Can't speak about coffee because I neither like the taste nor the smell, but I drink about two liters of tea every working day (green Oolong and Sencha mostly, but also often enough Darjeeling FTGFOP), but at home drink only tap water due to my laziness - and I can be at home for three weeks in a row when I am on vacation. No withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. I also routinely make a second or sometimes even a third stepping (where is almost no caffeine left).
Guess I am either lucky or things are different with tea, but either way it's okay with me - I certainly would hate to be addicted.
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My mother is a medical doctor and there is a history of dementia in our family. Recently I told my mother that if I catch myself developing dementia I would rather commit suicide than lose my self. She was okay with that, but forewarned me that I might not be able to recognise the condition in first place.
Yep, that's the one. I like the unlocked bootloader, too, and try a different Android ROM every week or so, but not Windows Phone, because I don't care about social networking (my only social network is ICQ with 4 people in the contact list) and I have already invested in many Android applications (and running cLK I would have to flash MAGLDR again, all in all too much hassle).
I used Windows Mobile between 2004 and 2010 and I owned lots of HTC devices (Wallaby, Himalaya, Blue Angel, Universal, Athena, Blackstone, Leo), also a few non-phone Windows Mobile devices (Toshiba E800, HP HX4700). I actually liked the operating system (well, except WM5, that one wasn't any good until AKU3.5 came out, and by then WM6 beta was better anyway). Now using Android on my former WM6.5 phone, and the only reason for it is that Windows Mobile was almost unusable on a capacitive display.
Windows Mobile was quite powerful, with real multitasking and easy application development, although.net compact framework was sorely lacking in many places without any good reason and ran well on decent hardware. On shitty hardware, though, Windows Mobile felt sluggish, especially the early WM5 installations. My good old Himalaya from 2004 is still able to run WM6.5 well because it is more powerful than many phones made years later - it was also very expensive back then.
Wrong and wrong again. THTR was neither built in the 1960s, nor was it a research reactor but a commercial reactor that was operating (in very broad terms) 1983-1988. The pebbles tended to break, the reactor overheated often and the cost of building and disposing the power plant is higher than the profits that reactor could do even if it had run for 50 years.
We had two pebble bed reactors in Germany. Both of them were very problematic. And molten salt reactors are currently at about the same state as fusion reactors (will be there in 20 years), and personally, I like fusion better.
Do yourself a favour and get rid of your shitty fridge. Even an average modern one (kike Bauknecht KG335) needs only around 240 kWh per year, better ones (like Siemens KG39EAW40) are satisfied with 160 kWh or less.
Too many bicyclists are arseholes indeed, and I say it as someone who goes to work by bicycle. The worst thing is riding in the dark with no lights because lights add 200g to the bike weight.
Ibuprofen is sold over the counter in many European countries, but only up to 400mg. Higher strength is prescription only where I live. What medicaments are prescription only and what can be sold over the counter varies somewhat in every European country.
Omeprazol is also sold over the counter here, but only in 7- and 14-packs. Larger ones aren't. A 14-pack costs about 5 EUR, so the price is comparable, except that European prices always include VAT, but, from what I know, sales tax in the USA varies a lot.
No, I am not. But you have chosen to ignore my simple example of Nike sneakers because you don't want to have facts stand in the way of your beliefs.
No. Sometimes ethics and patriotism prevail.
That is what I was talking about - they cater to a different market - of naive nationalists. They aren't many, but they are willing to pay more, which leads to higher margins and lower investment needs (Maglite doesn't sell that much stuff compared to the cheap alternatives, so they don't need huge factories). This is a niche, though and if they fit this niche well - good for them. If you believe their marketing, then you probably also believe that yankees singlehandedly won the second world war.
The fact is that consumers killed US manufacturing.
Not true. The most important rule of market economy is to maximise profits. Moving manufacturing to cheaper countries helps maximising profits. This has got nothing to do with the customers bying the cheapest option, as the price of Nike sneakers shows you - they are quite expensive and still are made in Vietnam. Passing the lower production price to the customer happens only if the manufacturer is convinced that lower margins will be balanced by more units sold.
The more expensive Maglite is still being sold because it caters to a different target market than a chinese made brand. If the Maglite CEO could achieve higher profits by manufacturing in China, he would already have moved the production base there.
My bike weighs about 14 kg, which is about average. If your car weighs 14 tons then your car is probably something along the lines of an infantry fighting vehicle.
True, but not as much heat, as an ICE engine. A human has to struggle to keep itself warm (at 36ÂC), a car has to struggle to keep the cooling water from boiling. On a straight road you need maybe 150 Watt on a bike for 25kph if you've got a mountain bike with knobby tires, full suspension and a hub dynamo, even less than that on a road bike. You need 100 times as much power to move a car at the same speed.
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Can't speak about coffee because I neither like the taste nor the smell, but I drink about two liters of tea every working day (green Oolong and Sencha mostly, but also often enough Darjeeling FTGFOP), but at home drink only tap water due to my laziness - and I can be at home for three weeks in a row when I am on vacation. No withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. I also routinely make a second or sometimes even a third stepping (where is almost no caffeine left).
Guess I am either lucky or things are different with tea, but either way it's okay with me - I certainly would hate to be addicted.
