Sunday, April 23, 2006

Metal Sunroof Vw Beetle

And how was it before then if you please, dear fixies? With Philips

with a quite exceptional and unexpected product innovation waiting fixies the inclined diaper buyers on




We take time short, (as well legal) way around: when the anatomical fit is promoted as a novelty, then came all previous diapers of fixies (and it is now but for decades), therefore, with unanatomischen fit. Poor babies!

The question remains: if the diaper construct your (or the names of the "designer diaper"?) have not been Influenced by the human anatomy, then what? To Barbie dolls? Footballs? Concrete blocks?

gets Against this background, then the following statement on the homepage fixies a whole new meaning: "Let fascinate you [...] of the wonderful and unique world of fixies ."
Yes, inspired, designed on concrete pads, completely alien anatomy-diapers were determined uniquely fascinating and certainly to some extent - maybe not just for parents and babies, but the artistic aspect of her doubt ...

Friday, April 21, 2006

Robotic Hysterectomy Or Time

back to the dark ages

The problem: if viewers increasingly during the commercial breaks zap away or rewind through digital HD recorders over it, drop the incentives for advertisers, the TV stations a lot of money to pay for the granting of advertising space.

The solution: a
Patent of Philips , the white preventing this: switch or coil during the commercial breaks is suppressed technically easy and impossible. Alternatively you can pay for the luxury of this freedom of advertising, of course.

Responses to this patent Philips had presented quite differently: both the media (ie mirror) and the blogosphere responded "not amused" As already shows the number of posts on this topic on Technorati (positive votes I have not found among them ...):



Once this has been so much written about (see also the link list below), only two to (further?) thoughts of mine:
  • Although today * Philips said no concrete units * for it in planning, I consider it very likely that this technique will come. Of course not combined in such a clumsy, obvious anti-consumer and disabling form, but nicely packaged and with other "compelling" value-added services.
  • From Rubirk "That's all there already" in the Catholic church was until not so long defined as a sin to leave the show during the sermon (about 50 years?). Other construction site, the same principle ...

Here is a selection of posts on the subject (complete and current as ever in Technorati ):

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Solution Of Nadi Dosh

misuse impossible: this product is not intended for anything!

Die Werbung für Medizin und Nahrungsergänzungsmittel ist zum Glück gesetzlich eingeschränkt, so that for example, no direct advertising of their effects may be made. One can easily imagine what lead to excesses which otherwise would ... means

On the other hand, the - at least in the U.S. - but also that such products specifically any action to be coordinated (well, if only for liability reasons):


(print a box of food supplements)

The statements about the effects or use of the product have not been evaluated by the FDA , so it is replaced by the following imprint: "This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or Prevent any disease."

In German and taken literally, this product has the purpose or benefit of who buys it is actually your fault ...

ps: look, the product does in this case, anyway - goes from the imprint of at least no negative placebo effect ... ;-)

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Limited Power Of Attorney To Cash Check

unexpected Coop Bank in the newsletter, not only "peace-joy-pancakes" at Easter

Happy Easter everywhere - and of course in advertising. The festivities will eventually boost sales, and not just for the chocolate bunnies. All the more surprising because the following information in the "Newsletter April 2006" Bank Coop. Between the advertising of the Coop-fund savings plan and sustainable investment opportunities for private provision can be found suddenly this:



A serious, the normal practices of animal husbandry questioning theme ? This is not exactly what one would expect from a financial institution in connection with Easter!

awakens All the more pleasant and the interest rises, the Bank Coop course of the regular Ostergeträller these days from where it with the kagfreiland project " rabbits in the field » a touch with reality in the otherwise flawless world the chocolate Easter bunnies mixed.

Bravo, Bank Coop!

ps: if you want to see the same, feel the rabbit so well as the Chocolate bunnies can, which until 17.4. in the St. Gallen City Park do .

Thursday, April 6, 2006

What Can Be Done In General If You An Hr

And Microsoft MSN thought: Do good and benefit more ...

you fall on the soon is a compelling reason why an Internet search not for the No. 1 in the search business , but with MSN ( currently the No. 3 with about 1 / 4 should carry out the share of Google)? Most users probably do not, even if it could be quite some. But who is, for example, already the trouble, sometimes a search (which you always wanted to run) on several search engines to carry out parallel to see which provides the best person for a suitable search results? Well, actually, you google just come ...

Now has Microsoft a motivation opportunity on a different level of income: those with their search on a specific performs MSN search page generated per query automatically a donation to the NSPCC , a charitable organization in the UK, which uses violence against children (NSPCC = National Society for prevention of cruelty to children).
the viewfinder does not weary the black horse, the money for this donation comes from MSN.
And so the whole thing rumspricht also has MSN already did a mail, you can forward to friends and family prepared.

