Considering that Apple signed a declaration of intent in 2009 (together with Nokia, RIM, Samsung and others) to use micro USB connectors from 2010 onward (at least in the EU), I'd wager that they won't stick to what they signed for a long time to come. No, what they actually did was releasing an adapter which let you use every other manufacturer's charger to charge an iphone.

Yeah, and I really expected to find information regarding the white house when I went to whitehouse.com.

The summary is a bit misleading. In 1987 after the Tschernobyl disaster Italy had a public vote to abandon nuclear energy. The last reactor was shut down in 1990. This was only a vote against a re-entry into nuclear power, something Berlusconi was pushing forward.

The track is called We Happy Few and it is from the band The Calm Blue Sea, a post-rock band from Austin.

Yeah, remember those idiots who protested against street view and the newspaper made a picture of them in front of their home and published the article online?
http://www.rp-online.de/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-stadt/nachrichten/Buergerprotest-gegen-Google_aid_892897.html

Sorry, article is in german, but the picture is there.

Two weeks ago I spoke with a man who shot the last harry potter book as lego stop motion. Here is the english trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xedFmxo7hc0&feature=channel

He uses 25 pictures per second of film. It is a hobby of his and he spent two years making it. Every evening during the week and the complete day on weekends. In my opinion it nearly looks as good as rendered.

Germany has a law that prevents you from hacking any and all encryption and protection. So even programs circumventing CSS encryption on DVDs are technically not legal.

In Germany everyone of legal age can send a cease-and-desist-letter to anyone, even if the plaintiff is not even your client. You either pay the fee or you can fight it and if you go to court and you loose, you have to pay a lot more. So most people get scared, don't take a lawyer and just pay. We have a lot of well known lawyers who live on this kind of harassment.

This guy http://www.stum.de/2010/02/22/lawyer-von-gravenreuth-commits-suicide/ used to be very big in this line of work, but eventually he got caught and committed suicide.

The only difference is that this rule was still unofficially in place until recently when we got new anti-discrimination laws.

We had a similiar case around here a few months ago. A woman reported a priest to the police who had sexually abused her back when she was a teenager (in the 90s). The priest told her back then, that she would go to hell forever if she reported him to the police, so she only reported him to the policy recently when there was that big scandal.

As I mentioned above, I am a student on a tight budget that has 250 euros for each month to pay for everything, including books. 30 euros would be close to the sum I spend for eating lunch for two weeks in the university's canteen (weekdays only).

My parent's can't afford to give me more since they have three children who study, but they earn enough so that I can't get government student loan (BAFÖG). I am looking for a job, but haven't found one yet as the city I study in has 280k inhabitants and 50k students, though a part of them are not registered as living in the city, though they work there, because they take the bus or train home to their parents at the end of the day. So trying to find a decent student job there is pretty hard.

It is not only the curch. My mother told me that the company C&A (a big clothing store chain in germany with nearly 8 billion $ revenue per year) used to have a policy that forbid divorced men and women in upper management positions because the owners are strict catholics. (now living in the netherlands, but they originated from Mettingen, my birthplace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mettingen )