This especially bugs me because I'm not a smilier and I like being bitter, damnit!
You should get a job over here in germany. You'd be perfect for german customer-service. Learn to utter something that might sound like german, and you're perfect employee for the national railway service.
but thats very difficult when the "product" is a 2 years phone service contract. Or maybe it's just as easy as walking out of a store with 2 years of electricity.
Do you really think that the government doesn't know about other DNS servers?
Yes, after some TV magazine report, I know that they don't think that far. Blocking people from getting there is not the point. Intimidation, and getting the people used to this kind of government, is the real point.
Nah..
The real point is herding the voters to the ballots by showing them with a token law that at least the government does something against childporn. (and not nothing like agains the economic crisis, environmental pollution, unemployment, problems in education, health system going down.. wait... they did something useles agains the latter one too)
establishing a censorship infrastructure and getting people used to it is just a welcome side-effect
Do you really think that the government doesn't know about other DNS servers?
I do.
Heck they don't even know what DNS is!
The state secretary in question who started this admitted that she knows nothing about it! Besides that criminals will always find ways to circumvent those blocks, she knows that it's not perfect but should be good enough not to tempt the "casual [porn]" surfer" with childporn, and that she personally doesnt know anyone who could circumvent a internet block. Obviously that als means she doesnt know anyone who knows dirt about the internet and could have explained a few things to her.
Some politicians even admitted that they're voting for that law against experts advice! (Read on heise.de, sorry can't find the article right now)
This whole BS shows clearly that our politicians think really of the elections in septemb... ahhh.. think of the children! You know.... Something has to be done against childporn. So they show Otto Normalverbraucher (Joe Sixpacks german cousin) that they do.. well.. something.
And thats the reason why I guess there won't be any DNS-hijacking. The ISP simply add a few lines to their local DNS config cause thats the easiest way to comply with that moronic law.
Same goes for the Bodensee-Crash a few years ago (swiss-german border)
That wouldnt have happend if one Pilot didnt override the Anti-crash-computers advice for a flight level change. Or rather follow the wrong orders from the ATC.
IIRC it's now standard procedure that in such a case, the computers orders have highest priority, no matter what the pilot thinks or ATC says.
That situation wouldnt have happend if BOTH pilots ignored or BOTH pilots followed the ATC orders.
Oh don't worry... your competition will take care of registering your illegal lab.
I don't know where you're from, but if the market would work like that, you'd still have a lot of moonshining around. Over here we simply buy our booze at the local shop.
because when I have crackheads walking down the street all the time to the house on the corner, I want to be able to call the police and have them be able to do something about it.
Oh great! I want to live in a country where I can call the police to simply remove people I dont like from public streets.
Where are you posting from again? Soviet Russia? China?
When my neighbor's meth lab burns his house to the ground, I want him to go away, not build a new, better one.
You're missing one thing: Assuming legalization, you're neighbours meth lab probably would be closed down even earlier for not properly following hazmat safety regulations.
Aren't the Germans glad they have a government that's powerful enough to worry about things like this?
Usually... yes.
We don't mind our gouvernment pulling food and drinks off the market rather fast if they contain something thats not supposed to be in food or drinks.
It's just that teir work usually doesnt make it onto international newspages.
But I guess this will be over soon anyways. Red Bull will be back with a warning like "may contain alkaloid residues in non-harmful quantities" and everything will be back to normal.
Apocryphical scripts are by definition not part of the bible. The bible is an arbirtarily chosen subset that was published as the set "bible" we know today.
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No. That's the OTHER kind of 'freak'. But that klingon attitude is just perfect.....
You picked the one job that consists of at least pretending they have fun....
This especially bugs me because I'm not a smilier and I like being bitter, damnit!
You should get a job over here in germany. You'd be perfect for german customer-service. Learn to utter something that might sound like german, and you're perfect employee for the national railway service.
I'm actually quite happy that theres still diverse in cultures, specially because USA and Europe seems to be getting so much like the other one.
No wonder....
First Europe exported it's people and culture to America, and after WWII USA started to re-export their stuff.
So.. Obviously it's cheaper for them to lose a handful of costumers than to add alternatives to an external Credit-Check to their sales system.
You're kind of right.
but thats very difficult when the "product" is a 2 years phone service contract.
Or maybe it's just as easy as walking out of a store with 2 years of electricity.
What is this "soccer-thingy" you're talking about?
Never saw anything like that on a british channel.
