A strike is a bunch of people deciding to take unauthorized unpaid vacation at the same time, not a bunch of people quitting their jobs.
Not in Germany. Here, if the labor unions follow the rules (which they usually do) a strike is people taking an authorized (not by the employer but by the law) leave of absence to bring the employer to the negotiation table.
German labor unions aren't using strikes as excessively as the unions in other European countries seem to do, thus the whole systems works out fine for everybody involved most of the time.
There are lots of current Android phones with SD card slots.
Nexus devices don't have them because somebody at Google doesn't seem to like them.
High end devices of other companies sometimes don't have them because the manufacturer wants you to buy the model with 32 or 63 gig rather than the model with 16 gig and a cheap MicroSD card. But the mid-level devices of the same manufacturers usually come with a CD card slot as they cut down the onboard flash memory to reduce the price.
Lucky you. I made the same experience as GP. Some times (I haven't found any cause) some of my playlists have a filesize of 0.
Also (and this is independent from the above mentioned lost playlists) foobar only saves changes on playlists on close. So if I rearrange stuff in playlists and then keep using foobar and it later crashes those changes are gone.
If taxes are reduced, will companies pay better wages, decrease their prices, hire more people? Hell no! They will still outsource everything, reduce wages and pay the upper management more for increasing profits.
Ha-ha. Who do you think pays the money to the corporations that they then hand it to the government?.
Let's see: If the American company Apple does business in Italy but moves it's money to Ireland to pay taxes there, the taxes lost to the Italian treasury are paid by... ah yes, here it is: The Italian people.
The Italian people first pay the multinationalcompany for the products and then again have to make up for the taxes that this company evaded paying. And the multinational gets richer and richer...
The way Android is structured, some apps are in a read-write filesystem and can be uninstalled, some are in 'ROM' (a read-only filesystem in the flash that is only modified when you do a firmware update)
Usually you can remove pre-installed apps once you rooted your android device, as that gives you the option to get read-write access to this 'ROM'. Only on a few devices with unusual partition schemes does that not work.
But this is not an Android fuck-up, as you claimed, but a Motorola fuck-up, if anything. On all 6 of my Android devices (from 4 different makers) I can update pre-installed apps without problem.
If you really would have to remove the old version on the Xoom to install a new version you should be able to do that by rooting your device. After that you can usually remove pre-installed apps as you can get write access to the system folders.
The way you worded your original statement is just plain wrong. (And don't come with the 'I'm not a native English speaker' excuse. I'm neither.)
23 sites with 41 facilities. Each site has at least 1 facility, some sites have 2 or more. On 2 of these sites a total of 2 of the facilities have not been tested. So it's not 4, it's still just 2. 2 facilities, one each in 2 sites.
Actually it has to do with the fact that THIS IS A USA SITE, made in the US and targeted at a USA audience.
Is it? The internet is global thing. There are no signs on the entrances of websites telling everybody 'this is a US site. Don't enter if you're not a proper 'merican!'. And US companies using generic TLDs like.com,.net or.org instead of.us (yes, that one exists) certainly suggests that they are open for everybody.
So how about you pack you xenophobia and call it a day?
Now I don't see why we have to deal with arrogant jerks from other countries, I mean do we go to THEIR sites and demand they put everything in USD or give us car analogies? No we don't.
Probably because you don't speak any foreign languages, right?
Oh, and car analogies are used basically everywhere in the world. 'cause, you know, we have and love cars too. Just different brands. You could have figured that out all by yourself. Considering that you will find quite a few Japanese and German cars on American streets...
Somebody who uses 'Crauts' (it should be 'Krauts', btw) and 'Huns' probably lacks the mental capacity to think two steps ahead, but on the off chance that I'm wrong let me try to explain something anyway:
Us 'Huns' haven't started a war in 68 years, which is about 56 years more than the US can claim. Why?
Well, I would like to think that we actually learned our lesson and are nicer people now, but something like that is hard to prove.
Another reason why we didn't is that the US took a somewhat novel approach after WWII: Instead of beating the defeated enemy to the ground and destroying his economy and so on, the US convinced the other western Allies to help rebuild Germany and help them form a viable democracy. A beaten and humiliated foe will never stop seeing you as the enemy and the reason for his downfall. The Germans, on the other hand, learned to see the western Allies as (sometimes uneasy) friends.
