It's important that the population have access to public broadcast, therefore such fees should be paid out of public taxes, not be paid by an individual/household levy. Radio/tv is an excellent way to ensure your population is kept up-to-date on current news, weather, emergencies, etc etc. And panic-inducing word-of-mouth rumour mongering is kept to a minimum as everyone can hear the same information from reliable, multiple sources.
The very reason why funding by fee and not from general taxation is the fact that the influence of political bodies like the government or parties is reduced versus payment from general taxes. The funding out of the budget can be cut if the journalists are not in line with the governmental ideas and opinions. The best example is Italy under Berlusconi.
Thats plainly wrong as it is to fund the TV Program, not the distribution technology. The internet technology is already funded by the users via access fees. And by the way, it is a fee, not a tax as it is assigned to a specific use. A tax by definition is assigned to the general account of the state and not bound to specific use.
I have to make a little correction. The money isn't paid to the state but to the public Radio and TV Stations. They are not owned by state. They are controlled by commissions in which every political and social relevant group has the right to participate. These commissions have no influence on the actual program and cannot take action on investigative journalists for the undesirable revelation of scandals. In fact the public TV and radio networks in germany are making the best investigative political magazines which even the federal chancellor or the prime ministers of the states are fearing like hell. In contrary the commercial stations only produce trash and are much more partisan. By the way, everything concerning media and culture is not federal matter but is exclusively ruled by the states which cooperate especially in matters of media by treaties (Staatsverträge). So the right address for any complaints is not Berlin but the 16 state governments.
Classical breeding has no relationship to genetic manipulation. The simple truth with gentech is, its not needed with one exception: Cash for Monsanto, Syngenta et. al. There is strong evidence, that genetically changed crop not simply harms the farmers bot helps take the,m hostage by Monsanto etc. Look at India and the rice and cotton plants. They have less quality and you dont need less but more herbizides and insectizides. Furthermore they are designed to not being fertile anymore so that you cannot gain seeds from your harvest. If I would get knowledge of a field with genetically seeds I would burn it down. That should be done with every single plant of genetically altered Plants!!
The most useful way for Americans would be to cut the fuelconsumption of their cars. And if Detroit doesnt get it right then buy Japanese or European cars. Also the improvement of public transportation would be useful. thats for teh transportation sector. In housing throw away those mad airconditioners and build your houses in a sensible way. We have in Germany houses, they are experimental, which need no airconditioning in summer and no heating in winter, which even produce more energy than they consume. This works by intelligent isolation, use of shading, storage of heat in the summer for the use in winter and use of solar energy, solarthermal and solarvoltaic as well. These houses are a little more than 50% more expensive than conventional houses. The saving of energy amortizeses the higher costs within a few years (European prizes of Energy assumed)
It's not yet over but I I'm that much pissed off so I ripped my membership book of the Social Democratic Party in pieces and sent it to the chief of the party together with a harsh comment of the politic of the last 6 years. There are many more items but this was the last drop to let overflow teh barrel.
Why don't *you* RTFA? They're not building a CANDU, they're building a PBMR. Furthermore, pebble beds run in the 900C range, not 900F. Their "loss of coolent" scenario is as high as 1600C - plenty to burn graphite. I can skip all of your comments about "covered in water", because CANDU uses water as a moderator, not pebble beds (strange that you would think that CANDU uses graphite, however...)
AFAIK they are building THTR-Type Devices. That are Pebble Bed Reactors which are cooled by Helium. This type of device is inherently safe from meltdown because
the reaction rate is reduced when temparature rises
the Graphite cannot ignite because the whole reactor is filled with Helium
which is absolutely inert
the helium is not under excessive pressure
The german THTR-300 at Hamm-Uentrop has been a demonstration reactor at commercial size (300 MW). It was shutdown after proving to work well.
The reason to cancel the further development and building was completely political because there is no chance to get public acceptance for any Nuclear Powerplants all over Germany after Tchernobyl and Three Mile Island.
The reactors themselves may be safe, but the problems of the required fuel production and handling, especially the waste disposal, are nowhere in the world sufficiently solved. Thats a truth whatever the Nuclear Industry and there political gofers may say.
The burning Concorde was not the reason for ending the service. They just took the opportunity. BA and Air France were contemplating for nearly a decade on grounding that elegant dinosaur.
But - without the Concorde the Airbus Consortium - and today Airbus Industries would never have come to the market. We would have no alternative to Boeing nowadays.
All people coming to Germany who are interested in Aircraft History should take a day at "Technik Museum" in Sinsheim near Speyer.
I think that the idea is an interesting way to circumvent the problems with equipment for wich the manufacturer is not willing to supply information under acceptable conditions like CANON on its Scanners. Maybe that someone from the SANE people will check the feasability?
AFAIK and is my experience, SO 7 Beta imports all MS-Office Documents up to XP without many Problems. The layout of Word documents has to be fixed from time to time, but not that often. Even Scripts are supported. Excel is mentioned in another posting. The export to M$-Office format is AFAIK without known faults. Sometimes Open Office or Star-Office is the only way to migrate legacy MS-Office Documents to Office-XP format as Office-XP lacks import filters for older Versions (eg. Word 5.0).
