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Slovenian language has the word "miljarda" - milliard in place of US "billion". That always made me so confused when I was a kid and learning English - why does "miljon" correspond with "million", but "miljarda" doesn't correspond to "milliard" 
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Same here: knowing what a "miliardo" and "bilione" are and then hearing a very different definition in English was a bit confusing.
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Slovenian language has the word "miljarda" - milliard in place of US "billion". That always made me so confused when I was a kid and learning English - why does "miljon" correspond with "million", but "miljarda" doesn't correspond to "milliard"
"Miljarda" does correspond to "milliard" in those places where "milliard" is used at all.
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Very good primer on Strauss-Howe starting at 17:00.
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I'm sorry, but if you're paying $15 for a Bud, anywhere, you have a problem, and need a 12-step recovery program.
If you're paying $7 for water, you must be thirsty.
I suppose the security theater at the gates is banning liquids, so the vendors naturally are taking advantage of the situation.
If you're paying $7 for water, you must be thirsty.
I suppose the security theater at the gates is banning liquids, so the vendors naturally are taking advantage of the situation.
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Right now at 01:27 (UTC -3), the antenna 63 of the DSN is downloading data from Voyager 1.
The probe bless the transmission.
The probe bless the transmission.
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A cup of water is worthless near a faucet, and worth as much as you want to charge in the desert.
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We had a massive train crash in southern Germany this morning, with four deaths, 15 with massive injuries and 40 with serious injuries. Over 100 passengers had been injured. Two regional trains by the same private operator crashed frontally on a single-track railway between Bad Aibling and Rosenheim, in the state of Bavaria.
Technically, this should have been impossible, since after a similar accident on a single-track railway near Magdeburg, all such railways should have been equipped with the German automatic train protection system PZB.
EDIT: Now the casualties increased to 8 deaths.
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9 deaths now, press conference going on.
Seems like a deviation from the regular schedule contributed to the accident, the trains had been supposed to meet in the train station Kolbermoor. The track was equipped with ATP, which should have stopped a train on passing a red signal. The collision happened in a turn with poor visibility where 100 km/h was allowed, it is assumed that both trains collided without warning for the driver and without time to brake at full allowed speed each.
Because of the confined terrain at the accident site, rescuers have to use boats for reaching the place, helicopters can't land directly near the train wreck and have to winch victims on-board. 500 firefighters, medics and technical emergency service (THW)volunteers are deployed. The two trains are really merged into one wreck.
(Only) 150 people had been sitting the the trains (only because its carnival in Germany right now and less people had been commuting to work as usual), 2 persons are still missing. Two of three black boxes have been secured. The Bavarian state police is asking for blood donations because of the high number of serious injuries.
In one of the trains, an apprentice train driver and an instructor had been in the cab.
EDIT: Looks like the cause was human error, the train dispatcher did disable the automatic signalling system for letting a train with delay pass, accidentally clearing the way for both trains on both ends of the one-track railroad.
Technically, this should have been impossible, since after a similar accident on a single-track railway near Magdeburg, all such railways should have been equipped with the German automatic train protection system PZB.
EDIT: Now the casualties increased to 8 deaths.
---------- Post added at 01:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:55 AM ----------
9 deaths now, press conference going on.
Seems like a deviation from the regular schedule contributed to the accident, the trains had been supposed to meet in the train station Kolbermoor. The track was equipped with ATP, which should have stopped a train on passing a red signal. The collision happened in a turn with poor visibility where 100 km/h was allowed, it is assumed that both trains collided without warning for the driver and without time to brake at full allowed speed each.
Because of the confined terrain at the accident site, rescuers have to use boats for reaching the place, helicopters can't land directly near the train wreck and have to winch victims on-board. 500 firefighters, medics and technical emergency service (THW)volunteers are deployed. The two trains are really merged into one wreck.
(Only) 150 people had been sitting the the trains (only because its carnival in Germany right now and less people had been commuting to work as usual), 2 persons are still missing. Two of three black boxes have been secured. The Bavarian state police is asking for blood donations because of the high number of serious injuries.
In one of the trains, an apprentice train driver and an instructor had been in the cab.
EDIT: Looks like the cause was human error, the train dispatcher did disable the automatic signalling system for letting a train with delay pass, accidentally clearing the way for both trains on both ends of the one-track railroad.
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My sincere condolences for this tragedy, in my country we had a serious train accident and I was able to see and learn from the media of these tragedies. Inertia and speed of the trains really scares me.
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I think I have found my dream car.... that has style... feels like Evil Genius.
http://bilenkin.ru/landing/
http://bilenkin.ru/landing/
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Kinda cool looking. Almost like an Aston-Martin and a Studebaker had a drunken fling in a broom closet.
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Well, it is based on the last-generation BMW 3 series coupé.
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Desk rearangement:
IRC client, huh? That's oldschool :thumbup:
Nice sculpture BTW
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