Alle die sich bei Protesten beteiligen wollen könnte mal HIER reingucken.

Berlin (Post-Raid)
Berlin 15.03
Düsseldorf 15.03

Desweiteren sind wohl wieder Sachen in Stuttgart und Hamburg geplant.

Im Alter von 75 Jahren - An Komplikationen einer Staphylokokken-Infektion - Mit Rolle als Polizeichef in "Der weiße Hai" weltberühmt geworden

International berühmt wurde der Schauspieler deutsch-irischer Abstammung mit seiner Rolle als Polizeichef Martin Brody in Klassiker "Jaws" ("Der weiße Hai"). Ein Killer-Hai macht dort eine Küstenstadt in den Neuengland-Staaten unsicher. Gegen den Widerstand der Lokalpolitiker und Geschäftsleute arbeitet er mit zwei Hai-Spezialisten zusammen und erledigt die Bestie nach dramatischen Kämpfen. Scheider drehte in seiner Karriere mehr als 40 Filme. Zwei Mal wurde der am 10. November 1932 in Orange (US-Staat New Jersey) geborene Schauspieler für den Oscar nominiert, allerdings konnten jeweils Konkurrenten die begehrte Trophäe gewinnen.

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The Internet group Anonymous today held protests critical of the Church of Scientology. The protests marked what would have been the 49th birthday of Lisa McPherson, who is claimed to be a victim of the Church of Scientology's practices. Lisa died in 1995 during a running of what Scientologists refer to as an Introspection Rundown, a procedure intended to help Church members deal with a psychotic or deeply traumatic event.

Protests were planned throughout the day in 14 countries and over 50 different cities. The estimation of total protesters world wide for Feb. 10, 2008 is 9,250 people.

Wikinews had correspondents at a number of protest locations to report on the events. This article was updated throughout the day with reports from around the globe.


London, England
Plymouth, England
Manchester, England
Edinburgh, Scotland
Boston, Massachusetts
Brussels, Belgium
Buffalo, New York, USA
New York City, New York, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Toronto, Canada
Winnipeg, Canada
Los Angeles, California, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Adelaide, Australia
Brisbane, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Sydney, Australia
Phoenix, Arizona
Honolulu, Hawaii
Houston, Texas, USA
Dallas, Texas, USA
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Vienna, Austria
Portland, Oregon
Seattle, Washington
San Diego, California
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Clearwater, Florida
The Internet
Other locations

Phuuuu, das wars erstmal... Besonders toll ist folgende Tatsache The protest was delayed by 30 minutes so the protesters would not interrupt a Presbyterian Church service. ;-)

Update:
3 Scientologists in different locations were arrested for attacking the protesters.

At one protest 2 People got hit when the engine panel on a bus snapped open and smacked them (It had been windy in that location which caused it to snap open)

the CO$ in Georgia called out the Riot police, who spent 3 hours standing there in their face masks.

1 Person showed up in Tokyo, all by himself, 4 protesters showed up in Tel Aviv.

There were Freezoners at the London Protests, some of the live feeds had anons chatting with them.

"Anonymous" now has a bunch of faces to go without its name. The loosely bound group of net activists who've got a beef with the Church of Scientology showed up Sunday at the church's largest Los Angeles' locations. The protests were part of a global day of demonstrations against Scientology. Hordes of masked, costumed (and mostly young) picketers showed up in Boston, New York, Toronto, the U.K., Australia and a dozen other locations (thanks wikinews).

Many of the Los Angeles picketers wore the Guy Fawkes masks made popular in the movie "V for Vendetta," and it seemed like every other person was recording the event with a digital camera, camcorder or cellphone.

The protests were peaceful and colorful, with music and chanting (often: "Religion is free -- No Pay Per View" -- a reference to an alleged tiered system whereby the religion's adherents must pay money to gain spiritual clarity). A near constant stream of horn honks provided the background noise as cars passed the Scientology center on Sunset Boulevard and continued as the mob moved to the so-called Celebrity Center on Hollywood Boulevard. At least one ambulance and several fire department vehicles honked as they passed.

Security personnel, some wielding video cameras, were stationed at every entrance to the Sunset Boulevard center. Most wore impassive expressions and, when spoken to (or in some cases, danced with) by rollicking protesters, would betray no more than the wryest of grins.

