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Non-Americans don't even have the same business models that drive traffic to US sites. They don't even have per-story comments [...]

It would have been sufficient to RTFA to see that you are wrong. Underneath the text even the Google translation shows quite prominently "Read comments (162 posts)". Let us visit the largest German news websites that I can name off the top of my head and click on an exemplary story to see who has per-story comments:

• Süddeutsche Zeitung: check
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: check
• Die Welt: check
• Der Spiegel: check
• Focus: check
• Stern: no
• TAZ: check
• Tagesschau online: check

7 out of 8 have per-story comments. This business model has very much arrived here.

You mean like that one? (german)

Here's the original story in German and a blog entry in English.

There's an article in the current issue of the German magazine Stern about a comparison between articles in the German Wikipedia and the Brockhaus (a renowned German encyclopedia) done by a research institute. Surprisingly (well, not for everyone), almost all tested articles in Wikipedia were better then their equivalents in Brockhaus.

See http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/153663.html

Yes, but Beckstein is a moron - can't believe that so many want him to be Stoiber's successor. From what I read/heard Mrs. Zypries (minister of judgement) only intends to create unified rules for creating a blacklist of ultraviolent games. Selling those blacklisted games to minors would be made a crime then. Oh, and this article clearly states that "a EU-wide ban of ultraviolent productions is NOT planned. Every EU country has to decide for itself which videos/games to ban. That's no decision to be made in Brussels."

flauschiges kaninchen (fluffy rabbit)

BTW: An IMHO good article abaout Free Speech in Germany from the stern magazine in German language you can find here: http://www.stern.de/politik/ausland/:Deutsche-Tabu s-Engholm-Badewanne/555064.html Babelfish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stern.de%2F politik%2Fausland%2F%3ADeutsche-Tabus-Engholm-Bade wanne%2F555064.html

you need to lighten up! In this post-9/11 world, we can't afford to have our moral eroded by irresponsible nattering nabobs of negitivety. http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/fotografie/538808 .html?nv=cp_L2_rt

outside of nerdville, who gives a shit about Firefox

Stern, a major (probably the biggest) German weekly magazine (circulation 1.1 million) routinely has articles about Firefox. Here is one from their website, and in issue 49 they had a full page in their print version. It was extremely positive and basically said "get rid of IE, here's what to use"

outside of nerdville, who gives a shit about Firefox

Stern, a major (probably the biggest) German weekly magazine (circulation 1.1 million) routinely has articles about Firefox. Here is one from their website, and in issue 49 they had a full page in their print version. It was extremely positive and basically said "get rid of IE, here's what to use"

outside of nerdville, who gives a shit about Firefox

Stern, a major (probably the biggest) German weekly magazine (circulation 1.1 million) routinely has articles about Firefox. Here is one from their website, and in issue 49 they had a full page in their print version. It was extremely positive and basically said "get rid of IE, here's what to use"

/. is international, so you might wanna check it out:

Tagesschau
Welt
Rheinische Post
Spiegel Online
Stern

All of these sites have good picture coverage for those who do not speak German. And they are way faster than all US sites at the moment!

"Robo-cup" (audio, requires player) by Lee Gutkind, National Public Radio, Weekend All Things Considered, 28 July 2001

"RoboCup 2001 Marks SGI's Second Year of RoboCup Federation Sponsorship" (press release), PR Newswire, 1 August 2001

"Robot Competitors Meet on a Soccer Field of Dreams" (free registration required) by Jeffrey Selingo, New York Times, 2 August 2001

"RoboCup: Where Bots Kick Butt" by Jason Spingarn-Koff, Lycos News, 2 August 2001

"Rush is on for 'HAL'-like computer to perfect A.I." by Winda Benedetti, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3 August 2001

"Robot world cup kicks off", BBC, 3 August 2001

"RoboCup 2001 boots up" by Helen Pearson, Nature Science Update, 3 August 2001

"Blutgrätschen ohne Blut und Beine", stern.de, 3 August 2001

"Roboter aus 23 Ländern tragen Fußballweltmeisterschaft aus", Net-Business Online, 3 August 2001

"RoboCup 2001, il calcio visto dai robot", Punto Informatico, 3 August 2001

"Building a better goalie (buzz, whir)" by Gregory Roberts, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4 August 2001

"Man and machine take the field" by David Olsen, Seattle Times, 4 August 2001

"Robots Storm the Soccer Field" by Maria Godoy, TechTV/Tech Live, 6 August 2001

Information about live Webcast of Botball finals (an event distinct from Robocup) on 7-8 August

According to dpa /stern.de, the license will indeed be the GPL. Way to go, Sun!