Sure it's based on using waste heat, as I wasn't talking about electricity alone (who is?). Still 90% are 90%. Why would that be negative when trying to save some CO2?

The topic was CO2 emission with natural gas from Russia.

Your argument seems not to be that small local gas plants have the best efficiency and the best technology to bridge the gap, but that there actually is no gap and nuclear power is safe. Which are two different things.

Interesting comparison you have there: 100% fine working coal plant causes more deaths than slightly broken nuclear power plant.
What about a totally wrecked coal plant worst case scenario against a worst case scenario of a nuclear plant (we didn't have a worst case scenario yet)?
Totally wrecked coal plant is probably causing no harm at all anymore for many years while the nuclear plant...

So not only need one see the harm a technology causes every day, but also in a worst case scenario.
As we have seen oil and nuclear are not looking very good in worst case scenarios.

With smaller local gas power plants, you can get very high efficiency (up to 90%), which is as good as it gets regarding fossil energy. Local, decentralized natural gas power plants are seen as the best "bridge technology" for the next two decades.

Usually a link to www.prepaidgsm.net settles this question for all your vacation destinations.

It's really a great site.

My personal choice is always to put a prepaid GSM card with some cheap data plan into my primary smart phone and then use an older phone with my home country SIM to receive calls or make calls where my caller id is important. Others work around that by forwarding calls and using special services like skype's caller id function.

RSR is from a time when Amiga games are worth a look at. RSR has only 64 colors, but probably the much better sound and music on the Amiga.
(I've only played it on uae, though. It's a good idea to have the keyboard layout at hand and all necessary keys mapped.)

Only much later games tend to have VGA graphics AND digitized sound PLUS wave table music support.

You probably didn't mean it that way, but you could be right. If the USA (and/or NATO) would bring all troops home from all Muslim countries now, I would expect the war could indeed be over.

The only thing missing (overthrowing corrupt regimes in the area ) seems to be happening without US troop involvement anyway.

But as the future will probably show, there will always be some important (fake) reason to deploy more troops or to just shuffle them around a bit.

The article says the speed was limited from 350km/h to 300km/h. That would fit the description of the Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway which are trains based on both the Siemens Velaro and the Japanese E2 Series Shinkansen (according to wikipedia).

Only 300km/h! That slow!

In other news, in Germany Deutsche Bahn ordered 300 new high speed trains (to replace all existing trains) with a maximum speed of 249km/h (to have the trains fall into a lower, i.e. cheaper, regulation class).

"China Plans Space Station By 2020"
In other news:
"FBI Says Wire Fraud Scam Sending Millions To China"
"77 Million Accounts Stolen From Playstation Network"

Makes you wonder why people who start shooting mates over toilet usage dispute are allowed to work on a nuclear sub.

Guy in suicide mode shooting his fellow soldiers in walking distance to a nuclear reactor IS worth mentioning.
It also reminds me of Hunt for Red October, which was a cool movie.

I predict that when Moore's law "slows down" over a decade or so, the industrial and intellectual power can move to software and improve algorithms and system efficiency (for a while).
We see the same now with peak-oil on the horizon that the internal combustion engine gets more and more optimization and is driving car sales of all manufacturers. Something that had been a waste of time and money only 12 years ago (see VW Lupo 3L and Audi A2).

Has it been already seven days? Quick, find Frank Parker and send him to the plant.

You're right both times.
So there is "tech support" and "tech support".

Technically, 20 years of java programming experience probably means 20 years of 8 hours a day, 230 days year, so about 37000 hours. If you were doing something with Java for your hobby as well (and having no other hobbies or a life), you could probably squeeze that into 6 years (of doing 17 hours of java each day).

Not that I want to proof anything here. Just "doing the math".

I agree. That's why everyone is now training...sorry, teaching Java in University courses instead of some other OO language from the 60s.
I think even the students now tend to think "If I would be taught OOP with Smalltalk instead of Java, I would be helpless in the real world."