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[Dutchling]

I have a general question (mostly to Europeans, but I would be somewhat interested in answers from outside of Old World, too):

Is homeschooling legal in your country?

No, unless the parents cannot find a school nearby which is based on their beliefs.

It's extremely uncommon though.

[BlindKitty]

Yeah, the Wikipedia article is rather... Bland, and I was hoping for some more humane look on the matter.

[10ebbor10]

Operation Socialist

[smjjames]

Operation Socialist

Ouch, looks like NSA scale stuff. I wondered why the UK would want to hack a pretty broad telecomm company, until I saw that there are lots of top level officials who use it as well.

[Sergarr]

Seems like UK wants to get out of EU badly.

[Arx]

I have a general question (mostly to Europeans, but I would be somewhat interested in answers from outside of Old World, too):

Is homeschooling legal in your country?

I'm in South Africa, and yes. As far as I know, there aren't very many restrictions on it, but I was only homeschooled when I was too young to actually understand the paperwork and stuff. I can't even remember if I wrote exams or not.

[Graknorke]

Seems like UK wants to get out of EU badly.

Grumpy old men in pubs, and by extension UKIP, want out of the EU. Every other major party would rather not because they have some shreds of forward thinking and understanding of the country's situation.

[LordSlowpoke]

Seems like UK wants to get out of EU badly.

Grumpy old men in pubs, and by extension UKIP, want out of the EU. Every other major party would rather not because they have some shreds of forward thinking and understanding of the country's situation.

it's be better off of the union if the uk left so

ukip for president [next election year]

[olemars]

Some might remember that Germany made a law that had news aggregator sites (Google News, Yahoo, etc) paying newspapers for linking to their articles and showing snippets. Google News simply stopped linking to the relevant newspapers who in turn lost 90% of their traffic. Google News then got a waiver from the law from desperate publishers suddenly gaining lots of hindsight, essentially solidifying their position in Germany.

Last week, the Spanish newspaper publisher's association/lobby group AEDE successfully pushed a similar law that requires newspapers (whether they want to or not) to charge news aggregators like Google News for linking and showing snippets of their articles. Google's response was simply to shut down Google News Spain effective tomorrow, stating that they don't really have any income from the news aggregator anyway. Watch the lobby group who pushed the law in the first place now rushing to prevent Google from leaving.

[MarcAFK]

Google is in a rather strong position to use that kind of tactic, besides that it's rather obscene to try to remove fair use of media like that, if it weren't for articles being searchable from google I wouldn't visit even half the news sites I have been to, I would probably just be stuck on CNN, BBC, or Reuters (except for when my digging goes into random places like conspiracy sites or serious scientific articles.)

[Owlbread]

Grumpy old men in pubs, and by extension UKIP, want out of the EU. Every other major party would rather not because they have some shreds of forward thinking and understanding of the country's situation.

I am quietly hoping that the UK does actually vote to leave the EU because it would force an early vote on Scottish independence. That said, I really don't see it happening despite the opinion polls often showing a majority of support for leaving - after enduring the onslaught of the UK establishment (all the big corporations, supermarkets, political parties and so on) during the referendum campaign I don't think UKIP or the anti-EU parties have the intelligence or the strength to cope, unlike the SNP - the most successful political party of the last 10 years in Britain who actually lost.

[Sheb]

But then, what should Google do? Pay for those? If they don't make money from Google News, it doesn't make sense to pay for those articles. 
On the other hand, they still make money indirectly from keeping track of what you look at.

[Vilanat]

Google profit from this because if you use any of Google products, you are more likely to use Google search and Gmail, where they make their gazzilions and as you said, they can track your behaviour and tailor relevant ads. on the positive side, Google news have diversified the reading habits so smaller news sites can also get a nice share of the traffic where before people were more loyal to fewer news sites. maybe the big ones think they are big enough to bend google to indirectly block the smaller sites? if that's not the reason, then i am at lost here since it makes little sense to request payments for a service you should otherwise actually pay for.

[Erkki]

Today's newspaper had a medium-length article on Belgium's electricity issues - apparently 4 or 5 nuclear reactors that shouldnt be down are down for various reasons, the import capacity from France and Netherlands are at full capacity or near already and parts of the country(some cities) are advised to save electricity at certain hours.

How long as it been this bad, only now when the weather has gotten colder? Any signs of relief? 

[TD1]

Grumpy old men in pubs, and by extension UKIP, want out of the EU.

I'm not a grumpy old man, I'm a grumpy young man!

And dammit if I don't hate the taste of alcohol.