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  1. The problem with e-cigs are the missing laws. Cigarettes can harm others. E-cigs are not researched fully. There is no law which forces a manufacturer to print the contents and the concentration of the liquids on the box. Medium nicotin concentration and vanilla aroma just says nothing. What is medium, how much of the liquid is inhaled, how much gets into the air? Which aroma is used, does it chemical change at higher temperature.... As long a weak concentration liquid can have more nicotin than a strong one, how will you know that you actually really reduce your nicotin consume. Is it allowed at your place to smoke e-cigs at public places? Here Schools don't allow them, bus and short distance train don't allow, my wife doesn't tolerate them in our house,.. Is there a technical savety control for the mechanism? Two weaks ago newspaper wrote about an exploding ecig.
  2. E-cigs are less unhealthy than cigs. But would you allow your kids to smoke e-cigs?
  3. But to make the set working the sigls can be in any of the 4 slots. It doesnT have to be the active slot. In my acrive slot I put the most powerful sigils of any type: covering poison, fire and magic. The ca-range shield has cold already. Late game when you have to kill more and more to climb a level I had spell-reflection in all of my three. The lowest sigil set I was using had level 31. An ice mage with full ca-range icestorms is fun too, same for a celestial seraphim.
  4. Please use the correct writing of Mallorca. It may be Mallorca for catalan, dutch and german, for english it is Majorca !!!!!! However this is darkmatters and Mal(bad)-Orca (female orc) is an island in Sacred1 where you get nice sunglasses Three wheeled bicycles with a lying postion are so much saver than a normal bicycle. Given that your legs are a natural crumple zone Less likely to fall, if falling way less height, ...
  5. I think if they would become widely accepted prices could drop to the half and more sizes possible. Currently we prefer icehockey helmets for our younger kids: Plastic foam helmets are for a single hard impact. Kids don't know and don't tell if they hit the helmet while playing so it is useless for a future hard impact. Plastic foam helmets are often long, with a lot of openings which may trap and break a kids head if it gets hooked by a branch, A slide/shoot at at a sandbox,.. Kids may try to trigger the airbag helmet for fun,... I can see a use for the airbag helmet cycling in a city. Less possible accident scenarios so easier to program the trigger. My wife as a doc considered it as useful for older people forced to climb staircases while having a disease like parkinson/epilepsy. May need recoding the trigger chip. We had a bicycle helmet discussion one year ago: http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?/topic/20476-bicycle-helmets/
  6. You can buy it in germany for 399euro. We discussed it in our family. The problems we couldn't solve: It is discussed that bicyle drivers should wear helmets. If it becmes a law, will we always be stopped because police doesn't recognize it as a helmet? Is there any protection if the first hit is against the head without any braking befor? Low branch scenario When will the sensors trigger? If they trigger to easily it will be dangerous, too late and they are of no use. We have 2 stepped tandems and one normal. At he stepped tandems the heads are really close together,any riscs if the bags trigger? ... http://sevenleagueboots.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/pinotta400.jpg
  7. CM-patch: Try a max CA-range build (Faladal set, sigil set, nlovae staff, ice shield = 70% more at level 140) with expulse magic and ice storms- Slowed enemies trying to run away and can't escape the big radius of an ice storm. Warning use a mod to reduce graphics and noise of the ice storms.
  8. Sauerkraut the Powerkraut !!! Did you know that milk acid bacteria ferment the Sauerkraut? These bacteria produce vitamin B12 which is too low in only vegan food. Also the bacteria in the digesting system are destroyed by the antibiotics and eating Sauerkraut is one way to put them back. Use selfmade or fresh Sauerkraut. Tastes better than yoghurt or whatever your doc said to eat to get the bacteria back into the digesting system. Probably stomach pain was because of too low on bacteria and digesting problems, or lactose intolerant and eating too much yoghurt Sauerkraut: everything what helped our ancestors to survive our mid german weather can't be bad Sauerkraut the Powerkraut !!!
  9. 32C outside in shadows, 17C at work. No air control, just 13m below surface at work today. All german digging holes at the beach.... You never noticed that all the aliens always attack the USA and never Mal-Orca? The reason is because we germans camouflage our beaches as moon craters. http://www.wir-in-laboe.de/Sandburgen.jpg-for-web-large.jpg
  10. Heatwave: Does this mean all dutch are fleeing for some fresh air or does it mean that you stay? I did my driving license decades ago in my summer breaks. The driving teacher said: you can forget all and everything, but remember: 'Schwarze Schrift auf gelbem Grund: Halte Abstand, bleib gesund !' 'Black writing on yellow ground: keep distance, stay healthy!' The reason: One with a yellow/black car sign with a trailer tried to overtake another with a yellow black car sign with a trailer who tried to overtake a truck. Autobahn got from 3 to 2 tracks because of a bridge and heavy sideways blowed the first trailer in a way that it zic-zaced using all tracks. Nearby Autobahn-bridge crossing a valley. There are electric traffic signs doing speed limits at fog and rain. Also wind indicators visible from a long distance. If the windsocks are horizontal slowing down may be wise. I really thought that there would be dutch cars without a hook for a trailer, but I was wrong. They are even on Lamborghinis.
