You have stated that you just have used Pascal in some college courses. This is not what I would call "experienced". I've been writing code in both Pascal and C for many years, Pascal is more readable hands down. C looks like a character salad in comparison. It was clearly meant to be used on teletype terminals where you had to be sparse with letters. That was fair for the day, but we are living in the 21th century now.

Engine noise, especially when the PTO is activated, is far louder than beeping. You can hear it clearly when a hybrid garbage truck picks up garbage. It is almost silent and the beeper seems far less obnoxious.

I had a dual pentium motherboard with eisa slots once, made by Asus iirc. Used to sit in a server of a German content management software company.

Let me know when Sweden's health insurance is welcomed by German doctors.

They are. EHIC is, in fact, honoured in the whole EU for treatments that need to be done while being in another EU country. The insurance can also cover for a non-acute treatment abroad (for example cheaper dentists in the Czech Republic), but one has to get an acknowledgment from the insurance first.

You want to fix healthcare, make the price paid the same for everyone, and pricing is upfront (as can be allowed). Let the user know exactly what the Knee Scope is going to run before surgery.

Back to the 19th century? Universal health care was introduced because the kind of healthcare you describe didn't work.

Of course you can - in Braille.

There is always Sigma with their own Foveon

Correct me if i am wrong, but doesn't the "reflex" part indeed imply a mirror?

You are talking about the low level corruption, that certainly isn't very common in the more developed countries (except for southern Europe, obviously). The high level corruption thrives everywhere, though.

Look like it is difficult to walk in a car-obsessed country. Even the police finds that strange.

Taxi driving is, in fact, different from personal driving. Taxi drivers drive much more than personal drivers, so the probability of an accident is higher. And since they are drivers for hire, they are responsible for the passengers. Hence the different license.

So, what exactly does the government gain? The processing fees for issuing the commercial driver license? They aren't that high, the fees usually just cover the costs of the pencil pushers.

What if he is?
Free market forces can suck very much. They lead to bubbles, crashes, front runnings and all the rest of the misery that is associated with them.

Nortel used to be worth 400 billions. Two years later only 5 billions. It still was the same company, just not as overvalued anymore. Market capitalisation doesn't show how much an enterprise is actually worth or whether it does something right or not. It only shows what the speculators currently think.

This was, in fact, a proof of concept. Freight train between China and Germany is already regular.
Trains are quite efficient. They are also way cleaner than ships, especially when using electric power.

On the russian side they use blue electrical tape, not duct tape.

Only on the US side. The russian modules use CO2, if I remember correctly.