That is only reasonable if the desired result was the effect of at least 2 or 3 other countries to follow suit on bankruptcy and the entire EU to collapse along with jobs and businesses.
If that is the case, and it may very well be, then the Euro is not a sustainable currency.
I live in Germany, but am not a German citizen. I think the UK was interested in being in a free trade block of European nations with similar economies and cultural ideals. I think the political establishment on the continent believes that a "United States of Europe" is the only acceptable natural and desired end-state for Europe. Eventually these different expectations had to be addressed.
The Greeks very predictably couldn't run their own country....What was the rest of the EU supposed to do? Just give them money endlessly with no consequences or responsibility to change their ways?
The reasonable alternative would have been to allow Greece to declare bankrupcy and allow those banks who invested in Greece to fail.
What if you wanted to provide a headphone with a subwoofer specific channel or a true surround sound headset / speakers?
Don't laugh, but there used to be such a thing as Quadraphonic headphones. Each earbud had two speakers, one fore and one aft. The whole thing had two 1/8" RCA jacks to connect to your quadraphonic amp.
By the 1990s, floppies were woefully inadequate in capacity and needed to be replaced. In which way is a 3.5 mm analog jack inadequate at delivering audio?
.... I don't see any way the actions of the German authorities were justified to prevent the hacker from being charged and standing trial in the United States. This is a pretty straightforward application of how international cooperation between law enforcement agencies is supposed to work, yet Germany didn't let that happen.
Germany generally won't extradite their own citizens to stand trial in a foreign country. This has some cultural significance because the DDR (East Germany) used to extradite citizens to the USSR for alleged political crimes.
The leftist government of Bolivia, "He [Bill Gates] does not know Bolivia's reality to think we are living 500 years ago, in the middle of the jungle not knowing how to produce..."
Silly Bill Gates, maybe he should give them 100,000 fertilized eggs instead?
So, who's going the be the Chinese equivalent of Captain Barnacle?
"It's me and my crew and we've come for a screw!" said Barnacle Bill the Sailor.
"It's me myself and nobody else!" said Barnacle Bill the Sailor. the rest is probably too dirty to post here.
If they want to shift their reliance on oil, shouldn't they be investing in modern, relevant education, ending intolerance, and growing their own economy? Or lets just park all this money in foreign investments... it's much easier.
That would have very limited usefulness, only the wealthy elite in NK can afford to get online (and by "online" I mean "onto the national intranet." The Internet is only for a select few of the political elite and military)....
Those are exactly the very people Kim would be most interested in spying on. He probably care much what your average peasant thinks, but he does need the support of the Army to remain in power.
We could have just banned box cutters and other tools that could be used to hijack an aircraft or to threaten aircrew and passengers as well as creating and enforcing security standards for air port screeners.
Actually, the Chinese are better at efficient manufacture. A *lot* better. Expensive Made-in-USA manufacture cannot compete on quality with much-less-expensive Made-in-China manufacture...
The company I work for does manufacture in China, as well as in Europe and N. America. Machine costs are about the same in China, i.e. a CNC machine and electricity cost the same in China as they do in Switzerland. If your process is highly automated, making it in China won't save any money once you factor in the additional overhead to coordinate manufacturing and to ensure quality standards are met. China is only less expensive for high-volume, manual-labor intensive manufacturing, i.e. making shoes or millions of iPhones by hand. But labor costs in China are rising faster than in other countries and those types of manufacturing are moving to SE Asia or India. As for "quality" it starts with quality technical documentation, choosing the correct manufacturing processes, process stability, and the quality-control mechanisms.
They come from a "low trust society."....This makes things like disaster recovery and business continuity much easier....That is why this tactic would work very well over there....Talk about unintended consequences!
You just summed up our entire military strategy in the middle east for the past 15 years or so. It hasn't worked.
according to Strompreis in der EU und der Eurozone Germany has an average residential price of 28.69 €-cent / kWh. At a conversion rate of 1.15 USD to EUR that works out to about 33 cents per hour. But I haven't checked my electric bill to see my current rates.
