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German online news site Spiegel Online has more details on this:
Heat plant in the car. It uses a high temperature (up to 550 Celsius) circuit using water and a low temperature one using ethanol (alcohol) (operating at 150 Celsius). Both are closed systems.

German online news site Spiegel Online has more details on this:
Heat plant in the car. It uses a high temperature (up to 550 Celsius) circuit using water and a low temperature one using ethanol (alcohol) (operating at 150 Celsius). Both are closed systems.

Spiegel Online has a funny cartoon on Wikipedia by Jamiri.

Yeah, MARSIS finds huge underground ice-reservoirs.
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518 ,387725,00.html
(sorry, german link)

You are, obviously, correct.
Furthermore, as far as this story is concerned, one can even doubt that any correlation has in fact been measured.
The German Spiegel had an article on this a couple of days ago. Two objections were raised against the theory of Taipei 101 causing earthquakes:

-First, it is unlikely that the forces the skyscraper exerts on the ground will reach down to a depth of 10km where earthquakes actually happen (John Vidale, University of California, LA).

-Second, and more to the point the parent made, the period of observation is allegedely much too small to draw any conclusions. Data of earthquakes will have to be analysed over thousands, maybe even millions of years before you can begin to talk about correlations (Unnamed source).

So, if Taipei 101 hasn't been taken down by earthquakes around the year 50 of the 5th Galactic Emperor (1,002,005AD by carbonbiped reckoning), we can repost this story :)

"Actually I don't mind this, I hate hot weather and I've always loved snow. Here in New York, things should be pretty nice, if a bit chilly"

Little chilly eh? All i can picture is when bruce willis goes above ground in 12 monkieys/

infact heres a picture

FEMA did do a study in 2001, concluding that New Orleans was a high risk area for a natural disaster. But for various reasons, (like Iraq) federal funding has been cut significantly.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,372455,00.html

Please explain where local governments were given "tons of money" to address the problems found by the FEMA study you cited, but then spent the money on casinos.

There is only one casino in New Orleans - Harrah's. And they actually pay New Orleans quite a bit of money each year to be the exclusive casino in town.

I live in New Orleans. And nobody here is saying, "If only we fixed the levees with all that money they gave us for the repairs!"

The local levee board is responsible for levee maintenance and they are currently under a lot of scrutiny. But they didn't spend money on casinos (or casino), that was given to them for levee repairs based on a FEMA report. There was no such money.

Your information is lacking details, or just wrong.

ok 1. The EC cannot define criminal offenses only the members can do that. 2. In germany the Supreme Court is currently deciding if the log files of ISPs and carriers can be used at all (apart from investigations into criminal organizations ) if the court decides that all communication logs are specially protected, which is likely ... it doesn't matter what the EC does. german article: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,3865 15,00.html

Looks like her name is Tiina Routamaa. Would like to see her in more movies!!!!! http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9 MTEzNzYmbnI9OQ_3_3,00.html

First of all just because someone makes an accusation about cultural or racial bias doesn't mean they are doing nothing more than "playing the race card". Sometimes the card is called for. I continue to think that in your case it is called for. For example:

But you've got to be pragmatic Iraqis have lived under authoritarian rule for a very long time.

And what exactly would you call Imperial Japan before and during WWII? A commune? Anarchy? No, it was just as authortarian, if not as actively repressive, as Saddam's regime.

And calling you a cultural relativist right after calling you on racial/cultural bias is NOT irrational. My whole point is that "multiculturalism" is a misnomer - and that it is those who profess the loudest about respecting all traditions/races/nations equally that are frequently the worst hand-holders and coddlers. And that in the real world that constitutes damaging bias by creating and enabling dependencies.

I'm not trying to launch an attack and blame everything on the left. Africa, for example, is not where it is today because of the left. But I was attacking a specific leftist tendency to be hyper-idealistic and more concerned with things that SOUND good rather than actually good policies. The leftist attitude of "what about the children" is what leads to foreign aid and debt relief to Africa that hurts more than it helps.

See "For Gods Sake, Please Stop the Aid!" http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spie gel/0,1518,363663,00.html

But to be fair you're absolutely right that another major obstacle to African development are protectionist agricultural subsidies that Europe especially (and America too) refuse to give up. And that's arguably a nationalist (right-wing) policy, not a left-wing policy (althoguh subsidies in general tend to be leftist).

