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Douchebag quits and says you can't fire me.
So much this. From looking at the story, I'm only surprised they put up with him for that long.
Douchebag quits and says you can't fire me.
So much this. From looking at the story, I'm only surprised they put up with him for that long.
Dmiti Rogozin is a neonazi. They aren't generally known for their engineering sense (there were much better engineers among the original nazis, oddly enough).
This ridiculous meme about all wars being about resources just has to stop.
The only major resource of interest in this war is water, and by itself it would not be enough to start or sustain the war.
We talk about copper production or oil production or uranium production all the time. Why do you have a problem with neon production?
Nuclear submarine reactors work great and they are not particularly expensive. However, they run on weapons-grade enriched uranium. Apart from the obvious security implications, enriching uranium to that level is very energy intensive and therefore expensive.
That is why submarine reactors aren't dominating the energy market.
There is considerable interest in running submarines on low enriched uranium. Some say that the Rolls Royce SMR project is mostly a civilian front for that military effort.
Once freed from the shackles of Windows and Office, Russia will be dominating the IT world!
He's content to be the dictator of a has-been nation.
Russia has always been a has-been nation. I don't get why, but any form of modernization has always passed them by over the last thousand years.
This has been true whether any particular ruler encouraged modernization or resisted it.
It is bewildering.
I have no problem with Elon opening up Ukraine to Starlink... Except for the fact that I ordered the service, here in the USA, more than a year ago and I'm still waiting.
Wow. Just wow.
Normal people pay taxes on their net worth going up. (Worse than that, since they do not get to deduct much in the way of expenses.)
Superrich people get to claim that their net worth going up isn't due to income, it just magically happens and shouldn't be taxed.
"Unrealized gains" is the worst tax loophole in existence.
In cities, you can install district heating and use water source heat pumps. Most cities have a harbour.
Also, you can store heat from summer to winter in covered dams. This is getting popular in Denmark.
Greenland does well with air source heat pumps.
Do these politicians really think that they are going to burn less natural gas if they burn it in power plants, transport the resulting electricity, and then use that electricity to heat houses?
Yes, those politicians think that because that is how it works in the first world. You generate electricity, and you use the electricity in a heat pump. You get more heat out than you put fuel in. Third world countries cannot afford heat pumps, but apparently the New York politicians have aspirations to join Western civilization. They will be welcomed.
The fee is hidden in the conversion rate.
You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
You can do free SEPA transfers to Denmark, but they are generally useless, because the person you transfer to won't have a Euro account and therefore the transfer will not be free.
In theory, SEPA covers all the countries you mention. In practice, SEPA is only useful in the Eurozone.
Any country in the Eurozone, more precisely. Or Euro accounts in non-Euro countries, but most won't have one.
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