No they were not beeing sued for behaviour outside Germany but because they made their claims on the homepage of SCO Germany. And they were fined because they continued to publish their claims on their german homepage (sco.de) after the injunction taking effect.
Then in Germany they have to disable it or refund. Legally it's a defect of the machine. Every EULA and other crap the dudes invent in their hybris is plainly null and void in Germany. If you buy something every rules you are forced to accept after the purchase is considered void. And if you are hampered in the use of such a good it is considered a defect and you are entitled for remedy or refund.
But there is one point:
Even a more than average skilled Windows User/Administrator has no chance to really track down the reason of a failure. And there is nobody really telling him. Outside M$ there is nobody who has chance to inspect the sources - and from inside M$ there is nobody willing to explain (obviously).
I left out the programmer intentionally because it can only be a M$ employee.
OTOH the GNU/LINUX or xxxBSD user/admin/programmer has no problem to find help in the community. And when a hole is identified it will be fixed in very short time and the fix is published to the whole community. You don't have to wait for an official fixpack which is approved by the marketing druids.
It's the most normal thing in the world that security is process and not a static thing. To keep a system secure no matter which OS you use, you have to check and recheck and reconsider and adjust the settings continously. It's finished when you dump the System. There is no program without a fault if it consists of more then two statements.
M$ claims in most cases that the problem is in OSI Layer 8 even when it's obvious that it's a windows problem.;)
Hey what stuff do the guys at that company smoke, give me a little thereof.
They claim to have the right to eavesdrop and wiretap the communication.- They make you agree that the service can be terminated without prior notice if they believe that you did not adhere to their ideas of proper conduct. They claim even to have the right to charge a cancellation fee and they say they will give the material to the authorities if they believe it may be apropriate.
At least in Germany, i think even in the whole of Europe, these terms would be immoral and thus void from the beginning. If they would do what they claim to do they would be subject to criminal investigation because of violation of elemantary civil rights like privacy of communication.
AFAIK at least in Germany those license terms are unlawful. There is a supreme court (Bundesgerichtshof) decision from the early 80's where the late Nixdorf Company was forbidden to charge for the software of second hand equipment.
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The very reason why funding by fee and not from general taxation is the fact that the influence of political bodies like the government or parties is reduced versus payment from general taxes. The funding out of the budget can be cut if the journalists are not in line with the governmental ideas and opinions. The best example is Italy under Berlusconi.
Thats plainly wrong as it is to fund the TV Program, not the distribution technology. The internet technology is already funded by the users via access fees. And by the way, it is a fee, not a tax as it is assigned to a specific use. A tax by definition is assigned to the general account of the state and not bound to specific use.
I have to make a little correction. The money isn't paid to the state but to the public Radio and TV Stations. They are not owned by state. They are controlled by commissions in which every political and social relevant group has the right to participate. These commissions have no influence on the actual program and cannot take action on investigative journalists for the undesirable revelation of scandals. In fact the public TV and radio networks in germany are making the best investigative political magazines which even the federal chancellor or the prime ministers of the states are fearing like hell. In contrary the commercial stations only produce trash and are much more partisan.
By the way, everything concerning media and culture is not federal matter but is exclusively ruled by the states which cooperate especially in matters of media by treaties (Staatsverträge). So the right address for any complaints is not Berlin but the 16 state governments.
Classical breeding has no relationship to genetic manipulation. The simple truth with gentech is, its not needed with one exception: Cash for Monsanto, Syngenta et. al.
There is strong evidence, that genetically changed crop not simply harms the farmers bot helps take the,m hostage by Monsanto etc. Look at India and the rice and cotton plants. They have less quality and you dont need less but more herbizides and insectizides. Furthermore they are designed to not being fertile anymore so that you cannot gain seeds from your harvest. If I would get knowledge of a field with genetically seeds I would burn it down. That should be done with every single plant of genetically altered Plants!!
This is no joke, I mean it deadly serious!
CU
The most useful way for Americans would be to cut the fuelconsumption of their cars. And if Detroit doesnt get it right then buy Japanese or European cars. Also the improvement of public transportation would be useful. thats for teh transportation sector. In housing throw away those mad airconditioners and build your houses in a sensible way. We have in Germany houses, they are experimental, which need no airconditioning in summer and no heating in winter, which even produce more energy than they consume. This works by intelligent isolation, use of shading, storage of heat in the summer for the use in winter and use of solar energy, solarthermal and solarvoltaic as well.
These houses are a little more than 50% more expensive than conventional houses. The saving of energy amortizeses the higher costs within a few years (European prizes of Energy assumed)
CU
I'm used call it "Banana Software ... maturating at the customers expense"
Hey dude, you talk of high gas prizes?
Gosh - Premium gas is roughly 7$ per Gallon in Germany!
It's not yet over but I I'm that much pissed off so I ripped my membership book of the Social Democratic Party in pieces and sent it to the chief of the party together with a harsh comment of the politic of the last 6 years.
