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  1. Our daughter will travel France for 8 weeks before university starts. One reason is to get better in the language, the other to get a paper that she has a knowledge in the flora of france. First 2 weeks were the area we did our family vacances last year: Nancy, Avignon, Camargue,... Mainly to drive a known area and learn to know the car, secondary for the beaches at the heat. Following the mediterran Coasts she started today to visit the pyrenees mountains' partly in spain. She met a wandering dutch girl who will travel with her to the atlantic. The fuel consumption seems to be at 6.5l/100km. That are 36.2 mpg(US). She is using an international tank card, so all the costs for fuel, oil, maut and small replacement parts are done from my bank account
  2. Who is Doctor Who? Just looked, it is pay-tv here, so never seen. My favourite SciFy-series is still Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol). What seems like a fairy tale today may be reality tomorrow. Here we have a fairy tale of the day after tomorrow.
  3. I think I should rename the character: Kuno, Ritter des Ordens des lila Schildes --- Kuno, knight of the order of the pink shield Pink, everything is pink.... Level 70 and being in the desert doing the gold campaign. Enemies are level 87. Fights are slow so survival bonus is not low. Not much risc, but everything I find is way too high in level. Level 90 set items in the chest and I can't use them ... I could use a Kanka set with x% life leech, just found the missing boots. Had most of the set from older characters already. But I try to stay away from the Kanka even it is tempting to use it. ... Vade retro satanas!!! I won't use you...
  4. That case would have be illegal 20 years ago. There was a law that all computers at a working place had to be in an eye friendly beige colour: the mac, the amiga, the commodore c64, the IBM PC, ... I am still a fan of nature colours. Call me a dinosaur. If your house is wooden patchwork inside and outside, a shining blackcase disturbs the harmony I need for my creativity
  5. All metal... Here a mainboard has to be In kinda a faraday cage. Electromagnetic waves emitted from the computer have tobe below a certain value, that kinda forbids plastic cages.
  6. chattius

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    Air condition in a car needs a cooling liquid. Old ones destroy the atmosphere. So a new one was approved and 2 US companies hold the patent and are only producers. For all new cars it is the only liquid allowed. A deal of several billion dollars, it is better for environment- everyone agrees. It is save?--- and here the oponions split. Mercedes says in an internal test they got explosions and high toxic acid in a burn. The producer says this cannot happen. Well europe has no speed limit so engines parts can become quite hot, reaching the heat which would cause an explosion if there is a leakage like at an accident. The producers did a new test with a smalll car and no explosion: Mercedes did neutral tests with big cars who drove a distance on the Autobahn and got the temperature needed for an explosion. Why I wrote this.... Got an email with an invitation for a firefighter meeting. Probably to talk about the riscs for firefighters and if the firefighter union should unite to fight for a better solution, like a more expensive but safe CO2 cooling. So if the car involved in an accident has no Mercedes star and is brand new, stay away and watch it burn ?!? Sometimes there is just no time to wear acid and gas resistant gear when arriving. We are not paid and may be called from work or home. In an extreme scenario insurance companies accept that we risc life if there are unknown dangers we couldn't know before. If we get injured or die they pay. But at known riscs all is different... Your whidow may need an lawyer to get money, or has to pay the lawyer and gets less than nothing. Here is the 1234stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene What is not in the english wiki yet: Mercedes did a call back for their new cars even riscing a punishment because they refilled the now iillegal old stuff.
  7. Just remembered a test of a mini-itx in a recent german computer magazine. http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=419 Even the idea of the thing above look real nice, the case is too small for quad core cooling. My wife has such a small thing (other tha nabove) attached to the monitor-back in the room she practices medicine. But I did only low power notebook stuff in. My brother tested a barebone from Shuttle for the Haswell and says the case is big enough to work and small enough to hide. http://www.itproportal.com/2013/07/29/shuttle-sh87r6-preview-potent-haswell-mini-pc/
  8. Blender, illustrator, .... This is IMUO not allone a matter of the CPU anymore. The programs can use CUDA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA In my experience, with a fixed budget, it is often better for the performance for these programs to balance the money more to the graphic card and not to the CPU. The 400 series oF nvidia has 32bit floating point support, so it is nice for maths. But maths are watt eaters, so don't do the case too small. Some of the new board/case combinations are for normal bureau work. The cooling rips of the fan often hit the case top. Lot of noise andvibrations. For gaming, thats only tertiary in my priority lidt, but what isgoodfor maths isnormally good for gaming too.
