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It's unclear to me why there needs to be any biometric information at all, on an ID card for use in a modern country like Germany. A chip-and-pin card with a ID number on it and your name (the latter simply so that you don't mix
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It seems like there should be a way to build these in a safe way. For example, angling the ceiling of the compartment as well as where the ceiling of the building meets the compartment should offer quite a lot more safety: http:/
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It appears that all his calculations in the article are done without subsidies factored in.
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I read a lot of posts like this where someone makes a mistake (stupid or not) and ends up in a jail cell for extended periods of time. Aside from the notoriously inhuman behavior of US border security (I'm an American and am treated b
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If the robots are all the same, why are the aussie's robots so much faster? Do they take more of a risk on balance?
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Apparently we'd be without scorpion antivenin! The mailing of scorpions is limited by the restrictions in 18 U.S.C. 1716. Under this limitation, scorpions are mailable only when sent for the purposes of medical research use or the man
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Keezel Brings VPN Internet to All Travelers
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But what is the rationale behind suggesting in minimum wage? It's not 'more pay'... it's something like reducing poverty, 'fairness', a moral belief that people should not suffer, etc. The answer "Laws re
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Watching economists claim to be amoral is amusing when they so transparently have moral beliefs they refuse to acknowledge. Valuing unregulated markets over other priorities is a moral philosophy, one that is meaningless since there is no s
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This is a very valid point, not just for motorcyclists but also for cars. Grip in cold conditions is important, and there are also interesting tradeoffs between noise, tire wear, and traction.
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Meet Keezel: A portable WiFi vpn router that works with all your devices
(indiegogo.com)
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> Of course the Model S can be road-tripped. Whether it can be accomplished with the sort of ease we assume buyers of a $140,000 luxury sedan expect, well, that depends on your planning. On the other hand he paid $0 for energy, which wou
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I know nothing about this, but I would imagine that this gearbox would need to be made out of some other-worldly material in order to cope with the force necessary to drive it in reverse
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There should be emergency exit hatches at the top of the bus that can be opened...
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This is only for the transition period from 2016 to 2017, when there will be no roaming fees.
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I'd highly recommend you get in tough with GreenPeace as they're pretty active in this space, not only in pressuring organizations to use sustainable palm oil, but also pushing the RSPO to improve themselves and holding it accoun
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The deforestation has to stop, I've traveled in Indonesia both personally and professionally and have seen the devastation that illegal (but government tolerated) deforestation causes. At the same time abandoning palm oil is both extre
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Complaining about domestic supply is a legitimate complaint. Clearly asking for permission to solve a supply problem by importing foreign labor would mean 1) that you would have to pay the same rates as domestic employees in that function
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I shaved for at least two weeks each with Timor, Astra, Derby, Feather & Merkur blades. Everybody has a different experience, but I wasn't happy with Timor or Astra. Derby does the job, but I settled on Merkur and Feather (they&#
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Whoa, nostalgia flashback: most of the school libraries in my area had a phone-net setup, they looked like this: http://www.oldmac.de/uploads/images/netzwerk/netzwerk03.jpg I had an injury in high school that
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Not at a busy train station in Holland. 200+ bikes are removed per day at Amsterdam's central train station for being parked outside of the designated bicycle parking areas (e.g. sidewalks, bridges, alongside the walls of the station
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There are some perspective's that think that having the Greece in a crisis (but not a collapse) is also very useful for countries like Germany because it weakens the Euro which strengthens their exports.
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Even with high-profile, high-fear factor, violent events we're highly selective about what we freak out about. Last year a military installation shot down a commercial airplane, killing nearly 300 people. No military solution calle
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Note that my argument is based on an international perspective. Within a country a voluntary wealth transfer is a great way to solve poverty IMHO. If one person can solve the whole county's subjective poverty problem, wonderful! The
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This is what I came here to say. Poverty is a resource allocation problem that is judged relatively. As living standards increase, the subjective 'poverty' perception also moves. The inverse is also true: when living standards
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I also never really understood the 'throw it away' (or stealing) mentality. If you forget to pull your laptop or iPad out of your bag, they lecture you and run it through again. If you leave a small pocketknife on your keyring,
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I don't think that the issue is that people are opposed to a police force to gather and use using data effectively to protect it's own citizens. It's when they use a foreign agency to make and end-run around their own laws t
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This is an incredible position to take. People can complain equally endlessly about physical ailments as they can mental ones, all of your questions apply there as well. This does not mean that we should just throw our hands in the air at
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A family member has suffered for a long time with a mental disorder that included major depression and even a serious suicide attempt. For a large part of her life therapy was drug-focused. It was very difficult to achieve consistency, bo
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We tried this where I worked (with the exception of the evil desktop app financial program)... and had to retract after a zero day defacement in one of our web apps. In the meantime we also learned that keeping all of your web apps 100% up
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