not completely right. They used to be a monopoly but the markets have been opened up. (But since they had a very good starting point, at least with landlines, they still have a very dominant market share.) Telekom is regulated but this regulation is at least supposed to open the markets further...
T-Online in itself has been spun off, and is traded on the german stock exchanges...but probably Telekom still owns a majority of the shares... ...and if I read correctly T-Online denied to be in talks with AOL...but...whatever...;-)
Actually quite the opposite: The European Commision disaproved the merger, even after the company withdrew their proposal. (So they can't just resubmit their proposal to the EC but have to make something new, should they descide to go ahead with their merger)
Why do you all use Yahoo for an example for a spider/search Engine? This is really interesting as Yahoo is not one of these. (And AFAIK never has been). It's just a directory. What you probably mean is Inktomi, which provides this service for Yahoo. What's the English word for Klugscheisser?;-) "Wie immer sind alle Angaben ohne Gewähr"
If you people truly want a world govermnt then mabey you should take a look at American history at how the USA and CSA were formed. Even though the Latter lost the Civil war the goverment of the states the left were formed in a legal maner.
well let me disagree: There is a big difference in the Forming of the USA and uniting long existing Nations into one State/republic/Nation/whatever. Just look what problems we have in the EU which (at least that's what I hope) will be the government of Europe. (Your world government a order of magnitude smaller). (And Europe has quite similar cultures compared with all nations of Earth)
You have ideas outside of the mainstream. Let's say you speak out against nascent jewish nationalism and religious fervor in israel, which results in acts of opression and coercion of the palestinian people. Some might be offended by this and wish to violate your right to free speech through law.
Well that would not be that easy. The laws in Germany restricting free speach, are not concerning hate speach in itself. (I can easily shout out that I hate the world and everybody and their mom without being arrested. The thing that is forbidden are lies (against a certain part of history). For example what is called the "Auschwitz-Lüge" (claiming that Auschwitz never existed, and was just an invention of the US) and the like.
And remember the (West-)german political system was designed after the US's (those system are remarkably alike). So I'm not sure If in the descision to create this law, the US hasn't been involved. So the result is trading ( a small part of) free speech against for comfort in the immutible moral standard (which was , at least in part, was imposed by the allies, in order to keep lies from spreading, like the "Dolch-stoss-legende" after WWI, which at least in part helped the NSDAP gain Power, in order to help keeping WW III from happening, or at least from keeping the germans from thinking they need to start it) from which you can deviate, as long as you don't state those (false-, as seen by current History books) views as facts publicly. (I think that was my longest sentece I ever wrote) IANAL, so I do not have an absolute view on that all, IANAH either (I am not an Historian either) , but IAG (I am german), so I might have a little one sided view.
He was referring to all violent crime in general. It drops when the society is armed. This is a fact, regarless of the FUD spread about gun-control nuts.
I took the Following numbers: Numbers of thefts/Robberies (Field 66a + 66b) Numbers of Homocides ( Field 62e)
That's about what you wanted to compare, or? Well I compared the numbers for USA and Germany (that's where I live, and I know that Gun's are regulated quite strict here) as of 1995 (The newest numbers available).
The raw numbers are: USA Thefts/Roberies: 618.817 USA Homocides : 23.692
Ger Thefts/Roberies: 63.576 Ger Homocides : 1.680
Now considering the different population: USA : 272,639,608 GER : 82,087,361 (From CIA-Faktbook,all numbers from 1999) Sorry for the discrepancy between ne numbers from 1995 and 1999 but that's the only numbers I got.
Now lets calculate the above numbers per 100,000 inhabitants: (rounded to the tenth) USA Thefts/Roberies: 226.97 USA Homocides : 8.69
Ger Thefts/Roberies: 77.45 Ger Homocides : 2.05
Do you still hold up you oppinion? (Or can you give me facts supporting your oppinion?)
What I understand while reading the comments, The biggest problem is seen in the big and ugly Recording industry.
