Lorindol
Tuota en tiennytkään, mutta viimeksi eilisiltana oli yksi pyörätie tukittu jättämällä parvi vihreitä lautoja ympäriinsä. Eli ainakin joku operaattori sallii tuon edelleen tai sitten käyttäjillä on todella paksut lompakot.
Vuokralautojen pysäköintiongelman saisi vaivattomasti ratkaistua määrämällä yritykset ruuvaamaan softansa sellaiseksi, että matkan aloittaneen käyttäjän veloitus ei pääty, ennen kuin lauta on pysäköity luvalliselle alueelle. Jos kaupunkipyörien telineille löytyy hyvin tilaa, niin kyllä löytyisi näillekin.
Vuokrafirmat voisivat myös motivoida käyttjiä laskuttamalla vaikka 50€ maksun vääärin pysäköidyn laudan noudosta viimeiseltä käyttäjältä, kun voisivat helposti tarkistaa oliko lauta luvallisessa parkkiruudussa vai ei vikan ajon päättyessä.
Poikkeuksena toki jos virta loppuu kesken ajon.
Hell, they would get unconditional surrender just by promising to send a few battallions of unarmed female troops over.
I've had the honor of competing with air rifles against one of Häyhä's grandnieces. Häyhä never had any children of his own.
I can assure you that the talent was NOT genetic ;)
My understanding has always been that none of the Valar took part in the War of Wrath.
When the Valar challenged Melkor directly in the Battle of the Powers, Middle-earth suffered massive collateral damage. And at that time there was only a small population ol Elves at the remote Cuiviénen, guarded by detachment of Maiar.
During the War of Wrath most parts of Middle-earth were already populated by the Children of Ilúvatar, so the Valar had to limit their attack force to "just" Maiar and the Eldar of Aman.
Morgoth's personal power had diminished when he slowly shared parts of his might with his "creations", like the dragons. The Valar had to be aware of this; Thorondor was able to maim Morgoth's face while retrieving Fingolfin's body and would have relayed the news of this and the duel to Manwë.
So it's pretty safe to say that the Valar considered their army to be more than adequate to overthrow Morgoth: Maiar to take on the Balrogs and other fallen Maiar, elite Elves for the orc hordes and other "normal level" enemies.
But I also think that an important component is also that the Children of Ilúvatar had to "save themselves" from evil, the Maiar were sent just to level the stakes and capture Morgoth at.the end. The Eldar of Aman needed to be a part of this effort, not just as elite reinforcements but to show unity with their Middle-earth brethren and other Children of Ilúvatar. They all had to renounce Morgoth's evil and rally together to finally prevail after immeasurable suffering.
If the "gods" themselves had just showed up and taken care of the baddies, there would have been none of this hard earned absolution. Which also fits pretty nicely with Tolkien's Catholic worldview.
As how Beleriand was destroyed and "fell beneath the wawes", it could be argued that the Maiar were allowed to use their full power while facing the fallen Maiar, resulting in the utter ruin of the lands. And if the ruined Beleriand was considered to be tainted by Morgoth's lingering evil, sinking the entire region to the sea would be a logical thing for the Valar to do.
Yep. My brother has at least 4 streaming subscriptions that add up to closer to 100$ per month. I once asked him how much he actually uses them and his response was: "I don't know, many times a week! But it's nice to have them if I want to watch something!"
To me the idea of basically throwing away more than 1000$ per year is simply horrifying.
I get them by ripping CD:s or digitizing vinyl albums.
EDIT: Typo.
I burned an audio CD just a few weeks ago. My car doesn't have Bluetooth audio, so I've kept going old school all along. I bought a few stacks of empty CD-R's and DVD-R's when the stores wanted to get rid of them.
I have zero streaming subscriptions and no intention of getting any. The number of films, games and music albums I've bought from flea markets and second hand stores during the past 10 years has to be in the hundreds. And not one has cost more than 3$.
Even my kids haven't complained about the lack of streaming, they seem perfectly happy using my physical media library.
I read the LOTR and The Silmarillion to my son when he was young, his opinion of the bad guys was crystal clear:
"Sauron was like nothing compared to Morgoth! He didn't do ANYTHING in the book that was named after him, except maybe stalk people with his Palántir! Morgoth was WAY better and he was actually doing stuff all the time."
That's a very good question.
I checked the specs of the TM-62, the standard fuze should require a pressure of 1500-5500N (150-550kg) to detonate. So the dragging should not have triggered it, unless the fuze was faulty - which would not be impossible considering the subpar quality of the Russian gear.
No racism was intended. Perhaps I expressed myself poorly.
I do not consider the Russian people be any dumber or inferior than any other nation. I meant that their civil society has not had the opportunity to grow and develop into a strong democracy like many European countries.
I too have many Russian friends and most of what I wrote I have learned from discussions with them. And more than a half of my father's ancestors are Russian.