Because outside of the american hemisphere, Bejing is written and pronounced Peking. Just like outside of the english/american hemisphere Cologne is not Cologne but Koeln:D
It is actually a bit weird for us Germans that half of our cities have a "wrong" name in english and you have to learnt the english names or no one understands you... some have even a weird "french name" e.g. Aix la Chapelle... that is Aachen.
How many beer variations do we have in Germany? Roughly about 10,000. How many beer companies do we have in Germany? Roughly 4....
The "harmonizing" of recipes has nothing to do with "Their culture is tied to the idea that there is a right way (process) to make beer and their are traditional styles (recipes)."
The craft beer movement is growing because the big companies settled on a few base recipes and put the names of the companies they bought on the labels of the bottles.
I live in Thailand when I'm not working. Heineken and Carlsberg make big promotion programs in pubs and restaurants every year. The staff is always startled that I buy a Thai beer instead of the cheap promotion. I prefer Chang, but Leo and Singah are fine as well... sometimes I drink beer from Laos. It has a bad name as it is super cheap: but it is a wonderful beer!
If you come to Germany, buy beer from the small lesser known brands, and you realize: there is still plenty of good and affordable beer around.
Picking a single year is completely meaningless. The EU has reduced their CO2 emissions over the last 20 years by more than 30%... Who cares what happened 2017?
Well, I do: we had a relatively harsh winter... oops. There is no real "increase" we just to heat our houses a bit more that winter. Wow, that was so simple again: idiot.
What the parent and you don't grasp: beer is actually pasteurized or even boiled.
And yes, the alcohol content, albeit only 5% in beer and 12% in wine is enough to "keep bacteria out". It is not enough to sterilize a wound, but that are completely different concepts/requirements.
The water ersatz in the middle ages was so called "small beer", it had only 2% - 3% Alcohol.
An then again: drinking fresh water from a well is pretty save anyway. Humans are made to kill bacteria. Every animal living outside is drinking random water....
And then again: water is easy to clean anyway. Or does anyone here think the Sumerian civilization did not drink mostly water instead of beer?
Also there can be a lot of other factors that can affect the price of beer, other then just climate change. The driving price of Beer in Germany are taxes, and in Thailand it is taxes and taxes. No idea why beer is so expensive in France, though.
Or just other countries not wanting to import American products will lower the cost. Wow, people actually indeed import american beer, and drink it? Or is it used to feed cattle? I believe the Japanese super cattle only gets best beer from Kirin and Asahi... but not sure.
You can easily see this is true with a quick trip to any jungle, which is both hotter and wetter than most other place on Earth, yet also has the greatest abundance of vegetation... I guess you mean "rainforest". A rainforest, or simpler jungle is sustained by evaporating water out of its own area, and raining it down again on its own area. It is kinda a closed circle.
Deserts work the exact same way. They are dry because they evapour the non existing water and let it drop on themselves as non existing rain.
Fixed that for you....
No idea why half of your posts are completely idiotic.
This refutation is also verified by the medieval warming period, where agriculture greatly expanded in Europe. Yeah... Europe had 2 million inhabitants at that time... perhaps less.
The EU alone has 420 million...
Did I mention that half of your posts are completely idiotic? Perhaps I did, but you know, this brain diseases spreading via the internet are ontaminous...
Norway is a full EU member, it is just not part of the Euro Zone.
Switzerland is no EU member at all. The businesses there mostly accept Euro, but only to treat it as a 1 : 1 currency ratio and hand back change in Franks and shrive on the exchange rate.
The only thing Switzerland has "in common" with the EU is that they either joined or associated somehow to the Schengen Treaties, that means an EU wide "Schengen" visa is valid for Switzerland, too.
Most of those "solar/wind are cheaper!" studies assume the existing power infrastructure will always be available to "back up" Ha ha ha. There are no such "studies". We perfectly know what a wind mill costs. Hint: google General Electric or Siemens or Vestas. Some of them publish the prices in the web site. So we perfectly know how much $ / kWh you have to pay.
"Back up" is a stupid american conception. At night you only need about 50% of the power as during day time: so you don't need back up for solar, idiot.