  9. What is really good, old recipe from my grandgrandma from the alpes. Selfmade spinach-noodles with a sauce of Schmand and finecut boiled ham. Schmand is not really sour cream or creme freche or smetana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smetana_%28dairy_product%29 Works even as a cake: thin yeast dough, covered with Schmand and then fine cut boiled ham (or dried bacon) and spinach and other vegs added. Much like a pizza but our area had no tomatoes or easy access to hard cheese. And this cake is centuries old, even before pizza became popular. For hard cheese you need stomachs from calves. Our caddle was multipurpose for tracking waggons and plows, milk, ... so not much calves slaughtered.
  10. The cake looks like it has to be eaten right away because of the ornaments. I would do a vegs/bacon/cheese cake inside and smear quark around. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(cheese) http://static.chefkoch-cdn.de/ck.de/rezepte/176/176980/290510-960x720-herzhafter-gemuesekuchen-mit-schinken-und-kaese.jpg
  11. It seems to be base weapon damage of the poison type. Same as if a weapon has poison base damage. I don'T know the correct english name of the modifier right away. So correc it in the wiki if you know.
  12. I wonder if I should do an unarmed combat page, or just add unarmed combat to the combat arts which somehow support unarmed combat. For some shield using characters unarmed seems to be an option. Instead a single strike with a weapon they do doublestrikes if having no weapon. My unarmed SW without x% lifeleech is currently in platin at level 60, and I thnk most know the kungfu dryads.
  13. Level 59, gold campaigne finished. Think I have to push armour lore to mastery. I hate when the stuff I loot is too high in level. The character is overly protected, think I have to push a bit more towards offense. But a 66% deathblow is nice. At normal enemies I notice kills with a single CA. Still use the full pandemonium set because of its nice barbarian look. Remembered what I said in a pen and paper roleplay when I was a student. I had a barbarian and I just killed an opponent instead taking any prisoner. The priest in the group said I should be more diplomatic. I asked how, he said I shouldn't kill instantly. I should use increasing force to get what I want. Like doing a wound , ask if he wants to surrender, if no, doing next wound, .... The next battle I was a bit diplomatic, instead doing an instand kill I just cut off the right arm and right leg of my opponent with my twohanded sword in a single strike. He begged that I released him of his pain... If the wounding was diplomatic, why I was called a barbarian...?
  14. Probably there will be a written program. Just to be sure that weddings here have exercises and tests included. When I married our friends removed a wheel from our wooden horse tracked wedding wagon while we were at church. We had to repair the wagon before we could leave the church place. Exercises are often chosen by the family business of the couple. My father in law was a car mechanic and my family were wood workers. So the exercise was chosen to represent both families. The church door was blocked by a big trunk. We had to saw it away using a century old two people saw. The saw thing is very common, it shows the people that you can work together. We married pre-digital so some quick photos from the internet to show Most often people are in clubs, like soccer, firefighters,... The club does a honour guard and places the trunk http://hochzeit-von-yvonne-und-christian.de/Bilder/Bilder_Hochzeit/Saegen.jpg
  15. Gulasch halb und halb, goulash half beef half pork The beef in the string bondage is often filled with minced pork and vegs. The bondage prevents it from falling apart. Picture was pork left and beef right. Pork is normally not filled and cut in stripes to be served with bread at a cold buffet later the night at a party. The roasted beef is eaten right away.
