They also make / service the things that the phones talk to. That part of the business isn't included in the deal.
I think it's less hardware now, more consulting and the like. Probably fat patent royalties as well, being one of the innovators in the industry. I seem to think siemens is hooked up with that end of the business as well.
I'd explain it as a cross between lemon meringue and cheesecake in consistency, with lime taste, of course. Although that might be a poor approximation.
From start of 2010 until mid 2012, prices went from ~$15 to a low of $1.70 or so. It's recovered some, since then, but what terrible performance. That was more like a 90% reduction in value.
Those had hard results, though. SO2 caused acid rain, and effluent dumping (solvents, oils, PCBs, and mercury, for example) made fish inedible and rivers start on fire... all hard results people could see, right now.
They really need to come up with a new insecticide for bed bugs.
When I was a kid, bed bugs were some sort of myth, they just didn't exist anymore, like smallpox. That just may have been because I grew up in BFE, though, with almost no immigration and little international travel. Now they are widespread through Canadian cities, not just flophouses either.
Current ways of killing them seem to be: 1. pyrethin? (plant based) insecticide, they are more or less immune 2. something else, but has to be applied by extermintor 3 times to kill, as it doesn't kill eggs. Cheapass slumlords never pay for three treatments, so this solves nothing, generally. 3. Heat. Heating the whole apartment block to 45 degrees (uhh.. 110? or 120F) for an hour or two kills them all dead, including eggs. expensive. 4. higher test stuff that is illegal to use indoors, maybe cause neurotoxicity or cancer or who knows what.
Doesn't seem like anyone does research on this, maybe they do and I just don't know about it. I'd certainly say this is going to get worse before it gets better, though.
Here (west canada, inland) winter can be very cold, -30 for several months is not impossible, but becoming less common it seems. occasional days / weeks of -40 as well.
Central steam only seems to be used in centralized, unified things like university campuses, army installations, etc. Much less maintenance than having boilers in each building, so the steam plant can cover 20 buildings, plus a hospital and whatnot, at a university.
General steam use seems rare. I think the city density is just too low to make it worth while. I don't see why it wouldn't work for the inner city, areas with high rise buildings and such.
Wood stoves are still pretty popular around here (north, rural) as well. (as an adjunct to oil, not generally sole use these days). In the cities anything built since the war is natural gas / forced air. Some rural stuff is propane, as well.
Second biggest exporter by dollar value. So for every aeroplane or gigantic dump truck that the US exports, how many containers full of $0.25 Chinese trinkets does that work out to?
China definitely is #1 by physical volume of trinkets, I'd think.
PS - I think Germany is #2 and, USA is #3 (this may have changed again though, #2/3 are tight).
This sort of exists in civilized countries. The green dot system (started in germany, early 90s). As I understand it, to sell something there you need to either collect the waste of your product yourself, or pay a licensing fee to the.. sort of garbage agency. As more packaging results in larger licence fees, this also promotes smaller packaging. (and the recovery is paid for).
It may cost more to sort and recycle used plastic, as opposed to using oil as a feedstock for new plastic. I suppose it likely depends on the type of plastic for one. Obviously thermosets cannot be recycled at all (apart from using them as fill or something like this).
The pricing is temporary though, as oil becomes more expensive that will definitely change (if it is indeed the case now, I'm not certain). It seems likely that recovery and automatic sorting systems will improve over time too, bringing the cost down.
Who fixes an apartment they don't own? Especially exterior / common areas? They're slums because the landlords don't maintain them. (in addition to the renters disrespecting the property).
Gentrification is usually because the new money that moves in to the hood *owns* the property and spiffs it up.
This is the same army that isn't equipped with enough parkas and the like to monitor the north.
Besides that, it's just too bloody big and cold to effectively monitor. Canada and the US can't even secure the southern border well, it's much shorter, has civilization, better weather.
The biggest island up there is 3/4 the size of texas, with 10k population total (with over two thirds of that in one town). That works out to one person per every 20 square miles, if they were distributed evenly. In the middle of november, the sun goes down and doesn't come up for TWO MONTHS! How do you defend something like that, without a ton of cash and manpower... and fuel!
If it was just the couple big islands, it might not be as daunting either. There is a ton of them!
