This election is going to be a tight one, with the Shoot the Russians Party narrowly edging out the Shoot the Russians and Toss their Bodies over the Border Party.
Foreword: I am an American who dropped out of college in the US, moved to Sweden, and ended up doing an entire power engineering degree there.
After my lecture classes, while I was in American doing my thesis at a coal-fired power plant, I told my coworkers about the district heating systems which exist in almost every city back in Sweden. One of them joking said, "Sounds like a bunch of Communism to me." You know what? It is.
While it saves incredible amounts of money on fuel (which doesn't come from the Russian Federation, unlike nature gas) and reduces the risk of house fires, widespread district heating infrastructure exists only where the State has had full or large control over the energy infrastructure. What's more, many systems in Eastern Europe (where they are aimed at large apartment blocks, an ideal end user) are being scrapped in favor of gas not because of inadequacy, but because of privatization. This is simply a technology which can't be born into (or really even live in) a free market.
Compare this to America where public ownership has been much more limited: The majority of our cogeneration (at least during parts of the year) goes towards industry! In Sweden, which isn't that much colder than, say, Chicago, the country uses twice as much heat during an average year than electricity. Think of the possible market. There are dozens of large northern cities throughout the country with comparable weather which could benefit from a hot water district heating system--possibly even profitably so; they've certainly managed to in Europe. In addition to that, natural gas reserves are facing similar projected lifetimes to oil. Being able expand our use of our enourmous Western coal fields to domestic heating would make us less prone to import still further petroleum products from Africa and the Middle East.
No kidding. Can you imagine Canadians legislating sobriety? Hell, their first PM drank to the point of vomiting at the podium once--and then turned it around into a political attack ad.
Okay, most of you guys know that Ted Haggard was a churchman who got outed by a jilted gay prostitute. Many of you also probably know about him buying amphetamines from the aforementioned gigalo. What most of you don't know is just what happens when you put 2 and 2 together:
Anal on crystal meth reachs levels of debauchery which heterosexuals have no grasp of. The combination of the two makes that awkward, snappy preacher a much harder man than most any of you ever will be. Imagine, if you will, two men fucking and fucking to the very limits of what they are physically capable of doing--and doing that for hours without slowing down. With enough meth you can stay up for a week, but, if you know what you are doing, you can turn that pile of crystal into a multi-day, multi-partner orgy with only the most minimal breathers. You can fuck to a point where you normally wouldn't just have lost interest, but also been experiencing too much pain to continue. Nothing matters but the fuck: not pain, not protection, and not exhaustion.
Just think about that next time you see him dressed pretty for the cameras.
Portable two-stroke engines. When you're dealing with engines putting out 60,000 horsepower, you've got a fairly good efficiency and plenty of off-the-shelf options for desulfurization, NOX control, and dust filtration.
The big prolem with the internal combustion engines is their demand for high heating value fuels. These are either expensive, rare, or fossil.
I live in an international dormitory which is almost a full third from Lyon. I can tell you that, if there is an American in the room, they cannot blow their nose without making it a statement of anti-Americanism.
I'm sorry (and will probably get modded down as a troll) this is one invention I could certainly do without.
The unfortunate difference between an Internet martyr and a real martyr is that the real martyrs end up dead. Although, maybe Internet martyrs are just real ones posting from beyond the grave.
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I'm sorry, but, as far as historical accuracy goes, that man comes in right after a velvet painting of the Black Jesus.
This election is going to be a tight one, with the Shoot the Russians Party narrowly edging out the Shoot the Russians and Toss their Bodies over the Border Party.
Well, about an hour south of Zwolle is (was) Dodewaard kerncentrale.
You're English?
Borselle? Delft? Or was it that one that closed down?
Don't think that means that only five slashdotters are having sex. Oh no. It's five girls in rotation.
They've seen things... terrible things...
Foreword: I am an American who dropped out of college in the US, moved to Sweden, and ended up doing an entire power engineering degree there.