  16. I just did a small list which product probably wouldn't be allowed to be sold undone in the USA: mixed groud meat, mixed goulash, beef burgers in a fatnet from a big, fish in fatnet, Mit Mett gefuellter Rollbraten,... The later would be: http://www.grillsportverein.de/upload_neu/2008/07/5067_braten_auf_grill_2.jpg Hard to do the rope binding if you are not used to it. Most people here buy it prepared.
  17. You can't even sell it if it is prepared ? BARBARIANS!!! It would be a vote for Kanzler loosing thing to change the Wurst or Bier laws in germany Much harder to touch than this gun law in the USA. And raw meat killed not a handful people in the last 30 years. Raw vegs killed hundreds. I know one person who will never travel to america. Our second daughter: It is not allowed to sell beef roulades filled with a Bratwurst there? Thats her favourite and she is too lazy to do it herself.
  18. Our butcher is a truck. Tuesday and friday he is in our village. Supermarkets are like you say. But I like the talking and knowing where the meat is from. Especially if it is raw eaten. If I see him changing plastic gloves, getting a special knife just for the raw stuff, having a below 4 celcius corner in the truck, ...just a way better feeling than this anonymous superstore stuff. Still many old ladies who never did a driving license and who prefer to buy in village, so the butcher is able to survive with this offer.
  19. We don't do these fat contain numbers at the butcher. We more like to say the purpose. Rinderhack would be your 80/20 ground beef. Rind is beef and hack means not so fine cuts, more a hacking like in hack and slay. Schabefleisch from schaben, to abrade/shave, is to use a real sharp knife and cut away real tiny parts. The main use is to eat it raw. The beef needed would be close to your 94/6. Something like steak tartar. Or, a not raw recipe as something like scotish eggs. Schabefleisch mixed with fine cut vegs and boiled eggs rolled in the mix till they have a layer of the mix. Then heated in a oven to harden the wrapping. I think real scotish eggs use a minced pork mix for sausages and then cover it with bread pieces and fry it.
  20. The daughter of my wife's brother is marrying. She asked if our 8 year old would play the entry song on the organ: Amazing Grace In germany there are two translations of the english original. One is close to the original and one by lena Valaitis is a more joyful text, away from the original. The husband is from a lutherian germam/american family. So the question is: will there be problems playing the joyful german version. Here is the german text with a english translation and a link to Lena Balsitis peforming the song. http://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/german-lyrics-translation/79239-lena-valaitis-ein-sch-ner-tag.html
  21. Hackfleisch halb und halb, Mixed ground meat (half pork, half beef) As so many good recipes it was born in afterwar time: extreme dry beef pieces which were cut away when doing a meal with beef, were mixed with too soft pork pieces which were left when doing pork meal. The butchers put this cut aways in a grinder and mixed them. The fat of the pork made the beef pieces more soft and the beef the too soft pork more tasty. The grinded mix was the cheapest you could buy at a butcher. Now everyone is used to this mix here and it is not really cheap anymore.
  22. Nah,october 29th is only national. 2002 the IFAW made the Weltkatzentag, World-cat-day fixed on 8.8.. Since my name Chattius means wildcat everybody should give me a valentine today http://www.cute-calendar.com/event/world-cat-day/6589-world.html
  23. Today is day of the cat. So I toasted with my cat with a cup of milk. Prost, Sk0l, Cheers, ...
  24. I want a CAS, computer algebra system. Just for on the road calculations Like a barrel has a given size, it is placed at this angle, the vertical height of liquid is such, what is the amount of liquid still in. And a barrel is an easy shape.
  25. I just recognized that our oldest took my HP-50g calculator with her when she leftfor one year infrance. So im currently looking for a new calculator.anyone of you still uses them? Or is it just an app on your tablet for most of you? http://www.hpgraphingcalc.org/prime.html I was thinking about buyimg the new HP-prime. Main reason is that I am so used to UPN notation. Thecalculator will probably be used by our 14 year old too. I would give a calculator aay to a friend when doing homeworks togther, but would I hand over a tablet to a classmate? I know TI has a dual solution: calculator togther with an app for tablets and can run on windows. But no UPN. What is your favourite calculator?
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