Why would they not? I once had a problem with material uploaded on a file sharing system hosted on Hetzner. I received an email about it from Hetzner, but I was on holiday and I didn't check my email so after 48 hours or so the local police (French gendarmerie) came to my address and politely asked for my server logs.

Luckily I had forgotten to update my billing address on my Hetzner account, so it was my parents address and I was on holidays at my parents.

People being annoyed at bad French is stereotypically Parisian to me.

I think it makes sense that both are categorised as flawed.

I could see well-mapped street view with good services built around it, and maybe a way to pay for and schedule regular updates, being used for towns to monitor public space long term too.

I think many things could be built on a better street view, but I also don't want Google to get yet another de facto monopoly in a new domain.

Do you mean that VPN will blur the nipples when you watch pictures of classical paintings through it?

I'm sure there is a positive side to the US influence, but it's well hidden and they definitely don't advertise it.

There are laws regulating many things that could be considered "design", for example misleading packaging, mandatory information on some categories of ads, cigarette packaging, container sizes, accessibility requirements, etc.

I would say regulating against addictive design (infinite scrolling is not banned per se, it just makes for a catchy headline) is well within what laws are meant for.

The modems they provide handle it without needing anything special from the customers. The devices get IPv6 addresses from this prefix, and are firewalled by default. It's pretty simple so I'm not sure what could go wrong there.

I do agree it should be simpler, but it is accessible to individuals today.

Huh, none of these coins are in general use in any country because it would make no sense (their facial value is always largely below their metal value, which is basically constantly appreciating). As a French person I have never seen 20 francs coins in circulation either, and I wouldn't by my baguette with one, but they are still obviously not a "scam", even if their actual value doesn't match their face value. I mean, I should know since I actually buy them, manipulate them, and use them for their gold content.

The page you linked is quite unlikely to be a scam (except that it sells the coin for quite a premium, compared to what I can get at home like say https://www.argentorshop.be/en/gold-coin-chinese-panda-30-gr... in Belgium).

I think you don't understand how these gold coins work, honestly I don't claim I really understand why central banks produce them either, but they do exist and they seem like a convenient way to invest in real gold (and here comes my initial remark: but why choose the ones that sell for a premium as compared to the ones that sell just for their weight in gold, that I don't understand).

You can get more information on the Chinese Gold Panda coins on Wikipedia if you like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Gold_Panda

I don't know the details because I don't really care about gold as an investment, but everything I find says variations of "the 3g Gold Pandas have a face value of 50 Yuan and are legal tender in China.". It would be subject to VAT in Belgium anyway if it was not considered to have legal tender.

And that's the smallest one, I seriously doubt many people buy a 4000 € (30g) coin as a tourist gift.

In my case I buy old French 20 francs coins as they are quite "cheap": 1% above spot price of their gold content (they are 90% gold).

Other more recent coins, like Chinese or Canadian ones, sell at a much higher premium (17%, 20%) so I always wonder a bit who they are for. It's unlikely they can be resold for that much of a premium. At least the shops I use just buy them for their price in gold.