Protesters were quick to hand leaflets to any cars that slowed or stopped for red lights -- and many drivers freely accepted them.

"Ask a Christian about the Bible; you will be answered," read one leaflet. "Ask a Scientologist about their text: You will be answered -- after your check clears."

A Fawkes-masked spokesman for Anonymous, who wouldn't give his name but whom several protesters identified as the organizer of the L.A. event, explained one of the group's concrete goals.Img_0121

"We want set off a government investigation into how they got tax-exempt status," said the man, who said he was in his early 20s.

The protesters Sunday looked mostly young, white and computer-oriented -- few had anything like a serious tan -- but among the group were other more established anti-Scientogy elements, such as investigative journalist Mark Ebner, Mark Bunker from Xenu TV, and several people who identified themselves as former Scientologists.

Asked to explain the sudden groundswell of opposition to Scientology, Lynn Fountain Campbell, who said she'd been part of the church for 40 years, said, "It's just reached a critical mass. People just aren't scared anymore."

"They try to make people shut up," Campbell added, "and I'm not the shutting up type."

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PROTESTERS in masks demonstrated outside the Church of Scientology's Adelaide headquarters yesterday afternoon.

The three-hour rally was part of an international campaign against the church and coincided with similar events interstate and overseas.

An internet-driven group called Anonymous was behind yesterday's protest, which has taken down a Scientology website after declaring war on the church.

Anonymous, whose membership included hackers, has begun a "third wave" of attacks in the week-old operation dubbed Project Chanology, according to reports on News.com.au

About 150 people in masks gathered in Victoria Square before marching on the church's Waymouth St office, where they were met by security officers guarding the building.

Curtains were drawn across the windows of the office and the protest was ignored by those inside.

Adelaide rally organiser David, who would not give his last name, said the group wanted to warn people Scientology was a dangerous cult.

"They charge money to go up levels in the church and they use psychological abuse to keep people reined in," he said.

He said people were hiding their faces because the church was known to harass people who opposed it.

Protesters carried banners and placards denouncing the church and distributed leaflets to passersby.

A statement from the church says Anonymous is a "group of cyber-terrorists" who hack into websites.

"Anonymous is perpetrating religious hate crimes against Churches of Scientology and individual Scientologists for no other reason than religious bigotry," the statement says.

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Die Russische Nationalhymne im Hintergrund ist der Bringer!



Channel 7 über den Raid in Adelaide



Der Remix zum oberen Video



Presseerklärung 09.02.08



Ankündigung zum 10.02.08



Eins der Hunderten Videos auf YouTube von Adelaide



10.02.08 Melbourne



10.02.08 Brüssel



10.02.08 In West Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground is where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin', all cool
And all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys, who were up to no good
Started makin' trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
And said, "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.



10.02.08 in Bosten (+Rickroll)



Schon vom 02.02.08, aber mal im TOP-Bildzeitungspodcast *lololol*
Und die STIMME *lololol*



10.02.08 in Winnipeg


10.02.08 in London



























MEER

Das die Deutschen mal wieder nichts auf die Reihe kriegen, war ja klar, aber z.B. in London werden wohl beim nächsten Raid am 15.3.08 noch wesentlich mehr Leute auftauchen.

Wenn weder Obama noch Clinton es schafften in den nächsten Wochen einen Vorsprung zu bekommen, dann könnten die 796 Parteiführer (sog. Superdeligierte) einfach einen aussuchen, auch gegen den Willen des Volkes.

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These are unfriendly times to be a Scientologist. In December, Germany's Interior Ministry moved to ban the organization, which has tax-exempt religious status in the United States. In January, St. Martin's Press published Andrew Morton's salacious unauthorized biography of Tom Cruise, which describes the star as its de facto second in command. The church responded with a 15-page statement, calling the book "a bigoted, defamatory assault replete with lies" and saying Cruise "is a Scientology parishioner and holds no official or unofficial position in the Church hierarchy." Jenna Hill Miscavige, a niece of church leader David Miscavige who left the fold in 2005, this week came out in support of Morton and slammed the organization for, among other things, its practice of "disconnection--essentially severing contact with family members seen as hostile to the group.

Now, a loose-knit consortium of hackers and activists calling itself "Anonymous" has declared "war" on the organization. In a creepy YouTube clip addressed to the "leaders of Scientology," a robotic voice announces "with the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who trust you as leaders has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed." (The clip has been viewed more than 2 million times since it was posted Jan. 21.)

