Still they are an international service with customers around the world. Therefore, it would be logical to usw UTC. Especially, as most people know their difference to UTC, but not some freaky timezone in a country far way. Alternatively they could use AOE , but that is only known by scientists as the paper deadline time zone.
No they habe not. You could say that in public. Your opinions are communucated by the media. There habe Bern hundrets of talk shows on the subject in the past years. Often it is you who do not want to talk to the media, which you call conveniently "lying media" (Lügenpresse). However, the only ones who come up with fairy tales in the subject are right wingers and fascist. BTW in most news media , for example the Zeit, you can post what you want in the comments. And many of you do so. Their comment are only removed when they can insult people or threaten them. So if you want to discuss something substantial please do so. However, I did not hear a coherent argument from your side. The only thing you do is having and spreading fear without providing a human solution. I will not give up human rights. And I will not shoot at unarmed people.
Yes we have. The boundaries between free speech (which is a human right) and other human rights are just a little bit different than in the US. These differences are an expression of the differences in culture.
While the whole thread is off topic, it is problematic when states are not well funded because some people and companies can sneak out with their money. Actually, it is stealing from the public and it shows that such people or companies do not care about other or the effects of their actions. In short they behave sociopathic. It also shows that they hope that others pa their taxes, because without funding the sate will collapse and there will be no schools, no food stamps (USA) and no minimal income (EU), no health care for everyone, no drinking water, no roads, no police, no money. Therefore, it is important to pay your taxes. Especially the social services help to stabilize a country and society. .
It is not. Sending adverts to all your friends is spam not freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is about the right to be not censored by the government to suppress political, scientific and religious opinion. It is definitely not about ones last purchase, which is just something for a narcissistic person to express their self-importance. It often helps to visualize such posts as messages or letters to all your friends. It is annoying to get all these totally unimportant messages.
Yes I know. Schmidt said that. While it is his best known quote, it is also the most stupid one. Essentially, his message is that it is better not to want to achieve anything. Merkel is exactly doing that for the most part. And most companies do not have a real goal which defines where they want to be in 10 or 20 years. However, most innovations will only appear if you reach high and have a long running goal.
Trump plays a nationalistic card. In that he wants US Americans by US American products, made by US Americans in the USA. Every step of the production must be in US hands. This concept is one of a self-sufficient state.
Most buildings do not habe balconies. Furthermore, close to fasades there is a lot if turbulence. I find the solution with special post boxes in the neighborhood much more practical. I can walk there and pick my stuff up 24/7.
Most houses around here have four to six stories with 8 to 18 flats. A drone could only deliver to the entrance of the house. That, however, is directly on the sidewalk. Every pedestrian will be able to take it away or accidently kick it or fall over it. This is at best a solution for urban areas where no robberies take place.
My proposition is driven mostly from frustration over the issues in Belgium. As an outsider I hate it that I can do nothing to end this unpleasant situation for Belgium. And concerning the nuclear plants, we might be affected when there is an major accident. I already have enough experience form the Chernobyl disaster. And that accident was thousands of kilometers away.
My proposition was mainly based on the frustration over the Belgian "government". So to see, as a measure of last resort. I am totally open to any other solution. Something that works. All in all we need to get our act together in the EU. Presently, more and more the idea of a collaborating Europe goes down the drain.
The Belgians do not. Maybe you could help them. however, there are also some fundamental differences. First, your provinces have much more autonomy and are larger. Second, Belgium was patched together from different minor territories which where sometimes independent in history or belonged to France or the Dutch or Austria. All in all they have only the king as a common part. To solve this issue they constructed an elaborate balance of influence mechanism which is becoming more and more dysfunctional.
I did not monitor the Dutroux case a lot, as it was so far away (then; nowadays the world seems to be much smaller). I recently read an article - I am not sure whether it was in the Guardian or another European newspaper - which stated that Beldium has multiple police organizations and head of police alone for Brussels. The metro region is 1.8 million and the core is 1.1 million people. Most other regions of similar size have one organization and well defined ways of communication. True other countries mess up too (like Germany and their Nazi terrorists from the NSU), but the magnitude of "unorganizedness" is so much bigger.
