Heck, Germany continues building NEW COAL PLANTS. INSANE.
List of planned Coal Power Plants in Germany https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/... 1st: Under construction. Construction plan has been subsequently declared invalid (future uncertain) 2nd: Planning frozen 3rd: Planning stopped 4th: Under planning. Legal dispute about engineering standards underway 5th: Under planning. Construction questionable due to uncertain economic viability
So, of the 5 coal power plants planned or under construction, only one is actually being constructed, which might never see operation, while the rest are only in the planning phase and the construction is uncertain at best.
First of all, citing the heritage foundation is a very clear signal where you're coming from.
Second, the Socialist Party was elected not because of the terrorist attack, but because the conservative People's Party joined the Bush wars, which was a very unpopular opinion in Spain. The Socialist Party was never in favor of joining the wars and promised to pull the troops out long before the terrorist attack happened. Pulling out was the logical consequence after they won the elections.
I certainly hope Europe is able to take the mantle of leader of the free world while the US gets its act back together.
Yeah, the world is pretty crazy right now. Headlines in my news today: "EU and China want to commit to Paris climate agreement"
Meanwhile on the Twitter account of the President of the United States: "I will be announcing my decision on the Paris Accord over the next few days. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
This whole conservative here = Liberals somewhere else just blows my mind.
In Germany the term "Liberal" is also more closely related Republican politics than Democrats. I think it also makes more sense this way, because if you apply the meaning of "liberal" to policies and economics, it means less government regulation, free trade, corporations can do whatever the fuck they want... GOP politics.
My parents helped me with my first down payment. I will be helping my kids.
You're lucky to have parents who are organized and financially savvy. Not everyone is so lucky. My stepfather took a huge loan and bought himself a Mercedes and rented a huge flat as soon as he had a job. Had been caught in the dept spiral since. He simply never cared or thought about money. Anyhow, he separated from my mom when I went to college. I payed for everything myself by working part-time jobs through all my years as a university student. With money and savings, I had to start from scratch and be self-reliant.
This is how people you fight poverty. Maintain the family unit, help your children to become more successful than yourself.
The problem is that the newer generations always have it harder and harder to build a fortune. Taxes on everything only continue to rise, at least in Europe. Bracket creep makes current middle incomes being taxed like high incomes 40 years ago. Income from investments that you made with your savings from your salary which was already taxed are taxed again. Previous generations had the luxury of only paying taxes on their income once.
Hell, in the 50's to 70's the first thing you did in Spain before getting married, was buying a house or flat, almost everybody could afford one even with a middle income. Now it's almost prohibitive to own anything. You get the feeling the truly rich people and the politicians who are sucking up to them want everyone else to stay down. Getting wealthy not allowed! Here's some more taxes for you!
What are you doing that you need so much privacy for? You are one between billions. A needle in the haystack. Nobody cares how much porn you surf, how much time you spend on Slashdot or about your anal plug fetishism and the many perverted items you buy on Ebay.
The only reason I can think of why someone would want so much privacy is if they were doing something illegal.
What would you say to people who continuously insist that there is no evidence the world is a sphere that is floating in space? I'm fucking sick of this denial attitude, mainly from conservatives, on all the bullshit that is the Trump presidency and the sorry state that the Republican party has degenerated to.
The entire hysteria over Trump and Russia rests on the notion that Russia "hacked our election" and Trump was colluding with Putin to do so
You completely choose to ignore the multitude of ways in which many people close to Trump have intimate connections with the Kremlin. I'm not sure why anyone would adapt this cognitive dissonance.
Dragon-file - We are totally workaholics, compared to much of Europe.
A 31h work week is relaxed by any standards, even European ones. Not sure how that average came to be in the UK. Most of Europe works 40h weeks, IT pros probably average at 40-50h weeks. France works 35h weeks.
What we do have in Europe is the luxury of payed vacation (about 30 days) plus an average of about 5 bank holidays per year.
Of course this varies a lot depending on the industry and EU country. The lower you are on the social ladder and the poorer the EU country, the less payed leave.
There is nothing "safe" about a nuclear chain reaction, controlled by high-tech systems that are prone to technical malfunction, human error and natural or human caused disasters. Not to mention the problem of storing the radioactive waste products and the skyrocketing costs of dismantling old plants.
And then you have the nuclear companies which are of course always keen to promote their energy as safe and cheap, but in the end they are companies in it for profit, so they cut corners where ever possible. And when something goes wrong, it's the taxpayer who has to step in for the billions upon billions of costs, because the sheer weight of such an incident will bankrupt any company. See Fukushima.
