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Zum Thema: War ja klar, dass Zensursula so 'n Kack macht. Als naechstes dann die boesen Killerspiele, das gibt auch wieder Wahlkampfpunkte. Nur leider ist das der großen Mehrheit der Deutschen gerade eben recht, dass alles kontrolliert wird, da der Großteil der Presse (Ausnahmen etwa heise, golem) sich einen Dreck um sowas kuemmert und nur Schlagzeilen bringen moechte, was dann den Politikern prima Angriffsstellen fuer ihre verschissenen Gesetze bietet.
Science can tell you how to create a bomb that will kill lots of people.
It also tells you how to cure millions of people of fatal diseases. (Alas, science is more likely to tell you why a bomb constructed in such a way has this explosive power. Formulas derived from observation don't do any harm.)
Religion can try to tell you whether or not creating such a bomb is a good idea.
Sorry, that's ethics, not religion. Religion is organized spirituality, which in itself has nothing to do with ethics. If a text says that's bad and this is good because deity X said so, it's a text about ethics. Whether the reason's any good is questionable at best...
In fact, I would suggest that it would be beneficial to everybody to spend at least an hour or so every so often reading some really great poetry (John Donne comes uppermost in my mind, but whatever rocks one's boat). And no, I don't mean as part of any school curriculum (unless you want to): if it isn't done for "fun", there is absolutely no point in it.
Yeah, what about also using a fuckton of loanwords? Vous me pourriez donner salem, please? Just the same as ``Could you please hand me the salt?'' (with the possible grammatical exception of wrong French, because French's a shitty language), but much harder to understand for average Joe, because that's 3 fucking languages in one fucking sentence. (Be happy that it's short enough for me not to use German, because then I'd have made that sentence run a paragraph.) Having a big vocabulary is all great 'n stuff, but it doesn't score with anyone who wants to understand you without using a fucking dictionary.
Oh, and did you notice how common forms of the word `fuck' are? `Fuck''s a fucking useful word, y'know, and people want to fucking censor it, even though it's probably the only word which is understood by pretty much anyone on the fucking planet.
Well, too bad that the German populace consists of mostly brainless and easily exploited idiots. They see these laws (i.e. this paintball-banning, stricter gun laws, video-game-banning) as effective. Don't ask me why, as it's been done to death in more rational media why these laws are about as effective as ripping off someone's head and shitting down their neck to cure AIDS.
And if you happen to be a German: Our Pirate Party still needs more permissions for the upcoming election! http://ich.waehlepiraten.de/
11 out of 15 victims were female (8 pupils, 3 teachers). Sadly, we don't have any Amoklauf note (being able to make up words on the spot does it) and thus don't know exactly his standing on society.
My guess is, as I know of a pretty good source (my brother, who worked for the shooter's father for a while), that he just got turned down by one of 'em and, thanks to his depression, made it into a Damn Important Event, culminating in the shooting. As for our Killerspiele (killer games, violent games, whatever), pretty much every male teenager got at least one of them; if they did make normal people into monstrous, asocial, merciless killers, then we'd have a lot more oh-damn-that's-terrible weeks of grief.
Ha! I didn't read such a good joke since... ah, well, damn that.
Anyway, Germans were always fuckin' damned conservative, especially those in power even after WWI and the `revolution' (Ah, that was the joke!) which brought forth the Weimar Republic. Just to give you an example: Say you're voting the KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands; English: Communist Party of Germany), and you would've been shot by almost any guy from the Reichswehr back then, as communists back then were pretty much the practice targets for them.
Well, consider this case: A frog is put in boiling water. He'll immediately jump out. Now put that frog in cool water and slowly heat the water. Slowly, it begins to get hotter and hotter and because the frog is able to tolerate small changes, he'll just ignore them, until it's boiling. Then, he's either dead or will knock the container with the boiling water over again 'cause he jumped out.
