Do you know a continent named "Europe"? Can't speak for the other ones, but over there most people (as in more than 50%, not whatever you ment by most) know - not believe - that evolution happens and did happen.
In fact, if you tell people about creationism and how things are in the US (for example that really great creation museum) they can't believe it. Because it's simply amazing how a technologically and scientifically advanced nation has so many inhabitants that are completely blind to reason.
No offense ment to any religion, I don't even mind if someone says that "some being" created the world (at the very beginning billions of years ago). In fact I could sympathize with that.
Sweden is not a socialist nation, but a social one. That's a very big difference. Marx and Lenin and all those guys would turn in their graves if they could read/..
While a "unified" language certainly is a good thing, IMO it is also important to save languages for cultural reasons. Obviously you can not save a language from stopped usage - there's no way or sense to force someone to speak a certain language. But to keep documentation and all available information (vocabulary, grammar, history) of languages seems very worthwhile to me.
This law has actually been in effect for a few years already in Germany. I have no clue where this article comes from (TFA is not more than a white page right now).
It's been illegal to circumvent copyright for a few years and personal copies (and a few to your friends and relatives) have always been allowed. Of course it's also kind of crap to formulate a law like this - but the music corporation lobby likes it.
I have spent 12 years in school and 5 in university, so I think I'm quite able to judge this. Oh and by the way, I've never used a laptop in a course to take notes.
You know, actually reading what someone writes helps sometimes - no matter if it's handwritten or printed out. Go read that last sentence of my first post.
If you propose a thesis you better bring forth some supporting arguments. It's just as easy to say "Laptops are more efficient in the learning progress than doing things in a handwritten form."
I could even list a few reasons why this could be possible - even though I'm not even claiming that it's true!
This is not true at all. Germans (I am one) have very liberal rights, especially compared to UK or US citizens. The only thing that is restricted over here is denial of the Holocaust - which I think is a very good thing.
So please don't say shit about Nazis being close below the surface sibling poster. There are some, a few thousand, and they are monitored and very much protested against.
BTW: Hitler DID win the election in the 1930s. The German people had quite a different perspective back than, sadly.
Of course you are right, but it is definitely their responsibility to do quality assurance with all products sold under their brand name. It doesn't matter who and where it is produced, if I tell somebody to make it I have to make sure that they make what I ordered and stand up for it if it's crap.
While it certainly is true that most information you mentioned is indeed known by officials, at least in Germany a "unified database" doesn't exist - and isn't (yet) allowed to be created. Sadly, politicians have been talking about this and the scary conservative minister of the interior (Schäuble; a really, really crazy and sad man) was trying to push this. Until now the people could fight it off, which I'm very about.
It's a shame that it becomes increasingly uncomfortable to travel to native english-speaking countries. If this paranoid security stuff goes on many people will have wasted their time learning english since they don't want to go there anymore. Like me. And I even did a highschool diploma in the USA and loved my time there (it was before 9/11).
Hopefully the british population will speak up about this!
@Sandbags:
Nice facist attitude. Please never reproduce.
I'm neither paranoid, in fact I'm pretty relaxed and optimistic, nor a member of a minority - and I haven't comitted any crime. So, why should I not want this? Because really bad things can be done by abusing an "omniscient" database. If you deny the existence of corruption then may (your) god help you.
I've got a nice read for you, by the way: google for "Manna" by Marshall Brain. Shows nicely how this can be used in a good way - and a very bad one. For the good way to happen a LOT has to change in our world and before that doesn't happen such a database would be a terribly dangerous thing.
While endorsing realism I also try to stay optimistic and to believe in the good will in all humans.
Of course I read the news, and I'm not surprised that Russia did some sabre-rattling. In my opinion though it was not them who started it, but the US with their unwillingness to stop talkin about a rocket shield installed in eastern european countries. This is not their right and suggested that those countries need protection from Russia (don't tell me it's against terrorists - why should they attack eastern european nations if they could target Italy or the UK just as well with their decisively higher meddling in affairs of the middle east).