I agree that the US could have and should have done better planning for the invasion of Iraq, but the facts are simple: America genuinely believed Saddam did have and would use weapons of mass destruction. We were't planning to prevent museum looting within days of the start of hostilities, we were planning on being able to react to chemical and biologic weapons attacks on our troops. If we'd known that the entire Iraqi army would fall apart again, I think we would have done a better job. But Democrats especially believed that there'd be thousands of American casualties, that the streets would run with rivers of blood, etc, and now THEY are the ones saying "you should have known the whole place would cave-in faster than you could drive your tanks!".

We can't change the past. The best we can do is work for freedom from here on out. That means less prisoner-abuse scandals, but you've ignored all my points about torture being necessary or at least defensible in somem situations. We DON'T need MORE irrational hyper-idealism! We need fortitude to stay in Iraq, take the punches, and slog it out until the nation stands upright. We've done it before, and I think we can do it again.

-stormin

I've seen two photos of the reconstructed head over at German "Spiegel online" and I the first thing that came to my mind was: "That's James Cromwell". Just compare some photos on your own. The similarity is really amazing:-)

Regards,
Stirz

... according to figures from http://www.spiegel.de/ and http://www.heise.de/ ( http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/64790 => 40,2 % in sptember 2005) - two of the most popular .de-websites.

Why can't African states bootstrap?

Maybe because of the aid we're giving to them:

"For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!"

I put my money on the Smurfs. An airstrike has already been launched in retaliation.

Boeing is still well in the game. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,360417,00.html

That's what Yves Chauvin is.

He wants to live reclusively, and doesn't plan to go to Sweden to receive his medal.

Source: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,3 78142,00.html
translation: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de% 2Fwissenschaft%2Fmensch%2F0%2C1518%2C378142%2C00.h tml

> That isn't necessarily the poster's fault. It is the media's fault for not reporting everything

Ten years ago I might have agreed - getting decent media in Hicksville, Idaho might be difficult. But nowadays, aljazeera , BBC , Spiegel etc are just a click away.

Well that's what the company says. So the real facht is that he worked there for 6 months and that this chip development started years before 2004. Because they needed these chips for the ground tests. And before that these chips have to be tested. So Mangan was too much involved in this.

Also for me that looks like: He got that job, he scewed it up and was laid off in his probationary period.

Just a couple blaming Bush for the Katrina Hurricane itself.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Poli tics\archive\200508\POL20050831a.html
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050909/2005-09- 09T124325Z_01_MCC945372_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-ENVIRONMENT -DC.html
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,372455,00.html

while you wait: US rejects 15 tons of food rations from Germany, saying they might be contaminated with BSE. (Those same rations are NATO approved and eaten by US soldiers in Afghanistan, for examle). Article is in German, ask the fish.

This is the local governments (State and NO) fuck up... New Orleans always knew this would happen, and they did not spend the money to fix the levees first (The fed were ready to do it...

Hmm, seems the Feds were aware of the danger too -- since 2001.

Things I've read seem to disagree with you

"In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war."

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,372455,00.html

... In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze...

Finally, I totally agree with the parent's plug for John McPhee's The Control of Nature. The 2nd link is to Amazon's excerpt from the book where McPhee discusses the Atchafalaya.

While blaming the actual hurricane formation on President Bush may be a bit farfetched, the fact of the matter is that the Bush administration is wholly responsible for the criminal lack of preperation that allowed this natural disaster to become such a catastrophe. Check out this link for details.

And this recognition of the facts discloses at once a whole series of the most important fundamental principles which must guide this young Movement which, we hope, is destined one day for greatness:

1. 'NATIONAL' AND 'SOCIAL' ARE TWO IDENTICAL CONCEPTIONS. It was only the Jew who succeeded, through falsifying the social idea and turning it into Marxism, not only in divorcing the social idea from the national, but in actually representing them as utterly contradictory. That aim he has in fact achieved. At the founding of this Movement we formed the decision that we would give expression to this idea of ours of the identity of the two conceptions: despite all warnings, on the basis of what we had come to believe, on the basis of the sincerity of our will, we christened it ''National Socialist.' We said to ourselves that to be 'national' means above everything to act with a boundless and all-embracing love for the people and, if necessary, even to die for it. And similarly to be 'social' means so to build up the state and the community of the people that every individual acts in the interest of the community of the people and must be to such an extent convinced of the goodness, of the honorable straightforwardness of this community of the people as to be ready to die for it.

