Well, how public transportation using something similar to a modern monorail can be looked at in Wuppertal, Germany. It's in operation since more than 100 years and had almost no accidents in that time (well an elephant from a circus fell into the river Wupper in the 20's)
When I have read of a law like this for the first time, I checked, whether I have read of the correct country. But when I thought it over, I came to the conclusion, that I must be right - your country is run by a bunch of greedy oligarchs, not by elected representatives of the people.
In Germany, a rule like that will never make it through legislation because it is outright against the constitution.
Some regimes are calling themselves communist but are capitalist like China, some call themselves home of capitalism but seem to me quite the opposite - like US of A.
For me it's the best device I ever had to work with. It's a 5 Button mouse with 2 for the Thumb, and three on top.
The scrollwheel can easily be swithched from stepping mode to free wheeling which is very convenient when surfing the net or reading big documents. It also supports sideways scrolling. The middle button is behnd the wheel. I also have come across mice with scroll wheels also been used as middle button and found this setup almost unusable. As I hold the mous loosely between thump and pinky, I have three fingers resting relaxed on top of mouse and use the middle finger for scrolling and pasting.
Early last year I had to work at a customers premise with a 2 Button mouse with tail;) and got a severe RSI.
After changing to use my own - and of course some treatment and changing to my left hand for mouse usage - I'm now fine again.
BTW: There I have to work in a W7 environment:-((( - OTOH hand in my own organisation there is not even a single peace of crap from Seattle.
Well, on my Thinkpad with Trusty and KUBUNTU, the volume control just works fine out of the box - including muting and unmuting. That the mainstream distros are switching to systemd seems to have a reason, systemd being crap, I cannot imagine to be the reason.
It depends, in many cafes and pubs in Germany they will not bother as long as you don't block a place in a crowded place without consuming some beverage or food. In many places you will find free WiFi or payd hotspots from the Telekom or another provider in the vicinity.
Be aware, that there is the rule, that the cheaper a hotel is, the better is the chance to get free internet access.
A good way to connect is to get an O2 mobile account. You can get it with a one Month termination term and at least in all greater cities the access is more than ok (HDSPA+). (Use the phone as WiFi-Router).
The argument, to bear a gun because the constitution grants the right to do so is the fallacy. This is no logical reason. If you had said, that you feel endangered and want to be able to protect yourself or you want to hunt game, that would be reasons.
To have received a right is no reason to execute it.
He must be forced to support her with all his posession and income until his end of life just because of the harm he did to her. And he must be banned from any service as justice, paralegal or lawyer. He must learn how to make living by his own hands.
I see it the other way around: There are plenty of good programming environments which are perfectly well suited for beginners, name a programming langage and you will find rather a well suited IDE for any one LINUX distribution than for Windows.
Neither chicken nor beef production are 'green' or 'eco friendly'. They both require huge inputs of energy and water to get out a given quantity of calories, compared to plant foods. Human beings are not supposed to eat meat, eggs, or cows' milk. The fact that the idiots at NASA can't even begin to question 'what everyone else is doing' tells you how intelligent they are - not very. They are even suggesting that long haul space flights have animals on board 'for meat'. Yeah, like that's a really efficient way of getting calories while in space...
Plainly bullshit, humans are omnivores and meat and eggs and milk are essential for our health, but at the same time vegetables are also.
Wouldn't NASA and the american taxpayer better off talking to Arianespace and trying tp develop something in cooperation with them? Arianespace has a lot of knowledge in development procedures and technology which I think NASA was forced to scrap for political reasons.
There were a lot of advanced and promising technologies almost ready which NASA and the US industry dumped because your congress did cut the money when the device was almost ready.
Thats not empty talk, because the declaration shows strong opposition of the EP against ACTA and there is a good chance that ACTA will not be ratified unless there will be severe alterations made to the substance.
Despite the highly taxation of fuel all over Europe, we have far too many trucks on our highways.
And if you look at the material flows, everybody with a little common sense will shake ones head.
