Every African must have a metallized polyester smiley balloon floating on the veldt before even one Texan gets his banana up. That will compassionately save the Earth for our children!
"I should note in passing that with the ascension of former East German Communists into the unified German government, and with the more centralized European Union, some of the exceptional and strong privacy protections built into West German law after World War II have now changed, and a surveillance state is settling into that country, to the extent that some are calling today's Germany "DDR Lite" (DDR were the initials of the official name of former East Germany)."
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Maybe Churchill should have worked on N = 8 Supergravity.
10:51 AM, June 29, 2008
complex isn't the same as complicated.
11:07 AM, June 29, 2008
Germans proudly may say A. D. Merkel (Kasner) know better.
11:18 AM, June 29, 2008
Every African must have a metallized polyester smiley balloon floating on the veldt before even one Texan gets his banana up. That will compassionately save the Earth for our children!
1:33 PM, June 29, 2008
Anyone in Europe raising a squawk about this?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4232264.ece
Or few care about privacy any more?
4:19 PM, June 29, 2008
Congratulations to Spain!
The second half was their match, definitely!
5:29 PM, June 29, 2008
Well Bee,
the better team (SPAIN) won this One.
No comeback for Germany this time.
8:47 PM, June 29, 2008
Stefan & Bee,
as a famous philosopher once said "You can't always get what you want.."
Where was the last minute goal everybody expected?
7:48 AM, June 30, 2008
Dear Bee & Stefan
I think you'll really enjoy this - as an example of how to deal with anti-science nutcases:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/30/93525/3649/33/544056
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/30/93525/3649/33/544056
Best,
-Arun
3:58 PM, June 30, 2008
Hi Bee and Stefan,
What a 1-0 surprise!
6:13 PM, July 01, 2008
From a comment on a blog:
"I should note in passing that with the ascension of former East German Communists into the unified German government, and with the more centralized European Union, some of the exceptional and strong privacy protections built into West German law after World War II have now changed, and a surveillance state is settling into that country, to the extent that some are calling today's Germany "DDR Lite" (DDR were the initials of the official name of former East Germany)."
7:56 AM, July 09, 2008
which is evidently the biggest nonsense I've read in a while.
7:58 AM, July 09, 2008
Thanks, Bee!
Anyway, here is another one - German police shutting down a website -
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/10/54956/7928/948/549251
4:03 PM, July 10, 2008