I joined Slashdot at a relatively young age (this is my second account). It's posts like these that make me realize I'm slowly becoming one of those old farts that post stuff from ages long past on the Internet...:-/
Same here. I grew up on a 486 DX2, which was the sweet spot for the golden age of PC/MS-DOS gaming. I played lots of games that are now considered classics on that machine. Those years with Doom, Ultima 7/8, TIE Fighter, Command and Conquer, Warcraft... were the years that defined me as a gamer.
Arthur C. Clarke suggested sticking huge icebergs to the front of interstellar spaceships as a shield from the cosmic dust and debris. I think it was this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
NPC cars in GTA V usually drive quite "neatly" and predictably. Not sure it will be an adequate representation of real life where you have morons doing stupid things every once in a while.
Unless they are using the online version of the game, in which chase there will probably be too much chaos on the streets.
You choose to focus only on the entertainment value of Netflix, and it's easy to argue that people don't really need that form of entertainment and could choose other "free-er" forms of leisure.
First of all, that is a very utopic argument to make. People live in a society, and most people don't care about the details of technology, privacy, DRM and the moral / ethical implications of all that. Let's call these people "sheep". Most sheep just want to watch good shows and couldn't care less about the political aspects. And those people who actually care about that stuff still have sheepish friends they want to connect with, and they want to watch the same shows.
Also, there are many other, extremely useful services provided by other information harvesting megacorps. Google search, google maps, cloud infrastructure, social networking... by banning all of that from your life, because it's not "free", you are effectively banning a large part of recent human progress and civilization from your life.
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Heck, Germany continues building NEW COAL PLANTS. INSANE.
List of planned Coal Power Plants in Germany
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
1st: Under construction. Construction plan has been subsequently declared invalid (future uncertain)
2nd: Planning frozen
3rd: Planning stopped
4th: Under planning. Legal dispute about engineering standards underway
5th: Under planning. Construction questionable due to uncertain economic viability
So, of the 5 coal power plants planned or under construction, only one is actually being constructed, which might never see operation, while the rest are only in the planning phase and the construction is uncertain at best.
First of all, citing the heritage foundation is a very clear signal where you're coming from.
Second, the Socialist Party was elected not because of the terrorist attack, but because the conservative People's Party joined the Bush wars, which was a very unpopular opinion in Spain. The Socialist Party was never in favor of joining the wars and promised to pull the troops out long before the terrorist attack happened. Pulling out was the logical consequence after they won the elections.
I certainly hope Europe is able to take the mantle of leader of the free world while the US gets its act back together.
Yeah, the world is pretty crazy right now. Headlines in my news today:
"EU and China want to commit to Paris climate agreement"
Meanwhile on the Twitter account of the President of the United States:
"I will be announcing my decision on the Paris Accord over the next few days. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
I would not have believed this 2 years ago.
This whole conservative here = Liberals somewhere else just blows my mind.
In Germany the term "Liberal" is also more closely related Republican politics than Democrats. I think it also makes more sense this way, because if you apply the meaning of "liberal" to policies and economics, it means less government regulation, free trade, corporations can do whatever the fuck they want... GOP politics.
My parents helped me with my first down payment. I will be helping my kids.
You're lucky to have parents who are organized and financially savvy. Not everyone is so lucky.
My stepfather took a huge loan and bought himself a Mercedes and rented a huge flat as soon as he had a job. Had been caught in the dept spiral since. He simply never cared or thought about money. Anyhow, he separated from my mom when I went to college. I payed for everything myself by working part-time jobs through all my years as a university student.
With money and savings, I had to start from scratch and be self-reliant.
This is how people you fight poverty. Maintain the family unit, help your children to become more successful than yourself.
The problem is that the newer generations always have it harder and harder to build a fortune. Taxes on everything only continue to rise, at least in Europe. Bracket creep makes current middle incomes being taxed like high incomes 40 years ago. Income from investments that you made with your savings from your salary which was already taxed are taxed again. Previous generations had the luxury of only paying taxes on their income once.
Hell, in the 50's to 70's the first thing you did in Spain before getting married, was buying a house or flat, almost everybody could afford one even with a middle income. Now it's almost prohibitive to own anything. You get the feeling the truly rich people and the politicians who are sucking up to them want everyone else to stay down. Getting wealthy not allowed! Here's some more taxes for you!
