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Comment Unfortunately (Score 4, Insightful) 62

"If you must write a check, he said, try to deliver it in person or take it inside a post office to mail rather than relying on your own mailbox or public drop boxes. "

That was the neighborhood advice going around our area 1-2 years ago. I myself was skeptical that mail theft was going on as I had dealt with the Postal Police when managing an e-commerce site and I knew they are very good at finding things like this. Unfortunately it turned out (1) I was wrong: there was mail theft going on in our neighborhood but (2) everyone else was wrong too: the mail wasn't being stolen from blue boxes; it was being lifted from the bins behind the slot in our postal service center. The perps were eventually caught but it took far longer than I would have thought.

Comment Is the main actress "barely legal" (Score 1) 83

As in Sexy, young like 16 or so?

That used to be enough to make a "great movie", see "Transformers" (first movie) ... (what a pile of shit movie, but became a Gassenhauer). I went into the cinema to watch it, assuming "oh, funny new concept of alien robots" - assuming a deep story like Battle Star Galactica.

Turned out it was a movie for 13 to 16 year olds dragging their parents into a cinema.

Comment Re:What's the motivation? (Score 1) 181

"Base Load = The minimum power a grid needs at all times, delivered at a steady, constant rate"
Correct. And our parent got it wrong.

So, what is your point?

"Capacity factor = The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of actual electrical energy output over a given
period of time to the theoretical maximum electrical energy output over that period."
Also correct. And that is not a metric of the power plant, but a result of how I run it.

So: what is your point again?

Are you certain you grasp "base load" and "Capacity factor"?

Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 195

Yes, society owes me a job.

Because that is my human right.

And in most countries, on the globe, that works just fine.

The right is not violated, it is just not always possible to honour it.

As in: no one can snip a finger to create a job.

However the agencies to help you find a job, work for you. And as long as you have none, they support you with housing and basic income.

Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 195

I know my union job is definitely better then the exact same job that is not union, though not by a great deal.
That should not be the case if you work in the same company and have the same/similar job.

Well, regarding voting, it is common that a Gremium is preparing some suggestions. And even riggs them to make one side look more attractive.

Comment Re: What's the motivation? (Score 1) 181

Well, the problem for this "language barrier" is: the languages are to similar and overlap to much. So you easy take a phrase, or same word/spelled different into the other language.

"unpossible" rather than "impossible,
My typical mistake is unpolite versus impolite.

The typical German intro syllable is "un-", but for many words English uses "im". As in both cases the original word is Latin/Italian/French - it is kind of random how you settled on the islands. Or how it evolved in German in particular.

In other words: a Chinese or Arabic or Japanese etc., English student just learns the word, and that is it.

For a German, Danish, Netherlands: he reads the word the for the time and files it under: "known" ... and then types it wrong until an "wake up event", dude: it is not the same spelling (and often not same meaning)

For eaxample:
eventually: eventuell
actually: aktuell

Completely different meanings.

Comment Re:"Just" 59K (Score 1) 93

I have most certainly have an idea what "intrinsic value" means.

Like a non rotten potato versus a rotten one.

Or a cold beer versus a warm one.

Or a full bottle of beer, versus an empty one.

In the middle of a desert your intrinsic valuable $5 bill from the central bank:
- does not buy you a potato, rotten or not
- does not buy you a bottle of beer, cold, warm, or empty or all of it.

The word "intrinsic" has a meaning.

As a self proclaimed computer scientist - professor actually IIRC - you should have had Pascal once in university: and know what the word intrinsic actually means.

Comment Re:He is largely correct (Score 1) 93

No, I do not need to understand them.

They are hypothetical curves useful to teach some basics.

They do not happen in real live, and I am not in a business, where it would matter, if they happen or not.

Fact is: Germany has an oversupply of empty flats.
And Germany is in an housing crisis, because people need houses/flats and get them: by government aid. But can not get them on the market.

The market that should adjust "supply and demand" is not happening.

Comment Re: My car registered 125F briefly in Las Vegas (Score 1) 123

Point is: there are plenty of units that do not make noise.

So pointing to some that do, for an argument, makes no sense.

The technical term for these is "fucking useless ACs", very good at emptying your bank account and little more.
Well, as I said. I have no clue about the,. But tech sites like heise.de recommend them highly.

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