okay then swordtails, platys, variable platys are all different species. they interbreed and produce fertile offsprings very well. too well actually. i started with exactly this combination (a swordtail, a platy and a variable platy) and a well planted 350 liter fish tank and after that i have given away over 200 fishes of different sizes and colours, with and without swords, all fertile, every three months.
even now you can find their offspring in every ruhr area pet shop.
thank german minister for the interior for that shit. he introduced the law, the law was modded down by young social democrats, he was pretty pissed and so he tries to push the law through this way.
you see, i am german. i have studied computer science for two years at a german university (you'll normally need at least 5 years for the diploma). then i quit the university and had an apprenticeship (aka vocational education) as a software developer. the difference between these two forms of education is vast:
the education on the university is a real scientific education - theory of computation, higher math, electrical engineering, robotics, artifical intelligence and so on.
the vocational education is pretty much what you have described: a bit of theory, best practices, code requirements and a long internship.
as i mentioned before, you don't need to be a scientist when you want to work as a system administrator. in fact, working as a system administrator while having a computer scientist diploma is a waste of time, money and opportunity, comparable with doing technical drawing with a degree in engineering.
why should a system administrator need a degree? does a plumber or an electrician need a degree? an apprenticeship should be enough for this kind of work.
you are quite wrong about windows file systems. fat16 is dos legacy and isn't used anymore. since windows xp came out, fat32 should be used only for flash memory so there is only ntfs.
winfs never was a filesystem (fs standing for future storage). it was just (more or less) an sql database of file metadata, running of course on top of ntfs.
there is one huge problem with you, libertarian free market fans, and this problem is responsible for the current financial situation.
the name of the problem is endless greed for short term profit. unfortunately, because you are so greedy for the short term profit, you completely forget about any long term considerations at all.
because of it, a truly free market would turn any country with a good technological level to a true banana republic (stopping all basic research and selling all natural resources for short term profits).
sad thing is, people and businesses used to be able to think in longer terms, even back then when the life expectation wasn't that high. nowadays, people live longer and will have to bear the consequences of their decisions for much longer, but all they want is a quick buck and devil may care.
actually, the translation of his nickname into modern english would be something along the lines of "menacing", "grim" or even "gloomy" rather than "terrible"
i know a guy, a former mercenary who took part in a couple of wars in africa and also in yugoslavia. he said that firearms are very important for self defence - except when you live in a civilized society. then you'll need some martial arts skills at most.
in a society with firearms you will have all that AND you can also be shot.
if you want to have a look at a society where everyone carries a firearm because they are afraid of the others, look at liberia or even take your chance there.
if a hitman is using an ak-47 then he is clever. first, a cheap firearm will be used for one job only which makes it difficult for the police to prove that a person has killed more than once. a prime example of this were the murders in russia of the nineties where the most used firearm of hitmen was a tt (tula tokarev) pistol used just once and left at the crime scene.
second, 7.62x39 is very effective against bulletproof vests and even against light armour. i personally shot a couple of holes into a side of a retired btr-60 (an old soviet apc), so a car wouldn't give the victim any safety at all.
standard tabletop filters don't filter that much - the filter inside it has got a bit of charcoal to absorb some chemicals, a bit of silver to hinder the biofilm growing inside for a couple of weeks and an ion exchanger like zeolite to replace the calcium in water for sodium.
if you really are paranoid about tap water, try reverse osmosis. but then you'll have the same problem as with distilled water - it lacks potentially needed minerals and might even wash minerals out of your body. then again, good tea tastes much better with purified water.
i use such a system for 5 years already with my windows mobile navigation software (except for the live update, though, because the data connection fees are too high) so the idea is nothing new.
a bad thing to teach your children to love and respect the country they're citizens of?
yes, it is. if there is a reason to love their fatherland, they will learn to do it by themselves. if there is no such reason they just grow up being dicks, unable to stand any critique and unable to criticize themselves.
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it could be worse - imagine all of the trucks suddenly freaking out.
okay then
swordtails, platys, variable platys are all different species. they interbreed and produce fertile offsprings very well. too well actually. i started with exactly this combination (a swordtail, a platy and a variable platy) and a well planted 350 liter fish tank and after that i have given away over 200 fishes of different sizes and colours, with and without swords, all fertile, every three months.
even now you can find their offspring in every ruhr area pet shop.
rabbits are sore losers.
thank german minister for the interior for that shit. he introduced the law, the law was modded down by young social democrats, he was pretty pissed and so he tries to push the law through this way.
foveon x3!= 3ccd.
