The pure number crunching says different. And I too disagree with you. I've been there, being German myself, and I didn't see any abnormal price increases. It was a "felt inflation", every price increase was blamed on the euro no matter what the real reasons were. And as a whole, the price increase for the whole year was on the low side on average (1.8 percent), which is way lower than the average of DM times (2.2 percent).
As far as I know, there are no religious teachings or internal memos in the Catholic church requiring the abuse of choir boys. If a priest does it anyway, he does it not on request of the organisation he is a member of. It's still his individual fault.
Because this is strictly a criminal investigation against an organisation, not a religious tribunal.
If you find enough material for a criminal conduct of other religious organisations which are really those of the organisation and are systematic to that organisation and not of individuals which are members of the organisation, be my guest.
Irrelevant? If I want to know if it's going to freeze, I just look at the temperature, and if it's below 0C, it's going to freeze. If I boil water, it will start to boil at 100C.
I don't measure my body temperature that often, and I don't feel too cold that often. But I cook my eggs every weekend, and if I have to take care because of freezing rain on the streets, I have to check every day during winter.
So give me 0C and 100C (and I can remember the 273,15 K for 0C, thank you very much), and get lost with your 32 F and 212 F - they are just not interesting.
What exactly is gained by change in units? As a metric "native" I can tell you that metric units are not based on real-world criteria. There is no way to naturally define an "approximate" centimeter or a gram (as opposed to approximate inch, foot or ounce, for example).
Which is plainly wrong. Every unit was defined to be connected to the Meter (which is why it is called "meter", latin for "measure").
The metric ton for instance was defined as the mass of water in a cube of 1m x 1m x 1m. Thus 1 liter (1 dm) of water weighs weighs 1 kg, and 1 cm of water weighs 1 g.
The meter was defined as the 10 millionth of the distance between Northpole and Equator. Only when the first units of Meter bars were founded and handed over to the national measuring bodies, one found out that there was a small mistake in measurement, and the new meter was about 2 millimeters short. But then it was too late to change that, and the meter was kept.
To continue the comparision: The theoretical maximum you could get out of a light source is about 251 Lumen/Watt for a source of white light at 5800 K. So this new type of LED is near 80% efficiency.
You don't need a Federal law to have this being illegal. In most legislations it is illegal to demand someone to break a contract with a third party. And the Terms and Conditions of Facebook are a contract, and they explicitely forbid it to hand over your credentials to someone else.
Doesn't actually matter, what ever country the ancestors came from, if it is in some way an industrialized country, you can count on the teenage pregnancy rates there to be lower than in the U.S.: Ireland 8%, Italy 3%, Poland: 9%, Germany: 6%... Not a single country comes somewhere close to the U.S.'s 22%. And all those countries have better governmental benefits for teenage moms than the U.S., so it's not as if cutting that would change anything.
The U.S. simply has a problem with the fundamental sex education and access to contraceptives for teenagers.
Better sex education helps. You can actually draw a nice linear chart of countries with a good sex education and low teenage pregnancy rates and countries with bad or misleading sex education ("true love waits"), and high teenage pregnancy rates.
The solution to unwanted teenage pregnancy is education. The right one, down to the biological details. Works wonders in all countries which tried.
So you fell for the smear campaign? No one ever managed to prove them liars, they are just routinely called so. But any attempt to prove manipulation and lies in court failed.
We should just put the argument to rest. It's an unfounded accusation as of now, after ten years of digging and grabbing for evidence. The lies of the climate scientists are like the weapons of mass destruction. We were told again and again, they were there, we just needed to go in and uncover them. But for some reasons, they remain elusive.
They don't need to, That's what the IPCC is for, But if you insist on not believing what all those people say who have the education and the practice to answer your questions in climate matters, then ok, you are still left uninformed.
If it were so, why didn't the insurers switched from Munich Re to Swiss Re? It's not as if Munich Re was the monopolist.
Sometimes conspiracy theories are simply dumb.
Obviously it was obvious then.
We were syncing messages between different computer architectures for about a quarter of a century in 1995.
What do you think the Internet Protocol is, beside a mechanism to sync messages over a wide range of hardware and architectures?
"Freedom of the press" means also that everyone is "press" if he chooses to be so.
It just needs you to label yourself a journalist, and you are one.
That's one part of the freedom the press has. No one can declare you non-press.
So the random dude has exactly the same rights the press has.
No, it's not. According to the revised Waffengesetz of Dec 12 2008, you can only buy ammunition for weapons you own rightfully. But you don't own the Ordonanzwaffe, your personal army weapon. It is forbidden to own Serieschusswaffen (full automatic weapons) at all. Until 2007, you got Taschenmunition (pocket ammunition) to be stored at home, a packet of ammunition, that was sealed, and which had to be brought unopened back to the army everytime you returned there.
Basicly, it was nearly impossible to use the army weapon for personal usage. After leaving the army, you could actually buy your Ordonanzwaffe, but it had to be rebuild to a semi-automatic first. (Actually, those are the only converted weapons you are allowed to own in Switzerland).
It might also have to do with the fact that an assault rifle is not the right weapon for a gang war and that you can't buy ammunition for the assault that easily in Switzerland. Just saying.
