Tomte

As long as we haven't figured out and implemented a way to align economical and ecological sense, your suggestion is a non-starter.

I don't play for expected value, I play for variance. And I'm tired of people telling me that it's irrational to play the lottery, it isn't.

Fun fact: In German civil law we have four sections on bees: beekeepers got special rights to enter others' properties in order to catch flown-out hives, regulating who owns a new hive that forme…

There's this quotation by Scalia (whom I respect a lot , despite him mostly ruling otherwise than I would have), that four Justices probably don't think the Exclusionary Rule was a good ide…

I played that game on PC. Recently I ahem got ahold of it again and it was still fun, but way too easy. And too repetitive. I don't remember it that way. Especially since I'm a terrible pl…

99% seems too high. On the other hand, outright acquittals are very low in Germany, as well (as they should be). Outright convictions for everything the prosecution charged are also not too common, bu…

This is basically "I disagree with him, and wish he'd tone down his opinion piece. His lack of hedging words makes his article too powerful, and I wish I had the same effect on my audience&q…

But the book claims to "cover all major improvements between Versions 5 and 11". :-)

Court believes that the decision was materially correct, but oral arguments have convinced it that the supposed urgency isn't there. Case to continue in regular court proceedings.

Do the solution links work for you? I've never seen a link that doesn't return "Not Found".

That's correct, that's my interpretation of the law. But it's a minor point in the grounds, it's dicta at best.

Page 11 of the ruling: "Es kann auch hiernach nicht Aufgabe des TMG sein, eine Antwort oder eine bestimmte Qualität der Antwort zu erzwingen. Es genügt die abstrakte Möglichkeit, dass Kommunikati…

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that Article 22 of "DIRECTIVE 2006/123/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL" ensures that the requirements are by and large similar …

Nobody demands that even a single mail must be replied to. Do the people who make such outraged, generalised and sweeping statements online think of the consequences, i.e. that they look foolish?

They are not required to do real support. But since they openly state that the email address is not monitored, they do not fulfil the requirements of the law. It's perfectly fine never to respond…

It applies to every web site that targets Germans.

In German it's "mehlig", and it's exactly the adjective to "Mehl" (flour). But I wouldn't call it a taste, it's texture: "how it feels in the mouth". …

What's so bad about hygienic macros?

Re: open source Lisp, I guess other venues than comp.lang.lisp have taken a lot of the mindshare (the demise of Usenet). cll was rabidly against OSS, e.g. Pitman's pure hatred for it was practica…

Probably best known for McCLIM, the free implementation of the Common Lisp Interface Manager.

> Yes, some of those who are commenting here would, I > think, martyr themselves in such situations, but I doubt > if the majority would. This. I thought about it yesterday, and I believe the…

My main argument is insurance. It doesn't matter whether Uber rides are more dangerous or not. If something happens, the victim is left in the rain when it was an Uber ride. "Private ride-sh…

How do you cope with getting injured by a driver who cannot pay for your medical treatment? I'd be very surprised if there was not some mechanism in place. Maybe taypayer money, the state paying …

You've understood it! We Germans want this "market" to be illegal. Just like erecting skyscrapers that cannot withstand a summer breeze or storing nuclear waste on a city landfill. If…

I guess that's one part of "the Silicon Valley" that I don't want to catch up with.