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"elwood" posted:In other news: According to the latest polls, the pirate party would get 7 % nationwide right now with a dissmisal 2 % for the FDP. I can't decide if that is terrible or hilarious. Oh well at least the pirates are getting the protest votes now and not the nazis or the Linke.
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DeusEx posted:Translated this means "I don't want that my kids have to socialize with filthy immigrant children and working class scum longer than necessary!". I disagree. How would you combine them anyway. Hold them to current gymnasium standards? More people that used to be in the hauptschule/werkrealschule would drop out. Lower the standards to realschule? Wasting potential and dropping in scores compared to the rest of the world. I doubt the solution will be to unite the different 'tiers'. I agree however that it should be easier to switch and that teachers should be better in their judgement.
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"hankor" posted:Here what the Verfassungsschutz has been up to for the las couple of years. That's what they want you to believe, man 
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There is literally no way in hell the Länder will give up their sovereignty on education.
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Amazing how quickly this thread turned from Nazis to GWS
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Nov 21, 2011 21:06
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HighClassSwankyTime posted:I thought German noble titles were abolished after 1918...? They are. However that doesn't change their names. Also most of them are still rich and even for those that aren't the 'von und zu' has the same standing as a Dr. . But in this case it's less of a nobility thing anyway and has more to do with the fact that he's a former federal minister and also quite rich
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Nov 24, 2011 13:46
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Grendels Dad posted:How high was voter participation? Somehow the phrase "the majority of Stuttgart citizens is in favor on the project" doesn't sit well with me because I suspect it's more likely "the majority of people who could be arsed to vote are in favor of the project". Around half the population voted and of those around 60% said No (as in 'build the thing'), so around 20% of all people voted yes and they would have needed at least 33%. And I'm actually pretty sure that everyone that wanted to stop this actually went out to vote and it's just that the majority is against it or doesn't give a poo poo. /E: you know what, this 'yes if you're against it' IS confusing
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Christian Wulff making a fool out of himself, Greece not wanting our precious money and S21 finally going through. How the hell is this thread dead?
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raf posted:So - who's next? Do we have another mediocre middle-right county politician with a presentable wife? Guttenberg 
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BabyFur Denny posted:I have heard about that here, about seven years ago, when that article was written. To be honest it fooled me too. I saw Jan 30th, read the article and thought what the flying gently caress. This seems to be what came out of it.
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Aziraphale posted:Heres another question: why does Telekom throttle my cell phone usage? I pay for unlimited access, but I always get a message telling me I've gone over my limit and now my nuts are cut off. If you're talking about data, you don't have unlimited access. Well, you do but not really. You get 1GB or 5GB or what ever in UMTS/3G and if you go over the limit they throttle you to GPRS. Still better than the old days where they would charge ridiculous prizes once you went over your limit.
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az posted:Let's not pretend as if the NPD would ever be going anywhere. Still, with the Parteienfinanzierung every single vote gets them money once they're over 1,0% at an election at state level (Landtag) or 0,5% at the elections for the Bundestag / European parliament. And with what the investigation has shown basically every single vote is at least partially financing
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Ententod posted:Yeah, I think it'll just speed up the process of people noticing they can't keep their promises and don't really know what they are doing, anyway. Die Linke has been fine like this for 5 years now. Unless the Pirates actually get to be in power somewhere I doubt that's going to happen.
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Today on my way to uni I saw a new book being advertised: I guess this is coming up again because Bavaria is currently being pretty  about being one of 4 (?) states that have to pay for the rest in the Länderfinanzausgleich. They will never actually secede, they're just very self-important.
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Smirr posted:What the gently caress, I got a letter from Rainer Brüderle today. It's partly "Germany owns", partly "the FDP is responsible for that". There's also a postcard asking you to become a "DialogPartner" of the FDP-Bundestagsfraktion. what the hell Thanks to the Bundesländer it's always election season somewhere. And even if not, there's a Bundestags election next september. The FDP has it's back against the wall, current polls show them below the 5% threshold.