Or to put it into numbers: 3500 people responded, and 80% of them didn't want porn filtering, which means that 700 of them were in favour of porn filters. This could mean that 2000 of the 3500 people have to have been parents, because 35% of them would add up exactly to 700 persons, if none of the non-parents wanted any porn filtering at all. (If we assume 10% of the non-parents to be in favour of porn filters, we would have 350 non parenting people for filters, remaining 350 parents for filters, which in turn would put the number of parents responding to 1000.)
I am preferring the current paperback format of e-readers. They have exactly the right size to fit into the pocket and to be read while travelling. I will probably cling to my e-reader for a long time too, until it finally breaks. The PDFs I have thrown at it so far rendered fine, but they are mostly technical documents I had to read and didn't want to print out due to their huge page numbers (often exceeding 1000 pages), and you never know which of those you actually need.
One big advantage e-readers have today, which plays well with the current e-ink displays is us being used to pagewise reading. Thus the event of refreshing the display (which is what actually eats the power while using e-ink) is a seldom event, happening a few times per minute, while refreshing a LED display has to happen 60 times every second to allow for a stable picture.
Yes, e-readers fill a special niche. Yes, tablets make inroads into the same niche. I would rather think that we will end up with tablets which have an e-ink like display, using less power than current LED displays, but reacting much faster than current e-inks and allowing for colors, tablets, whose backlights are very good at automatically adjusting to ambient light.
Not exactly, the number in munich would be 40123456 TON subscriber, the number in Hamburg 40123456 TON national, which makes the routing clear. If you call 0112 in Germany, you get a refused call, as the nummer 112 is specially handled by your phone switch to get to Deutsche Telekom and then to the emergency local to your call.
No, actually, what you dial is not what the phone system sees.
If you are calling 0911 from within Germany, your local phone switch sees a call "911... TON national" (TON = Type of Number, a field in the ISDN header). If you are dialing local a number starting with 911..., your local phone switch sees a call "911... TON subscriber". As far as I know, emergency numbers in Germany are not of type subscriber (as they are for instance in Austria), so a call to 911... TON national would indeed call Nuremberg and not the local emergency (it's more complicated as emergency service numbers in Germany are provided by Deutsche Telekom, and if you are calling from different networks, you would always have to prefix the call with 1033 to route into the Deutsche Telekom network).
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The pure number crunching says different. And I too disagree with you. I've been there, being German myself, and I didn't see any abnormal price increases. It was a "felt inflation", every price increase was blamed on the euro no matter what the real reasons were. And as a whole, the price increase for the whole year was on the low side on average (1.8 percent), which is way lower than the average of DM times (2.2 percent).
As far as I know, there are no religious teachings or internal memos in the Catholic church requiring the abuse of choir boys. If a priest does it anyway, he does it not on request of the organisation he is a member of. It's still his individual fault.
Because this is strictly a criminal investigation against an organisation, not a religious tribunal. If you find enough material for a criminal conduct of other religious organisations which are really those of the organisation and are systematic to that organisation and not of individuals which are members of the organisation, be my guest.
Irrelevant? If I want to know if it's going to freeze, I just look at the temperature, and if it's below 0C, it's going to freeze. If I boil water, it will start to boil at 100C. I don't measure my body temperature that often, and I don't feel too cold that often. But I cook my eggs every weekend, and if I have to take care because of freezing rain on the streets, I have to check every day during winter. So give me 0C and 100C (and I can remember the 273,15 K for 0C, thank you very much), and get lost with your 32 F and 212 F - they are just not interesting.
Args, Slashcode ate my exponents. 1 liter is 1 dm^3, and 1 cm^3 of water weighs 1 g.
What exactly is gained by change in units? As a metric "native" I can tell you that metric units are not based on real-world criteria. There is no way to naturally define an "approximate" centimeter or a gram (as opposed to approximate inch, foot or ounce, for example).
Which is plainly wrong. Every unit was defined to be connected to the Meter (which is why it is called "meter", latin for "measure"). The metric ton for instance was defined as the mass of water in a cube of 1m x 1m x 1m. Thus 1 liter (1 dm) of water weighs weighs 1 kg, and 1 cm of water weighs 1 g. The meter was defined as the 10 millionth of the distance between Northpole and Equator. Only when the first units of Meter bars were founded and handed over to the national measuring bodies, one found out that there was a small mistake in measurement, and the new meter was about 2 millimeters short. But then it was too late to change that, and the meter was kept.
This is a myth. The only places where some 1 DM = 1 € conversions were attempted were bars and pubs.
Conversation problems -- in both meanings of the word.
To continue the comparision: The theoretical maximum you could get out of a light source is about 251 Lumen/Watt for a source of white light at 5800 K. So this new type of LED is near 80% efficiency.
If you have a better idea, please elaborate. For some reason completely oblivious to you, preparation against catastrophic events costs money.
You don't need a Federal law to have this being illegal. In most legislations it is illegal to demand someone to break a contract with a third party. And the Terms and Conditions of Facebook are a contract, and they explicitely forbid it to hand over your credentials to someone else.