If there would be no aggression there wouldn't be a reaction to it. Of course it would be unrealistic to abandon all military, but that's not what I demanded.
By the way I'm not a US citizen myself I it sounded like it.
It certainly is debatable if such photographs should not be classified. But ask yourself one thing:
Do you really worry about other big industrial nations (Russia, China, NATO partners, etc.) copying US military equipment to use it against them? Did none of you other commenting people think about the fact that the Cold War ended over 15 years ago?
The thread today is not a big nation - of course unless another two or three presidents like your current one come to power and continue this political course of self-isolation. But let's just hope for the good of mankind that this is not going to happen.
I say classify military informations, fine, but also please get real and stop suspecting every other nation of wanting to attack you.
Storable food includes conserved food. Think of salted meat/fish and dried vegetables/meat/berries/etc.
IMO this was way before beer was "invented" and used as a noutrition source (which happened around in the middle ages when monks asked the pope to allow it during the period of fasting.
BTW, beer can spoil, even with alcohol. It might not be dangerous to drink it, but it tastes awful (that's why there's a recommended date of consumation printed on every bottle).
Ethanol is CH3CH2OH, which is "regular" alcohol found in such beverages as beer, wine, etc.
Methanol is CH3OH, also an alcohol chemically, and will convert into formic acid in a human's metabolism, destroying the vision nerves.
So mixing up ethanol and methanol is a very big issue.
BTW: If you happen to dring methanol accidentally you have to drink quite a big amount of ethanol since it is processed preferentially by the metabolism and will block the conversion of methanol to formic acid. No, this is not a joke.
As a green and definitly anti-right-wing German I can tell you that Germany today is not the slightest bit comparable to the 1930s. Of course there are radical right-wing people (as in every country - see American History X or read an international newspaper, there are several reports of nazi assaults all throughout Europe each year normally; not by Germans, but all kinds of people), but they are so few and so isolated that there's no danger.
Every time I go to a public showing of the nazis (yes, the courts have to allow it unless there's a very good reason not to; right of public assembly is sacred after all) there are at least 10-50 times as many people demonstrating against them as there are nazis. That feels good. No actually it's terrible that there's even just ONE nazi standing there, shouting seriously stupid things. It breaks my heart that yound and old people are among them. The old one will die out naturally, but the young ones are just desperate, which really is a shame. At least the government has quite some money put into projects to show kids what happened in the 3rd Reich and to root out the cause of frustration. Not enough in my opinion, but they don't stop with it at least.
Germany has not forgotten. Not at all. Come over here and you will see. Ask Jews who live here now, even they will tell you that. We have many, many museums, pieces of art, historic sites and whatnot treating the 3rd Reich critically, none of which try to glorify anything that happened back then - it's the brutal truth.
As to Wikipedia: No, there's no danger of Nazis hijacking it. Firstly, it's not at all in their area of interest (why would they care about environmental issues?) and secondly there are about 83 million Germans who are no Nazis (out of 83.x million) who will report/fix any hijacked site.
And it's great that our government does this - others should do the same. Knowledge for the people for free in an accessible form. Great!
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Oh, of COURSE the US government is so reliable. In fact, you're right, they are!
They say "Let's invade Iraq!" and even though there's no proof to be found of WOMD they still do it against every law and moral.
Okay, that's an overused example (while still very reasonable).
Let's think about certain prison camps, presidential elections or maybe environmental protection. Yes, you are so right, the US government is great and can do far better than a stupid organization. And where in south Africa is Switzerland anyways? Or was that Sweden?
Thank you for a great post from a non-US point of view.
In Europe the outrage was extremely great when the USA invaded Iraq, for example, against the decision for a mandate by the United Nations. Or let's name another example: Guantanmo.
Appearently at least the inner and outer politics of the USA are consistent, doing things however one likes and ignoring laws and regulations.
If the american people would stand up and fight corrupt and undemocratic politicians (this includes every politician that doesn't respect Human Rights!), then there would be an improvement finally. But until then the population that supports this cocky attitude of the USA suffers the same as the rest of the world - just on the inside.
