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  1. Re:Price is the same, just marketing fluff on Google's New Startup Heats Your Home With Energy From Your Lawn (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither is the average home size in Germany 160sqm nor is the average home size in the US 250sqm.

    No idea where you get such absurd numbers from.

  2. Re:A bit steep IMO on Google's New Startup Heats Your Home With Energy From Your Lawn (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, the quoted prices in the summary looked insane expensive.

  3. Re:What they don't tell you in the article on Google's New Startup Heats Your Home With Energy From Your Lawn (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Air conditioners and heat pumps don't emit CO2, nor do electric heat strips,
    But the power plants producing the electricity do.
    So why are you nitpicking?

  4. Oil competes with natural gas, as you should well know. If natural gas goes down then oil will go down. That's just how the markets work.
    It is actually the opposite way around.
    When oil prices go up, the gas prices go up.

    It makes sense to step back from basic economics 101 and actually loo how the world market works,
    90% of all gas contrracts are bound to the oil price. I never have heard about a oil contract that was bound to a gas price.

    And no: they are not traded independently in the wolrd markets.

    The german russian gas deals (meanwhile expired) where 30 year long contracts where the gas price was bound to the oul price with simething like a 6 month delay and a 4 month average.

    A typical household in europe basically can only get an oil bound contract for gas. There are exceptions with 2 year long fixed price contracts.

  5. Re:Regressing on Facebook Envisions New Campus With Affordable Housing Units (sfgate.com) · · Score: 0

    You may hate Mr. Zuckerberg for all you want, but as a president he most likely would be 100 times or a 1000 times better for the USA, and the rest of the world.
    After all he speaks more than one language and visited more countries than Mr. Trump.
    And for you family loving americans: he actually has a family and not half a dozen divorces.

  6. Re: All those Americans who want to leave can now on Canada's Play For Immigrant Tech Talent (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    What is so hard in grasping that you either have to treat workers like goods and ship them in (then your economics would be correct) or that it takes a lot of time to educate them?
    Money/wages does not change anything, as people usually don't pick an education because of money but because of what they like to do in the future.

    Stop the stupid economics class bullshit.
    Supply and demand works on oil prices, not on workforce.
    And also not on grain prices or rents for houses or dozens of other things, like phone bills.

    To make the stupid american 'supply and demand makes the market work' idea workable you need (minimum) two conditions: 1) the resource in question may not be life critical, 2) the supply must be close to the demand.
    As soon as you are out of that box you have hundreds of more factors, like boarders, taxes, tolls, language barriers, regulations etc. p.p

    Back to the original topic, education will always trail years behind market demands if you have no central planned education system. There might be exceptions for low skilled tradesmen, who get an education in a company and later become workers there, as it is often the case in Germany.

    If you believe otherwise, sorry to word it like this: you simply are an idiot.

  7. Re:David Brooks? Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Mr. Confused, if we talk about word order, we either talk about big endian versus little endian or "subject, predicate, object" versus "predicate, subject, object" or other variations.
    If you want to nitpick where an adjective or an adverb is placed in which language, then you are not only a confuciused one but a nitpicker.

    (For those who were not on the other discussion, I pointed out that most european languages have more or less the same 'word order', Mr. Confused correctly pointed put that roman languages usually have the adjective behind the subject/object and not in front like german languages ... however the 'subject, verb, object' order he seems not to grasp)

  8. Re:David Brooks? Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Dating seems to imply that you want/will have sex or at least one party is hoping for it.
    Going out is going out, plain and simple.

  9. Re:The mind is weak on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Plane tickets implies vacation, a trip, not a simple 'going out together'.
    Don't get your point/question.

  10. Re:There's your problem on Airport Security Fails 17 Times Out of 18 In Minneapolis (fox9.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess he meant tested.
    And in that case green or black or any mixture would not matter :)

  11. Re:Isn't this a repost? on Hackers Targeting US Nuclear Power Plants, Report Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The liked article might be bad.
    But the articles in german news clearly say: the hackers could power down the plant or cause other havoc.
    If that is true, I don't know.

  12. Re:I wonder what's going to happen to the mid east on France Set To Ban Sale of Petrol and Diesel Vehicles By 2040 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That war is neither religious motivated nor has any religious goals ...
    So? What is your point?

    Because the fighting people there are muslims, it is religious? And if they were of any different religion, it would be a fight over territory, dominance and power?

  13. Re:weird timeline on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Half of my friends ...
    And often Monday and Thursday are not in the same week.

  14. Re:Bullshit on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It started for me actually as a friend gifted to me an answering machine for my landline.

    Still have it, but it is disconnected.

    My iPhone is in "good night mode" till 11AM in the morning. Actually the best feature of a smart phone.

    If the wrong person calls at the wrong time, I cancel the call.

    And on top of that list was for a long time my mother.

