Electric car adaption lags behind because most people live in rented flats and most cars are parked on the road.
Shutting down nuclear power plants makes sense because Germany still has no place to store radioactive waste. Besides, an overwhelming majority of the population wants to shut nuclear power down.
High population density is actually pretty good for renewables because there is no need to build very long power lines to get power from one part of the country to another. Besides, the population density in UK and Germany is about the same.
USSR had a civilian reactor (VVER). Matter of fact, the first VVER went online at the same time as RBMK development started and the same guy lead the scientific management for both project. The difference is that VVER was also managed by Kurchatov, but he died in 1960 and the previously mentioned guy took his place as the director of the Institute of Atomic Energy.
Whence did you get the strange idea that electrical heating is widely used over here? Moreover, Germany is not a very cold country and many houses are insulated quite well because upgrading insulation was sponsored by the government a while ago. The typical heating bill for a rented apartment (that's how the majority of Germans live) is about 700 EUR a year and quite a bit less than that if the house is insulated and it is paid as a part of the rent anyway.
Oh, by the way, just to rub it in your face: in the USA, the land of the free, where electricity is dirt cheap, on average 1500 people freeze to death every bloody year. In Germany 100 hypothermia deaths would be considered serious.
RBMK - the reactor type that was used in Chernobyl - is based on a military reactor because the lead designer was too lazy to come up with something better than upscaling his previous work.
Germany started to have all these problems in the late 1980ies when mining and steelmaking in the Ruhr area crashed. That is when the North Rhine - Westphalia state government created a lot of subway projects so the miners could still have related jobs. The structural change still hurt a lot and NRW - that used to be one of the richest German states - is nowadays worse off than the former East German states which were rebuilt with the solidarity tax. I am originally from East Germany, but shortly after the reunification my family moved to NRW where I lived for 14 years (and my parents still live there). It used to be quite nice there, but nowadays everything looks very sad, the infrastructure is crumbling and people there became seriously unpleasant. What is worse, NRW is the most populous German state but barely profits from the currently very strong German economy - trickle down is a lie after all - and even though the cost of living isn't that high, the wages there seriously suck.
Which Herbert do you mean? Because Frank Herbert never clearly stated what happened with the thinking machines and in Brian Herbert's shitty books AIs go out of their way to be as sadistic as possible, which never made sense to me - it all sounded like a propaganda piece. Besides even there the actual cause for all that was a bunch of cyborgs who became enforcers for that particular AI, not the AI itself.
Calling him Vova would probably be more annoying (it is an overly familiar form). Even more annoying would be Vovochka - the same but with an added diminutive, also the name of the #1 russian joke character archetype (think little Johnny, but maybe even more vulgar).
Hence the quip that goes like "starting 1999 all jokes about Vovochka are considered political".
He is right about modern Judaism being a non-proselytizing religion, because - according to Judaism - as long as people follow the seven Noah laws, they are fine. Moreover, people who actually want to convert are actively discouraged to do so by the rabbis.
Just FYI, the Russian short form for Vladimir would be Vova or Volodya. The latter because due to a vocal shift in Slavic languages over a thousand years ago the correct Russian form of that name used to be "Volodimer", but Russian has a lot of loan words from Old Church Slavonic (which is essentially a dialect of Old Bulgarian) where the aforementioned vocal shift went a different way.
Not really. The only US states where the murder rate is comparable to the murder rate of the EU are the states where barely anyone lives, which is kind of duh, because crime rate is generally proportional to population density. But even then these states have a much lower population density than most of the EU countries so it still sucks in comparison.
FTP convoluted? Seriously? I have recently written an FTP client, it was by far the easiest protocol I have ever implemented. Hell, XMODEM is more complicated.
Designing smaller cockpits has been typical for USSR even before WW2. Same goes for Soviet tanks - hence small people were usually preferred as both pilots and tank crews.
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Vatican, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Malta, Poland, Hungary. The nordic countries aren't particularly secular either.
Hitler was a Catholic, Stalin was a Georgian Orthodox seminarist going to become a priest before he changed his mind.
Checkmate my arse.
Have you slept during the history lessons at school?
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Shall I go on?
Cutting the nose to spite the face seems to be a very popular pastime for the Brits.
My three bicycles each cost about as much as a used car and yet I neither own nor desire a car.
It is possible that Americans worked for BA as Concorde pilots, but not very likely.