Europe is in an interconnected grid. You don't need "back up" coal plants in Denmark to power it if the wind "is gone"... they simply get water power from Norway... etc. p.p. Idiot.
If it is the latter (and you know it is) No it is not... and we all know that except you.
As you are the 3rd or 4th worst polluter in total, who cares anyway? You have a long way to go... but you don't want to admit it.
Germany also pays about the highest price in the EU per kWh for electricity, nearly double most of its neighbors and quadruple that of the US. No, not double of it as it neighbours, only France is "cheaper" but electricity there is heavily subsidized. Considering that a German only needs a 6th or less the electricity an american needs, obviously our rate per kWh is higher. Infrastructure costs the same, regardless how much power you consume. And: power prices here are 50% taxes. To encourage people to use less power. So no idea what you find wrong with it. As long as my power bill is only half of what a typical american pays: why would I care about cent / kWh?
Fear-mongering. The worst storm I've witnessed in my life was during the 90s Define "witness"?
You mean caught into it, or saw on news?
The biggest storm in mankind's recorded history was January/February 2016. It spanned more or less the whole north atlantic. Obviously it was not in the news in the US. Perhaps because it only made partial landfall in north UK?
Anyway, thousands of ships got rerouted, hence we had no losses.
Average people are really fucking sick of the whole "the sky is falling!" It is just water... I'm sure you will be able to weather it out the next decades just you did right now...
The biggest incident relted to nuclear power was the 2005 leak at the reprocessing plant where a 20 tons of nuclear fuel disolved in acid leaked out of a pipe and into a containment vessel. You must be very young...
The biggest incident was Sellafield/Windscale, which nearly lead to a Chernobyl like disaster.
The wiki article speaks about 25,000 dead. German reports about the 600,000 liquidators speak about 450,000 confirmed dead. The death toll estimated to "civilian population" is over a million, that puts us into 1,000,000 - 2,000,000 range.
Death by accident, would be a starter. Death by waste, would be another one.
And again: mining is dangerous. Does not matter if you mine diamonds, gold, iron or... coal! Most mining accidents can be prevented, by simply having security standards. I don't remember if we ever had a coaling mine accident in Germany during my lifetime... we probably had, but no one took the time to make a wikipedia page:D
Fukushima's biggest problem, for example, was that they stored 20 years of spent fuel rods in a "temporary" holding area that was only designed to hold a few month's worth. No it was not. The fuel storage had nothing to do with the initial disaster nor with the later core melt downs. https://www.nap.edu/read/21874...
The spent fuel only contributed to the spread of contamination.
Nuclear is the answer. Any country that isn't pursuing it is stupid. Countries are not stupid. People are.
E.g. people like you.
Who had two thorium reactors running? I mean "which country"? You don't know? Does not matter. Guess what: both reactors _failed_ and showed that the initial idea at that time (that was in the 1980s), how to run them was not feasible.
Your other claims are simply: all wrong!
So lets see if one is either building a thorium molten salt reactor, or uses a CANDU design with Thorium.
And back to the comments if a person wants to live as the opposite sex, they can, and that's fine. But no amount of want changes their genetic makeup.
"Which part do you fail to grasp? They used female actors for horse riding male riders in armor with weapons, because they could not find enough male riders be "agile" and "fit" enough to ride with armor and arms."
Give me the citations that they simply could not fiond agile and fit males. You just make shit up as you go along to suppport your silly arguments.
What citation? Just buy he DVD and watch the add ons: "the making off" It is not a secret.
Funny, in this matter, I am more - I guess the word is progressive - than you. I support a changing area for people who are not the same. No you are not more progressive. You simply don't grasp: there is/was no space for two more changing rooms. And by law, a "still male" about to be "changed to be female" considering himself female, has the right to change in the female dress room. Similar for opposite changes. And a mixed room for both changes would not cut it.
No, matters like that are not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about some pretty straightforward matters of sex based differences in physiology. Matters that like are hardly negotiable. The differences be tween the sexes are all social constructs crowd are simply wrong, and the outliers are the exceptions that prove the rule.
And I was not talking about this at all.