So, more or google for it To ensure that the MSN search every " click counts"?

But the question remains open - to assess whether all just a marketing gimmick or a serious and truly worthy of support action is (for one's search habits then you could have adapted a little), not insignificant is: how much money flows for each query ? Both
MSN and NSPCC silent as to the amount of that sum.

Let us take as an absolute maximum of one penny, so 0:01 GB pounds. Google had already 3 years per day 250 million search queries. Suppose further that all these queries now clickscount wechseln würden. Das gäbe dann eine stattliche Spenden-Summe!

Obwohl ein derartiger Fall äusserst unwahrscheinlich ist, hat man ganz bestimmt auch bei MSN einige Rechenbeispiele durchkalkuliert, bevor diese Aktion gestartet wurde. Und so vermute ich, dass sich der Spendenbetrag pro Suchanfrage eher im Bereich der 1/100 oder 1/1000 Pennies bewegt.

Verfügt jemand über genauere Informationen hierzu? (auch bei Technorati sind hierzu aktuell noch keine weiteren Zahlen zu finden)

Nichts desto trotz: einen Teil meiner Suchen werde ich in nächster Zeit (die Aktion läuft zunächst über diesen Sommer) wohl über clickscount absetzen, no matter how much it jumps out for the NSPCC (and at the risk, the advertising strategist again went naively into the trap of being ...)!





(reference ClickCount found Mark Harrison - thanks, Mark!)


Another cool link: Wil from Canberra (Australia ) has already written " Firefox Search Plugin " for click count, he is free of charge .
That's great, thanks mate!

Monday, April 3, 2006

Slats For Queen Bed Measurements

Europe where your limits?

at the Leipzig Book Fair Yuri Andrukhovych received the Book Prize for European Understanding. In his speech at the opening of the Fair threw this before the EU, she left her country and other Länder an der Grenze der jetzigen Union im Stich. Im Besonderen griff er den früheren EU – Kommissar für die Erweiterung und jetzigen EU – Kommissions- – Vizepräsidenten Verheugen an, der gesagt haben soll, in zwanzig Jahren seien alle europäischen Länder Mitglied der Union ausser die Nachfolgestaaten der Sowjetunion.

Wir verstehen ihn gut, diesen Ukrainer, denn durch die Ablehnung der sogenannten europäischen Verfassung, sind die Europäer total verunsichert. Sie schwanken hin und her zwischen dem Bedürfnis noch weitere Staaten zu integrieren und der Abwehr eben dieser Staaten. Was resultiert, ist das, was in der Psychotherapie eine Doppelbindung genannt wird: Die führenden Leute in der EU sagen gleichzeitig: „Ja“ und „Nein“. Solche Doppelbindungen führen einzelnen Menschen immer zu Verwirrung, die oft bis zum Wahnsinn gehen kann. Deshalb konnte ich mich in Juri Andruchowytsch gut einfühlen, denn dieses Hin und Her, dieses „Ja und Nein“, dann wieder das Ausweichen auf Ideen, wie den EWR oder bevorzugte Partnerschaften, muss verwirren, ja mit der Zeit wahnsinnig machen oder zum sich Abwenden dieser Staaten von Europa führen.

Alles Unbekannte, Nebulöse und Unbestimmte macht auch Angst. Klarheit, Wissen, informiert Sein und mitreden Können dagegen baut Angst ab (eigentlich eine Binsenwahrheit). Nach der Ablehnung der europäischen Verfassung durch Frankreich and the Netherlands contribute to European institutions - especially the European Council of the Government of President - spiritless, headless and insecure. In my view, would be the best way out of this misery is a clearly formulated, brave text of the Constitution, as it as the European Constitutional Group formulated a model in my eyes, as discussed on the European and wide and would eventually be voted in all races. Europe must also be not only clear as it should write itself, it must also be clear where it will again draw its borders, or - if such States or opposing a candidate face - where it would like to draw these boundaries.