The real problem in Belgium is their lack of being organized. They cannot agree on anything in short term. Not in new nuclear plants (super expensive), grid improvements, or even a single wind turbine. The political factions in Belgium are unable to come to any agreements. Especially when a solution is not required at once. And the present plants did not blow up so far, so there is no imminent threat. For US Americans, imagine two tea parties (one from the south and one from the north) which hate each other and two moderate parties where one of the moderate parties is in favour for separation of the north and the other is not. And you need at least three parties to form a government. Forming governments have been hard in this environment. Lately, it took them over 500 days to come up with a coalition. They could also not mitigate their energy crisis by switching of highway illumination at night.
Asking the Germans. Hmm. Great idea. We both know this is not the way to go. Firstly, the Belgium mess can only be solved by themselves. And secondly, Merkel usually does not do politics. She waits until it is clear what the public opinion is and then she does that or she does what her friends in industry and media say. Therefore, we were puzzled to see her act out of compassion in the refugee crisis.
Anyway, politicians like Merkel are not good in providing solutions. They do not have a vision or idea.
I assume that no country has a complete picture of radicals in their respective country. However, Belgium has a super fragmented police force. As shown recently in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, it became clear that they do not understand the structures in their own country. They had less insight than any other country. And it was almost impossible to communicate efficiently with Belgium police forces, as there is no well defined interface.
The alternative would be to (a) increase the capacity of the link between the Belgium grid and the grids of their neighbors, and (b) plan fully invest in windpower and storage solutions. However, Belgium is unable to do anything. In Belgium the people are not even against nuclear plants, they ate however unable to govern their country. Mainly because they are 2 and a half country. It would be better to break is up I'm pieces and connect the parts to France, the Netherlands and Luxemburg.
Independent from your preference for nuclear or regenerative energy, the nuclear plants in Belgium are broken. It is like one major accident per week in their plants. They are unable to run and maintain the present plants. And they only run, because they are unablento implement any alternative including getting electricity from their neighbors.
Unfortunately Belgium is the most dysfunctional state in Europe's west. Sometimes their political cast is unable to form a government for years. Actually, it is like that after each election. So they are not properly governed for 1/4 to 1/2 of the time. Their police has no clue where their potential terrorists live, and their control and oversight of nuclear plants is not governed by safety concerns, but by the fact that their grid is not that well connected with neighboring countries. They also do not have any program to replace the old and broken reactors with anything not even new plants. It is necessary that they understand that it us not working and that they should dissolve their country.
An honest company would pay 30% of its revenue as tax. And they would not try to trick, as they know without a working state and society they cannot exist. However, all the big companies ignore that, as they do not feel responsible for the mayhem they cause and the effects do not occur immediately. Therefore, like a 2 year old they ruin their surrounding. Unfortunately, there are no parents around to stop them.
It saddens me that "modern" parents are unable to trust their kids. They can walk alone after a few days. Anyway, on the legal side of this topic: you have to directly supervise kids always up to 2 or 3 years. I have to look that up for details. But when the kids are 10 they can run around on their own. On school days police might stop kids who are expected to be at school, which is acceptable. However, they would not bother on holidays. And I assumed that their are similar laws in the US, but the article implies that a court ruling was necessary to clarify that.
This means before that, parents where in danger to be charged. This has almost the same effect than a law prohibiting it. Very strange. At least from my perspective. I went to kindergarten be foot alone. Ok it was only a five to ten minute walk and I only had to cross two roads. However, most of the other kids went there on their own. Later in school, only children from outside town had to take the bus, the rest where on their own. I also could go to town on my own.
For example in Germany, depending on age different rules apply to children and parent oversight. The general notion is that the older you get the more you are allowed to do and the less parents are responsible for the mayhem you cause. Still it is always a good idea to have proper insurance;-)
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Still they are an international service with customers around the world. Therefore, it would be logical to usw UTC. Especially, as most people know their difference to UTC, but not some freaky timezone in a country far way. Alternatively they could use AOE , but that is only known by scientists as the paper deadline time zone.
