The chancellor says we're all rip-off artists. And finds that absolutely appalling. But ignores the fact that the willingness to take advantage is far greater among entrepreneurs and enterprises. Subsidies are gratefully pocketed, no matter how absurd the project is. Large corporations apply for funding awards because you can still get a few euros and take them. Structural development funds are used by enterprises to move operations from location A to location B - because location B offers lower business taxes or other sweeteners. The fact that jobs at location A then disappear is beside the point. And the employees at location A who then sit on the street as unemployed - all just rip-off artists. And the small and medium-sized businesses at location B - who have little leverage against the dominant player on site and are therefore left out of all decisions, after all the city council needs to keep the newly recruited major corporation - all rip-off artists. Also the mid-sized companies at location B who have fewer customers and thus lower sales due to the many unemployed, all just rip-off artists.
The world is so simple when you look at it through the rose-tinted glasses of neoliberalism. Then it's quite fitting when you have simple solutions and simple causes ready. You then push for mergers in banking, even though this will result in more job losses than the industry is already experiencing anyway.
That his simple solutions are just a dismantling of the welfare state and a transfer of society to corporations, that precisely his reforms have partly given enterprises the leverage for the recent extortions - none of that you see through the rose-tinted glasses.
Here's the original article.
Chris Double has set up a Factor server that anyone can play around with. Factor is interesting because it has a development environment completely built on web browsers with inspectors, browsers, and editors - so you can change everything via a web browser, including the running code of the server. However, it's not like Zope - so a CMS interface. Instead, they are rather Smalltalk-oriented tools, that is, low-level programming tools. Very nice overall. The language also strikes a chord with me: a mixture of Joy, Lisp, and Forth. Given my affinity for Lisp and Forth, it's clear that I have to engage with something like this. At Planet Lisp you can find the original article.
Chris Double has also implemented IO for Nokia phones running Symbian. The whole thing is currently functional on the 7610. Very interesting — IO is a language that draws heavily from Smalltalk, NewtonScript, Lisp, Self, and other languages, borrowing interesting ideas from everywhere. It's a language with prototype-based object orientation and various ideas from functional programming. The language is quite interesting even without a mobile phone. At Planet Lisp you can find the original article.
Oh yes, everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else. And if necessary, one points fingers at the constitutional court - despite the fact that the constitutional protection authorities themselves made a mess of things, and one should perhaps rather point fingers at the interior ministries of the states (and the federal government). But no matter where one points, nobody gets the idea that the lousy own politics (and I mean both government and opposition) are to blame for the fact that the dimwits let themselves be impressed by the brown trash. The result won't be nice for any of us, but since politicians lack any insight into their own mistakes, it won't get better, but rather worse. Very great, Mr. Schily.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
The GBBopen Project - Blackboard software that also runs under OpenMCL
Yesterday, Heise reported: "It remains unclear whether the customer database of the warez provider should be examined more closely. Legal experts hardly expect that users who downloaded something and paid for it will face criminal charges." and according to Tagesspiegel: "The authorities could probably identify the names of the 45,000 customers using the payment transaction lists stored in the computer system. According to reports, however, users need not fear prosecution. The sheer number of proceedings would likely overwhelm the courts. For now, it is sufficient for the GVU and the film companies organized there to dismantle the distribution structures." Well. That didn't work out - but seriously, I hardly believe that anyone considered ftpwelt as an official download portal with legal content. The original article can be found on heise online news here.
Following this thread, there's supposedly going to be a new Bessa R3A soon. With M-mount. And Zeiss is also building the G lenses for M-mount. If so, that would be amazing - the Hologon could look very nice on my M6. Also interesting is the image of the camera on the Zeiss server. Here's the original article.
