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Climate change policy is about how we redistribute the world’s wealth.

--Ottmar Edenhoffer

The leading global expert on climate change policy, working for the IPCC, who produced the reports which informed the Paris Agreement drafting committee has been quite outspoken about the actual impact and goals of climate change research.

But one has to be clear: we are effectively redistributing world wealth through climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy.

First Source.

Entertained yet? Is the leading expert on climate change policy who has been employed or advised nearly every major committee or conference enough to constitute "even in the same ballpark as reality?"

Interview.

Google isn't so great at finding German news. Specifically Edenhofer said it. Easier to find this information on bing. Google doesn't bring it up at all.

Elsewhere he has claimed Marxist redistribution in the face of climate change as a mandatory ethical principle has influenced his work as co-chair and recommendations as a climate scientist. He's rather open about the whole process and justifications, but his views never made it to the anglophone news.

If you CHOOSE to address it by other means than global government taking control and doing massive wealth redistribution etc to try to manipulate emissions, ...

But that's what the Paris Agreement, and all the other climate accords, are doing. As Ottmar Edenhoffer (lead author of the IPCC's fourth climate summary, released in 2007) said in 2010 (Google translate), "But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole." It's no longer about climate; it's about bleeding the 'first world' countries for the benefit of the 'third world' countries.

This is an easy pledge to make, if you pay people based on their education and actual years of experience. Why? Because - if you look at it that way - there is no gender pay gap.

All the studies that show a substantial gender pay gap either (a) equate different professions, or (b) compare people based on their ages.

The first of those is obviously flawed, because different professions are, in fact, different. This includes studies that compare average pay in an entire region, because women and men do tend to congregate in different professions. Exactly why women go into lower paying professions is a complex issue, but really, it doesn't matter. All that's important is that women and men both have the choice to do what they like. If a woman wants to become a civil engineer, or a man wants to work in a kindergarden, those doors should be open. If they are, then there is no problem: people can choose a career that suits them.

It's the second type of study that's more insidious: comparing earnings based on age. More women than men take time off, or work part-time, to raise children. Hence, the average (to pick an age) 40 year old woman will have less experience than the average 40 year old man. Some opportunities may be entirely lost: for example, not being available for a high-intensity or high-travel position may make one ineligible for a later promotion. An alternate approach is to compare women with and without children. What a surprise: women without children earn much more than women with children (article is in German).

So it's easy for companies to pledge to pay women the same as men - because they already do.

Vacuum or low pressure air pressure "pneumatic delivery" we have since the 19th century.

Modern concepts for cargo and passengers are:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/...
http://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/ein-...
http://www.trendsderzukunft.de...

Your google foo must be low on you.

and bail-ins.

Swiss newspaper NZZ had this article, recently:
http://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/w...

It's about the cost of taking all of your money out of the bank and store it somewhere else, in cash.

The Swiss Franc, due to its relatively high valuation and large denomination, is apparently even cheaper as a "storage-vehicle" than gold.

Above cost comes into play, when the bank starts to charge negative interest rates for your money.

Instead of paying the bank 2% interest, you could pay somebody else 1% to guard your stack of paper-bills.

As to scientists studying things... yes and they also disagree about stuff. So... that's a wash. The issue is more controversial among scientists than you're admitting. This is especially true of the details. That X or Y does something is generally not in contention. However, the extent, cause, and solutions are highly variable. And suggesting that there is a consensus when everyone knows the 97% study was a farce is not helpful to this discussion.

As to you not considering something until scientists take it seriously... I think I gave you a study that literally said what I just said. So you are now either taking it seriously or you are contradicting yourself. Choose.

As to the various IPCC working groups... remove the second and third working groups and we can talk about science alone. Keep them there and we're going to maintain an element of politics. I mean... listen to these idiots:
""
Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the worldâ(TM)s resources will be negotiated.

        â" Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC Working Group III Chairman
""
  -The New Zurich Times
http://www.nzz.ch/klimapolitik...

Frankly, I'd like to just not talk about the UN because if we do then it is just going to be a lot of political crap because I have a basically endless list of reasons for not feeling comfortable with them as a source. We can talk about any other source... but if you really want to do the whole IPCC thing then I'm going to hammer the politics until you stop it.

Devoid of context this really misleads.

Full interview: http://www.nzz.ch/klimapolitik...

Too bad Liechtenstein just had a rather dramatic murder this week where a fonds manager shot a banker: http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/news... (German), ruining the whole statistic.

That idea has come a bit late (sorry, German language only).
A Swiss company appears already in discussion to provide fabric like it..