This requires, however, again a preliminary decision: Europe must be clear about what will play a role in this evolving global world now with the newly emerging power structures or do. It could be strongly committed and work towards a world order in which all powers were so involved in an international legal rules that they could not feel standing above the law. More likely and realistic, but it seems that we once again through a national powers who stand above the law, dominated world order - with all their terrifying dangers! - Must pass. In both cases, however, Europe must be a power that must be taken seriously! In the first case, it could only be strong enough to use for a corresponding reform of the UN or even to build a successor organization, if taken seriously, and not only in politics but also in our everyday life it is simply that only those taken seriously, will have the power. We say: Who has the money has the power. In politics, this is not true. As history teaches us, the one who has the power that is superior to his weapons. Europe could also decide - which I would be particularly sympathetic - to be neutral, so to renounce any aggressive war. But in this case teach us the history, For example, Switzerland, that Europe must be strong enough to counteract a deterrent for other powers, should it come to conflict. Where conflicts are most likely to expect? If not a megalomaniac who aspires to rule the world, standing in one of the new nations coming into power, the resources most herausbeschwören conflicts. So even if Europe is neutral, said there must be strong, it must learn to think again geostrategic. It has itself apart from the formation, ie human capital, as they say ugly, and almost no water resources. It would, therefore, barter solid and secure contracts. But how safe are contracts in an environment of great powers? It will indeed be more. How difficult and dangerous it was to keep the Cold War has only two in the balance! Would not it make more sense to hold countries to join in the eye, have the resources?

Even De Gaulle was thinking of a Europe to the Urals. Why only to the Urals to Vladivostok and not? Even if the Russians after the fall of the Soviet Union are as a nation again until need, they will not get around the longer term, the question of joining Europe, because they are too few people and in spite of their raw materials economically weak in the concert of Great to be a real player again. Moreover, Russia has since Peter the Great always nach Europa ausgerichtet. Es ist eine europäische Nation. De Gaulle zählte wahrscheinlich die Völker hinter dem Ural zu Asien. Ich meine, es sind vielleicht Asiaten, diese Völker, doch durch die lange Herrschaft der Russen sind sie doch in Bildung und Ausrichtung wesentlich europäisiert, meine ich wenigstens. Ich auf alle Fälle könnte mir die zentralasiatischen Nationen gut in unserem Verbund vorstellen. Die Türkei wäre zudem im Süden ein sinnvoller Abschluss, denn die Türken sind einigen zentralasiatischen Völkern verwandt und zudem haben auch sie sich seit dem Selim III. immer wieder an Europa gewandt, sich dieses in Verwaltung und Rechtssprechung zum Vorbild genommen und Atatürk gründete ja keinen islamischen State, but a deliberately aligned with Europe and the Enlightenment. All these states must know that they are being courted, and at the same time, Europe could set up to prepare for their future accession and. Whether the people of Europe for Europe dreamed of this from me decide or wants to einigeln within narrower limits, plays less a role for me, but it is important that Europe will soon decide to establish themselves but also for all these peoples clarity. It must find out as quickly as possible from this back and forth, for this back and forth, which their nations, but also hopeful, just like the Ukraine or Georgia, and probably soon, Belarus, confused to the point of madness.
In a previous blog I spoke of the idea of \u200b\u200bEurope, based on the common cultural heritage. I could write pages about it again, but the most important thing I have mentioned that all these nations: Russia, Central Asia and Turkey, settled for more than a hundred years to Europe and not Asia or the Middle East. They did this in school and education, in the literature and in music and especially the Enlightenment, for example, the separation of church and state. However, all these states must be democratic. It would therefore be important to at least the courage States that are already democratic and to Europa streben, oder ihnen möglichst schnell die Hoffnung zu nehmen, damit sie sich anders ausrichten können.

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Wearing African Attire During Black History Month

thoughts on the Citizen's Income

Das Thema Bürgergeld oder garantiertes Grundeinkommen beschäftigt mich, seit ich das Buch von Alban Knecht las (Bürgergeld, Armut bekämpfen ohne Sozialhilfe, Haupt – Verlag, Bern, 2002). In letzter Zeit begegnete mir dieser Gedanke in mehreren Artikeln, auch in der Sternstunde Philosophie mit Ralph Dahrendorf und zuletzt im Artikel von Michael Opielka in der NZZ vom 17.3.06. Er hat auch für Liberale etwas bestechendes, dieser Gedanke an ein Bürgergeld, denn ein Mensch kann nur frei sein, wenn er ein genügendes Einkommen hat? Und die Freiheit jedes Menschen bleibt eines the general aims of liberalism. But equally important it is to protect the individual person and private property, backed both by law and guaranteed the functioning of a free market.

