The Myths of Employers - about employer FUD.
bananenrepublik - 7.8.2006 - 8.11.2006
Study: Every fourth German wishes for a single party of the "Volksgemeinschaft" - how we like to tell ourselves that this is all just a fringe phenomenon, and how wrong this claim is. Ultimately a failure of politics and the education system, but also of society itself.
Data protection expert openly talks about the path to a surveillance state - don't worry, won't impress anyone, we'll continue as planned. Civil rights don't interest anyone anymore.
Personal selection via facial analysis: Telltale bump on the head - "Phrenology was ultimately also the basis for the racial science popular during the Nazi era".
Judgment: T-Online may not store connection data - unfortunately only for one customer and for everyone else another lawsuit would be necessary. Such an absurd thing - the BGH finds that T-Online acts unlawfully, but simply ignores that they will continue to do so for a million (or however many) other users ... this is then called a rule of law ...
Bill Gates warns of digital divide in Germany - "Their goal is to make four million people fit for dealing with information technology in professional life by 2010." - well, "to indoctrinate for Microsoft products" probably describes the goals of an MS campaign better. And our politicians obediently hold the ladder.
Brandenburg: Neonazis beat journalist - now politicians will of course once again spew out a mountain of affectedness babble and talk about isolated incidents. And about how there is of course no neo-Nazi problem in Brandenburg. And how the authorities of course took completely excusable so long. But the truth, no one wants to speak it - that the brown filth continues to rise and we are already far beyond "beginning problems."
Kündigungsschutz: Glos' Pläne in der Kritik - cute, how our proletarians, through their blinkers, only see exactly the small part they want to see. Because the guaranteed support for the unemployed over a period of up to 4 years with 80% of the last income (which means that the benefits in Denmark are higher than they have ever been here!), this is simply ignored. They are just proletarians, not politicians ... (but that the media does not clearly point this out, that is an absolute disgrace)
Millions of Europeans sat in the dark - it's already embarrassing how they all mocked the Americans before, and now a simple shutdown of a line is causing Europe-wide problems ...
British attack on Deutsche Telekom - oh yes, now the locusts will certainly be discussed away again, because it can't be what can't be - that capitalism is stupid and short-sighted.
Scandal about private health insurance protest action - what do you expect from an industry whose main goal is to avoid providing the sold services and get away with it?
Prosecutor's office not allowed to involve GVU in copyright investigations - first signs of reason?
German government wants customer data for preventive crime fighting - on to the internet surveillance state! We've already slipped drastically in terms of press freedom, and we'll manage to do the same with internet freedom! Roll up your sleeves, monitor, and denounce! Every citizen is called upon! Or maybe it's time to think about using tor, JAP, and other tools for encrypting and, above all, anonymizing communication?
The Voting Booth - exactly. The annoying counting only bothers.
Report from the CCC Election Observers Group on the Mayor Election in Cottbus - no need for extensive comments. Read for yourself.
LEG wird privatisiert - which will bring in 2.5 billion once, which politicians will quickly squander. But the lost control, the sold-out foothold in the real estate market, through which the state could still intervene - that's gone for good. Stupid.
Köhler stops privatization of air traffic control - to take in a billion (which could just fill a small tributary of the German billion-dollar hole) to change the Basic Law and hand over air safety to corporations. Great idea, right? Selling off the family silver is nothing compared to this ...
Fefe's Blog - here with a nice collection of links about the voting machine debacle in Germany. Mainstream press? They don't care. It's just a few crackpots making noise ...
Category Consumer Protection: Association of German Insurers — BigBrotherAwards - exemplary picked out from the Big Brother Awards because it so nicely shows how little the economy cares about the rights of customers.
Unmut über Honorarsystem: Ärzte schließen Praxen - am I actually the only one who sees this whole thing a bit as extortion? With the patients as hostages?
Apartments to be removed from REIT law - the real competitive disadvantage for Germany are just the lobby-controlled politicians ...
The Dictatorship of the Meritocrats - a critical look at the current underclass discussion.
Glos wants more flexible apprentices - what a windbag. Of course, prospective trainees who are not yet fully grown, fresh from school, why do they make a fuss, they should just travel all over the republic. Do the Prolethicians in Berlin ever think about the nonsense they talk?
Innen-Staatssekretär: Internet wichtiges Mittel für Islamisten - oh yes, the evil Internet and the bad users who download things there. By the way, this Hanning guy is with the SPD, just in case someone might think that he is from the right-wing camp because of his outbursts. He is. The SPD was never really left-wing, but nowadays it has also left the center to the right ...
Schünemann demands ban on downloading hate messages - neither the Vatican nor the Federal Government had provided a statement on the blocking of their offers by the time of publication ...
Justice Ministry sees no need for changes to "hacker tool" paragraphs - the next botched job is in the making ...
PTB: No indications of tampered voting computers - "A real attack would require a considerable amount of criminal energy combined with special skills of the perpetrators to change the control software of the devices unnoticed." Fascinating argument, I would have expected that a considerable amount of criminal energy would be the basic prerequisite for a voting machine manipulation, and not something particularly noteworthy in that context ...
