It depends what you want to replenish... normally nitrogen is the oil-derived fertilizer component. It can be however be obtained through pretty much anything, in a less direct cycle. Pretty much everything organic that decomposes will produce ammonia while being broken down. Bacteria in the soil will then process the ammonia to nitrogen. The process is slower than with chemical nitrogen, which is presented as a compound that is directly available to the plants. Alternatively, you can also plant legumes or a cover crop of clover in the area as they will scrub nitrogen from the atmosphere and fix it in the soil. It is also a slower process than the chemical based fertilizer.
unlike the 5% which apparently makes up about 80% of posters on this thread you've done the correct thing and based it off a more accurate measurement.
I guess we can both venture a guess about the reason for the 80% of the posters in the thread not using a more accurate measurement.;)
I started using more precise measurements because BMI never gave a coherent result for me after age 11... at my lowest weight as a teenager, it put me on the higher end of normal. I looked like a walking skeleton with large legs and I had no endurance... I had explosive acceleration but couldn't run a 100m or walk for more than 15 minutes. As soon as I looked healthier or more balanced, with better endurance, my BMI would hit overweight.
I had to start lifting because 20+ years as a console jockey was taking its toll on my health. My posture started getting shittier every year, I was starting to get pain in my lower back, neck and my shoulder all the time. The pain in the back, neck and shoulder went away after a week of lifting, and they come back when I stop lifting (after a few weeks). So that's one of the things that keeps me lifting on a regular basis, the other one is that I can literally see the difference on the scale and the fat calipers every week where I stick to the program. If I end up getting a few more month of linear gains with my current training (beginner gains FTW), there will be no body fat percentage where I'm not in the obese range according to BMI. Once I hit the limit of the beginner gains, I'll do a first cut before switching to maintenance.
I'm still far from being seriously into lifting tho... I'm not doing a 5 or 6 days split routine, I'm not chugging supplements and/or pre/post workouts (or worse!). I don't even want to think about doing that, I'm drawing the line at tracking micro/macro nutrients and calories. You should see some of the "seriously into lifting/fitness" people I have met in my life.:)
I do get that the vast majority of the general population prefers watching entertainment from their sofa rather than exercising or sleeping in rather than jumping out of bed at 4:30 am for a short jog before commuting to work, heck I was one of them. And I also get that the few who try to exercise tend to give up after a few weeks because it wasn't the silver bullet that was sold to them. However, I am surprised that the same applies to our demographic... it's not rocket brain surgery, there's loads of published research on the health benefits, there's loads of data you can collect/analyse to better understand or use the most important machine in your life. I would expect nerds to be all over that shit and publish howto/hacks.
It is a rough statistical measure for a population. Like all rough statistical measures, they can tell you something at the population level but still fail at the individual level, a bit like Asimov's psychohistory.
For example, my BMI is 32.9... omg, I must be Fatso McFatty as that's way in the obese range of BMI! I'm 42 years old, that's dragging me back down to the moderate risk from high/very high. My body fat level is currently at 20%, according to both fat calipers and body measurements. That is smack in the middle of average for a man. My target is somewhere below 15%. Based on those numbers, at my current muscle mass:
at 0% body fat (aka dead), to go back down to a BMI of 26.5, which is the higher band of "minimal risk" for someone my age, but still overweight according to BMI.
at 5% body fat (strict minimum for survival), my BMI would be on the top half of the overweight range
at 10% body fat (the bf% of "cut" athletes on photoshoots), my BMI would be close to the border between the overweight and the obese ranges
at 15% body fat, my BMI would be in the obese range
I am anything but a "professional sports person" or a gym junkie. My physical activity level isn't that high... I jog 3x a week, before going to the office. I lift 3 times a week, after work. I'm still pretty much a noob on both activities. I do watch my calorie intake
It isn't, I grew up there and left for good in 2001. It is a tax paradise if your money isn't coming off your own work... if you let out properties for non-commercial use, the revenue will be taxed on 140% of a fictive annual rent (what the rent on a similar place would have been on the 1st of January 1975). If you flip properties every 5 years and a day or land every 8 years and a day, the profit is tax free.
