For sure it cannot be ruled out that a natural disaster like a supervolcano or large asteroid impact, which have certainly occurred in the past, will have drastic effects on temperature within a short timespan. This would be equally disastrous for us and in no way invalidates the argument that we are causing one of these disasters now by non-natural means.
Yes, but those transitions usually take place within thousands or tens of thousands of years. A timespan that makes it possible for plant and animal life to adapt. We are provoking that kind of change within a century.
I disagree. It all starts with education. I can be considered a living example of how a little help from society can make all the difference.
My parents are not wealthy, so they could provide almost no financial assistance to me at all. However by doing jobs on the side and especially thanks to the Bafoeg, (a state provided student loan without interest rate that you only have to repay 50% of once you finish studying), I was able to study and get a Masters degree in Computer Science. Today my income and the taxes I pay are well above the German average.
Sounds like a recipe for success to me. Where would I be without the tax funded social benefits? I have no idea. But it's hard for me to imagine me doing better than now.
That's ok. I gladly pay that 15% extra tax liability if it means getting more youngsters into universities, into well-paying jobs, into functional lives and families. It all gets reinvested into society, providing a positive feedback cycle.
If on the other hand, we didn't get them into universities because they are too expensive, or we create indebted individuals, it leads to unemployment, alcoholism, drugs, homelessness, crime, dysfunctional families... a negative feedback cycle.
You are right, I realized this only after posting the original comment. According to the latest findings the most likely thing is the BUK was provided by Russia.
Why would ukraine even deploy a BUK that close to donbas when DPR doesn't have any air support? You realize it's an AA system, right?
It was in an airbase. It has to be deployed somewhere. I think airbases are one of the spots you might expect to find these things.
There were plenty of photographs, including that of Russian tanks, which were taken elsewhere; Georgia '08 in the case of the tank photos.
True. In the end it often comes down to, which sources do you trust? I prefer to trust independent sources like Reuters or Der Spiegel over RIA Novosti, which is controlled by the Russian government. like almost all Russian news sources.
It was neither Ukrainian nor an Antonov. It's funny because the day before, we were told DPR didn't have the capability to shoot down planes at that range.
Not until they captured a BUK.
What motive does donbas or Russia have for downing the airliner? What do they stand to gain by doing so? What does kiev stand to gain? Why are these questions never asked?
What motives do Donbas or Russia have? None. It obviously hurts their cause while it plays into the hands of the Ukrainian government, depicting the separatists as lawless criminals. But the profiteer is not automatically the instigator. Shooting down a civilian aircraft and blaming it on the other side is simply a too high risk endeavor for any establishment to plan it. If the truth leaks out that it was done willingly, you will loose all credibility and legitimacy. In this case, the evidence that the separatists shot down MH17 is overwhelming. They didn't plan it and they didn't want it. They thought they were shooting at an Ukrainian military aircraft, and they thought wrong.
1. The separatists captured an Ukrainian BUK when they took over an Ukrainian air base 2. A BUK has in fact been seen and photographed travelling in the separatist controlled region of the Ukraine. 3. According to witness reports, a BUK system was moved into Russia the night after the incident 4. Immediately after the incident, separatists boasted on the Internet they shot down an Ukrainian Antonov 5. Bellingcat analysis of Russian provided satellite imagery intending to prove Ukraininan involvement have been proven to be fakes
Meanwhile Russian media has raised all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories trying to obfuscate the incident: - A mysterious spanish air controller came out and admitted an Ukrainian fighter plane shot the aircraft down - The pilot of the machine was an Ukrainian committing suicide to frame the separatists - MH17 was full of corpses to begin with, pointing towards a fucking batshit crazy CIA operation - It was an Ukrainian Sukoi - It was an Ukrainian MIG - It was an Ukrainian BUK - It was an attempted assassination attempt on Putin - There was an UFO in the vicinity (thanks for that one)
There is a big difference. The Russian trolls are pretending to be your average Mr. Normal posting on the internet, hiding the fact that they are employed by the Kremlin and spreading Russian propaganda.