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The church did not return multiple phone calls this week but did issue a statement to NEWSWEEK in which it calls Anonymous "a group of cyber-terrorists ... perpetrating religious hate crimes against Churches of Scientology and individual Scientologists for no reason other than religious bigotry."

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Last week a suspicious white powder was mailed to several church locations in Southern California, and the FBI is investigating whether the mailings are connected to previous hacking. On its Web site and in the local press, Anonymous has denied sending the powder. Bunker, unaffiliated with the group himself, says he has received nearly 6,000 e-mails, largely supportive, from people claiming to belong to Anonymous.

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In any event, Anonymous says it won't give up without a fight--something the church has proven itself more than happy to provide.



Cyber-Terroristen? Fuck Yeah :-D

Das braucht man ja immer wieder im Leben und die Rechner dafür sind so schwer zu finden, da die entsprechenden Einheiten oft beide genannt werden.

mph -> kmh
inch -> cm

Natürlich funktionieren beide Seiten auch in entgegengesetzter Richtung.

If you're under the age of 15...you shouldn't even read this,
and if you do, you should not repost this.

Just because you were born in '97 doesn't mean you're a 90's kid.

It's not like you could remember the original Simpsons.
I am sorry but three conscious years of the 90's just wont cut it.


You're a 90's kid if:

You remember watching:
-Doug
-Ren & Stimpy
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rockos modern Life.
-Animaniacs
-Gargoyles

You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"

You just cant resist finishing this . . . "Iiin west Philadelphia born and raised . . ."

You remember:
-Step by Step
-Family Matters!!!
-Dinosaurs
-Boy Meets World!!!!

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

You remember reading "Goosebumps"

You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not

When everything was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-ms. mary mack

when kick ball was a daily activity.

when we used to obey our parents

You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time on a tape.

You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular.

You remember The Original Game Boy.

You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny.

You remember watching:
-The Magic School Bus
-Wishbone
-Reading Rainbow
-and Ghostwriter on PBS

You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.
You remember those Where's Waldo books.
You remember eating Warheads and Splashers Gum.

You remember watching:
-the 1st Batman
-Aladdin
-Ninja Turtles
-ghost busters

You remember Ring Pops.

If you remember when every thing was "da BOMB!"

You remember boom boxes .vs. cd players.

Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them.

You played and/or collected "Pogs"

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.

one word. . . . . . . .trolls.

Windows 95 was the best.

You watched the original cartoons of
-Rugrats
-Wild Thornberry's
-Power Rangers
-Rocket Power.

All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.

You collected those Beanie Babies.

Carebears

Lambchop's song never ended.

Silver dollars, which were cool to have.

Everyone watched the WB.

If you even know what an original walkman is.

You know the Macarena by heart.

"Talk to the hand" . . . enough said

You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace.

You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.


Before the MySpace frenzy . . .
Before the Internet & text messaging . . .
Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .
Before PlayStation3 or X-BOX 360 . . .
Before Spongebob . . .
Before Tupac was shot.
When light up sneakers were cool.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

When gas was $0.95 a gallon.
When we recorded stuff on VCRs.
You had slap bracelets!
You Actually played outside until it was dark!

"It's over," Eisner said. "They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It's going on Saturday to the writers in general."

Eisner did not elaborate on terms of the agreement. He said he expects most of the media companies affected by the strike to have "small" write-downs as a result of the deal. Eisner said the deal was struck last Friday.

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When I first immigrated to the US in 2005, I was interested in foreign policy issues and spent most of my time working to end the occupation of Iraq and stop the blind support and unlimited aid to Israel.

Then I had a life-changing incident in 2006, when I was stopped at an airport in New York and prevented from boarding to my airplane because my T-shirt had the words "we will not be silent" in both Arabic and English printed on it.

A TSA [transportation security officer] told me that coming to a US airport with Arabic words on my T-shirt was equivalent to visiting a bank while wearing a shirt that read "I'm a robber".

After making me cover my shirt, the officers changed my seat from the front to the back of the airplane.

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Interviews with the candidates were used by the mainstream media as a joke and invested by the establishment to maintain the "open political system" image.

But studying the record of the US elections' system suggests a different picture.