On the other hand, if you do work... the tax rates are insane: 25% on revenue below the poverty line (8680 per year), 30% on the next slice (up to 12360), 40% on the next slice (up to 20600), 45% on the next slice (up to 37750), 50% from there on. The employer also has to pay 35% extra on top of your gross salary. Then they wonder why so many people moonlight.
Which is exactly what they are doing with electronic payments... opening a bank account has pretty much always (in my lifetime) required a piece of identification and a proof of address, which triggered a Due Diligence routine (is it a real/legal piece of ID, does it match the information given to us by the customer, is it the same person,...), questions about the source of the funds once it crossed a certain threshold and regular scans against sanctions lists.
The only major differences are that the lists are now digital and updated at least daily, the scans are now fast enough that the customers are checked daily against those lists, the regulations are also being adapted faster to follow the evolution of money laundering techniques and there is international cooperation on money laundering matters. Just because the transaction is now happening online doesn't exclude it from the existing regulations on financial operations.
As I am working in direct contact with AML regulations on a daily basis, I can tell you that we're currently only expected to block and report the big fishes... basically the persons with multiple positive hits in sanction lists. Well, those and transactions to/from embargoed countries (legal requirement) or high risk countries (risk management decision from the company).
Let's say you've got a set of transactions of less than $200 each going between J. R. Blowski and A. M. Laundry services, how do you establish if it is part of a legit series of transactions from a customer to a clothes cleaning services, a small fish funneling money to his savings account abroad in order to avoid taxes or just a part of a large fish laundering petty crime money through multiple agents on both ends of the transaction in order to finance terrorist groups? Well you can't without investigating the transactions.
In socialist Europe, a data breach exposing customer confidential data or financial data that isn't reported to the relevant authorities and the customers within 3 days opens the company to large fines (up to 4% world-wide revenue of the company/group), a lawsuit and up to 20 days in jail for the management.
Sure but at least the denominations of christianity do agree that there was this guy about 2000 years ago, who was the son of the one and only big boss, that the big boss pretty much created the whole reality, that eternal salvation is only through the boss or his son, that a set of clear instructions was given at some point, and that someone has the absolute knowledge. Of course, it also splintered into salvation by grace, by piety or by acts. If you are a christian, by definition you believe in the one god but you may disagree on the finer details of the faith or which set of instructions you should follow. You could say that God, Jesus, the new testament (common parts of all translations) are part of the core dogma.
Another, and this is more amusing than not, thing is that people seem inclined to tell me what I believe. "Oh, you can't believe that. Buddhists don't believe that." Err... Yes, yes we do. I am not even remotely unique in my beliefs and I'm perfectly well accepted, respected, and allowed to both speak and listen. I've been at this for a *very* long time, I'm pretty damned certain about who I am and what I believe.
The core of the issue is that there are more forms of Buddhism than there are countries practicing it. What a Nichiren Buddhist in Japan believes is not the same as what a Shingon Buddhist in Japan believes, which is not the same as what a Soutou Buddhist in Japan believes, which in turn is not the same as what a Tibetan Buddhist believes... People see Buddhism as a unified belief system with a core dogma, but it's a family of beliefs systems stemming from the mixing of "Hinduism stripped down for export, split in two different schools of thought" and "prevalent belief system of the area".
If you're curious, I believe in reincarnation but not like you might expect. My atoms will someday make up the materials of stars. I will not be conscious of it but my atoms will be used again. Someday, I will be a part of some star somewhere and even that cycle will begin anew until the heat death of the universe. Well, it might not be a star (and odds are against that) but I can hope.
For some schools of zen Buddhism, reincarnation is simply the fact that the current happening isn't the same as any previous or future happening. A bit like "you can't cross the same river twice".
