Food won't be any cheaper because EU basically sets the minimum price for agricultural products by introducing strict quotas to keep european farmers afloat and thanks to the generally pretty mild EU climate plants are seldom artificially watered - there is usually more than enough rainfall. Reducing labour would also be counterproductive - like GP has mentioned, EU even pays some farmers for not producing. Seriously, GMO makes absolutely no sense here and it is not welcome by the general population either.
Looks like a reading comprehension failure. If the automated vehicle is only allowed on the Autobahn, as was suggested previously, and has to use depots along the route, then railway is a much better solution, especially in Germany since its rail network is 3.5x more extensive.
Not yet, but he is charged with fraud and might serve jail time one day. Germany is corrupt, but wonders happen sometimes (Hoeness, Middelhoff, Janssen).
True enough, Israel is indeed somewhat more civilised, but I had the similar crap from a customer from Israel as well. Being surrounded by Arabs apparently rubs off.
The more modern versions of Osa use missiles with 10m minimum engagement altitude. Their maximum range is also well beyond the Hellfire range. Tunguska's missile minimum altitude is 5m. That is significantly below 100 ft. In fact, Tunguska was specifically developed to rape the Warthog. Both Osa and Tunguska outrange the Hellfire missile (in fact the more modern versions outrange the Hellfire by far).
German tanks weren't really that advanced. Yes, there were some ahead-of-time features like IR searchlights on some Panthers, but other than that the only actually good part of German tanks was their main gun and its ammunition. Both Panzer IV and Tiger 1 were both pretty much early 1930ies designs and only Panther, which was built as an answer to T-34 has started to use sloped armour. German tanks also used gasoline engines instead of the much more sensible Diesel engines. Even the notion that German tanks were overengineered is mostly not correct, the only overengineered part of Tiger and Panther was their strange overlapping wheel drivetrain.
All in all, Russian designs like T-34 or IS-2 were much more advanced, with better engines (the V-2 Diesel engine was an astonishingly good design, in fact even today many Russian tanks and tractors still use distant descendants of it) and better armour. A followup design, T-44, was revolutionary in many ways, but never saw combat and was further developed into the T-54 instead.
American tanks in WW2 were also used more high tech than German tanks - like gun stabilisers, allowing the tanks to actually hit their targets when firing while moving.
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Food won't be any cheaper because EU basically sets the minimum price for agricultural products by introducing strict quotas to keep european farmers afloat and thanks to the generally pretty mild EU climate plants are seldom artificially watered - there is usually more than enough rainfall. Reducing labour would also be counterproductive - like GP has mentioned, EU even pays some farmers for not producing.
Seriously, GMO makes absolutely no sense here and it is not welcome by the general population either.
Looks like a reading comprehension failure. If the automated vehicle is only allowed on the Autobahn, as was suggested previously, and has to use depots along the route, then railway is a much better solution, especially in Germany since its rail network is 3.5x more extensive.
Or you just can use rail.
Not yet, but he is charged with fraud and might serve jail time one day. Germany is corrupt, but wonders happen sometimes (Hoeness, Middelhoff, Janssen).
Mercedes has several mainstream models (A class, B class)
You do realise that this was exactly Hitler's excuse for his atrocities?
That is about the only thing you have got right. The NSA is far closer to the Abwehr.
Well, judging from your comment history you would feel right at home in Nazi Germany if you'd bother to learn German.
It is always funny how people link sources without actually reading them first, don't you think?
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.
And a good bonus at that. I seldom visited a restaurant before that ban because I find smoke disgusting.
smoke kills
Poland is - unfortunately - also an EU country, so writing "and many EU countries" is, at the very least, strange.
VW is not a LLC, though. LLC is more like a German GmbH. VW is an AG, a civil law publicly traded corporation..
True enough, Israel is indeed somewhat more civilised, but I had the similar crap from a customer from Israel as well. Being surrounded by Arabs apparently rubs off.
Haha yes, and not only Saudi Arabia, everyone in the region is like that.
Judging from the posting history, that guy is actually serious. Nobody can act for that long.
That is the same IP address as my luggage. Damn you, internet of things
Kia?!
mold maybe?
Well, I guess you enjoy pissing into pools as well.
More like BMW and Mercedes wrote that regulation, but yes, there even used to be a quite protectionist VW law.
The more modern versions of Osa use missiles with 10m minimum engagement altitude. Their maximum range is also well beyond the Hellfire range.
Tunguska's missile minimum altitude is 5m. That is significantly below 100 ft. In fact, Tunguska was specifically developed to rape the Warthog. Both Osa and Tunguska outrange the Hellfire missile (in fact the more modern versions outrange the Hellfire by far).
German tanks weren't really that advanced. Yes, there were some ahead-of-time features like IR searchlights on some Panthers, but other than that the only actually good part of German tanks was their main gun and its ammunition. Both Panzer IV and Tiger 1 were both pretty much early 1930ies designs and only Panther, which was built as an answer to T-34 has started to use sloped armour. German tanks also used gasoline engines instead of the much more sensible Diesel engines. Even the notion that German tanks were overengineered is mostly not correct, the only overengineered part of Tiger and Panther was their strange overlapping wheel drivetrain.
All in all, Russian designs like T-34 or IS-2 were much more advanced, with better engines (the V-2 Diesel engine was an astonishingly good design, in fact even today many Russian tanks and tractors still use distant descendants of it)
and better armour. A followup design, T-44, was revolutionary in many ways, but never saw combat and was further developed into the T-54 instead.
American tanks in WW2 were also used more high tech than German tanks - like gun stabilisers, allowing the tanks to actually hit their targets when firing while moving.
And this is why you guys are considered the lunatic fringe.
Why do you Texans shoot other people's donkeys for no reason?
Kinda sorta. DM as bank money EOLed on the 1st of January 1999 but as cash it was still used until February 2002 or so.