I don't like SMS (never liked it at all) as typing on a phone is clumsy. So any messenger that relies on a phone does not work for me. And while T9 is helpful in many cases, sometimes it really gets in my way as sometimes it does insist on other words than the one I plan to type, and if I am sending SMS in other languages, it totally screws things up, and changing the language settings for each message is just a pain in the ass. (Yes, I had the situation that I was working on a project with people talking english and at the same time had a conversation with german speaking friends, and in the end, I had to switch languages for each single SMS).
It's because people who complain about "big government" are mostly people having no clue about what a government really does. The only reason why the bottle you get at the supermarket with the label "milk" actually contains milk and only milk (and some air in the remaining volume) is big government with big regulations strangulating supermarkets, manufacturers of bottles for food and producers of milk to strictly adhere to the rules, not putting melamine into it, make sure the bottles are hygienically without any (known) problems, don't leak dangerous compounds in the milk and actually contain milk, not just som whiteish fluid.
There never was a peaceful society without a big government. There are only legends invented by people never living in societies with a weak or non-existant government about some utopia they just pulled out of their ass.
The worst part is that you didn't even read till the last paragraph and still try to educate others about what they seemingly didn't notice. Otherwise you would have noticed that a) him the man in the house being accused despite the the internet access being on the name of his partner is a big part of the story b) his partner being out of a job too in connection with the case and having developed ME in the meantime is especially mentioned. c) His child now having mental issues with being able to trust someone because of is father suddenly being away without any good explanation given. Thus the life of all three people living at the address at the time is ruined. But you only focus on the male. Why?
If you read the article, you will stumble upon another problem.
Fake news often come as a statement, which has not been denied yet. At the moment the fake news is all the rage, there are no credible refutations. They just appear after the fake news leaves the bubble and someone is really determined to get to the ground and comes up with some evidence to the contrary. If Google (or any other news source) tries to algorithmically find the one true answer, all they have to build on are rumours spreading everywhere and thus apparently confirming the fake news.
The starting point was the question if Warren G. Harding was a member in the KKK. If you look at the wikipedia pages, online biographies or other sources, no one explicitely states "No, there is no evidence that Warren G. Harding was a member in the KKK.". It will in general be that way, because otherwise the list of things Warren G. Harding wasn't would be infinitely long. He neither was a chinese mandarin nor a poisonous frog, he never went to the moon, and he was not made from steel sheets. He's nothing to eat, and none of his mollusculous appendicles ever touched the Earth's core.
We have a new version of Russell's teapot here: You can come up with any random statement, and the probability is high that you don't find a debunking of that statement somewhere on the internet. So there is nothing online to prove that this random statement is false, and the attempt to find the One True Answer will confirm the statement, turning a not denied statement apparently into a true one.
Christian Ude (SPD) was mayor of Munich between 1993 and 2014, and now it's Dieter Reiter (SPD). There hasn't been any non-SPD mayor of Munich since the late 1940ies, now for nearly 70 years. And the Greens have never had more seats in the Munich city council than since 2014, while the SPD never had less seats than now since 1952.
I agree wholeheartedly, and I want to add some other arguments against panspermia.
We know that simple organic compounds form spontaneously from anorganic matter. Amino acids like lysine or nucleic acids for instance appear, if you treat a mixture of water, carbondioxide and nitrogenium with lightning. So yes, organic compounds have been found in comets or meteorids, but that's because they are quite aboundant in space and form sponaneously given the right conditions.
Yes, some of those compounds on Earth might have arrived via a cosmic impact, but it seems they were just the literal drop in an ocean of organic compounds formed on Earth itself. And an asteroid impact sets free a large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear detonation, which means that any more complex molecules have been destroyed by the impact.
And allthough organic matter forms spontaneously from anorganic matter, and organic matter can be transported via comets and other cosmic debris, if it arrives somewhere where life might form, there is a high probability that life has already formed there, when the organic matter arrives from space, and then it's just some additional nutrient for the local life forms, but it will not be the origin of a completely new life.
Of course guns are dangerous. That's the point. The answer may be gun control to limit the number of guns in a society. Or perhaps the US feels that the freedom to own guns is, as previously stated,,something more important that the concerns that people will do deadly harm towards others.
