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Thanks for the link. (They even have an English translation!)

The electricity import situation is worse than I imagined.
Hence the not quite so subtle push for the 6th nuclear r ...

One cultural streak I have only found in Finland this far is a general trust in politicians and leaders. It might be found in other places, but I have not come across it anywhere else.

This thread ...

Saw the movie today and thought it was one of the better screen adaptations (I have read the book). With source material like the graphic novel it had better be. I found the "mundane" portrayal of the ...

Inductive reasoning can not be logically proven in the sense that deductive reasoning where the result logically flows from the premisses can be. It does have the nifty feature of expanding our knowle ...

To be fair (quoted from the end of the article):
The commuters in the blue Kia van pull back into the Park 'N Ride about 75 minutes after leaving Washington.

That business about mother and daughte ...

My brother was offered work at the Olkiluoto construction site. He declined. Reasons: 1) He lives in Helsinki, far beyond a comfortable commute distance. 2) The pay does not adequately compensate for ...

If Friday produces 12 mangos per day from the tree does he "own" the tree? Wht happens with someone better comes along?
Let's say a boatload of stangers arrives on the island with Friday and Robinso ...

The reason that other countries especially Germany and France backing US on this one is that Iran has violated the rules several times.

France and Germany backing the USA is only because France and ...

In the US, teachers get hired, teachers get tenure, and theachers are then hard to get rid of. Teachers recieve unfunded mandates from the federal government and if they don't have tenure they can l ...

agreed. the us educational system is poor. I would suggest that in large part, this is due directly to the state control that exists. A system of vouchers like the netherlands uses that promotes co ...

Has anyone come up with a plausible population size that would be long term sustainable?
I haven't ran into anything definitive. Which isn't surprising considering the difficulty of framing the quest ...

The EU gas problems easy to solve.

Third, bypass Ukraine and bypass Eastern Europe. Conclusion: Raise the price, way up.

Sure,but ... how do you want to transport gas without Poland and Ukraine ...

The Chirac comment was obviously about nuclear weapons (even if neither nukes or Iran were mentioned specifically) but turning it into a "France prepared to nuke Iran!" headline is perverting the mess ...

*snip*The tide is turning. Israel may fire the first shot but we will fire the last, if there is a last. I say mow 'em down like wheat (not the people the regime and those who are foolish enough to ...

I'm missing something here. Russia and Scandinavia are supposed to be COLD in capital letters. -33C is a normal winter cold spell in most of Canada and serious chunks of the Northern US.

What kind ...