Also we used to say in college that you could often guess pretty accurately from a distance which of the Asian girls were foreign students and which were American-raised just from their bust size alone.
It's even worse than that... you can guess if their home town had a McD/KFC based on that metric alone. Bust sizes went up in Japan once McD became common.
To be honest, resistance training has so many other benefits that I don't really need additional reasons to do it. Heavy lifting has fixed the back and shoulder pains that had plagued me for decades.
Let alone, the fact that there are countries who's citizens are way better armed who have less gun crime.
At the same time, you have countries with less than a third of US gun ownership where gun crime rates are about forty times lower than in the US... I personally don't think the issue is the amount of guns per 100 heads. I think the issue is the amount of people who should be institutionalized that are on the streets with access to guns.
Cue endless bellyaching "oh noes, they'll take my X11 network transparency over my dead body!" comments and "damned kids don't know what they're doing," never mind Wayland exists because the damned kids maintaining Xorg got tired of the cruft.
Backwards compatibility, not having to change the way you manage your whole infrastructure for "remote desktop solution of the week". X11 network transparency may not make any sense in the desktop world, but on the server side it is an awesome feature. You do realize that in the real world the majority of the market share for Linux is server and embedded, that the majority of customers don't have an Os monoculture except if they're a greenfield site, right?
Can anybody help me understand why rdesktop [wikipedia.org] or similar schlepping bitmaps (I'm pretty sure it can do single window instead of whole desktop, which would work nicely with Wayland) or a GTK/QT specific network protocol is unacceptable and why we need to schlep bitmaps over X11 instead? What is the specific use-case that's impossible without X11 (hopefully the specific program that actually uses the X11 font capabilities and not cairo/freetype and X11 drawing primitives and not GTK/QT)?
With rdesktop, can I ssh to a headless box that runs any moderately recent Unix variation and suddenly decide to send back a window to my desktop?
With the network transparency at the X11 level, it is framework agnostic. What if your commercial app doesn't use GTK or QT? The financial applications I have seen in the last 20 years use older frameworks as they aren't Linux-specific. The vendor may decide that dropping the platform would be cheaper than porting the application from Motif to GTK or QT. As we're talking about the real world, the clients won't hesitate a second and will switch to a platform supported by the application vendor.
My 4 last cars include 2 Audi, one Ford and one Mazda
One 1999 Audi A3 1.8 automatic was just slightly worse than the announced fuel economy.
The temporary car that followed was a 2012 Ford Fiesta econetic 1.6, announced as a 3.6 l/100 but I never got it below 7 l/100 (onboard computer, I didn't keep it long enough to bother doing the calcs by hand).
After that, I had a 2012 Audi A3 Sportsback 2.0 TDI S Tronic, which was slightly better than its announced average fuel economy.
The "current" car is a 2002 Mazda MX5 NBFL 1.6, where I get sightly better than the announced average fuel economy even tho I drive it mostly in the city.
Guess which country in the EU doesn't keep track of violent crime stats because there is NONE?
Switzerland isn't in the EU. The second part of your statement is equally stupid. Friends of mine do work in the Bundeskriminalpolizei over there and always have funny stories about the creative use of agro-forestry machinery to get rid of bodies.
In 2014, There were a total of 41 murders in Switzerland and had a murder rate of 0.49 per 100,000 population, the lowest raw figure and lowest rate for 33 years, since the start of the nationwide coordinated collection of statistical data
The flu vaccine introduces a weakened/dead version of influenza, so you body will manufacture antibodies in reaction to it.
