If I go shopping, I usually have no plan. I go into a certain grocery store and by what I find attractive. And then I go home (and not to another shop).
Online I used to buy basically books from Amazon, and one or two machines. I don't frequent other online stores or use "price compare shopping sites".
The hassle to spent another 10 minutes to set up an account for this or that is to much for me.
On the other hand, except for books, I don't buy much online anyway.
In simple words: my time on the terrace in the sun with some nice red wine I spent reading, not researching wether I can find a certain product $10 or $50 cheaper. For me it is more cost effective to work one hour longer than to spent one hour to search something and save $50.
My father spent a month ago about a week (well, an hour or two every day over a course of a week) to find a mail order printer for $50 cheaper than the competition.
If you do that as a mental exercise, it might be worth it.
The problem is that Amazon would have no problem replacing any of those employees, so why should they pay any more than they currently do? Because it is immoral?
The whole country where such things even can happen: jobs below the line what you need to feed a small family, that is immoral. And to stick into your face: a waiting fuse for the next revolution/civil war.
That is unlikely. EU is a very diversified area. Netherlands has about 17M inhabitants, Denmark about 5M... the other scandinavian countries are not much bigger. It is very common to speak english in software projects. As I pointed out: even in Germany. The workers in IT are not from UK, they are from all over Europe. Especially Slovenia, Ukraine, Romania etc. UK people are kind of snobs;D it is below them to seek work outside of the UK in the rest of Europe. (kidding!) Actually I only ever met one UK software developer at Continental. All the other native english speakers where from New Zealand or Australia. The whole project mostly spoke english, even the italians where capable of it:D (not kidding).
A hippie is one who was on Woodstock, I was not born that time, or just barely. Someone who smokes weed, or takes LSD. Has 'flower power' believes. Probably lived in a community, had group sex at least a few times in his live.
Should I go on?
If you want to insult someone, you should probably pick another insulting term than 'hippie':)
I would be very happy if I was a hippie.
Regarding nuclear power you made clear enough that you have no clue.
Well, the 600km from Karlsruhe (my home town) to Paris meanwhile goes in 2.5h about 5 or 6 times a day. City center to city center. In Paris you just use the Metro... Depending on time of year and booking ahead it can be considered pricy, though. About EUR90, but a car would cost nearly twice as much. A plane would be similar (in price) but you land outside of the city. The cheapest prices are around EUR 25.00 Most european countries have good rail networks, albeit not as fast (often for geological/terrain reasons), as Germany and France. E.g. Portugal, Spain, Italy are exceptionally "hilly".
No, we have plenty of road crossings that are either not navigate-able by cars at all or at least half the lanes are closed. The train routes basically change on a weekly or monthly base. Current estimations are the project goes till 2022, no idea if at least one single new route will be open by then. The main east/west route (Kaiserstrasse) is overcrowded with trains. The underground below it, where the main tunnel will go is "frozen" with ice machines so they can drill without collapsing the buildings around it. Hundreds of shops went bankrupt... the only (arguable) good thing is that rents went down drastically on that shopping lane. That project is a nightmare. But well, the city pays less than 10% of the total costs, the rest is payed by the federal state Badenwuertemberg and the state of Germany.
They polluted the fuck out of the environment with smokestack industries that could have been done differently and cleanly. And how exactly could/should they have done it? You seem to be unaware that they did not have the technology to manage their growth without the pollution. Just like 1950 - 1970 USA, you could write the same sentence about that time and that country...
The Communist government had all the patience of a three-year-old staring at a marshmallow on a plate. They catapulted a 1600th economy/society into a 1999 economy/society during the the years from 1950 till 2017. What progress did you country make in relation to that since 1955?
I find a 400 years catch up over a period of 70 years... that is just 2 or 3 generations, quite impressive. Don't you?
Well, the risk is that they never come back (except for vacations) It is funny what effects it has if you are mandatory by law required to take your 25 work days vacation per year. I forgot to mention: if you go to Netherlands or Denmark, your work environment will most likely be english speaking anyway. Even in Germany I had teams where all meetings and written communication was english.
but there are worse places to be. Sure, Somalia, Syria, Sudan... Must be the letter S.