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Nov 8, 2012 18:09
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Soap Bat Derby posted:A lot of the world (Especially the U.S.) really does view Germany like this bit from Family Guy, It's kinda cruel to post a link to a website that restricts content to the US in a thread where most people wont be able to see it 
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Nov 9, 2012 12:10
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az posted:Trust me when I tell you that Germans don't feel "superior" to americans just because we're Germans and they're Americans, it's about specific things they do we disagree with and the direction the country has been heading.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Am I the only one who "Homo-Ehe" has a very weird ring to? We never did in the first place. I'd say Germany isn't as PC as most anglophone countries in the first place. It doesn't help that many topic names are coined by the (yellow) press, case in point: Dönermorde. Homo-Ehe on the other hand isn't marriage for homos but for homosexuals, it's just abbreviated because people are lazy. Ententod posted:Lots of old people here are still upholding their traditional Christian values. I suspect if Germans cared as much about their politicians' private opinions as Americans do, the CDU would be referencing their Christian beliefs a lot more often (whether true or not). They are already using the religious argument against stem cell research and medically assisted suicide. Not to forget immigration. Yeah I don't think we'll see marriage equality with a C*U government within the next 20-30 years. I can see SPD and green party doing it though. Sereri fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Dec 4, 2012 |
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Hasardeur posted:And the funny thing is that modern nuclear power plants are completely safe and this is all just the result of the angst that was steered up by the media. The problem here is that we don't have any (actually) modern nuclear plants in this country, the newest started construction in 1982. Thats 30 years. Hell, some are from the mid-70s. And if the corporations would have their way even the oldest ones would be still running because they're paid off and are making money the longer they run. The whole nuclear thing is pretty hosed up in the first place, a for-profit should not be running something as highly dangerous as a nuclear plant. Iran can't have a nuke plant but Vattenfall can? A lot of what happened in Japan can ultimately be traced back to cost-reduction / profit-maximization. Then there's the fact that the corporations keep most of what they make from nuclear energy yet pay poo poo-all for waste storage. In the good-old days they even used to just dump those barrels into the Atlantic ocean. In the end it doesn't really matter though, if something happens in France we're hosed as well. And there's no chance in hell they will get rid of nuclear power unless a plant blows up right next to Paris.
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Sereri posted:The whole nuclear thing is pretty hosed up in the first place, a for-profit should not be running something as highly dangerous as a nuclear plant. Iran can't have a nuke plant but Vattenfall can? A lot of what happened in Japan can ultimately be traced back to cost-reduction / profit-maximization. Then there's the fact that the corporations keep most of what they make from nuclear energy yet pay poo poo-all for waste storage. In the good-old days they even used to just dump those barrels into the Atlantic ocean. http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/akw-philippsburg-mitarbeiter-erheben-schwere-vorwuerfe-gegen-enbw-a-872817.html Spiegel Online posted:Berlin - Der Brief ist sechs Seiten lang und eng bedruckt. Er stammt vom 7. Dezember 2012 und ist unterzeichnet von einem "besorgten Mitarbeiter". Der Betreff: die "aktuelle Situation im Kernkraftwerk Philippsburg". It's from an anonymous source but I don't doubt it's true. I live ~30km away and I cannot wait for the day they're only able to mismanage non-nuclear plants.
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Adulterous Hitler posted:Capitalising nouns is such a telltale giveaway for us German speaking folks No, you see, this is what he meant:  
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Adulterous Hitler posted:I could give you a list with the 3,5 million most annoying people in Berlin :iamafag: You mean the Telefonbuch ?
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Duzzy Funlop posted:So apparently, after losing our ability to build airports, we've also lost the ability to build train stations. quote:Eigentlich sollten schon im Jahr 2020 Züge durch den unterirdischen Bahnhof fahren Schon im Jahr 2020. Schon.  Why did it need to be underground again?
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Zwille posted:There's a joke in there somewhere with hipsters and Swabians and underground. Yeah, but you've probably never heard of it.