How right the Liberals, if they demand the protection of property, we see China as an example, where the farmers of party functionaries of the ground beneath your feet is gone bartered or in Russia, where hardly anyone dares to invest, because you never white, if it occurs to one of the prosecutors, one aufzubrummen a process to taxes, to dispossess us then can. Unfortunately, the liberals thought in the last century, especially to their own wealth and security. You forgot the workers and employees, which it did with its low wages hardly possible to save, make provisions and the heirs to leave something behind. Finally, they followed all over the world to the cunning fox Bismarck, the demands of social democracy, and consequently these yourself with its social legislation in his aristocratic - negotiated constitutional system cover, and they went well with it, because they are industrial peace, and what else importantly, you did not have to think, how could a truly liberal, yet social order can be created that would have on the formation of asset management knowledge. Social security also creates the possibility in the hire and fire to be less squeamish, as the dismissed workers, the sick and injured were taken by a government vessel. Since the workers also knew the other hand again to fight back, created structures such as the brazen, almost impossible to loosening job protection in various European nations.

instead sit down and find their own way, like workers could also lead to wealth and retirement, pensions, state away sickness, accident and unemployment as possible, so civil society and private could be organized, they could be on the defensive force and in the scheme forced upon them by the Marxists' capitalism - the proletariat " . Into force Are the least-funded insurance or a form of savings, that insurance must be on a pay in my eyes never approved of liberal thought. And that's what we would do with the civil money yet again, especially when used as a temporary measure would not only be designed.

lies And the dilemma of liberal thinkers: they want the people to make their lives truly free, however, suggest that this is not achievable without assets or income. Instead of focusing on what a liberal center has to be: private property and possessions, they focus on income. In my view, must be a liberal Staat, in dem die Eigenverantwortung und die von jedem einzelnen gewollte Solidarität gross geschrieben ist, es allen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern ermöglichen, Vermögen zu bilden, um in möglichst breitem Rahmen für sich selber vorsorgen zu können. Weil sie vererbbar sind, würden sie zudem die Familie als kleinste, aber wichtigste Vorsorgeeinheit aufwerten.

Wie käme man zu solchen Vermögen, die ich, weil sie auch der Gemeinschaft verpflichtet sind, soziale Vermögen nennen möchte? Eigentlich ganz einfach: Statt dass in eine staatliche Institution gespart würde, müsste ein Zwangssparen verordnet werden: Bis zu einer bestimmten Grösse ihres, bzw. seines Vermögens müssten every citizen and every citizen to transfer certain percentage of salary every month into a savings pot, which should be only in case of sickness, accident or unemployment, and then opened in old age. This savings pot would be exempt or tax-favored strong. Each owner would be free when creating this money, it being understood by law a security framework should be created: for example, no speculation, the safest securities, a health and accident insurance (whose scope and content would not, however, required by Parliament!), As well as a rapidly mobilizable fraction in short-term investments, for example, unexpectedly occurred unemployment or disability and so on. A special bureaucracy it did not, because if you start the saving pot boosted by paying the prescribed percentage wage and the salaries were actually used for "social" would be to review by the tax authorities without further notice. The percentage of monthly reserve required and the upper limit of the property for which this penalty eliminated to save money, establishes the Federal Council and Parliament. We would thus not only strengthen the personal responsibility of people and many of them decision-making powers, that freedom back, we would also create liberalism appropriate form of participation, because we could assume that those who do not want to enter only save in insurance, would also specify shares. Thus it would be very interested to know that the companies in which they invested, are well managed and profits drop. They would join associations of small savers, who are aware of general meetings to represent their interests in controlling and election of directors would say.

Well, many will reply, how are people with low or no income to afford the monthly reserves? I mean: First, it is now, too. We pay at least twenty percent of our income in social security. Yes, these people will be my reply, but yes it is solidarity, that people support the other high-income to low income. In the living wage AHV does this, but not with the pension funds. Small wages also generate a small pension. I also think that would help people in need with deliberate and solidarity would be very quickly developed collective institutions that fellow citizens with low incomes or by illness, accident or unemployment quickly consumed capacity under the arms attacked. I call the intentional solidarity, because the donations precedes each one is essential, so a will. Rates are not operating and therapeutic psychologists, we should, wherever possible, aus einem Müssen ein Wollen machen? Zweitens würden durch das Vererben auch kleiner Vermögen diese nach einigen Generation doch so gross, dass das Zwangssparen wegfiele.

Da schaffen sie eine Welt voller Ungerechtigkeit, werden viele einwenden, sie bestrafen alle, die schwerer krank oder invalid werden und erst noch ihre Erben. Ich meine: Nein, denn – wie bereits erwähnt – bin ich überzeugt, dass bei existentiellen Problemen freiwillig geholfen wird, und am Ende der Kette stünden für solche Menschen immer noch die Sozialämter der Gemeinden, also der Staat. Wir spenden doch jetzt schon sehr viel für Erdbebenopfer, für Flüchtlinge, für Kriegsopfer, für Waisen, für Flooded, but also for multiple sclerosis, for cancer, for lung disease to rheumatism, for Cerebralgelähmte and so on and so forth. Now you can reply: And when times are bad, and we can not donate or do? I mean, how to teach us the last few years and the prospect of the next thing we see with the social security in bad times to the same limit: benefits must be reduced and less secure. By the fixed contribution to the social security here is the "redistribution potential" rigid, because I would imagine, no, I'm sure that would give the bad times more wealthy.