I simply stated: women and men who train, are of similar strength and speed with similar body weight. And a woman who trains is always stronger and faster than a man who does not train... and I emphasized that this particularly true for martial arts.
Yes, there is a difference, like 10% or so, between people who train. Woman 100m sprint record: 10.49 Men 100m sprint record: 9.58
Woman marathon record: 2:15:25 (mixed men and woman) and 2:17:01 (women only). Men marathon record: 2:02:57
For all practical purpose that is not a big difference. But perhaps you consider it a big difference and hence we never agree:D
The UK has done a good job reducing emissions since 2012. Unfortunately the EU has not, and has been increasing their emissions. Nitpicking very mich?
We had a bad winter, idiot. So we used more oil and gas and coal to heat houses. And that was in a single year: 2017. Before that the EU just did reduce as much as the UK did.
And in the year 2017, the UK increased their CO2 emissions, just like the rest of the EU did.
And: UK are still in the EU... which makes comparisons a bit more complicated. Especially if so many people proudly write since 2012. Which makes no sense. The EU is reducing CO2 emissions since roughly 1995. And Germany since roughly 1980. What is so special about 2012? The UK joined late, but not that late.
There are over 400 operating commercial nuclear power reactors on this planet. And 3 of those 400 went boom. Several others nearly went boom.
what is demonstrably the safest energy source we have today is unbelievable. Obviously it is not the safest. Not even if you use your idiotic "death per TWh" metric.
Or when did you actually hear a solar plant go boom? Or a coal pant for that matter? How often do or did dams break?
If you want to build nuclear plants, do it in your country. Or try to convince China or India to do it. Or do all together. In west Europe, nuklear is dead. For many reasons. Two reactors are still under construction (in europe) with time and cost overruns... lets see if they ever get online. I doubt anyone will attempt to build another one here.
No idea where you got this "controlling wind" meme from.
But in case you mean "my winds", I control them pretty good and most of the time only release them when I'm alone or on the toilet. That is actually not very hard, troll.
Depends on the clouds. In the morning it was a light blue, till about 8:00, now it is an ugly light grey, thin enough to let enough sun through to have a hint of a shadow on the ground. Oh, and I'm in Thailand, no one is selling here out dated ACs...
In olympics and world champion ships, people with an Y chromosome can not compete in women's leagues. This is like this since people can test for chromosomes. There are plenty of women that are naturally looking like woman, but aren't. They are sieved out for events like this.
Wrestlers is a show sport... so it does not really matter, they even have "mixed teams".
That makes no sense. If you are claiming that it was merely actresses - well you can do anything in a movie. Which part do you fail to grasp? They used female actors for horse riding male riders in armor with weapons, because they could not find enough male riders be "agile" and "fit" enough to ride with armor and arms.
I have no idea about your "gender problems" in the US.
The only problem I have/had are males preparing to get operated, but are not operated yet, demanding to use the women's dress room in my martial arts school. We only had this once: I told him to be 15 minutes early, an be out of the dress room before the first woman arrives. The second time s/he did not manage to be out of the room, the first woman entering threw him/her out. A few weeks later s/he did no longer come to the training. So no idea if s/he is now a woman or not...
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Because outside of the american hemisphere, Bejing is written and pronounced Peking. :D
Just like outside of the english/american hemisphere Cologne is not Cologne but Koeln
It is actually a bit weird for us Germans that half of our cities have a "wrong" name in english and you have to learnt the english names or no one understands you ... some have even a weird "french name" e.g. Aix la Chapelle ... that is Aachen.
Erm, that was a very uninsightful analysis.
How many beer variations do we have in Germany? Roughly about 10,000. ....
How many beer companies do we have in Germany? Roughly 4
The "harmonizing" of recipes has nothing to do with "Their culture is tied to the idea that there is a right way (process) to make beer and their are traditional styles (recipes)."
The craft beer movement is growing because the big companies settled on a few base recipes and put the names of the companies they bought on the labels of the bottles.