Now just do some replacements and there you have it. Tolerate small such changes, and you'll tolerate even more of them until you have a fucking big, steaming shit pile racing with relativistic speed towards you. I doubt that I'll have to elaborate on the effects of such an event.
a racist/nazi in germany has a shaved head wearing boots and a bomber jacket. --- see the similarity to "how to recognize a jew" back in the NS days? nothing changed in germany.
try it out yourself with only having 3mm hair length... ppl will look at you like you just ate a baby while the german government is taking a fascistoid(?) path... without anyone noticing...
These are called skinheads. And the conservative Germans ain't be liking the funky-punky skinheads, 'cause for them anything left of the conservative parties (CDU/CSU, von der Leyen, the minister who's behind the bullshit this time, is of the former) is a vile, authority-defying scumbag who should be thoroughly disciplined. But see '68 and the responses from German profs.
Little thumb called - it wants to remind you that traits which are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous for reproduction (and thus fitness in the current environment) remain.
Ihr Deutsch ist ja wahrlich grauenhaft! Es heiÃYt `beenden', Sie Inkompetenzbolzen! Ueberhaupt: Bei `beenden' benoetigt man ein Objekt, bei `aufhoeren' aber nicht.
Insofern: Setzen, Sechs!
If you wanted only German, and no Anglicisms, it'd be something like ``Das Jahr des Linuxschreibtischrechners'' (hyphens are optional); still, `Desktop' got quite popular and many Anglicism-hating Germans I know of use it anyway, 'cause `Schreibtisch' has a much broader denotative (and connotative) meaning. `Desktop''s pretty clear on that part.
These technologies of mass surveillance and ubiquitous tracking, which have slid into existence in many states (excluding some of the more enlightened European countries, such as Germany) were designed and built during economic good times.
The advantage Germany has is that a sizable portion of its population have experience of such mass surveillance (both as watcher and watched) to be able to state exactly how useless such a system can be.
You know, our current chancellor, Merkel, is from Eastern Germany. And she encourages the surveillance which our minister of the interior, Schaeuble, wants to enhance. That minister also wants a Guantanamo Bay in Germany, so he can put `Gefaehrder' in there. These `Gefaehrder' are unreasonably suspected TERRRISTS! And thus they have to be stripped of their civil rights, being put under ridiculous surveillance and, of course, have to fight a ludicrous lawsuit. The best example for that is the case of sociologist Andrej Holm; he got into that mess because he used _sociological_ expressions which a suspected terrorist group — ``militante gruppe (mg)'' — also used.
Now, is your dream of a real nice Germany shattered? It ain't pretty over here, either.
At some point, shouldn't Linux say "how do we become the best OS we can be, without tethering ourselves to things that aren't helping us?"
(Emphasis mine.)
No, it shouldn't say this, because it's a friggin' kernel, not an operating system.
Also, short directory names are very useful; not to mention something like "Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/...". But then, your "be three characters or less" falls short of/home or - shudder -/boot.
Watch out: `volavi' is perfect. To translate it in that way you need the imperfect; i.e. `volabam'. (German pupil talking here; had Latin for about 3 years and still waging war against some of the more obscure Latin idiosyncrasies, like (semi-)deponent verbs. Unsuccessfully.)
What has access to their system? Is every single tech person they employ trustworthy?
I don't know and it doesn't affect my privacy.
Is their security good enough?
Yes, in the sense that even no security on their end would be "good enough".
In other words: It doesn't matter if some crazy guy, for whatever reason, wants you to have an extraordinary bad reputation. He looks up all the information about you and, for example, orders batshit insane `gifts' for people you know with your credit card number. And with these `gifts' there come some letters in which that guy poses as you and writes something akin to the usual/. -1 Flamebait post about shit.
Do you want to live with a repuation of a shit-eating, mentally deranged, idiot (or other derogative term)? I, for one, wouldn't.
And on the other hand: It doesn't matter at all if everyone who wants to know something about you just looks it up at freely accessible databases, does it? Why don't you run around naked? Why don't you tell everyone about that of yours? Because you don't want others to know. So why do you actively want that your ISP and others know everything about you in the internet? (Including every level of depth and non-existent security.)