Of course guns are dangerous, but to whom? According to the numbers of the CDC, they are mostly dangerous to yourself. Of the 30,000 gun related deaths per year, 18,000 were of people who killed themselves, either deliberately or accidently. They are also quite dangerous to family members and acquaintances, as 9,000 people per year are killed either deliberately or accidently with a gun by family members or acquaintances. Only in 10 percent of all cases, guns were dangerous to someone you didn't know before. Of the 30,000 gun related deaths, 27,000 were by people having access to the weapons of the victim.
Given recent events in Europe, with so many people getting killed by being run over and stabbed, I don't think Europeans have any standing to be smug about their gun laws.
We had exactly two cases in Europe where a terroristic attack was performed with a truck, and at least in one case, it was gun related (the Berlin attack), where the suspect captured the truck at gunpoint. At both occasions, the total number of people killed in car accidents in Europe at the same day is about the same range (the average number of traffic deaths per day is about 70 in the E.U.). Stabbings happen, but most of them are between family members and acquaintances (as most homicides are in general). Terroristic attacks with knifes are a very rare occurrence. Right now, I remember only three cases with only one victim dead that was not the attacker himself.
So yes. Europeans still can be smug about their gun laws. Given U.S. numbers, it saves us about 40,000 gun related killings per year in the E.U.
From a language point of view, Caucasian and Aryan is synonymous. The proto-indoeuropean or proto-aryan languages developed between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, which are connected by the Caucasus Mountain Range. There is a western branch of the languages (celts, romans, germans, slaws, baltians, albanians, greeks, armenians etc.pp.), and an eastern branch (sanskrit, hindi, urdu, bengali, persian, pashto, kurdish...). Two other branches of the languages have died out, the Anatolian and the Tocharian languages.
That excludes everyone coming from the Mayflower and anyone arriving later. The 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower will be Nov 21 2020. On the other hand, Nieuw Amsterdam, today's New York, was probably founded between 1611 and 1614, so the descendants of the founding fathers of New York would be admitted.
See, how arbitrary even "400 years" is? Cape Cod no, New York (in its incarnation as Nieuw Amsterdam) yes.
The health care system in Germany is not owned by the government. There are hospitals that are owned by the respective town, district or state, but it's no requirement. No one forbids you in Germany to open your own hospital, employ your own physicians and make your own contracts with the health insurers. All practitioners are privately owned businesses, and most of them have contracts with all health insurers. The health insurers themselves are not necessarily governmentally owned either. There are health insurers which in fact are governmentally owned (the Ortskrankenkassen, municipal health insurers). But there are also cooperative health insurers, health insurers owned by private companies for their own employees (called Betriebskrankenkassen, corporate health insurers), and private health insurance companies.
The main difference is that there is a group of health insurers called Gesetzliche Krankenkassen (health insurers according to law), which are heavily regulated and whose service offerings are governmentally controlled. If you earn less than a specified amount of money as an employee, you are required to get coverage from such an institution. Which institution is up to you, it just has to offer you the contract according to law. There are about 100 different health insurers in Germany, which offer coverage according to law, and most of them operate through the whole of Germany. You are free to buy additional insurance if you want more or better services. If you are on social security, you are automatically insured by a Gesetzliche Krankenkasse. If you are self employed, operate your own business or earn more than the limit, you are completely free in your choice of health insurance.
The definition of an OS is that it controls all resources of a computer and shares them between the applications. A single task system would not be an OS, as in a single task system the running application has full control of all resources of a computer. Thus DOS is actually a program loader, not a computer operating system.
In the original sense, anti-Semitic actually meant anti-Jewish. Back in the 19th century, when Racism was still appearing to be scientific, people pointed out that they weren't against Jews because of them being Jews, they said that Jews belonged to an inferior race called the Semites. Thus they claimed to have a scientific foundation to be against Jews, not just anti-Jewish prejudices. As there weren't any Arabs to speak of living in Europe in the 19th century. this expansion of anti-Judaism to anti-Semitism didn't hurt in the general discussion, as there were no Arabs visible being targeted. And as many Arabian countries were conquered and colonized by France and Britain in Northern Africa, the expansion of anti-Judaism to anti-Semitism didn't hurt either. Germany tried to foster good relations to the Osman Empire, which in turn had colonialized most other arab territory, thus anti-Semitism didn't hurt either, as the Turks are no Semites.
