Does it cover the greater Helsinki area? As a Vantaa resident, I spend over 100 euros a month on public transport. This app sounds too good to be true. What's the catch?
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In fact, when you wrote your comment, those notices were still there, so you have no excuse for writing such an ill-informed comment.
For the low price of $39 I will get the full book in ebook and HTML formats when it is done.
But for the price of $89 I will get extra chapters on Server-side rendering, Offline data and mutations, Serverless and Stripe integration.
So I am clearly not getting the full book for $39.
I just recently refused to buy a game for employing the same dishonest sales tactics, so this is an easy no thanks from me.
This is a very easy statement to make if you're not planning on providing any examples. I did. We can import the food. In my view, this is a worse solution than the current one.
If you have an idea for how to increase local Faroese food production enough to completely offset the energy obtained from whale meat, you should consider coming here to teach us.
Here is a table from 2000 to 2017
http://www.whaling.fo/en/regulated/450-years-of-statistics/c...
As you can see, it varies wildly, going from zero some years to around 1,500 some years.
As you might imagine, Faroese people have a tendency to get quite defensive when this subject comes up. In my opinion, this mostly comes from the fact that most of the critique is based on misinformation.
First of all, I should point out that the whale slaughter is not purely a tradition. It's not like fox hunting or bullfighting, which is are mainly done for entertainment and other non-essential reasons. The whale hunt accounts for a significant portion of the meat consumed in the country. The only other locally sourced meat is sheep and fish. Everything else needs to be imported. The whale hunt is not for fun or for entertainment. It is for food. Is it possible to survive without it? Sure, but then those missing calories will need to be imported, causing damage to the environment and also acting as drain on the already vulnerable economy.
The Faroes are largely supported by fishing, and most families own a modern boat. If we for some reason had to do the whaling with traditional wooden boats, then we'd all need to own two boats. Not only that, but the hunt would become much more dangerous and risky for no practical reason.
That said, the boats are probably not used for hunting like you imagine it. They are used to herd the whales onto the beach where they are killed using pretty traditional means. This part of the hunt has also diverged from the old days though, and I would definitely say for the better. Originally, the whales were killed by slicing their throats, letting them bleed out. These days doing it like that is illegal. We have developed a new spear-like tool, which makes it easy to sever the spinal cord in a single blow, instantly killing the whales. This eliminates the most painful part for the animal.
The whale drives are a communal effort to provide food for the entire community, not a "manhood tradition", as often depicted in the media. I can tell you one thing for certain - if people stopped caring about eating whales, the tradition would also stop.
The huge subsidy you're talking about accounts for about 3% of the annual Faroese GDP. It's gone down from 11.2% since 2000.
From my perspective, it seems like most Danish people have a very uneducated perspective of the Faroese dependence.
Maintaining a CMS is a lot of work. We all stayed up late last night patching all our supported sites. I think it's worth it for companies to completely outsource maintenance to specialized companies. These recent patches seem back up that claim. I'd guess that the vast majority of unpatched sites are self-maintained.