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  1. You said this already several times, what is your point?

    An "entrance test" to allow one to study is not the solution, it is the problem.

    Tests only are meaningful after the studying is finished, and usually not even then.

  2. Re:huh on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean German where kids can't move out of their parents dinky apartment
    Never heard about that.

    not because they don't have the money but because the housing market is so distorted that there isn't anything to buy?
    Buying property in Europe is expensive, regardless where you live. Well, Spain, Portugal and Greece might be an exception.

    Most people live in rented flats. And with the current interest policy of the ECB/EZB, prices for houses and flats skyrocked.

  3. Re:Sad thing is no other countries learning from t on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
  4. Re: Basements! on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The article says: 50k disposable income
    That means: after taxes, house hold costs, food, energy, car, insurances, especially health insurance (yes I know that is covered by taxes in Scandinavia), so yes: if you have 50k left at the end of the year, which basically means you can spent 5k per month for what ever you want: you are rich.
    If you believe otherwise you have an absurd definition of rich.

  5. Re: This is why I do not buy apple. on Apple Announces $300 Million China Clean Energy Fund (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Moron yourself: http://www.dictionary.com/brow..., or better: https://www.google.de/search?s...

    Hey moron, a nation that sells a lot more coal plants than they do renewables is NOT pushing renewables. If the customer wants a coal plant, the seller is not pushing coal plants but supplying the demand.

    And if you can not see that installing 700 new coal plants esp in nations that do not even have coal
    What has the question if a nation has coal to do with it? Were is _your_ logic and intelligence here?

  6. Passing test and exams is one way to ensure the person on duty could learn and can learn.
    That is not what you said before.
    You proposed to let pass only the best in the exams, instead of - what most nations do - defining a barrier above you pass.

    Anyway, you surely will once meet a a person that always passes all tests with top grades but has no clue about the topic.

    In CS I know plenty of them :D

  7. I hear that Germany is just looking for more natural gas and oil.
    And where do you hear that? What would we do with the oil e.g.?

    I'm sure that Germany will be quite happy to buy up these investments.
    Germany is a country, a nation, or if you want to talk about the government, a government. But perhaps a company like EON or EnBW or RWE in fact would buy those "investments", if so: what is wrong with it?

    Without more Russian natural gas it's going to be a lot of cold nights in Brrrrr-lin.
    Berlin only would need _more_ (Russian?) natural gas if the winter is unusually cold. As winters get warmer and warmer every year, this is unlikely. Or in other words: "more" as in compared to what?

  8. With a system like this you get a lot of people that are good in passing tests and suck in doing the actual work.

  9. Re: Are you sure homeopathy cures gunshot wounds, on HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The userd are the doctors!!!!
    Why the fuck should they fund something that either should be funded by the patients, their health insurance or their government? For what actually are you paying taxes?

  10. Re: This is why I do not buy apple. on Apple Announces $300 Million China Clean Energy Fund (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What has that to do with the topoic as in "pushing coal"?

  11. Re:This is why I do not buy apple. on Apple Announces $300 Million China Clean Energy Fund (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Chinese Government is not "pushing coal", moron.

    They are the leading nation installing renewables ... moron!

  12. Re:Will take time to get right. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The VAR "rules" are opposite around than people think here.
    The referee is not supposed to consult the video assistant on his own.

    The videos are watched and evaluated by "full referees" and they call the referee on the field if they think he made a questionable decision.

  13. Re:Nope. Made it better. But offside needs to go. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    This way an attacker can be waiting down towards the goal, receive a kick and score.
    And exactly because of this we have the not so lame offside rule, moron.

  14. Re:Not sure this is /. material on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    PS calling it "soccer" means you are not in touch with the football world, as there is only one country that calls it that way
    Erm ...
    Every country calls it soccer. Football is the thing americans play. On the other hand we call it in german "Fussball" which is the literal translation of Football.
    I never heard an english or a french to call "Fussball" football, they all say soccer, or simply "foot" :D

  15. Re:Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Also, the fact that few goals are scored means that luck is more important than skill -
    Rofl, obviously it is the opposite around.

  16. Re:Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Two yellows in a tournament, in different games, also block the player from the next game.
    But obviously it is different than a red as he can continue in the game he is playing at the moment.

  17. Re:Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I've also not figured out YET...how they time the damned things.
    2x 45 minutes.
    Wow that was easy.

    IN case of ties....why not a sudden death thing in soccer like with US Football?
    Because we had that once, and the audience decided: it sucks.

  18. Re:Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Pain is not necessarily an injury.
    It hurts if I twist your nipples ... but it stops hurting shortly after I stop twisting ... and why would you not be able to run around and kick a ball afterwards?

  19. Rogers is an idiot ... on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I watched nearly every game since the 1/8th finals.
    There was not a single one where checking a video caused a delay. I even think it was not even asked for a video referee during that period of the games ...

    Rogers seems to have missed: since a few years we have "extension time", beyond the ordinary 45 minutes for a half, for time lost due to fouls and other breaks.

  20. Re:Mac users will never be happy. on Apple Refreshes MacBook Pro Lineup (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd really like to see Apple make a 17" with updated specs.
    Same, but I guess I just buy two used ones with maxed out RAM, and 2 big SSDs.

  21. Actually I would love a kind of augmented hearing device, that compresses ultra sonics and infra sonics into the hearing spectrum. Would be interesting to hear the bats better and what other kind of noises are around.

  22. Re:Thankyou on Python Language Founder Steps Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    but I thought what Java had was a JIT compiler, not an interpreter.
    The interpreter is the JIT compiler. It only compiles stuff when it measures it should be compiled. In a long running application that is obviously nearly everything.

  23. As strong as in Europe on India Now Has the 'World's Strongest' Net Neutrality Rules (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see on the first glance any difference to Europe.

  24. Re: Why not employ skilled Americans? on Microsoft Could Move Some Jobs Abroad Because of US Immigration Policies, Top Exec Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The USA has the freedoms the EU and other nations do not.
    Freedom of speech.

    That is bolocks.

    No having to go to a gov to ask for investment, for permission to start a company
    Thats bolocks.

    to pay all new profits as a tax.
    Corporate tax on profuts is between 20% and 25% all over Europe.

    The jobs cant move to a Vancouver/Sydney/Dublin/Berlin/London as their system of laws are not set up to attract investors and keep tech jobs.
    That is bollocks, of course the laws are set up to attrack any kind of job.

    The USA has the freedom to grow. The EU has the freedom to tax.
    Thats bolocks.

    Make a profit and their nations tax system will take it.
    Why do you write nonsense like this? How would the economy in such a nation work? (*facepalm*)

  25. Broken english is not the problem. (Keep in mind asian languages e.g. are so far away from english grammar that is extremly hard to learn english for them)
    You find plenty of questions where it is completely clear that the poster does not grasp the simplest things about programming. That is the problem.