shtum means silent - it's a yiddish word. But "schtumm" is also the german world for silent. putpocket is the reverse of pickpocket - people who secretly put something in your pocket without your knowledge.
Salt Cellar bucolic Humdinger he's speaking double Dutch stiff upper lip his goose is cooked big dipper to harangue somebody stay shtum (that I got right away.. lol) I must see a man about a dog sweetheart deal teetotaller putpocket You can't teache somebody to suck eggs to prevaricate
I CAN read it well enough, I sort of forgot to answer. To summarize the German Wall of Text - which coincides with the article: People are mad because the verdict of the GDR is really negative. Osiris thinks that only people who have lived there should be the ones to judge it - which I think is unrealistic. Historians are able to judge and evaluate events decades, centuries or even millenia after they happened. They do that by looking at the documents (the "evidence") that is left behind. So,
[quote]That works in Europe well, but not in the US as much. It works well in big cities, but the rest of America is pretty spread out. [/quote]I think the east coast has ay well developed public transportation system, and so do parts of California. I once took the train from Sacramento to San Francisco Air Port - they call it BART (made me think of the Simpsons lol - not the best epithet for a train system but it actually stands for Bay Area Regional Train. I always forget just how
Interesting problem. The city I live in is well known for being "green" and very very liberal. But I couldn't honestly tell you exactly what specifically "green" decisions the city council made either. Green nonprofit businesses don't exist here, as far as I know. But I like the idea of debuilding old homes and using the materials - of course, 200 years isn't really THAT old (americans and their notion of antique is amusing - my former guestmom thought stuff from the 40ies was antique). There
[quote]Just because there is little privacy left doesn't mean we should support making things worse.[/quote] True. I am a bit wary of Web 2.0 anyway. People share personal information a little bit too carelessly. I mean even JU.. read enough posts of a person and it is possible to come to a pretty good conclusion of said bloggers political oppinion and stance, where they work in some cases, what they do, background, experiences - a pretty conclusive picture forms out of little mosaic pieces.
[quote who="JillUser" reply="5" id="2544542"]Utemia, I like a lot of different kinds of coffee but I must say, the best coffee I've ever had was in Germany. I like Starbucks Mochas but don't like their coffee as a stand alone brew. I drove my hubby crazy when we were in NYC one time and I kept saying "Oh look, a Starbucks!" Every couple of minutes....they were everywhere! Every corner we turned had one![/quote] Glad you liked it here. Maybe the prices are normal for
My brother is a classical pianist - he always wears one when he plays a concert or takes part in any official capacity as a pianist. Black tux and a bowtie (we call them Fliege - Fly.. don't ask me why though, it makes no sense) - it looks great. I am rather fond of formal wear on guys, no matter how scruffy they look otherwise, a suit or just a shirt with a tie in whatever is always a major improvement and makes them look good (in most cases anyway). I don't know why that works that way - b
I decided to look the military decision up in this huge 1200 overview I have to see what it said there about the military decision. from Gerhard L. Weinberg, A world at arms, a global history of world war 2, 2nd edition 2005, Cambridge UP, p 812. This chapter is called "The final assault on Germany - offensive in the West [quote]By this time, Patton's 3rd Army had driven the Germans back to the Mosel on 1st Army's right flank and, in the fashion Patton knew best, now drove acr
There seems to be no easy way to solve the problem. Spying on communication, now that is something. Just yesterday my newspaper ran a special feature on how the electronic imprint left by us by cellphones, lowjacks, internet and landlines, credit cards, social networks etc. (this data is stored in Germany for 6 months) makes it possible to analyze exactly what you do, who you know and meet and possibly even what you talk about. In other words, there is absolutely no privacy. There is
It would have been better to have used another verb, I commented on that in the very first post I made in this thread as well. President Bush did declare the war on terror officially, the US started actively/officially fighting terrorism in his presidency (I'm having trouble to come up with the right adverb here myself). Before that it was not a politicum the way it is now. I mean fighting terrorism was always something that was actively pursued - there were enough attacks before 2001, the US
Sounds easy enough - just contact your peers.. but it isn't very effective in stopping it as of yet. Maybe it is a strawman argument in the debate over censorship, but on its own it isn't a harmless topic at all. You are right about the climate summit though, they wasted millions in organizing the whole thing, and all for nothing. I guess the city of Copenhagen was happy because of all the business that came into town, but that's about all the positive there is. Imagine how many concrete mean
I would hazard a guess that truck stops are way better than gasstations. When I was in the US I never stopped at a truckstop because I wasn't really traveling around that much, but we did stop for gas and coffee when we took small trips. One cool thing is that gasstations sell jerky lol we don't have that at all in Germany. It sort of made me feel like primitive caveperson, chewing on dried meat - or like a dog, because some of the hide chewtoys look eerily alike.
