As for volumes I'm speaking for the majority even in Sweden and I of course also speak for the majority of the Europeans.
Are you even reading what you are writing? Because
but unless half+ of the Swedish population voted for the same alternative it will have little result
So you aren't speaking for the majority in Sweden after all. Who exactly gives you the mandate to speak for the majority of the Europeans then?
The last time I was in Sweden was in 1992 and people like you are the reason why it will stay that way. Same goes for Poland by the way. Your neighbour Finland is a far more pleasant place, I've visited it 5 or 6 times already and will visit again.
Uhm, no. A vessel that claims an innocent passage is also not allowed to spy on a county while in its territorial waters (that is what the "security" part is about). Hence, for example, the Soviet coast guard ship was fully right to ram the USS Yorktown in 1988 - Americans have claimed innocent passage but were actually on a ELINT mission. This case is about a spy drone, hence not an innocent passage at all.
That's the nice thing about statistics - they can show completely contradictory things depending on how you count. If we go for wind capacity per capita, USA would barely be among the top 10 - yet you have far far more uninhabited land than any European country, more than enough room to build stuff. If we go for wind power as a percentage of electricity produced, then, well, duh - EU wind power share is about twofold (although, to be honest, a part of it is the generally far lower power usage in the European households).
Therefore, don't look for excuses, just build the goddamn windfarms.
Normally I am the first to ridicule USA, but in this case, I won't. It is their very first installation, it is obvious that it will be expensive - they lack infrastructure to mass produce offshore windparks. The next windpark will be far cheaper.
Americans, you have my congratulations for the first step! Took you long enough but you'll get there eventually.
Dude, you are just a guitarist who is full of shit himself. Here, at least Polacks were unusually honest about their goals, unlike your very own government (and judging from your comments you'd suck Dubya's dick at the first opportunity). Next time use your brain before accusing everyone you disagree with being useful idiots. And before some dumbass like you throws a hissy fit about USA not using any foreign oil and hence the war could not possibly have been about it: oil market is a global market. If oil prices rise, they generally rise even in oil producing countries. It doesn't matter where oil is produced because it can be sold everywhere for the market price. The only discount the citizens of oil producing countries normally see is the lower shipping cost, unless the government specifically subsidises oil for the citizens. You also are mistaken in your very peculiar notion that everything your beloved Dubya government did was for the citizens instead of his very own PNAC buddies and, obviously, their buddies. This is crony capitalism 101.
Sure you can, but a text on a LCD with the same display size and resolution looks even better. I have upgraded from a S5 to a Z5 and there is a very noticeable difference. The colours are worse and so is the contrast, but the black-on-white text is, indeed, much better. The reason is the RGB matrix instead of Samsung's PenTile. RGB has a 1/3 higher subpixel resolution.
Amoled displays have oversaturated colours and use less power with a dark background. Unfortunately Google insists on white backgrounds for their material design and amoleds are far more expensive to replace. Text on amoleds is also less well readable.
I don't say that gas turbines are generally great, they are good for certain conditions, otherwise people wouldn't try to put them into tanks since, oh, about 1943 with the Turbopanther. T-84 is a diesel tank because it is what Ukraine has a factory for - before 1991 they were only able to build diesel T-80 in first place because the Malyshev factory can only build their two stroke diesel. That is also the reason why Ukraine barely uses the T-72 tanks - they cannot build the original engine and they would have to downgrade them with that peculiar two stroke diesel (basically the old and problematic T-64 engine with an additional cylinder) as well. As for T-90, it is not a successor of T-80, but a successor of T-72, hence it never was a gas turbine tank in first place. The actual successor of T-90, the Black Eagle prototype, had, in fact, a gas turbine engine. Diesel engines are much cheaper and far less thirsty, so economics are one of the reasons why diesel engines won. The other reason is that gas turbines suck (no pun intended) in the so called "hot and high" settings. This is why aircraft versions intended to take off in airports that are located at high altitudes or in very warm areas usually have more powerful engines. That is not an option for a tank, hence their engines feel anemic in the same conditions.