I thought the point of classes was showing kids what is out there, so that at some point they might make an informed decision on what they want to pursue.
And of course, having a general idea about how stuff works is not bad either.
Yes, don't thank god. Thanks to many of our god-fearing conservative friends, we will not be so lucky next time, and scientific findings on the future of the planet or the origin of species are being denied and obfuscated.
If you don't have any meetings, how do you know what your coworkers are doing? How do you coordinate tasks with them? How do you keep everyone on the same page? Talk to everybody in the team in person? Takes alot more time than just telling everyone in the same room, once.
Some meetings take too long, some meetings are pointless (especially the ones initiated by managers that don't understand your work) and not everybody has to be in the same meetings. But some meetings are also essential.
Then they shouldn't have joined in the first place.
Greece shouldn't have been allowed into the Eurozone in the first place. The government at the time falsified and hacked balance sheets, economic and financial data to be allowed into the Eurozone.
Not in my neighbourhood. But many applications specify.NET or Java. The platforms and the languages (C#) are so similar, if you know one you know almost everything about the other.
Java is certainly not dead. If you're a software engineer, my gut feeling is that 70% of job offers involve Java programming. Java is widespread in the enterprise as well as open source frameworks and platforms.
But parent is right in the fact that Java in the browser is practically dead. Some office environments still require Java for entperise applications, but practically all ordinary users don't need Java in the browser.
It's a little ironic, since Java on the web was one of Java's main, original use cases. Now Java applets are niche and fading out, whereas Java is pretty much rampant everywhere else.
That sounds familiar. I'm also weird in the sense that even though I'm a deeply kind-hearted person by nature, I enjoy playing dark characters in games, such as an undead knight, an assassin or a brutish ork. I find these characters more interesting than "generic good hero guy". But this leads to some interesting conflicts, as I mostly choose the "good" actions in games opposed to the evil or selfish actions, I just can't help it. So in the end I'm actually unable to play these dark personalities in character.
Once I decided to try and play a really "evil" character in The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, doing the Dark Brotherhood and Daedric (Demon) quests. One quest requires you kill a unicorn for its horn, which I did, but I really had to push myself to do so and felt bad for days afterwards.
The Durch are to busy partying. I mean, who would want to drive around in a cramped and smelly tank when you have one of the highest living standards in the world and Amsterdam?
You are exaggerating, but there is some truth to that, for sure.
Maybe it's worth mentioning that due to some cataclysmic events you might have heard about in history class, Germany has issues with many things related to patriotism and militarism.
It's no joke. Expressing patriotism or sympathy for militarism is kind of taboo and still frowned upon in Germany.
All german parties except of the CDU/CSU (which are "sister parties"), led by the leftists, who were created from the remaining parts of the totalitarian SED that governed the GDR, and, out of this "tradition", have a very anti-US and pro-russia position
Are you serious? That is ridiculous. The FDP (liberal party), the SPD (social democrats) and the Green Party are not pro-Russians. None of the parties are pro Russian except the extreme left (Die Linke) and the extreme right (NPD, AfD).
There is some pro-Russian sentiment among many former citizens of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), but the vast majority of Germans, especially in West Germany, are very pro USA. Most Germans were actually quite let down by recent revelations that the US does not consider Germany one of its closest allies, at least in terms of intelligence cooperation, as the general perception in Germany has been that it is indeed one of the closest allies.
The presidency of GW Bush has hurt public perception of the US in Germany a lot, but that is not singular to Germany, this has been the case in almost the entire world. Still I would estimate that if forced to choose a side, 80% of Germans would favor partnership with the US over Russia. Like Bush before him, Putin seems like he is doing all he can to hurt the Russian reputation accross the globe, but especially in Europe.
Well, Star Wars *is* a global phenomenon and a staple of US culture loved and adored by millions across the globe. So, now that you draw the comparison to the founding fathers, in our modern times George Lucas has probably been more significant to most people than the founding fathers have.
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For sure it cannot be ruled out that a natural disaster like a supervolcano or large asteroid impact, which have certainly occurred in the past, will have drastic effects on temperature within a short timespan. This would be equally disastrous for us and in no way invalidates the argument that we are causing one of these disasters now by non-natural means.