Example: Milk is produced by ranchers in northern Germany, then it gets transported over the alps, roundabout 1000 miles (1600 km) or more to central or southern Italy to be processed to yoghurt, curd or cream and filled into plastic cups, which are produced at other places in Germany or other countries of the EU as well, also transported by truck.
Then all these products are carried over the alps all the way back to Germany partly labled as italian delicacy or as german milk product.
Now lets look at the figures.
A 40t truck loads roundabout 26 to 30 tons gross. Let the packaging and handling means (pallettes) count for 5% or 1.5 to of the load there remain for easier calculation 26t of the product.
The truck consumes roundabout 35 to 40 l / 100 km (~ 10 mpg) equals 650 l (170 Gallons) for the 1000 miles. 650 l * 1.20 €/l gives 780 € fuel cost.
A cup of cream of 125g is sold in the store for 0.80 € to 1.20 € so the price per kg is 7€ to 9€ per kg. 780€ / 25000 kg gives 0.03 € per kg merchandise. from these three cent, two cent are tax.
BTW the rancher gets 0.25€ to 0.35 € / l of raw milk and the retailer calculates a gross margin of 5% to 8%.
So even with tripling the fuel taxation, the cost of road transportation is a neglectible amount.
This is just an example of the complete madness in modern markets because of far too little taxation of the transportation.
We in Europe can only shake our heads and turn our eyes skywards when we see and hear of the US-American bigotery. On the one side there is every blank piece of human flesh "hurting and endangering society" on the other side an terror organisation like the NRA is praised for their support of fireweapons in childrens hand ?-(
...and travel for leisure until they return to a state of "Rechtsstaat". You (the americans) told us germans after WW II the rules to which the american governments at least since Ronald Reagan are refraining to adhere more and more.
- capital punishment - Guantanmo - DHS / Immigration behavior - ignorance to international law - Unilateralism -...
Let's have a look what B.O. will do (or whoever will be elected/bought)
Of course, the question is, how will they do here in Colorado ? We have LOADS of wicked hail storms esp in Ft. Collins (I lived there for 15 years; Great town as long as you ignore the police problem). Well, you may think of it as a simple engineering problem, just place a piece of polycarbonate or acrylic glass above the panels for protection. That should fix the problem.
With AC, especially three phase AC you can build more efficient and light motors. If I were to setup a device like this, I would install a motor in every wheel. I'm no electric engineer but to my knowledge that would be a viable construction.
Microsoft's EULAS are not binding at all at least in Germany as they are not shown before the the customer acquired the product. Thus for all cases where end users, either business or consumers, are buying shrink wrapped or preinstalled software, simply common law aka the BGB (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, best translated as common civil law) matters.
Well, in Germany it was Wal Mart who got the CHOP. In somewhat 8 years the burnt hundreds of millions of DM/ and withdraw last year from the german market without ever making a -cent of profit and selling all their shops with a huge loss. So my conclusion: As retailers in the US-Market they know their business, but when trying to opening new markets they reach their limits:-D
Well, this usage pattern resembles much the old idea of a pumped storage power plant (Pumpspeicherkraftwerk), a hydroelectric powerplant where the water, which is used in high load times to produce electric power, gets pumped back uphill to a reservoir by use of the excess power of the basic load power plants like coal or nuclear driven ones. This is done for decades now in the european grid. I had the opportunity in the late sixties to visit such a power plant at Schruns/Tschagguns in Vorarlberg in Western Austria. It's a very impressive installation with a entire delivery height of more than 2000m (6000ft) in two stages. In the exhibition is also an impressive display of the entire european powergrid.
The fee, not tax, is for having ready for reception any device which is able to receive programs from the public broadcasters. The rule is anyhow that any company, may it be the coca cola company or the single entrepreneur will have to pay exactly the 5.25 per shop regardless how many PC's are in the company.
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Well, how public transportation using something similar to a modern monorail can be looked at in Wuppertal, Germany.