2. And then we said to ourselves: THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS CLASSES: THEY CANNOT BE. Class means caste and caste means race. If there are castes in India, well and good; there it is possible, for there there were formerly Aryans and dark aborigines. So it was in Egypt and in Rome. But with us in Germany where everyone who is a German at all has the same blood, has the same eyes, and speaks the same language, here there can be no class, here there can be only a single people and beyond that nothing else. Certainly we recognize, just as anyone must recognize, that there are different 'occupations' and 'professions' [Stände]-there is the Stand of the watchmakers, the Stand of the common laborers, the Stand of the painters or technicians, the Stand of the engineers, officials, etc. Stände there can be. But in the struggles which these Stände have amongst themselves for the equalization of their economic conditions, the conflict and the division must never be so great as to sunder the ties of race.

So of course this still could be a ruse. You know, propaganda. So lets see this ..
Please produce a few of these. I agree that would be a tenet of Socialism. (But that's redistribution of wealth to dissolve class distinctions, not progressi

That quiet extraordinary but Spiegelonline has the same article... http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,371170,00.html and this one as well : http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spie gel/0,1518,371159,00.html

That quiet extraordinary but Spiegelonline has the same article... http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,371170,00.html and this one as well : http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spie gel/0,1518,371159,00.html

Webhits: 11.6% Firefox (17.8% Mozilla)
Spiegel ONLINE: 30.15% Firefox
Heise Online: 40.6% Firefox (49.2% Gecko)

'Actor Tom Cruise talks about his 20-year membership in the Church of Scientology as he and Director Steven Spielberg discuss the filming of the soon-to-be-released "War of the Worlds." The film, coming out June 29, plays off Americans' fears about terrorism. Spielberg says he has always wanted to direct a "really mean invasion from outer space." Cruise insists, "I just want to help people." '

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spie gel/0,1518,353577,00.html

They'll usually tell you that they in general blame unfair trade practices. For example, even with their low labor costs, African farms often have a hard time competing with subsidized US and European ag exports. First world nations do a lot of pretty nasty stuff as far as import regulations go (for example, declaring the Vietnamese catfish as not being a catfish, to subsidize the US catfish industry)


Actually, they'll tell you that it's the result of the 'help' of the do gooders from orginizations such as the U.N.


Because they *weren't authorized to intervene by the Security Council*. What, are you picturing some huge security council debate over whether cmm.com is typosquatting on cnn.com? We're not talking about troop deployments, we're talking about the internet.

The word impotent comes to mind.

Of course, the fact the U.N. found that their 'peacekeepers' in the Congo had been raping the women that they were supposedly there to protect really illustrates what a fine orginizations it is.

Or perhaps, the fact that the U.N. appoints countries that are on human rights watchlists to the U.N. Human Rights Councils (fox guarding the hen house ?) makes you believe that U.N. isn't a waste of money ?

Yes, that's precisely what we need... China on the committee that oversees TLDs.

On second thought, no thanks.

You know, there are other ways of looking at all that aid money you would have us send to "developing" nations.

German newspaper Der Spiegel has a letter from what is apparently the "Secret Organisation Al-Qaeda in Europe" claiming responsibility for the terror attacks. The article can be found (in German) at this link.

German newspaper Der Spiegel has a letter from what is apparently the "Secret Organisation Al-Qaeda in Europe" claiming responsibility for the terror attacks. The article can be found (in German) at this link.

How many sources do you want?

German
Assosiated Press

How fitting, Al Qaeda prefers Aqua

Anyone able to translate Al Qaida's statment?

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,gross bild-490370-364121,00.html

BBC News have reports on Spiegel Online that is displaying the text that Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for today's attacks in London.

(translation)

BBC News have reports on Spiegel Online that is displaying the text that Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for today's attacks in London.

(translation)

... in German by Spiegel Online charon

Story of this fish in german.

