The point is that the Hawaiian "queen and king" are now US subjects. Hence the USA would need to accept their title. Which they don't.

I have sawn a movie years ago playing in Hawaii shortly before WWII, where the gatherings of Hawaiians where disrupted by the police solely on the ground of: "you have no king, you are not allowed to celebrate the birthday of your not king in public".

However I'm not very deep into the constitution and laws of the US :D they seem so archaic.

I did not talk about taxi drivers.

We talked about the difference between an commercial insurance and a non commercial one.

And as long as I'm not transporting passengers, I can use my car as much as I want "commercially" and my standard insurance covers it.

Would it surprise you to know that the city you live in also affects car insurance rates? At least in the US...
Same here. For stupid reasons the fact if you own a house effects it, as if house owners drive safer. Obviously they have a statistic pointing out: statistically they have less accidents or such with lower damage. But that is just a statistic, perhaps I should buy a house in the Provence or in Brittany :D

And you made up your mind what "pumped storage" is for in classical grids. And your idea is wrong.

Actually I calculated you down how damn cheap that particular plant was :D

Oh he meant "methods" as in "functions"?
I assumed methods of thinking and / or developing.

Why would anyone want to "learn" the packages and classes and methods of a programming languages base installation is beyond me.

90% or even 99% of it you simply get by using the IDE wisely.

Ofc. there are corner cases ... but my amount of "packages" and "classes" I know after nearly 20 years of Java development is rather low. I'm not interested in learning such stuff, and I never needed to.

Capitalism is not what you think it is.

For starters: it is 'abusing your capital' in any way as close as possible to breaking/not breaking the law to gain more: capital.

The underperformers are likely much better at capitalism than you are ;D

And the oldest and wisest bull answers: Na, lets just wait up here you young folk: they come up to us by themselves

Software would be more appropriate. They solely exist on top of their App and their servers. Actually a typical dot.com company.

If I have the choice between three developers, and can only take one:
a) a 50 year old C/C++ programmer with scripting experience on Unix and some main frame back ground with Cobol and Fortran
b) a 30 year old with 5 year experience in Java or C#
c) a university freshling, with no real work experience and very likely mediocre programming abilities, regardless what language

Guess whom I take if I need someone who does real work?

Well, we all know the USA are weird regarding that.

The minimum level of car insurances in the USA are unthinkable in Europe, and our policies are cheaper as well as far as I can tell.

Mine is 430â per year and covers 10,000,000 damage to persons in total, limited to max 1,000,000 if onyl a few persons got damaged, and AFAIK in damage to property it is unlimited. Might be that damage to persons got changed to 100,000,000 ... some other European /. er posted that a few posts ahead in the thread. Not sure if he typoed or if the insurance minimums changed ... I never really look at such stuff.

Insightful but wrong!

Smalltalk, Lisp, Prolog, Haskell and (C, Pascal, Fortran) all work completely different.

You don't jump form C++/Java/C# to SmallTalk in a day.

if you learned 10 new methods in Java every day for the rest of your life - you'd be dead before you learned everything that was in Java. Since you can't "know" a language because it's constantly being created/changed/etc the best thing to do is understand rather than know
That is nonsense, too.
Obviously the creators of Java can, why can't you?

a reputation for poor performance, and heavy resource requirements.
That is nonsense.
Ada is as efficient as C etc. actually all languages that get compiled down to machine code (as not to byte code) are similar efficient.
If you want a COBOL job, look harder.
There are plenty of them.
All the damn Y2K programs problems I have fixed, are still running: because the Y2K problems are fixed.

Well in 30 years I'm close to 80, but perhaps you invite me to your nice house then and we drink a Whiskey ...

Well, I like the irish ones, or we settle on Whisky, as I like the scotch, too.

So we can look back on the energy revolution :D and perhaps know if that EM drive really works, like discussed on /. lately

But it isn't, so no... they couldn't have...
Ofc, they could have. As I said before a 30 feet (not metters) artificial hill is enough, and using the dig out soil from some reservoirs to make that hill had worked just fine.

Would it have been a super high capacity storage: no.

Would it work: yes.

What had it costed? No idea as I don't know what they did with the dig out. Perhaps they sold it? And earned money on it. Perhaps they needed to deposite it somewhere, and payed for that.

The numbers clearly indicate that you import more than you export and that you use more than you export etc.

The USA is one of the highest importers of oil, and as well one of the highest consumers.

The idea that you would export more than you import or use is nonsense.

So for 155 million euros, power is provided for 1600 homes...

That is a TERRIBLE investment...

No, it is not.
It is an investment to store power that otherwise would go to waste.

As I pointed out several times now, pumped storages as we have it right now is not even used to store excess energy, it is used to balance the grid.

155M is peanuts. No idea where you live ... but if your numbers are right it is about 100,000 per home. No idea why you call that "TERRIBLE expensive", seems you are not used to large scale infra structure projects.

Facepalm. For 155M you can not even make a railway ... well just a few feet.

The railway for the ICE from Wuerzburg to Hannover, about 280km, costed 6billion (not million, for clarification) Euros.

A house like yours would cost in Europe 2 - 6 millions. So the plant you complain about costs like 20 to 75 times as much as your house costs?

And you call that expensive? And it is not the plant providing the power for the houses, it is a "load balancing plant" as mainly all pumped storages in central Europe are.

The owner makes a million in earnings every day!

A plant like that is amortized in a year, max 10 years.

Your country must be really weird if you have such a strange relation to "money is everything".