Soweit gut – oder nicht gut -, werden sie erwidern, wie um Gottes Willen soll ein Mensch sich ein Vermögen sparen, wenn er kein oder ein unter der Armutsgrenze liegendes Einkommen hat. Das primäre ist doch das Einkommen! Nun stehen am Rande des Arbeitsmarktes jedoch Millionen von jungen Menschen, die uns in der Arbeit konkurrieren und gleichzeitig werden durch das Rationalisieren Arbeitmöglichkeiten ausradiert. Mit der negativen Einkommenssteuer nach Milton Friedman können sie mir nicht kommen, werden Sie weiter ausführen, denn auch diese setzt voraus, dass es Arbeit hat, für die Anreize geschaffen werden sollen.

Ich meine: Zunächst einmal dürfen wir hoffen, dass durch die jetzige Globalisierung more and more jobs in less developed countries are overpopulated yet created. As is also emerging in India, the birth rate is back with the growth of prosperity. By streamlining a different distribution of work is possible, which is beginning now to emerge even at the increase in the popular part-time. As Yard. in his box to the article by Opie 03.17.2006 I am of the view with the work as a life goal and thus the acquisition of an income must remain important for us humans, so central. I am convinced people only create a healthy work ethic and essential basics and bring forward our world. " In art, craft, in der Wissenschaft, einfach überall zeigt sich: Nur derjenige bringt es zur Meisterschaft, der bereit ist zu leisten.

Bis aber eine Weltvollbeschäftigung erreicht würde, müsste doch so etwas wie ein Bürgergeld eingeführt werden. Dies könnte national, oder – das wäre mein Traum – global geschehen. Letzterer Fall setzte allerdings eine Entwicklung der Welt hin zu einer die ganze Erde umfassenden Föderation aller Staaten. Das Ziel eines solchen Bürgergeldes wäre aber nicht eine neue Form des Sozialstaates, sondern der Aufbau von Vermögen. Das Bürgergeld würde den Einkommenslosen nur solange (also vorübergehend) bezahlt, bis sie ihr „soziales Vermögen“ built or have the services of a berappten from these assets, private unemployment insurance or life standard insurance (as defined by RJ Shiller: The New Financial Order, campus - Verlag, Frankfurt, 2003, said his building - building on the welfare state - unlike me) come to fruition. This citizen's income is also likely to be or not measured only about a living wage and the principle of negative income tax based, so the incentive is to find a job to receive income. Limit we not again freedom, namely the freedom to decide whether I want to work at all or not, you'll wonder they - I mean I - drücken den Menschen das Ethos auf: Du musst arbeiten, sonst lebst du knapp unter dem Existenzminimum? Und weiter werden Sie fragen: Wer bezahlt denn dieses Bürgergeld? Für mich bleiben diese beiden Fragen eng verknüpft, um nicht bei Nietzsches „Idealgesellschaft“ zu landen, in der die einen arbeiten und die anderen sich der Musse hingeben, bleibt es wichtig, dass die Arbeit, ohne die wir nie auskommen werden, Ziel bleibt. Sicher wird sich der Arbeitsbegriff ändern und damit viel, was heute noch nicht als eigentliches Arbeiten akzeptiert wird, aber doch Arbeit ist (z.B. in Literatur, Kunst, Studium, Weiter- und Fortbildung usw.) umfassen, aber wahrscheinlich nie werden Menschen, die arbeiten, begreifen, dass They have to pay people who do not work without being sick, an accident, disabled or have exceeded a certain age limit. In addition, people get all this freedom to decide to whether to work or not, if their property is large enough that they are absolved from forced saving.
A civil money can only be meaningful if it is not a goal but a means of livelihood scarce only temporary and the continuous development of "social capital". There must be an incentive to return to work within the meaning of the negative income tax of Milton Friedman mentioned. The "social capital" must be the goal, because nur so ein liberaler Staat aufgebaut (oder erhalten) werden kann, denn zwischen Menschen- und Weltbild und dem Etatismus der Sozialismen und dem Menschen- und Weltbild und dem Anti - Etatismus der Liberalen ist kein Kompromiss möglich. Sie stehen sich diametral gegenüber. Doch darüber mehr Ende April unter der Rubrik godi+marti unter www.joeehde.ch .