After World War I, most arab territory was either a french or british colony, a League of Nations mandate for France or Britain, or it was ruled by the Hashemite and Ibn-Saud dynasties, thus anti-Judaism in Germany was continued to be used as a proxy for being anti-Jewish, as Germany had no direct contact with the Arab regions.
Yes, it's Milgram all over again. The seemingly knowledgable expert is replaced by the seemingly neutral algorithm, and thus people blindly follow their directions.
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There is an old saying: The heretic is the person who has nearly the same belief than you.
I don't like SMS (never liked it at all) as typing on a phone is clumsy. So any messenger that relies on a phone does not work for me. And while T9 is helpful in many cases, sometimes it really gets in my way as sometimes it does insist on other words than the one I plan to type, and if I am sending SMS in other languages, it totally screws things up, and changing the language settings for each message is just a pain in the ass. (Yes, I had the situation that I was working on a project with people talking english and at the same time had a conversation with german speaking friends, and in the end, I had to switch languages for each single SMS).
There never was a peaceful society without a big government. There are only legends invented by people never living in societies with a weak or non-existant government about some utopia they just pulled out of their ass.
There are no pension funds like in the U.S. in the UK, so this doesn't work either. Also the pensions are paid by tax money.
The worst part is that you didn't even read till the last paragraph and still try to educate others about what they seemingly didn't notice. Otherwise you would have noticed that a) him the man in the house being accused despite the the internet access being on the name of his partner is a big part of the story b) his partner being out of a job too in connection with the case and having developed ME in the meantime is especially mentioned. c) His child now having mental issues with being able to trust someone because of is father suddenly being away without any good explanation given. Thus the life of all three people living at the address at the time is ruined. But you only focus on the male. Why?
Fake news often come as a statement, which has not been denied yet. At the moment the fake news is all the rage, there are no credible refutations. They just appear after the fake news leaves the bubble and someone is really determined to get to the ground and comes up with some evidence to the contrary. If Google (or any other news source) tries to algorithmically find the one true answer, all they have to build on are rumours spreading everywhere and thus apparently confirming the fake news.
The starting point was the question if Warren G. Harding was a member in the KKK. If you look at the wikipedia pages, online biographies or other sources, no one explicitely states "No, there is no evidence that Warren G. Harding was a member in the KKK.". It will in general be that way, because otherwise the list of things Warren G. Harding wasn't would be infinitely long. He neither was a chinese mandarin nor a poisonous frog, he never went to the moon, and he was not made from steel sheets. He's nothing to eat, and none of his mollusculous appendicles ever touched the Earth's core.
We have a new version of Russell's teapot here: You can come up with any random statement, and the probability is high that you don't find a debunking of that statement somewhere on the internet. So there is nothing online to prove that this random statement is false, and the attempt to find the One True Answer will confirm the statement, turning a not denied statement apparently into a true one.
Christian Ude (SPD) was mayor of Munich between 1993 and 2014, and now it's Dieter Reiter (SPD). There hasn't been any non-SPD mayor of Munich since the late 1940ies, now for nearly 70 years. And the Greens have never had more seats in the Munich city council than since 2014, while the SPD never had less seats than now since 1952.
The German HQ of Microsoft was in Munich since I remember. At least in the 1990ies, it was in Munich already.
Yes, definitely two different parties here at work.
Microsoft's German HQ moved to Munich even before the LiMux client was ever christened.
As I said: I doubt that any long compounds of amino acids or nucleic acids survive a meteor strike.
We know that simple organic compounds form spontaneously from anorganic matter. Amino acids like lysine or nucleic acids for instance appear, if you treat a mixture of water, carbondioxide and nitrogenium with lightning. So yes, organic compounds have been found in comets or meteorids, but that's because they are quite aboundant in space and form sponaneously given the right conditions.
Yes, some of those compounds on Earth might have arrived via a cosmic impact, but it seems they were just the literal drop in an ocean of organic compounds formed on Earth itself. And an asteroid impact sets free a large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear detonation, which means that any more complex molecules have been destroyed by the impact.