Homeopathy is handing you a sugar pill. Let's take Oscilloccinum as an example. You start with a 1 liter bottle, you add 35 grams of duck liver, 15 grams of duck heart and you top with water. After 40 days, it is a goo. You take 1 percent of that goo, set it in another 1 liter vessel and fill up with pure water. That cycle is called a Korsakov dilution. Oscilloccinum is indicated as a 200 Korsakov dilutions. That means that there is 1 molecule in 100^200 molecules coming from the active ingredient, if you assume that you got a uniform distribution in the vessel. 1 molecule in 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000. You'd need to ingest a dose several orders of magnitude larger than the universe to get a chance to ingest one molecule of the active ingredient. Note that there is no evidence whatsoever that duck liver and duck heart would actually do anything for the flu in the first place.
The fun bit is that there's no need for cheap foreigners to drive down wages in Germany. The unemployment benefits system is designed to take care of it.
If you have worked enough in the last 3 years, you can get up to 12 months of full unemployment benefits depending on your age (60% of your previous salary without kids, 67% with kids). If you refuse a "reasonable job offer", you don't get the benefits for up to 12 weeks. Reasonable is defined as "up to 3 hours daily commute" and paying 80% of your previous salary if it's in the first quarter, then it goes down to 70%, then 60%. Refuse several "reasonable job offers" and you lose the benefits. At the end of the benefits period, you get switched to subsistence allowance: maximum of 399 per month if I am not too mistaken.
I'm a non-German living in Germany for 9 years, crossing the border every day for better wages.
I hope they won't take the German approach and declare that you need a TV licence if you have a device able to watch TV programs. This includes smartphones, tablets and computers.
On the other hand, I personally would pay the licence if I lived in the UK... I do enjoy some of the BBC programs on a regular basis.
Having worked in that sort of places, there's a mandatory 1 hour training once a year. The contents of which are promptly forgotten about 1 hour after the mandatory test happening at the end of the training.
If you compare it to Japan, they are a society first, individual second country and while individuals may not have the same scope to be mega rich like they do in the US you can walk anywhere in their cities and feel completely safe. Go to the US and you want to make sure you stay in the right areas otherwise you are in real trouble. You can make it big in the US like nowhere else but that has its costs.
Yes, when I lived just outside of Osaka I would routinely jog through the "seediest" part of town in the middle of the night or in the wee hours of the morning. I never ran into trouble. I wouldn't even dream of doing the same thing in the US, or even in large parts of Europe.
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What do you think of the other riders in HB2?
Rider 1: no local ordinance can increase the minimum wage above the state level. (part 2 of HB2)
Rider 2: you are no longer allowed to sue in a NC court for discrimination-related matters. (part 3 of HB2)
It depends what you want to replenish... normally nitrogen is the oil-derived fertilizer component. It can be however be obtained through pretty much anything, in a less direct cycle. Pretty much everything organic that decomposes will produce ammonia while being broken down. Bacteria in the soil will then process the ammonia to nitrogen. The process is slower than with chemical nitrogen, which is presented as a compound that is directly available to the plants. Alternatively, you can also plant legumes or a cover crop of clover in the area as they will scrub nitrogen from the atmosphere and fix it in the soil. It is also a slower process than the chemical based fertilizer.
unlike the 5% which apparently makes up about 80% of posters on this thread you've done the correct thing and based it off a more accurate measurement.
I guess we can both venture a guess about the reason for the 80% of the posters in the thread not using a more accurate measurement. ;)
I started using more precise measurements because BMI never gave a coherent result for me after age 11... at my lowest weight as a teenager, it put me on the higher end of normal. I looked like a walking skeleton with large legs and I had no endurance... I had explosive acceleration but couldn't run a 100m or walk for more than 15 minutes. As soon as I looked healthier or more balanced, with better endurance, my BMI would hit overweight.
I had to start lifting because 20+ years as a console jockey was taking its toll on my health. My posture started getting shittier every year, I was starting to get pain in my lower back, neck and my shoulder all the time. The pain in the back, neck and shoulder went away after a week of lifting, and they come back when I stop lifting (after a few weeks). So that's one of the things that keeps me lifting on a regular basis, the other one is that I can literally see the difference on the scale and the fat calipers every week where I stick to the program. If I end up getting a few more month of linear gains with my current training (beginner gains FTW), there will be no body fat percentage where I'm not in the obese range according to BMI. Once I hit the limit of the beginner gains, I'll do a first cut before switching to maintenance.