Then why don't we render it obsolete? While thinking about the whole situation, I kind of noticed a similarity between the Music business and the "internet Business". Both live from Ideas. (One in form of Music, one in form of Business plans) Both rely heavily on Marketing. (Look at the Marketing spending of Startups and at the ammounts spend by labels to push some music) Both rely completely from customer satisfaction. (I can think of more similarities but I hope you get the Point) So, I think, why shouldn't we model the music business more after the internet scene: create "insert Band name here" incorporated! We could have Venture capitalists which after listening to the music (instead of reading the business plan) invest money into the Band company. The Bands should have a "CEO" (manager) which invests the money from the VC into marketing, recording and all the other stuff related. If they are an success the VC company should get a (previously defined) share of the income.
Labels could change and instead make "consulting" business to the Band inc. There would be no need for the Big Record company's anymore.
I hope you see what I mean. It's basicly about creating new (would this be new?) structures for doing the old stuff. What do you think?
How about the WWW (as HTML/HTTP; not the Internet)? If I remember correctly Tim Berners-Lee was working in the CERN in Geneva (Switzerland) at that time?
And if I'm informed corectly he comes from the UK. So?
I do not think so. As I understand (If Echolon exists), The NSA has the ultimate say about which data any other Agency sees. So the Britains see only the Data they are allowed to see.
I guess you don't mean BMG but Bertelsmann (BMG = Bertelsmann Music group) which is the I belive 3rd biggest media company in the world. BTW Bertelsmann is IIRC not a publicly traded company. It's owned by 68,8 Prercent by the Bertelsmann foundation.The rest of the stock is owned by the family Mohn and an other foundation.
Babelfish yields some really funny stuff when English creeps into other lauguages. For instance, the English word "teenager" has crept into German; Babelfish translates it as "tea rodent". Reading this in a movie review, a room full my friends nearly died laughing.
Well even if this word has crept into the german language(we do use it), this mistake has a different origin. If you take the word "teenager" apart you have "Tee" = Tea and "Nager" (shortform of "Nagetier") = rodent.
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not completely right. They used to be a monopoly but the markets have been opened up. (But since they had a very good starting point, at least with landlines, they still have a very dominant market share.) Telekom is regulated but this regulation is at least supposed to open the markets further...
...and if I read correctly T-Online denied to be in talks with AOL...but...whatever... ;-)
T-Online in itself has been spun off, and is traded on the german stock exchanges...but probably Telekom still owns a majority of the shares...
Just my two cents...
what about:
//whatever
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}
should work rather nicely
The European Commision disaproved the merger, even after the company withdrew their proposal.
(So they can't just resubmit their proposal to the EC but have to make something new, should they descide to go ahead with their merger)
"Wie immer sind alle Angaben ohne Gewähr"
- Someday look up the 'general staff' system that the prussians introduced into warfare back in the war with france.. a long time ago.
The Prussians?I thought we talk about present Day Germany (not Pre-WW I) "Wie immer sind alle Angaben ohne Gewähr"
How did you put 8'' drives in 5 1/4 '' slots? (Just curious ;-)
Why do you all use Yahoo for an example for a spider/search Engine? ;-) "Wie immer sind alle Angaben ohne Gewähr"
This is really interesting as Yahoo is not one of these. (And AFAIK never has been). It's just a directory.
What you probably mean is Inktomi, which provides this service for Yahoo.
What's the English word for Klugscheisser?
Well you would if they then tell you to leave, and you don't.
And AFAIK that's what happened here.
"Wie immer sind alle Angaben ohne Gewähr"
well let me disagree:
There is a big difference in the Forming of the USA and uniting long existing Nations into one State/republic/Nation/whatever.
Just look what problems we have in the EU which (at least that's what I hope) will be the government of Europe. (Your world government a order of magnitude smaller).
(And Europe has quite similar cultures compared with all nations of Earth)
But i agree on the other aspect you state.
"Wie immer sind alle Angaben ohne Gewähr"
Well that would not be that easy.
The laws in Germany restricting free speach, are not concerning hate speach in itself. (I can easily shout out that I hate the world and everybody and their mom without being arrested.
The thing that is forbidden are lies (against a certain part of history). For example what is called the "Auschwitz-Lüge" (claiming that Auschwitz never existed, and was just an invention of the US) and the like.