Most 'hell places' are hell because of unstable government, corrupt police and high crime/high organized crime, not because of poverty. And it might be new to you: those places are that way because the US made them that way. So yes: the people there really are eager to come to the US and kill a bit. But not for the reasons you think.
If you have the qualification and desire, work oversees. No one ever asked for my degree... I just show them my resume and if they want give my previous customers as reference so they can call my ex manager.
E.g. if you get a "nice" Job in Thailand, the living cost is so low, you can save about 75% of your money after taxes. In most european countries, what you CAN DO is more important than a degree, exceptions might be France and a bit UK.
I don't get why you are not doing what every other nation/sane person is doing: study in a foreign country. In Germany the fees for a year, e.g. at www.kit.edu, are 3000EUR per year. Depending from what country you come and your financial situation there are waivers for it. Of course most classes will be in German. But Chinese students obviously have no problem with that. And for an english speaking person, German is a super easy to pick up language.
On the other hand you could study in Netherlands or Denmark where the rules/payments are similar relaxed.
(Of course you have to count with another EUR800 per month for housing, energy and food. Depending on lifestyle even more. But you can work at the university or have a 20h per week job legally)
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America should simply wake up. ....
One of the best health care on the planet you get in
CUBA!
Ah ... there are stupids laws that you may not fly as an american to Cuba ...
Show him a map. ...
I guess he believes Canada is a province of Syria or something
Perhaps you want to enlighten us: in which cases is an Intel CPU faster than an ARM?
You are not?
I always thought your name is an anagram of islamis. But now I notice the lack of a "T".
I like your ending line :D
Sometimes I think I use it to often. Sometimes I think I'm not using it rigorous enough!
Because you have some stupid setting activated that is kind of "replace quotation marks with smart quotation marks". Google for it.
It is a matter of "time".
If I go shopping, I usually have no plan. I go into a certain grocery store and by what I find attractive. And then I go home (and not to another shop).
Online I used to buy basically books from Amazon, and one or two machines. I don't frequent other online stores or use "price compare shopping sites".
The hassle to spent another 10 minutes to set up an account for this or that is to much for me.
On the other hand, except for books, I don't buy much online anyway.
In simple words: my time on the terrace in the sun with some nice red wine I spent reading, not researching wether I can find a certain product $10 or $50 cheaper. For me it is more cost effective to work one hour longer than to spent one hour to search something and save $50.
My father spent a month ago about a week (well, an hour or two every day over a course of a week) to find a mail order printer for $50 cheaper than the competition.
If you do that as a mental exercise, it might be worth it.
The problem is that Amazon would have no problem replacing any of those employees, so why should they pay any more than they currently do?
Because it is immoral?
The whole country where such things even can happen: jobs below the line what you need to feed a small family, that is immoral. And to stick into your face: a waiting fuse for the next revolution/civil war.
You claimed USA *governemt* spends a lot for education. I pointed out it does not.
No idea what you are talking about now ...
That is unlikely. ... the other scandinavian countries are not much bigger. ;D it is below them to seek work outside of the UK in the rest of Europe. (kidding!) :D (not kidding).
EU is a very diversified area. Netherlands has about 17M inhabitants, Denmark about 5M
It is very common to speak english in software projects. As I pointed out: even in Germany.
The workers in IT are not from UK, they are from all over Europe. Especially Slovenia, Ukraine, Romania etc. UK people are kind of snobs
Actually I only ever met one UK software developer at Continental. All the other native english speakers where from New Zealand or Australia. The whole project mostly spoke english, even the italians where capable of it
A hippie is one who was on Woodstock, I was not born that time, or just barely.
Someone who smokes weed, or takes LSD. Has 'flower power' believes.
Probably lived in a community, had group sex at least a few times in his live.
Should I go on?
If you want to insult someone, you should probably pick another insulting term than 'hippie' :)
I would be very happy if I was a hippie.
Regarding nuclear power you made clear enough that you have no clue.
