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  1. Re:Harmless? on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 1

    A net of mutual defense treaties was one of the causes for World War 1.

  2. Re:Harmless? on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 1

    NATO is a cold war relict and should have been dismantled two decades ago.

  3. Re:Harmless? on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I second that. There is no harm here, only good. It is long overdue that the EU starts crawling out of the American arse. The only EU country that is an ally to the USA is the UK. Everyone else are more like vassals.

  4. Re:I don't think Snowden quite understands the law on Edward Snowden Files For Political Asylum In Russia · · Score: 4, Informative

    I used to be stateless (de jure, with a 1954 convention travel document), and you are quite wrong. I had the right to return to Germany and the same right of entry to a country someone else with a valid visum has.

  5. Re: Done us all a favor on Wikileaks Aiding Snowden - Chinese Social Media Divided - Relations Strained · · Score: 2

    Let me explain. The government collects the tax on behalf of the church. If you are in a church, you'll have to pay it. If you previously were in a church, you have to quit it and prove that to the government so they stop collecting the tax. If you never were a church member in first place, you don't have to declare anything. The government does not care what you believe in, it only cares whether you are member of a certain club they collect membership fees for.

  6. Re: Done us all a favor on Wikileaks Aiding Snowden - Chinese Social Media Divided - Relations Strained · · Score: 1

    Can speak only for Germany here

    1) That one might be problematic indeed.
    2) There is no automatic citizenship for descendands of immigrants. On the other hand, immigrants (and their children) can acquire the citizenship under certain (and quite easy) conditions. Been there, done that. And I don't mean a green card equivalent, I mean the real deal.
    3) Usually yes.
    4) No problem here. There is freedom of religion, religious spammers do exist and if you are an atheist, you don't have to pay the church tax.
    5) If it is police custody, then maximal 24 hours, if it is arrest, then as soon as possible, at the very latest at the end of the next day. Not sure about the evidence, but there is one important thing that you need to know: evidence obtained by illegal means can be allowed in court. There is no such thing as "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine here. The code of criminal procedure is sometimes better, sometimes worse, but mostly way different.

  7. Re:Sad loss. on Citrix Founder and Key OS/2 Player Ed Iacobucci Dead At 59 · · Score: 1

    Of course. Still, that tool was very helpful for a few years. Also OS/2 Warp boot disks were great as a quick RAM test - they crashed with bad RAM, which was a plague back then.

  8. Re:Sad loss. on Citrix Founder and Key OS/2 Player Ed Iacobucci Dead At 59 · · Score: 1

    Yep, that boot manager was great, even though it needed its own partition and didn't work with large hard drives.

  9. Re:can you NYC people answer this for me? on Adafruit's Smart Helmet Helps Navigate to NYC's Citi Bike Stations · · Score: 1

    I never was in NYC. Matter of fact, never was in the USA, "lol".
    Just stating facts. $160 gets you a good enough frame. Or an okay set of wheels. Or a really decent set of brakes. Or a usable rigid fork. If you are lucky, a decent suspension fork if you are willing to buy used and service it yourself.

    You will not get a brand new mountain bike for $160 anywhere. Not even a stolen one, for the reasons mentioned above. In fact, if you try to use such a bike mockup as a mountain bike, even on a cross country trail, it might cost you your life. If you are very lucky, the only loss would be the bike mockup itself because the fork and the brakes won't survive the trail for sure, with broken frame as a runner-up.

  10. Re:A bike helmet that isn't retarded? on Adafruit's Smart Helmet Helps Navigate to NYC's Citi Bike Stations · · Score: 2

    Try to cycle 30 kph or faster for a few hours - and no cheating, at least 85 rpm cadence, then you'll learn why proper helmet ventilation is important.

  11. Re:can you NYC people answer this for me? on Adafruit's Smart Helmet Helps Navigate to NYC's Citi Bike Stations · · Score: 1

    for $150 you can get a bicycle mockup. "cheap but okay" starts at 5 times as much.

  12. Re:pro-Israel terrorists? on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    actually, there sort of is

  13. Re:grand father laws? on How Ubiquitous Autonomous Cars Could Affect Society (Video) · · Score: 1

    That kind of "sport" is for these with weak leg muscles. A real man takes a mountain bike. Or a pair of good boots.

  14. Re:Wait, enjoyment?!? on How Ubiquitous Autonomous Cars Could Affect Society (Video) · · Score: 1

    Well, as long as you pay for all the externalities that come with the car ownership, I am fine with getting rid of artificially imposed costs.

  15. Re:I have to wonder.... on Israeli Army Retweeting 1967 War As It Happened · · Score: 1

    Well, I am sure that if I dig deep enough, I will find the same with your ancestors, no matter of your country of origin.

  16. Re: I remember a joke from the time on Israeli Army Retweeting 1967 War As It Happened · · Score: 1

    Victor Suvorov is probably readable if you are into alternative history, but if you are looking for facts, his books are at about the same level as Tom Clancy's pulp fiction.

  17. Re: I remember a joke from the time on Israeli Army Retweeting 1967 War As It Happened · · Score: 1

    Could be m for macaca, though. That would work in Russian as well.

  18. Re:FTA on Oculus VR Co-founder Andrew Reisse Killed In Auto Collision · · Score: 1

    There is a "yo dawg" joke inside there somewhere.

  19. Re:FTA on Oculus VR Co-founder Andrew Reisse Killed In Auto Collision · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let us be fair. Cars kill too many innocents. Cities should be for the people, not for cars!

  20. Re:Same as last time on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    If you are in the business, you actually ought to know that the plants, as you call them, can only use a certain amount of carbon dioxide because they are usually sunlight-constrained for their speed of growth. Right now there is way more supply for CO2 than demand for it and unless you either increase the amount of sunlight for the hungrier plants out there or convert most of the cities to forests, things will stay that way.

  21. Re: Med students on Med Students Unaware of Their Bias Against Obese Patients · · Score: 1

    Dude, I am a lard ass, but at tue same time I am an avid cyclist (800-1000 km per month) and I also can run and XC ski.

  22. Re:Nice. on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 1

    You do have a choice by leaving the country. Just like with the rent. Besides, the land you live is an actual stolen property, taken by gunpoint. How does that make you feel? Double standards much?

  23. Re:Nice. on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 1

    If you rent a flat, you've got to pay the rent, otherwise they throw you out. Taxes are not much different. Do you call paying the rent stealing at gunpoint as well?

  24. Re:MSN -- Google Talk -- where? on Google Drops XMPP Support · · Score: 1

    Well, ICQ still works. I've used it since 1999 and don't intend to move anytime soon.

  25. Re:Good to know on In Germany, Offensive Autocomplete Is No Laughing Matter · · Score: 1

    Well, on the other hand there is no right to life in the USA. Personally I think it is far worse - what good is freedom of speech if you are dead, but surely YMMV.