I live in Thailand when I'm not working. Heineken and Carlsberg make big promotion programs in pubs and restaurants every year. The staff is always startled that I buy a Thai beer instead of the cheap promotion. I prefer Chang, but Leo and Singah are fine as well ... sometimes I drink beer from Laos. It has a bad name as it is super cheap: but it is a wonderful beer!
If you come to Germany, buy beer from the small lesser known brands, and you realize: there is still plenty of good and affordable beer around.
Picking a single year is completely meaningless. ...
The EU has reduced their CO2 emissions over the last 20 years by more than 30%
Who cares what happened 2017?
Well, I do: we had a relatively harsh winter ... oops. There is no real "increase" we just to heat our houses a bit more that winter. Wow, that was so simple again: idiot.
What the parent and you don't grasp: beer is actually pasteurized or even boiled.
And yes, the alcohol content, albeit only 5% in beer and 12% in wine is enough to "keep bacteria out". It is not enough to sterilize a wound, but that are completely different concepts/requirements.
The water ersatz in the middle ages was so called "small beer", it had only 2% - 3% Alcohol.
An then again: drinking fresh water from a well is pretty save anyway. Humans are made to kill bacteria. ....
Every animal living outside is drinking random water
And then again: water is easy to clean anyway. Or does anyone here think the Sumerian civilization did not drink mostly water instead of beer?
Also there can be a lot of other factors that can affect the price of beer, other then just climate change.
The driving price of Beer in Germany are taxes, and in Thailand it is taxes and taxes.
No idea why beer is so expensive in France, though.
Or just other countries not wanting to import American products will lower the cost. Wow, people actually indeed import american beer, and drink it? Or is it used to feed cattle? I believe the Japanese super cattle only gets best beer from Kirin and Asahi ... but not sure.
You can easily see this is true with a quick trip to any jungle, which is both hotter and wetter than most other place on Earth, yet also has the greatest abundance of vegetation...
I guess you mean "rainforest".
A rainforest, or simpler jungle is sustained by evaporating water out of its own area, and raining it down again on its own area. It is kinda a closed circle.
Deserts work the exact same way. They are dry because they evapour the non existing water and let it drop on themselves as non existing rain.
Fixed that for you ....
No idea why half of your posts are completely idiotic.
This refutation is also verified by the medieval warming period, where agriculture greatly expanded in Europe. ... Europe had 2 million inhabitants at that time ... perhaps less.
Yeah
The EU alone has 420 million ...
Did I mention that half of your posts are completely idiotic? Perhaps I did, but you know, this brain diseases spreading via the internet are ontaminous ...
You simplify quite a bit.
Norway is a full EU member, it is just not part of the Euro Zone.
Switzerland is no EU member at all. The businesses there mostly accept Euro, but only to treat it as a 1 : 1 currency ratio and hand back change in Franks and shrive on the exchange rate.
The only thing Switzerland has "in common" with the EU is that they either joined or associated somehow to the Schengen Treaties, that means an EU wide "Schengen" visa is valid for Switzerland, too.
Most of those "solar/wind are cheaper!" studies assume the existing power infrastructure will always be available to "back up"
Ha ha ha.
There are no such "studies". We perfectly know what a wind mill costs. Hint: google General Electric or Siemens or Vestas. Some of them publish the prices in the web site.
So we perfectly know how much $ / kWh you have to pay.
"Back up" is a stupid american conception. At night you only need about 50% of the power as during day time: so you don't need back up for solar, idiot.
Europe is in an interconnected grid. You don't need "back up" coal plants in Denmark to power it if the wind "is gone" ... they simply get water power from Norway ... etc. p.p. Idiot.
If it is the latter (and you know it is) ... and we all know that except you.
No it is not
As you are the 3rd or 4th worst polluter in total, who cares anyway? You have a long way to go ... but you don't want to admit it.
Germany also pays about the highest price in the EU per kWh for electricity, nearly double most of its neighbors and quadruple that of the US.
No, not double of it as it neighbours, only France is "cheaper" but electricity there is heavily subsidized.
Considering that a German only needs a 6th or less the electricity an american needs, obviously our rate per kWh is higher. Infrastructure costs the same, regardless how much power you consume.