My mother is a medical doctor and there is a history of dementia in our family. Recently I told my mother that if I catch myself developing dementia I would rather commit suicide than lose my self. She was okay with that, but forewarned me that I might not be able to recognise the condition in first place.
Yep, that's the one. I like the unlocked bootloader, too, and try a different Android ROM every week or so, but not Windows Phone, because I don't care about social networking (my only social network is ICQ with 4 people in the contact list) and I have already invested in many Android applications (and running cLK I would have to flash MAGLDR again, all in all too much hassle).
If we are going to nitpick here, then insecticide is not a worm killer, it is a caterpillar killer (and even that is not completely correct, I know).
I used Windows Mobile between 2004 and 2010 and I owned lots of HTC devices (Wallaby, Himalaya, Blue Angel, Universal, Athena, Blackstone, Leo), also a few non-phone Windows Mobile devices (Toshiba E800, HP HX4700). I actually liked the operating system (well, except WM5, that one wasn't any good until AKU3.5 came out, and by then WM6 beta was better anyway). Now using Android on my former WM6.5 phone, and the only reason for it is that Windows Mobile was almost unusable on a capacitive display.
Windows Mobile was quite powerful, with real multitasking and easy application development, although .net compact framework was sorely lacking in many places without any good reason and ran well on decent hardware. On shitty hardware, though, Windows Mobile felt sluggish, especially the early WM5 installations. My good old Himalaya from 2004 is still able to run WM6.5 well because it is more powerful than many phones made years later - it was also very expensive back then.
They would be the wrong ones to ask. Rather ask Wikipedia and you shall receive: USSR was just taking back what was theirs in first place so that one was not a valid rebuke.
GP is wrong nonetheless, the Soviet Union has led an offensive war exactly two times.
1) Winter war
2) Soviet-Japanese war of 1945
Wrong and wrong again. THTR was neither built in the 1960s, nor was it a research reactor but a commercial reactor that was operating (in very broad terms) 1983-1988. The pebbles tended to break, the reactor overheated often and the cost of building and disposing the power plant is higher than the profits that reactor could do even if it had run for 50 years.
We had two pebble bed reactors in Germany. Both of them were very problematic. And molten salt reactors are currently at about the same state as fusion reactors (will be there in 20 years), and personally, I like fusion better.
Do yourself a favour and get rid of your shitty fridge. Even an average modern one (kike Bauknecht KG335) needs only around 240 kWh per year, better ones (like Siemens KG39EAW40) are satisfied with 160 kWh or less.
Too many bicyclists are arseholes indeed, and I say it as someone who goes to work by bicycle. The worst thing is riding in the dark with no lights because lights add 200g to the bike weight.
Ibuprofen is sold over the counter in many European countries, but only up to 400mg. Higher strength is prescription only where I live. What medicaments are prescription only and what can be sold over the counter varies somewhat in every European country.
Omeprazol is also sold over the counter here, but only in 7- and 14-packs. Larger ones aren't. A 14-pack costs about 5 EUR, so the price is comparable, except that European prices always include VAT, but, from what I know, sales tax in the USA varies a lot.
Dude, you are absolutely right.
33 children, not 33 people. There are no 300000 children in the USA.
Absolutely.
I still want my Shadowhawk
So snatching a part of Czechoslovakia when Hitler had it invaded, is "good relations" to you?
Churchill hasn't called Poland the "Greedy Hyena of Europe" for nothing.
It has been 20 years since. The infrastructure in the eastern Europe is good enough nowadays and the internet usage is widespread there.
Beware of Americans bringing gifts, or something along the lines of this.
My ex from Belarus hasn't got a functioning thyroid gland since 1986. Maybe a coincidence, maybe not.
PZhiV. ;-)
But I prefer VEdRo
Probably out of habit ;-)
No, I am not. But you have chosen to ignore my simple example of Nike sneakers because you don't want to have facts stand in the way of your beliefs.
That is what I was talking about - they cater to a different market - of naive nationalists. They aren't many, but they are willing to pay more, which leads to higher margins and lower investment needs (Maglite doesn't sell that much stuff compared to the cheap alternatives, so they don't need huge factories). This is a niche, though and if they fit this niche well - good for them. If you believe their marketing, then you probably also believe that yankees singlehandedly won the second world war.
Not true. The most important rule of market economy is to maximise profits. Moving manufacturing to cheaper countries helps maximising profits. This has got nothing to do with the customers bying the cheapest option, as the price of Nike sneakers shows you - they are quite expensive and still are made in Vietnam. Passing the lower production price to the customer happens only if the manufacturer is convinced that lower margins will be balanced by more units sold.
The more expensive Maglite is still being sold because it caters to a different target market than a chinese made brand. If the Maglite CEO could achieve higher profits by manufacturing in China, he would already have moved the production base there.
My bike weighs about 14 kg, which is about average. If your car weighs 14 tons then your car is probably something along the lines of an infantry fighting vehicle.
Resistive screens can use multitouch.
True, but not as much heat, as an ICE engine. A human has to struggle to keep itself warm (at 36ÂC), a car has to struggle to keep the cooling water from boiling.
On a straight road you need maybe 150 Watt on a bike for 25kph if you've got a mountain bike with knobby tires, full suspension and a hub dynamo, even less than that on a road bike. You need 100 times as much power to move a car at the same speed.