Germany has not started building any new coal plants since the late 1990ies. All apparently new coal plants were commissioned before 1997. No new coal plant since then has ever come out of the planing state. Actually, Germany's electricity relies less and less on coal, and coal based power is down from a height of 60% in 1991 to 40% in 2015, and it is still shrinking -- and that includes the nuclear moratorium after Fukushima in 2011. Currently, it's 25% lignite, 17% coal, 14% nuclear, 9% gas and about 40% renewables.
I know that "but Germany and its coal!" is a common battle cry in the community, albeit a quite unfounded one.
I've seen worse. A customer of mine hired a replacement for the position of IT administrator. What they were asking for in the classified was "Word and Excel knowledge". They got someone who was able to use Word and Excel. But after some time, I gave up teaching him how to read IP addresses.
I don't think so. Knowing a language does not only mean that you are able to write a syntactically correct program which compiles and does what it is supposed to do. It means that you have intimate knowledge of all the libraries and toolsets and coding environments that come with the language. And this is the real treasure of knowledge that makes the difference between a newby to the language and the seasoned programmer. If you have enough experience you know which things are already invented, and how to use them, and which ones you have to invent yourself.
This is an effect called the "urban agglomeration". The immediate region around the (legal) city limits is often preferred to the actual inner city as the population density is lower and the recreational opportunities are better. The inhabitants of the urban agglomeration still have an urban lifestyle and enjoy many of the advantages of living close to the urban center.
Socialist urban planners wanted everybody to move to urban areas so they could live out their utopia dreams, but old school greed walked in with them. Welcome to reality.
I don't know where the socialist urban planners come in. In no single country it's cheap to live in the city compared with rural areas. Cities were attractive living places compared to the rural areas in the Middle Ages. They were it when the Industrial Revolution started. And they are now. No socialist urban planners necessary. All they do is migitate the problem a little.
It might have to do with the fact that you can see the leaked information from russian or chinese sources in the evening news on TV, because leaking russian and chinese secrets to the public is not in violation to any U.S. statute. That's quite different to leaking U.S. secrets to the public, which is considered treason in the US.
WikiLeaks makes the headlines in the U.S. everytime it publishes information from the U.S.. That's right. And that's because you wouldn't get that information anywhere else because of U.S. law. If WikiLeaks publishes something from Syria or North Korea or China, it doesn't make the headlines, because a dozen other news outlets will publish it too, and even the U.S. government publishes a press release daming those bastards in Syria, North Korea and China for their brazen violation of human rights.
There is always a difference between knowing how to use a tool and knowing how a tool works (and creating your own tool is still another level). To get a nail in a wall with an hammer, you don't need to know about energy, inertia, impulse and force. And you don't need to know how to forge an hammer head. All you need to know is how to grip an hammer and how to hit the nail.
I will never dismiss the ability to use a tool with the argument that someone doesn't know how it actually works.
The ability to use a calculator to get an answer to a math problem is math knowledge. It might not be the math knowledge necessery to get an answer if you don't have a calculator. But it is math knowledge nevertheless.
Austria, whose electric energy generation is 70% based on renewables, has energy prices of about 20 ct/kWh. It's not the way Germany generates energy, it's about how Germany taxes energy.
Attorney's fee is determined by the judge in Germany and depends on the sum of money the (civil) lawsuit is about. Whatever Google's attorneys charge, this doesn't change the attorney's fees Google is entitled if they win. (And because this is a civil lawsuit, no one fully wins, thus Google will not get all the money.)
I know it's a meme, but it is a pretty silly one. France was involved in more than 2000(!) wars since the Middle Ages, more than England, Prussia and Habsburg (the other large European powers of the last 500 years) combined. If they were defeated each time, France would have ceased to exist long ago.
Whenever I see someone making that joke, I know there is someone who doesn't think about his jokes and just repeats what he had heard from someone else.
The emails were released at a time when it was illegal for the french press to publicize them so, inarguably, the leaks could do very little damage.