Yes, but those transitions usually take place within thousands or tens of thousands of years. A timespan that makes it possible for plant and animal life to adapt.
We are provoking that kind of change within a century.
I disagree. It all starts with education.
I can be considered a living example of how a little help from society can make all the difference.
My parents are not wealthy, so they could provide almost no financial assistance to me at all. However by doing jobs on the side and especially thanks to the Bafoeg, (a state provided student loan without interest rate that you only have to repay 50% of once you finish studying), I was able to study and get a Masters degree in Computer Science. Today my income and the taxes I pay are well above the German average.
Sounds like a recipe for success to me.
Where would I be without the tax funded social benefits? I have no idea. But it's hard for me to imagine me doing better than now.
That's ok. I gladly pay that 15% extra tax liability if it means getting more youngsters into universities, into well-paying jobs, into functional lives and families. It all gets reinvested into society, providing a positive feedback cycle.
If on the other hand, we didn't get them into universities because they are too expensive, or we create indebted individuals, it leads to unemployment, alcoholism, drugs, homelessness, crime, dysfunctional families... a negative feedback cycle.
Rothaus 4 teh win!
Best beer in the world.
They don't typically think their own country is better than other European countries.
...unless they are British, Italians or French.
You are right, I realized this only after posting the original comment. According to the latest findings the most likely thing is the BUK was provided by Russia.
Why would ukraine even deploy a BUK that close to donbas when DPR doesn't have any air support? You realize it's an AA system, right?
It was in an airbase. It has to be deployed somewhere. I think airbases are one of the spots you might expect to find these things.
There were plenty of photographs, including that of Russian tanks, which were taken elsewhere; Georgia '08 in the case of the tank photos.
True. In the end it often comes down to, which sources do you trust? I prefer to trust independent sources like Reuters or Der Spiegel over RIA Novosti, which is controlled by the Russian government. like almost all Russian news sources.
It was neither Ukrainian nor an Antonov. It's funny because the day before, we were told DPR didn't have the capability to shoot down planes at that range.
Not until they captured a BUK.
What motive does donbas or Russia have for downing the airliner? What do they stand to gain by doing so? What does kiev stand to gain? Why are these questions never asked?
What motives do Donbas or Russia have? None. It obviously hurts their cause while it plays into the hands of the Ukrainian government, depicting the separatists as lawless criminals.
But the profiteer is not automatically the instigator. Shooting down a civilian aircraft and blaming it on the other side is simply a too high risk endeavor for any establishment to plan it. If the truth leaks out that it was done willingly, you will loose all credibility and legitimacy.
In this case, the evidence that the separatists shot down MH17 is overwhelming. They didn't plan it and they didn't want it. They thought they were shooting at an Ukrainian military aircraft, and they thought wrong.
1. The separatists captured an Ukrainian BUK when they took over an Ukrainian air base
2. A BUK has in fact been seen and photographed travelling in the separatist controlled region of the Ukraine.
3. According to witness reports, a BUK system was moved into Russia the night after the incident
4. Immediately after the incident, separatists boasted on the Internet they shot down an Ukrainian Antonov
5. Bellingcat analysis of Russian provided satellite imagery intending to prove Ukraininan involvement have been proven to be fakes
Meanwhile Russian media has raised all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories trying to obfuscate the incident:
- A mysterious spanish air controller came out and admitted an Ukrainian fighter plane shot the aircraft down
- The pilot of the machine was an Ukrainian committing suicide to frame the separatists
- MH17 was full of corpses to begin with, pointing towards a fucking batshit crazy CIA operation
- It was an Ukrainian Sukoi
- It was an Ukrainian MIG
- It was an Ukrainian BUK
- It was an attempted assassination attempt on Putin
- There was an UFO in the vicinity (thanks for that one)
Seriously man...
There is a big difference. The Russian trolls are pretending to be your average Mr. Normal posting on the internet, hiding the fact that they are employed by the Kremlin and spreading Russian propaganda.
I thought the point of classes was showing kids what is out there, so that at some point they might make an informed decision on what they want to pursue.