Uni Mannheim will Informatik-Institut schließen - after it was established just 10 years ago with around 100 million in tax money. And although the place seems to have quite a respectable output. Well, and for such paper-nose operations, students should then pay tuition fees ... (on the other hand, the question to the companies that are advocating for its preservation: if the connections are so good, why doesn't the company side offer support? In the form of free research funds?)
Fefe's Blog - about the media's "reactions" to the voting machine hack.
Nedap-Wahlcomputer gehackt - these are the same voting computers used in our country ... (which, by the way, received a certificate from the PTI - so much for the suitability of the PTI for testing such devices)
Chess computer - a few more small details about the voting computer hack. Only fh's hope that this would have done away with voting computers, I do not share. Politicians are forgetful and resistant to learning.
Publishers demand unrestricted right to information from providers - Data protection? Oh, forget it. Nobody even knows that word anymore. Terrorists, child abusers, and copyright infringers - with these, you can push through anything today, even a total police state or a snitch state.
Union sees BenQ-Mobile insolvency as a "dirty trick" - cute, how the prolethicians are now spinning up and think they have to be harnessed in front of the cart. Where was Rüttgers' protest during the sale? That the sale was a rigged deal to get rid of the employees was already noticeable back then - the shareholder structure and liability situation as well as the distribution of values among the three companies has not been like this only since yesterday.
BenQ Mobile files for insolvency in Germany - strange. When the part was sold by Siemens, it was loudly proclaimed that it wasn't just about buying this part for the customers and the technology, but that the location should be preserved. And now, just after the employment guarantee has expired, insolvency is conveniently filed.
Siemens board sees danger of a hostile takeover - funny, if now the economy argues with the locusts, whose existence they previously so vehemently denied ...
E.ON raises Endesa offer to 35 euros per share - isn't it nice when a German corporation can just spend 10 billion euros on buying a foreign company? About the record profits made with our money for electricity, gas etc.? And which will certainly lead to "necessary price increases due to cost pressure"? And you find that completely normal?
Network operators ignore Thoben deadline - oh yes, and how they all complained in the winter about being unfairly criticized, claiming they were doing everything to solve the problem... as if. Instead, flimsy justifications for price increases to secure record revenues are presented and customers are ripped off. And the next winter with wet snow is sure to come.
Popkomm: Musikwirtschaft will Zugangsanbieter zur Kasse bitten - Pure nonsense. What comes out of this nonsense would at best be another GEZ-like structure. And yes, this also means a rejection of the culture flat rate on my part. People, look at what is happening in other areas with similar structures today and realize that you don't want this any more than the absurd criminalization of paying customers by the music industry. The solution lies in Creative Commons and similar approaches - and in the exclusion of the music industry as a rights extortionist. Direct marketing of works by artists over the Internet is no longer a utopia.
Seehofer annoys farmers and GMO critics - and once again, the citizen is being screwed. Public opinion doesn't matter to politicians, because a) voters forget about it anyway and b) corporations pay better ...
From "controlled" crashes and "bail-out" zones - imagine your house is in a place where American military aircraft initiate controlled crashes in emergencies - and no one tells you.
Expert opinion: Trivial clause in file-sharing is nonsensical - because proving non-trivial use is not possible for the rights holder. Why the burden of proof is reversed and simply all file-sharing users - and even more importantly all paying customers! - are suspected of copyright infringement. Not compatible with the rule of law, but we have already thrown that overboard ...
Internet Treasure Hunter of the Virtual - I still hope that this report is based on a misunderstanding. But the idea that the National Library should archive all German internet publications (including closed and private ones), and that there is a law for this, is absurd enough to be credible.
Kiel's Justice Minister criticizes anonymization service - hasty activism and populist bleating instead of serious concepts.
SPD debating cutting the widow's pension - to improve women's earnings situation. Because, instead of forcing the economy to implement quota regulations (and thus ensuring that women in underrepresented professions are promoted more strongly), it is of course a good idea to blackmail the women themselves. Either go to work or perish. Women are just too lazy to work because of the widow's pension and the splitting of spouses. Is there actually any stupid idea that a German politician hasn't had?
Boom of the Riester pension continues - just to clarify: the Riester pension is a private pension insurance model that is co-financed with tax money. What is there to celebrate here? The stupidity of voters who accept such nonsense? If the money went directly into the regular pension fund, it would be used more efficiently. But once again, tax money is used to subsidize the private sector ...
Kurt advises Telekom to talk about VDSL - you can think what you want about Telekom, like or not, but doesn't it seem strange to anyone but me that a supposedly now private corporation is being forced to make millions of investments, to which other large corporations like British Telecom (which was also subsidized for a long time, just by the British) expect "unrestricted access"? Is that all that the alleged free marketeers can come up with - forced giving away of services that are pushed with our tax money and built with our contributions? To foreign corporations that are also well subsidized themselves?
Uncertainty about the legal validity of ElsterOnline - handcrafted errors, my Ass.
The state is leaving, the economy is coming - Education is the most important asset of society. We are selling it off.
How the railway is being dismantled - Silverware. Especially cheap.