"the explanation is rather vague"
The explanation involves detailed descriptions of the chemicals and chemical effects that reveal the fingerprints. So it's not a vague, but a rahter exact description of the mechanism (if you know a bit about chemistry).
The black colored silver stuff is silveroxide by the way, if anyone wants to know.
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Do you know a continent named "Europe"? Can't speak for the other ones, but over there most people (as in more than 50%, not whatever you ment by most) know - not believe - that evolution happens and did happen.
In fact, if you tell people about creationism and how things are in the US (for example that really great creation museum) they can't believe it. Because it's simply amazing how a technologically and scientifically advanced nation has so many inhabitants that are completely blind to reason.
No offense ment to any religion, I don't even mind if someone says that "some being" created the world (at the very beginning billions of years ago). In fact I could sympathize with that.
Sweden is not a socialist nation, but a social one. That's a very big difference. Marx and Lenin and all those guys would turn in their graves if they could read /..
While a "unified" language certainly is a good thing, IMO it is also important to save languages for cultural reasons. Obviously you can not save a language from stopped usage - there's no way or sense to force someone to speak a certain language. But to keep documentation and all available information (vocabulary, grammar, history) of languages seems very worthwhile to me.
Actually it doesn't matter if I read /. or watch a show... when I really should be studying!
This law has actually been in effect for a few years already in Germany. I have no clue where this article comes from (TFA is not more than a white page right now). It's been illegal to circumvent copyright for a few years and personal copies (and a few to your friends and relatives) have always been allowed. Of course it's also kind of crap to formulate a law like this - but the music corporation lobby likes it.
You know, actually reading what someone writes helps sometimes - no matter if it's handwritten or printed out. Go read that last sentence of my first post.
If you propose a thesis you better bring forth some supporting arguments. It's just as easy to say "Laptops are more efficient in the learning progress than doing things in a handwritten form."
I could even list a few reasons why this could be possible - even though I'm not even claiming that it's true!
So please don't say shit about Nazis being close below the surface sibling poster. There are some, a few thousand, and they are monitored and very much protested against.
BTW: Hitler DID win the election in the 1930s. The German people had quite a different perspective back than, sadly.
Of course you are right, but it is definitely their responsibility to do quality assurance with all products sold under their brand name. It doesn't matter who and where it is produced, if I tell somebody to make it I have to make sure that they make what I ordered and stand up for it if it's crap.
What a sad childhood you had. You have my pitty, in all sincerity.
So making sure that no heavy-metalls are in your product, which costs money of course, wasn't left out here?
It's a shame that it becomes increasingly uncomfortable to travel to native english-speaking countries. If this paranoid security stuff goes on many people will have wasted their time learning english since they don't want to go there anymore. Like me. And I even did a highschool diploma in the USA and loved my time there (it was before 9/11).
Hopefully the british population will speak up about this!
@Sandbags:
Nice facist attitude. Please never reproduce.
I'm neither paranoid, in fact I'm pretty relaxed and optimistic, nor a member of a minority - and I haven't comitted any crime. So, why should I not want this? Because really bad things can be done by abusing an "omniscient" database. If you deny the existence of corruption then may (your) god help you.
I've got a nice read for you, by the way: google for "Manna" by Marshall Brain. Shows nicely how this can be used in a good way - and a very bad one. For the good way to happen a LOT has to change in our world and before that doesn't happen such a database would be a terribly dangerous thing.
But "there is no left" either? Oh my god!
Wow, interessting concept, but very problematic non the less. If the fetus doesn't survive it would be a hard judgment case.
Of course I read the news, and I'm not surprised that Russia did some sabre-rattling. In my opinion though it was not them who started it, but the US with their unwillingness to stop talkin about a rocket shield installed in eastern european countries. This is not their right and suggested that those countries need protection from Russia (don't tell me it's against terrorists - why should they attack eastern european nations if they could target Italy or the UK just as well with their decisively higher meddling in affairs of the middle east).
If there would be no aggression there wouldn't be a reaction to it. Of course it would be unrealistic to abandon all military, but that's not what I demanded.