While polls indicate that around 80 per cent of the US population disapproves of the work of the federal congress, more than nine out of 10 DC officials get re-elected every general election.

In 2006, 94 per cent of house incumbents also won re-election and in 2004 they had a better than 99 per cent success rate.

....

But not everyone knows that the US presidential debates are administrated by a corporation called the Commission on Presidential Candidates, which is led by former leaders from the two ruling parties.

And they make sure no third party candidates can ever be admitted to use their megaphone.

They even try their best to exclude Republicans and Democrats who are not parroting the establishment's line.


Es mag ja daran liegen, dass der gute Mann aus dem Irak stammt, aber glaubt denn heute überhaupt noch jemand, dass die Wahlen in den USA demokratisch sind?

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How To Give Your Business Card - Watch the best video clips here

Das bedeutet wohl, dass es öfter passiert ist...

CIA head Michael Hayden told Congress it had only been used on three people, and not for the past five years. He said the technique had been used on high-profile al-Qaeda detainees including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Waterboarding, condemned as torture by rights groups and many governments, is an interrogation method that puts the the detainee in fear of drowning.

Congress has been debating banning the use of waterboarding by the CIA.

President Bush has threatened to veto such a bill.

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Ich wollte nur mal ankündigen, dass ich ab dem 25.02 ein paar Tage lang die besten Quellen für Filme, Musik, E-Books, Hörbücher und Fernsehfilme mit entsprechender Anleitung posten werde. Dranbleiben und genießen.

Spurlock, bekannt aus 'Super Size Me' dreht einen Film über Bin Laden. Vorab wurde versprochen, dass etwas "schockierendes" im Film passieren wird.

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden is a documentary on the epic action movie scale. A search for the most wanted man on the planet becomes a nice primer about the middle east and terrorists. Filled with humor and pop culture references, yet packed with insights, Osama is a must see for any voting-age American.

Da der Film beim Sundance Festival schon gezeigt wurde, erwarte ich ihn bald in den bekannten Filesharing-Quellen.

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A Frequently Asked Questions page explains the site's polite but firm refusal to remove the images: "Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with the goal of representing all topics from a neutral point of view, Wikipedia is not censored for the benefit of any particular group."

"It's totally unacceptable to print the prophet's picture," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately."

Paul Cobb, who teaches Islamic history at the University of Notre Dame in Indian, said, "Islamic teaching has traditionally discouraged representation of humans, particularly Muhammad, but that doesn't mean it's nonexistent." He added, "Some of the most beautiful images in Islamic art are manuscript images of Muhammad."

Der letzte Satz ist doch ein schönes Friedensangebot.

Wissenschaftler haben mal wieder herausgefunden, wie etwas funktioniert. Am Auge eines Menschen lässt sich ablesen wie lange ein Mensch gelebt hat. Das für wird werden C-12 und C-14 umgerechnet.

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Zusätzlich zu den 3 kaputten Kabeln zum Iran, ist jetzt auch ein viertes Kabel zerstört worden.

For the fourth time in a week, an undersea communications cable has apparently been cut (or "failed due to a power outage," as some sources suggest), and while no official reports of subversion have surfaced just yet, things are beginning to get suspicious. Flag Telecom, a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA Group, has had two cables damaged in the span of a week -- a quandary it has never dealt with until now. As it stands, traffic from the Middle East and surrounding areas is being routed through various other cables in an attempt to remain online, but any more snips and we could be dealing with ping times eerily similar to those seen in 1993 (or much, much larger issues).

Meine Prognose hab ich ja schon im vorherigen Beitrag zum Thema geschrieben.

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Es ist ja schon peinlich wie unsicher die Wahlautomaten in den USA sind. Einem Wissenschaftler (Princeton) gelang es einen Nachschlüssel für alle Wahlautomaten Amerikas herzustellen. Als Vorlage nahm ein Bild eines Schlüssels, der auf einem Werbeplakat der Firma Diebold abgebildet war.

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"Barack Obama does not have the experience to be president of the United States"... "He wasn't experienced enough to authorize the invasion of Iraq." "And that's not all, it's clear Barack Obama does not have the experience to let the special interests run the government."
"That's the kind of inexperience I can get used to," said DeNiro.

