Only if the church in question asks and pays for it. It's a service the government offers to churches in exchange for a percentage of the collected money.
I love all those sites which have noscript tags and the only thing that's in it is references to pixel.quantserve and all the other tracker services the site uses.
Yay, another page impression! Who cares if the user actually saw the ads or *gasp* any content.
If you're using Firefox or Seamonkey, you might like the "prefbar" addon. It adds a freely customizable preferences toolbar that lets you add stuff like checkboxes and buttons for enabling/disabling Javascript, Java, Flash, Cookies, Popups, Images, Referrer sending/switching(*), website colors, navigation buttons ("back"/"forward" is handy for popups without navigation). clearing cookies, clearing cache, switching proxy servers.. you name it. You can even alter existing or program your own buttons if what you want isn't already available for selection.
(*) It pays to add Googlebot as a referrer because lots of (news) websites with registration/pay walls (e.g NYTimes) or sites that force you to enable Javascript will happily produce the content if you claim to be Google.
You don't have to provide support that way. It's more about being able to contact the operator of a website. Google's problem isn't so much that they say "We don't provide end-user support via this email address", it's that they flat-out state "emails to this address won't be read".
It's like companies being required by law to have a valid postal address and Google is using a running paper shredder as its mailbox.
If you provide a webservice - especially a commercial one - you are required to prominently display valid identity and contact information, including ways that provide quick and immediate ways to communicate with you (the laws especially mentions/requires "electronic post" ).
The background of that German law isn't really about forcing companies to provide customer service (besides making it clear who your business partner is - you have to be able to get hold of whoever is behind a website in case you pay them and they don't deliver). You have to think about it more in terms of DMCA/cease&desist/law enforcement and it might make more sense to Americans:
"Oh, that DMCA complaint about some user using our service to provide a Super Bowl livestream? That went to our post box on the Bahamas. Three weeks later when it arrived at the main office and out internal mail processing had delivered it to our tech department, they immediately took down the stream."
"Panzer" is the word Germans use for "tank".
And you're also right, "Panzer" means armor.
I don't know if the German military uses PKW as an abbreviation for Panzer, but I think it's highly unlikely because most Germans will definitely NOT think of a Panzer when they hear "PKW".
PKW is the very, very common abbreviation for "Personenkraftwagen", i.e. it refers to ordinary passenger cars.
A somewhat literal translation of PKW would be "people motor vehicle". The most common and general way to classify cars in German is to distinguish between PKW and LKW - with LKW being an abbreviation referring to (heavy) freight trucks ("Lastkraftwagen" or short "Lastwagen" or "Laster" - see "Panzer" instead of "Panzerkampfwagen)
Disclaimer: IAAG;-)
Btw: according to German wikipedia, the abbreviation for "Panzerkampfwagen" is "PzKpfw".
If you wear a helmet then you are significantly more likely to be involved in an accident.
There are several reasons for the last point. Cyclists wearing helmets subconsciously think that they are safer and take more risks. Drivers drive closer to cyclists with helmets because they perceive them as less fragile. Helmets upset the airflow around your head and so reduce your spacial and situational awareness.
AFAIK the biggest reason for this is likely that the ones most likely to take a risk and have an accident are more likely to wear one, i.e. if you have someone who does racing, does mountain biking, is a messenger, rides daily etc, then that someone is a) more likely to have an accident serious enough to show up in reports/statistics b) more likely to own and wear a helmet than someone who rides just now and then
So you might have (numbers courtesy of my backside) something like 10% of _all_ bikers wearing helmets, while the percentage for those who cycle the most miles or engage in riskier (not stupider, like riding without lights) forms of cycling might be 40%. So you might end up with 15% of riders involved in accidents wearing a helmet while their number "should" only be 10%.
Just change your browser's user-agent string to make it look like Google; helps to access others sites, too (e.g. every site of the Gawker-family: for those you either have to enable Javascript or pretend to be Googlebot)
If you use a Mozilla-based browser, there are plug-ins to make switching the string comfortable; user-agent switching is one of the things that I use "prefbar" for.
One of the 27 is the Commission President proposed by the European Council[..] and elected by the European Parliament. The Council then appoints the other 26 members of the Commission in agreement with the nominated President, and then the 27 members as a single body are subject to a vote of approval by the European Parliament.