By the way I'm not a US citizen myself I it sounded like it.
It certainly is debatable if such photographs should not be classified. But ask yourself one thing:
Do you really worry about other big industrial nations (Russia, China, NATO partners, etc.) copying US military equipment to use it against them? Did none of you other commenting people think about the fact that the Cold War ended over 15 years ago?
The thread today is not a big nation - of course unless another two or three presidents like your current one come to power and continue this political course of self-isolation. But let's just hope for the good of mankind that this is not going to happen.
I say classify military informations, fine, but also please get real and stop suspecting every other nation of wanting to attack you.
Have a good day
You forgot to cite Christopher Columbus there, buddy. It's his egg after all.
Experts arguing about connection to DMCA and the RIAA suddenly vanish.
Storable food includes conserved food. Think of salted meat/fish and dried vegetables/meat/berries/etc. IMO this was way before beer was "invented" and used as a noutrition source (which happened around in the middle ages when monks asked the pope to allow it during the period of fasting. BTW, beer can spoil, even with alcohol. It might not be dangerous to drink it, but it tastes awful (that's why there's a recommended date of consumation printed on every bottle).
Ethanol is CH3CH2OH, which is "regular" alcohol found in such beverages as beer, wine, etc.
Methanol is CH3OH, also an alcohol chemically, and will convert into formic acid in a human's metabolism, destroying the vision nerves.
So mixing up ethanol and methanol is a very big issue. BTW: If you happen to dring methanol accidentally you have to drink quite a big amount of ethanol since it is processed preferentially by the metabolism and will block the conversion of methanol to formic acid. No, this is not a joke.
Every time I go to a public showing of the nazis (yes, the courts have to allow it unless there's a very good reason not to; right of public assembly is sacred after all) there are at least 10-50 times as many people demonstrating against them as there are nazis. That feels good. No actually it's terrible that there's even just ONE nazi standing there, shouting seriously stupid things. It breaks my heart that yound and old people are among them. The old one will die out naturally, but the young ones are just desperate, which really is a shame. At least the government has quite some money put into projects to show kids what happened in the 3rd Reich and to root out the cause of frustration. Not enough in my opinion, but they don't stop with it at least.
Germany has not forgotten. Not at all. Come over here and you will see. Ask Jews who live here now, even they will tell you that. We have many, many museums, pieces of art, historic sites and whatnot treating the 3rd Reich critically, none of which try to glorify anything that happened back then - it's the brutal truth.
As to Wikipedia: No, there's no danger of Nazis hijacking it. Firstly, it's not at all in their area of interest (why would they care about environmental issues?) and secondly there are about 83 million Germans who are no Nazis (out of 83.x million) who will report/fix any hijacked site.
And it's great that our government does this - others should do the same. Knowledge for the people for free in an accessible form. Great!
They say "Let's invade Iraq!" and even though there's no proof to be found of WOMD they still do it against every law and moral.
Okay, that's an overused example (while still very reasonable).
Let's think about certain prison camps, presidential elections or maybe environmental protection. Yes, you are so right, the US government is great and can do far better than a stupid organization. And where in south Africa is Switzerland anyways? Or was that Sweden?
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In Europe the outrage was extremely great when the USA invaded Iraq, for example, against the decision for a mandate by the United Nations. Or let's name another example: Guantanmo.
Appearently at least the inner and outer politics of the USA are consistent, doing things however one likes and ignoring laws and regulations.
If the american people would stand up and fight corrupt and undemocratic politicians (this includes every politician that doesn't respect Human Rights!), then there would be an improvement finally. But until then the population that supports this cocky attitude of the USA suffers the same as the rest of the world - just on the inside.
"the explanation is rather vague" The explanation involves detailed descriptions of the chemicals and chemical effects that reveal the fingerprints. So it's not a vague, but a rahter exact description of the mechanism (if you know a bit about chemistry). The black colored silver stuff is silveroxide by the way, if anyone wants to know.
And nobody thinks this joke is inappropriate considering that many, many people die because of AIDS?