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Kopijeger posted:Using uncessary foreign words is hardly unique to Germans, but it does seem to occur more often than elsewhere. I remember reading an article about Somalian islamists on Zeit.de that used the word "warlord" (which according to etymological dictionaries entered English as a calque of "Kriegsherr") and referred to the "African Union" instead of "Afrikanische Union". While the African Union thing is stupid, I'll give you that, warlord is not wrong in any way. "Wikipedia posted:Warlord mit Kriegsherr zu übersetzen, ist zwar linguistisch korrekt; jedoch inhaltlich unvollständig. Der „Warlord“ ist mehr als ein Condottiere. Korrekter wäre die Übersetzung mit Kriegsfürst. Sie ist aber irreführend, weil Warlords keinem Adelsgeschlecht entstammen und nicht ausschließlich vom Kriegshandwerk leben, sondern auch in legalen und illegalen Wirtschaftszweigen aktiv sind [2]. Ein Warlord beherrscht als alleiniger Machtinhaber ein mehr oder weniger regional abgegrenztes Gebiet, das sich innerhalb eines Staatsgebietes befindet. Dies ist nur möglich, wenn der Zentralstaat einem Warlord Autonomie zugesteht oder nicht in der Lage ist, sein Gewaltmonopol gegenüber dem Warlord durchzusetzen. Darum findet man Warlords oft in Bürgerkriegsregionen. Die gegenwärtige Existenz der Warlords ist ohne die Entstaatlichung der neuen Kriege nicht denkbar. As for the shitstorm, you don't have to germanize every word, especially if the direct translation is stupid. If you're not please with the original, foreign word you might want to rephrase it, Öffentlicher Aufschrei for example. But shitstorm is shorter, sounds cooler because it's English and really, at this point most of the media doesn't have any journalistic integrity left anyway.
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:And here is the Wahl-O-Mat for the election (in German): CDU / Greens, then AFD and Pirates. Turns out I'm a terrible human being and shouldn't be allowed to vote.
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ArchangeI posted:Never thought I'd read someone wirte "At least we have the FDP". I agree on Leutheuser-Schnarrenberger, though. I'm guessing you're referring to this post. Sereri posted:The problem here is that we don't have any (actually) modern nuclear plants in this country, the newest started construction in 1982. Thats 30 years. Hell, some are from the mid-70s. And if the corporations would have their way even the oldest ones would be still running because they're paid off and are making money the longer they run. And yes, nuclear plants create much less CO2. But guess what they produce, nuclear waste. And guess who's paying for it's disposal. And do you know what happens when the AKW has reached the end of it's lifetime? Regarding shutting down nuclear plants "But they produce less CO2" is really a non-issue. By the way, the Green party's plan is 100% renewable energy, gas/coal/oil is transitional at best for them.
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Gender: Someone please explain to me what is going on in this one. Did genderless people vote? Also I'd love to see some people in #deutschgoons this sunday.
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elwood posted:german police statistics 2012 So they shot at 8 people and didn't hit them at all?
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If you have poo poo all to do you can join us in #deutschgoons and whine about the SPD-AFD-Pirate coalition or whatever thing happens today.
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Torrannor posted:We never had a minority government on the federal level. And minority government on the state level is very rare, although it does happen. And to extend on that, the last single party rule what one term of Adenauer and over 50 years ago.
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ArchangeI posted:Constantly? Really? Do you work at an accountant's office or something? Its a box you don't check when you do your taxes once a year. I bet they have the audacity to use the federal post as well Really it's a stupid thing to be annoyed about. It hasn't much to do with seperation of church and state and is more of a service provided by the state. And the church has to pay for it, ~3% are kept. Don't wanna pay those taxes? Renounce your religious affiliation. There, no more tax.
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weavernaut posted:Do I still have to pay that tax if I'm Jewish. This is a serious question. Most likely
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Nobnob posted:Additionally things every german internet geek knows is the GEMA who forces google/youtube to block thousands of videos containing music that MAY be under GEMA's license, just to avoid incoming law suits. It's not as easy as that. GEMA considers videos containing music on youtube a public performance and wants money for it (in the name of the artists, of course). Apparently GEMA charges more than Google is willing to pay. Because of that Google blocks views from German ips so they don't have to pay fees for views.
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ArchangeI posted:In unrelated news, when will the government finally address the menace that is winter? Two prominent Germans lie in the hospital after they were deliberately and cowardly attacked by winter when they were traveling on their skis. Where is the police? Where is the Army? When will someone finally do something? Both attacks happened in the alps, I think we need to
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bronin posted:It's 10 degrees Celsius here near the Alps. Don't worry though, winter will come soon. With poo poo loads of snow and temperatures below -20. God I hate winter... Honest to god, the worst part of winter for me is when it's 5-10° cloudy and wet. I'd welcome actual winter with open arm. That said I use the ÖPNV and could work from home if need be, so the "unerwartete und unvorhersehbare Wintereinbruch" on the streets wouldn't matter that much to me.
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Torrannor posted:No posts about a prominent German football player coming out? They are here
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