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  1. Re:He's a twit on On the Ethics of a Code Split? · · Score: 1

    He's not a twit, and he's been coding lots of stuff in the original project before the fork.

  2. Re:Sounds like a... on On the Ethics of a Code Split? · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's MegamekNET, not MegaMek, and the fork is MekWars. (all three are on sourceforge.net)

  3. Re:Foreign media? on Firefox New York Times Ad Hits the Presses · · Score: 1

    There has already been an donation-paid advertisement in one of Germany's largest national newspapers about a week ago.

  4. Re:Colourful Quoting on Thunderbird 1.0 RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    You can disable them with a pref in user.js in your profile directory, though I don't know off-hand which one. Google around a bit.

  5. Re:BTX cases? Did they finally fix those case wire on Intel's BTX Form Factor Launched Today · · Score: 5, Informative

    We'll probably have to wait for CTX now to fix it, if at all.

    Actually, nope. BTX seems to fix this, the article said this:

    We also notice that the front panel connections (power/reset buttons, power/HDD activity lights) are also grouped into a single plug to make things easier.

  6. Re:ID cards = bad idea on Blunkett Backs Down on UK ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Even with compulsary ID cars here in germany, I've never had a bartender ask me if I'm older than 16.
    Heh.

  7. Re:...and adopts other proprietary business practi on Firefox Seeks Full Page Ad in New York Times · · Score: 1

    This was not a proposal, if you would care to actually read the bug this was attached to, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25267 9 The Bug is that Firefox needs an EULA, and the reporter of the bug just added Netscape's old EULA as a starting point. They then realized that that EULA's language is not going to work, and are now working on a new one.

  8. Re:Not in the US on DVB-T STB/MPEG2 Player That Can Access SMB Shares · · Score: 1

    It's not only useful for TVoIP, it has 2 DVD-T tuners built in it, you just need to hook up an antenna. DVD-T is the digital terrestrial TV over here.

  9. Re:How many times more? on LotR: RotK Extended Edition Preview Available · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The director intended the movie to be seen two ways. One version is for the cinema, one is for the home theater, because sitting through a 4 hour movie in the cinema just is not feasible for the average guy, while that is possible in a Home Theater setting.

  10. Re:How is this possible techincally? on France to Allow Cell Phone Jamming · · Score: 1

    In Germany, several of the providers have roaming contracts with other providers, so in-country roaming does actually work. And whenever I switch my phone on without a SIM card in it, I have the option to make emergency calls.

  11. Re:WHAT?!! on New Fee For Internet-Capable PCs In Germany · · Score: 2, Informative

    Free dialup no longer exists in Germany.

    We never had Free dialup in the first place over here. We also do have to pay for local phone calls, but we do not have to pay for calls coming in on our mobile phones.
    Strange how stuff works differently in different parts of the world, eh?

  12. Re:No so fast on Patent Concerns Unlikely To Nix Munich Linux Plan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You do realize that the study that said was made by OSRM, a company/foundation/whatever, who PJ, the woman that set up Groklaw works for?

  13. Re:blah on Nerdorama for All Your Geeky Needs · · Score: 4, Informative

    .com is not for the US, .us is.

  14. Re:care to define the difference? on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 1

    Good point... It's a variation: It's a federal republic, just as the US, where the head of state for the federal government is elected by representatives for the states, which is why people in the US vote for representation in the electoral college which elects the president, not the president himself, and in germany the president is elected by a federal convention, which in a quite unusual twist includes the members of the federal parliament..

    Note that the Head of State has only representative function, the head of government is elected by the federal parliament.

  15. Re:care to define the difference? on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 1

    The main difference in modern, non political-sciences usage is that a republic has a directly elected head of state, while a parliamentary democracy have a head of state elected by the parliament.

    So the Federal Republic of Germany is not actually a republic? Uhh...

  16. Re:2000 election on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 1

    Many countries have a system that works well with hand-marked ballots double-counted, etc. However, that is not practical when we are talking about 100 million votes. It's simply not. It scales well to a degree, but not to a 100 million votes.

    It works just fine for 60 million voters here in germany.

  17. Re:The problem isn't the electoral colleges on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 1

    Personally, I find the democratic systems around the world where elections don't happen on a regular schedule, but only have to be once every n years with the party in power getting to schedule them to be insanity, myself--but I'd never dream of telling those people they were doing it wrong.

    Uhh, get a clue? In democracies around the world, elections do happen on a regular schedule, usually every 4 years. The current governmnet just gets to schedule the exact date, e.g. here in germany the next election will be in september 2006, and the current government will schedule the exact date.

  18. Re:Anyone tried it... on Doom 3 Demo Available · · Score: 1

    I'm running it on a Radeon 8500 LE with 128MB Video ram, an Athlon XP 2000+ and 512 MB DDR RAM.
    It's playable at 640x480 with all details, no AA and no AF.

  19. Re:Problems in Firefox.. on Bush vs. Kerry on Science · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The answers scrolled just fine for me, using Firefox in Windows.

  20. Re:Laws of Physics on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally, even with mechanical help, I find about 100 kph, 27.8 m/s, to be the upper limit of my everyday velocity.

    Here in Germany, we have the Autobahn.

  21. Re:The system is built for two... on Third-Party and Independent Ballot Status · · Score: 1

    Just look at the useless (seeming inactive) coalition governments around the world and their regular crises.

    The german government has always been a coalition government, and we don't have regular crises over here.

  22. Re:Correction . . . on The Dangers of One Party Rule · · Score: 1

    And in that time we've maintained the best quality of life on the planet.

    Bullshit. Quality of life has been just as good in Scandinavia as in the US in that time.

  23. Re:Left Wing Propaganda on The Dangers of One Party Rule · · Score: 1

    Please tell me where to find this "objective journalism". I haven't seen any in over a decade, if ever.

    You appearantly live in the wrong country.

  24. Re:Other way around, actually on German Teen Charged with Creating Sasser · · Score: 2

    AFAIk none.
    And rightly so. Everyone who smokes and does not realize that it's unhealthy shouldn't get money for his stupidity.

  25. Re:But,... on German Teen Charged with Creating Sasser · · Score: 1

    Now this kid is gonna be someone bitch for ahwile.

    Probably not. I don't believe he'll go to prison at all, and even if he did, I've never heard of in-prison rape here in Germany.