So the parliament has an all-of-them-or-nobody right of approval for the whole commission whose members are picked by the heads of the member states' governments .
the only people that anti-gun laws are preventing from carrying a gun in Chicago are the law abiding citizens that are currently forced by the government to be defenseless sheep for the slaughter for any armed Chicago thug
I've no idea about the situation in Chicago, but I wonder how many of those murders are actually law abiding defenseless sheep being slaughtered and how many are not-so-law-abiding citizens killing each other.
Since I was shopping for a new notebook recently: there are sometimes notebooks without Windows preinstalled and they're usually cheaper.
There are shops where you can configure the OS and they charge you more depending on whether you selected "no OS" or on the Windows version (ultimate>pro>home).
Depending on the manufacturer and their deal with MS the amounts might differ, though. Some examples: * put Win 7 Ultimate instead of Win 7 Pro on a Latitude and your Laptop costs 61 EUR more on dell.de
* Schenker (mysn.de) allows for lots of configuration and the OS options (besides "no OS" for 0 EUR) are: 95EUR -108EUR for Home Premium OEM 133EUR-143EUR for Pro OEM 175EUR for Ultimate OEM
* at a local Lenovo reseller you can get notebooks without Windows; they have, for example, a Thinkpad Edge E525 for 399EUR without Windows and with similar specs and Home Premium for 494EUR
As to (a) and (b): under German law you have a right to your own likeness, i.e. in theory other people aren't even allowed to distribute materials depicting you without your permission.
No idea how that is done in the rest of the EU, though
Not that surprising. There's usually stuff you post yourself (e.g. this comment) and then there's information about you that the company collects (e.g. tracking what websites you've looked at or who you've interacted with).
Sorry, but this is simply not true. Except for "When it became clear that the Pirate Party would likely get into the parliament (predicted to get 6.5% at most), they were already scandalized, how anybody could vote such loonies."
I'm not sure what you've watched, but it certainly wasn't the coverage by ARD or later the local RBB. Or not a lot of it.
Other parties had no problem naming them and dis so frequently as the success of the Pirates and the catastrophic result of the FDP were the main topics of most discussions. Yeah, of course they also called the Pirates "new", but so did the Pirates themselves. During a talk with representatives of all parties (that matter), they even did a little "special" analyzing where the pirates' 9% came from and asked everybody's opinion about that and why their parties didn't manage to get those votes.
Some politicians from the "established" parties even congratulated the Pirates. I remember people from the Greens and the Lefts doing so. And they certainly didn't say "Congratulations to those others".
And I don't remember a Left party guy talking about "they overestimated themselves". But I do remember one pointing out how the Pirates _under_estimated their own chances and that the Pirates obviously were surprised by their success as much as anybody else, citing (almost) not having enough candidates listed to fill the seats they won as a proof. And he wasn't alone, several Pirate candidates repeatedly stated how they were "baff" (perplexed) or "still a bit in shock" in view of their success.
I also have no problem with Künast claiming they gained the most as those gains and losses are calculated in comparison to the last state election in 2006 and the Pirates weren't yet on the ballot back then. If you say the Pirates gained 6% to reach their 9%, you're comparing their result today to the 3% they got in Berlin during the last national election in 2009, i.e. you're comparing apples and oranges because a) people vote differently in state and national elections and b) the gains and losses of the other parties were based on the results of a different election. Yeah, technically the Pirates gained the most since they went from nothing to 9%, but I don't blame her for ignoring the n00bs when the main intent is to show how they are more awesome than the sucktitide that's their traditional enemies or their (realistic) competitors when it comes to building the government.
In particular on a fax, it wouldn't be all that hard to scan a contract, photoshop a signature in and then send it to a fax machine.
I was tempted to do that.
I didn't have a fax, just a PC with an old fax modem specifically kept around to be able to send faxes.
So when I had to cancel a hosting contract and the hoster would only accept a hand-signed letter or fax, I had to print the letter, sign it, scan it back into the computer and then FAX the scanned image.
Since photoshopping (well, GIMPing) is a hobby, I was really tempted to do a "convert letter.pdf letter.jpg" (should turn out shiatty enough to look like a real fax) and slap a scan of a signature onto it.
