Isn't the massive demand for oil and gasoline in part because of the continued primary usage of cars as a means of transportation? I mean, wouldn't deploying trains on a local scale as well as encouraging citizens to go by bike to work and school, help a lot?
I know I get these crazy ideas because I'm used to it from Europe, but it shouldn't be too hard to apply the same schemes to the US and Canada - the trains have been built and tested for many years, as have the bikes.
Not to be harrassing you in any way, but RS232 actually specifies the signal levels of the serial data-port in a pc to be from -12V to +12V, with an undefined area around -3V and +3V.
The problem usually lies in Notebooks only supplying -9V / +9V or even less. The chargepumps in the level-shifters used in the RS232-drivers ought to give out around 12V to comply with the specifications.
Hmmm... thinking about it, I might grab my old Sparcstation IPX, get it operational once more and have it spare some cycles while doing... nothing...:)
To hell with ecology, I'll turn of a streetlamp on my way to work, that ought to level the waste of energy out.
I currently pay USD 110 for a 2M/512k ADSL with a fixed IP and flatrate, including my own reverse-lookup on the ip.
This doesn't include landline-fees, but TDC doesn't discriminate between their own lines and "foreign" ones.
So far, neither I nor any of my nearby friends have been contacted though we download far too much to be considered "normal" users.
USD 110 may seem like a lot for an ADSL line, but remember that a student in Denmark can apply for governmental support, which amounts to USD 1000, including a small loan. Furthermore you're allowed to have another income besides that, so it's not uncommon for students to have around USD 2000 a month.
If you have that income and share your line with a roommate or two, it's really cheap! And TDC's customer support usually answers the phone very promptly.
I live in Denmark, in a rented flat, where we "only" have a 32 Amps, 400 Volts line going in.
We've got three bedrooms and two bathrooms running on a single 16 Amp, 230 Volts breaker and the living rooms share a single 16 Amp breaker, which is still puzlling me.
I would have preferred a little more power to my room - the kitchen has its own 16 Amp, 400 Volts line, only needed for the stove, washing machine and fridge.
In all rooms we have like 4 dual outlets with breakers at floorlevel and a single one with breaker next to the door, one meter above the floor. I would have liked some grounded outlets in the rooms, but fortunately we do have "HPFI"-relay thingies (surgeprotectors on the mainline with very fast reaction to human interference in the circuit).
I'm just glad we don't have to power AC overhere... 7 computers per person is enough power consumption:)
I hope it's just a tale - one of my teachers recently told me that the engineers assigned to build the new Danish InterCity trains IC3 and their smaller version RE2 made the mistake of using DOUBLE and FLOAT everywhere so that at one time in the middle of a test run, one of the trains would halt on a bridge and move nowhere anymore because all of its 16 MB where filled up with DOUBLE's storing the speed in KM/H... the train only runs approx. 240 KM/H so an INT or perhaps a LONG INT would have sufficed.
As to the RE2 the engineers miscalculated the weight - the Ariane-problem - so some of the trains would "lie down" using their hydraulics but not to the correct side - the one facing the station, instead passengers had to crawl / jump the last 2 feet to the ground.
As far as I understood the law papers and discussion in the parliament, Danish citizens (native danes) are only extradited if the penalty in Denmark would be more than 12 months, and in the requesting country less than 3 years.
Furthermore, the Germans didn't overrun, the government let them have the country as to avoid any destruction of cultural monuments and to minimize civil casualties.
I agree with you in that a person would be tried over here, if not extradited, and yes; it only applies to Danish citizens, which was what I (if I had forgot to tell so) was trying to say.
I'm not saying that foreign citizens won't be extradited to other countries - and furthermore, Danish citizens would be extradited for even the smallest crimes - but only to other Scandinavian countries.
I'm still trying to find a reasonable translator from Danish into English, but so far, I haven't been succesful.
In addition to the last document, here is another one describing the extent of foreing extradition requests: http://www.folketinget.dk/Samling/20012/udvbilag/R EU/B93_bilag12.htm - especially question 29 is noteworthy.
It states, in short terms, that only a final sentence, granting more than 4 months of jail, and no more than 3 years in the foreign country, will be used as possible reason for handing out Danish citizens.
Furthermore, the victim must have convicted what would be a crime in Denmark.
Nope - that isn't wrong. Take a look at this document from the Danish government, regarding just a case, where a Danish citizen is convicted of a crime in a foreign country (India, in this example) and won't be handed out due the Danish restrictions.
http://www.folketinget.dk/Samling/20012/spor_sv/S1 487.htm
You may want to try some sort of translator on it.
