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Nokia and Ericsson

Okay I might actually try that with my cat, he likes to investigate my phone already

Someone recommend me cat games so I can install them for him

Every so often there are still stories that get enough traction to make the news of elusive big cats being spotted here (though I'm in Scotland rather than Ireland). We have also had a few real instances of non-native big cats (as in, cats substantially bigger than a house cat, not necessarily genus Panthera) being released intentionally or unintentionally that no doubt help fuel the stories, including a couple of lynxes earlier this year that are thought to have been someone's personal attempt to reintroduce them to Britain

The "caught shee" pronunciation is for the singular cat sìth or cat sí rather than the plural form given in the image

Microsoft, Google, and Apple do not make the kind of telecoms equipment that this is about. The big American companies in this field are Cisco and Qualcomm. The Chinese companies are major suppliers in Europe, the American ones aren't

Huh?

Traditional Western rivals such as Nokia and Ericsson have struggled to compete on price against Chinese firms due to the way they get partial funding from state backing.

"I'm definitely not a cop"

Funny you should say that, they actually caused one in Moscow just over a week ago (October 31st)

It seems to me like Ukraine is focussing its efforts on military targets and oil production, though. Russia's oil industry has been getting absolutely hammered, to the point where it has had to start importing fuel

I can't necessarily offer an answer here, but I can give you a bound at least. I was able to find this 1703 geography of the Kingdom of Naples that explicitly calls Italy a boot, so "some time before 1703" can be said for sure

Forma una Penisola, à guisa di uno Stivale, fi come l'Italia tutta fù meditata da Strabone, e da altri Geografi di rigo

Machine translated:

It forms a peninsula, like a boot, just as all of Italy was studied by Strabo and other renowned geographers.

I'm fairly sure the Strabo bit means "we've known it was this shape since Strabo" rather than "Strabo said it was boot-shaped"

To speculate a little more, I think the style of boot that Italy looks like started off as riding shoes developed in 10th century Iran (heels are good for staying in stirrups, apparently). If that is correct then it can't be earlier than the 10th century since there weren't boots that Italy looked like

Didn't they start handing blue checks to high-profile people that didn't ask for them? Some time soon after they immediately became a marker of accounts run by warped knobheads

I definitely don't think that they should be restricted, but I do find that weather significantly affects my tastes and some things are way better when specific ingredients are in season. I love cranachan but tend to go for it only when I can get good fresh raspberries, and I enjoy denser and heavier foods a lot more when I'm hiding from the cold

No. I don't know if this is where you heard the story from specifically, but certainly here in the UK it was basically a lie spread by pro-Brexit figures. There is an EU regulation on the shape of fruits, but it's only for classifying them; you can absolutely buy and sell funny-shaped fruit all you want. It's just an easy way for buyers that do actually care about perfectly-shaped fruit to find that, such as wholesalers