What are you doing that you need so much privacy for? You are one between billions. A needle in the haystack. Nobody cares how much porn you surf, how much time you spend on Slashdot or about your anal plug fetishism and the many perverted items you buy on Ebay.
The only reason I can think of why someone would want so much privacy is if they were doing something illegal.
That's the nature of every system, including Wall Street, education, investments, government, and sex.
The ones who get in early reap the benefits.
Please do elaborate on how that universal dogma applies to sex.
What would you say to people who continuously insist that there is no evidence the world is a sphere that is floating in space?
I'm fucking sick of this denial attitude, mainly from conservatives, on all the bullshit that is the Trump presidency and the sorry state that the Republican party has degenerated to.
Really? What are you referring to?
Maybe some stuff Trump said?
The entire hysteria over Trump and Russia rests on the notion that Russia "hacked our election" and Trump was colluding with Putin to do so
You completely choose to ignore the multitude of ways in which many people close to Trump have intimate connections with the Kremlin. I'm not sure why anyone would adapt this cognitive dissonance.
There is not, and has never been, any evidence, large or small, connecting Donald Trump to Russia,
Shut the fuck up.
http://time.com/4433880/donald...
http://www.politico.com/magazi...
http://www.latimes.com/politic...
Dragon-file - We are totally workaholics, compared to much of Europe.
A 31h work week is relaxed by any standards, even European ones. Not sure how that average came to be in the UK.
Most of Europe works 40h weeks, IT pros probably average at 40-50h weeks. France works 35h weeks.
What we do have in Europe is the luxury of payed vacation (about 30 days) plus an average of about 5 bank holidays per year.
Of course this varies a lot depending on the industry and EU country. The lower you are on the social ladder and the poorer the EU country, the less payed leave.
There is nothing "safe" about a nuclear chain reaction, controlled by high-tech systems that are prone to technical malfunction, human error and natural or human caused disasters.
Not to mention the problem of storing the radioactive waste products and the skyrocketing costs of dismantling old plants.
And then you have the nuclear companies which are of course always keen to promote their energy as safe and cheap, but in the end they are companies in it for profit, so they cut corners where ever possible.
And when something goes wrong, it's the taxpayer who has to step in for the billions upon billions of costs, because the sheer weight of such an incident will bankrupt any company. See Fukushima.
I joined Slashdot at a relatively young age (this is my second account). It's posts like these that make me realize I'm slowly becoming one of those old farts that post stuff from ages long past on the Internet... :-/
Same here. I grew up on a 486 DX2, which was the sweet spot for the golden age of PC/MS-DOS gaming. I played lots of games that are now considered classics on that machine. Those years with Doom, Ultima 7/8, TIE Fighter, Command and Conquer, Warcraft... were the years that defined me as a gamer.
I think Bannon is well and truly insanely evil
I think you meant to say "chaotic evil".
In capitalist America, US President downloads software.
In soviet Russia, software uploads choose US President.
Arthur C. Clarke suggested sticking huge icebergs to the front of interstellar spaceships as a shield from the cosmic dust and debris.
I think it was this book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I think you meant to say James Cameron.
Lets hope all passenger liners stay clear of those tugged icebergs. It would be Titanic all over again...
Yeah. They better treat that water. Nobody wants to open the tap and have a frozen mammoth come out of it.
NPC cars in GTA V usually drive quite "neatly" and predictably. Not sure it will be an adequate representation of real life where you have morons doing stupid things every once in a while.
Unless they are using the online version of the game, in which chase there will probably be too much chaos on the streets.
It's some kind of nerdy meta-humor that Slashdotters tag this "Interesting" instead of "Funny", right?
Right???
You choose to focus only on the entertainment value of Netflix, and it's easy to argue that people don't really need that form of entertainment and could choose other "free-er" forms of leisure.
First of all, that is a very utopic argument to make. People live in a society, and most people don't care about the details of technology, privacy, DRM and the moral / ethical implications of all that. Let's call these people "sheep". Most sheep just want to watch good shows and couldn't care less about the political aspects. And those people who actually care about that stuff still have sheepish friends they want to connect with, and they want to watch the same shows.
Also, there are many other, extremely useful services provided by other information harvesting megacorps. Google search, google maps, cloud infrastructure, social networking... by banning all of that from your life, because it's not "free", you are effectively banning a large part of recent human progress and civilization from your life.
And as always, the first comment on Slashdot is a smug, cynical dismissal of the subject at hand.