Thanks to Patrick Breyer for reporting on this and techradar for picking it up. I wish the Pirate Party get more people into the parliament next election, so they can influence against such surveillance legislation.

Lets hope that the representatives of the countries have some common sense and vote against this. Or that they at least remember that Signal and Whatsapp said that they will be forced to leave the European market and that their voters will surely remember who was responsible for that.

To explain this to the uninitiated: (First follow another explanation of the original combo)

In Magic spells are not in effect immediately, instead they go on the stack, before they are resolved. Spells from a stack are resolved in LiFo order, so last in, first out. Instants, like Gut Shot, can be put on the stack at any time by any player (simplified).

So Enemy gets his 21 mana with channel, you let that resolve, he has 1 life. He pumps it all into the fireball, now you act. While fireball is on the stack you cast Gut Shot, paying with 2 life of your 20. It goes on the stack. Your enemy hopefully has no response, without any mana left in his pool, and he looses his last life and the game.

When a player looses the game all his spells are removed from the stack, so you really win and there is no draw.

You stopped his combo with 4 cards worth unreal amounts of money with a single card worth about 50ct.

Also she herself said that Otto Hahn deserved the Nobel prize. She and Otto Frisch (far kess known than she is!) did the theoretical work regarding the physics behind it.

But Pauli got the physics prize that year, and he sure deserves it. Maybe one of the later prices could have been awarded to her.

If you have solar panels you can turn on appliances or compute intensive tasks if they produce power.

If you have humidity problems, an alarm can remind you if aerating makes sense. If you additionally have a bad landlord you can prove you aerated three times per day and still mold did grow, so he has to fix something!

If you have a home theatre one button can dim the lights, turn on the TV, and close the blinds.

You can have your motion controlled floor lights only turn on red in the night.

Small things which are in total useful.

With HomeAssistant its easy to do without any cloud connection.

Ich habe in der Kindheit alle Bücher verschlungen die mir in die Hände kamen, darunter auch Kindergeschichten und schließlich ein erster richtiger Science Fiction Roman.

Der Titel an den in mich erinnere ist “Die roten Wälder der Venus”, aber so finde ich nichts im Netz. Es ging darum, dass Menschen auf der Venus sind in einer Schutzkuppel und sich nur für Kurze Ausflüge raustrauen, da die Vegetation die Schutzanzüge schnell angreift. Vor den Wäldern soll man sich besodners in Acht nehmen. Die Hauptperson traut sich (ob begründet oder nicht, weiß ich nicht mehr) irgendwann die Wälder zu erkunden und dort irgendwann den Anzug auszuziehen.

Fall irgendjemand das Buch findet, bin ich ihm dankbar. Sogar das Cover habe ich noch recht genau im Kopf. unten die Kuppel, ein oder ein paar Menschen die neben ihr stehen, darüber die roten Wälder und über diesen ein gelber einheitlicher Himmel.

Dann folgten Universum ohne Ende (Poul Anderson), Stargate SG-1 im Fernsehen und zahlreiche Stephen Baxter Romane.