Nah, not paying the non-essential people would be unfair as well because they were out of work through no fault of their own.

Everybody should get paid and the essential people should get extra paid vacation days.

So your dog isn't real?

Sweden cooperates closely with Five Eyes. Apparently, their intelligence service is out of control as well. Sorry, no links, but you can google it yourself. Incidentally, that brings a few incidents of the past into a new light, e.g., the raid on the pirate bay servers as well as the charges against Assange.

Well said.

Hackers can't afford to be apolitical anymore. It's what brought us to the current situation.

Bush has been out of office for 5 years now. Obama owns this shit now. He may not be responsible for establishing the surveillance state (by some accounts that has been going on even before 9/11) but he's doing nothing to reign it in either.

And once you've impeached Obama you can send Bush and his goons to The Hague.

You know you lost the war when the surveillance isn't subtle anymore.

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

Excuse me, I'm gonna huddle in a corner and cry...

I am paying 27,48 € per kwh.

I don't mind by the high prices per se but by the exceptions that big energy consumers get from taxes. The whole point of rising prices is to incentivise lower consumption.

BTW, I am with Lichtblick.

In case you haven't noticed: This is an article about SOLAR power, not COAL. Nobody in their right mind is proposing to keep using coal to get off nuclear. You don't have to chose between the two. Germany plans to get rid of both. And consistently bringing up the radiation danger of coal plants (which are based on a single study from the 70s and does not take current technology into account) in discussions about renewable energy is a straw man.

That's great but Wikileaks is not a person but an organisation. Or do you mean to imply Wikileaks = Assange?

If Wikileaks has evidence of serious misconduct by high-ranking politicians it should stop being subtle about it and leak the info ASAP. I am under the impression that this is what Wikileaks is about.

Maybe your preconceptions would change if you're stopped thinking about it and started doing it. In other words, it's all in your head.

I wrote my thesis in Orgmode and converted it to LaTeX when finished. Orgmode is an outliner for Emacs which supports plain text formatting (e.g., *bold*, /italics/, etc.), lists, tables, images, code block, and everything else you could wish for.

Since the file is plain text it is dead easy to edit. On the other hand, you have to use Emacs, so your non-geek friends are probably still out.

[citation please]

It sounds to me like you've swallowed the American exceptionalism propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

Or did you mean that Americans have never made the right decisions? Ah, logic, it is such a confusing invention.

An actor who is afraid that other people play out their acting fantasies.

What a dick.