenerative braking, with a maximum recuperative braking force of 750 kN. From Riksgränsen on the national border to the Port of Narvik, the trains use only a fifth of the power they regenerate. The regenerated energy is sufficient to power the empty trains back up to the national border. Any excess energy from the railway is pumped into the power grid to supply homes and businesses in the region, and the railway is a net generator of electricity." (via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_brake#Conversion_... )
They licensed the browser for devices like set-top boxes and similar devices. There was also money coming from Google (for using it as a default search engine).
I guess they had also some business model built around Opera Mini and relations with mobile providers.
Some EU member states (Hungary, Poland) are very much against handing over any diplomatic power to the High Representative. Hungarian government is basically acting as a Putin proxy here and Polish ruling party feeds on constant conflict.
„The Common Foreign and Security Policy […] deals only with a specific part of the EU's external relations, which domains include mainly Trade and Commercial Policy and other areas such as funding to third countries, etc”
This is a published rule of Belorussian airspace. If there is a terrorist threat onboard a plane in it the plane cannot leave the airspace and must land in Belarus.
I don’t know if this is a common rule or not. Maybe it was intentionaly established for situations like this?
Why the table? Just place the tablet on your laps and use both hands (vigoriously ;).
There are many techniques - the advanced players use most of their fingers constantly. Touch controls could be very elaborate and precise.