Scandinavians are so selfsure about the quality of their english that they'll insist that your rightings aren't valid, as you merely speak american. I've been living in Sweden in some years and feel again the most common swinglishsigns. I job now as an oversitter from swedish to english, in addition to controlling english texts, and it has been a good affair.
Actually the power-plants-blow-up-in-50-years feature in SimCity 2000 stems from a feasibility study into the possibility of letting Italians run their own power plants.
When you're next door to Italy, of course you're going to be a net exporter! Who are they going to rely on to generate their power? Themselves
In case you're not familiar with power sources, for baseload power, you're generally going to be using hydro, nuclear, or coal. They're sources whose fuel is cheap and whose plants lend themselves to larger outputs. To cover infrequent peaks of demand, one frequently maintains reserve capacity in the form of gas turbines or, less common and more expensively, oil or gas-fired power plants. Reserve capacity has a low purchase price (or is leftover from decades with more favorable fuel prices, in the case of oil and gas-fired plants) and a high operating cost
Italy--in goddamn 2007--maintains oil-fired baseload capacity. That's right, the stuff an American power company won't touch unless a market's gas lines happened to be cut on the same day their whirly gigs won't start up. Just like the rest of the West did up until the first Oil Crisis in the 1970's.
So, while France's impressive system for licensing and standardizing plants, along with their active R&D in the industry, might be laudable, that surplus is there to profit from flaws in their neighbors' own energy policies.
I've just read your post twice--unsuccessfully--and come to the conclusion that science education in your county is the very least of your schools' problems and that your English teachers need to be sent to the gulags.
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...and if you knew how much we drank you'd move into a fallout shelter.
Like all disastrous license-built technology, the Yugo was based off something Italian.
Or, in other words...
Vote Ron Paul 2008: When the fleet-footed ones come, will you be ready?
(like Mozart used to do in the 19th century!)
Ummm, Mozart spent the entire 19th Century decomposing.
New bikes DO have catalytic converters... ...for sufficiently high levels of police department Ducati-ownership.
All I know is goto's are a no-no.
Time will tell us "no" in a stern voice.
Scandinavians are so selfsure about the quality of their english that they'll insist that your rightings aren't valid, as you merely speak american. I've been living in Sweden in some years and feel again the most common swinglishsigns. I job now as an oversitter from swedish to english, in addition to controlling english texts, and it has been a good affair.
You don't want to see the ninth guy...
"I'm sick of all this sex on the tellyvision--I MEAN, I keep falling off!"
- Mrs. Nesbit
You've just professed belief in something verging on a Randi challenge in a Slashdot discussion.
Would you like an oxygen-free, 99.999% pure woven copper blindfold and gold-plated cigarette?
Don't forget space heater. Until my landlord gets their No. 2 boiler going again, I need all the help I can get!
Actually the power-plants-blow-up-in-50-years feature in SimCity 2000 stems from a feasibility study into the possibility of letting Italians run their own power plants.
When you're next door to Italy, of course you're going to be a net exporter! Who are they going to rely on to generate their power? Themselves
In case you're not familiar with power sources, for baseload power, you're generally going to be using hydro, nuclear, or coal. They're sources whose fuel is cheap and whose plants lend themselves to larger outputs. To cover infrequent peaks of demand, one frequently maintains reserve capacity in the form of gas turbines or, less common and more expensively, oil or gas-fired power plants. Reserve capacity has a low purchase price (or is leftover from decades with more favorable fuel prices, in the case of oil and gas-fired plants) and a high operating cost
Italy--in goddamn 2007--maintains oil-fired baseload capacity. That's right, the stuff an American power company won't touch unless a market's gas lines happened to be cut on the same day their whirly gigs won't start up. Just like the rest of the West did up until the first Oil Crisis in the 1970's.
So, while France's impressive system for licensing and standardizing plants, along with their active R&D in the industry, might be laudable, that surplus is there to profit from flaws in their neighbors' own energy policies.
You're not kidding. At the plant I'll be working at, a 40 year-old is in the youngest quarter of the plant's workforce.
gb2gbs
Swords will fucking cut your hands off
Don't expect any boolean variables, either. Only the Sith deal in booleans.
"The Geysers" is the name of the power plant.
Largest by what metric? The Geysers outside San Fransisco puts out 750 MW(e).
The lead singer of Rush.
we're a lot more like China, fairly isolationists with occasional small forays outside.
A people who travel half-way around the Globe to found concentrated enclaves where they call the locals "foreigners."
I've just read your post twice--unsuccessfully--and come to the conclusion that science education in your county is the very least of your schools' problems and that your English teachers need to be sent to the gulags.
Goa Tse flies.
DON'T watch.
In the words of the greatest Canadian philosopher of all time:
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.