YMS

But Linux is a registered trademark, too.

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 Every single thing mentioned here has either been replaced by something better, or isn’t gone in the first place.

I don’t think it’s the passport thing. The differences between European passports are minor, so in that matter you surely could accept all EU nationalities. If you really want the best ones, then Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland are among the ones that bring you the farthest in the world, and those are not in the list, while Greece and Norway are less powerful passports, and the USA, Canada and Australia even less, and all of them are in the list.

https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php

Of course it could be one or multiple specific countries they want you to travel, but chances for that are low. Clearance sounds much more likely.

Die im Post angegebene URL zeigt auf ein anderes Bild als das Vorschaubild mit dem Ballonverbot. Es handelt sich um einen Wegweiser “Zu den Gleisen / 2 min”, unter dem jemand handschriftlich ergänzt hat “5 mit Gepäck”, dann “8 with baby” und (fast) zuletzt “10 min bekifft”.

Ziemlich lächerliche Sache, klar, aber doch eher News von vor über einem Jahr, oder?

He’s not the “bishop of a German city”, the Diocese of Regensburg spans a fourth quarter of Bavaria.

And then call it “critically important for everyone” when it only affects the users of one particular tool (which used to be popular 20 years ago, but is one a decline ever since).

Der dort erwähnte Eigentumsvorbehalt ist doch absoluter Standard in jedem 08-15-Kaufvertrag. Ich halte es für unwahrscheinlich, dass ein Handwerker, der einen Auftrag annimmt, der so groß ist, dass seine Existenzgrundlage in Gefahr gerät, wenn er nicht zeitig bezahlt wird, in so einem Fall auf den Eigentumsvorbehalt verzichtet.

I’ve been programming with lots of dumb people, and I’m particularly dumb myself, but if you really literally spend hours looking for missed semicolons, then you should give up programming no matter if this means more time for date nights or more time to look at the wall.

Best I can offer is a combined UI and logic class with 12,500 lines currently. It started out with less than 3,000 lines in the year 2000 (using the brand new Java 1.3), grew to 14,000 over time and survived our recent project-wide one-year cleanup project with only minor losses of code lines.

Wenn’s aber nur um den Rausch geht, fährst du mit Hochprozentigem besser. Es gibt keinen Grund sich literweise Bier reinzuquälen, wenn sich derselbe Rausch mit ein paar Centilitern Schnaps erreichen lässt. Schneller, billiger, im Zweifel besser schmeckend (also wem Bier zu herb ist…), geringere Mengen nötig. Scheint also, als sei der Geschmack von Bier für viele doch nicht sooo übel.