The archipelago consists of 36,563 islands, of which 94 are classified as major islands, being larger than 130 km2 (50 sq mi), and cover a total area of 1,400,000 km2 (540,000 sq mi).
So almost as much area as alaska, spread over 36000 islands. And you'd still have to defend the mainland shoreline, in addition to that, which is also gigantic, but at least contiguous.
Is there such a thing as a political slur? It's not like something you're born into. If someone doesn't want to be associated with a party of idiots, they are free leave.
I also don't see what is a gay slur about teabagging. I guess gay males can teabag each other, but it's not something exclusive to them.
Human lifespan increases in the second half of the 20th century were from decreased childhood mortality. It is not just a 'rite of passage'.
Absolutely, agree with your sentiment entirely. But it wasn't just mass vaccination programs.
Penicillin came online around the end of WWII, and has saved countless lives... it's why people don't die from a scrape anymore, certainly affecting lifespan stats.
Combined, they're the two biggest things since sanitation.
Passat is roughly the same 'class' as Jettas and Golfs now, IMO, as they have moved upmarket (unless you have a super base one with cloth and crank windows). Passat tends to have a few extras, but not much. it's mostly just larger is all.
Phaeton basically has no market, as anyone that wants an expensive VW buys an Audi.
Golf and Jetta have always been based on the same platform. It's not exactly like what GM did/does, where the only difference between a Bonneville and a Caprice is the badge and grille, but they do share a lot of common components.
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Last time I was in Montenegro I saw more signs and ads in Russian than in Serbian. Seems that Russians liked it so much, they bought the whole coast.
They also make / service the things that the phones talk to. That part of the business isn't included in the deal.
I think it's less hardware now, more consulting and the like. Probably fat patent royalties as well, being one of the innovators in the industry. I seem to think siemens is hooked up with that end of the business as well.
I thought the ersatz chocolate they use in Canada was bad enough. You're telling me it's even worse in the US?
I guess that figures. Just like American "cheese", frozen dairy desert, edible oil product and so on.
Yeah, the milk makes it much different.
I'd explain it as a cross between lemon meringue and cheesecake in consistency, with lime taste, of course. Although that might be a poor approximation.
From start of 2010 until mid 2012, prices went from ~$15 to a low of $1.70 or so. It's recovered some, since then, but what terrible performance. That was more like a 90% reduction in value.
Those had hard results, though. SO2 caused acid rain, and effluent dumping (solvents, oils, PCBs, and mercury, for example) made fish inedible and rivers start on fire... all hard results people could see, right now.
They really need to come up with a new insecticide for bed bugs.
When I was a kid, bed bugs were some sort of myth, they just didn't exist anymore, like smallpox.
That just may have been because I grew up in BFE, though, with almost no immigration and little international travel. Now they are widespread through Canadian cities, not just flophouses either.
Current ways of killing them seem to be:
1. pyrethin? (plant based) insecticide, they are more or less immune
2. something else, but has to be applied by extermintor 3 times to kill, as it doesn't kill eggs. Cheapass slumlords never pay for three treatments, so this solves nothing, generally.
3. Heat. Heating the whole apartment block to 45 degrees (uhh.. 110? or 120F) for an hour or two kills them all dead, including eggs. expensive.
4. higher test stuff that is illegal to use indoors, maybe cause neurotoxicity or cancer or who knows what.
Doesn't seem like anyone does research on this, maybe they do and I just don't know about it. I'd certainly say this is going to get worse before it gets better, though.
Here (west canada, inland) winter can be very cold, -30 for several months is not impossible, but becoming less common it seems. occasional days / weeks of -40 as well.
Central steam only seems to be used in centralized, unified things like university campuses, army installations, etc. Much less maintenance than having boilers in each building, so the steam plant can cover 20 buildings, plus a hospital and whatnot, at a university.
General steam use seems rare. I think the city density is just too low to make it worth while. I don't see why it wouldn't work for the inner city, areas with high rise buildings and such.
Wood stoves are still pretty popular around here (north, rural) as well. (as an adjunct to oil, not generally sole use these days). In the cities anything built since the war is natural gas / forced air. Some rural stuff is propane, as well.