  11. There was a bomb explosion today, possible reason : Heat. 3 Weeks without rain and 28+ Celcius. Out of nowhere an old WW2 bomb below a field in Giessen exploded. Noone hurt it seems. The crater is 13m. It is the 7th bomb in a 30 mile circle which exploded without anybody forcing it in the last 5 years. Seems the fuses rot with time (70 years) and start to explode from allone. Most not exploded bombs are found on target pictures and then searched. But sometimes bombers got damaged and dropped the bombs in emergency.
  12. Newest math toy for photography is the free math software octave with its image package. A picture is just a very big matrix at all which you multiply, add, substract divide ,.... This was the result our 14 year old got when I explained how mathematically sharpening would work. I am still the opinion that maths are a lot more fun if you see the results in real life. The Leiterwagen (ladder wagon) was used for a long time in our area. Mainly cows used for pulling it, so ladders were used as side wands to save weight. Ladders when to transport hay, stray Canvas in between the ladders for corn Ladders removed to transport wooden poles and trunks, secured with chains Found the Leiterwagen when visiting my mother this sunday morning. Have to ask the owner if we can get it for our historical village museum.
  13. http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?/topic/14998-kinda-stuck-with-sacred-2/?hl=trautmann&do=findComment&comment=6887324 We talked about him in the above thread. He was the hero of my daughter who played goalie too. Trautmann got the highest civil medals in both: UK and germany. He was POW in england and hated when he first played in the english league. 639 games later, aged 41 now, the same honored him by removing the goals in was in. No other goalie was considered good enough to stand between them . Hall of fame in UK and in germany, honored by the queen for improving the english/german relations better than thousands of diplomats could have done. Most known to win the cup final even his neck was broken 15 minutes before end. It was at a time replacement plyers weren't allowed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Trautmann Farewell...
  14. Boring car: The car is tornado-red. With some black plastic film and a set of other frontlights you can make it look a lot better for just 200-300 euro. One problem is her size. A golf will automaically turn from a 4 seater to a 2+2 seater with the front seats as much back as possible. The normal Caddy is mainly bought by young families, not old people. She drove an Unimog on farm roads since she was 12, she drove a light weight car last year, limited to 60km/h. So not much fear that shecan't drive. if the Tramper is claimed as a camper with a speed limit: a lot of the high insurance costs for starter drivers can be saved. She will be 10 of the next 12 month in france, so the speed limit isn't that painful. A new car would have been for my wife, freeing her current car for the daughter. A new car would have made sense because she is a countryside doc and would drive it for several years. But with the extras she wants, the waiting time is about 8 month.
  15. It is like: for healthy persons the radius of 95% of the population is below 15mm- a 5% chance for a false posotive With aids the radius would be 5mm because of weakened immun system With diabetis it is 10mm Contact with tbc people, or been in a country with tb changes tne probabilty graph and therefor the radius for the 5% false positives. 2 in hundred here have cow tb from drinking milk. Mainly peope born before 1965 when the last case of cow tb was in germany. I temember the signs nailed to stalls when is was a kid: cows free of tbc and Brucellosis.
  16. .75 inches that is more than the 15mm allowed for people with no known risc factors, could still be a false positve, but with a very low positive Below 5mm it is considered a negative test. Between 5 and 15mm it has to be interpreted from the data of your interview and is Maths and probability depending on your risc factors. If I would do the to the test now and get 7mm all is okay. If my wife would have 7mm it would be considered a positive test because she is in a risc group as a doctor. The positive test is just that better (more expensive) tests have to be run to exclude tbc.
  17. The main problem is that she will be one year at france. So borrowing a car could be for longer than just a trip to next town
  18. Her birthday was at wriiten tests at university. So we did the celebration when she visited after the last test. She showed us what she learned and did her own hessian chain saw massacre http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?/topic/20624-hessian-chain-saw-massacre/ Just she drilled a hole instead using the chainsaw:
  19. Mywife is with the kids at her parents today, but what you describe sounds like a Mendel-Mantoux test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantoux_test Normally the test is followed by an intervie about trips to foreign countries, already doing a tbc test earlier in your life, possible reasons for a bad immune system, possible contact to coughing foreigners,known infections in the family,age, weight,...then a formula is used which radius of the test has to be considered as a possible infection. My wife trained the test with me when she did her exam. Most positive results at her patients are old people who got the infection in the war years, the bacteria slept, and now with age their immun system is weaker and tpc pops up again. For a healthy person, doing the first test, no known contacts to ill people: I had a small red swelling of 3millimetres which was considered okay.
