South Africa doesn't need electrical water heaters, solar boilers on rooftops can supply all the hot water a family or hotel needs, have a look in places like Italy and Greece.
But there's just this little thing you guys aren't allowed to import the necessary vacuum tubes needed for the solar heaters, the tax man vs. the environment!
Or, see it as a business opportunity and start fabricating them in the country.
In the 80's I worked in Saudi Arabia and we already had a solution to this issue.
With proper sizing that top tank will sufficiently cool off during the night, in the morning you start by switching off power to the water heaters, then take a shower the regular way.
This way the heaters will be filled with cool water from the tower and at night when returned from work in the desert we'd take a shower with cold water from the heaters and warm water from the top tank.
Now switch the heaters back on to prevent the freshly entered hot water from cooling down overnight.
The GF is regularly checking out the Dutch version of Ebay (Marktplaats) for clothing and these kind of problems are usually caused by poor quality phone camera's.
Or you've for the past ~15-50 years been living under a rock.
Had you not been living under said rock and like me been travelling the world and the EU you would have had first hand experience of the vast steps forward we've made.
Oh yes, because you live under a rock you've likely not heard the populists in France and Denmark are after the recent attacks by domestically bred terrorists keeping VERY quiet with their stale demands to close the borders to keep out trouble.
Nearly every EU country has a couple of conspiracy nuts claiming *.* screwed them during or before unification.
The problem is not someone loaned bad or good money to Greece, the problem is Greece wasn't and isn't able to hold up it's own pants, all due to their own lack of courage to fix their tax and economic imbalances.
The European economy is contrary to 5 or 6 years ago presently plenty strong enough to absorb the exit of Greece from the Euro.
But for the EU it is a matter practicality and also of honour to keep the lot together, it is the difference between a continuing struggle and complete failure for the Greek economy and people.
The lax tax moral of the Greek was together with the huge number of public servants an important reason their economy faltered.
The government of this game developer wants to re-employ many of the laid off people so fixing the tax system is probably the only option they have left to keep the country from again falling over.
And such a currency can include many safeguards to ensure taxes are going to be paid.
And working for a UK based company I see problems in the English culture that have caused the losers of WWII to now be the owner and manager of great British brands like Rolls Royce, Bentley and Mini auto mobiles.
Others like Vauxhal and Ford are just manufacturing plants building largely German engineered cars. Mazda and Toyota took over other factories.
The British (English!) problem is they are so cock-sure of their own products they can't believe you need to continually work on improvement, "hey we have the best engineers in the world, this X-years old design is the best, change can't be an improvement".
Even now the Brits have some brilliant engineers but until they recognise the outside world has moved on they will never be successful outside their own country.
Oh and let's not forget the considerable number of followers of that idiot drunk Nigel Farage that want to close up even more. We're seventy years after the end of WWII and the following disintegration of the Empire and they still don't see the value of openness for future progress. Churchill was a Liberal Conservative, the Liberals is the UK party with the least support and the Conservatives with their shining example Cameron don't understand the modern world...
Some see it as a natural thing, that's really sad because now they won't oppose it.
Others see it as the result of colonialism but we're 20-50 years on and things only got worse...
Talking about Ebola, two months ago I arrived in Angola and they had temperature screening for those getting off the plane.
Rather sad was this was only done for foreigners, those with an Angolan passport are apparently immune:(.
Africa is rife with corruption and corruption breeds what we'd otherwise see as stupidity but for individuals it's really just a way of survival.
The only effective way to fight corruption is to have a solid legal system and from European experience we learn that needs to be in place for several generations before it becomes effective.
Since the British occupation of South Africa it had a reasonable judiciary but now Zuma's ANC has taken over it is left to die, laws are watered down and officials installed based on their race and political affiliation.
It is a sad conclusion but even in the best scenario Africa will be corrupt for at least the next century.
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I don't think so. Apple has had success upon success. They are the most profitable company in the history of the world.
Which kinda proves there products are overpriced.
You are absolutely right, on a trip to Germany you'd be lost until you manage this little sentence: "Zwei Bier bitte".
But there's just this little thing you guys aren't allowed to import the necessary vacuum tubes needed for the solar heaters, the tax man vs. the environment!
Or, see it as a business opportunity and start fabricating them in the country.
With proper sizing that top tank will sufficiently cool off during the night, in the morning you start by switching off power to the water heaters, then take a shower the regular way.