You can already do that in the other direction. A friend of mine went from Europe to Beijing by train for the experience and to visit a friend living in Beijing. She took a train from Germany to Moscow, got onto the Trans-Siberian railway, took a break in Mongolia to go hiking through the prairie for a couple of days and then continued on the Trans-Mongolian route of the railway to reach Beijing.
If the real unix men's attitude is "Sorry, I can't hear the specification over the sound of how awesome Perl is" and they ignore the requirements at hand to produce a really awesome Perl program that can't be executed in the target environment, I would rather give those fannies a chance.
Actually, it is the "least prestigious" form of the "most prestigious" decoration.
There are several classes of the Cross of Merit and from the picture it looks like he was awarded the "Medal of Merit", i.e. the lowest one.
I would be surprised to find its to optimize the heart rate. I'll lean more towards making sure these 12 year old tubs of lard don't keel over from a heart attack
..which sounds a lot like optimizing the heart rate.;)
Those things can be quite helpful, especially if you're a fatty not used to running.
You'll benefit from one of those things indicating when to slow down and take a short walking break.
Because if you're an unfit - not necessarily tub of lard - , you should start easy and gradually increase how much/fast you run depending on your progress.
Nothing more counterproductive (for body and mind) than going to your limit and being sore for a week afterwards.
Maybe it was only done by a handful of (German?) publishers, but I remember going through my parents bookshelves and flipping through some paper back whodunits and some had one or two pages with ads, sometimes in context to the story. i.e. making a reference to the story. A little bit like with old time radio shows: "While $detective leans back with a $cigarette, waiting for the guy to leave the house again, why not get yourself a $cigarette with their unique flavor and our special brand of cancer.."
The only press we in the US see about the EU summarizes as:
* EU sues highly-successful American company for dubious reasons, imposes gigantic fines.
What are we supposed to believe the motive is?
I don't know.
What are we supposed to believe is the motive of the US press in only reporting those issues?
Slashdot Mirror
Only if the church in question asks and pays for it.
It's a service the government offers to churches in exchange for a percentage of the collected money.
I love all those sites which have noscript tags and the only thing that's in it is references to pixel.quantserve and all the other tracker services the site uses.
Yay, another page impression!
Who cares if the user actually saw the ads or *gasp* any content.
If you're using Firefox or Seamonkey, you might like the "prefbar" addon. .. you name it.
It adds a freely customizable preferences toolbar that lets you add stuff like checkboxes and buttons for enabling/disabling Javascript, Java, Flash, Cookies, Popups, Images, Referrer sending/switching(*), website colors, navigation buttons ("back"/"forward" is handy for popups without navigation). clearing cookies, clearing cache, switching proxy servers
You can even alter existing or program your own buttons if what you want isn't already available for selection.
(*)
It pays to add Googlebot as a referrer because lots of (news) websites with registration/pay walls (e.g NYTimes) or sites that force you to enable Javascript will happily produce the content if you claim to be Google.
You don't have to provide support that way.
It's more about being able to contact the operator of a website.
Google's problem isn't so much that they say "We don't provide end-user support via this email address", it's that they flat-out state "emails to this address won't be read".
It's like companies being required by law to have a valid postal address and Google is using a running paper shredder as its mailbox.
If you provide a webservice - especially a commercial one - you are required to prominently display valid identity and contact information, including ways that provide quick and immediate ways to communicate with you (the laws especially mentions/requires "electronic post" ).
The background of that German law isn't really about forcing companies to provide customer service (besides making it clear who your business partner is - you have to be able to get hold of whoever is behind a website in case you pay them and they don't deliver).
You have to think about it more in terms of DMCA/cease&desist/law enforcement and it might make more sense to Americans:
"Oh, that DMCA complaint about some user using our service to provide a Super Bowl livestream? That went to our post box on the Bahamas. Three weeks later when it arrived at the main office and out internal mail processing had delivered it to our tech department, they immediately took down the stream."
"Panzer" is the word Germans use for "tank".
;-)
And you're also right, "Panzer" means armor.
I don't know if the German military uses PKW as an abbreviation for Panzer, but I think it's highly unlikely because most Germans will definitely NOT think of a Panzer when they hear "PKW".
PKW is the very, very common abbreviation for "Personenkraftwagen", i.e. it refers to ordinary passenger cars.
A somewhat literal translation of PKW would be "people motor vehicle".