Second biggest exporter by dollar value. So for every aeroplane or gigantic dump truck that the US exports, how many containers full of $0.25 Chinese trinkets does that work out to?
China definitely is #1 by physical volume of trinkets, I'd think.
PS - I think Germany is #2 and, USA is #3 (this may have changed again though, #2/3 are tight).
This sort of exists in civilized countries. The green dot system (started in germany, early 90s). As I understand it, to sell something there you need to either collect the waste of your product yourself, or pay a licensing fee to the.. sort of garbage agency. As more packaging results in larger licence fees, this also promotes smaller packaging. (and the recovery is paid for).
green dot
For plastic bottles, I think they shred them, swish the particles in a hot (weak) lye solution, rinse a few times.
It may cost more to sort and recycle used plastic, as opposed to using oil as a feedstock for new plastic. I suppose it likely depends on the type of plastic for one. Obviously thermosets cannot be recycled at all (apart from using them as fill or something like this).
The pricing is temporary though, as oil becomes more expensive that will definitely change (if it is indeed the case now, I'm not certain). It seems likely that recovery and automatic sorting systems will improve over time too, bringing the cost down.
Who fixes an apartment they don't own? Especially exterior / common areas? They're slums because the landlords don't maintain them. (in addition to the renters disrespecting the property).
Gentrification is usually because the new money that moves in to the hood *owns* the property and spiffs it up.
Yep, if you want to see what sort of safety features a Chevy Cavalier^WCobalt^WCruze will have in 20 or 25 years, look at this year's S class.
Yeah. You are allowed to hunt them september until december, up to 8 a day. (with a permit, of course.)
A neighbour used to hook us up with geese all the time. Not everyone likes the flavour, though.
This is the same army that isn't equipped with enough parkas and the like to monitor the north.
Besides that, it's just too bloody big and cold to effectively monitor. Canada and the US can't even secure the southern border well, it's much shorter, has civilization, better weather.
The biggest island up there is 3/4 the size of texas, with 10k population total (with over two thirds of that in one town). That works out to one person per every 20 square miles, if they were distributed evenly. In the middle of november, the sun goes down and doesn't come up for TWO MONTHS! How do you defend something like that, without a ton of cash and manpower... and fuel!
If it was just the couple big islands, it might not be as daunting either. There is a ton of them!
The archipelago consists of 36,563 islands, of which 94 are classified as major islands, being larger than 130 km2 (50 sq mi), and cover a total area of 1,400,000 km2 (540,000 sq mi).
So almost as much area as alaska, spread over 36000 islands. And you'd still have to defend the mainland shoreline, in addition to that, which is also gigantic, but at least contiguous.
Is there such a thing as a political slur? It's not like something you're born into. If someone doesn't want to be associated with a party of idiots, they are free leave.
I also don't see what is a gay slur about teabagging. I guess gay males can teabag each other, but it's not something exclusive to them.
CBC TV has had ads since... I don't remember when, but I don't think it has always had them. A long time now, anyway.
CBC radio 1 is still ad free, though.
The Nokia tune is a couple bars from some classical spanish guitar piece, if memory serves.
I seem to think the default one was just 'M', and the 'special' one was SMS, which was a bit long winded.
Human lifespan increases in the second half of the 20th century were from decreased childhood mortality. It is not just a 'rite of passage'.
Absolutely, agree with your sentiment entirely. But it wasn't just mass vaccination programs.
Penicillin came online around the end of WWII, and has saved countless lives... it's why people don't die from a scrape anymore, certainly affecting lifespan stats.
Combined, they're the two biggest things since sanitation.
Burning (err, decomposing, I guess) enough teflon will kill people too. HF is nasty shit.
"Researchers in France have discovered a the worlds largest virus and given it a terrifying name: Pandoravirus.
We can't even have the first sentence of a submission checked now?
Passat is roughly the same 'class' as Jettas and Golfs now, IMO, as they have moved upmarket (unless you have a super base one with cloth and crank windows). Passat tends to have a few extras, but not much. it's mostly just larger is all.
Phaeton basically has no market, as anyone that wants an expensive VW buys an Audi.
Golf and Jetta have always been based on the same platform. It's not exactly like what GM did/does, where the only difference between a Bonneville and a Caprice is the badge and grille, but they do share a lot of common components.