Like I said, gas turbines are great when it's really freezing outside, when diesel engines need a lot of time and effort to start, the fuel and the coolant lines are frozen shut and have to be thawed first. In these conditions a gas turbine tank can be started in mere minutes, and actually performs better than average thank to dense air and good cooling. Gas turbine tanks also have an excellent power to weight ratio because a diesel engine with the same output has easily twice the weight of a gas turbine. This is the reason why M1 is a gas turbine tank - it is so obese that a diesel engine would make it a Tiger 2. The Leopard 2 engine that has the same performance as the M1 engine weighs 2200 kg compared to the 1100 kg of the M1 engine. It is also twice as wide.
Not quite - there is still a lot of T-80s around, they had the gas turbine even before the M1. They even make sense for Russia - a gas turbine tank is much easier to start and operate in winter conditions than a diesel tank.
Reagan just took credit for the breakup. The actual reason was that the USSR was a multi - ethnic state and when the central government stopped suppressing speech, the resulting wave of nationalist unrest broke the country up among ethnic lines causing several wars between former soviet republics. The first of these wars actually started before the breakup and the last one is the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine - that one used to be a cold war for over two decades.
If you, from a nation beaten to a pulp not too long ago by an alliance including Americans (and Ukrainians), feel comfortable not only to participate in American political discourse, but call participants names and offer other "advice", why should an odd Ukrainian hold back from treating you likewise on occasion?
Because Ukrainians are generally too stupid to run a country. And that "not too long ago" was before both of our fathers were born.
My grandpa was telling yours what to do in 1943, why should not I continue?
Given that Ukraine was freed in 1944, this is highly unlikely. And given your general attitude your grandfather was probably a Hiwi so he was doing what he was told by Germans.
Why couldn't a Ukrainian be pointing out your stupidity and susceptibility to propaganda? Or indeed, proneness to strange perversions? (German porn is rather famous among connoisseurs!)
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. You are the one spewing propaganda around and besides, 90% of child porn comes from Ukraine. Who is the pervert now?
but we are American
Well, except when they have brown skin or arab sounding names, then they'll get beaten up by the likes of you. Especially now that Trump won the presidency the likes of you feel suddenly empowered in their xenophobia.
In fact, it is worse than over here. Immigrants stay immigrants in Germany, but if they integrate themselves into the society, they are perfectly accepted. In fact, at my workplace we have an Ukrainian (the worst IT guy I've ever met in my life and the most unpleasant person as well), three Russians (two guys and a gal, all decent software developers), two Arabs, two Croatians, a few Italians and Poles, several Turks - obviously, they are the largest minority after all and so on and so on. Everyone is perfectly well integrated (except the Ukrainian) and respected by the German colleagues (also except the Ukrainian). I actually enjoy the opportunity to practice Russian and learn Croatian since I love Slavic languages (except Polish). Too bad I have no Czech colleagues to practice my (nowadays rusty) Czech as well.
At every workplace in the past it has been exactly the same - many immigrants who weren't treated any different from Germans. In fact, since Germany itself is very fragmented, there were more intra-German rivalries (for example Bavarians were generally disliked in NRW, or the sometimes serious rivalry between the citizens of Frankfurt and citizens of Offenbach).
Lange Rede, kurzer Sinn - don't confuse my strong dislike of you personally and nationalists generally with my attitude to immigrants.
GP is right, though, that diesel engines move a lot more air. Gasoline engines run roughly at a stoichiometric air to fuel ratio, diesel engines run way leaner, they start at ratios that are almost too high for a gasoline engine to work properly (running diesel engines at lower lambda would produce a shitload of soot) and go up to 6:1.
Like I said, I have been there and have actually seen them. And there was a shitload of them. Besides, most of the candidates of the 2014 election could be described as nationalist and authoritarian at the very least. I mean, the party names say it all: fatherland, people's self defence block, freedom (founded as social-nationalist party of Ukraine). Even their current president Poroshenko was the founder of the "National Alliance of Freedom and Ukrainian patriotism 'OFFENSIVE'" party. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
And what does your "google russian nazis in donbas" has to do with it? This is a bloody whataboutism, Russian neo-nazis are not the point here and I am well aware of their existance, but that absolutely doesn't excuse Ukraine's government arming their neo-nazis and making them official state troops.
I think a rotating launch pad is an awesome idea - no need for spending precious fuel for rotating and some other advantages. Don't understand why it is such a nuisance - USSR managed to build several in the early 1950ies, surely Russia of 2016 ought to be able to build them without any problem.
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It is your voice that is mostly ignored.