It's in operation since more than 100 years and had almost no accidents in that time (well an elephant from a circus fell into the river Wupper in the 20's)
When I have read of a law like this for the first time, I checked, whether I have read of the correct country. But when I thought it over, I came to the conclusion, that I must be right - your country is run by a bunch of greedy oligarchs, not by elected representatives of the people.
In Germany, a rule like that will never make it through legislation because it is outright against the constitution.
Some regimes are calling themselves communist but are capitalist like China, some call themselves home of capitalism but seem to me quite the opposite - like US of A.
Isaac Asimov -- A.C. Clarke wrote "The Sentinel" aka "2001 A Space Odissey"
For me it's the best device I ever had to work with.
It's a 5 Button mouse with 2 for the Thumb, and three on top.
The scrollwheel can easily be swithched from stepping mode to free wheeling which is very convenient when surfing the net or reading big documents. It also supports sideways scrolling. The middle button is behnd the wheel. I also have come across mice with scroll wheels also been used as middle button and found this setup almost unusable.
As I hold the mous loosely between thump and pinky, I have three fingers resting relaxed on top of mouse and use the middle finger for scrolling and pasting.
Early last year I had to work at a customers premise with a 2 Button mouse with tail ;) and got a severe RSI.
After changing to use my own - and of course some treatment and changing to my left hand for mouse usage - I'm now fine again.
BTW: There I have to work in a W7 environment :-((( - OTOH hand in my own organisation there is not even a single peace of crap from Seattle.
Well, on my Thinkpad with Trusty and KUBUNTU, the volume control just works fine out of the box - including muting and unmuting.
That the mainstream distros are switching to systemd seems to have a reason, systemd being crap, I cannot imagine to be the reason.
It depends, in many cafes and pubs in Germany they will not bother as long as you don't block a place in a crowded place without consuming some beverage or food.
In many places you will find free WiFi or payd hotspots from the Telekom or another provider in the vicinity.
Be aware, that there is the rule, that the cheaper a hotel is, the better is the chance to get free internet access.
A good way to connect is to get an O2 mobile account. You can get it with a one Month termination term and at least in all greater cities the access is more than ok (HDSPA+). (Use the phone as WiFi-Router).
The argument, to bear a gun because the constitution grants the right to do so is the fallacy. This is no logical reason.
If you had said, that you feel endangered and want to be able to protect yourself or you want to hunt game, that would be reasons.
To have received a right is no reason to execute it.
He must be forced to support her with all his posession and income until his end of life just because of the harm he did to her. And he must be banned from any service as justice, paralegal or lawyer. He must learn how to make living by his own hands.
I see it the other way around: There are plenty of good programming environments which are perfectly well suited for beginners, name a programming langage and you will find rather a well suited IDE for any one LINUX distribution than for Windows.
QBasic is not a choice, even on Win$.
Just my 2 ct
Neither chicken nor beef production are 'green' or 'eco friendly'. They both require huge inputs of energy and water to get out a given quantity of calories, compared to plant foods. Human beings are not supposed to eat meat, eggs, or cows' milk.
The fact that the idiots at NASA can't even begin to question 'what everyone else is doing' tells you how intelligent they are - not very.
They are even suggesting that long haul space flights have animals on board 'for meat'. Yeah, like that's a really efficient way of getting calories while in space...
Plainly bullshit, humans are omnivores and meat and eggs and milk are essential for our health, but at the same time vegetables are also.
Wouldn't NASA and the american taxpayer better off talking to Arianespace and trying tp develop something in cooperation with them? Arianespace has a lot of knowledge in development procedures and technology which I think NASA was forced to scrap for political reasons.
There were a lot of advanced and promising technologies almost ready which NASA and the US industry dumped because your congress did cut the money when the device was almost ready.
These could be utilised in such a joint venture.
Could you please specify of which "Paradise" you are talking?
Thats not empty talk, because the declaration shows strong opposition of the EP against ACTA and there is a good chance that ACTA will not be ratified unless there will be severe alterations made to the substance.
Despite the highly taxation of fuel all over Europe, we have far too many trucks on our highways.