And: power prices here are 50% taxes. To encourage people to use less power. So no idea what you find wrong with it. As long as my power bill is only half of what a typical american pays: why would I care about cent / kWh?
Fear-mongering.
The worst storm I've witnessed in my life was during the 90s
Define "witness"?
You mean caught into it, or saw on news?
The biggest storm in mankind's recorded history was January/February 2016. It spanned more or less the whole north atlantic. Obviously it was not in the news in the US. Perhaps because it only made partial landfall in north UK?
Anyway, thousands of ships got rerouted, hence we had no losses.
Average people are really fucking sick of the whole "the sky is falling!" ... I'm sure you will be able to weather it out the next decades just you did right now ...
It is just water
Ignorance is a bliss.
The biggest incident relted to nuclear power was the 2005 leak at the reprocessing plant where a 20 tons of nuclear fuel disolved in acid leaked out of a pipe and into a containment vessel. ...
You must be very young
The biggest incident was Sellafield/Windscale, which nearly lead to a Chernobyl like disaster.
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
You can google easily for more about this incident ... youtube is full with videos about it.
"went boom" is figurative speak, idiot.
If I had wanted to say: "they exploded" I had said so.
And strictly speaking: Chernobyl did explode, idiot.
we haven't had three hundred deaths as a result of nuclear power in all the time we've had nuclear power (70 years or so)....
Because Ukraine does not belong to your world? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The wiki article speaks about 25,000 dead. German reports about the 600,000 liquidators speak about 450,000 confirmed dead. The death toll estimated to "civilian population" is over a million, that puts us into 1,000,000 - 2,000,000 range.
Chernobyl killing a million people is a totally unsupported claim. No one anywhere claims that.
It is not.
Chernobyl was "contained" by 600,000 recruits, so called "liquidators". 450,000 are meanwhile confirmed dead.
The wikipedia article talks about 25,000 dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The WHO itself talked a few years ago about up to 2,000,000 dead, why they (as you claim) now talk about 4k, I don't know.
Chernobyl killed about a million people.
There is a long time to catch up with that due to "coal mining".
Ok.... In the US there are about 35 coal miners killed each year.
That is a shame for US safety standards, or how they are enforced.
Don't you think so?
You pay the price for "cheap coal" with the deaths of your miners and want to use that as an argument for other power sources?
Wow ...
It will go: f**k you US, as H-1B visa holders don't pay taxes in India.
Oh .... you did not know that?
The BREXIT will leave the UK in poverty.
Just like south Italy, parts of Portugal or Greece.
They won't be in any position to work on CO2 emissions.
They simply will be another poor neighbour of the EU wanting to be dragged around and spoon fed.
Sad, sad, Sad!
Death by accident, would be a starter.
Death by waste, would be another one.
And again: mining is dangerous. Does not matter if you mine diamonds, gold, iron or ... coal! ... we probably had, but no one took the time to make a wikipedia page :D
Most mining accidents can be prevented, by simply having security standards. I don't remember if we ever had a coaling mine accident in Germany during my lifetime
Fukushima's biggest problem, for example, was that they stored 20 years of spent fuel rods in a "temporary" holding area that was only designed to hold a few month's worth.
No it was not. The fuel storage had nothing to do with the initial disaster nor with the later core melt downs.
https://www.nap.edu/read/21874...
The spent fuel only contributed to the spread of contamination.
Nuclear is the answer. Any country that isn't pursuing it is stupid.
Countries are not stupid. People are.
E.g. people like you.
Who had two thorium reactors running? I mean "which country"? You don't know? Does not matter. Guess what: both reactors _failed_ and showed that the initial idea at that time (that was in the 1980s), how to run them was not feasible.
Your other claims are simply: all wrong!
So lets see if one is either building a thorium molten salt reactor, or uses a CANDU design with Thorium.
We are talking about the safety of power plants.
Not about the safety of MINES!!!
So: Coal plants according to you seem to be much safer than nuclear plants, right?
And back to the comments if a person wants to live as the opposite sex, they can, and that's fine. But no amount of want changes their genetic makeup.
