A gay, a Vietnamese, a guy in a wheelchair, and an elderly East German woman walk into to a bar. "You're a funny bunch," says the bartender. "No, we're the German government."
In the original draft, even single sentences would have been regarded as "significant parts", but that would then also mean that you cannot quote from any news article anymore in any other publication, which would have significant negative side effects.
You could still quote articles. But that quote has to be embedded in another non-trivial work. Aggregation of news has never been quoting in the sense of German copyright law.
Because they almost blew it with the faked moon landing and don't want to risk that again. Also the cold war is over, so there no good reason to fake such accomplishments.
I've bought Kindle books from Amazon.de without a credit card for ages. You should have the same payment options as for any other Amazon article.
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First of all, the Soviet Union wasn't a dictatorship. They used military force in some of their satellite states like Poland or Czechoslovakia but they never had world-wide imperialistic ambitions. Their military strategy has been mainly defensive for the last 200 years.
They wanted to rule the world
Actually, no. Of course, the USSR was concerned about countries in its immediate vicinity. But they never wanted to force communism on the rest of the world. That was only the paranoid fear or propaganda of the US.
The leaders of Iran never called for the destruction of Israel. I guess you're referring to Ahmadinejad's alleged "wiped of the map" statement. See here for what he really said. Although he really is a nutcase if he denies the holocaust.
The "fundamental" problem from Google's perspective is Javascript's lack of typing. They want a language with optional typing and think that the ECMAScript 4 route isn't viable.
Something like shadyurl.com? This has always been one of my favorite URL "shorteners".
Truly simple systems... require infinite testing. -- Norman Augustine