Coming up with something is a little less abstract than you'd like it to be. Coming up with these ideas includes some rough thought of how to implement them; only having an idea about something is definitely not ``coming up with something''.
a) In fact, it is Germany's biggest pile of idiocy, lies and bullshit. We even have a watchblog for it.
b) Actually, some do, as that mood is, in some federal states, taught in the 7th grade, if one happens to be on a Gymnasium. (High School for you Americans.) But personally I think that's just an addition by BILD. German pupils, even if they are on a Gymnasium, aren't too keen to learn more moods or tenses. Normally they'd just say "wuerden sterben", as both the actual form of the Konjunktiv II (used for possibilities) and the "wuerde" + infinitive are valid.
Police don't always pay the price for illegal actions. From traffic violations to murder, police are let off the hook far more often than civilians. Exactly. Here in Germany, use of the data retention was recently limited to 'serious crimes'. To get some stored data, the BKA (Bundeskriminalamt, Federal Criminal Police Office) has to be authorized by a judge, who determines if it's really a serious crime. Now, if the person is found innocent, the investigators won't be fired (even if very personal data was read by them) as German law defends them from consequences, even if the 'serious crime' was just a fake from the BKA to get the data.
I don't really know how such things are handled in the US, but it doesn't seem very reasonable that some police officer wouldn't get special treatment in front of the law because he's a police officer. Judges aren't really that impartial as one may think.
See, God didn't want us earthians to have root access to the universe. Thus he gave the password to a binary system, which promptly encoded it to some stupid chemicals to form a binary star system. Now that we've decoded these chemicals, we'll soon gain root access. But then, once we've gained root access the universe will be replaced with something more complex anyway, as the late Douglas Adams already pointed out.
Slashdot Mirror
Space also grows, since the Universe is expanding.
So you have plants that can live in space?
I welcome our new survialist plant overlords, who laugh in the face of physics!
Uebertreiben darf man nicht mehr? Daran ist bestimmt Schaeuble Schuld!!11einself
Halten Sie bitte ihre verfickte Fresse, bevor Sie die deutsche Sprache weiter vergewaltigen! Ansonsten werden Sie mit einem Duden gebuechert!
Zum Thema: War ja klar, dass Zensursula so 'n Kack macht. Als naechstes dann die boesen Killerspiele, das gibt auch wieder Wahlkampfpunkte. Nur leider ist das der großen Mehrheit der Deutschen gerade eben recht, dass alles kontrolliert wird, da der Großteil der Presse (Ausnahmen etwa heise, golem) sich einen Dreck um sowas kuemmert und nur Schlagzeilen bringen moechte, was dann den Politikern prima Angriffsstellen fuer ihre verschissenen Gesetze bietet.
Science can tell you how to create a bomb that will kill lots of people.
It also tells you how to cure millions of people of fatal diseases. (Alas, science is more likely to tell you why a bomb constructed in such a way has this explosive power. Formulas derived from observation don't do any harm.)
Religion can try to tell you whether or not creating such a bomb is a good idea.
Sorry, that's ethics, not religion. Religion is organized spirituality, which in itself has nothing to do with ethics. If a text says that's bad and this is good because deity X said so, it's a text about ethics. Whether the reason's any good is questionable at best...
In fact, I would suggest that it would be beneficial to everybody to spend at least an hour or so every so often reading some really great poetry (John Donne comes uppermost in my mind, but whatever rocks one's boat). And no, I don't mean as part of any school curriculum (unless you want to): if it isn't done for "fun", there is absolutely no point in it.
Yeah, what about also using a fuckton of loanwords? Vous me pourriez donner salem, please? Just the same as ``Could you please hand me the salt?'' (with the possible grammatical exception of wrong French, because French's a shitty language), but much harder to understand for average Joe, because that's 3 fucking languages in one fucking sentence. (Be happy that it's short enough for me not to use German, because then I'd have made that sentence run a paragraph.) Having a big vocabulary is all great 'n stuff, but it doesn't score with anyone who wants to understand you without using a fucking dictionary.