True. After great opposition from Army figureheads, you are now allowed to voluntarily deposit your rifle in an armory (more or less) near you.
Unfortunately, most of the affected population won't hear but a very brief mention of this as they get all of their information about their rights (few) and duties (lots, to compensate for the lack of rights) from their superiors. Informational material from critical groups isn't really welcome in the barracks and sentencing anyone passing around flyers to pay a couple hundred bucks or sit in solitary for a few days costs the judge-jury-executioner but a smile.
Going on, you're very reluctant to think of the annual mandatory shooting exercises. Most people do them on weekends, and business hours of armories tend to be rather limited. So apart from all the travel time to retrieve and deposit that hunk of scrap metal again, don't forget to look after it for the rest of the weekend. Oh, and take care not to shoot your buddies on the range parking lot with the (unaccounted for) ammo you picked up there or any of the 3 million bullets (forced upon anybody with a gun, back in the day) whose whereabouts nobody is really sure of.

NZZ Online (German) rough translation: The Federal Administration Court ordered the contract to be stopped, any critical services for the administration itself excluded. The reason was because there was no proper call for tenders.

Here http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/schweiz/aktuell/urheberrecht_fuer_das_internetzeitalter_1.561418.html It is reported that that one can still download music as long as it is for personal use. Can someone show me where it is said there is jail for P2P downloads? I am reading the text of the law and am not seeing it. What is illegal is for me to bypass the region coding that I have on half my DVD's so that I can watch them on my computer.

TV on cell phones is already offered in other parts of the world. Swisscom in Switzerland (link), for example.

So you assume that since US newspapers have crap international sections (except maybe for the New York Times and compared to some other international quality papers like the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung or El Pais its international section is less then stellar) all foreign papers must have incompetent dweebs writing about the US?

This is not only ignorant its also arrogant. Specifically when you are very obviously have no clue about what you're talking.

There is no need to thank me.

You think so? Don't you think it's possible that reputable, foreign newspapers might invest heavily into a global network of local correspondants (PDF, page 6) instead of just re-blabbering the press releases straight out of the white house with all critical thinking skills shut down?

You think so? Don't you think it's possible that reputable, foreign newspapers might invest heavily into a global network of local correspondants (PDF, page 6) instead of just re-blabbering the press releases straight out of the white house with all critical thinking skills shut down?

The fishs translation (which is pretty hillarious in itself) can be found here.

The fishs translation (which is pretty hillarious in itself) can be found here.

> there is no more telecom monopoly here since 7 or 8 years...

Except for the infamous "last mile", of course. I still get a monthly bill from Swisscom for their crummy base service (no CLIP/CLIR, protecting their outdated ISDN infrastructure etc.), even though I use other providers for both POTS and mobile... (can't switch to Cablecom for POTS, unfortunately)

>Thing is it's been possible to buy totally anonymous GSM cards here for ages (8 years or so)

that's no more the case since years (but I can't say since when exactly, not so long, maybe 3 years ago).

Not true. I bought one prepaid card last summer when I canceled my mobile phone subscription, and got a second one with a cheap simlocked SE T100 (my backup phone) in January this year. Never had to give any form of ID or even provide an address for both SIMs.

Legislation regarding the registration of prepaid cards was discussed and almost ratified a few years ago (I'm too lazy to look it up), then taken up again in 2003 (page in German).

Greetings from Zurich,
Raymond

Here is an easier to read summary. More keep appearing on Google news. Try this search. It already brings up a link to a space.com article, and to one in the Los Angeles Times for those of you who have a subscription (I don't).

>[electronic watches] won't last nearly as long: they'll either get wet, simply stop working, or wear out electronically long before a Rolex begins to stop keeping the correct time.

N.B.: Among watch afficionadoes, Rolex is something of a joke, mostly because they don't keep time nearly as well as equivalently-priced watches from less-widely-marketed makers (International Watch Co., Breitling, et al), and partly because of the enormous number of counterfeit Rolexen in the wild.

And, in case anyone's wondering, the original Moon watch is the Omega Speedmaster Professional.

by the swiss NZZ from february (sorry, in german): NZZ According to the article the phone often calls somebody else than you wanted - you want to talk to your friend, you get your boss on the line. Decide for yourself if this is acceptable for a phone :) But do not worry: "It will be fixed with the next software update" (this sentence is mentioned 5 time in the article.. go figure).

Your translation is correct. Hilarious!

This is a translation (without permission) from a blurb in todays Neue Zurcher Zeitung regarding introduction of a new Microsoft Powered cell phone to be introduced by Swisscom.

[...] While Orange integrated their customers into bug hunting, Swisscom is still waiting until the first software update is rolled out.

Currently engineers at Swisscom, Microsoft and HTC (the manufacturer) are trying to determine why the phone doesn't ring on incoming calls[...]

I know, that this is slightly offtopic. But would you trust such a watch to provide the correct time of day?

The Neue Zurcher Zeitung, which features one of the best Media & IT section from any German speaking newspaper tested the MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) capabilities of the 7650 and the Ericsson T68i three weeks ago.

