My (thankfully very little) experience in Italy is for civil litigations at least (where it is rare that one of the two parties get 100% reason) expenses are usually compensated (i.e. every party pays their own ones), in the more rare case where all expenses are paid by the succumbing party, what is liquidated is not really what has been paid, but rather what the expenses would be along some sort of tariff.

If your solicitor/lawyer is a famous (presumably very good as you won) one, it is likely that the amount you spend is much higher than what the judge condemned the other party to reimburse you.

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The day before they had some technical problems with electricity, but still nothing that can be connected to intentional sabotage.

Einstein refrigerator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator

The principle is still used in some refrigerating devices (typically hotel mini fridges and similar small units for RV's) as there is no need of a compressor (i.e. the device is completely silent) and also in some HVAC machines.

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XP somehow "unified" the professional and home market, bringing the (unneeded) Fisher Price look that the professionals hated and the (unneeded) complexities of authorizations/NTFS that the home users were not prepared for.

I can testify for the stability of NT 4.0, I have run a machine for some 15 years, roughly from 2001 to 2016, running NT 4.00, on 24/7, and only reboots were once a year or so for cleaning or occasionally for replacing the (failed) PSU or hard disk (not as a server, as a desktop running a specific DOS based accounting software). I remember initially I had a few BSOD's because for some reasons there was a counter of some kind in the mouse driver that caused them, but once that was fixed, if I recall correctly by a change in the Registry, it was really rock solid.

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A:las poor floppy, I knew you well.

The "typical" contract is 3 kW, due to air conditioners becoming more common, many people upgraded to 4.5 kW (it was also possible, cannot say if it still possible now, to make a 3 kW contract with an upgrade only during three or four months in the summer).

Very few people (and very large houses) have a 6 kW contract.

The "fixed" part ("potenza impegnata" translatable to "committed power capacity") is a non thrifling part of the monthly (or every two month) electricity bill, so eveyone historically used the smallest possible contract (usually there is a 10% or 20% more allowed for peaks).

The electrical plant needs to be made (and certified) by a licensed electrician BUT (and here is the catch) only up to 6kW the electrician can make (and certify it) without the need of a project by an authorized technician, which adds some costs.

Additionally (of course it depends on the specific area) up to 6 kW it is considered "normal" and it is rare that the distributors asks for compensation (besides the increase in the bill, and an initial "fixed amount" ) whilst when you go up, it is not uncommon that you are asked a sum as a contribution for the works needed to upgrade the distribution lines.

For increasing from 3 kW to 6 kW it would be around 70 € x 3= 210 € + around 50 € + VAT and then around 22 € x 3= 66 €/year (again + VAT).

Stepping up from 6 to 10 (besides needing the project and re-certification) is not unlikely to cost several hundreds or a few thousands Euro.

Anyway, before the issues with the power needed for re-charging, few people have the "luxury" of a parking space or garage, I would presume that this is a bigger obstacle for electric car adoption.

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In Italy it is a rather common occurrence in different fields to be required by Law to act as "sostituto d'imposta" (loosely translatable to "tax substitute", the real translation should be "witholding agent"), as an example banks when you pay through them certain types of services, or hotels when you pay the "city tax" for your stay, or firms hiring a consultant.

The taxes are witheld and then paid directly to the revenue service (periodically), the idea is that instead of receiving millions or billions of small payments, the state receives much less larger (cumulative) payments.

If we take as an example the city (tourist) tax, each customer should pay (say) 2 Euro for each night they stay in a hotel (or AirBnB), a (fully occupied) hotel with 200 beds would generate 200 small payments, 2 Euro each, per day, instead the hotel collects them (in name of the state) and pays in a single instance every three months, so instead of 3x200x30=18,000 micro payments, only one payment/transaction is generated.

1) neutral

2) clutch depressed

AND:

3) brake depressed (hand brake pulled doesn't count)

"You dodged the question; Was it worth it? Hell yes it was. The massive amount of nerd points alone is enough."

[1] none with any actual interest in ornitology, BTW.