"Which part do you fail to grasp? They used female actors for horse riding male riders in armor with weapons, because they could not find enough male riders be "agile" and "fit" enough to ride with armor and arms."
Give me the citations that they simply could not fiond agile and fit males. You just make shit up as you go along to suppport your silly arguments.
What citation? Just buy he DVD and watch the add ons: "the making off" It is not a secret.
Funny, in this matter, I am more - I guess the word is progressive - than you. I support a changing area for people who are not the same.
No you are not more progressive. You simply don't grasp: there is/was no space for two more changing rooms. And by law, a "still male" about to be "changed to be female" considering himself female, has the right to change in the female dress room. Similar for opposite changes. And a mixed room for both changes would not cut it.
No, matters like that are not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about some pretty straightforward matters of sex based differences in physiology. Matters that like are hardly negotiable. The differences be tween the sexes are all social constructs crowd are simply wrong, and the outliers are the exceptions that prove the rule.
And I was not talking about this at all.
I simply stated: women and men who train, are of similar strength and speed with similar body weight. ... and I emphasized that this particularly true for martial arts.
And a woman who trains is always stronger and faster than a man who does not train
Yes, there is a difference, like 10% or so, between people who train.
Woman 100m sprint record: 10.49
Men 100m sprint record: 9.58
Woman marathon record: 2:15:25 (mixed men and woman) and 2:17:01 (women only).
Men marathon record: 2:02:57
For all practical purpose that is not a big difference. But perhaps you consider it a big difference and hence we never agree :D
The UK has done a good job reducing emissions since 2012. Unfortunately the EU has not, and has been increasing their emissions.
Nitpicking very mich?
We had a bad winter, idiot. So we used more oil and gas and coal to heat houses. And that was in a single year: 2017. Before that the EU just did reduce as much as the UK did.
And in the year 2017, the UK increased their CO2 emissions, just like the rest of the EU did.
And: UK are still in the EU ... which makes comparisons a bit more complicated. Especially if so many people proudly write since 2012. Which makes no sense. The EU is reducing CO2 emissions since roughly 1995. And Germany since roughly 1980. What is so special about 2012? The UK joined late, but not that late.
There are over 400 operating commercial nuclear power reactors on this planet.
And 3 of those 400 went boom. Several others nearly went boom.
what is demonstrably the safest energy source we have today is unbelievable.
Obviously it is not the safest. Not even if you use your idiotic "death per TWh" metric.
Or when did you actually hear a solar plant go boom? Or a coal pant for that matter? How often do or did dams break?
If you want to build nuclear plants, do it in your country. Or try to convince China or India to do it. Or do all together. In west Europe, nuklear is dead. For many reasons. Two reactors are still under construction (in europe) with time and cost overruns ... lets see if they ever get online. I doubt anyone will attempt to build another one here.
No idea ...
No idea where you got this "controlling wind" meme from.
But in case you mean "my winds", I control them pretty good and most of the time only release them when I'm alone or on the toilet. That is actually not very hard, troll.
Depends on the clouds. ...
In the morning it was a light blue, till about 8:00, now it is an ugly light grey, thin enough to let enough sun through to have a hint of a shadow on the ground.
Oh, and I'm in Thailand, no one is selling here out dated ACs
In olympics and world champion ships, people with an Y chromosome can not compete in women's leagues. This is like this since people can test for chromosomes. There are plenty of women that are naturally looking like woman, but aren't. They are sieved out for events like this.
Wrestlers is a show sport ... so it does not really matter, they even have "mixed teams".
That makes no sense. If you are claiming that it was merely actresses - well you can do anything in a movie.
Which part do you fail to grasp? They used female actors for horse riding male riders in armor with weapons, because they could not find enough male riders be "agile" and "fit" enough to ride with armor and arms.
I have no idea about your "gender problems" in the US.
The only problem I have/had are males preparing to get operated, but are not operated yet, demanding to use the women's dress room in my martial arts school. We only had this once: I told him to be 15 minutes early, an be out of the dress room before the first woman arrives. The second time s/he did not manage to be out of the room, the first woman entering threw him/her out. A few weeks later s/he did no longer come to the training. So no idea if s/he is now a woman or not ...