You got it slightly wrong. It was at a time when the candidates were forbidden to talk to the press, and when no new polls were to be published, because the political campaigning had to be ceased.
It's still totally legal to publish news even about the campaigners at the time. So it was an ideal time as neither candidate would have been able to publish a press release about the contains of the e-mails.
The scientists may be smart. but as a agency, the EPA is faking research to justify regulations.
Actually, there is no evidence of faking research. There is the accusation of using "secret science". The accusation as it stands is just this: an accusation.
I didn't include violent protests and rioting in my argument. Expanding it and then arguing against points I didn't make is which logical fallacy again?
The problem is always that actions, which are tolerable if you are a minority, become unbearable if you are the majority. It's like monopoly tactics. If you are the dominating force, there is not enough regulative to migitate the effects of your actions. A single person saying: I don't like XYZ is ok. This is a personal opinion. The majority saying: I don't like XYZ is mobbing, because it heavily weights against anything XYZ can do.
Yes, a minority can be totally racist. But that's not the problem, as long as they are a small minority. Bundling other products to your most successful product to get into new markets is not a problem if you are just one company of many. But if you control the barrier of entry of everyone else, it becomes a problem. And being racist becomes a problem if you are part of the dominant group which controls the entries for everyone else.
For statistics, you need combinatorics and calculus. For both of them, you need set theory and functions. For percentages, you need cross-multiplication, and you need to know how rational numbers work. Doing your taxes and balancing your checkbook is basic arithmetics, cross-multiplication, and understanding exponential growth.
Looks to me as if that's quite close to the curriculum we have right now.
Russian hackers broke into the emails of the Democratic National Congress. Russian hackers published (allegeded or true) details from Hillary Clinton's campaign shortly before the election. Donald Trump's candidate for National Security Advisor Michael Flynn met with the Russian ambassador.
So as "Kill the witches" is a basic requirement for being a Jew and a Christian, right? (Exodus 22,17). And if you really want to be God's tool, just read up the bible what God will do unto the Infidels, and be ready for some serious smiting!
... which in turn means that Microsoft would not be able to sell any flavor of Win 10 S in the E.U., as they would be barred to sell the original Win 10 S.
I think you still have it the wrong way around. Neither hydrogen powered cars nor flying cars are new ideas. Hydrogen powered cars have existed 150 years ago (read up on the Hippomobile!), and flying cars were on sale 40 years ago. When Elon Musk decided to get into the car business, he was already against hydrogen powered and flying cars and went the electric way. There weren't any real breakthroughs in either technology in the recent years which could have caused a change of mind.
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I know that "but Germany and its coal!" is a common battle cry in the community, albeit a quite unfounded one.
I've seen worse. A customer of mine hired a replacement for the position of IT administrator. What they were asking for in the classified was "Word and Excel knowledge". They got someone who was able to use Word and Excel. But after some time, I gave up teaching him how to read IP addresses.
I don't think so. Knowing a language does not only mean that you are able to write a syntactically correct program which compiles and does what it is supposed to do. It means that you have intimate knowledge of all the libraries and toolsets and coding environments that come with the language. And this is the real treasure of knowledge that makes the difference between a newby to the language and the seasoned programmer. If you have enough experience you know which things are already invented, and how to use them, and which ones you have to invent yourself.
This is an effect called the "urban agglomeration". The immediate region around the (legal) city limits is often preferred to the actual inner city as the population density is lower and the recreational opportunities are better. The inhabitants of the urban agglomeration still have an urban lifestyle and enjoy many of the advantages of living close to the urban center.
Socialist urban planners wanted everybody to move to urban areas so they could live out their utopia dreams, but old school greed walked in with them. Welcome to reality.
I don't know where the socialist urban planners come in. In no single country it's cheap to live in the city compared with rural areas. Cities were attractive living places compared to the rural areas in the Middle Ages. They were it when the Industrial Revolution started. And they are now. No socialist urban planners necessary. All they do is migitate the problem a little.
