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WCDT strips 3951-3955 (4th to 8th March 2019)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Geographus on 08 Mar 2019, 00:46 ---I still find it interesting that in the US roller shutters are apparently not a common thing in residential buildings.
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I'm guessing that you mean roller blinds? When I hear 'roller shutters', I think of segmented metal gates that you roll up and down in front of shop fronts.
Geographus:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Mar 2019, 03:14 ---
--- Quote from: Geographus on 08 Mar 2019, 00:46 ---I still find it interesting that in the US roller shutters are apparently not a common thing in residential buildings.
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I'm guessing that you mean roller blinds? When I hear 'roller shutters', I think of segmented metal gates that you roll up and down in front of shop fronts.
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I mean something like this:
They are basically on every residential house in Germany with very few exceptions.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 07 Mar 2019, 10:26 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 07 Mar 2019, 08:43 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 07 Mar 2019, 07:58 ---{SNIP}
*One function of a free press is to make maintaining ultra-secrecy difficult.
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Is that why the biggest names in news work for corporations owned by billionaires, then?
(Hint: yes)
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Exactly. Our press isn't as free as it ought to be. There are piss few real journalists left, and nearly all US broadcast news organizations are no longer free standing but have been absorbed by the networks' entertainment divisions.
The functions of a free press remain, even if the nation's press fails to fulfill some or all of them.
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And, of course, all alternative news sources gets generally looked down upon regardless of quality or how many reputable sources they cite.
--- Quote from: Geographus on 08 Mar 2019, 03:18 ---{snip}
I mean something like this:
They are basically on every residential house in Germany with very few exceptions.
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Neat!
Though I imagine maintenance is an issue for some folks.
Cornelius:
Well, unless you have the old fashioned wooden kind, maintenance is limited to washing them, once in a while. In my house, I've still got the same ones that were put in in the early sixties, without any issue. I'll be upgrading them next month, though, as I'm upgrading the windows to double glazing.
Case:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 08 Mar 2019, 03:41 ---Neat!
Though I imagine maintenance is an issue for some folks.
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In many older models, the shutters are rolled onto a spindle in a cavity in the wall above the window that opens to the inside of the room, so you may have to cut through wallpaper if you want to open the access-hatch. But there's also models that you can attach from the outside.
https://www.energie-experten.org/bauen-und-sanieren/fenster/rollladen.html#c19193
But they're rather robust - my parents' place was built in 1976 and some of the original ones are still in.
They help a bit with nocturnal thermal insulation, when the temperature gradient between outside and inside is greatest, and also a bit with burglary-preventiion: It's pretty hard to get through one of those without waking the whole street.
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