In a nutshell: It sometimes works. But only if the sender and the receiver both have the same phone. If you have the T68i and I send you an MMS from a Nokia you either get gibberish or nothing at all.

If we have the same phones we also better be with the same carrier, otherwise: see above. Regardless of success you're anyway billed 55euro-cents per message.

After WAP and some exorbitantly overpriced UMTS licenses mobile services could see their third Waterloo here by giving up simplicity and standards and bloating those devices with extremely complex and buggy sub systems, for which they weren't designed for in the first place.

The beauty of SMS lies in its simplicity and its standardization (partially basterdized by carriers in the US), which is adhered to throughout the European GSM network. Adding crappy features that nobody wants or needs and that rarely function the carriers and manufacturers do themselves a disservice.

Besides, I don't think that the business user (the one generating the most revenue) is very interested in sending 95KB video clips (or fotos for that matter) around the world. The guy wants a reliable phone, which is connected without hiccups after leaving the plane in Basel, Barcelona or Bangalore.

first of all, they do have the potential to be cross-browser (ie 6 and mozilla). second, thanks to the built-in schema validation for xopus your users cannot even apply "wrong" text styles etc, because you can only apply styles that are pre-defined in the stylesheets.

finally, xopus is arguably more "wysiwyg" than most editors who are nothing more than textareas with some formatting buttons. for instance, the NYT of switzerland, neue zürcher zeitung (nzz) uses xopus to enter articles. journalists see how their articles flow on the page while they are entering it. quite powerful.

hope this helps,

-gregor

Provided that you have the same phone as the receiver (either the Nokia 7650 or the Ericsson T68i) it works most of the time. This again works only, when you are on the same network as the receiver.

Regardless if the message arrives or not and is legible by the receiver you still get to pay ~55 cents for the privilege.

In an article in the German c't magazin you can find an interview with Don Knuth where he talks about a guy in california who cashes his checks on a regular basis (here is Google's attempt at it).
A far better interview can be found at Folio the magazine of the Neue Zuricher Zeitung which can also be translated by Google into something like a beginners version of english.

• The company is small, but has been around for 10 years selling embedded PC's (compact PC modules) used to build ATM, electronic ticketing machines. (Actually, I live about 10 miles away, but have never heard of them.)
  
• Primary markets are Germany and Switzerland.
  
• Swisscom, the dominant Swiss telecom, as an example, uses such embedded PC for their electronic phonebooks in public phone cells, etc.
  
• They don't want to compete with low-end Mini-PC, but see their Microspace-PC as a high-end products, designed and built from scratch in Switzerland. Yes, Made in Switzerland still holds as a unique selling proposition (USP in MBA slang).
  
• They only want to sell 5000 units in the first year, so they don't want to be a big player.
  
• The option to have an embedded smartcard reader is actually something which might distinguish the product from other Mini-PC. Note that especially in Switzerland, almost all people carry an EC-card with them. An EC-card is not a smartcard, but has a little chip that functions like a purse. You can load it via an ATM, and use it to pay withouth cash. The second, and traditional use of the EC-card is to allow cashless payment. The difference to a credit card, is that your bank account is charged on the same day, and no credit card company takes 5% commission.
  
• My guess is, that Digital-Logic will base their marketing efforts on this option to attach a smartcard reader, and sell it to small and medium sizes business. The NZZ article mentions the example of a hotel that offers Internet access whereby the customers can instantly pay via the cash-card.
  

• The company is small, but has been around for 10 years selling embedded PC's (compact PC modules) used to build ATM, electronic ticketing machines. (Actually, I live about 10 miles away, but have never heard of them.)
  
• Primary markets are Germany and Switzerland.
  
• Swisscom, the dominant Swiss telecom, as an example, uses such embedded PC for their electronic phonebooks in public phone cells, etc.
  
• They don't want to compete with low-end Mini-PC, but see their Microspace-PC as a high-end products, designed and built from scratch in Switzerland. Yes, Made in Switzerland still holds as a unique selling proposition (USP in MBA slang).
  
• They only want to sell 5000 units in the first year, so they don't want to be a big player.
  
• The option to have an embedded smartcard reader is actually something which might distinguish the product from other Mini-PC. Note that especially in Switzerland, almost all people carry an EC-card with them. An EC-card is not a smartcard, but has a little chip that functions like a purse. You can load it via an ATM, and use it to pay withouth cash. The second, and traditional use of the EC-card is to allow cashless payment. The difference to a credit card, is that your bank account is charged on the same day, and no credit card company takes 5% commission.
  
• My guess is, that Digital-Logic will base their marketing efforts on this option to attach a smartcard reader, and sell it to small and medium sizes business. The NZZ article mentions the example of a hotel that offers Internet access whereby the customers can instantly pay via the cash-card.