And allthough organic matter forms spontaneously from anorganic matter, and organic matter can be transported via comets and other cosmic debris, if it arrives somewhere where life might form, there is a high probability that life has already formed there, when the organic matter arrives from space, and then it's just some additional nutrient for the local life forms, but it will not be the origin of a completely new life.
So is money, if you don't spend it, or spend it on worthless things.
Of course guns are dangerous. That's the point. The answer may be gun control to limit the number of guns in a society. Or perhaps the US feels that the freedom to own guns is, as previously stated,,something more important that the concerns that people will do deadly harm towards others.
Of course guns are dangerous, but to whom? According to the numbers of the CDC, they are mostly dangerous to yourself. Of the 30,000 gun related deaths per year, 18,000 were of people who killed themselves, either deliberately or accidently. They are also quite dangerous to family members and acquaintances, as 9,000 people per year are killed either deliberately or accidently with a gun by family members or acquaintances. Only in 10 percent of all cases, guns were dangerous to someone you didn't know before. Of the 30,000 gun related deaths, 27,000 were by people having access to the weapons of the victim.
Given recent events in Europe, with so many people getting killed by being run over and stabbed, I don't think Europeans have any standing to be smug about their gun laws.
We had exactly two cases in Europe where a terroristic attack was performed with a truck, and at least in one case, it was gun related (the Berlin attack), where the suspect captured the truck at gunpoint. At both occasions, the total number of people killed in car accidents in Europe at the same day is about the same range (the average number of traffic deaths per day is about 70 in the E.U.). Stabbings happen, but most of them are between family members and acquaintances (as most homicides are in general). Terroristic attacks with knifes are a very rare occurrence. Right now, I remember only three cases with only one victim dead that was not the attacker himself.
So yes. Europeans still can be smug about their gun laws. Given U.S. numbers, it saves us about 40,000 gun related killings per year in the E.U.
The Caucasus mountains are Asian too, at least their southern part is. Does that makes all Caucasians half asian?
It's ok. Many people make the error to correct others without being correct themselves.
From a language point of view, Caucasian and Aryan is synonymous. The proto-indoeuropean or proto-aryan languages developed between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, which are connected by the Caucasus Mountain Range. There is a western branch of the languages (celts, romans, germans, slaws, baltians, albanians, greeks, armenians etc.pp.), and an eastern branch (sanskrit, hindi, urdu, bengali, persian, pashto, kurdish...). Two other branches of the languages have died out, the Anatolian and the Tocharian languages.
It was. You could get new land without having to pay for it. Instead of welfare money. the U.S. handed out welfare property.
See, how arbitrary even "400 years" is? Cape Cod no, New York (in its incarnation as Nieuw Amsterdam) yes.
The main difference is that there is a group of health insurers called Gesetzliche Krankenkassen (health insurers according to law), which are heavily regulated and whose service offerings are governmentally controlled. If you earn less than a specified amount of money as an employee, you are required to get coverage from such an institution. Which institution is up to you, it just has to offer you the contract according to law. There are about 100 different health insurers in Germany, which offer coverage according to law, and most of them operate through the whole of Germany. You are free to buy additional insurance if you want more or better services. If you are on social security, you are automatically insured by a Gesetzliche Krankenkasse. If you are self employed, operate your own business or earn more than the limit, you are completely free in your choice of health insurance.
The definition of an OS is that it controls all resources of a computer and shares them between the applications. A single task system would not be an OS, as in a single task system the running application has full control of all resources of a computer. Thus DOS is actually a program loader, not a computer operating system.
After World War I, most arab territory was either a french or british colony, a League of Nations mandate for France or Britain, or it was ruled by the Hashemite and Ibn-Saud dynasties, thus anti-Judaism in Germany was continued to be used as a proxy for being anti-Jewish, as Germany had no direct contact with the Arab regions.
If all the blacks leave, then you are leaving too, as we are all descendents from people coming out of Africa.
Yes, it's Milgram all over again. The seemingly knowledgable expert is replaced by the seemingly neutral algorithm, and thus people blindly follow their directions.