The most common and general way to classify cars in German is to distinguish between PKW and LKW - with LKW being an abbreviation referring to (heavy) freight trucks ("Lastkraftwagen" or short "Lastwagen" or "Laster" - see "Panzer" instead of "Panzerkampfwagen)
Disclaimer: IAAG
Btw: according to German wikipedia, the abbreviation for "Panzerkampfwagen" is "PzKpfw".
Why is it I don't see [..]
I'll tell you why. Because these retailers have already got their damn money once, and don't feel they should be paid again.
Another way to look at it:
it's an admittance that the replayability of the games sucks.
If you wear a helmet then you are significantly more likely to be involved in an accident.
There are several reasons for the last point. Cyclists wearing helmets subconsciously think that they are safer and take more risks. Drivers drive closer to cyclists with helmets because they perceive them as less fragile. Helmets upset the airflow around your head and so reduce your spacial and situational awareness.
AFAIK the biggest reason for this is likely that the ones most likely to take a risk and have an accident are more likely to wear one, i.e. if you have someone who does racing, does mountain biking, is a messenger, rides daily etc, then that someone is
a) more likely to have an accident serious enough to show up in reports/statistics
b) more likely to own and wear a helmet than someone who rides just now and then
So you might have (numbers courtesy of my backside) something like 10% of _all_ bikers wearing helmets, while the percentage for those who cycle the most miles or engage in riskier (not stupider, like riding without lights) forms of cycling might be 40%.
So you might end up with 15% of riders involved in accidents wearing a helmet while their number "should" only be 10%.
Just change your browser's user-agent string to make it look like Google; helps to access others sites, too (e.g. every site of the Gawker-family: for those you either have to enable Javascript or pretend to be Googlebot)
If you use a Mozilla-based browser, there are plug-ins to make switching the string comfortable; user-agent switching is one of the things that I use "prefbar" for.
To quote wikipedia:
One of the 27 is the Commission President proposed by the European Council[..] and elected by the European Parliament.
The Council then appoints the other 26 members of the Commission in agreement with the nominated President, and then the 27 members as a single body are subject to a vote of approval by the European Parliament.
So the parliament has an all-of-them-or-nobody right of approval for the whole commission whose members are picked by the heads of the member states' governments .
the only people that anti-gun laws are preventing from carrying a gun in Chicago are the law abiding citizens that are currently forced by the government to be defenseless sheep for the slaughter for any armed Chicago thug
I've no idea about the situation in Chicago, but I wonder how many of those murders are actually law abiding defenseless sheep being slaughtered and how many are not-so-law-abiding citizens killing each other.
Since I was shopping for a new notebook recently:
there are sometimes notebooks without Windows preinstalled and they're usually cheaper.
There are shops where you can configure the OS and they charge you more depending on whether you selected "no OS" or on the Windows version (ultimate>pro>home).
Depending on the manufacturer and their deal with MS the amounts might differ, though.
Some examples:
* put Win 7 Ultimate instead of Win 7 Pro on a Latitude and your Laptop costs 61 EUR more on dell.de
* Schenker (mysn.de) allows for lots of configuration and the OS options (besides "no OS" for 0 EUR) are:
95EUR -108EUR for Home Premium OEM
133EUR-143EUR for Pro OEM
175EUR for Ultimate OEM
* at a local Lenovo reseller you can get notebooks without Windows; they have, for example, a Thinkpad Edge E525 for 399EUR without Windows and with similar specs and Home Premium for 494EUR
As to (a) and (b): under German law you have a right to your own likeness, i.e. in theory other people aren't even allowed to distribute materials depicting you without your permission. No idea how that is done in the rest of the EU, though
Not that surprising.
There's usually stuff you post yourself (e.g. this comment) and then there's information about you that the company collects (e.g. tracking what websites you've looked at or who you've interacted with).
Sorry, but this is simply not true.
Except for "When it became clear that the Pirate Party would likely get into the parliament (predicted to get 6.5% at most), they were already scandalized, how anybody could vote such loonies."
I'm not sure what you've watched, but it certainly wasn't the coverage by ARD or later the local RBB. Or not a lot of it.
Other parties had no problem naming them and dis so frequently as the success of the Pirates and the catastrophic result of the FDP were the main topics of most discussions.
