I live in Germany, right on the Swiss border (my wife works there) and I can assure you the Swiss Confederation is not a socialist state. The Germans tend to they they are pretty right-wing over there.
The pay is much better for any job you do, have to admit.
Well, I live 7 km from the border and it is amazing how little contact there really is across the Rhine. Might have to do with the fact that the main train bridge was blown up at the end of WWII and is STILL not operational.
The only place around here where French and Germans mingle a lot and work together is in Basel, in Switzerland, right at the point where the 3 countries meet.
Yeah, and Fessenheim is in Alsace, about 30km from the place where French and German troops met in combat the first time in 1914! Which was German occupied at the time...
I work in Solar energy, in a spin-off of the largest solar research lab in Germany (and 2nd largest in the world). I also did work with the French national Solar lab in Aix-le-Bain, and have been in the field for 20 years. I live 7 km from the plant. So, yeah, I agree with you.
BUT, I think that nuclear is going to be transitionally needed for about 20 years more. Nuclear is maybe a 70 year old tech, but in the 1970s solar was not even near close to being capable of replacing it any more than nuclear was a capable energy source in the heydays of the industrial revolution in the 19th century.
These things take time, and it is good thing that we moving on towards a renewable future, but there is no need to panic, get hysterical and screw up the economy by suddenly dropping lots of generating capacity from the grid. This is about the replacement of several trillion dollars of infrastructure.
Right. I live 7 km from the plant, right across the German border. I can see the damn thing from the window of my daughter's schoolroom. My wife drives maybe 1km from the reactors on the highway every day. I often shop in Fessenheim because they have a great supermarket with good fish. Most of the locals here are completely hysterical about anything nuke. So the morons go and block the highway to protest, plaster everything around here with posters starting with the inside of all the schools and kindergartens. The way the greens are hysterical you would think all the kids in town have three glowing eyes already.
Me? I am not scared whatsoever. Fessenheim is not going to go kaboom or Fuckingshima anyday. Now the local French economy is going to be depressed even more due to the loss of jobs.
As for the solar panels, I think it is good to replace nukes with renewables IN THE MEDIUM TERM. As soon as the technology is ready and cost-effective. I am fine with keeping the nukes running for a few more years or decades, and I work in Solar Energy. Including several projects with the French Solar Energy research labs and the local one. The largest solar energy lab by far is in Freiburg, which is 10 km from here, I work in a spin-off. The problem is that solar is dead economically because the Chinese dumped all their panels on the market, and now all the jobs are threatened, including mine.
Great work Greens. Now concentrate on something important, like actually slowly building out renewables instead of f*cking up the economy before the transition to renewables is viable.
Requiring the tax payer to spend zillions of dollars to pay web developer to go through all the hoops to make the website work with 90's technology to satisfy the whims of stubborn nerds is the real problem.
> I can only hope that Richard Stallman doesn't show up at my front door to lecture me, or worse yet, sing that god-awful GNU song at me.
Fuck Richard Stallmann. If the open source fanatics can produce something as cool as Logic Pro then they have something to say. As long as they can't, fuckem.
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Here is another example: the down and outs if Syria are moving to Europe. In the other direction? Not so much
It is not hard to contemplate a few select targets. Riyad. The Ghawar oil field. Raqqa. Karachi. I can think of a few more.
'Killer' feature indeed
Shia vs Sunni is much more of a cultural thing. It is a little complicated
I am sure my sweet grandma who goes to the Anglican Church every Sunday is going to smack you with her handbag, but whatever.
Does not make him wrong though
Which killed my officemate's GF at the time.
The airport in Istanbul DOES have pre-airport screening, and no in-airport screening.
Yes yes and more yes.
The problem with the Linux fanbois is that they think Form vs Function is a zero sum game. It is not
Count me in on that. I program with a Macbook every day and I never use XCode
I use a macbook pro and i am fairly sure I can outprogram you with one hand tied behind my back.
Except for the ugly USB Power line running to the clock, sure.
Sounds like an interesting Raspi or Embedded project. A mechanical NTP synced clock. I think I am going to try this.
I live in Germany, right on the Swiss border (my wife works there) and I can assure you the Swiss Confederation is not a socialist state. The Germans tend to they they are pretty right-wing over there.
The pay is much better for any job you do, have to admit.
Bullshit. Fessenheim is much close to Switzerland than to Strassbourg. I was in Strassbourg yesterday, in Basel today and I live 7 km from Fessenheim.
The plant is about 500m from the border. The border fence of the plant pretty much IS the border.
Hitler : "I want peace! Peace! Peace!"
"A little piece of Poland, a little piece of France, a little part of Russia and Pakistan per chance!"
Well, I live 7 km from the border and it is amazing how little contact there really is across the Rhine. Might have to do with the fact that the main train bridge was blown up at the end of WWII and is STILL not operational.
The only place around here where French and Germans mingle a lot and work together is in Basel, in Switzerland, right at the point where the 3 countries meet.
Yeah, and Fessenheim is in Alsace, about 30km from the place where French and German troops met in combat the first time in 1914! Which was German occupied at the time...
I work in Solar energy, in a spin-off of the largest solar research lab in Germany (and 2nd largest in the world). I also did work with the French national Solar lab in Aix-le-Bain, and have been in the field for 20 years. I live 7 km from the plant. So, yeah, I agree with you.
BUT, I think that nuclear is going to be transitionally needed for about 20 years more. Nuclear is maybe a 70 year old tech, but in the 1970s solar was not even near close to being capable of replacing it any more than nuclear was a capable energy source in the heydays of the industrial revolution in the 19th century.
These things take time, and it is good thing that we moving on towards a renewable future, but there is no need to panic, get hysterical and screw up the economy by suddenly dropping lots of generating capacity from the grid. This is about the replacement of several trillion dollars of infrastructure.
Right. I live 7 km from the plant, right across the German border. I can see the damn thing from the window of my daughter's schoolroom. My wife drives maybe 1km from the reactors on the highway every day. I often shop in Fessenheim because they have a great supermarket with good fish. Most of the locals here are completely hysterical about anything nuke. So the morons go and block the highway to protest, plaster everything around here with posters starting with the inside of all the schools and kindergartens. The way the greens are hysterical you would think all the kids in town have three glowing eyes already.
Me? I am not scared whatsoever. Fessenheim is not going to go kaboom or Fuckingshima anyday. Now the local French economy is going to be depressed even more due to the loss of jobs.
As for the solar panels, I think it is good to replace nukes with renewables IN THE MEDIUM TERM. As soon as the technology is ready and cost-effective. I am fine with keeping the nukes running for a few more years or decades, and I work in Solar Energy. Including several projects with the French Solar Energy research labs and the local one. The largest solar energy lab by far is in Freiburg, which is 10 km from here, I work in a spin-off. The problem is that solar is dead economically because the Chinese dumped all their panels on the market, and now all the jobs are threatened, including mine.
Great work Greens. Now concentrate on something important, like actually slowly building out renewables instead of f*cking up the economy before the transition to renewables is viable.
Thanks, that was actually interesting!
Requiring the tax payer to spend zillions of dollars to pay web developer to go through all the hoops to make the website work with 90's technology to satisfy the whims of stubborn nerds is the real problem.
Do you also insist on gopher and a newsfeed?
Well, at least it is better than controlled thermonuclear fusion. That is always 25 years away.
> I can only hope that Richard Stallman doesn't show up at my front door to lecture me, or worse yet, sing that god-awful GNU song at me.
Fuck Richard Stallmann. If the open source fanatics can produce something as cool as Logic Pro then they have something to say. As long as they can't, fuckem.