The only Android tablet you can get right now is the Motorola Xoom on Verizon. It won't work anywhere but the US, it's overpriced, and it's from Motorola (yuck). (The Galaxy Tab doesn't run tablet software; it's a big smartphone, and pretty successful at that.)
Wait a year until HTC, Samsung, and others have started shipping tablets and Android tablets will catch up quickly.
The Xoom is actually pretty good hardware. The problem is that you can only get it in the US and only on Verizon. It's also a Motorola product and Motorola has really pissed off a lot of early adopters.
Keep in mind that we can also reduce the cost of doing business in the US. For example, reducing regulation, cutting Social Security, eliminating the mandates on employer health insurance, etc.
We could, but why would we want to? The benefits of having decent health care are much larger than the benefits of paying $5 for an imported Chinese-made T-shirt instead of the $10-$15 we should be paying.
How is throwing more money after bad money (subsidized air travel, investments in inefficient modes of transportation) a good idea?
And drilling in ANWR is a drop in the bucket for unemployment. If you want to lower unemployment, we need to make more of what we use domestically, and the only way to do that is to devalue the dollar.
I strongly suggest to work on your own problems, as you seem to have no clue what is going on here in germany.
I was living in Germany for years. You haven't even been to the US.
"The Germans" that are 80 millin people. If 4 of them attack a foreigner it is not the fault of the other 7999996 people living here.
There were about 18000 hate crimes in 2006 in Germany, with a growing trend. And since Germany is a democracy, that is the fault of all Germans, since all Germans have the political power to change it.
As I said above, perhaps you should focus on the problems in your own country.
That's indeed where Americans focus. That's why the American press talks so much about racism, the morality of war, etc.
But there's a limit to how much shit we're going to take from people like you. Take your own advice and fix your own country: it is in dire need of political change and democratization. You said so yourself.
We have no EXCEPTIONS for email, email is handled exactly the same as paper mail.
Absolutely correct: and like paper mail, it can be read by the German government without a court order. And that makes German (e-)mail no more secure or private than US (e-)mail.
Because if man is to survive as a species, we must leave this planet.
In a few centuries, yes. Until then, the creation of self-sustaining colonies is not going to happen.
To leave this planet, we must advance the state of the art. To advance the state of the art, we must spend money on human space exploration/colonization.
Right now, to advance the state of the art, we must spend money on robotic space exploration, automated manufacturing, biotech, etc., because without those things, human space colonization is never going to happen.
Colonization of earth was easy because all you really need is a bunch of healthy, fertile humans anywhere and they can survive and build a civilization. But humans are far too costly and inefficient at exploring and working in space.
If you want colonization of space, the most efficient thing to do is focusing on the workforce that can actually support it, and that means massive investment in space robotics. In addition, we need to invest in adapting humans to space better.
In some places in Europe, you don't have to pay extra at all; you can use your tablet on the same plan. Also, in many places in Europe, you can get a data plan for EU5-10/month.
why opt for bluetooth over wifi, especially when they are usually built into the same chipset. There is no power saving involved in one over the other.
Bluetooth uses much less power because it has less range and is slower. But its range and speed are perfect for personal area networks.
What makes tablets so nice is their instant-on capability: no flipping open, no restore, etc. If you tether, you lose that since you need to turn on the smartphone manually on demand.
The situation would be better if manufacturers offered Bluetooth tethering; you could leave that on constantly because it doesn't drain the battery. But many phone/tablet combos don't have that.
Tablet plans are fairly cheap these days, so why not?
Half your posts are "conclusions" you have pulled out of your arse, connecting things together that have no connection at all. This is because of that, rofl. Most of your causal connections are either "self invented" by your teachers, or by yourself.
Well, you're welcome to challenge my conclusions and those of historians with actual facts and arguments.
You always jump to the Weimarer Republic and start drawing conclusions from there
Oh, no, you misunderstand: my conclusions, namely that modern Germany is fairly xenophobic, racist, and intolerant compared to other Western democracies are based on current data.