And of course, having a general idea about how stuff works is not bad either.
Yes, don't thank god. Thanks to many of our god-fearing conservative friends, we will not be so lucky next time, and scientific findings on the future of the planet or the origin of species are being denied and obfuscated.
It's Galileo all over again.
Valar morghulis.
If you don't have any meetings, how do you know what your coworkers are doing? How do you coordinate tasks with them? How do you keep everyone on the same page? Talk to everybody in the team in person? Takes alot more time than just telling everyone in the same room, once.
Some meetings take too long, some meetings are pointless (especially the ones initiated by managers that don't understand your work) and not everybody has to be in the same meetings. But some meetings are also essential.
Then they shouldn't have joined in the first place.
Greece shouldn't have been allowed into the Eurozone in the first place. The government at the time falsified and hacked balance sheets, economic and financial data to be allowed into the Eurozone.
You don't wake up one morning obese and die of a heart attack.
XD
Not in my neighbourhood. But many applications specify .NET or Java. The platforms and the languages (C#) are so similar, if you know one you know almost everything about the other.
You are the programming language discriminating and generalizing equivalent of a racist.
Java is certainly not dead. If you're a software engineer, my gut feeling is that 70% of job offers involve Java programming. Java is widespread in the enterprise as well as open source frameworks and platforms.
But parent is right in the fact that Java in the browser is practically dead. Some office environments still require Java for entperise applications, but practically all ordinary users don't need Java in the browser.
It's a little ironic, since Java on the web was one of Java's main, original use cases. Now Java applets are niche and fading out, whereas Java is pretty much rampant everywhere else.
That sounds familiar. I'm also weird in the sense that even though I'm a deeply kind-hearted person by nature, I enjoy playing dark characters in games, such as an undead knight, an assassin or a brutish ork. I find these characters more interesting than "generic good hero guy".
But this leads to some interesting conflicts, as I mostly choose the "good" actions in games opposed to the evil or selfish actions, I just can't help it. So in the end I'm actually unable to play these dark personalities in character.
Once I decided to try and play a really "evil" character in The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, doing the Dark Brotherhood and Daedric (Demon) quests. One quest requires you kill a unicorn for its horn, which I did, but I really had to push myself to do so and felt bad for days afterwards.
The Durch are to busy partying. I mean, who would want to drive around in a cramped and smelly tank when you have one of the highest living standards in the world and Amsterdam?
You are exaggerating, but there is some truth to that, for sure.
Maybe it's worth mentioning that due to some cataclysmic events you might have heard about in history class, Germany has issues with many things related to patriotism and militarism.
It's no joke. Expressing patriotism or sympathy for militarism is kind of taboo and still frowned upon in Germany.
All german parties except of the CDU/CSU (which are "sister parties"), led by the leftists, who were created from the remaining parts of the totalitarian SED that governed the GDR, and, out of this "tradition", have a very anti-US and pro-russia position
Are you serious? That is ridiculous. The FDP (liberal party), the SPD (social democrats) and the Green Party are not pro-Russians. None of the parties are pro Russian except the extreme left (Die Linke) and the extreme right (NPD, AfD).
There is some pro-Russian sentiment among many former citizens of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), but the vast majority of Germans, especially in West Germany, are very pro USA. Most Germans were actually quite let down by recent revelations that the US does not consider Germany one of its closest allies, at least in terms of intelligence cooperation, as the general perception in Germany has been that it is indeed one of the closest allies.
The presidency of GW Bush has hurt public perception of the US in Germany a lot, but that is not singular to Germany, this has been the case in almost the entire world.
Still I would estimate that if forced to choose a side, 80% of Germans would favor partnership with the US over Russia.
Like Bush before him, Putin seems like he is doing all he can to hurt the Russian reputation accross the globe, but especially in Europe.
Breakin' the law, braikin' the law!
Well, Star Wars *is* a global phenomenon and a staple of US culture loved and adored by millions across the globe. So, now that you draw the comparison to the founding fathers, in our modern times George Lucas has probably been more significant to most people than the founding fathers have.