I would go back and top your first post, but I am out of plutonium. And this Mr. Fusion is just a scam.
No they habe not. You could say that in public. Your opinions are communucated by the media. There habe Bern hundrets of talk shows on the subject in the past years. Often it is you who do not want to talk to the media, which you call conveniently "lying media" (Lügenpresse). However, the only ones who come up with fairy tales in the subject are right wingers and fascist. BTW in most news media , for example the Zeit, you can post what you want in the comments. And many of you do so. Their comment are only removed when they can insult people or threaten them. So if you want to discuss something substantial please do so. However, I did not hear a coherent argument from your side. The only thing you do is having and spreading fear without providing a human solution. I will not give up human rights. And I will not shoot at unarmed people.
Yes we have. The boundaries between free speech (which is a human right) and other human rights are just a little bit different than in the US. These differences are an expression of the differences in culture.
While the whole thread is off topic, it is problematic when states are not well funded because some people and companies can sneak out with their money. Actually, it is stealing from the public and it shows that such people or companies do not care about other or the effects of their actions. In short they behave sociopathic. It also shows that they hope that others pa their taxes, because without funding the sate will collapse and there will be no schools, no food stamps (USA) and no minimal income (EU), no health care for everyone, no drinking water, no roads, no police, no money. Therefore, it is important to pay your taxes. Especially the social services help to stabilize a country and society. .
It is not. Sending adverts to all your friends is spam not freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is about the right to be not censored by the government to suppress political, scientific and religious opinion. It is definitely not about ones last purchase, which is just something for a narcissistic person to express their self-importance. It often helps to visualize such posts as messages or letters to all your friends. It is annoying to get all these totally unimportant messages.
Yes I know. Schmidt said that. While it is his best known quote, it is also the most stupid one. Essentially, his message is that it is better not to want to achieve anything. Merkel is exactly doing that for the most part. And most companies do not have a real goal which defines where they want to be in 10 or 20 years. However, most innovations will only appear if you reach high and have a long running goal.
Trump plays a nationalistic card. In that he wants US Americans by US American products, made by US Americans in the USA. Every step of the production must be in US hands. This concept is one of a self-sufficient state.
No, he wants that the Mexicans build it and, if he continues, they will do it just to keep him out.
Most buildings do not habe balconies. Furthermore, close to fasades there is a lot if turbulence. I find the solution with special post boxes in the neighborhood much more practical. I can walk there and pick my stuff up 24/7.
Most houses around here have four to six stories with 8 to 18 flats. A drone could only deliver to the entrance of the house. That, however, is directly on the sidewalk. Every pedestrian will be able to take it away or accidently kick it or fall over it. This is at best a solution for urban areas where no robberies take place.
My proposition is driven mostly from frustration over the issues in Belgium. As an outsider I hate it that I can do nothing to end this unpleasant situation for Belgium. And concerning the nuclear plants, we might be affected when there is an major accident. I already have enough experience form the Chernobyl disaster. And that accident was thousands of kilometers away.
My proposition was mainly based on the frustration over the Belgian "government". So to see, as a measure of last resort. I am totally open to any other solution. Something that works. All in all we need to get our act together in the EU. Presently, more and more the idea of a collaborating Europe goes down the drain.
The Belgians do not. Maybe you could help them. however, there are also some fundamental differences. First, your provinces have much more autonomy and are larger. Second, Belgium was patched together from different minor territories which where sometimes independent in history or belonged to France or the Dutch or Austria. All in all they have only the king as a common part. To solve this issue they constructed an elaborate balance of influence mechanism which is becoming more and more dysfunctional.
I did not monitor the Dutroux case a lot, as it was so far away (then; nowadays the world seems to be much smaller). I recently read an article - I am not sure whether it was in the Guardian or another European newspaper - which stated that Beldium has multiple police organizations and head of police alone for Brussels. The metro region is 1.8 million and the core is 1.1 million people. Most other regions of similar size have one organization and well defined ways of communication. True other countries mess up too (like Germany and their Nazi terrorists from the NSU), but the magnitude of "unorganizedness" is so much bigger.
