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  1. Re:Winter is coming on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 1

    Which hasn't actually happened, let us note. Germany remains dependent on nuclear power, it's just nuclear power from France now. [...]

    Not true. In the months from january to may 2013 germany actually exportet 30,79 billion kWhs. Source in german: http://www.iwr.de/news.php?id=...

  2. Re:Ah the Germans, they're really bad at this! on Germany's Renewable Plan Faces Popular Resistance · · Score: 1

    Just a small correction. It's Atomausstieg. Ie is a prolonged i. Ei is similar to the english "I" as in "I am ".

  3. Provinzial insurance company. on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 1

    Provinzial (a german insurance company) has all their desktops with their custom software running under Ubuntu.

  4. Re:Mom rule on Facebook Is a Plague That'll Burn Out In a Few Years, Says Study · · Score: 1

    In some form maybe. But the young people will keep on using other services and just have facebook if they want to contact their parents/grandparents. Because you can`t really not accept a friend request from your parents or grandparents and once you do they can see all those lovely private updates from your friends about the last party and how you hooked up with that boy/girl or how you tried pot for the first time or...

  5. Re:What do you call a bunch of unhappy Germans? on Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn · · Score: 2

    That would be stupid, because when used to describe a mood "sauer" means angry, not sad.

  6. Re:MORE DISINFORMATION on Leaked Documents Detail Al-Qaeda's Efforts To Fight Back Against Drones · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I can linkspam too http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113410/US-soldier-kills-16-Afghan-civilians-deadly-shooting-rampage.html http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-soldier-describes-thrill-kill-innocent-civilians-afghanistan/story?id=11732681 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/us/20soldiers.html?_r=0 You know, if I were in that position, I would do whatever it takes to kill the bastards that invaded and possibly killed members of my family just for being in the wrong location at the wrong time (see collateral murder). And no, you are not protecting some fancy idea of freedom or some other bullshit, you are thugs, criminals, the scum of the world. The world would be better off if your country was nuked from orbit and every piece of it destroyed.

  7. Re:Standard connectors? LOL you wish! on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    Considering that Apple signed a declaration of intent in 2009 (together with Nokia, RIM, Samsung and others) to use micro USB connectors from 2010 onward (at least in the EU), I'd wager that they won't stick to what they signed for a long time to come. No, what they actually did was releasing an adapter which let you use every other manufacturer's charger to charge an iphone.

  8. Re:Dirty trick on Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, and I really expected to find information regarding the white house when I went to whitehouse.com.

  9. Misleading summary on Italy Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power · · Score: 5, Informative

    The summary is a bit misleading. In 1987 after the Tschernobyl disaster Italy had a public vote to abandon nuclear energy. The last reactor was shut down in 1990. This was only a vote against a re-entry into nuclear power, something Berlusconi was pushing forward.

  10. Re:Mute the sound on Time Lapse Video of the VLT In Chile · · Score: 1

    The track is called We Happy Few and it is from the band The Calm Blue Sea, a post-rock band from Austin.

  11. Re:We're idiots about privacy on Street View On iOS Pierces German Privacy Veil · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, remember those idiots who protested against street view and the newspaper made a picture of them in front of their home and published the article online?
    http://www.rp-online.de/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-stadt/nachrichten/Buergerprotest-gegen-Google_aid_892897.html

    Sorry, article is in german, but the picture is there.

  12. Lego stop motion on Cheap Software Tools Give New Life To Stop-Motion Animation · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Two weeks ago I spoke with a man who shot the last harry potter book as lego stop motion. Here is the english trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xedFmxo7hc0&feature=channel

    He uses 25 pictures per second of film. It is a hobby of his and he spent two years making it. Every evening during the week and the complete day on weekends. In my opinion it nearly looks as good as rendered.

  13. Re:Useless on Sony Gets Nasty With PSBreak Buyers · · Score: 1

    Germany has a law that prevents you from hacking any and all encryption and protection. So even programs circumventing CSS encryption on DVDs are technically not legal.

  14. Re:Kill-A-Lawyer, cheap on Sony Gets Nasty With PSBreak Buyers · · Score: 1

    In Germany everyone of legal age can send a cease-and-desist-letter to anyone, even if the plaintiff is not even your client. You either pay the fee or you can fight it and if you go to court and you loose, you have to pay a lot more. So most people get scared, don't take a lawyer and just pay. We have a lot of well known lawyers who live on this kind of harassment.