I'm still far from being seriously into lifting tho... I'm not doing a 5 or 6 days split routine, I'm not chugging supplements and/or pre/post workouts (or worse!). I don't even want to think about doing that, I'm drawing the line at tracking micro/macro nutrients and calories. You should see some of the "seriously into lifting/fitness" people I have met in my life. :)
I do get that the vast majority of the general population prefers watching entertainment from their sofa rather than exercising or sleeping in rather than jumping out of bed at 4:30 am for a short jog before commuting to work, heck I was one of them. And I also get that the few who try to exercise tend to give up after a few weeks because it wasn't the silver bullet that was sold to them. However, I am surprised that the same applies to our demographic... it's not rocket brain surgery, there's loads of published research on the health benefits, there's loads of data you can collect/analyse to better understand or use the most important machine in your life. I would expect nerds to be all over that shit and publish howto/hacks.
It is a rough statistical measure for a population. Like all rough statistical measures, they can tell you something at the population level but still fail at the individual level, a bit like Asimov's psychohistory.
For example, my BMI is 32.9... omg, I must be Fatso McFatty as that's way in the obese range of BMI! I'm 42 years old, that's dragging me back down to the moderate risk from high/very high. My body fat level is currently at 20%, according to both fat calipers and body measurements. That is smack in the middle of average for a man. My target is somewhere below 15%. Based on those numbers, at my current muscle mass:
I am anything but a "professional sports person" or a gym junkie. My physical activity level isn't that high... I jog 3x a week, before going to the office. I lift 3 times a week, after work. I'm still pretty much a noob on both activities. I do watch my calorie intake
Belgium sounds nice. I wish I lived there...
It isn't, I grew up there and left for good in 2001. It is a tax paradise if your money isn't coming off your own work... if you let out properties for non-commercial use, the revenue will be taxed on 140% of a fictive annual rent (what the rent on a similar place would have been on the 1st of January 1975). If you flip properties every 5 years and a day or land every 8 years and a day, the profit is tax free.
On the other hand, if you do work... the tax rates are insane: 25% on revenue below the poverty line (8680 per year), 30% on the next slice (up to 12360), 40% on the next slice (up to 20600), 45% on the next slice (up to 37750), 50% from there on. The employer also has to pay 35% extra on top of your gross salary. Then they wonder why so many people moonlight.
Which is exactly what they are doing with electronic payments... opening a bank account has pretty much always (in my lifetime) required a piece of identification and a proof of address, which triggered a Due Diligence routine (is it a real/legal piece of ID, does it match the information given to us by the customer, is it the same person, ...), questions about the source of the funds once it crossed a certain threshold and regular scans against sanctions lists.
The only major differences are that the lists are now digital and updated at least daily, the scans are now fast enough that the customers are checked daily against those lists, the regulations are also being adapted faster to follow the evolution of money laundering techniques and there is international cooperation on money laundering matters. Just because the transaction is now happening online doesn't exclude it from the existing regulations on financial operations.
As I am working in direct contact with AML regulations on a daily basis, I can tell you that we're currently only expected to block and report the big fishes... basically the persons with multiple positive hits in sanction lists. Well, those and transactions to/from embargoed countries (legal requirement) or high risk countries (risk management decision from the company).
It should be in 2 pica to represent how far above his head it was :)
Let's say you've got a set of transactions of less than $200 each going between J. R. Blowski and A. M. Laundry services, how do you establish if it is part of a legit series of transactions from a customer to a clothes cleaning services, a small fish funneling money to his savings account abroad in order to avoid taxes or just a part of a large fish laundering petty crime money through multiple agents on both ends of the transaction in order to finance terrorist groups? Well you can't without investigating the transactions.
