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Comment Re:Did they control for wealth? (Score 1) 189

Dunno where you are, but I have noticed that in the US there's fewer saunas around in hotels etc, and they for some reason are freakin' cold.
Meanwhile, Northern Europe they are everywhere alongside IR saunas and/or roman baths, with a few countries also having them in many homes.

Heck, you can get portable saunas...

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 271

When I was in Automotive, convincing US manufacturers that JIT/JIS was the way to go was neigh impossible.
Pretty much the whole world uses it, but I can think of only a few places in the US who went to a full JIT (let alone JIS) setup.

Comment Re:Oh damn! (Score 2) 211

The second is a fundamental unit, so there are lots of other units which depend upon it's value. Change that and you've changed the value of the Hz, erg, amp,etc.. According to Wikipedia of the 22 names derived units only 3 do not depend on the second.

huh??
1 second is defined to be exactly 9 192 631 770 cycles of a Caesium atomic clock

Comment Re:Nintendo's current business strategy (Score 1) 296

It is even worse then that.

Post a "Let's Play" of a current game on YouTube? Nintendo likes to pretend they own it.

Who knew that they would be against FREE ADVERTISING ???

*facepalm*

We do a monthly "Upcoming Games" segment - due to Nintendo's antics, have asked the hosts to NOT cover their games since it'll get us hit with (C) claims the moment we include any footage.

Comment Re:The EU may not be perfect.. (Score 1, Informative) 105

Just tried using them (trip in August).
Reading their rules and regs, saw various potential options for hosts to scam guests.
Booked trip, host immediately tried to change price etc (city pretty booked due to intl event, easy scam).
I refused, told the host to cancel so I'm not stuck with fees etc.
Host refuses to cancel, since then he's not paid anything.
AirBnB? They are not picking up, no matter how I'm trying to contact them. Only option is to do a chargeback on the CC used for the original booking, which jeopardizes my replacement booking.

Lesson: Stay the fsck away from AirBnB

Comment Re:What else would one do? (Score 1) 137

Yours isn't? Weird.

I live in Europe and I get 300MBs symmetrical with 5ms ping for $30 a month. It's fiber all the way to my router.

All speeds measured and confirmed: http://www.speedtest.net/resul...

I live in the "capitol" of Europe (Brussels), and random outages, phone-lines randomly swapped around, regular drops in connection speeds, and max option is 100/15 MBits (seems recently upped from 50/15).

Unlimited data, unless you use more than 100GB/Month, then there's add-ons or throttled to 5Mbit.

Phone+inet+IPTV is delivered via copper (from a box down the road), and you can see the wiring dangling off of buildings even in the more well-off areas.

Oddly enough, when perfomance drops, visiting Speedtest.net brings it right back up .....

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