With the membership in the NATO and the formation of the EU it goes a step further: The military, political and economical interests of Germany and it's former enemies are now intertwined. Starting a war with France or the US would hurt Germany itself more profoundly.
So letting 'the Huns' in the 'front freakin door' is an important part of making sure that we don't start WW3. And 'killing the EU' too might not have the results longterm that you're looking for.
American often complain about anti-Americanism in Europe. Well, I can't talk about other countries, but I know that's not true for Germany. We still see the US as a friend. But if a friend does something that you consider stupid or counterproductive or as hurtful for your friendship you will tell him, complain or get a distance for a while until he goes back to being the friend that you like. That's the phase we're in right now.
Fraud is the only viable reason for fighting against voter ID laws. Your opposition proves the need for such laws.
Does this level of ignorance come naturally for you or do you havve to try hard to achieve it?
I can give you at least one mor viable reason for fighting against the kind of voter ID laws that are implemented now: They very clearly prevent the poor and less educated people from voting. Voter ID laws lead to more eligible voters not being able to vote than the amount of fraudulent votes prevented.
Politicians may claim that the implement these laws to stop voter fraud, but it's obvious they to it to prevent potential votes for the other party.
But I believe the ruling is flawed insomuch that it doesn't take into account the political structure of the US and instead imposes the rules as if the federal government was an all encompassing concentration of power in the US that all states and citizens are subjects of.
If the US government can not enforce a treaty, they should not have signed it. If international bodies started to take into account the special needs of individual countries we could throw away all treaties. There is always some argument why this one country or that one does need special treatment.
This is especially the case in Europe where most people and governments are subjects of the crown. There are 12 monarchies in Europe currently (including the Vatican city) and while they do not have or exert much political power any more, the concept is still there.
You learn some strange math over there in 'merica. There are 12 monarchies according to you. How many countries are in Europe? (Hint: There are 28 member states of the European Union, and the EU is only part of Europe). Also, many of the biggest countries in Europe (Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Russia) are definitely not monarchies, so the vast majority of people in Europe do not live in a monarchy. So how do you justify your statement?
After Amazon pulled the first revokation, I decided that ebooks were no longer a viable option.
Actually, ebooks are just as viable an option as paper books. paper books are recalled too if somebody convinces the authorities or the publisher that something is wrong or illegal about the book.
The problem with ebooks are DRM and other schemes that allow ebook shops to pull ebooks from users reading devices. But if you buy ebooks DRM-free and download them immediately to a medium that only you have control over nobody can remove or change content.
The funny thing is that this would not be an issue had Apple been a German company. If BMW had a feature demonstrated on a car before it was patented, the German court would uphold it. Apple, being a US company (and thus the target of anti-US sentiment) is an easy target.
Do you have prove for this claim? Just because in the US you do things this way (Apple vs. Samsung, Apple vs. HTC) doesn't mean that others do as well.
You should know that we Germans are sticklers for rules.
Oh, and this myth of rampart anti-US sentiments in Germany isn't really true, either.
First one that comes to my find is "Why do I click 'Start' to stop?"
I guess every interface has such design fuck-ups.
I never used Mac OS but was told that you had (still have?) to drag the CD Rom or onto the trashbin to eject the drive. That always sounded strange to me.
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A strike is a bunch of people deciding to take unauthorized unpaid vacation at the same time, not a bunch of people quitting their jobs.
Not in Germany.
Here, if the labor unions follow the rules (which they usually do) a strike is people taking an authorized (not by the employer but by the law) leave of absence to bring the employer to the negotiation table.
German labor unions aren't using strikes as excessively as the unions in other European countries seem to do, thus the whole systems works out fine for everybody involved most of the time.
There are lots of current Android phones with SD card slots.
Nexus devices don't have them because somebody at Google doesn't seem to like them.
High end devices of other companies sometimes don't have them because the manufacturer wants you to buy the model with 32 or 63 gig rather than the model with 16 gig and a cheap MicroSD card.
But the mid-level devices of the same manufacturers usually come with a CD card slot as they cut down the onboard flash memory to reduce the price.