In socialist Europe, a data breach exposing customer confidential data or financial data that isn't reported to the relevant authorities and the customers within 3 days opens the company to large fines (up to 4% world-wide revenue of the company/group), a lawsuit and up to 20 days in jail for the management.
Sure but at least the denominations of christianity do agree that there was this guy about 2000 years ago, who was the son of the one and only big boss, that the big boss pretty much created the whole reality, that eternal salvation is only through the boss or his son, that a set of clear instructions was given at some point, and that someone has the absolute knowledge. Of course, it also splintered into salvation by grace, by piety or by acts. If you are a christian, by definition you believe in the one god but you may disagree on the finer details of the faith or which set of instructions you should follow. You could say that God, Jesus, the new testament (common parts of all translations) are part of the core dogma.
Another, and this is more amusing than not, thing is that people seem inclined to tell me what I believe. "Oh, you can't believe that. Buddhists don't believe that." Err... Yes, yes we do. I am not even remotely unique in my beliefs and I'm perfectly well accepted, respected, and allowed to both speak and listen. I've been at this for a *very* long time, I'm pretty damned certain about who I am and what I believe.
The core of the issue is that there are more forms of Buddhism than there are countries practicing it. What a Nichiren Buddhist in Japan believes is not the same as what a Shingon Buddhist in Japan believes, which is not the same as what a Soutou Buddhist in Japan believes, which in turn is not the same as what a Tibetan Buddhist believes... People see Buddhism as a unified belief system with a core dogma, but it's a family of beliefs systems stemming from the mixing of "Hinduism stripped down for export, split in two different schools of thought" and "prevalent belief system of the area".
If you're curious, I believe in reincarnation but not like you might expect. My atoms will someday make up the materials of stars. I will not be conscious of it but my atoms will be used again. Someday, I will be a part of some star somewhere and even that cycle will begin anew until the heat death of the universe. Well, it might not be a star (and odds are against that) but I can hope.
For some schools of zen Buddhism, reincarnation is simply the fact that the current happening isn't the same as any previous or future happening. A bit like "you can't cross the same river twice".
Also we used to say in college that you could often guess pretty accurately from a distance which of the Asian girls were foreign students and which were American-raised just from their bust size alone.
It's even worse than that... you can guess if their home town had a McD/KFC based on that metric alone. Bust sizes went up in Japan once McD became common.
That is even better news :)
To be honest, resistance training has so many other benefits that I don't really need additional reasons to do it. Heavy lifting has fixed the back and shoulder pains that had plagued me for decades.
Resistance training leads to change in the nervous system, but possibly not in the brain. Relevant research
Let alone, the fact that there are countries who's citizens are way better armed who have less gun crime.
At the same time, you have countries with less than a third of US gun ownership where gun crime rates are about forty times lower than in the US... I personally don't think the issue is the amount of guns per 100 heads. I think the issue is the amount of people who should be institutionalized that are on the streets with access to guns.
Cue endless bellyaching "oh noes, they'll take my X11 network transparency over my dead body!" comments and "damned kids don't know what they're doing," never mind Wayland exists because the damned kids maintaining Xorg got tired of the cruft.
Backwards compatibility, not having to change the way you manage your whole infrastructure for "remote desktop solution of the week". X11 network transparency may not make any sense in the desktop world, but on the server side it is an awesome feature. You do realize that in the real world the majority of the market share for Linux is server and embedded, that the majority of customers don't have an Os monoculture except if they're a greenfield site, right?
Can anybody help me understand why rdesktop [wikipedia.org] or similar schlepping bitmaps (I'm pretty sure it can do single window instead of whole desktop, which would work nicely with Wayland) or a GTK/QT specific network protocol is unacceptable and why we need to schlep bitmaps over X11 instead? What is the specific use-case that's impossible without X11 (hopefully the specific program that actually uses the X11 font capabilities and not cairo/freetype and X11 drawing primitives and not GTK/QT)?
