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Don't know how it is nowadays, but if I recall well, it was from 8:00 to 13:30 and 15:00 to 17:00 every day when I attended primary school. Plus homework time. You may think it's a reaaaaally long work day, and you're right, it is. It is thought like this because parents tend to spend at work between 8:00-9:00 to 17:00 or 18:00; because many companies stupidly give 2 HOURS to their employees to have lunch (and if there is time, some siesta). I find that insane, especially after having worked in Germany, and I hated it when I worked full time before moving to Germany. You basically spend your day at work. In winter, you clock in when it's dark, clock off when its dark. Without a shadow of doubt, this kind of timing has a lot to do with the Spanish productivity. I didn't get into that topic before because it's been around 10 years I finished my secondary education and I don't really know as a matter of fact anymore how many homework time kids have. But it felt like a lot way back. I always found the idea of a siesta quite appealing... And at least in rural parts of Germany, people working in shops, banks, medical practices, pharmacies etc do get that aswell. I don't quite see the point in giving homeworks to kids who attend school all day long already. I mean, when shall they play, read, spend time with friends or outside, etc.?

No, a zero, since the marking system is numeric. Failure to even try to compile a program being handed in is an act of either abject stupidity or utter hubris. In either case, a slap between the ears with a two by four is called for. If the program doesn't compile, all that was needed was to ask for help. I had regular office hours through the week and often spent them alone marking papers. OK, I can understand that then.

Or you could say that the british armed forces are still going strong, seventy years later

We do all know that one 'western' country that still murders criminals for reasons of 'justice', don't we? Not to say that Sharia is excusable, but sweep at your own door first.

I don't know how much of the day spanish children spend in school. Here in Germany, it's usually just from 7:45 to 13:00 and sometimes even just till 11:00, so pupils are of course given homework. (As a child, It never really took me longer than half an hour to finish the tasks but as I was always the first to arrive at the pool in the afternoon, it's clear that others spent more than two hours for that stuff.) I definitely stopped doing any homework in year eleven because I didn't see the merits(of course I dropped a bit in Maths, but I could maintain two digit grades on a scale where 15 is best, which was pretty much what I wanted) I hope you don't give them an F... Although I don't understand why your pupils don't just press "compile" by themselves to see if it works...

I can only support that idea. I'd really love to create buildings of my own, but I can't even get my head around blender (too mathematical for my taste, being used to just playing around with shapes in gmax...)

Semis and brick and pebbledash! Oh my! loving it

50%? really? I tend to hover around 4%... Something's terribly wrong with your police officers

In how far is it important? I mean, there's also much too much traffic(at least in my hometown with 3000 inhabitants, there's never any heavy traffic, whereas in CSL, you need four-lane-roads in small villages) If your only goal is to have millions of inhabitants, you can also just create an excel-document that calculates such stuff for you. Have you never built cities in the sandbox as a kid? or dams in small creeks?

@ population numbers: Don't you have an imagination? Do you really need the game to tell you the number of citizens? Can't you just pretend it's higher?

I'm at 10% with happiness in the 80ties and a stagnant population of 40k...

Ahoj, neviem ci si cech ci slovak, ale ak by som robil ceske stavby najradsej by som robil renesancne meske domy ako su v Telči. Inak co sa tyka tej synagogy ta by mala byt v Trnave. O tej v plzni som tiez uvazoval (mal som malo fotomaterialu, plus je to ceska stavba) ale nakoniec som si vybral tuto. Sadly enough, my skills in slovakian are just as limited as the ones I have in czech*, so I had to use google translate. (shame on me!) I do like what you build, though. *Mostly swearwords, food and things like "Pr'isti stanice XY..."

Kostoly a synagógy? Churches and synagogues? (at least the sacral building with the two small towers looks a bit like a shrunk version of Plzen's synagogue)