...and for residential customers, Germany has some of the most expensive electricity in the world. Residential customers and small businesses pay a "renewable energy tax" (EEG) of 6.354 cents / kWh as of 2016. I have a large family, so this works out to be about 440€ additional tax burden per year, not counting the 19% VAT added on top of the EEG tax. So I am paying for all this "free electricity". This tax is highly regressive and hits poorer residents much harder because they cannot afford to invest in energy-saving appliances.
So all these incentives will do is make rich people (who can afford it anyway) save 4000 Euros when they buy a Tesla or i8 as a 2nd or 3rd car.
I am an American who has lived in Germany for about 25% of his life. This is exactly a give away to the well-to-do elite class before an election in 2017. A Tesla costs double to three times the average annual wages. An E-Golf costs about the average annual wage. Note that >50% workers fall far under the average. I estimate that less than 10% of the population could afford an electro-auto with or without the rebate. This program will only further increase resentment among the 1/3 of the population who pay about 50% taxes, barely can pay expenses, and have no viable retirement. Mrs. Merkel's red-black and sometimes green government never misses an opportunity to squander credibility and undermine the future of democracy in Germany.
I guess the UFO- detection worker was making a cup of coffee and smoking a Lucky when this UFO first appeared and was a little slow on the "chicken switch".
Ally is a military term. In the case of Saudia Arabia, it might have applied during the cold war, "our ally" in the middle east supplied us with dependable oil and opposed communism in the region, and we turned a blind eye to their spreading islamo-faschism. But I think the term is out dated today. Communism is no longer a threat. Oil matters less and less was we approach a post-petroleum world and the world can can no longer ignore the threat of radical islam.
I'm no aeronautical engineer, only a pilot. [For cultural reasons glider pilots prefer the term sailplane, but I use glider here.] Gliders have a speed range. The minimum speed is the speed where the wings can produce enough lift to counteract gravity. The maximum speed is where flutter starts to occur, which can make the airplane uncontrollable and damage the airframe. In powered aircraft, this speed is usually expressed in terms of Mach. Most sport gliders that I am familiar with have a speed range between about 60 kmh and 200 kmh or 32 knots to 107 knots. I'm assuming that if you want to reach 90.000 feet in sustained flight, you would design a glider to have a much lower minimum speed than a standard sports glider, say 10 knots for arguments sake or 18.52 kmh. Lets also assume that the maximum speed remains at 200 kmh or 107 knots. At sea level the speed of sound is 665 knots. For a V_ne of 107 knots, your maximum speed can be expressed as Mach 0.16. At this point flutter begins.
Now take our glider to 90.000 feet. At that altitude, assuming standard atmosphere, the temperature is -49 C. Speed of sound is 583 knots. Your minimum true airspeed for sustained flight would be 111 knots or 10 indicated. At 90,000 feet, 111 Knots is Mach 0.19 which is greater than your maximum Mach number of 0.16. This theoretical glider cannot maintain level flight at 90.000 feet.
Solving this problem requires an airframe with a very large ratio between minimum and maximum airspeeds. Most conventional airplanes have a ratio of about three to one. Our example had a ratio of 11 to 1. This is where the U-2 reaches its limit and am told the min and max speed are very close at high altitude. The SR-71 solved this problem by increasing the maximum speed, but the tradeoff is a greater minumum airspeed due to the increased weight. It is critical that the tradeoff leads to a greater ratio of max to min airspeeds.
Doing it at the other end, reducing the minimum airspeed, would be much more challenging, because you would need to design a structure that can fly at very low speeds, but still have the aerodynamic stiffness and strength to be safe at higher speeds up to around Mach 0.2. It might be possible, but is definately not easy. I'm not aware of any manned fixed-wing aircraft that can fly as slowly as 10 knots and still have maximum speeds in the 100 kts range.
Critical mach number can be a problem in conventional sailplanes when they get above about 20,000 feet. The pilot needs to be aware that flutter will begin at lower indicated airspeeds than the red line on his airspeed indicator. I would leave 90.000 feet to either a U-2 or an unmanned model airplane. I do not think it is practical in an amateur-built experimental glider attempt to fly that high. But I am sure somebody will attempt it.