Those vending machines a partly a publicity stunt for a internet gold trading company.
http://boerse.ard.de/content.jsp?key=dokument_358326 (german. apply babelfish as necessary)
And at Eur 31 it's rather an idea for a present than for investment.
Now all you need is a smelter, minting facility, and a distribution model and you're ready to start making some easy money.
Wasn't that what Goldmember tried to do?
at least over here, tha latter one is considered as assault.
sounds like 3rd world sweat shop to me.
waitwait wait....
are we talking about a minor cough or about a diesease KILLING ten thousands of people every year? (yep. It's called 'common flu')
either you're mixing up two things or you should let you're family know that you're risking your and others lives.
otoh, you just might want to get a decent health care system.
Ooohh.. sounds like YOU want to pay the sick days for the 30 colleagues he infects.
Do you really think that the government doesn't know about other DNS servers?
Yes, after some TV magazine report, I know that they don't think that far.
Blocking people from getting there is not the point. Intimidation, and getting the people used to this kind of government, is the real point.
Nah..
The real point is herding the voters to the ballots by showing them with a token law that at least the government does something against childporn. (and not nothing like agains the economic crisis, environmental pollution, unemployment, problems in education, health system going down.. wait... they did something useles agains the latter one too)
establishing a censorship infrastructure and getting people used to it is just a welcome side-effect
Do you really think that the government doesn't know about other DNS servers?
I do.
Heck they don't even know what DNS is!
The state secretary in question who started this admitted that she knows nothing about it! Besides that criminals will always find ways to circumvent those blocks, she knows that it's not perfect but should be good enough not to tempt the "casual [porn]" surfer" with childporn, and that she personally doesnt know anyone who could circumvent a internet block. Obviously that als means she doesnt know anyone who knows dirt about the internet and could have explained a few things to her.
Some politicians even admitted that they're voting for that law against experts advice! (Read on heise.de, sorry can't find the article right now)
This whole BS shows clearly that our politicians think really of the elections in septemb... ahhh.. think of the children! You know.... Something has to be done against childporn. So they show Otto Normalverbraucher (Joe Sixpacks german cousin) that they do.. well.. something.
And thats the reason why I guess there won't be any DNS-hijacking. The ISP simply add a few lines to their local DNS config cause thats the easiest way to comply with that moronic law.
Same goes for the Bodensee-Crash a few years ago (swiss-german border)
That wouldnt have happend if one Pilot didnt override the Anti-crash-computers advice for a flight level change. Or rather follow the wrong orders from the ATC.
IIRC it's now standard procedure that in such a case, the computers orders have highest priority, no matter what the pilot thinks or ATC says.
That situation wouldnt have happend if BOTH pilots ignored or BOTH pilots followed the ATC orders.
IIRC.. wasn't Pandora blocked for non US-IPs? Would explain the rivalry. Or rather the ignorance.
Oh don't worry... your competition will take care of registering your illegal lab.
I don't know where you're from, but if the market would work like that, you'd still have a lot of moonshining around. Over here we simply buy our booze at the local shop.
because when I have crackheads walking down the street all the time to the house on the corner, I want to be able to call the police and have them be able to do something about it.
Oh great! I want to live in a country where I can call the police to simply remove people I dont like from public streets.
Where are you posting from again? Soviet Russia? China?
When my neighbor's meth lab burns his house to the ground, I want him to go away, not build a new, better one.
You're missing one thing: Assuming legalization, you're neighbours meth lab probably would be closed down even earlier for not properly following hazmat safety regulations.
Aren't the Germans glad they have a government that's powerful enough to worry about things like this?
Usually... yes.
We don't mind our gouvernment pulling food and drinks off the market rather fast if they contain something thats not supposed to be in food or drinks.
It's just that teir work usually doesnt make it onto international newspages.
But I guess this will be over soon anyways. Red Bull will be back with a warning like "may contain alkaloid residues in non-harmful quantities" and everything will be back to normal.
TRied that once. I guess you have to be scottish to enjoy THAT!
Definitly not.
Apocryphical scripts are by definition not part of the bible. The bible is an arbirtarily chosen subset that was published as the set "bible" we know today.
Yes... read about it... but did you actually see it? in VRML?? Were you able to display anything besides blocks? :-)
IN related news... is Second Life still alive? :-)
sorry but I uusally dont expect some dead-in-europe and alive.only-in-south-korea standard to be known here on ./ :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Home_Platform
More info here:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Home_Platform
ok.. according to Wikipedia, it still seems to be alive in Italy and South Korea.