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by claudius 13y ago
I agree that there is more[0] to it now than a few people wanting to keep a park, yet the comment I originally replied to was: > This is disgusting, the "right" to profit/property is the least important thing, it should never trump peop
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by claudius 13y ago
> This happened in Germany some time ago. I don’t know to which event exactly you’re referring, but I can assure you that > 8h of warning or something similar. this is most certainly false. Could you elaborate a bit?
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by claudius 13y ago
I have absolutely no problems with people protesting, I have a problem with ‘protesters’ forcing their opinion on the rest by use of passive (standing in front of a bulldozer) or active (undermining a railroad track carrying nuclear waste c
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by claudius 13y ago
First let me clarify that instead of ‘overturn’, ‘ignore’, ‘overrule’ or ‘disregard’ might have been better, as I wanted to say that such protests overrule one particular democratic decision and not necessarily the whole form of government.
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by claudius 13y ago
> Muslim democratic state. There are very, very few religious democracies, and if you only consider those both officially and effectively religious, I won’t be able to name a single one.
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by claudius 13y ago
In comparison, Die Zeit[0] (liberal) has a number of articles currently in slot three of the homepage (slot one is describing floods), Die Süddeutsche[1] (liberal/left) in slot four (they’re based in Munich, so the most important bit is app
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by claudius 13y ago
Yet a democratically-elected government made a decision in the name of the people to replace this park with a shopping mall. People protesting against that by blocking the construction process (i.e. stand in front of bulldozers etc.) are ef
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by claudius 13y ago
Just recall that less than ten years ago, nobody even knew of this material and it was only the subject of strange theoretical research at ivory tower universities. Please continue to fund science. =)
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by claudius 13y ago
Lenovo has some dedicated shops, at least in Germany. What is ‘your area’?
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by claudius 13y ago
Thanks – yes, the PrtSc key is a little…odd. I was wondering about the PgUp/Dn buttons as well, as they are in this stupid location where they absolutely don’t belong. Why do you find the keyboard backlight helpful? So far, I found the Thin
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by claudius 13y ago
Well, yes, but unfortunately, time is inherently non-metric. As long as we mainly operate on this planet, we have two basic units of time: the day and the year. Now unfortunately, the latter is roughly 365.24 days, so whatever unit X you ch
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by claudius 13y ago
Hrm, that's what I feared. I was a proud owner of a [0] before this one, but even the Core i520M slowly gets…slow, especially one of the newer graphics chips would be wonderful sometimes. [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnOCUkbix0
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by claudius 13y ago
How do you find the keyboard? I'm not too concerned about the weird island style, but only six rows slightly freak me out (currently using a T410s).
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by claudius 13y ago
You know that something is wrong with a website if it is worth loading a spinning gears icon to show as an animation while the rest of the page loads. Why do four paragraphs and a headline need so long to load/display? Size-wise, ISDN would
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by claudius 13y ago
I begin to understand what a standard physics text must look like to an outsider. Utter gibberish at first view, then there are some words you can make out if you look closer and after lots of googling you can remotely comprehend the approx
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by claudius 13y ago
And if you refuse to accept that the optimal solution is impossible to implement, you will forever try to build a perpetuum mobile rather than go with the second-best solution.
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by claudius 13y ago
While I agree that GNU software makes up an important part of a Linux system, I do not see a reason to include it in the name – doing so with every important part of my computer would result in the short and easily pronounceable name Opera/
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by claudius 13y ago
Hm, curious. In Germany (and Austria, wherefrom I got my N9), it is perfectly fine to buy a phone . What you cannot do (legally) is buy a SIM card without ID – however, most shops just require you to fill in some form and don’t bother chec
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by claudius 13y ago
Breaking clocks is boring, but how about breaking SI? We would have to: - redefine the speed of light - redefine the unit of distance - redefine the unit of work - redefine the unit of the electrical current - redefine the unit
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by claudius 13y ago
The point is that at the moment, a day has 86400 SI seconds. If you want to keep it that way, i.e. change neither the length of a day nor change the length of a second, you will have to either divide these 86400 SI seconds up into some sens
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by claudius 13y ago
First of all, there is already the Swatch Internet Time[0], which is a very similar concept (and similarly underused). But more importantly, you would have to redefine the length of a second in order to keep days the same length. Redefining
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by claudius 13y ago
Yes, because they learnt the lessons from history and if there is anything that Germany wants to avoid then it is inflation. Furthermore, the ECB is controlled by a money-printing Italian and last time I checked, German influence in the ECB
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by claudius 13y ago
The amount of people employed in such jobs has actually decreased in recent years and nowadays, more people than ever are employed in full social security jobs in Germany.
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by claudius 13y ago
That’s because Germany implemented the necessary social reforms before the crash (around 2005), rather than after. It also still has a superior education programme with apprenticeships for standard jobs, as well as cheap university access w
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by claudius 13y ago
You mean eating with your bum?
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by claudius 13y ago
> The Windows 8 EULA says: Which is absolutely irrelevant for example in Germany, as customers (a) buy the computer/license before agreeing to the EULA and (b) most of the statements in the EULA (no warranties, e.g.) cannot be legally i
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by claudius 13y ago
I wouldn’t say more desirable, but definitely more accessible, especially during the times when most modern cities were founded or developed a special position among similarly sized villages and ships (either ocean-going or river boats) wer
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by claudius 13y ago
It looks more like shortest paths between airports. Actual flight paths of actual planes can be found at [0], e.g. [1], the path of the recently redirected Pakistan International flight. [0] http://www.flightradar24.com [1] http://www.fl
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by claudius 13y ago
How is memory usage with many tabs open?
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by claudius 13y ago
I would call that a feature (though I prefer to use DejaVu Serif or Garamond rather than Georgia).

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