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by ptaipale 10y ago
I lived in Beijing in 1999-2000. Went to a furniture shop to look for something. I see there a family of 3 choose furniture and point a fairly large sofa. They leave the sofa there and pack themselves in their Mercedes and drive off. Two gu
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by ptaipale 10y ago
It sounds like Paris is regulating to beat a problem that is at least in a a significant part caused by regulation. Paris has very extraordinary tenant protections, even for people who weren't actually tenants and who don't pay th
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by ptaipale 10y ago
This was because of decision made by software, not because of not detecting the cyclist.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
> The idea that the US is improving and other nations have 'stopped' When mentioning improvement, I was referring to homicide and violent crime, not incarceration. In crime statistics, the U.S. improvement is clearly visible
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Yes, but then that helps down in narrowing down the focus in border control. If you are arriving in US and declare "I plan to work as a taxi driver" or "I'm coming as a hotel receptionist", but you lack the appropr
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by ptaipale 10y ago
It's not one or two times when I've seen people take seriously some piece from Onion or equivalents (and then go ranting about Trump or whatever, even after pointing out it was satire, because it could be true).
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by ptaipale 10y ago
But at least they can be started and participated by individual citizens.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
The US has significantly more misdeeds, e.g. ~5 times as many homicides as most West European nations. This is a result of very many things of course. But U.S. is improving, though; 25 years ago the difference was more like 10 times. Some
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I guess this is a sarcastic reference to the "barcodes contain 666" conspiracy theory. http://www.av1611.org/666/barcode.html
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by ptaipale 10y ago
The EU leadership seems to have a problem with that, and is actively working against nations having a national identity, spending tax money to do this. And this is why open borders are becoming increasingly unpopular in Europe.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I don't think the parent said that Paypal is nice and good in Europe. It merely said that they might be under a stricter regulatory control in Europe, so unhappy customers have more tools available to keep them to account. [Edit/
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by ptaipale 10y ago
As a non-US person I must ask, what do you mean by non-immigrant? That's presumably a specific technical meaning, because people who come to live in a country on a visa are, by definition, immigrants. Does it just mean that it is meant
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Well, if the foundation of the house where you live is crumbling, I'm sure you'll admit it's not good.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I wonder where that quote has collected its data. At least in Finland prisoners may be isolated from other prisoners for specific reasons (like waiting until the drug cache comes out of the digestive system the normal way), but not as a pun
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by ptaipale 10y ago
So, it started out as a parody of educational videos, and became an actual educational video? Anyway, I appreciate it. Who said the Germans don't have a sense of humour?
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Well, you spoiled it, but that's it, the tone change from dull German workplace education film to a full Monty-Pythonesque parody creeps in so that you don't really know when it exactly set in.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Kudos to that dealer for being able to admit their shortcomings and then grab a talent when they see one, instead of knee-jerk scorn for a customer showing they didn't know about their stuff.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Yes. However, if your goal is to learn to lift up large masses, learning to operate a forklift is a good thing to do. (I cannot write about a "forklift operator" without asking if you have seen this German "educational"
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Actually, until Napoleonic wars, Sweden was pretty much in a constant state of war. For instance, my great-grandfather in 12th generation (then a Swedish subject in Östprovinsen, now known as Finland) earned himself a little manor house (ta
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by ptaipale 10y ago
The parent mentioned regen and that electric cars are good at it. That means: you don't accelerate infinitely. At some point you decelerate, and then you can regenerate the electric energy. However long you drive uphill, eventually com
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I'm not that worried about 2017, but where Russia is heading in the medium term. But even this year, they seem to be willing to continue to wage war in Ukraine, and with Belarus in turmoil, they may feel they have to send in some tank
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Sweden was bombed by USSR a few times in 1940 and 1944, though.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
My son is now a conscript (Finland has roughly 21 000 at any one time, plus 12 000 professionals in service) and having seen the troops, it looks like the black skins are just as happy or unhappy there as the white skins, if not happier. Th
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I wonder why you'r downvoted, because even if one were to disagree, yours would be a legitimate position civilly expressed. I happen to agree: you can win battles with air power and armored forces, but you can't keep an area witho
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by ptaipale 10y ago
It's not just what the neighbours have. It's what Russia is and has. Do they have a leader who is disconnected from regular life, poses in absurd settings and gets his information from intelligence agencies? Check. Do they have a
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by ptaipale 10y ago
It's not that Sweden or Finland could alone stop Russia from conquering their territory. It's that they would make it costly to achieve, and much, much costlier to maintain.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Conscription is a form of taxation. Many say taxation is slavery, but the argument doesn't hold very well.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Indeed. For driving safety, defroster control is more important than temperature control for cabin.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Changing gears is not a problem for hill starts, you start in 1st gear anyway. Using handbrake to assist hill start could be a problem, but not in Renault 4, where it might actually be more feasible for a passenger to operate the lever:
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by ptaipale 10y ago
If I say I have chest pain, a nurse will assess me and decide if I need to see a doctor. Overall, real, acute emergencies are taken care of quite well. I don't do annual checkups. They say such checkups are not needed. My employer paid

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