"Lemme just speak to you young people here," he continued. "The rest of you can listen --it's okay. I've been concerned that so many of you aren't voting.... No one inspired you. You wanted to vote, you just didn't have anyone you wanted to vote for. You know what? I felt the same. Until now."

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Porn Star Politics on FunnyOrDie.com

“Isn’t there a mixed black/white guy? Where is he from? He’s not an American…”

Einfach ein Bild und einen Text eingeben. Sobald man den Text markiert wird das Bild sichtbar.

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Da hatte jemand aber gewaltig viel Zeit. Enjoy

Animator vs Animation

Hackers who launched a massive online attack against the Church of Scientology are now turning to real-world protests to draw attention to what they call a "vast moneymaking scheme under the guise of 'religion."'

The loosely organized group of hackers, who meet up and coordinate attacks through Internet Relay Chat channels, have set Feb. 10 for a wave of protests at Scientology locations worldwide.

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Als Zusatz gibts den Podcast von cnet. Irgendwie ist die Moderatorin beunruhigend sympathisch :-D

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Die weltweit bekannteste BitTorrent-Seite "The Pirate Bay" könnte nicht geschlossen werden, auch wenn die 4 Gründer in Schweden vor Gericht verurteilt werden.

"The Pirate Bay" ist eine Suchmaschine für Dateien. Diese Dateien werden zum Teil unrechtmäßig runtergeladen (Filme, Musik, Bücher, Software, Spiele, Treiber, Bios etc.) und dadurch entsteht eine rechtliche Unstimmigkeit - Wer soll für den Schaden aufkommen.

Für den Fall, dass die Piratenbucht den Kampf verliert, ändert sich aber überhaupt nichts.

"The Pirate Bay is not in Sweden," the 29-year-old Kolmisoppi said.

Where are the servers?

"It's a distributed system. We don't know where the servers are. We gave them to people we trust and they don't know it's The Pirate Bay," Kolmisoppi said. "They then rent locations and space for them somewhere else. It could be three countries. It could be six countries. We don't want to know because then you'll have a problem shutting them down."

You can do what you want 'cause a pirate is free
You are a pirate!

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China ist nicht mal dabei (O_o)

Eine geistreiche und wahre Geschichte über die Amerikanische Außenpolitik. Vom "1953: Coup in America" über "1978–1979: The Christianist Revolution" und "October 2001: Iran Invades Cuba" bis "2007". Lang, aber lesenswert.

1953: Coup in America

Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President of the United States, a country that receives most of its income from oilfields in Pennsylvania and Texas. The oil is pumped and distributed by the Persian-American Oil Company, owned by Iran.

Fulfilling a major campaign promise, Eisenhower reviews the oil production-sharing agreements between Iran and the USA. As Iran is taking more than 90% of American oil revenues, Eisenhower attempts to renegotiate this arrangement on more even terms for his country.

Prime Minister Mossadegh of Iran is outraged at this show of "American greed." Instead of negotiating, Iran sends its intelligence agents to carry out a policy of regime change. They hire an assortment of American street gangs to do the grunt work.

Bombs destroy churches and community centers across the United States. Fliers and pamphlets appear everywhere, claiming that Eisenhower is a member of Communist Party USA. The Communists, according to the fliers, are destroying churches for Eisenhower to help liberate Americans from the "opiate of the masses." Local newspapers, covertly funded by Iran, echo these ideas. American public opinion is inflamed against President Eisenhower.

The Iranians bribe unpatriotic generals like L.L. Limnitzer to lead the coup against Eisenhower. The Iranians want an authoritarian, fiercely anti-Communist dictator who will never attempt anything resembling nationalization of the American oilfields. After carefully weighing the options, Iran installs Senator Joseph McCarthy as their puppet king to rule the USA.

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Auf der Seite findherdifferences gibt es eine ganze Menge "Unser Autor hat in diesem Bild 10 Fehler versteckt"-Bilder. Hier sind es zwar nur 5 pro Bild, aber dafür sind die Motive interessanter als in der Hörzu.

Set-List:
# A. Kournikova
# Adriana Lima
# Aishwarya Rai
# Angelina Jolie
# Anna N. Smith
# Beyonce
# Britney Spears
# Brooke Burke
# Carmen Electra
# Chr. Aguilera
# Halle Berry
# Hilary Duff
# Jennifer Aniston
# Jennifer Lopez
# Jessica Alba
# Jessica Simpson
# Keira Knightley
# Lindsay Lohan
# Nicole Kidman
# Pamela Anderson
# Paris Hilton
# Rebelde Girls
# Rihanna
# Shakira
# Vida Guerra

Wer knackt meinen Highscore?