Are you even reading what you are writing? Because
So you aren't speaking for the majority in Sweden after all. Who exactly gives you the mandate to speak for the majority of the Europeans then?
The last time I was in Sweden was in 1992 and people like you are the reason why it will stay that way. Same goes for Poland by the way. Your neighbour Finland is a far more pleasant place, I've visited it 5 or 6 times already and will visit again.
Uhm, no. A vessel that claims an innocent passage is also not allowed to spy on a county while in its territorial waters (that is what the "security" part is about). Hence, for example, the Soviet coast guard ship was fully right to ram the USS Yorktown in 1988 - Americans have claimed innocent passage but were actually on a ELINT mission. This case is about a spy drone, hence not an innocent passage at all.
Honestly, I'd be happy to be shot in my 80ies if I'd the health of a 25 year old guy until then. Getting old sucks.
That's the nice thing about statistics - they can show completely contradictory things depending on how you count.
If we go for wind capacity per capita, USA would barely be among the top 10 - yet you have far far more uninhabited land than any European country, more than enough room to build stuff. If we go for wind power as a percentage of electricity produced, then, well, duh - EU wind power share is about twofold (although, to be honest, a part of it is the generally far lower power usage in the European households).
Therefore, don't look for excuses, just build the goddamn windfarms.
Normally I am the first to ridicule USA, but in this case, I won't. It is their very first installation, it is obvious that it will be expensive - they lack infrastructure to mass produce offshore windparks. The next windpark will be far cheaper.
Americans, you have my congratulations for the first step! Took you long enough but you'll get there eventually.
Yep, their space junk fighting technology is called Hachimaki and is a guy with a chip on his shoulder.
What are you rambling about? Russia is currently under sanctions for what they do. Call me when EU sanctions you merkins.
Dude, you are just a guitarist who is full of shit himself.
Here, at least Polacks were unusually honest about their goals, unlike your very own government (and judging from your comments you'd suck Dubya's dick at the first opportunity). Next time use your brain before accusing everyone you disagree with being useful idiots. And before some dumbass like you throws a hissy fit about USA not using any foreign oil and hence the war could not possibly have been about it: oil market is a global market. If oil prices rise, they generally rise even in oil producing countries. It doesn't matter where oil is produced because it can be sold everywhere for the market price. The only discount the citizens of oil producing countries normally see is the lower shipping cost, unless the government specifically subsidises oil for the citizens. You also are mistaken in your very peculiar notion that everything your beloved Dubya government did was for the citizens instead of his very own PNAC buddies and, obviously, their buddies. This is crony capitalism 101.
Sure you can, but a text on a LCD with the same display size and resolution looks even better. I have upgraded from a S5 to a Z5 and there is a very noticeable difference. The colours are worse and so is the contrast, but the black-on-white text is, indeed, much better. The reason is the RGB matrix instead of Samsung's PenTile. RGB has a 1/3 higher subpixel resolution.
Dude, you are the one who is religious and believes that there is some unknown invisible hand that regulates the climate.
Amoled displays have oversaturated colours and use less power with a dark background. Unfortunately Google insists on white backgrounds for their material design and amoleds are far more expensive to replace. Text on amoleds is also less well readable.
Easy for a human, you say?
I don't say that gas turbines are generally great, they are good for certain conditions, otherwise people wouldn't try to put them into tanks since, oh, about 1943 with the Turbopanther.
T-84 is a diesel tank because it is what Ukraine has a factory for - before 1991 they were only able to build diesel T-80 in first place because the Malyshev factory can only build their two stroke diesel. That is also the reason why Ukraine barely uses the T-72 tanks - they cannot build the original engine and they would have to downgrade them with that peculiar two stroke diesel (basically the old and problematic T-64 engine with an additional cylinder) as well.
As for T-90, it is not a successor of T-80, but a successor of T-72, hence it never was a gas turbine tank in first place. The actual successor of T-90, the Black Eagle prototype, had, in fact, a gas turbine engine.
Diesel engines are much cheaper and far less thirsty, so economics are one of the reasons why diesel engines won. The other reason is that gas turbines suck (no pun intended) in the so called "hot and high" settings. This is why aircraft versions intended to take off in airports that are located at high altitudes or in very warm areas usually have more powerful engines. That is not an option for a tank, hence their engines feel anemic in the same conditions.
