So you have plants that can live in space?
I welcome our new survialist plant overlords, who laugh in the face of physics!

Uebertreiben darf man nicht mehr? Daran ist bestimmt Schaeuble Schuld!!11einself

Halten Sie bitte ihre verfickte Fresse, bevor Sie die deutsche Sprache weiter vergewaltigen! Ansonsten werden Sie mit einem Duden gebuechert!

Zum Thema: War ja klar, dass Zensursula so 'n Kack macht. Als naechstes dann die boesen Killerspiele, das gibt auch wieder Wahlkampfpunkte. Nur leider ist das der großen Mehrheit der Deutschen gerade eben recht, dass alles kontrolliert wird, da der Großteil der Presse (Ausnahmen etwa heise, golem) sich einen Dreck um sowas kuemmert und nur Schlagzeilen bringen moechte, was dann den Politikern prima Angriffsstellen fuer ihre verschissenen Gesetze bietet.

It also tells you how to cure millions of people of fatal diseases. (Alas, science is more likely to tell you why a bomb constructed in such a way has this explosive power. Formulas derived from observation don't do any harm.)

Sorry, that's ethics, not religion. Religion is organized spirituality, which in itself has nothing to do with ethics. If a text says that's bad and this is good because deity X said so, it's a text about ethics. Whether the reason's any good is questionable at best...

Yeah, what about also using a fuckton of loanwords? Vous me pourriez donner salem, please? Just the same as ``Could you please hand me the salt?'' (with the possible grammatical exception of wrong French, because French's a shitty language), but much harder to understand for average Joe, because that's 3 fucking languages in one fucking sentence. (Be happy that it's short enough for me not to use German, because then I'd have made that sentence run a paragraph.) Having a big vocabulary is all great 'n stuff, but it doesn't score with anyone who wants to understand you without using a fucking dictionary.

Oh, and did you notice how common forms of the word `fuck' are? `Fuck''s a fucking useful word, y'know, and people want to fucking censor it, even though it's probably the only word which is understood by pretty much anyone on the fucking planet.

Well, too bad that the German populace consists of mostly brainless and easily exploited idiots. They see these laws (i.e. this paintball-banning, stricter gun laws, video-game-banning) as effective. Don't ask me why, as it's been done to death in more rational media why these laws are about as effective as ripping off someone's head and shitting down their neck to cure AIDS.

And if you happen to be a German: Our Pirate Party still needs more permissions for the upcoming election! http://ich.waehlepiraten.de/

11 out of 15 victims were female (8 pupils, 3 teachers). Sadly, we don't have any Amoklauf note (being able to make up words on the spot does it) and thus don't know exactly his standing on society.

My guess is, as I know of a pretty good source (my brother, who worked for the shooter's father for a while), that he just got turned down by one of 'em and, thanks to his depression, made it into a Damn Important Event, culminating in the shooting. As for our Killerspiele (killer games, violent games, whatever), pretty much every male teenager got at least one of them; if they did make normal people into monstrous, asocial, merciless killers, then we'd have a lot more oh-damn-that's-terrible weeks of grief.

Ha! I didn't read such a good joke since ... ah, well, damn that.

Anyway, Germans were always fuckin' damned conservative, especially those in power even after WWI and the `revolution' (Ah, that was the joke!) which brought forth the Weimar Republic. Just to give you an example: Say you're voting the KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands; English: Communist Party of Germany), and you would've been shot by almost any guy from the Reichswehr back then, as communists back then were pretty much the practice targets for them.

Well, consider this case: A frog is put in boiling water. He'll immediately jump out. Now put that frog in cool water and slowly heat the water. Slowly, it begins to get hotter and hotter and because the frog is able to tolerate small changes, he'll just ignore them, until it's boiling. Then, he's either dead or will knock the container with the boiling water over again 'cause he jumped out.

Now just do some replacements and there you have it. Tolerate small such changes, and you'll tolerate even more of them until you have a fucking big, steaming shit pile racing with relativistic speed towards you. I doubt that I'll have to elaborate on the effects of such an event.

Sollte wohl niemanden ueberraschen, da man ja nach ``de Joden'' zu einem neuen Feind gehen muss. :-)

These are called skinheads. And the conservative Germans ain't be liking the funky-punky skinheads, 'cause for them anything left of the conservative parties (CDU/CSU, von der Leyen, the minister who's behind the bullshit this time, is of the former) is a vile, authority-defying scumbag who should be thoroughly disciplined. But see '68 and the responses from German profs.

Little thumb called - it wants to remind you that traits which are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous for reproduction (and thus fitness in the current environment) remain.

Oh, curse /. and its nonexistent support of UTF-8 (or at least extended ASCII). It's `heißt'.

Ihr Deutsch ist ja wahrlich grauenhaft! Es heiÃYt `beenden', Sie Inkompetenzbolzen! Ueberhaupt: Bei `beenden' benoetigt man ein Objekt, bei `aufhoeren' aber nicht. Insofern: Setzen, Sechs!