Doesn't actually matter, what ever country the ancestors came from, if it is in some way an industrialized country, you can count on the teenage pregnancy rates there to be lower than in the U.S.: Ireland 8%, Italy 3%, Poland: 9%, Germany: 6%... Not a single country comes somewhere close to the U.S.'s 22%. And all those countries have better governmental benefits for teenage moms than the U.S., so it's not as if cutting that would change anything. The U.S. simply has a problem with the fundamental sex education and access to contraceptives for teenagers.
Better sex education helps. You can actually draw a nice linear chart of countries with a good sex education and low teenage pregnancy rates and countries with bad or misleading sex education ("true love waits"), and high teenage pregnancy rates. The solution to unwanted teenage pregnancy is education. The right one, down to the biological details. Works wonders in all countries which tried.
So you fell for the smear campaign? No one ever managed to prove them liars, they are just routinely called so. But any attempt to prove manipulation and lies in court failed. We should just put the argument to rest. It's an unfounded accusation as of now, after ten years of digging and grabbing for evidence. The lies of the climate scientists are like the weapons of mass destruction. We were told again and again, they were there, we just needed to go in and uncover them. But for some reasons, they remain elusive.
They don't need to, That's what the IPCC is for, But if you insist on not believing what all those people say who have the education and the practice to answer your questions in climate matters, then ok, you are still left uninformed.
If it were so, why didn't the insurers switched from Munich Re to Swiss Re? It's not as if Munich Re was the monopolist. Sometimes conspiracy theories are simply dumb.
Obviously it was obvious then. We were syncing messages between different computer architectures for about a quarter of a century in 1995. What do you think the Internet Protocol is, beside a mechanism to sync messages over a wide range of hardware and architectures?
"Freedom of the press" means also that everyone is "press" if he chooses to be so. It just needs you to label yourself a journalist, and you are one. That's one part of the freedom the press has. No one can declare you non-press. So the random dude has exactly the same rights the press has.
No, it's not. According to the revised Waffengesetz of Dec 12 2008, you can only buy ammunition for weapons you own rightfully. But you don't own the Ordonanzwaffe, your personal army weapon. It is forbidden to own Serieschusswaffen (full automatic weapons) at all. Until 2007, you got Taschenmunition (pocket ammunition) to be stored at home, a packet of ammunition, that was sealed, and which had to be brought unopened back to the army everytime you returned there. Basicly, it was nearly impossible to use the army weapon for personal usage. After leaving the army, you could actually buy your Ordonanzwaffe, but it had to be rebuild to a semi-automatic first. (Actually, those are the only converted weapons you are allowed to own in Switzerland).
It might also have to do with the fact that an assault rifle is not the right weapon for a gang war and that you can't buy ammunition for the assault that easily in Switzerland. Just saying.
Or to put it into numbers: 3500 people responded, and 80% of them didn't want porn filtering, which means that 700 of them were in favour of porn filters. This could mean that 2000 of the 3500 people have to have been parents, because 35% of them would add up exactly to 700 persons, if none of the non-parents wanted any porn filtering at all. (If we assume 10% of the non-parents to be in favour of porn filters, we would have 350 non parenting people for filters, remaining 350 parents for filters, which in turn would put the number of parents responding to 1000.)
Must have to do with the fact, that not all of them responding were parents.
I am preferring the current paperback format of e-readers. They have exactly the right size to fit into the pocket and to be read while travelling. I will probably cling to my e-reader for a long time too, until it finally breaks. The PDFs I have thrown at it so far rendered fine, but they are mostly technical documents I had to read and didn't want to print out due to their huge page numbers (often exceeding 1000 pages), and you never know which of those you actually need.
One big advantage e-readers have today, which plays well with the current e-ink displays is us being used to pagewise reading. Thus the event of refreshing the display (which is what actually eats the power while using e-ink) is a seldom event, happening a few times per minute, while refreshing a LED display has to happen 60 times every second to allow for a stable picture.
Yes, e-readers fill a special niche. Yes, tablets make inroads into the same niche. I would rather think that we will end up with tablets which have an e-ink like display, using less power than current LED displays, but reacting much faster than current e-inks and allowing for colors, tablets, whose backlights are very good at automatically adjusting to ambient light.
Not exactly, the number in munich would be 40123456 TON subscriber, the number in Hamburg 40123456 TON national, which makes the routing clear. If you call 0112 in Germany, you get a refused call, as the nummer 112 is specially handled by your phone switch to get to Deutsche Telekom and then to the emergency local to your call.
No, actually, what you dial is not what the phone system sees. If you are calling 0911 from within Germany, your local phone switch sees a call "911... TON national" (TON = Type of Number, a field in the ISDN header). If you are dialing local a number starting with 911..., your local phone switch sees a call "911... TON subscriber". As far as I know, emergency numbers in Germany are not of type subscriber (as they are for instance in Austria), so a call to 911... TON national would indeed call Nuremberg and not the local emergency (it's more complicated as emergency service numbers in Germany are provided by Deutsche Telekom, and if you are calling from different networks, you would always have to prefix the call with 1033 to route into the Deutsche Telekom network).