Oh, and did you notice how common forms of the word `fuck' are? `Fuck''s a fucking useful word, y'know, and people want to fucking censor it, even though it's probably the only word which is understood by pretty much anyone on the fucking planet.
Well, too bad that the German populace consists of mostly brainless and easily exploited idiots. They see these laws (i.e. this paintball-banning, stricter gun laws, video-game-banning) as effective. Don't ask me why, as it's been done to death in more rational media why these laws are about as effective as ripping off someone's head and shitting down their neck to cure AIDS.
And if you happen to be a German: Our Pirate Party still needs more permissions for the upcoming election! http://ich.waehlepiraten.de/
11 out of 15 victims were female (8 pupils, 3 teachers). Sadly, we don't have any Amoklauf note (being able to make up words on the spot does it) and thus don't know exactly his standing on society.
My guess is, as I know of a pretty good source (my brother, who worked for the shooter's father for a while), that he just got turned down by one of 'em and, thanks to his depression, made it into a Damn Important Event, culminating in the shooting. As for our Killerspiele (killer games, violent games, whatever), pretty much every male teenager got at least one of them; if they did make normal people into monstrous, asocial, merciless killers, then we'd have a lot more oh-damn-that's-terrible weeks of grief.
[...] Germany was rather libertarian [...]
Ha! I didn't read such a good joke since ... ah, well, damn that.
Anyway, Germans were always fuckin' damned conservative, especially those in power even after WWI and the `revolution' (Ah, that was the joke!) which brought forth the Weimar Republic. Just to give you an example: Say you're voting the KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands; English: Communist Party of Germany), and you would've been shot by almost any guy from the Reichswehr back then, as communists back then were pretty much the practice targets for them.
Well, consider this case: A frog is put in boiling water. He'll immediately jump out. Now put that frog in cool water and slowly heat the water. Slowly, it begins to get hotter and hotter and because the frog is able to tolerate small changes, he'll just ignore them, until it's boiling. Then, he's either dead or will knock the container with the boiling water over again 'cause he jumped out.
Now just do some replacements and there you have it. Tolerate small such changes, and you'll tolerate even more of them until you have a fucking big, steaming shit pile racing with relativistic speed towards you. I doubt that I'll have to elaborate on the effects of such an event.
Sollte wohl niemanden ueberraschen, da man ja nach ``de Joden'' zu einem neuen Feind gehen muss. :-)
a racist/nazi in germany has a shaved head wearing boots and a bomber jacket. --- see the similarity to "how to recognize a jew" back in the NS days? nothing changed in germany. try it out yourself with only having 3mm hair length... ppl will look at you like you just ate a baby while the german government is taking a fascistoid(?) path... without anyone noticing...
These are called skinheads. And the conservative Germans ain't be liking the funky-punky skinheads, 'cause for them anything left of the conservative parties (CDU/CSU, von der Leyen, the minister who's behind the bullshit this time, is of the former) is a vile, authority-defying scumbag who should be thoroughly disciplined. But see '68 and the responses from German profs.
Little thumb called - it wants to remind you that traits which are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous for reproduction (and thus fitness in the current environment) remain.
Oh, curse /. and its nonexistent support of UTF-8 (or at least extended ASCII). It's `heißt'.
Ihr Deutsch ist ja wahrlich grauenhaft! Es heiÃYt `beenden', Sie Inkompetenzbolzen! Ueberhaupt: Bei `beenden' benoetigt man ein Objekt, bei `aufhoeren' aber nicht. Insofern: Setzen, Sechs!
Try del /F /S /Q *. And you'll be happy.
If you wanted only German, and no Anglicisms, it'd be something like ``Das Jahr des Linuxschreibtischrechners'' (hyphens are optional); still, `Desktop' got quite popular and many Anglicism-hating Germans I know of use it anyway, 'cause `Schreibtisch' has a much broader denotative (and connotative) meaning. `Desktop''s pretty clear on that part.