    The instant messaging revolution is a revolution because you can ignore all that text as long as you want and can catch up when you feel like it.

    However 90% of the people using instant messaging simply don't get that and demand immediate answer. But they also demand 100% focus on them and don't want you to "chat with others" simultaneously.

    Ah! How nice must the times have been when a letter over the Atlantic took 4 or 8 weeks.

    Can you imagine working in a company where the boss sends you an email and calls 30 minutes later: "did you receive my email?" ....

  15. Re:David Brooks? Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It happens in Germany, not so much, so. It happens far less in Spain, France, Italy. Because the dating and "going out" culture is completely different.

  16. The mind is weak on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess the problem is very simple. People "agree" (in fact get convinced and are to weak to say "no!") on something they are not committed to.
    And the closer the date/time comes the more uncomfortable they get. And then shortly before the event: they bail out.

    Has lots to do with how you spent your evenings (different countries do that completely different, e.g. I like Spain and Italy, of course also France).

    I actually don't really like to meet "old school" in a restaurant/pub with a prescheduled date. I either go there and we meet by accident or we don't or we do it on short notice. Short notice means half a day max: "what are you doing this evening?" And then I can bail out right away: "Oh, I'm occupied!"

  17. Re:You are a rare exception on Canada's Play For Immigrant Tech Talent (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Your ability to refuse work is a luxury not enjoyed by many.
    Unfortunately in IT in Germany that is quite common right now.
    Nevertheless the wages don't rise. Long periods for the cancelation notice make workers relatively stuck to your job, on top of that very bad housing market for people who want to move house.

    Basically every higher level specialized job, be as in a car garage, a dentist lab or an IT worker or mechanical engineer in a factory/lab, all those open positions are hard to fill.

    What you have against guest worker programs is beyond me. I guess every inland worker has the same access to such programs, or not?

  18. Re: All those Americans who want to leave can now on Canada's Play For Immigrant Tech Talent (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    If you increase the price, you get more people interested in making themselves qualified for the job. Offer
    And in case of a software developer that takes about 5 years to get one from highschool to a university degree.

    You start to understand now?

    Qualified workers don't spring up out of nothing just because the wages increase.

    Seriously, go take an economics course; this stuff isn't that hard.
    Seriously, get a damn clue perhaps?

  19. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    For quite a while, that got changed by EU law ten years ago, you could not change a light bulb with a screwdriver, you had to get the car into a garage.

    And my car is just a little bit to old that a layman can not change the light bulbs. Except for direction lights, that is easy.

    The battery in my car (Peugot 307, year 2003 or something), also can not be removed by a layman ... you have to remove other stuff first and it is not obvious in which order.

  20. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Most "Baumarkts" don't have Torx Screw drivers.
    Hence I pointed out they are here not easy to get.

    Sure you can find them, now fine me one in my town, rofl.

    If you wan one or a set of Torx screw drivers you most of the time have to order them. You can not simply go into the next shop and buy one.

    And a "Baumarkt" is already a kind of specialized shop, most towns don't have one.

    So thank for doing the googeling for me. I don *NEED* a torx screw driver. I only wanted to point out: they are NOT EASY to get, regards of your google foo.

    There is no shop that has one in walking distance or less than 30 minutes local train right in my area ... at least not one who is findable over internet and google.

  21. Re:Surprisingly Distant on France Set To Ban Sale of Petrol and Diesel Vehicles By 2040 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What has the way how to produce power to do with a law that bans the sale of ICE cars in 22 yours?

    In the big picture that is important. But actually France has already an noticeable amount of EVs, and the demand for EVs is increasing the infrastructure will adapt more or less automatically.

    France has not and does not need a master plan to restructure the power infrastructure. They basically follow Germanys lead and switch with a slower pace than Germany to renewables and phase our nukes.

  22. Re:Not that large on Elon Musk Promises World's Biggest Lithium Ion Battery To Australia (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess it is written battering.
    Luckily I have no wife so you can not beat the shit out of her.

  23. Re:Government Subsidy on Elon Musk Promises World's Biggest Lithium Ion Battery To Australia (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It cant, it violates the description what baseline/base load means.
    Base load is the amount of energy you constantly never changing regardless of demand (regardless of higher or even lower) pump into the grid.
    That battery pack obviously has to be charged at some point.

    If your question is: could it be a buffer for a small town, then the answer is yes.

  24. Re: All those Americans who want to leave can now on Canada's Play For Immigrant Tech Talent (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Which part of: we have a serious skilled worker shortage in Germany do you not grasp?
    By hopping from job to job due to offering better wages, there are no skilled workers popping up to fill the now empty slots.

    The high unemployment rate for unskilled labor is mainly caused by the lack of skilled workers.

  25. Re:Not that large on Elon Musk Promises World's Biggest Lithium Ion Battery To Australia (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, in German a rooster of Chickens is called a battery, too!