Well, the 600km from Karlsruhe (my home town) to Paris meanwhile goes in 2.5h about 5 or 6 times a day. City center to city center. In Paris you just use the Metro ...
Depending on time of year and booking ahead it can be considered pricy, though. About EUR90, but a car would cost nearly twice as much. A plane would be similar (in price) but you land outside of the city. The cheapest prices are around EUR 25.00
Most european countries have good rail networks, albeit not as fast (often for geological/terrain reasons), as Germany and France. E.g. Portugal, Spain, Italy are exceptionally "hilly".
No, we have plenty of road crossings that are either not navigate-able by cars at all or at least half the lanes are closed. ... the only (arguable) good thing is that rents went down drastically on that shopping lane.
The train routes basically change on a weekly or monthly base. Current estimations are the project goes till 2022, no idea if at least one single new route will be open by then.
The main east/west route (Kaiserstrasse) is overcrowded with trains. The underground below it, where the main tunnel will go is "frozen" with ice machines so they can drill without collapsing the buildings around it.
Hundreds of shops went bankrupt
That project is a nightmare. But well, the city pays less than 10% of the total costs, the rest is payed by the federal state Badenwuertemberg and the state of Germany.
Money going to the government via taxes and handed out as UBI is covered by production, because that is what the money came from.
Good look with your PhD in economics.
If you mean 'rotten' by 'corrupt', yes.
But not corrupt in the legal sense of paying bribes to get a contract.
They polluted the fuck out of the environment with smokestack industries that could have been done differently and cleanly. ...
And how exactly could/should they have done it?
You seem to be unaware that they did not have the technology to manage their growth without the pollution.
Just like 1950 - 1970 USA, you could write the same sentence about that time and that country
The Communist government had all the patience of a three-year-old staring at a marshmallow on a plate.
They catapulted a 1600th economy/society into a 1999 economy/society during the the years from 1950 till 2017.
What progress did you country make in relation to that since 1955?
I find a 400 years catch up over a period of 70 years ... that is just 2 or 3 generations, quite impressive. Don't you?
Well,
the risk is that they never come back (except for vacations)
It is funny what effects it has if you are mandatory by law required to take your 25 work days vacation per year.
I forgot to mention: if you go to Netherlands or Denmark, your work environment will most likely be english speaking anyway.
Even in Germany I had teams where all meetings and written communication was english.
You wrote 100 million, not one million.
And you are not the first one talking about 100 million in this thread.
I have no master ...
Obviously no one on /. has any idea what happened. I suggest to read the relevant wikipedia articles ...
About what 100million death myth are you talking?
but there are worse places to be. ...
Sure, Somalia, Syria, Sudan
Must be the letter S.
Most 'hell places' are hell because of unstable government, corrupt police and high crime/high organized crime, not because of poverty. And it might be new to you: those places are that way because the US made them that way. So yes: the people there really are eager to come to the US and kill a bit. But not for the reasons you think.
If you have the qualification and desire, work oversees. ...
No one ever asked for my degree
I just show them my resume and if they want give my previous customers as reference so they can call my ex manager.
E.g. if you get a "nice" Job in Thailand, the living cost is so low, you can save about 75% of your money after taxes.
In most european countries, what you CAN DO is more important than a degree, exceptions might be France and a bit UK.
I don't get why you are not doing what every other nation/sane person is doing: study in a foreign country.
In Germany the fees for a year, e.g. at www.kit.edu, are 3000EUR per year. Depending from what country you come and your financial situation there are waivers for it. Of course most classes will be in German.
But Chinese students obviously have no problem with that. And for an english speaking person, German is a super easy to pick up language.
On the other hand you could study in Netherlands or Denmark where the rules/payments are similar relaxed.
(Of course you have to count with another EUR800 per month for housing, energy and food. Depending on lifestyle even more. But you can work at the university or have a 20h per week job legally)
Every repair gives another two years warranty/guaranty by law in the EU.
You use FN + the arrows for that. DEL is FN + backspace.
But the home and end key on Macs never worked as expected anyway.
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