doctor0710

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Ah yes, let's just give in to the far right conspiracy theory...

~80% of both countries' land is used for agriculture. Hail was the biggest cause of crop loss for decades, the systems in place are warranted. Also these are not the only countries to have hail prevention systems, almost all European countries have their own different or similar systems. Also these are not in use when there are no storm clouds or no hail is forecasted (we barely had any precipitation at all this year). The only thing that's fueling speculations like this is pure ignorance....

Yes, it's a silver-iodine based thing, it prevents ice from forming in too big chunks.

I'm originally from Serbia though, they have a bit more primitive system, they fire up some very loud "fireworks", the pressure waves are powerfull enough to pulverize the larger chunks into smaller ones.

They sometimes also provide alternative versions of games. I was very happy to buy Kane and Lynch (1 and 2), but the co-op feature is missing (both local and online). I guess that part was licensed differently or something

I've been very happy with Netcup too as a European VPS provider. They have a coupon until the 17th if you decide to go with them, I think it applies 7EUR off of a purchase above 7EUR: netcupSpring26

As for throttling of the VPN traffic from the ISP side, that's hard to say. Theoretically it's possible they are doing deep packet inspection to specifically target VPN traffic, which would work through different ports, but I'd think that's overkill. Maybe they're doing it by protocol and just throttling UDP traffic, which would be easier, but I don't know how to confirm that with mullvad.

Ooh, Australia, I have a question. Was PalTalk a big thing over there? Obviously way after what you described. I remember my father having an old classmate over from Australia and he introduced us to "The Internet", and how instant messaging was possible a cross borders through PalTalk. Even though I never heard anyone using it in Europe, even years past that encounter.