As far as Denmark is concerned, US law won't do much. The country doesn't "hand out" it's own citizens to other countries, no matter what the charges are.
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I know I get these crazy ideas because I'm used to it from Europe, but it shouldn't be too hard to apply the same schemes to the US and Canada - the trains have been built and tested for many years, as have the bikes.
Not to be harrassing you in any way, but RS232 actually specifies the signal levels of the serial data-port in a pc to be from -12V to +12V, with an undefined area around -3V and +3V.
The problem usually lies in Notebooks only supplying -9V / +9V or even less. The chargepumps in the level-shifters used in the RS232-drivers ought to give out around 12V to comply with the specifications.
Hmmm ... thinking about it, I might grab my old Sparcstation IPX, get it operational once more and have it spare some cycles while doing ... nothing ... :)
To hell with ecology, I'll turn of a streetlamp on my way to work, that ought to level the waste of energy out.
So far, neither I nor any of my nearby friends have been contacted though we download far too much to be considered "normal" users.
USD 110 may seem like a lot for an ADSL line, but remember that a student in Denmark can apply for governmental support, which amounts to USD 1000, including a small loan. Furthermore you're allowed to have another income besides that, so it's not uncommon for students to have around USD 2000 a month.
If you have that income and share your line with a roommate or two, it's really cheap! And TDC's customer support usually answers the phone very promptly.
Moderate wisely :)
I live in Denmark, in a rented flat, where we "only" have a 32 Amps, 400 Volts line going in. We've got three bedrooms and two bathrooms running on a single 16 Amp, 230 Volts breaker and the living rooms share a single 16 Amp breaker, which is still puzlling me. I would have preferred a little more power to my room - the kitchen has its own 16 Amp, 400 Volts line, only needed for the stove, washing machine and fridge. In all rooms we have like 4 dual outlets with breakers at floorlevel and a single one with breaker next to the door, one meter above the floor. I would have liked some grounded outlets in the rooms, but fortunately we do have "HPFI"-relay thingies (surgeprotectors on the mainline with very fast reaction to human interference in the circuit). I'm just glad we don't have to power AC overhere ... 7 computers per person is enough power consumption :)
I still use my old Sun SparcStation IPX, though the NVRam has meanwhile died. I think it's from around 1991 - quite old :-)
I hope it's just a tale - one of my teachers recently told me that the engineers assigned to build the new Danish InterCity trains IC3 and their smaller version RE2 made the mistake of using DOUBLE and FLOAT everywhere so that at one time in the middle of a test run, one of the trains would halt on a bridge and move nowhere anymore because all of its 16 MB where filled up with DOUBLE's storing the speed in KM/H ... the train only runs approx. 240 KM/H so an INT or perhaps a LONG INT would have sufficed.
As to the RE2 the engineers miscalculated the weight - the Ariane-problem - so some of the trains would "lie down" using their hydraulics but not to the correct side - the one facing the station, instead passengers had to crawl / jump the last 2 feet to the ground.
Does this apply to Danish citizens as well?
As far as I understood the law papers and discussion in the parliament, Danish citizens (native danes) are only extradited if the penalty in Denmark would be more than 12 months, and in the requesting country less than 3 years.
Who talked about overrunning?
Furthermore, the Germans didn't overrun, the government let them have the country as to avoid any destruction of cultural monuments and to minimize civil casualties.
I agree with you in that a person would be tried over here, if not extradited, and yes; it only applies to Danish citizens, which was what I (if I had forgot to tell so) was trying to say. I'm not saying that foreign citizens won't be extradited to other countries - and furthermore, Danish citizens would be extradited for even the smallest crimes - but only to other Scandinavian countries. I'm still trying to find a reasonable translator from Danish into English, but so far, I haven't been succesful.
In addition to the last document, here is another one describing the extent of foreing extradition requests: http://www.folketinget.dk/Samling/20012/udvbilag/R EU/B93_bilag12.htm - especially question 29 is noteworthy.
It states, in short terms, that only a final sentence, granting more than 4 months of jail, and no more than 3 years in the foreign country, will be used as possible reason for handing out Danish citizens.
Furthermore, the victim must have convicted what would be a crime in Denmark.
Nope - that isn't wrong. Take a look at this document from the Danish government, regarding just a case, where a Danish citizen is convicted of a crime in a foreign country (India, in this example) and won't be handed out due the Danish restrictions. http://www.folketinget.dk/Samling/20012/spor_sv/S1 487.htm
You may want to try some sort of translator on it.
As far as Denmark is concerned, US law won't do much. The country doesn't "hand out" it's own citizens to other countries, no matter what the charges are.