"If the United States were more like the rest of the world, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder might be known as the McDonald's 113-Grammer, John Henry's 9-pound hammer would be 4.08 kilograms, and any 800-pound gorillas in the room would likely weigh 362 kilos."
Honest - Is that the fear Americans have of metric? Simply do with a 125g burger, a 4kg hammer and a 200kg gorilla (they seldom reach more...).
> If you studied science or engineering in Germany, you likely have taken no university-level courses at all in literature, history, arts, economics, political science, or social science. Germany has become a country of Fachidioten, like you yourself seem to be.
What for should we do this? We have extensive coverage of this areas in higher schooling at gymnasium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school)).
> Tell me, how many non-fiction books on subjects in the humanities or social sciences have you read over the last 12 months?
6 - Why?
> How many fiction books written before 1900? 0, I'm currently more interested in the 1930 area. And the interesting great works before 1900 are read in some decades.
> Oh, do keep going, it's so amusing. Usually, the next accusation from people like you is over the Indians or slavery, and the exploitation of workers and US poverty, yadda yadda yadda.
Why should I need that? You are already aware of this stuff...
> You just keep demonstrating your utter ignorance of both European and US politics and history.
No I just hate people that are among the worst warmongers on the planet to come free from all their crimes against humanity. My grandfathers generation got punished rightfully for it's crimes in WW2 - But did you ever make up for the slaughter at the native americans and the misuse of the slaves? No.
> supposed crimes for two centuries. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, the Pope... you're in "good" company.
Supposed? Like in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Irak just to name some of the best known?
> By the way, open a European newspaper these days; you'll see that it is slowly coming out that European governments and politicians knew and participated in NSA spying, but that they wanted the NSA to cover their asses.
And for that they get currently a massive outcry - rightfully earned.
> But I forget: you don't actually read; you don't have to, you're European! You're cultured by heritage!
More by education - But I forgot, education is evil and has to be bent to insane religious believes instead of facts. The moment the first state forced intelligent design into their school curriculum the US lost any credit in that depardment.
Books are less available in Europe when you are not rich? What are you talking about? In Europe many people read - its not like the bleeding US where many cant even read...
Case-law is simply a totally broken system that gives judges to much power without any control over them.But it is fitting to the "democratic" 2 party-system the us has - both are insane.
Exactly, the original german data said that on Friday, 25th in the hour between 12 and 13 the average output of solar power was 22.145 Megawatt (MW) or roughly 22GW.
Windmill output in the same time was 4378MW. Was not a very windy day in germany. At least around Frankfurt...
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Easy way to boost privacy - Stop using Chrome and google services...
That people follow the law, simple and easy. The internet is not outside the law.
Only for the usa. The rest of the world couldn't care less what the fcc wants.
What I don't get - It isn't decided which train system to use but construction is already under way?
And this is a good thing. We won't have nearly enough work for us humans to do in a few decades. Nothing wrong with not having to work.
No ads in my car. In fact no ads in my life - I hate this annoying liars.
No sorry but the L is correct for liter.
"If the United States were more like the rest of the world, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder might be known as the McDonald's 113-Grammer, John Henry's 9-pound hammer would be 4.08 kilograms, and any 800-pound gorillas in the room would likely weigh 362 kilos."
Honest - Is that the fear Americans have of metric? Simply do with a 125g burger, a 4kg hammer and a 200kg gorilla (they seldom reach more...).
How could Insulin be patented? Its a natural hormone.
There is a reason - production of electricity pollutes the environment. So we should keep the usage as low as possible.
Ah, so it's mostly the air con. Few have these here.
What has the size of the house to do with the needed electricity?
Am I the only one being shocked by roughly 900 kWh a month for a normal household in the US? The value is over double the average German usage...
What are you guys doing? x_X
I really wonder how we europeans survive without chemically disinfecting all food...
AptX uses the same codec many home cinema fans value a lot in DTS. It's insane that over Bt it should suddenly suck...
Yeah a nice Shinkansen would beat this route in the same time as an airplane but without the annoying checkins.
How are us drivers doing so many crashes with their ultra slow driving speeds?
Kill App: Doubletap home, select the app, swipe the screenshot to the top -> dead
> If you studied science or engineering in Germany, you likely have taken no university-level courses at all in literature, history, arts, economics, political science, or social science. Germany has become a country of Fachidioten, like you yourself seem to be.
What for should we do this? We have extensive coverage of this areas in higher schooling at gymnasium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school)).
> Tell me, how many non-fiction books on subjects in the humanities or social sciences have you read over the last 12 months?
6 - Why?
> How many fiction books written before 1900?
0, I'm currently more interested in the 1930 area. And the interesting great works before 1900 are read in some decades.
> Oh, do keep going, it's so amusing. Usually, the next accusation from people like you is over the Indians or slavery, and the exploitation of workers and US poverty, yadda yadda yadda.
Why should I need that? You are already aware of this stuff...
> You just keep demonstrating your utter ignorance of both European and US politics and history.
No I just hate people that are among the worst warmongers on the planet to come free from all their crimes against humanity. My grandfathers generation got punished rightfully for it's crimes in WW2 - But did you ever make up for the slaughter at the native americans and the misuse of the slaves? No.
> supposed crimes for two centuries. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, the Pope... you're in "good" company.
Supposed? Like in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Irak just to name some of the best known?
> By the way, open a European newspaper these days; you'll see that it is slowly coming out that European governments and politicians knew and participated in NSA spying, but that they wanted the NSA to cover their asses.
And for that they get currently a massive outcry - rightfully earned.
> But I forget: you don't actually read; you don't have to, you're European! You're cultured by heritage!
More by education - But I forgot, education is evil and has to be bent to insane religious believes instead of facts. The moment the first state forced intelligent design into their school curriculum the US lost any credit in that depardment.
Ah bigotry - and that from the land of the "free" and "religious stoneagers"...
Well the us-mask finally falls with each additional revelation on their behaviour. Good for the world.
Books are less available in Europe when you are not rich? What are you talking about? In Europe many people read - its not like the bleeding US where many cant even read...
There is a difference in Quality between BSG and Riverworld? Both suck badly.
Case-law is simply a totally broken system that gives judges to much power without any control over them.But it is fitting to the "democratic" 2 party-system the us has - both are insane.
Exactly, the original german data said that on Friday, 25th in the hour between 12 and 13 the average output of solar power was 22.145 Megawatt (MW) or roughly 22GW.
Windmill output in the same time was 4378MW. Was not a very windy day in germany. At least around Frankfurt...