WikiLeaks makes the headlines in the U.S. everytime it publishes information from the U.S.. That's right. And that's because you wouldn't get that information anywhere else because of U.S. law. If WikiLeaks publishes something from Syria or North Korea or China, it doesn't make the headlines, because a dozen other news outlets will publish it too, and even the U.S. government publishes a press release daming those bastards in Syria, North Korea and China for their brazen violation of human rights.
I will never dismiss the ability to use a tool with the argument that someone doesn't know how it actually works.
The ability to use a calculator to get an answer to a math problem is math knowledge. It might not be the math knowledge necessery to get an answer if you don't have a calculator. But it is math knowledge nevertheless.
Austria only generates 40% of its energy with hydro, another 30% are other renewables like biomass or wind.
Austria, whose electric energy generation is 70% based on renewables, has energy prices of about 20 ct/kWh. It's not the way Germany generates energy, it's about how Germany taxes energy.
Attorney's fee is determined by the judge in Germany and depends on the sum of money the (civil) lawsuit is about. Whatever Google's attorneys charge, this doesn't change the attorney's fees Google is entitled if they win. (And because this is a civil lawsuit, no one fully wins, thus Google will not get all the money.)
Whenever I see someone making that joke, I know there is someone who doesn't think about his jokes and just repeats what he had heard from someone else.
The emails were released at a time when it was illegal for the french press to publicize them so, inarguably, the leaks could do very little damage.
You got it slightly wrong. It was at a time when the candidates were forbidden to talk to the press, and when no new polls were to be published, because the political campaigning had to be ceased.
It's still totally legal to publish news even about the campaigners at the time. So it was an ideal time as neither candidate would have been able to publish a press release about the contains of the e-mails.
The scientists may be smart. but as a agency, the EPA is faking research to justify regulations.
Actually, there is no evidence of faking research. There is the accusation of using "secret science". The accusation as it stands is just this: an accusation.
I didn't include violent protests and rioting in my argument. Expanding it and then arguing against points I didn't make is which logical fallacy again?
Yes, a minority can be totally racist. But that's not the problem, as long as they are a small minority. Bundling other products to your most successful product to get into new markets is not a problem if you are just one company of many. But if you control the barrier of entry of everyone else, it becomes a problem. And being racist becomes a problem if you are part of the dominant group which controls the entries for everyone else.
For statistics, you need combinatorics and calculus. For both of them, you need set theory and functions. For percentages, you need cross-multiplication, and you need to know how rational numbers work. Doing your taxes and balancing your checkbook is basic arithmetics, cross-multiplication, and understanding exponential growth.
Looks to me as if that's quite close to the curriculum we have right now.
Russian hackers broke into the emails of the Democratic National Congress. Russian hackers published (allegeded or true) details from Hillary Clinton's campaign shortly before the election. Donald Trump's candidate for National Security Advisor Michael Flynn met with the Russian ambassador.
Whatever you are up to, stick to the facts!
The 26th most popular boy's name in Germany 2016 was Alexander. Mohammed doesn't even make the top 50.
In the U.S., he actually bet against the female candidate.
As I wrote, it's in Exodus Chapter 22, verse 17.
So as "Kill the witches" is a basic requirement for being a Jew and a Christian, right? (Exodus 22,17). And if you really want to be God's tool, just read up the bible what God will do unto the Infidels, and be ready for some serious smiting!
All the other versions were not to be sold to consumes.
Or did you want to say something else?
I think you still have it the wrong way around. Neither hydrogen powered cars nor flying cars are new ideas. Hydrogen powered cars have existed 150 years ago (read up on the Hippomobile!), and flying cars were on sale 40 years ago. When Elon Musk decided to get into the car business, he was already against hydrogen powered and flying cars and went the electric way. There weren't any real breakthroughs in either technology in the recent years which could have caused a change of mind.