Hulluja nuo ihmiset!

[yakalskovich]

Or: "These humans are crazy!"; or: "Die spinnen, die Menschen!" or: "Il's sont fous, les hommes!" (meaning humans, not men in particular; that is another story).

A blog is originally a web-log, which means that I a) log my RL life on the web or b) log where I have been on the web; this is the latter sort of entry.

While the fax spooled slowly into the spooler (and I am so not doing anything taxing in the meanwhile as not to disturb the software), I was surprised by the following articles:

US occupation forces Iraqi farmers to buy expensive patented seed from US companies! (in English)

Provider demands their customers to pay for being wiretapped (in German)

Americans worried about planned wind power generators off the New England coast (in German?) What is their problem? What "aesthetic desaster"? I love wind power generators; for me, they're part of the coastal landscape. How can anybody think old windmills cozy and nostalgic, but hate wind power generators?

Because of The Shrub, US Americans are actually emigrating to Canada - and not only ever saying they would! (in English)

And now something positive at the end: the unobtrusive civil servant who is going to kick Microsoft off all computers in Munich's public administration (in German)

Comments

[woelfle.livejournal.com]

*waves windpower generator support flag*

Really. How stoopid. Might read up on all your links when I'm on free access.

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

Vermont is pushing for wind power generators b/c they want to make themselves independent of outside power sources (such as power plants in Canada, from which they import energy). Vermont is in New England but not a coastal state, so they are looking to put the wind things on their mountains -- which is controversial because the mountains are very beautiful (very similar to the Eifel or the Sauerland, small and green) and these things would poke up and look funny. They are also worried about the impact on birds. However, I think it will probably happen because Vermont is extremely progressive in terms of environmental policy (and social policy of course -- they have gay civil unions).

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

mag nicht mehr links öffnen.
was happy about munich but then read they might have to take it back due to every little thing in pcs and the web being licensed. and it is impossible to avoid every licensed bit *hates microsoft* *patents*
so vienna will not follow. at least it waits to see what happens.