Here is an eye-opening article about India/China and western countries. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,358800,00.html
To quote Thomas Friedman "It is interesting because French voters are trying to preserve a 35-hour work week in a world where Indian engineers are ready to work a 35-hour day. Good luck. Voters in "old Europe" - France, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy - seem to be saying to their leaders: stop the world, we want to get off; while voters in India have been telling their leaders: stop the world and build us a stepstool, we want to get on.
I feel sorry for Western European blue collar workers. A world of benefits they have known for 50 years is coming apart, and their governments don't seem to have a strategy for coping. "

A little more digging finds a number of news articles (most rather sceptical) about the bomb test claims, some of which mention analysis of supposedly radioactive material from a site or sites in Thuringia:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4348497.stm
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1518173,0 0.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7090178/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1511154, 00.html

There's a particularly sceptical article in Spiegel that makes the whole thing sound a bit 'Da Vinci Code':
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spie gel/0,1518,346293,00.html
Also according to Spiegel, the Jonas Valley in Thuringia is turning into a sort of German Area 51, attracting an army of crackpots looking for everything from stolen art treasures to evidence of nuclear weapon testing:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spie gel/0,1518,260784,00.html
("[Conspiracy theorist] Stade also believes that the Führer's telephone system inside the tunnel network is still connected to the public telephone system. In fact, he claims that it's buried deep in the archives of the German Reichspost, and that he found Hitler's number there. It's 03624-1200500... Although the Führer's number is a working number, it's always busy.")

A little more digging finds a number of news articles (most rather sceptical) about the bomb test claims, some of which mention analysis of supposedly radioactive material from a site or sites in Thuringia:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4348497.stm
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1518173,0 0.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7090178/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1511154, 00.html

There's a particularly sceptical article in Spiegel that makes the whole thing sound a bit 'Da Vinci Code':
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spie gel/0,1518,346293,00.html
Also according to Spiegel, the Jonas Valley in Thuringia is turning into a sort of German Area 51, attracting an army of crackpots looking for everything from stolen art treasures to evidence of nuclear weapon testing:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spie gel/0,1518,260784,00.html
("[Conspiracy theorist] Stade also believes that the Führer's telephone system inside the tunnel network is still connected to the public telephone system. In fact, he claims that it's buried deep in the archives of the German Reichspost, and that he found Hitler's number there. It's 03624-1200500... Although the Führer's number is a working number, it's always busy.")

Sounds like Uncle Bill is taking a page from Nature Boy's playbook. Filter those who have access to you so you never have to hear an opposing opinion.

Tell that to our Minister of the Interior Mr. Otto Schily. Here: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,gros sbild-359857-354486,00.html is quite a nice picture of him with an unmasking gesture. He's the one who wanted to force ISPs to store every website you visited and every e-mail you sent or got for one whole year! Sorry the article the picture belongs to is in German only, but Spiegel Online (SPON) starts to publish articles in English now, too. It's about privacy and ends with the speculation that an attempt to outlaw cryptography in Germany will be made soon. So use babelfish if you're interested...

Well, those are partly IT-specific sites where users are more aware of security issues - a high share of non-IE seems logical there. But now look at this link (in german, midways the article is a statistics table). Spiegel is a general politics and news site - not IT-specific at all, and IE is at 63 percent. And this is from 276 million pages served in april.

"Der Spiegel" is Germany's most influcencial political magazine, their online presence definitely does not count as a geek-oriented webpage and had 276 million page impressions in April '05, Firefox had 30% percent market share.

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518, 355494,00.html/

Just f.y.i.

according the german automobile club the percentage of car breakdowns caused by malfunction of the car's electric system is raising continously (45,2% in 1998; 49,6% 2001) german article. they compare the complexity of today's cars to that of airplanes and demand that instead of the 'race for innovation' companies should opt for quality and reliability.

so maybe instead of inventing a superintelligent car that won't crash it could be wiser to improve today's technology like ABS, ESP etc.

Here's a Google translation of the Die Spiegel article about this. Original article for German speakers is here.

Given Jeff Gannon-gate and that a blogger was able to get a White House press day pass finally, it seems the courts (blogger not a journalist=> must reveal sources) and executive branch (bloggers are journalists => can justify day passes!) have different views on the matter.

Or perhaps the same view

"We'll interpret it how we want at the moment."