Cities also should be built for people, not for cars.
Electric car adaption lags behind because most people live in rented flats and most cars are parked on the road.
Shutting down nuclear power plants makes sense because Germany still has no place to store radioactive waste. Besides, an overwhelming majority of the population wants to shut nuclear power down.
High population density is actually pretty good for renewables because there is no need to build very long power lines to get power from one part of the country to another. Besides, the population density in UK and Germany is about the same.
You seriously didn't know that fuel cost in Germany is generally much higher? That is why far less energy is wasted over here.
USSR had a civilian reactor (VVER). Matter of fact, the first VVER went online at the same time as RBMK development started and the same guy lead the scientific management for both project. The difference is that VVER was also managed by Kurchatov, but he died in 1960 and the previously mentioned guy took his place as the director of the Institute of Atomic Energy.
I am originally from Rostock ;-)
Can't really call it cold, though. Lived in Finland for a year, now that was cold.
Whence did you get the strange idea that electrical heating is widely used over here? Moreover, Germany is not a very cold country and many houses are insulated quite well because upgrading insulation was sponsored by the government a while ago. The typical heating bill for a rented apartment (that's how the majority of Germans live) is about 700 EUR a year and quite a bit less than that if the house is insulated and it is paid as a part of the rent anyway.
Oh, by the way, just to rub it in your face: in the USA, the land of the free, where electricity is dirt cheap, on average 1500 people freeze to death every bloody year. In Germany 100 hypothermia deaths would be considered serious.
RBMK - the reactor type that was used in Chernobyl - is based on a military reactor because the lead designer was too lazy to come up with something better than upscaling his previous work.
Germany started to have all these problems in the late 1980ies when mining and steelmaking in the Ruhr area crashed. That is when the North Rhine - Westphalia state government created a lot of subway projects so the miners could still have related jobs. The structural change still hurt a lot and NRW - that used to be one of the richest German states - is nowadays worse off than the former East German states which were rebuilt with the solidarity tax. I am originally from East Germany, but shortly after the reunification my family moved to NRW where I lived for 14 years (and my parents still live there). It used to be quite nice there, but nowadays everything looks very sad, the infrastructure is crumbling and people there became seriously unpleasant. What is worse, NRW is the most populous German state but barely profits from the currently very strong German economy - trickle down is a lie after all - and even though the cost of living isn't that high, the wages there seriously suck.
Which Herbert do you mean? Because Frank Herbert never clearly stated what happened with the thinking machines and in Brian Herbert's shitty books AIs go out of their way to be as sadistic as possible, which never made sense to me - it all sounded like a propaganda piece. Besides even there the actual cause for all that was a bunch of cyborgs who became enforcers for that particular AI, not the AI itself.
Calling him Vova would probably be more annoying (it is an overly familiar form). Even more annoying would be Vovochka - the same but with an added diminutive, also the name of the #1 russian joke character archetype (think little Johnny, but maybe even more vulgar).
Hence the quip that goes like "starting 1999 all jokes about Vovochka are considered political".
He is right about modern Judaism being a non-proselytizing religion, because - according to Judaism - as long as people follow the seven Noah laws, they are fine. Moreover, people who actually want to convert are actively discouraged to do so by the rabbis.
Just FYI, the Russian short form for Vladimir would be Vova or Volodya. The latter because due to a vocal shift in Slavic languages over a thousand years ago the correct Russian form of that name used to be "Volodimer", but Russian has a lot of loan words from Old Church Slavonic (which is essentially a dialect of Old Bulgarian) where the aforementioned vocal shift went a different way.
Exactly. Besides, moslems have no imagination when it comes to boy names - it is like half of them have that name, that kind of skews the statistics.
Not really. The only US states where the murder rate is comparable to the murder rate of the EU are the states where barely anyone lives, which is kind of duh, because crime rate is generally proportional to population density. But even then these states have a much lower population density than most of the EU countries so it still sucks in comparison.
I think you are the illiterate idiot here.
That liar stated that, and I quote:
Emphasis mine.
You are a liar
https://www.unodc.org/document...
FTP convoluted? Seriously? I have recently written an FTP client, it was by far the easiest protocol I have ever implemented. Hell, XMODEM is more complicated.
Designing smaller cockpits has been typical for USSR even before WW2. Same goes for Soviet tanks - hence small people were usually preferred as both pilots and tank crews.