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That is only reasonable if the desired result was the effect of at least 2 or 3 other countries to follow suit on bankruptcy and the entire EU to collapse along with jobs and businesses.
If that is the case, and it may very well be, then the Euro is not a sustainable currency.
I live in Germany, but am not a German citizen. I think the UK was interested in being in a free trade block of European nations with similar economies and cultural ideals. I think the political establishment on the continent believes that a "United States of Europe" is the only acceptable natural and desired end-state for Europe. Eventually these different expectations had to be addressed.
The Greeks very predictably couldn't run their own country....What was the rest of the EU supposed to do? Just give them money endlessly with no consequences or responsibility to change their ways?
The reasonable alternative would have been to allow Greece to declare bankrupcy and allow those banks who invested in Greece to fail.
With a 27" resolution of 2560 x 1440, those pixels are as expensive as gold.
What if you wanted to provide a headphone with a subwoofer specific channel or a true surround sound headset / speakers?
Don't laugh, but there used to be such a thing as Quadraphonic headphones. Each earbud had two speakers, one fore and one aft. The whole thing had two 1/8" RCA jacks to connect to your quadraphonic amp.
By the 1990s, floppies were woefully inadequate in capacity and needed to be replaced. In which way is a 3.5 mm analog jack inadequate at delivering audio?
Benjamin Franklin is possibly one of the greatest Americans ever....
He had an Essex-class aircraft carrier named after him, the CV-13, and had his own class of ballistic missile submarines SSBN-640.
.... I don't see any way the actions of the German authorities were justified to prevent the hacker from being charged and standing trial in the United States. This is a pretty straightforward application of how international cooperation between law enforcement agencies is supposed to work, yet Germany didn't let that happen.
Germany generally won't extradite their own citizens to stand trial in a foreign country. This has some cultural significance because the DDR (East Germany) used to extradite citizens to the USSR for alleged political crimes.
The leftist government of Bolivia, "He [Bill Gates] does not know Bolivia's reality to think we are living 500 years ago, in the middle of the jungle not knowing how to produce..."
Silly Bill Gates, maybe he should give them 100,000 fertilized eggs instead?
So, who's going the be the Chinese equivalent of Captain Barnacle?
"It's me and my crew and we've come for a screw!" said Barnacle Bill the Sailor.
"It's me myself and nobody else!" said Barnacle Bill the Sailor.
the rest is probably too dirty to post here.
If they want to shift their reliance on oil, shouldn't they be investing in modern, relevant education, ending intolerance, and growing their own economy? Or lets just park all this money in foreign investments... it's much easier.
That would have very limited usefulness, only the wealthy elite in NK can afford to get online (and by "online" I mean "onto the national intranet." The Internet is only for a select few of the political elite and military). ...
Those are exactly the very people Kim would be most interested in spying on. He probably care much what your average peasant thinks, but he does need the support of the Army to remain in power.
by getting people to spy on themselves.
We could have just banned box cutters and other tools that could be used to hijack an aircraft or to threaten aircrew and passengers as well as creating and enforcing security standards for air port screeners.
In other news, Al-Queda's calling for the execution of John McAfee to damage the U.S. economy and expose millions of computers to viruses.
Actually, the Chinese are better at efficient manufacture. A *lot* better. Expensive Made-in-USA manufacture cannot compete on quality with much-less-expensive Made-in-China manufacture...
The company I work for does manufacture in China, as well as in Europe and N. America. Machine costs are about the same in China, i.e. a CNC machine and electricity cost the same in China as they do in Switzerland. If your process is highly automated, making it in China won't save any money once you factor in the additional overhead to coordinate manufacturing and to ensure quality standards are met. China is only less expensive for high-volume, manual-labor intensive manufacturing, i.e. making shoes or millions of iPhones by hand. But labor costs in China are rising faster than in other countries and those types of manufacturing are moving to SE Asia or India. As for "quality" it starts with quality technical documentation, choosing the correct manufacturing processes, process stability, and the quality-control mechanisms.