And if you look at the material flows, everybody with a little common sense will shake ones head.
Example: Milk is produced by ranchers in northern Germany, then it gets transported over the alps, roundabout 1000 miles (1600 km) or more to central or southern Italy to be processed to yoghurt, curd or cream and filled into plastic cups, which are produced at other places in Germany or other countries of the EU as well, also transported by truck.
Then all these products are carried over the alps all the way back to Germany partly labled as italian delicacy or as german milk product.
Now lets look at the figures.
A 40t truck loads roundabout 26 to 30 tons gross. Let the packaging and handling means (pallettes) count for 5% or 1.5 to of the load there remain for easier calculation 26t of the product.
The truck consumes roundabout 35 to 40 l / 100 km (~ 10 mpg) equals 650 l (170 Gallons) for the 1000 miles. 650 l * 1.20 €/l gives 780 € fuel cost.
A cup of cream of 125g is sold in the store for 0.80 € to 1.20 € so the price per kg is 7€ to 9€ per kg. 780€ / 25000 kg gives 0.03 € per kg merchandise. from these three cent, two cent are tax.
BTW the rancher gets 0.25€ to 0.35 € / l of raw milk and the retailer calculates a gross margin of 5% to 8%.
So even with tripling the fuel taxation, the cost of road transportation is a neglectible amount.
This is just an example of the complete madness in modern markets because of far too little taxation of the transportation.
Just my two cents
We in Europe can only shake our heads and turn our eyes skywards when we see and hear of the US-American bigotery. On the one side there is every blank piece of human flesh "hurting and endangering society" on the other side an terror organisation like the NRA is praised for their support of fireweapons in childrens hand ?-(
CU
...and travel for leisure until they return to a state of "Rechtsstaat". You (the americans) told us germans after WW II the rules to which the american governments at least since Ronald Reagan are refraining to adhere more and more.
- capital punishment ...
- Guantanmo
- DHS / Immigration behavior
- ignorance to international law
- Unilateralism
-
Let's have a look what B.O. will do (or whoever will be elected/bought)
CU
CU
With AC, especially three phase AC you can build more efficient and light motors. If I were to setup a device like this, I would install a motor in every wheel. I'm no electric engineer but to my knowledge that would be a viable construction.
CU
Microsoft's EULAS are not binding at all at least in Germany as they are not shown before the the customer acquired the product. Thus for all cases where end users, either business or consumers, are buying shrink wrapped or preinstalled software, simply common law aka the BGB (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, best translated as common civil law) matters.
CU
would be to abandon Windows at all and switch to any other OS. Remember: The requirements said Windows 2000 or better, so I installed Linux
Is this the guy who is responsible for the braindead Hungarian Notation (beginning every variable name with its type)?
CU
Well, in Germany it was Wal Mart who got the CHOP. In somewhat 8 years the burnt hundreds of millions of DM/ and withdraw last year from the german market without ever making a -cent of profit and selling all their shops with a huge loss. :-D
So my conclusion: As retailers in the US-Market they know their business, but when trying to opening new markets they reach their limits
CU
Well, this usage pattern resembles much the old idea of a pumped storage power plant (Pumpspeicherkraftwerk), a hydroelectric powerplant where the water, which is used in high load times to produce electric power, gets pumped back uphill to a reservoir by use of the excess power of the basic load power plants like coal or nuclear driven ones.
This is done for decades now in the european grid. I had the opportunity in the late sixties to visit such a power plant at Schruns/Tschagguns in Vorarlberg in Western Austria.
It's a very impressive installation with a entire delivery height of more than 2000m (6000ft) in two stages. In the exhibition is also an impressive display of the entire european powergrid.
CU
I'm using OpenOffice 2.0.4, why should I downgrade to any release of MS-Office?
The fee, not tax, is for having ready for reception any device which is able to receive programs from the public broadcasters. The rule is anyhow that any company, may it be the coca cola company or the single entrepreneur will have to pay exactly the 5.25 per shop regardless how many PC's are in the company.