Ok, eigentlich ist nur der Header neu, aber der Smily definiert meine Persönlichkeit viel besser, als diese komische, niederqualitäre Küstenlandschaft!

Awesome Smily go!

65% wissen nicht wer Pol Pot war und 64% wissen nicht was ein Gulag ist. 75% konnten Mao Zedong nicht erkennen und die selbe Anzahl wusste nicht was der "Großer Sprung nach vorn" ist.
Ok, das mit Mao ist schon fragwürdig, aber Pol Pot kennt doch kein Schwein, ein Gulag ist bei uns (und den Norwegern evtl. auch) als KZ bekannt, und wie sollte sich ein Schüler an einen Propagandasatz und die dadurch ausgelöste Hungersnot aus den frühen 60ern erinnern?

Die Aftenposten geht sogar noch weiter: "Die Umfrage ergab auch das ein drittel der Schüler glauben, dass der Kommunismus das Leben der Menschen in manchen Teilen der Erde verbessert hat." Wo hat der Autor denn bitte den Gegenbeweis? Nicht das ich Fan der Kommunismus wäre, aber den Kubanern ging es unter Batista auch nicht besser.

In einer Umfrage der 10. und 11. Klasse in Brandenburg wussten nur die Hälfte wann die Berliner Mauer gebaut wurde. Könnte ich jetzt auf Anhieb auch nicht sagen. Begründen könnte ich mein Unwissen aber: DAS WAR 24 JAHRE VOR MEINER GEBURT!

Detailwissen ist doch für Schüler vollkommen unnötig. Alles wichtige über die Mauer: Nach dem 2. Weltkrieg gebaut - Kennedy: "Ich bin ein Berliner" - ca. 1990 abgerissen.

Wenn man das Spiel andersherum spielt merk man wie dumm alle Nicht-Schüler sind. Heute kann ja mal jeder losgehen und seine Eltern folgende Dinge fragen:

In welchem Jahr ist Lenin gestorben? (1924)
Wer ist Steve Jobs? (Mitgründer von Apple)
Wie heißt der letzte Pixar-Film? (Ratatouille bzw. Lifted)
Was ist die Utah-Teekanne? (gehört zu den ältesten und bekanntesten Objekten der 3D-Computergrafik)

Das weiß garantiert auch kein sozial-normalveranlagter Erwachsener (sprich 40+). Es ist Detailwissen und sollte in Büchern stehen. Um so etwas als Allgemeinbildung zu verkaufen muss man schon ziemlich lange keinen interessanten Menschen getroffen haben.

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PS: KZ und Gular ist nicht das Selbe, aber wer sich über sowas aufreg, liest bestimmt nicht den ganzen Beitrag... ;-)

Wie kann es sein das in wenigen Tagen 3 armdicke, edelstahl verstärkte Kabel im Iran reißen? Keine Schiffe in der Nähe, keine Flugzeuge abgestürzt, aber trotzdem funktionieren die Dinger nicht mehr. Die Internetnutzungsquote im Iran fiel um 100%. Der Netzverkehr wird über Ostasien in die USA nach Europa geleitet und es wird berichtet das die Reparaturen bis zum 12 Februar anhalten werden.

Das riecht gewaltig nach Kriegsvorbereitung. Einfach mal den Informationsfluss umleiten, filtern und dann zurücksenden. Naja die Zukunft wirds zeigen.

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Tab Scope erstellt ein Echtzeit (!) eine Vorschau, sobald man mit dem Cursor über den Tab gleitet. In der Vorschau kann mit dem Mausrad gescrollt werden und die Links bleiben klickbar.


FishEyeTabs - Je mehr Tabs geöffnet werden, desto kleiner werden sie, bis kein einziger mehr eindeutig erkennbar ist. FishEyeTabs verlängert den Tab auf dem die Maus steht und ermöglicht so auch bei über 20 Tabs die Übersicht zu behalten.


Reload Every aktualisiert den Tab, oder das Fenster nach ein eingestellten Zeit (z.B. alle 5 Sekunden). Praktisch, wenn man auf eine Mail wartet und nicht ständig F5 drücken möchte, oder Reply's in einem Forum überprüft.


