Yeah, I suppose that could be true. I'm not amazingly familiar with russian prices (never been there.. yet!) but I've found cost of food and similar staples to be much cheaper in Serbia than in my home (canada), and presume a fair bit of that carries over.
You're right, cars are definitely more expensive. I'm not sure if they still have tariffs on imported vehicles (which are based off an external prices, still..) Of course.. domestic vehicles are rather cheap, if you want one;) Last time in serbia, a yugo was $6k or so tax paid, and around $9k for a lada niva.
But I think the bare necessities (food, shelter) and definitely sin things (liquor, cigs) are/far/ cheaper. I can get a carton of cigs in serbia for less than a pack costs in Canada;-) Luxuries, especially western made ones, are definitely not affordable though. But.. caviar is cheaper.. go figure.
One thing I really like about east europe that all but disappeared in the west is.. one man operation stores.. and... repairing things! Imagine that.. fixing electronics, shoes, whatever... which becomes economical with lower wages, I suppose.
I'd think cadmium is a possibility. I presume most paper clips are galvanized? maybe they are not.
anyway, Cd is similar to Zn, and they're generally found together. But Cd has the detriment of being so similar to Zn that it confuses your body (which needs trace zinc) and stays there, giving you some sort of chronic zinc deficiency sort of cadmium poisoning. That's my understanding at least.
Something like the "zinc chills" you get from welding galvanized metal, but more permanent and possibly fatal.
Anyhow, since Cd is found with Zn ore, it's possible that shitty cheap Zn production could have Cd contamination, or it can be used in place of zinc (it's excellent for rustproofing) - Although I believe it is more expensive, so contamination and mixups would be more likely.
Life is crap is rather relative. Sure it's not Sweden, but it isn't Burma either.
Most east europeans I know have a fairly decent standard of living. There's room for improvement for sure, but it's not *that* bleak.
Then again, I have an uncle who is a mech eng, and makes something like I'd make at mcdonalds here... but everything domestic there is considerably cheaper, so they aren't starving. The only real problem is getting western goods, or commodities with global prices (fuel is still expensive..) - This works in most parts of east europe I think. Moscow is a batshit insane corner case though, with ridiculous prices...
Somehow they seem to be happier than the average american/canadian IME, though. More of a work enough to survive thing, as opposed to the 60h a week live to work thing we have happening here.
And there's always a selection bias too, I guess. My Russian friends that want to come to the west badly seem to badmouth the motherland a lot more than friends that have no intention of leaving. I think part of it is a grass is greener thing.
I think so. My father's generation (born during WWII, in a fairly hard hit region) seems to average at least 6 inches shorter than the generations born in the years after, when food was ample and nutritious.
Maybe socialism made them taller (This was pinko Yugoslavia);-)
I think I recall hearing that Montenegro (also ex-yu) has the tallest avg. population in the world. Not sure how true that is, but I do notice a lot of tall people in ex-yu.
I think the loss of response time induced by looking down at a phone on your lap (possibly two-handing it due to phones with large keyboards these days) is more akin to going 120 in a 30, not 60 in a 55.
You're making the assumption that the police actually did something about it though. Not calling at all would probably have a similar level of efficacy.;-)
I'm not sure how much forgetting the ride matters. I do find myself autopiloting on occasion too, but i think i'm still rather observant while driving, and just not committing that to long term memory.
For example, I have no real recollection of what I did at work yesterday, but I presume I was reasonably prudent and nothing blew up / no one was maimed. Sometimes you just don't remember because it was so bloody uneventful.
I don't know, estates are still plenty popular in europe. minivans never quite took off like they did in the US.
Probably because a station wagon is more practical and less of an eyesore. As much room, handles better, etc. (well, modern Europeans ones at least. America made some uuuugly fucking wagons back in the day.
X4n had a (up to) 2GHz P-M, if i'm not mistaken.. which should still knock the pants off a atom, at least in speed. I think they were reasonably speedy when they were launched, it's been a long time.
The thing I disliked about them the most was the nonstandard hdd.
I'm assuming that even if there are dead pins on the current socket, that can be used for the video portion, no existing boards will have this capability... so it wouldn't matter anyway, right?
Not sure about where you went to school, but they taught us about all of the allied nations participation.
I seem to recall they covered the eastern front quite in depth, everyone that paid attention knew that the immense soviet struggle was a major part of an allied victory.
I've always assumed this part is kinda glossed over in US schools though, esp. during the cold war, and that they just go on about normandy, then play saving private ryan and shout "america fuck yeah" a few times. I'm not sure if that's the case though, hopefully not.;)
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Oddly I read it as "flying diodes".
Maybe I should put the soldering iron down for a while and go outside.
Yeah, I suppose that could be true. I'm not amazingly familiar with russian prices (never been there.. yet!) but I've found cost of food and similar staples to be much cheaper in Serbia than in my home (canada), and presume a fair bit of that carries over.
You're right, cars are definitely more expensive. I'm not sure if they still have tariffs on imported vehicles (which are based off an external prices, still..) ;)
Of course.. domestic vehicles are rather cheap, if you want one
Last time in serbia, a yugo was $6k or so tax paid, and around $9k for a lada niva.