There are many more items but this was the last drop to let overflow teh barrel.
CU
The famous first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr. Konrad Adenauer once said:
"Why should I care for my yesterdays gossip"
my 0.02
Why don't *you* RTFA? They're not building a CANDU, they're building a PBMR. Furthermore, pebble beds run in the 900C range, not 900F. Their "loss of coolent" scenario is as high as 1600C - plenty to burn graphite. I can skip all of your comments about "covered in water", because CANDU uses water as a moderator, not pebble beds (strange that you would think that CANDU uses graphite, however...)
AFAIK they are building THTR-Type Devices. That are Pebble Bed Reactors which are cooled by Helium.
This type of device is inherently safe from meltdown because
which is absolutely inert
The german THTR-300 at Hamm-Uentrop has been a demonstration reactor at commercial size (300 MW). It was shutdown after proving to work well.
The reason to cancel the further development and building was completely political because there is no chance to get public acceptance for any Nuclear Powerplants all over Germany after Tchernobyl and Three Mile Island.
The reactors themselves may be safe, but the problems of the required fuel production and handling, especially the waste disposal, are nowhere in the world sufficiently solved. Thats a truth whatever the Nuclear Industry and there political gofers may say.
CU
My conclusion is simple. I will not use an US-American ISP.
my 0.02 $
*nt*
The burning Concorde was not the reason for ending the service. They just took the opportunity. BA and Air France were contemplating for nearly a decade on grounding that elegant dinosaur.
But - without the Concorde the Airbus Consortium - and today Airbus Industries would never have come to the market. We would have no alternative to Boeing nowadays.
All people coming to Germany who are interested in Aircraft History should take a day at "Technik Museum" in Sinsheim near Speyer.
CU
I think that the idea is an interesting way to circumvent the problems with equipment for wich the manufacturer is not willing to supply information under acceptable conditions like CANON on its Scanners.
Maybe that someone from the SANE people will check the feasability?
CU
Under every sane legislation it must be a crime. Anywhere they can get away with such behaviour should be considered as third world banana republik.
CU
AFAIK and is my experience, SO 7 Beta imports all MS-Office Documents up to XP without many Problems.
The layout of Word documents has to be fixed from time to time, but not that often. Even Scripts are supported.
Excel is mentioned in another posting.
The export to M$-Office format is AFAIK without known faults. Sometimes Open Office or Star-Office is the only way to migrate legacy MS-Office Documents to Office-XP format as Office-XP lacks import filters for older Versions (eg. Word 5.0).
Rufmord = slander or calumny
It is to be paid to the government as all fines in Germany
No they were not beeing sued for behaviour outside Germany but because they made their claims on the homepage of SCO Germany.
And they were fined because they continued to publish their claims on their german homepage (sco.de) after the injunction taking effect.
CU
If I read it right they put it in BIOS?
Then in Germany they have to disable it or refund. Legally it's a defect of the machine. Every EULA and other crap the dudes invent in their hybris is plainly null and void in Germany.
If you buy something every rules you are forced to accept after the purchase is considered void. And if you are hampered in the use of such a good it is considered a defect and you are entitled for remedy or refund.
Even a more than average skilled Windows User/Administrator has no chance to really track down the reason of a failure. And there is nobody really telling him. Outside M$ there is nobody who has chance to inspect the sources - and from inside M$ there is nobody willing to explain (obviously).
I left out the programmer intentionally because it can only be a M$ employee.
OTOH the GNU/LINUX or xxxBSD user/admin/programmer has no problem to find help in the community. And when a hole is identified it will be fixed in very short time and the fix is published to the whole community. You don't have to wait for an official fixpack which is approved by the marketing druids.
It's the most normal thing in the world that security is process and not a static thing. To keep a system secure no matter which OS you use, you have to check and recheck and reconsider and adjust the settings continously. It's finished when you dump the System. There is no program without a fault if it consists of more then two statements.
M$ claims in most cases that the problem is in OSI Layer 8 even when it's obvious that it's a windows problem. ;)
CU
They claim to have the right to eavesdrop and wiretap the communication.- They make you agree that the service can be terminated without prior notice if they believe that you did not adhere to their ideas of proper conduct. They claim even to have the right to charge a cancellation fee and they say they will give the material to the authorities if they believe it may be apropriate.
See 1.3 of the Vonage - Terms of service
At least in Germany, i think even in the whole of Europe, these terms would be immoral and thus void from the beginning. If they would do what they claim to do they would be subject to criminal investigation because of violation of elemantary civil rights like privacy of communication.
Shaking the head and frowning
The Terminator
>(all) EULA's are legally irrelevant
>at least in Switzerland they are because you...
And so it is in Germany too.
Hey, I think there is a great job for Comical Ali as Weapon of Mass Deceipton at SCO
*SCNR*
*giggle*
AFAIK at least in Germany those license terms are unlawful. There is a supreme court (Bundesgerichtshof) decision from the early 80's where the late Nixdorf Company was forbidden to charge for the software of second hand equipment.