  20. Hmm, luckily my daughter is a girl. There is the rumour that boys are fixated for lifetime to the type of cars which is close to their first or the first they wanted. Maybe something true about it: I bought back my first car after 20 years. It still existed but needed a lot of work. The car was born in a time of no-electronics and when germany was still recovering from the war: small, robust, light. It had just the stuff in it which was absolutly necessary: engine, brakes, seat, stearing wheel, ... The car could outrun a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Corvette, Thunderbird, Dodge Charger, .... Well I could do it at least on the road I was doing every day from home to the girlfriend I had at that time. A small and windy road following a line around the small mountains. It had no straits where a sportcar could use its speed. My car had 1400pounds weight, 110hp, engine in the rear, the engine cover was often lifted a bit for better cooling and work as a rear spoiler, ... Our daughter did savety training in my multicolour NSU Prinz on a race track for a weekend last summer. 1 Month later she was winning a slalom race for amateur 17 year olds. Because the car I said, natural born driver she said. Her grandgrandfather (from her mothers side) was state champion in bike races and her uncle does rallye sport and her mother was the monkey in the sidecar at sidecar races. She could use the car if she wants, but it is not practical: only a small cargo room in the front, rear seats removed and a savety race cage in the cabin. The last person owning it did historical hill climb races with the car. I don't know how used you are to car slalom races in america, seems the quarter mile is more popular there. Auto-slalom is a lot of fun and quite save because of relative low speed. Even the first NSU Prinz were build in the fifties, there are not much cars which could beat them in a car slalom, specially in a short radius slalom. Will buy the Tramper in evening.
  21. No, you can even sit in a wheelchair. But insurance wants that chief is informed about handicaps or illnesses. The chief is responsible to prevent people with asthma using breathing systems at chemical burns and such. Why should a girl in a wheelchair be disallowed, if she is better than anyone else to do telephon and radio duty? A 70 year old is psychical better fitted in collecting bodyparts than a 18 year old, ... Physical fitness: Normally we do some tournaments with other departments and the will to win is enough to train for it Paid firefighters you must be able to jump from stand with 5 jumps covering 12 metres (I can still do 13.50m, just a question of keeping the speed) , swimming patch in silver (I have gold in repetition, thanks under water rugby), ...
  22. The old Volkswagen T4 Van started with 55hp, 70 hp, 90 hp, 110hp, 150hp. The least fuel consumption was at 90hp. Less hp and you had to do too much throttle, more horsepower and the engine was too big. Yeti, imaginating that you get the Tramper for 7000 and still have 16000 left for a new car for my wife. So our daughter could use the Tramper while the practical year at france and the Lupo my wife has now for city traffic and autobahn transfer to home when she does the theory part of the studies. The Tramper has 88000km. The next main full check with replacing main parts is at 140000. The exspected price for the car would be 9500 if using the used car catalog, which doesn't include the extras: heatable mirrors, fog lights, rear drive camera, seat heating,... We discussed the options with our daughter, I am no dictator But she also knows that a good shape 4x4 Minivan is rare and you have to buy quickly, means till end of week. If she wouldn't do forest economy and arboristic, something like a Lupo or Polo would be best. But she could claim the Tramper as a camper with a speed limit of 100 while the year in france. So the insurance costs would be significantly lower than for a beginner driver and a street car. Topgear 150 mph. I got a BMW GT from my company to save time compared to flying (working with explosives is a lot of paperwork at checkin to bypass controls). What I liked most is the head-up display which can show a virtual full stop line. At 200km/h this line is already quite a bit away, and the car has inside cooled ceramic brake discs. Now with a feeling for the braking distances I do only speed permanently in the headup. What I dislike at Top Gear are there strange tests. A Bugatti vs Porsche but totally ignoring where the Porsche shines: less wide, less weight, so overtaking on a small countryroad is a lot easier. I would never buy a car for a better top speed. Accelerating from 60km/h to 100km/h is more important for me. It allows to overtake a tractor or slow truck in the range of view at a curvy country road. Most accidents at our place are because people are from outside and not used to the roads. They do an overtaking when there is just not enough line of sight to see opposite traffic yet far away.
  23. Yeti 4x4 starts at 23350 Duster 4x4 at 15500 Both have the problem that they arebought mainly by young families who won't sell it after just 2-3 years. So second hand I found none. Buying new there is some waiting and the above prices. Citroen Berlingo 4x4 is at a dealer, new for 18000. But it is a 2 seater cargo variant with no windows at the sides in the rear. What is never in the advertisments: the low fuel consumption of the basis versions is for a near empty car. With a loaded car the basis engine often is too small, you need more throttle , so more fuel.
  24. Melee elves when fighting melee reflectors. Melee reflection is most often a buff - example(hedgehog-like turtles. Removing thebuff is lessdanger to dying on own attack. Melee elves were my first characters and the reason gogo asked me to join this forum Edit: reflected damage by monsters was down-tuned in I&B I think, less instant deaths. My elf did 134000 damage at 31000jitpoints.
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