What do you do with the things you knit? I mean you can never have too many warm socks, but still.. what kind of things do you knit besides pipeholders? Sweaters, shawls, hats, mittens or maybe some decorations for your truck (jk)
hah. I don't like Starbucks but I could care less about their evil empire. The coffee just doesn't taste good. We have two in my town in Germany but they are ridiculously expensive for one and that really dark roast tastes and smells horrible. But coffee in the US is often strange.. either the tap water is full of chlorine so that you think you swallowed poolwater or the coffee has some weird flavour mixed in like "french vanilla" or "hazelnut", that's just gross. Or the coffee tastes like us
[quote]You said that there is no police unit whose job is to track child pornography and have it deleted. Why the hell not? it is certainly a more sensible approach then creating a national censorship infrastructure. (And doesn't reduce your browsing speed by 80%).[/quote] Say there was a police, federal police or other agency that did track it down. But what happens if the server is not in the US? Now if a german police officer wanted to actively delete content from a server that is in the U
unfortunately I only found links to this story in french and german but none in english. It's like from a detective plot straight out of a dimenovel lol
I read this in yesterdays newspaper feuilleton and it made me laugh. It is quite the little annecdote. A little provincial theatre in northern france wanted to stir some excitement for their new theatreproduction and sent several small black cardboard coffins with a bullet in it to journalists in the region. In the box was also a note that said "You'll have a date with Ben and Gus soon". Ben and Gus are professional hitmen - out of a play by Harold Pinter called "the dumb waiter
Countries like Indonesia don't seem to care about child porn or civil rights much, I agree. There is an ongoing debate in Germany about banning/deleting pedophilic internetcontent. There are quite a few left/liberal groups that liken Germany to a opressive police state that employs arbitrary censorship on its helpless citicenry because of that. They argue that a floodgate would be opened if a ban on content is allowed for anything - today its child pornography and whoops tomorrow free
A propos free speech in the US.. the Child Pornography Prevention Act was overturned in a 2002 Supreme Court Decision Ashcroft vs Free Speech Coaltion. I don't really know if forbidding someone to create virtual child pornography or comics that depict child pornography is really a bad thing but it did violate the "artists" free speech because it was overbroad, according to the decision anyway.
How do you propse to go about fighting online content that is indeed illegal like child pornography? One way is to call upon the server providers to delete the content, and some do but most don't. There is also no official police that scans the web for illegal sites and notifies the servers and ensures that the content is deleted. The organizations that do work like that are to my knowledge NGO's or voluntary. Calling upong the providers is a problem as well when the servers are in fore
Quality TV shows hardly exist in german television. The only one that I really like is Tatort, a police procedural that is something of a cult. But that is a special case. In comparison, there are many great shows in american television, and one of them is Burn Notice. It is filmed on location in Miami and also takes place there, which is rare in itself. So I get to see what Miami looks like - I don't want to go there and this is better than windowshopping. Florida is hot, humid, full
Concerning colaborateurs, the answer isn't straightforward because many did both, helped where they could do so safely and also colaborated with the germans. The trial of John Demjanjuk falls into a different category that is related - those that worked with the germans to save their own lives. That would fall into the slave example that you gave. Antisemitism in Poland (and elsewhere) is a topic that is seldom spoken publicly about because it broadens the perspective away from the "w
[quote]They crucified thousands of religious leaders.[/quote] like whom? and to which century do you refer to? The romans did crucify thousands of people but around 33ad not mainly because they were religious leaders. The persecution and relentless hunting of christians came much later as christianity was nothing but a small jewish sect at the time of Jesus's death. Christians as such didn't exist yet. Otherwise, they didn't really mind other polytheistic pagan cults, they were sort of
[quote]You "cite" the "weak dictator theory"[/quote] I recommend looking up what it is about before casting a verdict. Clearly you haven't done that or you wouldn't state something ridiculous like that:[quote]And to call those theory is an insult to actual theories, it is nothing but propaganda.[/quote] Please tell me what purpose this alleged propaganda serves. It doesn't exculpate Hitler and his compatriots at all, for one, and goes on to describe how an administrative massmurder was possib
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