3ccd are three ccds and a colour-separation prism.
foveon x3 is a single ccd sensor with three layers.
you see, i am german. i have studied computer science for two years at a german university (you'll normally need at least 5 years for the diploma). then i quit the university and had an apprenticeship (aka vocational education) as a software developer. the difference between these two forms of education is vast:
the education on the university is a real scientific education - theory of computation, higher math, electrical engineering, robotics, artifical intelligence and so on.
the vocational education is pretty much what you have described: a bit of theory, best practices, code requirements and a long internship.
as i mentioned before, you don't need to be a scientist when you want to work as a system administrator. in fact, working as a system administrator while having a computer scientist diploma is a waste of time, money and opportunity, comparable with doing technical drawing with a degree in engineering.
is there no such thing for computer/network technicians in the usa?
i didn't know that.
such a thing is called "rechtsbeugung" in germany (perversion of justice) and is itself a crime.
i agree. i am myself a programmer without a degree, but with a vocational education as a software developer.
why should a system administrator need a degree? does a plumber or an electrician need a degree? an apprenticeship should be enough for this kind of work.
yes, the cars are *really* safer now than 10 years ago.
see it for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l4YBf2tjag
regulations do make sense.
you are quite wrong about windows file systems.
fat16 is dos legacy and isn't used anymore. since windows xp came out, fat32 should be used only for flash memory so there is only ntfs.
winfs never was a filesystem (fs standing for future storage). it was just (more or less) an sql database of file metadata, running of course on top of ntfs.
there is one huge problem with you, libertarian free market fans, and this problem is responsible for the current financial situation.
the name of the problem is endless greed for short term profit. unfortunately, because you are so greedy for the short term profit, you completely forget about any long term considerations at all.
because of it, a truly free market would turn any country with a good technological level to a true banana republic (stopping all basic research and selling all natural resources for short term profits).
sad thing is, people and businesses used to be able to think in longer terms, even back then when the life expectation wasn't that high. nowadays, people live longer and will have to bear the consequences of their decisions for much longer, but all they want is a quick buck and devil may care.
actually, the translation of his nickname into modern english would be something along the lines of "menacing", "grim" or even "gloomy" rather than "terrible"
i visit finland every summer and i have yet to see a single person bearing a firearm... actually you don't even see puukkos being carried nowadays.
i know a guy, a former mercenary who took part in a couple of wars in africa and also in yugoslavia.
he said that firearms are very important for self defence - except when you live in a civilized society. then you'll need some martial arts skills at most.
in a society with firearms you will have all that AND you can also be shot.
if you want to have a look at a society where everyone carries a firearm because they are afraid of the others, look at liberia or even take your chance there.
switzerland is a bad example. the people there are at least trained to use their firearms properly and they seldom carry them.
if a hitman is using an ak-47 then he is clever.
first, a cheap firearm will be used for one job only which makes it difficult for the police to prove that a person has killed more than once. a prime example of this were the murders in russia of the nineties where the most used firearm of hitmen was a tt (tula tokarev) pistol used just once and left at the crime scene.
second, 7.62x39 is very effective against bulletproof vests and even against light armour. i personally shot a couple of holes into a side of a retired btr-60 (an old soviet apc), so a car wouldn't give the victim any safety at all.
well, when i was young, i put a red led into the 230V mains. the head part of the led went off like a bullet and stuck 1 cm deep into the wall.
standard tabletop filters don't filter that much - the filter inside it has got a bit of charcoal to absorb some chemicals, a bit of silver to hinder the biofilm growing inside for a couple of weeks and an ion exchanger like zeolite to replace the calcium in water for sodium.
if you really are paranoid about tap water, try reverse osmosis. but then you'll have the same problem as with distilled water - it lacks potentially needed minerals and might even wash minerals out of your body. then again, good tea tastes much better with purified water.
i use such a system for 5 years already with my windows mobile navigation software (except for the live update, though, because the data connection fees are too high) so the idea is nothing new.
uh, profit margins?
please show me one single arm cpu for two thousand euros a piece.
there are lots of arm cpus being sold right now but they are dirt cheap.
yes, it is. if there is a reason to love their fatherland, they will learn to do it by themselves. if there is no such reason they just grow up being dicks, unable to stand any critique and unable to criticize themselves.
q.e.d.
the horse steak was served in a pretty good restaurant in ljubljana, the ostrich steaks were bought at the frozen food aisle at a supermarket.
that might account for the taste but i don't think both taste like beef but more like sweet deer meat.