After my lecture classes, while I was in American doing my thesis at a coal-fired power plant, I told my coworkers about the district heating systems which exist in almost every city back in Sweden. One of them joking said, "Sounds like a bunch of Communism to me." You know what? It is.
While it saves incredible amounts of money on fuel (which doesn't come from the Russian Federation, unlike nature gas) and reduces the risk of house fires, widespread district heating infrastructure exists only where the State has had full or large control over the energy infrastructure. What's more, many systems in Eastern Europe (where they are aimed at large apartment blocks, an ideal end user) are being scrapped in favor of gas not because of inadequacy, but because of privatization. This is simply a technology which can't be born into (or really even live in) a free market.
Compare this to America where public ownership has been much more limited: The majority of our cogeneration (at least during parts of the year) goes towards industry! In Sweden, which isn't that much colder than, say, Chicago, the country uses twice as much heat during an average year than electricity. Think of the possible market. There are dozens of large northern cities throughout the country with comparable weather which could benefit from a hot water district heating system--possibly even profitably so; they've certainly managed to in Europe. In addition to that, natural gas reserves are facing similar projected lifetimes to oil. Being able expand our use of our enourmous Western coal fields to domestic heating would make us less prone to import still further petroleum products from Africa and the Middle East.
No kidding. Can you imagine Canadians legislating sobriety? Hell, their first PM drank to the point of vomiting at the podium once--and then turned it around into a political attack ad.
Okay, most of you guys know that Ted Haggard was a churchman who got outed by a jilted gay prostitute. Many of you also probably know about him buying amphetamines from the aforementioned gigalo. What most of you don't know is just what happens when you put 2 and 2 together:
Anal on crystal meth reachs levels of debauchery which heterosexuals have no grasp of. The combination of the two makes that awkward, snappy preacher a much harder man than most any of you ever will be. Imagine, if you will, two men fucking and fucking to the very limits of what they are physically capable of doing--and doing that for hours without slowing down. With enough meth you can stay up for a week, but, if you know what you are doing, you can turn that pile of crystal into a multi-day, multi-partner orgy with only the most minimal breathers. You can fuck to a point where you normally wouldn't just have lost interest, but also been experiencing too much pain to continue. Nothing matters but the fuck: not pain, not protection, and not exhaustion.
Just think about that next time you see him dressed pretty for the cameras.
But what do they do in the rest of the Netherlands?
Fuck, I knew somebody'd find out where we dumped the body eventually.
Damn, I'd like to see Puritanism gone wild:
Puritans Gone Wild XIV: Cape Cod Cuties
You've never seen ankle-baring like this!
Whoa--you are not dropping "cherry picking" in the middle of a sentence like that and getting away with it!
Portable two-stroke engines. When you're dealing with engines putting out 60,000 horsepower, you've got a fairly good efficiency and plenty of off-the-shelf options for desulfurization, NOX control, and dust filtration.
The big prolem with the internal combustion engines is their demand for high heating value fuels. These are either expensive, rare, or fossil.
I live in an international dormitory which is almost a full third from Lyon. I can tell you that, if there is an American in the room, they cannot blow their nose without making it a statement of anti-Americanism.
Bias-free semiconductors never really took off.
...and then a priest, a rabbi, and a horse walk in and ask, "What is this, some kind of joke?"
...do not taunt Happy Fun Pill.
In the foreign broadcasts of the Simpsons, they actually translate that. Our local one here in Sweden is "storifiera."
Gentryfication.
..."Moloko Plus."
Both, every 60th of a second.
The girls on Slashdot don't have that problem. Unfortunately, what they get is tentacles.
I'm sorry (and will probably get modded down as a troll) this is one invention I could certainly do without.
The unfortunate difference between an Internet martyr and a real martyr is that the real martyrs end up dead. Although, maybe Internet martyrs are just real ones posting from beyond the grave.
Monitoring your young children = Good parenting.
Monitoring your grown-up children = Overparenting.
Monitoring other people's children = Fascism.
"...for everthing else, there's Mastercard."?