I mention the Weimar Republic only to point out that these attitudes have a long history in Germany and that Germans have changed much less than you think they have.
The context was where people should store their mail to have it protected better in the US. You claimed that "For email apply the same laws as for paper mails... at least in germany and most european countries. If you want to read them you need a search warrant." In actual fact, the US and Germany both have similar exceptions, so in the context, your statement and recommendation was false.
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For sugar, the LD50 is >10,000 mg per kg of body weight.
That would be 1-2 pounds of sugar, or 2000-4000 calories. You'll survive that taken once. If you do it every day, it will cause obesity with near certainty (and/or malnutrition if you don't eat anything else).
Point is: there is never any reason to consume sugar. There are better and cheaper ways of getting calories.
Second point is: many people are consuming sugar at levels that cause disease and eventually death. So, he is saying that the dosage that many people actually are consuming is toxic.
Yes, but you don't have a choice with water: you need it to survive. You do not need to consume sugar to survive. The small quantities of sugars that occur naturally in foods clearly won't hurt you.
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There are things wrong with that "rebuttal", but it is irrelevant anyway. Sucrose, glucose, fructose, and HFCS have little nutritional value. There is no benefit and no reason for consuming large quantities of them. Unless you're accustomed to the taste, it doesn't even taste good. And it's clear that if you consume them in cold drinks, ice cream, etc. you can consume far too many calories in this form without noticing. So, just lay off the sugar, period.
And again: you jumped the topic without noticing I assume. My claim is: E-mail is equivalent to postal mail. Thats all!
Your claim is:
For email apply the same laws as for paper mails... at least in germany and most european countries. If you want to read them you need a search warrant.
Your claim is wrong both E-mail, paper mail, and phone conversations.
The BND is an exception just like the CIA or NSA is... so what is your fucking point? You start to annoy me. You don't want to admit that you are wrong.
That is my point: in Germany, just like the US, E-mail can, under some circumstances, be accessed without a court order.
The BND *asked* their supervisors to do the surveillance!! Der Geheimdienst hatte auf die internationale Terrorgefahr verwiesen, als er die TelefonÃf¼berwachung am 14. September 2001 beim Bundesinnenministerium beantragte.
Search warrant or court order required? No, since the Bundesinnenministerium is not a court of law.
If you dig a little deeper, you'll see that the BND routinely monitors international calls (from their facility in Pullach). It's neither a secret or a great mystery. And they did the same thing back in the 1970's and 1980's for calls to/from East Germany. The have general authority to do that and don't need a court order for each instance. God only knows what the German "Verfassungsschutz" does.
Unions-Fraktionschef Volker Kauder (CDU) weist Forderungen aus den Reihen der Opposition zurück, den Islam als Religionsgemeinschaft in Deutschland mit den christlichen Kirchen gleichzustellen. Das gehe âzin eine vÃllig falsche Richtungâoe, sagte Kauder der âzBildâoe-Zeitung. Eine Gleichstellung wÃre kein Beitrag zur Integration, sondern würde die Probleme nur verschÃrfen.
This is one of the major political debates in Germany. I mean, really, how uninformed and disconnected from reality can any one person be?
Anyway, perhaps you find a case of religious suppression or what ever your problem with germany and religion is.
The preferential treatment of the Catholic and Protestant churches by the German government is a fundamental and serious violation of religious freedom. It is also a violation of the German constitution, which requires this preferential treatment to be abolished. You say you "don't care", but you are paying for it even if you have left the church and pay no church tax. Do some research on it: there is tons of material, also in German.
As far as I can see, only you have shown prejudices so far. And you did not answer any of my questions.
They are not "prejudices"; I lived in Germany for nearly a decade, my parents are German, I studied German and German history.
Bottom line: if you want to teach me, then give me an example.
