Your ballpark estimate is about an order of magnitude wrong. Average power use in Germany, for example, is about 3100 kWh per year for a household. Ukraine is a piss-poor country, they use even less.
They do it by using very special and extremely expensive reactors and very highly enriched fuel (90%) or so. The latter part is already cost-prohibitive. The reactors are also quite small, barely larger than research reactors, have a limited lifespan (half of a commercial nuclear powerplant) and are only refuelled once or twice during their lifetime, instead of every year or two. All these reasons make American marine reactors much safer, but not really comparable to commercial reactors. If commercial reactors would be built and operated the same way, electricity would cost several orders of magnitude more.
Kursk was not an older-generation soviet sub, it was, in fact, the latest Soviet model (Yasen was designed at about the same time but never built in the soviet union) and the first nuclear submarine built in Russia. It was barely 6 years old at the time of the accident.
The way Kursk sank was very embarassing and showed how unready the northern fleet actually is. Yes, it is the favourite fleet of the Russian government, but also the fleet with the most accidents and the worst trained sailors.
Well, if we are talking about classic sf authors then Stanislaw Lem and Robert Sheckley. And a third that is still writing... hmm, maybe Stephen Baxter?
I surely hope so. The movie was far better than the novel. I seriously don't get all that Heinlein hype - there were much better science fiction writers then.
Okay, so if a junkie hits you with something heavy on the head to get your wallet and the phone, you are okay with the society letting you die because it is the cheapest solution? Good to know.
Because it is not about junkies, it is about crime prevention. Far better and cheaper if a junkie in a need of the next fix won't have to rob and maybe kill someone to get the money.
Well, duh. Exactly like every Ukrainian politician before and after him. That's why it is cutting the nose to spite the face - they still have the same crap, but with an added war, expensive credits, far lower standards of living and can't go on vacation in Crimea anymore. And for what?
Hence my peculiar reading of the situation. I mean, I have visited Ukraine a few times and I can assure you, nowadays it sucks to live there far more than, say, 5 years ago. Same with being a tourist - the only upside is that their currency nosedived compared to Euro, so food and girls are really cheap there.
That was probably his point - they could have had cheap credits and the Sevastopol lease payments and now they have neither. I think this is called cutting the nose to spite the face.
Well, the thing is, in the actual India-Pakistan war USA had sided with Pakistan, the Soviets had sided with India. After that it is kind of difficult to rudder back.
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I have a 2K and a 1280p Sony tablet - same size. The difference is very visible, especially for text.
Your ballpark estimate is about an order of magnitude wrong. Average power use in Germany, for example, is about 3100 kWh per year for a household. Ukraine is a piss-poor country, they use even less.
Bugger me sideways, Brits had an actual cuisine?
Immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh is what you Brits absolutely deserve. It was your colony after all.
Rogonosets, literally "wearer of horns". In German, and apparently, in French, horns stand for the same thing.
They do it by using very special and extremely expensive reactors and very highly enriched fuel (90%) or so. The latter part is already cost-prohibitive. The reactors are also quite small, barely larger than research reactors, have a limited lifespan (half of a commercial nuclear powerplant) and are only refuelled once or twice during their lifetime, instead of every year or two. All these reasons make American marine reactors much safer, but not really comparable to commercial reactors. If commercial reactors would be built and operated the same way, electricity would cost several orders of magnitude more.
Kursk was not an older-generation soviet sub, it was, in fact, the latest Soviet model (Yasen was designed at about the same time but never built in the soviet union) and the first nuclear submarine built in Russia. It was barely 6 years old at the time of the accident.
The way Kursk sank was very embarassing and showed how unready the northern fleet actually is. Yes, it is the favourite fleet of the Russian government, but also the fleet with the most accidents and the worst trained sailors.
The thing about the elderly is that their amount is constantly replenished.
Well, if we are talking about classic sf authors then Stanislaw Lem and Robert Sheckley. And a third that is still writing... hmm, maybe Stephen Baxter?
I surely hope so. The movie was far better than the novel. I seriously don't get all that Heinlein hype - there were much better science fiction writers then.
EU has put all TTIP talks on ice thanks to Trump's election.
Yes, that was a part of my point. The other part was that helping drug users lowers the amount of muggings and burglaries, which is a good thing.
Okay, so if a junkie hits you with something heavy on the head to get your wallet and the phone, you are okay with the society letting you die because it is the cheapest solution? Good to know.
You seem have a problem with reading comprehension. Please reread what I have written until you actually get it.
Because it is not about junkies, it is about crime prevention. Far better and cheaper if a junkie in a need of the next fix won't have to rob and maybe kill someone to get the money.
must be some bavarian dialect then
The word, by the way, is exactly the same, only the pronunciation is different.
Nope, the meaning is exactly the same.
I guess Tesla just interviewed their own employees and partners, hence the result.
Well, duh. Exactly like every Ukrainian politician before and after him. That's why it is cutting the nose to spite the face - they still have the same crap, but with an added war, expensive credits, far lower standards of living and can't go on vacation in Crimea anymore. And for what?
Hence my peculiar reading of the situation. I mean, I have visited Ukraine a few times and I can assure you, nowadays it sucks to live there far more than, say, 5 years ago. Same with being a tourist - the only upside is that their currency nosedived compared to Euro, so food and girls are really cheap there.
That was probably his point - they could have had cheap credits and the Sevastopol lease payments and now they have neither. I think this is called cutting the nose to spite the face.
You mean like Dubya?
Ouch, that one hurts. Half-arsed and half wrong.
Nope.
Well, the thing is, in the actual India-Pakistan war USA had sided with Pakistan, the Soviets had sided with India. After that it is kind of difficult to rudder back.
There never have been more old people. There you have it.
Same shit here in Germany, only worse - we basically have a gerontocracy.