    This guy http://www.stum.de/2010/02/22/lawyer-von-gravenreuth-commits-suicide/ used to be very big in this line of work, but eventually he got caught and committed suicide.

  15. Re:Church tax?!? on Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland · · Score: 1

    The only difference is that this rule was still unofficially in place until recently when we got new anti-discrimination laws.

  16. Re:a Hot Topic in Belgium too on Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland · · Score: 1

    We had a similiar case around here a few months ago. A woman reported a priest to the police who had sexually abused her back when she was a teenager (in the 90s). The priest told her back then, that she would go to hell forever if she reported him to the police, so she only reported him to the policy recently when there was that big scandal.

  17. Re:Fees on Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland · · Score: 1

    As I mentioned above, I am a student on a tight budget that has 250 euros for each month to pay for everything, including books. 30 euros would be close to the sum I spend for eating lunch for two weeks in the university's canteen (weekdays only).

    My parent's can't afford to give me more since they have three children who study, but they earn enough so that I can't get government student loan (BAFÖG). I am looking for a job, but haven't found one yet as the city I study in has 280k inhabitants and 50k students, though a part of them are not registered as living in the city, though they work there, because they take the bus or train home to their parents at the end of the day. So trying to find a decent student job there is pretty hard.

  18. Re:Church tax?!? on Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland · · Score: 1

    It is not only the curch. My mother told me that the company C&A (a big clothing store chain in germany with nearly 8 billion $ revenue per year) used to have a policy that forbid divorced men and women in upper management positions because the owners are strict catholics. (now living in the netherlands, but they originated from Mettingen, my birthplace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mettingen )

  19. Re:Fees on Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland · · Score: 1

    I don't pay income tax as I am a student that is under the limit where you have to pay taxes. It's called allowable deduction and it is currently at 7680 (~10.7200$) per year.

  20. Re:Fees on Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland · · Score: 1

    I guess that's the price of living in a state that has the word god in the preamble of the constitution and where a catholic group just send 100.000 plastic foetuses to houshold in one state to demonstrate against aboirtion (sorry, no english source on that that I could find).

    As a student I live on a very limited budget and there is no way my parents would pay for that. Living in the secondmost catholic region after bavaria in this country with a rich christian history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster

  21. Fees on Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The only thing that prevents me from leaving the catholic church in germany is the fee that I have to pay in order to get out. It's 30 (~42$) and a visit to the local court. I don't know if you have to pay a fee in finland.

  22. Re:ICANN: Tower of Babel for the modern day? on ICANN Approves .IRAN (in Non-Latin) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but with just one language you lose so much cultural difference. In danish, "sild" means herring, but can also be used to refer to a hot girl. "Skat" means tax, als well as treasure and can be used as "min skat" - my dear. In icelandic, the word for computer is composed of an ancient word for witch and the word for number, so a computer in icelandic literally means "number witch". Even english has so many words borrowed from other languages, like Zeitgeist, Angst, Kindergarten or Leitmoti(f/v). Studying foreign languages gives you so much insight into the cultural differences if you think about how certain words are used. I think that english already is the standard language that you use on the internet, but I don't like the idea of forcing everybody to use one specific mother tongue. There are too many languages already dying out today. Every language has word plays that you can't translate which would be lost. In german we have "Widerstand ist zwewcklos", which means "Resistance is futile" but also "Resistor is futile". I think you can come up with an idea for a T-Shirt with that sentence in german yourself.

  23. Other targets on Stuxnet Worms On · · Score: 1

    Makes sense, it hides the real purpose.

  24. Re:Are they sure? on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: 1

    Well, then the government should send them a bill. Than we would really see how expensive or inexpensive nuclear power is compared to wind, water and solar energy.

  25. Re:Are they sure? on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: 1

    Where I live they drill 1,5km deep just to get black coal to fuel a coal plant. If they wouldn't cut the state funding in a few years I imagine they would drill even deeper when the current reserves are depleted. It is all just a matter of being dependent on other countries natural reserves vs. funding it with tax money.

    Anyways, I wish my government would invest more in this kind of energy and not give the energy producing companies a 100 billion check over the next 12 years for keeping the nuclear plants running longer and waste taxpayers money by taking care of the waste. (my government being that of germany). You made that waste, you should have to pay for it being taken care of. But well, then you couldn't rake in billions of profits each year and claim that nuclear energy is oh so cheap and green energy oh so expensive.