I don't want to teach you. Get off your butt and learn something about your own history and government instead of talking about what how you imagine Germany to work. It's just one factually false statement after another from you, starting with the your false claim that E-mail in Germany can only be examined under court order.
What exactly in "religious freedom" do you want to enforce, if there is no obvious "mis treating" or what ever happening? The only thing I would perhaps want to enforce is that three is *no christian cross* in class rooms of public schools (unless they are schools belonging to the church ofc). Again you don't bring any example. There is a simple saying: Wo kein KlÃfger, da kein Richter. Even you as a foreigner can go to court and accuse the responsible parties for not following oor enforcing the relevant constitution paragraph.
I'm sorry, but I can't make up for your years of disinterest in your nation and politics in a few Slashdot posts. Do you even know who your constitutional judges are? What their background is? What cases have come before them over the last few years? If you did, you wouldn't make such silly statements. And while you're at it, read up on SCOTUS cases and decisions and US history; there's a lot more to it than "it was founded in 1776 and there was slavery or apartheid until the 1950's".
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The only Android tablet you can get right now is the Motorola Xoom on Verizon. It won't work anywhere but the US, it's overpriced, and it's from Motorola (yuck). (The Galaxy Tab doesn't run tablet software; it's a big smartphone, and pretty successful at that.)
Wait a year until HTC, Samsung, and others have started shipping tablets and Android tablets will catch up quickly.
The Xoom is actually pretty good hardware. The problem is that you can only get it in the US and only on Verizon. It's also a Motorola product and Motorola has really pissed off a lot of early adopters.
It keeps the riff-raff out.
We could, but why would we want to? The benefits of having decent health care are much larger than the benefits of paying $5 for an imported Chinese-made T-shirt instead of the $10-$15 we should be paying.
How is throwing more money after bad money (subsidized air travel, investments in inefficient modes of transportation) a good idea?
And drilling in ANWR is a drop in the bucket for unemployment. If you want to lower unemployment, we need to make more of what we use domestically, and the only way to do that is to devalue the dollar.
I was living in Germany for years. You haven't even been to the US.
There were about 18000 hate crimes in 2006 in Germany, with a growing trend. And since Germany is a democracy, that is the fault of all Germans, since all Germans have the political power to change it.
That's indeed where Americans focus. That's why the American press talks so much about racism, the morality of war, etc.
But there's a limit to how much shit we're going to take from people like you. Take your own advice and fix your own country: it is in dire need of political change and democratization. You said so yourself.
Absolutely correct: and like paper mail, it can be read by the German government without a court order. And that makes German (e-)mail no more secure or private than US (e-)mail.
In a few centuries, yes. Until then, the creation of self-sustaining colonies is not going to happen.
Right now, to advance the state of the art, we must spend money on robotic space exploration, automated manufacturing, biotech, etc., because without those things, human space colonization is never going to happen.
Colonization of earth was easy because all you really need is a bunch of healthy, fertile humans anywhere and they can survive and build a civilization. But humans are far too costly and inefficient at exploring and working in space.
If you want colonization of space, the most efficient thing to do is focusing on the workforce that can actually support it, and that means massive investment in space robotics. In addition, we need to invest in adapting humans to space better.
In some places in Europe, you don't have to pay extra at all; you can use your tablet on the same plan. Also, in many places in Europe, you can get a data plan for EU5-10/month.
Bluetooth uses much less power because it has less range and is slower. But its range and speed are perfect for personal area networks.
What makes tablets so nice is their instant-on capability: no flipping open, no restore, etc. If you tether, you lose that since you need to turn on the smartphone manually on demand.
The situation would be better if manufacturers offered Bluetooth tethering; you could leave that on constantly because it doesn't drain the battery. But many phone/tablet combos don't have that.
Tablet plans are fairly cheap these days, so why not?