Yeah, of course they also called the Pirates "new", but so did the Pirates themselves.
During a talk with representatives of all parties (that matter), they even did a little "special" analyzing where the pirates' 9% came from and asked everybody's opinion about that and why their parties didn't manage to get those votes.
Some politicians from the "established" parties even congratulated the Pirates. I remember people from the Greens and the Lefts doing so.
And they certainly didn't say "Congratulations to those others".
And I don't remember a Left party guy talking about "they overestimated themselves".
But I do remember one pointing out how the Pirates _under_estimated their own chances and that the Pirates obviously were surprised by their success as much as anybody else, citing (almost) not having enough candidates listed to fill the seats they won as a proof.
And he wasn't alone, several Pirate candidates repeatedly stated how they were "baff" (perplexed) or "still a bit in shock" in view of their success.
I also have no problem with Künast claiming they gained the most as those gains and losses are calculated in comparison to the last state election in 2006 and the Pirates weren't yet on the ballot back then.
If you say the Pirates gained 6% to reach their 9%, you're comparing their result today to the 3% they got in Berlin during the last national election in 2009, i.e. you're comparing apples and oranges because
a) people vote differently in state and national elections and
b) the gains and losses of the other parties were based on the results of a different election.
Yeah, technically the Pirates gained the most since they went from nothing to 9%, but I don't blame her for ignoring the n00bs when the main intent is to show how they are more awesome than the sucktitide that's their traditional enemies or their (realistic) competitors when it comes to building the government.
In particular on a fax, it wouldn't be all that hard to scan a contract, photoshop a signature in and then send it to a fax machine.
I was tempted to do that.
I didn't have a fax, just a PC with an old fax modem specifically kept around to be able to send faxes.
So when I had to cancel a hosting contract and the hoster would only accept a hand-signed letter or fax, I had to print the letter, sign it, scan it back into the computer and then FAX the scanned image.
Since photoshopping (well, GIMPing) is a hobby, I was really tempted to do a "convert letter.pdf letter.jpg" (should turn out shiatty enough to look like a real fax) and slap a scan of a signature onto it.
You can already do that in the other direction.
A friend of mine went from Europe to Beijing by train for the experience and to visit a friend living in Beijing.
She took a train from Germany to Moscow, got onto the Trans-Siberian railway, took a break in Mongolia to go hiking through the prairie for a couple of days and then continued on the Trans-Mongolian route of the railway to reach Beijing.
If the real unix men's attitude is "Sorry, I can't hear the specification over the sound of how awesome Perl is" and they ignore the requirements at hand to produce a really awesome Perl program that can't be executed in the target environment, I would rather give those fannies a chance.
Actually, it is the "least prestigious" form of the "most prestigious" decoration.
There are several classes of the Cross of Merit and from the picture it looks like he was awarded the "Medal of Merit", i.e. the lowest one.
I would be surprised to find its to optimize the heart rate. I'll lean more towards making sure these 12 year old tubs of lard don't keel over from a heart attack
Those things can be quite helpful, especially if you're a fatty not used to running.
You'll benefit from one of those things indicating when to slow down and take a short walking break.
Because if you're an unfit - not necessarily tub of lard - , you should start easy and gradually increase how much/fast you run depending on your progress.
Nothing more counterproductive (for body and mind) than going to your limit and being sore for a week afterwards.
Doesn't work for me.
That URL still forwards to google.de when I'm using a German IP address.
There were (are?) real books with ads.
Maybe it was only done by a handful of (German?) publishers, but I remember going through my parents bookshelves and flipping through some paper back whodunits and some had one or two pages with ads, sometimes in context to the story. i.e. making a reference to the story.
A little bit like with old time radio shows: "While $detective leans back with a $cigarette, waiting for the guy to leave the house again, why not get yourself a $cigarette with their unique flavor and our special brand of cancer.."
The only press we in the US see about the EU summarizes as: * EU sues highly-successful American company for dubious reasons, imposes gigantic fines. What are we supposed to believe the motive is?
I don't know.
What are we supposed to believe is the motive of the US press in only reporting those issues?
"This page is intentionally left blank"
Problem solved.
You could also use a NAS device with an USB port/print server support.
Or, depending on how you're connected to the Internet, get a (wireless) router with a printserver and a separate, simple NAS drive.