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Comment Re: 510kph is airliner speed? (Score 3, Informative) 419

This might have something to do with the fact that the two Hokkaido and Tokyo are on two different islands.

In addition you can fly in Germany from Hamburg to Berlin and Munich. But still most people use the train. For two reasons. Hamburg Berlin is 1.5 hours by train you cannot reach the plane in that time and definitely not fly. Munich req. 6 hours by train so a plane might be faster, but you can jump on a train every hour without planning for a specific hour. You cannot do that with a plane.

Comment Maglev is expensive (Score 1) 419

Germany developed similar technology, but was unable to sell it to the public for two reasons. First, it is expensive compared to normal tracks. This includes maintenance and construction. Second, it must run on a bridge like thing. A ground based solution is still 2 m above the ground.

The Chinese tried out that German solution. They built a small line but skipped the extension.

The French TGV can go 500 km/h but normally runs 300 or 350 km/h.

In Germany the next generation of trains will be even slower which makes perfect sense, as Germany is densly populated and there are many stops. So hhigh speed would not result in a big time savings
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Comment Cameron is ruining Britain (Score 3, Insightful) 316

He almost lost the Scotland gamble. And of course there will be a second Referendum in a couple of years which will end in a divorce. He leads the UK out of the EU sinking the British finance sector. He also wants to cancel the European human rights treaty. And he censors the internet and spies on everyone.

He mostly acts like a child. He is angry or has tears in his eyes. And then he lies to the British and then the EU is the cause of all problems according to Cameron. He is an upper class classisist with a big ego and no intellect. And I am very sorry for the UK, but he will ruin it for most of them.

Comment Re:Japan tried this with the 5th Generation Comput (Score 1) 67

The problem is that we know what syntax is. And we know what semantic is. However, we do not know what real pragmatics are. All we do in modeling of information is inserting human "knowledge" and understanding into a computer system. Then the system is able to reason about that, but it cannot go beyond it.

Comment What an election (Score 1) 551

Primarily it is an "election" between a right wing party and a horde of crazy people (at least form an EU perspective). And there will be no real difference in things like CO2 reduction, healthcare, immigration or any other field where there is a progressive and a reactionary position. The US will got for the latter. True our governments suck too, but that is no excuse to suck as well.

Comment Re:Lucky for Democrats (Score 1) 165

First, I doubt that it makes any real difference if you vote for "Democrats" or "Republicans". In a real democracy you would be able to vote for more than one party. From a European point of view you have only the choice between conservative and neo-liberal party and a strong right wing party. Second, the mobilizing effect within AARP might be bigger than in the FB domain.

Comment Re: Breaking the stranglehold of other countries (Score 3, Interesting) 332

Norway has a lot of Walter power which can also be used to store Wind energy surplus. As Norway is just around the corner, this is a nobrainer. Also in Kiel north Germany they build a "heat sink" which converts wind energy surplus in heat for community heating. There system s designed to also store heat. As plus, in winter when we have a lot if wind we also need more community heating.

Comment Hungary is becoming a totalitarian state (Score 2) 324

The prime minister of Hungary wants to transform Hungary into a "un liberal" state. In short he wants to play Putin in his country. His primary goal right now is to push out any foreign investment. This new law targets that and in addition may help to control the opposition. The normal media is already under his control.
A yes and in addition Hungary is becoming more and more racist.

Comment Startup money must be cheap these days (Score 1) 131

There are four types of stamp uses and realizations mostly used in public. For adverts, they print a tag on the advert. For business letters with these little windows, they print it in the address field. For parcels you can print out a sheet and glue it in a parcel. And for the personal letter or postcard you mostly use lovely designed stamps. As I already have a printer, why shall I buy a device for stamps? And by the way I can even send an email to the post office and they will make a letter out of it including stamps. What is now the correct advantage of this new device?

Comment Re: Is anyone buying this? (Score 1) 213

In Germany this is called FachkrÃftemangel. It is happening here for decades. However, the income of skilled workers (FachkrÃfte) has gone side ways. Therefore either all IT workers love their boss and hate money or they are idiots. It could NEVER ever be the case that there is no shortage.

On a side note: Skilled worker is a completely imprecise term.

Comment Re:Lennart Poettering - the Poetterized versions o (Score 0) 104

It looks like, you have all the solid logical arguments to explain that Poetterings work is pointing in the wrong way. I especially love your way of clear argumentation. However, I would recommend to be more precise next time and please try to avoid using the word fuck, body parts and relations to family members.

Thanks

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