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by ptaipale 10y ago
The U.S. gave substantial help to everyone in Europe, not just Germans. The Soviet occupation zone, as well as Finland and Yugoslavia, would have none of it, because U.S.S.R. was hostile to it. The largest recipients of Marshall Plan aid w
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Right, thanks. In this case I can't tell difference between parody and the actual statements by DPRK News.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
> People from Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, Afghanistan, Tibet, Venezuela -- they're just regular folks like you and me Of course. However, the environment where they live may not be so regular. Of course it often surprises you
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I don't find NCIS life-like or realistic at all. Particularly any of the plot lines related to computer technology. It's obviously a show, not depiction of realistic forensics or data mining procedures - starting from roles of pe
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Media has its own image of things, yes. I've verified that in many places where what you see on the ground is substantially different from what you see on CNN. But so does this piece, when it is referring to the U.S. armed forces: &qu
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Natural gas is mostly fossil, but in my country (Finland), where total gas consumption is 26 TWh per year, the capacity for bio-generated gas (mostly from waste, e.g. processing of sewer waste) was 350 GWh a couple of years ago and is growi
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Technically, nuclear is easily adjustable. Operators typically want to run nuclear at full capacity because the construction investment is a dominant part in the cost structure, i.e. you save very little of the cost if you produce less elec
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by ptaipale 10y ago
EU is an extremely weak political construction if the change of president in one member country, via democratic election and staying in democratic system, nullifies the whole union. A democratic political union must be based on stronger fou
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I would say it is significant but not disaster. For some sources, look at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-w... AFAIK, in terms of number of birds, house cats kill about 1000 times as many bir
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by ptaipale 10y ago
UK is not dependent on Russian gas. There's some, but not dominant. https://www.britishgas.co.uk/the-source/our-world-of-energy/... - 45 % is from UK production - 17 % is from LNG tankers (much of that is fro
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by ptaipale 10y ago
This might be so, but I don't see it primarily as a problem with Google. I see it as a problem with the European Union, which is too much about French policies and politics and way of political operation. Perhaps electing Le Pen might
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by ptaipale 10y ago
At this point it may be appropriate to remind of the ortographical reform proposal for English, attributed to Mark Twain (though probably not really written by him). http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/twain.htm
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by ptaipale 10y ago
There are lots of other things that have much higher chance of causing cancer. Almost everything is carcinogenic, so if you start living by that argument, Roundup is not high on the list at all. For instance, drinking beer or wine. Alco
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by ptaipale 10y ago
The numbers seem to be very unreliable, though. Over here (Finland), reputable sources (such as WWF and State Statistics Center) give drastically different numbers for aviation emissions. A reason could be that in some statistics, only dome
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Though if you really wanted, you could provide contraception without providing abortion services (it's a policy that these two are often combined, not logistical or economic or any other necessity.)
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Or Wikipedia, which has similar numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Sweden Note that this is the production. Consumption is a bit different because Nordic countries share the electricity market
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by ptaipale 10y ago
This is not so relevant for modern agriculture, but my family still has the Valmet 361D tractor my father bought in 1963. It runs as good as ever. The diesel engine needed to have the cylinder tubes replaced some 30 years ago, and other mec
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I don't know what is your basis for that claim. Looking at actual figures for different places where I live (Finland, which has many places with very good public transport options) shows that people who come by car spend substantially
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Homelessness is not a root cause for things; it is one symptom of fundamental problems that people have. Other symptoms include aggressiveness and unpredictability. These other symptoms may also be at least a partial reason why the people a
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by ptaipale 10y ago
But slightly more and more in name only, with Beijing controlling it more, politically.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
This is not a very good way to look at things, because a place without any law and order would be "safe" by these standards. If rape is not illegal, women being raped is allowed. If murder is not illegal, people being stabbed or s
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Exactly. Of course the markets only factor in what they understand, and sometimes they get it wrong. But the relevant thing about it is that the market is betting in the real, hard money it trades with, not political punditry which is where
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by ptaipale 10y ago
It's far from clear that UK leaving EU is any kind of disaster. I'm not from the UK but am in the EU, and I was hoping the Remain side would win the referendum. But I don't see UK leaving as a disaster, either, and after the
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Guys get those threats and abuse as well, they're just not worth a gender-specific headline because they're guys.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Indeed. I think the "real journalist" should be dropped: everyone needs to have the right and the protection to be able to do that job. Then, the "real journalist" could be just a matter of having capability, devotion
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Everyone needs the freedom to investigate, too.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I could live with the Samsung software customizations (I've been able to switch to use the generic Google apps without much trouble). The real pain was their PC software, Kies, which was so bad it made Nokia PC Suite look good. Fortuna
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by ptaipale 10y ago
That happens. I had a colleague (here in Finland) who in the 1990's happily and regularly e-mailed English colleagues with a greeting "Hello gays" instead of "guys". The English, not surprisingly, never corrected h
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I've just seen what some Greeks wrote about losing their livelihood and then emigrating, but recent statistics are hard to come by. I would think that the overall tourism in Greece is alive and well (particularly with EU tourism to co
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by ptaipale 10y ago
That's still quite selective immigration. The cost and visa requirements of travelling to NZ (legally) before immigrating to Australia from there is already a factor that changes the migration pattern completely.

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