Category Archives: politics

Political topics and views.

A blast from the (German) past

Posted on 2010-02-15 by aklapper

Spend a day at my parents’ place this weekend and cleaned up a bit. Found this old application for Western German citizens to enter East Germany. Interesting to see all the stuff that was asked for. Also wondering why it’s … Continue reading →

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To GNU or not to GNU

Posted on 2009-12-13 by aklapper

Being not subscribed to GNOME’s foundation-list mailing list (and having no intention to subscribe to it), I tried to catch up a bit with the controversy of the last days. I might have missed stuff of course. Trying to summarize: … Continue reading →

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Svoboda.

Posted on 2009-11-17 by aklapper

(violating copyright as I don’t know the creator of this painting)

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“I have come to you in order to inform you that today your departure…”

Posted on 2009-09-30 by aklapper

Exactly 20 years ago the West German foreign minister announced that the thousands of East German refugees were allowed to leave the Prague Embassy to West Germany. The video (click here if the embedded version does not work) still moves … Continue reading →

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“Die Debatte über das Internet muss raus aus dem digitalen Ghetto.”

Posted on 2009-09-21 by aklapper

Auch das Internet ist kein Thema im deutschen Bundestagswahlkampf.Dazu gib es lesenswerte Beiträge im Tagesspiegel und in der FAZ.

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Nichtwahlkampf

Posted on 2009-09-16 by aklapper

Themen, die mich im deutschen Wahlkampf interessieren würden, aber ignoriert werden: Asse (Telepolis, Die Zeit) Deutschlands Krieg in Afghanistan Fortwährende Aushöhlung der Bürgerrechte Die kaputte Gesundheitspolitik (Kopfpauschale, Bürgerversicherung, …) Stattdessen: Weiter so. Merkel sagt ja noch nicht einmal, wer in … Continue reading →

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GNOME Bugsquad policy changes

Posted on 2009-08-10 by aklapper

One week ago the GNOME Bugsquad had an IRC meeting initiated by Javier Jardón. The log can be found here. To summarize the important decisions: Bug reports in GNOME Bugzilla (not: enhancement requests) with 1 year without any activity will … Continue reading →

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Die deutsche und tschechische Politiklandschaft.

Posted on 2009-07-23 by aklapper

Nachdem die deutsche Bundesregierung eine Internetzensur eingefuehrt hat (und damit habe ich grosse Probleme), die sich auch von technisch unversierten Computerbenutzern innerhalb von einer halben Minute einfach umgehen laesst, werde ich wohl bei der Piratenpartei landen (von der FDP fuehle … Continue reading →

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Sníh na schodišti (Vermischtes).

Posted on 2009-01-04 by aklapper

Jetzt kommt die Krise. Waschmaschine kaputt. Jacke kaputt. Fahrradschloß kaputt. Das erfreut die Volkswirtschaft, denn dann wird gekauft! Friday I’m in Love Das T-Shirt zum Song.(gefunden im Blog der sehr geschätzten la_rayis.) Adbusting Auf der Suche nach weiteren Aktionen neben … Continue reading →

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I got home from the club, switched on TV and Barack’o was president.

Posted on 2008-11-05 by aklapper

And I felt confident. (Yes, there are also fields where I would have prefered McCain, but to sum it up: It’s probably better for this world. “Don’t forget the T it follows liber in the constitution”, to quote NOFX.)

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