Knowing more languages broadens ones horizon and enables one to read foreign literature without translation losses. And while an unused language fades away after a while, some things stay for decades and can very well come handy.
I hated French lessons with a passion, but 12 years later I was in Belgium at the customer site and noone there could speak any of the three languages I am fluent in. My broken French, on the other hand, was sufficiently understandable for them.
I've started learning my first foreign language at my very first day at school. I haven't used that language for almost 20 years, so I cannot speak that language at all, but I still understand many basic words of that language, and of a different, but related language, which was very helpful on a few vacations and business trips. The only one foreign language I've previously learned that was almost useless to me and which I've forgotten utterly and completely is Hebrew.
GP is actually right. Only the prototype version was called AK-47 and really only a few of those have survived. When the assault rifle was accepted into service of VS SSSR, it has received the designation "AK", without any numbers.
Not really weird. Many people, who accept, that there are no inalienable right, just arbitary rules, actually consider these rules a genuinely good idea and are willingly following them.
Also these new designs mainly exist on paper. It is not certainly known for most of these designs if they are working in a commercial size nuclear power plant. For many of these designs (like TWR) it is even not known if they are working in reality, not just in the head of a few engineers, because up to now not even a research size reactor of that type exists. So why bother with that particular kind of pipe dreams and not go directly for fusion?
Well, first of all Germany is quite densely populated. Second, airplanes are loud. I work 20 km away from Frankfurt airport. It still gets pretty loud here.
Well, move to a country without a functioning government - and thus without taxes - and see how fast you have to hand your stuff to other people without any compensation. And then you'll probably really get murdered.
While on the other hand, a country with a functioning government and a functioning tax system provides you with opportunities for doing business so you can labour productively in first place.
You want to grab all the benefits of a functioning society without taking any responsibilities that come with that. If that oblications are written to the law, that makes you a criminal. Well, and also brain-dead not to understand that.
Well, in that case they had their chance to leave before they've cheated on taxes, so it is not like what you've described. If, on the other hand, a law-abiding citizen wants to leave the society, then they shall not be hindered nor molested in any way.
This is bullshit. There is no such thing as fundamental principles of morality. Neither is there such a thing as a fundamental right, as GP rightfully said.
If you are born into a society, that has codified some rights to laws, then you are lucky. If these laws are based on a benign moral code, you are even more lucky, because the society can enforce these laws.
Without these laws being enforced by the society your "rights" are worth only so much as you can enforce them yourself unto others. Try living some time in a society where the law does not work, that will help you to lose some of your delusions. Right now you are just spoiled because because of living a theme park version of life for too long.
The question is, do you want to continue to live in a world where cocaine sales line the wallets of dangerous, violent gangs, and where cocaine consumers have no guarantee about the purity or potency of their drug?
Absolutely. The dangers of narcotics are well known. If people are so stupid that they still use them, then they certainly get what they deserve.
I certainly prefer the former because the circumstances at least scary some people off. I definitely don't want the same approach as with alcohol, when you are frown upon when you tell people that you don't drink.
Also HD2 here, also went from Windows Mobile, that I've used since 2004 or so. Except for the Bluetooth stack (which indeed sucks on Android, but the Widcomm BT stack on Windows Mobile for that phone also sucked in comparison to the Microsoft BT stack of previous HTC phones) you can find pretty much all applications you want.
For playing music PowerAmp player is really good and supports most formats, for video there is RockPlayer, there are a few RDP clients available, offline navigation also exists (Sygic Aura for example) and so on.
I don't think you really want to go back to WM because it is almost unusable on a capacitive touchscreen.
Well, what can I say, many Germans say on lots of occasions that they are glad not to be in the USA, but this is not the point.
The most problematic nuclear power plant in Germany that was running until recently is AKW Krümmel, which was taken into operation in the early 80ies.
Generation IV designs are currently on paper only. There is good chance that they don't work. There are only three breeder reactors currently running in the whole world, and two of them are research reactors. There are also only a few operational thorium reactors. Germany has tried thorium once, it didn't work well at all.
Because normal pasteurisation doesn't kill all bacteria.
UHT milk works just fine for yoghurt by the way. And at least in Germany it is labeled as H-Milch (H stands for "haltbare" - durable) and is sold unrefrigerated. I haven't done any cheesemaking, though, so I cannot speak about that.
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Knowing more languages broadens ones horizon and enables one to read foreign literature without translation losses. And while an unused language fades away after a while, some things stay for decades and can very well come handy.
I hated French lessons with a passion, but 12 years later I was in Belgium at the customer site and noone there could speak any of the three languages I am fluent in. My broken French, on the other hand, was sufficiently understandable for them.