I have never "lost" a playlist.
Lucky you.
I made the same experience as GP. Some times (I haven't found any cause) some of my playlists have a filesize of 0.
Also (and this is independent from the above mentioned lost playlists) foobar only saves changes on playlists on close. So if I rearrange stuff in playlists and then keep using foobar and it later crashes those changes are gone.
If taxes are reduced, will companies pay better wages, decrease their prices, hire more people?
Hell no! They will still outsource everything, reduce wages and pay the upper management more for increasing profits.
Ha-ha. Who do you think pays the money to the corporations that they then hand it to the government?.
Let's see: If the American company Apple does business in Italy but moves it's money to Ireland to pay taxes there, the taxes lost to the Italian treasury are paid by... ah yes, here it is: The Italian people.
The Italian people first pay the multinationalcompany for the products and then again have to make up for the taxes that this company evaded paying.
And the multinational gets richer and richer...
The way Android is structured, some apps are in a read-write filesystem and can be uninstalled, some are in 'ROM' (a read-only filesystem in the flash that is only modified when you do a firmware update)
Usually you can remove pre-installed apps once you rooted your android device, as that gives you the option to get read-write access to this 'ROM'.
Only on a few devices with unusual partition schemes does that not work.
But this is not an Android fuck-up, as you claimed, but a Motorola fuck-up, if anything.
On all 6 of my Android devices (from 4 different makers) I can update pre-installed apps without problem.
If you really would have to remove the old version on the Xoom to install a new version you should be able to do that by rooting your device. After that you can usually remove pre-installed apps as you can get write access to the system folders.
The way you worded your original statement is just plain wrong.
(And don't come with the 'I'm not a native English speaker' excuse. I'm neither.)
therefore i'm stuck to a very old version of quickoffice on my xoom...
What the...?
You can update the pre-installed version of (almost) any app from the Play Store or by side loading without any problem.
The first thing that happens when I do a factory reset on an Android device is that the Play Store wants to update half of the pre-installed apps.
23 sites with 41 facilities. Each site has at least 1 facility, some sites have 2 or more.
On 2 of these sites a total of 2 of the facilities have not been tested.
So it's not 4, it's still just 2.
2 facilities, one each in 2 sites.
You mean something like Plasma Active (http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Devices), which runs on the Nexus 7?
Actually it has to do with the fact that THIS IS A USA SITE, made in the US and targeted at a USA audience.
Is it? The internet is global thing. There are no signs on the entrances of websites telling everybody 'this is a US site. Don't enter if you're not a proper 'merican!'. .com, .net or .org instead of .us (yes, that one exists) certainly suggests that they are open for everybody.
And US companies using generic TLDs like
So how about you pack you xenophobia and call it a day?
Now I don't see why we have to deal with arrogant jerks from other countries, I mean do we go to THEIR sites and demand they put everything in USD or give us car analogies? No we don't.
Probably because you don't speak any foreign languages, right?
Oh, and car analogies are used basically everywhere in the world. 'cause, you know, we have and love cars too. Just different brands.
You could have figured that out all by yourself. Considering that you will find quite a few Japanese and German cars on American streets...
This WSJ article seems to be the source of Der Spiegel: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304470504579162110180138036
Actually, a new report from Der Spiegel suggests that Obama didn't know about the NSA spying on Merkel and stopped it as soon as he heard about it: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/us-ueberwachung-interne-untersuchung-beendete-spaehangriff-auf-merkel-a-930301.html (German, sorry)
Now, we don't know how much truth is in there, but things might not be as simple as your statement.
Somebody who uses 'Crauts' (it should be 'Krauts', btw) and 'Huns' probably lacks the mental capacity to think two steps ahead, but on the off chance that I'm wrong let me try to explain something anyway:
Us 'Huns' haven't started a war in 68 years, which is about 56 years more than the US can claim.
Why?
Well, I would like to think that we actually learned our lesson and are nicer people now, but something like that is hard to prove.
Another reason why we didn't is that the US took a somewhat novel approach after WWII: Instead of beating the defeated enemy to the ground and destroying his economy and so on, the US convinced the other western Allies to help rebuild Germany and help them form a viable democracy.