This way the heaters will be filled with cool water from the tower and at night when returned from work in the desert we'd take a shower with cold water from the heaters and warm water from the top tank.
Now switch the heaters back on to prevent the freshly entered hot water from cooling down overnight.
Testing what should be generic hardware under a single OS is pretty close to sabotage.
No I don't.
See, these scammers are just like a typical Hollywood Sci-Fi movie, the aliens always speak English and land in the USA.
I hope they'll also have a look at the issues with KDM running under systemd because LightDM is not everyone's choice.
Although, Plasma5 replaces KDM with SDDM which does work with systemd.
If the internet were unlimited (spectrum) there would be no need for (neutrality) regulation...
The GF is regularly checking out the Dutch version of Ebay (Marktplaats) for clothing and these kind of problems are usually caused by poor quality phone camera's.
Or you've for the past ~15-50 years been living under a rock.
Had you not been living under said rock and like me been travelling the world and the EU you would have had first hand experience of the vast steps forward we've made.
Oh yes, because you live under a rock you've likely not heard the populists in France and Denmark are after the recent attacks by domestically bred terrorists keeping VERY quiet with their stale demands to close the borders to keep out trouble.
Nearly every EU country has a couple of conspiracy nuts claiming *.* screwed them during or before unification.
The problem is not someone loaned bad or good money to Greece, the problem is Greece wasn't and isn't able to hold up it's own pants, all due to their own lack of courage to fix their tax and economic imbalances.
An independent that buys it's own rig is a recipe for failure, besides 100 million Bbls is peanuts and Greek oil is notoriously difficult to get up.
I don't believe they'd burn their fingers on a Greece without EU support.
Greece gets that support from the EU, their only alternative is this guy Putin and he has already been seen in Athens.
The European economy is contrary to 5 or 6 years ago presently plenty strong enough to absorb the exit of Greece from the Euro.
But for the EU it is a matter practicality and also of honour to keep the lot together, it is the difference between a continuing struggle and complete failure for the Greek economy and people.
The government of this game developer wants to re-employ many of the laid off people so fixing the tax system is probably the only option they have left to keep the country from again falling over.
And such a currency can include many safeguards to ensure taxes are going to be paid.
Luckily you mentioned 'around 1500' so we knew this was Old Shit.
I'm all for a varied diet that would obviously include some of the stuff classed unhealthy by some.
The problem is in the word "too", it happens when we ingest too much of one or the other.
At least it works for my Lenovo's with nVidia.
And why would you answer before the question?
All together, Outlook is a corporate comms tool, not a mail client.
Only because you are a single user on that line, please think of the kids!
And working for a UK based company I see problems in the English culture that have caused the losers of WWII to now be the owner and manager of great British brands like Rolls Royce, Bentley and Mini auto mobiles.
Others like Vauxhal and Ford are just manufacturing plants building largely German engineered cars. Mazda and Toyota took over other factories.
The British (English!) problem is they are so cock-sure of their own products they can't believe you need to continually work on improvement, "hey we have the best engineers in the world, this X-years old design is the best, change can't be an improvement".
Even now the Brits have some brilliant engineers but until they recognise the outside world has moved on they will never be successful outside their own country.
Oh and let's not forget the considerable number of followers of that idiot drunk Nigel Farage that want to close up even more. We're seventy years after the end of WWII and the following disintegration of the Empire and they still don't see the value of openness for future progress. Churchill was a Liberal Conservative, the Liberals is the UK party with the least support and the Conservatives with their shining example Cameron don't understand the modern world...
If such existed it would have passed us before and left obvious traces.
Some see it as a natural thing, that's really sad because now they won't oppose it.
Others see it as the result of colonialism but we're 20-50 years on and things only got worse...
Talking about Ebola, two months ago I arrived in Angola and they had temperature screening for those getting off the plane. :(.
Rather sad was this was only done for foreigners, those with an Angolan passport are apparently immune
Africa is rife with corruption and corruption breeds what we'd otherwise see as stupidity but for individuals it's really just a way of survival.
The only effective way to fight corruption is to have a solid legal system and from European experience we learn that needs to be in place for several generations before it becomes effective.
Since the British occupation of South Africa it had a reasonable judiciary but now Zuma's ANC has taken over it is left to die, laws are watered down and officials installed based on their race and political affiliation.
It is a sad conclusion but even in the best scenario Africa will be corrupt for at least the next century.
This place must have an above average number of terrorists...