I've started learning my first foreign language at my very first day at school. I haven't used that language for almost 20 years, so I cannot speak that language at all, but I still understand many basic words of that language, and of a different, but related language, which was very helpful on a few vacations and business trips. The only one foreign language I've previously learned that was almost useless to me and which I've forgotten utterly and completely is Hebrew.
Because I always have to count minutes, and that takes far too long.
I still think that digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
(Besides I have some difficulties to read analog watches).
That used to be the case (for milk and butter, to be precise) since the 1970ies up until 2007. The matter has been taken care of.
GP is actually right. Only the prototype version was called AK-47 and really only a few of those have survived. When the assault rifle was accepted into service of VS SSSR, it has received the designation "AK", without any numbers.
AKM is thus AK, modernized.
Not really weird. Many people, who accept, that there are no inalienable right, just arbitary rules, actually consider these rules a genuinely good idea and are willingly following them.
Zebra crossing.
Opera Mobile was the default browser for the last few Windows Mobile phones made by HTC.
Also these new designs mainly exist on paper. It is not certainly known for most of these designs if they are working in a commercial size nuclear power plant. For many of these designs (like TWR) it is even not known if they are working in reality, not just in the head of a few engineers, because up to now not even a research size reactor of that type exists. So why bother with that particular kind of pipe dreams and not go directly for fusion?
What exactly is so disturbing about that video?
Well, first of all Germany is quite densely populated. Second, airplanes are loud. I work 20 km away from Frankfurt airport. It still gets pretty loud here.
Where is the promised x64 version for Windows?
Well, move to a country without a functioning government - and thus without taxes - and see how fast you have to hand your stuff to other people without any compensation. And then you'll probably really get murdered.
While on the other hand, a country with a functioning government and a functioning tax system provides you with opportunities for doing business so you can labour productively in first place.
You want to grab all the benefits of a functioning society without taking any responsibilities that come with that. If that oblications are written to the law, that makes you a criminal. Well, and also brain-dead not to understand that.
Well, in that case they had their chance to leave before they've cheated on taxes, so it is not like what you've described. If, on the other hand, a law-abiding citizen wants to leave the society, then they shall not be hindered nor molested in any way.
Fair enough?
This is bullshit.
There is no such thing as fundamental principles of morality. Neither is there such a thing as a fundamental right, as GP rightfully said.
If you are born into a society, that has codified some rights to laws, then you are lucky. If these laws are based on a benign moral code, you are even more lucky, because the society can enforce these laws.
Without these laws being enforced by the society your "rights" are worth only so much as you can enforce them yourself unto others. Try living some time in a society where the law does not work, that will help you to lose some of your delusions. Right now you are just spoiled because because of living a theme park version of life for too long.
It is a bit over the top, I agree. Banishing people who cheat on taxes would be enough.
Yep, at least 15 years, if not 20.
If you propose something, that is only exists on paper, why don't you suggest a fusion reactor in first place?
Absolutely. The dangers of narcotics are well known. If people are so stupid that they still use them, then they certainly get what they deserve.
But it did. Not completely, sure, but still statistically significant
I certainly prefer the former because the circumstances at least scary some people off. I definitely don't want the same approach as with alcohol, when you are frown upon when you tell people that you don't drink.
Also HD2 here, also went from Windows Mobile, that I've used since 2004 or so. Except for the Bluetooth stack (which indeed sucks on Android, but the Widcomm BT stack on Windows Mobile for that phone also sucked in comparison to the Microsoft BT stack of previous HTC phones) you can find pretty much all applications you want.
For playing music PowerAmp player is really good and supports most formats, for video there is RockPlayer, there are a few RDP clients available, offline navigation also exists (Sygic Aura for example) and so on.
I don't think you really want to go back to WM because it is almost unusable on a capacitive touchscreen.
Well, what can I say, many Germans say on lots of occasions that they are glad not to be in the USA, but this is not the point.
The most problematic nuclear power plant in Germany that was running until recently is AKW Krümmel, which was taken into operation in the early 80ies.
Generation IV designs are currently on paper only. There is good chance that they don't work. There are only three breeder reactors currently running in the whole world, and two of them are research reactors. There are also only a few operational thorium reactors. Germany has tried thorium once, it didn't work well at all.
Because normal pasteurisation doesn't kill all bacteria.
UHT milk works just fine for yoghurt by the way. And at least in Germany it is labeled as H-Milch (H stands for "haltbare" - durable) and is sold unrefrigerated. I haven't done any cheesemaking, though, so I cannot speak about that.
Is it so? Then how do you explain the partial meltdown at the Leningrad nuclear power plant in 1975? That was no experiment.
Fact is, RBMK design was a disaster waiting to happen, the accident was caused by the SCRAM procedure, not by the experiment itself.