A beaten and humiliated foe will never stop seeing you as the enemy and the reason for his downfall. The Germans, on the other hand, learned to see the western Allies as (sometimes uneasy) friends.
With the membership in the NATO and the formation of the EU it goes a step further: The military, political and economical interests of Germany and it's former enemies are now intertwined. Starting a war with France or the US would hurt Germany itself more profoundly.
So letting 'the Huns' in the 'front freakin door' is an important part of making sure that we don't start WW3. And 'killing the EU' too might not have the results longterm that you're looking for.
American often complain about anti-Americanism in Europe.
Well, I can't talk about other countries, but I know that's not true for Germany.
We still see the US as a friend. But if a friend does something that you consider stupid or counterproductive or as hurtful for your friendship you will tell him, complain or get a distance for a while until he goes back to being the friend that you like.
That's the phase we're in right now.
Fraud is the only viable reason for fighting against voter ID laws. Your opposition proves the need for such laws.
Does this level of ignorance come naturally for you or do you havve to try hard to achieve it?
I can give you at least one mor viable reason for fighting against the kind of voter ID laws that are implemented now:
They very clearly prevent the poor and less educated people from voting. Voter ID laws lead to more eligible voters not being able to vote than the amount of fraudulent votes prevented.
Politicians may claim that the implement these laws to stop voter fraud, but it's obvious they to it to prevent potential votes for the other party.
But I believe the ruling is flawed insomuch that it doesn't take into account the political structure of the US and instead imposes the rules as if the federal government was an all encompassing concentration of power in the US that all states and citizens are subjects of.
If the US government can not enforce a treaty, they should not have signed it.
If international bodies started to take into account the special needs of individual countries we could throw away all treaties. There is always some argument why this one country or that one does need special treatment.
This is especially the case in Europe where most people and governments are subjects of the crown. There are 12 monarchies in Europe currently (including the Vatican city) and while they do not have or exert much political power any more, the concept is still there.
You learn some strange math over there in 'merica.
There are 12 monarchies according to you. How many countries are in Europe? (Hint: There are 28 member states of the European Union, and the EU is only part of Europe).
Also, many of the biggest countries in Europe (Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Russia) are definitely not monarchies, so the vast majority of people in Europe do not live in a monarchy.
So how do you justify your statement?
And the bible doesn't contain similar statements?
When the IRA commits some acts of terror, I don't see people blame the Catholic Church as a whole.
So yeah, Islam is treated differently. And that's wrong.
Disclaimer: I'm Catholic.
Anybody not agreeing with the Ruling Class is now "Tea Party", huh?
That would suggest that Ubuntu/Canonical is the ruling class in the Linux world, which is certainly not true.
After Amazon pulled the first revokation, I decided that ebooks were no longer a viable option.
Actually, ebooks are just as viable an option as paper books.
paper books are recalled too if somebody convinces the authorities or the publisher that something is wrong or illegal about the book.
The problem with ebooks are DRM and other schemes that allow ebook shops to pull ebooks from users reading devices.
But if you buy ebooks DRM-free and download them immediately to a medium that only you have control over nobody can remove or change content.
The European Court of Human Rights is NOT an E.U. court.
Please get the facts straight,
Actually, outside of the US third parties often matter.
This is the reality... Samsung abused FRAND patents towards Apple.
Or did they?
You claiming it doesn't make it so.
As far as I know no court has ruled on that matter yet.
The funny thing is that this would not be an issue had Apple been a German company. If BMW had a feature demonstrated on a car before it was patented, the German court would uphold it. Apple, being a US company (and thus the target of anti-US sentiment) is an easy target.
Do you have prove for this claim?
Just because in the US you do things this way (Apple vs. Samsung, Apple vs. HTC) doesn't mean that others do as well.
You should know that we Germans are sticklers for rules.
Oh, and this myth of rampart anti-US sentiments in Germany isn't really true, either.
I had a keyboard once with a dedicated start/shutdown key.
After shutting down my system a few times accidentally I threw that keyboard away.
First one that comes to my find is "Why do I click 'Start' to stop?"
I guess every interface has such design fuck-ups.
I never used Mac OS but was told that you had (still have?) to drag the CD Rom or onto the trashbin to eject the drive.
That always sounded strange to me.