They come from a "low trust society."....This makes things like disaster recovery and business continuity much easier....That is why this tactic would work very well over there....Talk about unintended consequences!
You just summed up our entire military strategy in the middle east for the past 15 years or so. It hasn't worked.
according to Strompreis in der EU und der Eurozone Germany has an average residential price of 28.69 €-cent / kWh. At a conversion rate of 1.15 USD to EUR that works out to about 33 cents per hour. But I haven't checked my electric bill to see my current rates.
...and for residential customers, Germany has some of the most expensive electricity in the world. Residential customers and small businesses pay a "renewable energy tax" (EEG) of 6.354 cents / kWh as of 2016. I have a large family, so this works out to be about 440€ additional tax burden per year, not counting the 19% VAT added on top of the EEG tax. So I am paying for all this "free electricity". This tax is highly regressive and hits poorer residents much harder because they cannot afford to invest in energy-saving appliances.
So all these incentives will do is make rich people (who can afford it anyway) save 4000 Euros when they buy a Tesla or i8 as a 2nd or 3rd car.
I am an American who has lived in Germany for about 25% of his life. This is exactly a give away to the well-to-do elite class before an election in 2017. A Tesla costs double to three times the average annual wages. An E-Golf costs about the average annual wage. Note that >50% workers fall far under the average. I estimate that less than 10% of the population could afford an electro-auto with or without the rebate. This program will only further increase resentment among the 1/3 of the population who pay about 50% taxes, barely can pay expenses, and have no viable retirement. Mrs. Merkel's red-black and sometimes green government never misses an opportunity to squander credibility and undermine the future of democracy in Germany.
I guess the UFO- detection worker was making a cup of coffee and smoking a Lucky when this UFO first appeared and was a little slow on the "chicken switch".
Ally is a military term. In the case of Saudia Arabia, it might have applied during the cold war, "our ally" in the middle east supplied us with dependable oil and opposed communism in the region, and we turned a blind eye to their spreading islamo-faschism. But I think the term is out dated today. Communism is no longer a threat. Oil matters less and less was we approach a post-petroleum world and the world can can no longer ignore the threat of radical islam.
This is what happens when a glider exceeds the maximum airspeed V_ne: How to break a gliders wing.
Now take our glider to 90.000 feet. At that altitude, assuming standard atmosphere, the temperature is -49 C. Speed of sound is 583 knots. Your minimum true airspeed for sustained flight would be 111 knots or 10 indicated. At 90,000 feet, 111 Knots is Mach 0.19 which is greater than your maximum Mach number of 0.16. This theoretical glider cannot maintain level flight at 90.000 feet.
Solving this problem requires an airframe with a very large ratio between minimum and maximum airspeeds. Most conventional airplanes have a ratio of about three to one. Our example had a ratio of 11 to 1. This is where the U-2 reaches its limit and am told the min and max speed are very close at high altitude. The SR-71 solved this problem by increasing the maximum speed, but the tradeoff is a greater minumum airspeed due to the increased weight. It is critical that the tradeoff leads to a greater ratio of max to min airspeeds.
Doing it at the other end, reducing the minimum airspeed, would be much more challenging, because you would need to design a structure that can fly at very low speeds, but still have the aerodynamic stiffness and strength to be safe at higher speeds up to around Mach 0.2. It might be possible, but is definately not easy. I'm not aware of any manned fixed-wing aircraft that can fly as slowly as 10 knots and still have maximum speeds in the 100 kts range.
Critical mach number can be a problem in conventional sailplanes when they get above about 20,000 feet. The pilot needs to be aware that flutter will begin at lower indicated airspeeds than the red line on his airspeed indicator. I would leave 90.000 feet to either a U-2 or an unmanned model airplane. I do not think it is practical in an amateur-built experimental glider attempt to fly that high. But I am sure somebody will attempt it.
$62 million man just does NOT sound as good as the $6 million man. Tim S.
Inflation my man, inflation.