But I think the bare necessities (food, shelter) and definitely sin things (liquor, cigs) are /far/ cheaper. I can get a carton of cigs in serbia for less than a pack costs in Canada ;-)
Luxuries, especially western made ones, are definitely not affordable though. But.. caviar is cheaper.. go figure.
One thing I really like about east europe that all but disappeared in the west is.. one man operation stores.. and... repairing things! Imagine that.. fixing electronics, shoes, whatever... which becomes economical with lower wages, I suppose.
I'd think cadmium is a possibility. I presume most paper clips are galvanized? maybe they are not.
anyway, Cd is similar to Zn, and they're generally found together. But Cd has the detriment of being so similar to Zn that it confuses your body (which needs trace zinc) and stays there, giving you some sort of chronic zinc deficiency sort of cadmium poisoning. That's my understanding at least.
Something like the "zinc chills" you get from welding galvanized metal, but more permanent and possibly fatal.
Anyhow, since Cd is found with Zn ore, it's possible that shitty cheap Zn production could have Cd contamination, or it can be used in place of zinc (it's excellent for rustproofing) - Although I believe it is more expensive, so contamination and mixups would be more likely.
Life is crap is rather relative. Sure it's not Sweden, but it isn't Burma either.
Most east europeans I know have a fairly decent standard of living. There's room for improvement for sure, but it's not *that* bleak.
Then again, I have an uncle who is a mech eng, and makes something like I'd make at mcdonalds here... but everything domestic there is considerably cheaper, so they aren't starving. The only real problem is getting western goods, or commodities with global prices (fuel is still expensive..) - This works in most parts of east europe I think. Moscow is a batshit insane corner case though, with ridiculous prices...
Somehow they seem to be happier than the average american/canadian IME, though. More of a work enough to survive thing, as opposed to the 60h a week live to work thing we have happening here.
And there's always a selection bias too, I guess. My Russian friends that want to come to the west badly seem to badmouth the motherland a lot more than friends that have no intention of leaving. I think part of it is a grass is greener thing.
Another sign of how times change eh?
Fans like this were in common use in the earlier part of the past century... I think they called them finger choppers for a reason!
Somehow I have the sneaking suspicion they wouldn't make it past safety regulations today...
A quarter of the machines are nix too. Year of linux on the desktop! ;-)
or year of admins reading slashdot on the server?
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I think so. My father's generation (born during WWII, in a fairly hard hit region) seems to average at least 6 inches shorter than the generations born in the years after, when food was ample and nutritious.
Maybe socialism made them taller (This was pinko Yugoslavia) ;-)
I think I recall hearing that Montenegro (also ex-yu) has the tallest avg. population in the world. Not sure how true that is, but I do notice a lot of tall people in ex-yu.
Have you tried kicad?
It's not altium or anything, but I've found it more usable than gEDA.
Not just any magic, but black magic. RF is the same way, in your field.
I think the loss of response time induced by looking down at a phone on your lap (possibly two-handing it due to phones with large keyboards these days) is more akin to going 120 in a 30, not 60 in a 55.
You're making the assumption that the police actually did something about it though. Not calling at all would probably have a similar level of efficacy. ;-)
I'm not sure how much forgetting the ride matters. I do find myself autopiloting on occasion too, but i think i'm still rather observant while driving, and just not committing that to long term memory.
For example, I have no real recollection of what I did at work yesterday, but I presume I was reasonably prudent and nothing blew up / no one was maimed. Sometimes you just don't remember because it was so bloody uneventful.
I smirked, if it's any consolation.
I think said 9 year olds would still be more prudent than your average driver out there.
They were German though. That's akin to being born with an engineering degree, or at least a few years worth. ;-)
I don't know, estates are still plenty popular in europe. minivans never quite took off like they did in the US.
Probably because a station wagon is more practical and less of an eyesore. As much room, handles better, etc. (well, modern Europeans ones at least. America made some uuuugly fucking wagons back in the day.
'I D 10 T' error.
ding. and transmission requires power.
French foreign legion used to be the way to go, could try that out.
X4n had a (up to) 2GHz P-M, if i'm not mistaken.. which should still knock the pants off a atom, at least in speed. I think they were reasonably speedy when they were launched, it's been a long time.
The thing I disliked about them the most was the nonstandard hdd.
I'm assuming that even if there are dead pins on the current socket, that can be used for the video portion, no existing boards will have this capability... so it wouldn't matter anyway, right?
thinkin' new socket.
Yeah. No one ever buys a desktop, and they certainly don't ever want it to be faster.
Not sure about where you went to school, but they taught us about all of the allied nations participation.
I seem to recall they covered the eastern front quite in depth, everyone that paid attention knew that the immense soviet struggle was a major part of an allied victory.
I've always assumed this part is kinda glossed over in US schools though, esp. during the cold war, and that they just go on about normandy, then play saving private ryan and shout "america fuck yeah" a few times. I'm not sure if that's the case though, hopefully not. ;)
I believe there is a windows port of evince, which is rather nice.
I usually use okular on linux, though. Something about it I like better, but don't recall what right now.