And remember the (West-)german political system was designed after the US's (those system are remarkably alike). So I'm not sure If in the descision to create this law, the US hasn't been involved.
"Wie immer sind alle Angaben ohne Gewähr"So the result is trading ( a small part of) free speech against for comfort in the immutible moral standard (which was , at least in part, was imposed by the allies, in order to keep lies from spreading, like the "Dolch-stoss-legende" after WWI, which at least in part helped the NSDAP gain Power, in order to help keeping WW III from happening, or at least from keeping the germans from thinking they need to start it) from which you can deviate, as long as you don't state those (false-, as seen by current History books) views as facts publicly.
(I think that was my longest sentece I ever wrote)
IANAL, so I do not have an absolute view on that all, IANAH either (I am not an Historian either) , but IAG (I am german), so I might have a little one sided view.
Fact? can I see that statistics?
I myself just took the data of the UNITED NATIONS CRIME AND JUSTICE INFORMATION NETWORK which offers international crime statistics in a database (Access 97)
I took the Following numbers:
Numbers of thefts/Robberies (Field 66a + 66b)
Numbers of Homocides ( Field 62e)
That's about what you wanted to compare, or?
Well I compared the numbers for USA and Germany (that's where I live, and I know that Gun's are regulated quite strict here) as of 1995 (The newest numbers available).
The raw numbers are:
USA Thefts/Roberies: 618.817
USA Homocides : 23.692
Ger Thefts/Roberies: 63.576
Ger Homocides : 1.680
Now considering the different population:
USA : 272,639,608
GER : 82,087,361
(From CIA-Faktbook,all numbers from 1999)
Sorry for the discrepancy between ne numbers from 1995 and 1999 but that's the only numbers I got.
Now lets calculate the above numbers per 100,000 inhabitants:
(rounded to the tenth)
USA Thefts/Roberies: 226.97
USA Homocides : 8.69
Ger Thefts/Roberies: 77.45
Ger Homocides : 2.05
Do you still hold up you oppinion? (Or can you give me facts supporting your oppinion?)
What I understand while reading the comments, The biggest problem is seen in the big and ugly Recording industry.
Then why don't we render it obsolete?
While thinking about the whole situation, I kind of noticed a similarity between the Music business and the "internet Business".
Both live from Ideas. (One in form of Music, one in form of Business plans)
Both rely heavily on Marketing. (Look at the Marketing spending of Startups and at the ammounts spend by labels to push some music)
Both rely completely from customer satisfaction.
(I can think of more similarities but I hope you get the Point)
So, I think, why shouldn't we model the music business more after the internet scene: create "insert Band name here" incorporated!
We could have Venture capitalists which after listening to the music (instead of reading the business plan) invest money into the Band company.
The Bands should have a "CEO" (manager) which invests the money from the VC into marketing, recording and all the other stuff related.
If they are an success the VC company should get a (previously defined) share of the income.
Labels could change and instead make "consulting" business to the Band inc.
There would be no need for the Big Record company's anymore.
I hope you see what I mean. It's basicly about creating new (would this be new?) structures for doing the old stuff. What do you think?
If I remember correctly Tim Berners-Lee was working in the CERN in Geneva (Switzerland) at that time?
And if I'm informed corectly he comes from the UK. So?
So the Britains see only the Data they are allowed to see.
"Wie immer alle Angaben ohne Gewähr"
ASAIK FUD := Fear, Uncertanty and Doubt
I guess you don't mean BMG but Bertelsmann (BMG = Bertelsmann Music group) which is the I belive 3rd biggest media company in the world.
BTW Bertelsmann is IIRC not a publicly traded company. It's owned by 68,8 Prercent by the Bertelsmann foundation.The rest of the stock is owned by the family Mohn and an other foundation.
The reason it wasn't mentioned in any US news source was, that they just test it in germany.
Only if it succesfull here, they will use it world wide.
UUPPS, i meant this IS a risk!
Well actually Him IS quite popular (The current Single is No. 1 in Germany) So i don't think this is a risk.
Well even if this word has crept into the german language(we do use it), this mistake has a different origin. If you take the word "teenager" apart you have "Tee" = Tea and "Nager" (shortform of "Nagetier") = rodent.