The real problem in Belgium is their lack of being organized. They cannot agree on anything in short term. Not in new nuclear plants (super expensive), grid improvements, or even a single wind turbine. The political factions in Belgium are unable to come to any agreements. Especially when a solution is not required at once. And the present plants did not blow up so far, so there is no imminent threat. For US Americans, imagine two tea parties (one from the south and one from the north) which hate each other and two moderate parties where one of the moderate parties is in favour for separation of the north and the other is not. And you need at least three parties to form a government. Forming governments have been hard in this environment. Lately, it took them over 500 days to come up with a coalition. They could also not mitigate their energy crisis by switching of highway illumination at night.
Asking the Germans. Hmm. Great idea. We both know this is not the way to go. Firstly, the Belgium mess can only be solved by themselves. And secondly, Merkel usually does not do politics. She waits until it is clear what the public opinion is and then she does that or she does what her friends in industry and media say. Therefore, we were puzzled to see her act out of compassion in the refugee crisis.
Anyway, politicians like Merkel are not good in providing solutions. They do not have a vision or idea.
I assume that no country has a complete picture of radicals in their respective country. However, Belgium has a super fragmented police force. As shown recently in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, it became clear that they do not understand the structures in their own country. They had less insight than any other country. And it was almost impossible to communicate efficiently with Belgium police forces, as there is no well defined interface.
The alternative would be to (a) increase the capacity of the link between the Belgium grid and the grids of their neighbors, and (b) plan fully invest in windpower and storage solutions. However, Belgium is unable to do anything. In Belgium the people are not even against nuclear plants, they ate however unable to govern their country. Mainly because they are 2 and a half country. It would be better to break is up I'm pieces and connect the parts to France, the Netherlands and Luxemburg.
Independent from your preference for nuclear or regenerative energy, the nuclear plants in Belgium are broken. It is like one major accident per week in their plants. They are unable to run and maintain the present plants. And they only run, because they are unablento implement any alternative including getting electricity from their neighbors.
Unfortunately Belgium is the most dysfunctional state in Europe's west. Sometimes their political cast is unable to form a government for years. Actually, it is like that after each election. So they are not properly governed for 1/4 to 1/2 of the time. Their police has no clue where their potential terrorists live, and their control and oversight of nuclear plants is not governed by safety concerns, but by the fact that their grid is not that well connected with neighboring countries. They also do not have any program to replace the old and broken reactors with anything not even new plants. It is necessary that they understand that it us not working and that they should dissolve their country.
That is what all the small companies have to pay here in good old Europe. Therefore, big companies should too.
An honest company would pay 30% of its revenue as tax. And they would not try to trick, as they know without a working state and society they cannot exist. However, all the big companies ignore that, as they do not feel responsible for the mayhem they cause and the effects do not occur immediately. Therefore, like a 2 year old they ruin their surrounding. Unfortunately, there are no parents around to stop them.
It saddens me that "modern" parents are unable to trust their kids. They can walk alone after a few days. Anyway, on the legal side of this topic: you have to directly supervise kids always up to 2 or 3 years. I have to look that up for details. But when the kids are 10 they can run around on their own. On school days police might stop kids who are expected to be at school, which is acceptable. However, they would not bother on holidays. And I assumed that their are similar laws in the US, but the article implies that a court ruling was necessary to clarify that.
This means before that, parents where in danger to be charged. This has almost the same effect than a law prohibiting it. Very strange. At least from my perspective. I went to kindergarten be foot alone. Ok it was only a five to ten minute walk and I only had to cross two roads. However, most of the other kids went there on their own. Later in school, only children from outside town had to take the bus, the rest where on their own. I also could go to town on my own.
For example in Germany, depending on age different rules apply to children and parent oversight. The general notion is that the older you get the more you are allowed to do and the less parents are responsible for the mayhem you cause. Still it is always a good idea to have proper insurance ;-)