The following work pretty well for day-to-day use:
1 qt = 1 l
1 yd = 1 m
2 lbs = 1 kg
3 ft = 1 m
1 gal = 4 l
2 mile = 3 km
3 oz = 100 ml
3 oz = 100 g
4 in = 10 cm
1 grain = 1/20 g
Well, you're welcome to challenge my conclusions and those of historians with actual facts and arguments.
Oh, no, you misunderstand: my conclusions, namely that modern Germany is fairly xenophobic, racist, and intolerant compared to other Western democracies are based on current data.
I mention the Weimar Republic only to point out that these attitudes have a long history in Germany and that Germans have changed much less than you think they have.
The context was where people should store their mail to have it protected better in the US. You claimed that "For email apply the same laws as for paper mails ... at least in germany and most european countries. If you want to read them you need a search warrant." In actual fact, the US and Germany both have similar exceptions, so in the context, your statement and recommendation was false.
That would be 1-2 pounds of sugar, or 2000-4000 calories. You'll survive that taken once. If you do it every day, it will cause obesity with near certainty (and/or malnutrition if you don't eat anything else).
Point is: there is never any reason to consume sugar. There are better and cheaper ways of getting calories.
Second point is: many people are consuming sugar at levels that cause disease and eventually death. So, he is saying that the dosage that many people actually are consuming is toxic.
Yes, but you don't have a choice with water: you need it to survive. You do not need to consume sugar to survive. The small quantities of sugars that occur naturally in foods clearly won't hurt you.
There are things wrong with that "rebuttal", but it is irrelevant anyway. Sucrose, glucose, fructose, and HFCS have little nutritional value. There is no benefit and no reason for consuming large quantities of them. Unless you're accustomed to the taste, it doesn't even taste good. And it's clear that if you consume them in cold drinks, ice cream, etc. you can consume far too many calories in this form without noticing. So, just lay off the sugar, period.
Well, you have an Abitur, a Bachelor, and a Master. Thanks for demonstrating just what level of historical and political awareness that entails.
Your claim is:
Your claim is wrong both E-mail, paper mail, and phone conversations.
That is my point: in Germany, just like the US, E-mail can, under some circumstances, be accessed without a court order.
Search warrant or court order required? No, since the Bundesinnenministerium is not a court of law.
Like what?
I gave you the law:
http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/g10_2001/BJNR125410001.html
Here are some newspaper analyses:
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/entwicklung-der-sicherheitsgesetze-viele-jaeger-sind-der-freiheit-tod-1.377313
http://www.welt.de/politik/article1589067/BND_darf_Telefonate_von_Verdaechtigen_abhoeren.html
If you dig a little deeper, you'll see that the BND routinely monitors international calls (from their facility in Pullach). It's neither a secret or a great mystery. And they did the same thing back in the 1970's and 1980's for calls to/from East Germany. The have general authority to do that and don't need a court order for each instance. God only knows what the German "Verfassungsschutz" does.
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This is one of the major political debates in Germany. I mean, really, how uninformed and disconnected from reality can any one person be?
The preferential treatment of the Catholic and Protestant churches by the German government is a fundamental and serious violation of religious freedom. It is also a violation of the German constitution, which requires this preferential treatment to be abolished. You say you "don't care", but you are paying for it even if you have left the church and pay no church tax. Do some research on it: there is tons of material, also in German.
They are not "prejudices"; I lived in Germany for nearly a decade, my parents are German, I studied German and German history.
I don't want to teach you. Get off your butt and learn something about your own history and government instead of talking about what how you imagine Germany to work. It's just one factually false statement after another from you, starting with the your false claim that E-mail in Germany can only be examined under court order.
I'm sorry, but I can't make up for your years of disinterest in your nation and politics in a few Slashdot posts. Do you even know who your constitutional judges are? What their background is? What cases have come before them over the last few years? If you did, you wouldn't make such silly statements. And while you're at it, read up on SCOTUS cases and decisions and US history; there's a lot more to it than "it was founded in 1776 and there was slavery or apartheid until the 1950's".