These technologies of mass surveillance and ubiquitous tracking, which have slid into existence in many states (excluding some of the more enlightened European countries, such as Germany) were designed and built during economic good times.
The advantage Germany has is that a sizable portion of its population have experience of such mass surveillance (both as watcher and watched) to be able to state exactly how useless such a system can be.
You know, our current chancellor, Merkel, is from Eastern Germany. And she encourages the surveillance which our minister of the interior, Schaeuble, wants to enhance. That minister also wants a Guantanamo Bay in Germany, so he can put `Gefaehrder' in there. These `Gefaehrder' are unreasonably suspected TERRRISTS! And thus they have to be stripped of their civil rights, being put under ridiculous surveillance and, of course, have to fight a ludicrous lawsuit. The best example for that is the case of sociologist Andrej Holm; he got into that mess because he used _sociological_ expressions which a suspected terrorist group — ``militante gruppe (mg)'' — also used.
Now, is your dream of a real nice Germany shattered? It ain't pretty over here, either.
I have one word to say to your response sir:
"RAMEN!"
There, fixed that for you.
At some point, shouldn't Linux say "how do we become the best OS we can be, without tethering ourselves to things that aren't helping us?"
(Emphasis mine.)
No, it shouldn't say this, because it's a friggin' kernel, not an operating system.
Also, short directory names are very useful; not to mention something like "Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/...". But then, your "be three characters or less" falls short of /home or - shudder - /boot.
Watch out: `volavi' is perfect. To translate it in that way you need the imperfect; i.e. `volabam'. (German pupil talking here; had Latin for about 3 years and still waging war against some of the more obscure Latin idiosyncrasies, like (semi-)deponent verbs. Unsuccessfully.)
Who do they resell their data to?
I don't know and it doesn't affect my privacy.
What has access to their system? Is every single tech person they employ trustworthy?
I don't know and it doesn't affect my privacy.
Is their security good enough?
Yes, in the sense that even no security on their end would be "good enough".
In other words: It doesn't matter if some crazy guy, for whatever reason, wants you to have an extraordinary bad reputation. He looks up all the information about you and, for example, orders batshit insane `gifts' for people you know with your credit card number. And with these `gifts' there come some letters in which that guy poses as you and writes something akin to the usual /. -1 Flamebait post about shit.
Do you want to live with a repuation of a shit-eating, mentally deranged, idiot (or other derogative term)? I, for one, wouldn't.
And on the other hand: It doesn't matter at all if everyone who wants to know something about you just looks it up at freely accessible databases, does it? Why don't you run around naked? Why don't you tell everyone about that of yours? Because you don't want others to know. So why do you actively want that your ISP and others know everything about you in the internet? (Including every level of depth and non-existent security.)
Coming up with something is a little less abstract than you'd like it to be. Coming up with these ideas includes some rough thought of how to implement them; only having an idea about something is definitely not ``coming up with something''.
a) In fact, it is Germany's biggest pile of idiocy, lies and bullshit. We even have a watchblog for it.
b) Actually, some do, as that mood is, in some federal states, taught in the 7th grade, if one happens to be on a Gymnasium. (High School for you Americans.) But personally I think that's just an addition by BILD. German pupils, even if they are on a Gymnasium, aren't too keen to learn more moods or tenses. Normally they'd just say "wuerden sterben", as both the actual form of the Konjunktiv II (used for possibilities) and the "wuerde" + infinitive are valid.
I don't really know how such things are handled in the US, but it doesn't seem very reasonable that some police officer wouldn't get special treatment in front of the law because he's a police officer. Judges aren't really that impartial as one may think.
See, God didn't want us earthians to have root access to the universe. Thus he gave the password to a binary system, which promptly encoded it to some stupid chemicals to form a binary star system. Now that we've decoded these chemicals, we'll soon gain root access. But then, once we've gained root access the universe will be replaced with something more complex anyway, as the late Douglas Adams already pointed out.