Like I said, gas turbines are great when it's really freezing outside, when diesel engines need a lot of time and effort to start, the fuel and the coolant lines are frozen shut and have to be thawed first. In these conditions a gas turbine tank can be started in mere minutes, and actually performs better than average thank to dense air and good cooling. Gas turbine tanks also have an excellent power to weight ratio because a diesel engine with the same output has easily twice the weight of a gas turbine. This is the reason why M1 is a gas turbine tank - it is so obese that a diesel engine would make it a Tiger 2. The Leopard 2 engine that has the same performance as the M1 engine weighs 2200 kg compared to the 1100 kg of the M1 engine. It is also twice as wide.
Oh come on. Just say it - that you believe some god will fix it for you.
Not quite - there is still a lot of T-80s around, they had the gas turbine even before the M1. They even make sense for Russia - a gas turbine tank is much easier to start and operate in winter conditions than a diesel tank.
Reagan just took credit for the breakup. The actual reason was that the USSR was a multi - ethnic state and when the central government stopped suppressing speech, the resulting wave of nationalist unrest broke the country up among ethnic lines causing several wars between former soviet republics. The first of these wars actually started before the breakup and the last one is the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine - that one used to be a cold war for over two decades.
I suggest they call the plant "triffid".
Because Ukrainians are generally too stupid to run a country. And that "not too long ago" was before both of our fathers were born.
Given that Ukraine was freed in 1944, this is highly unlikely. And given your general attitude your grandfather was probably a Hiwi so he was doing what he was told by Germans.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. You are the one spewing propaganda around and besides, 90% of child porn comes from Ukraine. Who is the pervert now?
Well, except when they have brown skin or arab sounding names, then they'll get beaten up by the likes of you. Especially now that Trump won the presidency the likes of you feel suddenly empowered in their xenophobia.
In fact, it is worse than over here. Immigrants stay immigrants in Germany, but if they integrate themselves into the society, they are perfectly accepted. In fact, at my workplace we have an Ukrainian (the worst IT guy I've ever met in my life and the most unpleasant person as well), three Russians (two guys and a gal, all decent software developers), two Arabs, two Croatians, a few Italians and Poles, several Turks - obviously, they are the largest minority after all and so on and so on. Everyone is perfectly well integrated (except the Ukrainian) and respected by the German colleagues (also except the Ukrainian). I actually enjoy the opportunity to practice Russian and learn Croatian since I love Slavic languages (except Polish). Too bad I have no Czech colleagues to practice my (nowadays rusty) Czech as well.
At every workplace in the past it has been exactly the same - many immigrants who weren't treated any different from Germans. In fact, since Germany itself is very fragmented, there were more intra-German rivalries (for example Bavarians were generally disliked in NRW, or the sometimes serious rivalry between the citizens of Frankfurt and citizens of Offenbach).
Lange Rede, kurzer Sinn - don't confuse my strong dislike of you personally and nationalists generally with my attitude to immigrants.
Heh, sort of. Appartment gigs sure were fun. But it was more like being young, stupid and very curious.
Living in the middle of nowhere was your choice. Other people don't have to subsidize it.
GP is right, though, that diesel engines move a lot more air. Gasoline engines run roughly at a stoichiometric air to fuel ratio, diesel engines run way leaner, they start at ratios that are almost too high for a gasoline engine to work properly (running diesel engines at lower lambda would produce a shitload of soot) and go up to 6:1.
Like I said, I have been there and have actually seen them. And there was a shitload of them. Besides, most of the candidates of the 2014 election could be described as nationalist and authoritarian at the very least. I mean, the party names say it all: fatherland, people's self defence block, freedom (founded as social-nationalist party of Ukraine). Even their current president Poroshenko was the founder of the "National Alliance of Freedom and Ukrainian patriotism 'OFFENSIVE'" party. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
And what does your "google russian nazis in donbas" has to do with it? This is a bloody whataboutism, Russian neo-nazis are not the point here and I am well aware of their existance, but that absolutely doesn't excuse Ukraine's government arming their neo-nazis and making them official state troops.
I think a rotating launch pad is an awesome idea - no need for spending precious fuel for rotating and some other advantages. Don't understand why it is such a nuisance - USSR managed to build several in the early 1950ies, surely Russia of 2016 ought to be able to build them without any problem.
Well, Soyuz-U has been EOLed anyway, this flight was, in fact, the penultimate one.
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