At that time, the installation bus was still a European standard (EIB® = European Installation Bus) and later a worldwide standard (KNX® = an abbreviation created from the word "convergence", which stands for uniting the different bus systems to form a uniform standard, and the name "...
I was to late (and to green) that year to try out for the EIB. But the next year, WATCH OUT, boy was I ready and boy did I get schooled to the ways of the EIB "protectors of the badge" (darn call for fire)! So that next year I worked and studied and made sure I had ...
N: an event where something is cooked (usually meat) over an open fire, or physically what you cook on USAGE: “Come on over to my place on Sunday for a bring and braai” –come to my place with something to grill (preferably meat, see below…) “We got together and braaied last...
You know what it is going to say. Krugman’slatest columntalks about how Bob Dole was an old-school conservative, and now the last 20 years of conservativism is a history of serious moral decline from that – standard lefty boilerplate one would expect from Paul Krugman, a lefty political...
I still disagree with your reading of Hussein and the conflict in Iraq, but such is life. "Realpolitik" isn't, and conflict is seldom inevitable. I know there are times when force is required, but my standard for what those times are is high. Clinton's recent "Monica Who?" attacks ...