De-Wörterbuch ist für alle Rechtschreibidioten eine sinnvolle Ergänzung. Es hat zwar kleine Schwächen, beherrscht dafür den Großteil der Rechtschreibregeln. Alternative Rechtschreibungen inklusive. Zur Not können Wörter auch hinzugefügt werden.

Lieder nur ein Link, da die Eltern von CNN nichts von teilen hielten.

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When we watch a movie, we're usually not conscious of the cuts made by the editor. The camera angle may change dozens of times during a scene, and we follow along as if the flashing from one viewpoint to another wasn't at all unusual. You might think this is just because we've been accustomed to watching TV and movies, but researchers have found that even people who've never seen a motion picture have no difficulty following along with the cuts and different camera angles in a video.

There was no significant difference in the results for a static camera versus a moving camera, but viewers were significantly less accurate when they saw an abrupt cut in the movie. This decrease in accuracy was almost entirely found at the point in the movie immediately following the cut, suggesting quite strongly that the cut itself momentarily disoriented viewers. So although the perceptual system can handle cuts in a movie presentation, those cuts do have some cost.

I do wonder if the costs would be as evident in a longer scene. One reason movie editors like to make a lot of cuts is because it maintains visual interest. Perhaps at some point viewers would lose interest in a scene without cuts, and their memory for such a scene would actually be worse than a scene with cuts.

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Dr. Kawashima, bekannt aus dem gleichnamigen Gameboy-Spiel, ist eine reale Person und er verzichtet freiwillig (!) auf die ihm zustehenden 22 Millionen Dollar. 17 Millionen mal wurde 'Brain Age' seit dem Release verkauft.

"Not a single yen has gone in my pocket,"
"Everyone in my family is mad at me but I tell them that if they want money, go out and earn it."

Obwohl er das Geld nicht für sich benutzt, hat er ein 300 Millionen Yen (ca. 3 Millionen Dollar) Labor bauen lassen. Sein Karmakonto wird sich bis zum Lebensende wohl nicht aufbrauchen.

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Sehr nettes Video; im selben Stil gehalten

The Pentagon's Information Operations Roadmap is blunt about the fact that an internet, with the potential for free speech, is in direct opposition to their goals. The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy "weapons system".

From the Information Operation Roadmap:
"Enhanced IO [information operations] capabilities for the warfighter, including: ... A robust offensive suite of capabilities to include full-range electronic and computer network attack..." [emphasis mine] - 7

It should come as no surprise that the Pentagon would aggressively attack the "information highway" in their attempt to achieve dominance in information warfare. Donald Rumsfeld's involvement in the Project for a New American Century sheds more light on the need and desire to control information.

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"It is now commonly understood that information and other new technologies... are creating a dynamic that may threaten America's ability to exercise its dominant military power."

Das denkt, das "Project for a New American Century" also über das Internet.

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Spurius Carvilius Ruga (possibly 230 BC) was a freedman living in Rome who allegedly invented the letter G. His invention would have been quickly adopted in the Roman Republic because the letter C was, at the time, confusingly used both for the /k/ and /g/ sounds. Ruga was also the first man in recorded history to open a private elementary school.

Plutarch is our only source for the second invention, and Quintus Terentius Scaurus confirms the first one in De Orthographia. The letter G was already in use before 230 BC; Wilhelm Paul Corssen theorized in Über Aussprache that what Plutarch really meant was that Ruga's elementary school was the first place to assign the C and G to their current phonemes of /k/ and /g/. G was imported from the Greek zeta, which stood for quite a different sound, and usually confused with C and Z. This is the reason G is in the middle of the alphabet rather than at the end; at whatever point the confusion was stamped out, probably Ruga's doing, it replaced the Z used in the Old Italic alphabet.


Ohne Spurius Carvilius Ruga würde nichts grooven oder geil sein! Zu diesem Mann gibt es ausserdem keinen deutschen Wikipedia-Artikel.

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The Grateful Dead, the San Francisco cult rock band that has played at political events since the 1960s, will reunite on Monday for the first time in four years to rally support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a spokesman said on Friday.

The band gained fame with its free-form psychedelic music when the counterculture movement flourished in San Francisco in the 1960s, and they attracted many loyal fans who came to be known as "Deadheads."

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