With rdesktop, can I ssh to a headless box that runs any moderately recent Unix variation and suddenly decide to send back a window to my desktop?
With the network transparency at the X11 level, it is framework agnostic. What if your commercial app doesn't use GTK or QT? The financial applications I have seen in the last 20 years use older frameworks as they aren't Linux-specific. The vendor may decide that dropping the platform would be cheaper than porting the application from Motif to GTK or QT. As we're talking about the real world, the clients won't hesitate a second and will switch to a platform supported by the application vendor.
My 4 last cars include 2 Audi, one Ford and one Mazda
Guess which country in the EU doesn't keep track of violent crime stats because there is NONE?
Switzerland isn't in the EU. The second part of your statement is equally stupid. Friends of mine do work in the Bundeskriminalpolizei over there and always have funny stories about the creative use of agro-forestry machinery to get rid of bodies.
Crime in Switzerland
In 2014, There were a total of 41 murders in Switzerland and had a murder rate of 0.49 per 100,000 population, the lowest raw figure and lowest rate for 33 years, since the start of the nationwide coordinated collection of statistical data
I was describing the honest or true believer approach, historically it was done with only one container tho.
Cynical people would probably skip the first step, the 199 dilutions that follow and go straight to adding a bit of water to sugar.
The flu vaccine introduces a weakened/dead version of influenza, so you body will manufacture antibodies in reaction to it.
Homeopathy is handing you a sugar pill. Let's take Oscilloccinum as an example. You start with a 1 liter bottle, you add 35 grams of duck liver, 15 grams of duck heart and you top with water. After 40 days, it is a goo. You take 1 percent of that goo, set it in another 1 liter vessel and fill up with pure water. That cycle is called a Korsakov dilution. Oscilloccinum is indicated as a 200 Korsakov dilutions. That means that there is 1 molecule in 100^200 molecules coming from the active ingredient, if you assume that you got a uniform distribution in the vessel. 1 molecule in 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000. You'd need to ingest a dose several orders of magnitude larger than the universe to get a chance to ingest one molecule of the active ingredient. Note that there is no evidence whatsoever that duck liver and duck heart would actually do anything for the flu in the first place.
Do you see a difference?
The fun bit is that there's no need for cheap foreigners to drive down wages in Germany. The unemployment benefits system is designed to take care of it.
If you have worked enough in the last 3 years, you can get up to 12 months of full unemployment benefits depending on your age (60% of your previous salary without kids, 67% with kids). If you refuse a "reasonable job offer", you don't get the benefits for up to 12 weeks. Reasonable is defined as "up to 3 hours daily commute" and paying 80% of your previous salary if it's in the first quarter, then it goes down to 70%, then 60%. Refuse several "reasonable job offers" and you lose the benefits. At the end of the benefits period, you get switched to subsistence allowance: maximum of 399 per month if I am not too mistaken.
I'm a non-German living in Germany for 9 years, crossing the border every day for better wages.
I hope they won't take the German approach and declare that you need a TV licence if you have a device able to watch TV programs. This includes smartphones, tablets and computers.
On the other hand, I personally would pay the licence if I lived in the UK... I do enjoy some of the BBC programs on a regular basis.
Having worked in that sort of places, there's a mandatory 1 hour training once a year. The contents of which are promptly forgotten about 1 hour after the mandatory test happening at the end of the training.
If you compare it to Japan, they are a society first, individual second country and while individuals may not have the same scope to be mega rich like they do in the US you can walk anywhere in their cities and feel completely safe. Go to the US and you want to make sure you stay in the right areas otherwise you are in real trouble. You can make it big in the US like nowhere else but that has its costs.
Yes, when I lived just outside of Osaka I would routinely jog through the "seediest" part of town in the middle of the night or in the wee hours of the morning. I never ran into trouble. I wouldn't even dream of doing the same thing in the US, or even in large parts of Europe.
Possible reasons: