Helge Schneider
Man liebt ihn, oder hasst ihn. Lust auf sein neues Stück?
Helge live
Helge live
junge - 23. Jan, 22:35
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Sonntag, 23. Januar 2005
Wikinews - faszinierend oder unsinnig?
Ein weiteres Projekt der Wikimedia Foundation - bekannt durch die Enzyklopädie Wikipedia - ist ein Newsportal, dessen News allein von seinen usern eingestellt werden sollen: Wikinews.
Bisher in der Beta-Version noch recht rudimentär, soll diese Seite zu einem umfassenden Nachrichtenportal heranwachsen.
Hier eine Kritik: NZZ
Was ist davon zu halten? Faszinierendes oder unsinniges Projekt?
Bisher in der Beta-Version noch recht rudimentär, soll diese Seite zu einem umfassenden Nachrichtenportal heranwachsen.
Hier eine Kritik: NZZ
Was ist davon zu halten? Faszinierendes oder unsinniges Projekt?
junge - 23. Jan, 21:00
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Sachsen-Anhalt ist TV-Meister!
Mit 275 Minuten pro Tag, oder 2,3 Monate TV nonstop im Jahr sitzen die Bewohner Sachsen-Anhalts am längsten vor der Glotze. Die Bayern bilden das andere Extrem mit "nur" 180 Minuten pro Tag.
Stark korreliert sind diese Zahlen mit den jeweiligen Arbeitslosenquoten: Sachsen-Anhalt 20,3%, Bayern 6,9%.
> zum Artikel
Stark korreliert sind diese Zahlen mit den jeweiligen Arbeitslosenquoten: Sachsen-Anhalt 20,3%, Bayern 6,9%.
> zum Artikel
junge - 23. Jan, 14:23
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Der Anfang vom Ende
> Keynes wird wieder einmal aus der wohlverdienten Mottenkiste geholt
....auf dass es D noch Jahrzehnte lang schlechter geht, Alaaf!
....auf dass es D noch Jahrzehnte lang schlechter geht, Alaaf!
junge - 23. Jan, 12:02
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Samstag, 22. Januar 2005
Umfrage zu: Verlängerung des Wochenendes
Verlängertes Wocheende
Ich unterstütze den Antrag, den Montag zum dritten Tag des Wochenendes zu küren und werde mich in Zukunft entsprechend verhalten.
Ich unterstütze den Antrag, den Montag zum dritten Tag des Wochenendes zu küren und werde mich in Zukunft entsprechend verhalten.
junge - 22. Jan, 21:16
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Antrag: Verlängerung des Wochenendes um einen Tag
Ich beantrage hiermit die Verlängerung des Wochenendes (im gregorianischen Kalender) um einen Tag. Genauer: der Montag soll der dritte Wochenend-Tag werden.
Ohne mich in Details zur Begründung dieses Antrags verlieren zu wollen, stelle ich für mich die Notwendigkeit zur sofortigen und unbedingten Verhaltensänderung gemäss o.g. Antrag fest.
Wer möchte, schliesse sich an: wenn - wie in jedem ordentlichen grassroots project - nur genügend Leute ihr Verhalten gemäss o.g. Antrag ändern, wird das dreitägige WE irgendwann zur Konvention.
Montags wird man nicht mehr geschäftlich angerufen, man wird sich für Sonntags abends verabreden und ohne schlechtes Gewissen für den MO morgen die Nacht zum Tag machen.
Und.....irgendwann werden wir uns fragen, wie wir die ganze Zeit OHNE den Wochenends-Montag ausgekommen sind.
Ohne mich in Details zur Begründung dieses Antrags verlieren zu wollen, stelle ich für mich die Notwendigkeit zur sofortigen und unbedingten Verhaltensänderung gemäss o.g. Antrag fest.
Wer möchte, schliesse sich an: wenn - wie in jedem ordentlichen grassroots project - nur genügend Leute ihr Verhalten gemäss o.g. Antrag ändern, wird das dreitägige WE irgendwann zur Konvention.
Montags wird man nicht mehr geschäftlich angerufen, man wird sich für Sonntags abends verabreden und ohne schlechtes Gewissen für den MO morgen die Nacht zum Tag machen.
Und.....irgendwann werden wir uns fragen, wie wir die ganze Zeit OHNE den Wochenends-Montag ausgekommen sind.
junge - 22. Jan, 20:56
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Verkehrsprobleme?
sehr interessanten Artikel gefunden; hier werden Verkehrsprobleme durch die Beseitigung von Regeln/Ampeln etc. gelöst.....
aus dem International Herald Tribune:
Road design? He calls it a revolution
By Sarah Lyall The New York Times
Saturday, January 22, 2005
DRACHTEN, Netherlands "I want to take you on a walk," said Hans Monderman, abruptly stopping his car and striding - hatless, and nearly hairless - into the freezing rain.
Like a naturalist conducting a tour of the jungle, he led the way to a busy intersection in the center of town, where several odd things immediately became clear. Not only was it virtually naked, stripped of all lights, signs and road markings, but there was no division between road and sidewalk. It was, basically, a bare brick square.
But in spite of the apparently anarchical layout, the traffic, a steady stream of trucks, cars, buses, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians, moved along fluidly and easily, as if directed by an invisible conductor. When Monderman, a traffic engineer and the intersection's proud designer, deliberately failed to check for oncoming traffic before crossing the street, the drivers slowed for him. No one honked or shouted rude words out the window.
"Who has the right of way?" he asked rhetorically. "I don't care. People here have to find their own way, negotiate for themselves, use their own brains."
Used by some 20,000 drivers a day, the intersection is part of a road-design revolution pioneered by the 59-year-old Monderman. His work in Friesland, the district in northern Holland that takes in Drachten, is increasingly seen as the way of the future in Europe.
Variations on the shared-space theme are being tried in Spain, Denmark, Austria, Sweden and Britain. The European Union has appointed a committee of experts, including Monderman, for a Europe-wide study.
His philosophy is simple, if counterintuitive. To make communities safer and more appealing, Monderman argues, you should first remove the traditional paraphernalia of their roads.
That means the traffic lights and speed signs; the signs exhorting drivers to stop, slow down and merge; the center lines separating lanes from each other; even the speed bumps, speed-limit signs, bicycle lanes and pedestrian crossings. In his view, it is only when the road is made more dangerous, when drivers stop looking at signs and start looking at other people, that driving becomes safer.
"All those signs are saying to cars, 'This is your space, and we have organized your behavior so that as long as you behave this way, nothing can happen to you,"' said Monderman. "That is the wrong story."
The Drachten intersection is an example of the concept of "shared space," a street where cars and pedestrians are equal, and the design tells the driver what to do.
"It's a moving away from regulated, legislated traffic toward space which, by the way it's designed and configured, makes it clear what sort of behavior is anticipated," said Ben Hamilton-Baillie, a British specialist in urban design and movement, and a proponent of many of the same concepts.
Highways - where the car is naturally king - are part of the "traffic world" and another matter altogether. In Monderman's view, shared-space plans thrive only in conjunction with well-organized, well-regulated highway systems.
Monderman is a man on a mission. On a daylong automotive tour of Friesland, he pointed out places he had improved, including a town where he ripped out the sidewalks, signs and crossings and put in brick paving on the central shopping street. An elderly woman crossed slowly in front of him.
"This is social space, so when Grandma is coming, you stop, because that's what normal, courteous human beings do," he said.
Planners and curious journalists are increasingly making pilgrimages to meet Monderman, considered one of the field's great innovators, although until a few years ago he was virtually unknown outside of Holland. Hamilton-Baillie, whose writings have helped bring Monderman's work to wider attention, remembers with fondness his own first visit.
Monderman drove him to a small country road with cows in every direction. Their presence was unnecessarily reinforced by a large, standard-issue European traffic sign with a picture of a cow on it.
"He said, 'What do you expect to find here? Wallabees?"' Hamilton-Baillie recalled. "'They're treating you like you're a complete idiot, and if people treat you like a complete idiot, you'll act like one.'
"Here was someone who had rethought a lot of issues from complete scratch," Hamilton-Baillie said.
"Essentially, what it means is a transfer of power and responsibility from the state to the individual and the community."
Dressed in a beige jacket and patterned shirt, with scruffy facial hair and a stocky build, Monderman has the appearance of a soccer hooligan but the temperament of an engineer, which indeed he trained to be. His father was the headmaster of the primary school in their small village; Hans liked to fiddle with machines. "I was always the guy who repaired the TV sets in our village," he said.
He was working as a civil engineer building highways in the 1970s when the Dutch government, alarmed at a sharp increase in traffic accidents, set up a network of traffic-safety offices. Monderman was appointed Friesland's traffic safety officer.
In residential communities, Monderman began narrowing the roads and putting in design features like trees and flowers, red brick paving stones and even fountains to discourage people from speeding, following the principle now known as pyschological traffic calming, where behavior follows design.
He made his first nervous foray into shared space in a small village whose residents were upset at its being used as a daily thoroughfare for 6,000 speeding cars. When he took away the signs, lights and sidewalks, people drove more carefully. Within two weeks, speeds on the road had dropped by more than half.
In fact, he said, there has never been a fatal accident on any of his roads. Several early studies bear out his contention that shared spaces are safer. In England, the district of Wiltshire found that removing the center line from a stretch of road reduced drivers' speed without any increase in accidents.
While something of a libertarian, Monderman concedes that road design can do only so much. It doesn't change the behavior, for instance, of the 15 percent of drivers who will behave badly no matter what the rules are.
Nor are shared-space designs appropriate everywhere, like in major urban centers, but only in neighborhoods that meet particular criteria. Recently, a group of well-to-do parents asked him to widen the two-lane road leading to their children's school, saying it was too small to accommodate what he derisively calls "their huge cars."
He refused, saying that the fault lay not with the road, but with the cars. "They can't wait for each other to pass?" he asked. "I wouldn't interfere with the right of people to buy the car they want, but nor should the government have to solve the problems they make with their choices."
Monderman's obsessions can cause friction at home. His wife hates talking about road design. But work is his passion and his focus for as many as 70 hours a week, despite quixotic promises to curtail his projects and stay home on Fridays.
The current plan, instigated by Mrs. Monderman, is for him to retire in a few years. But it is unclear what a man who begins climbing the walls after three days at the beach ("If you want to go to a place without any cultural aspect, go to the Grand Canaries," he grumbled) will do with all that free time.
"The most important thing is being master of my own time, and then doing things that we both enjoy," he said. "What are they? I don't know."
Copyright © 2005 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
aus dem International Herald Tribune:
Road design? He calls it a revolution
By Sarah Lyall The New York Times
Saturday, January 22, 2005
DRACHTEN, Netherlands "I want to take you on a walk," said Hans Monderman, abruptly stopping his car and striding - hatless, and nearly hairless - into the freezing rain.
Like a naturalist conducting a tour of the jungle, he led the way to a busy intersection in the center of town, where several odd things immediately became clear. Not only was it virtually naked, stripped of all lights, signs and road markings, but there was no division between road and sidewalk. It was, basically, a bare brick square.
But in spite of the apparently anarchical layout, the traffic, a steady stream of trucks, cars, buses, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians, moved along fluidly and easily, as if directed by an invisible conductor. When Monderman, a traffic engineer and the intersection's proud designer, deliberately failed to check for oncoming traffic before crossing the street, the drivers slowed for him. No one honked or shouted rude words out the window.
"Who has the right of way?" he asked rhetorically. "I don't care. People here have to find their own way, negotiate for themselves, use their own brains."
Used by some 20,000 drivers a day, the intersection is part of a road-design revolution pioneered by the 59-year-old Monderman. His work in Friesland, the district in northern Holland that takes in Drachten, is increasingly seen as the way of the future in Europe.
Variations on the shared-space theme are being tried in Spain, Denmark, Austria, Sweden and Britain. The European Union has appointed a committee of experts, including Monderman, for a Europe-wide study.
His philosophy is simple, if counterintuitive. To make communities safer and more appealing, Monderman argues, you should first remove the traditional paraphernalia of their roads.
That means the traffic lights and speed signs; the signs exhorting drivers to stop, slow down and merge; the center lines separating lanes from each other; even the speed bumps, speed-limit signs, bicycle lanes and pedestrian crossings. In his view, it is only when the road is made more dangerous, when drivers stop looking at signs and start looking at other people, that driving becomes safer.
"All those signs are saying to cars, 'This is your space, and we have organized your behavior so that as long as you behave this way, nothing can happen to you,"' said Monderman. "That is the wrong story."
The Drachten intersection is an example of the concept of "shared space," a street where cars and pedestrians are equal, and the design tells the driver what to do.
"It's a moving away from regulated, legislated traffic toward space which, by the way it's designed and configured, makes it clear what sort of behavior is anticipated," said Ben Hamilton-Baillie, a British specialist in urban design and movement, and a proponent of many of the same concepts.
Highways - where the car is naturally king - are part of the "traffic world" and another matter altogether. In Monderman's view, shared-space plans thrive only in conjunction with well-organized, well-regulated highway systems.
Monderman is a man on a mission. On a daylong automotive tour of Friesland, he pointed out places he had improved, including a town where he ripped out the sidewalks, signs and crossings and put in brick paving on the central shopping street. An elderly woman crossed slowly in front of him.
"This is social space, so when Grandma is coming, you stop, because that's what normal, courteous human beings do," he said.
Planners and curious journalists are increasingly making pilgrimages to meet Monderman, considered one of the field's great innovators, although until a few years ago he was virtually unknown outside of Holland. Hamilton-Baillie, whose writings have helped bring Monderman's work to wider attention, remembers with fondness his own first visit.
Monderman drove him to a small country road with cows in every direction. Their presence was unnecessarily reinforced by a large, standard-issue European traffic sign with a picture of a cow on it.
"He said, 'What do you expect to find here? Wallabees?"' Hamilton-Baillie recalled. "'They're treating you like you're a complete idiot, and if people treat you like a complete idiot, you'll act like one.'
"Here was someone who had rethought a lot of issues from complete scratch," Hamilton-Baillie said.
"Essentially, what it means is a transfer of power and responsibility from the state to the individual and the community."
Dressed in a beige jacket and patterned shirt, with scruffy facial hair and a stocky build, Monderman has the appearance of a soccer hooligan but the temperament of an engineer, which indeed he trained to be. His father was the headmaster of the primary school in their small village; Hans liked to fiddle with machines. "I was always the guy who repaired the TV sets in our village," he said.
He was working as a civil engineer building highways in the 1970s when the Dutch government, alarmed at a sharp increase in traffic accidents, set up a network of traffic-safety offices. Monderman was appointed Friesland's traffic safety officer.
In residential communities, Monderman began narrowing the roads and putting in design features like trees and flowers, red brick paving stones and even fountains to discourage people from speeding, following the principle now known as pyschological traffic calming, where behavior follows design.
He made his first nervous foray into shared space in a small village whose residents were upset at its being used as a daily thoroughfare for 6,000 speeding cars. When he took away the signs, lights and sidewalks, people drove more carefully. Within two weeks, speeds on the road had dropped by more than half.
In fact, he said, there has never been a fatal accident on any of his roads. Several early studies bear out his contention that shared spaces are safer. In England, the district of Wiltshire found that removing the center line from a stretch of road reduced drivers' speed without any increase in accidents.
While something of a libertarian, Monderman concedes that road design can do only so much. It doesn't change the behavior, for instance, of the 15 percent of drivers who will behave badly no matter what the rules are.
Nor are shared-space designs appropriate everywhere, like in major urban centers, but only in neighborhoods that meet particular criteria. Recently, a group of well-to-do parents asked him to widen the two-lane road leading to their children's school, saying it was too small to accommodate what he derisively calls "their huge cars."
He refused, saying that the fault lay not with the road, but with the cars. "They can't wait for each other to pass?" he asked. "I wouldn't interfere with the right of people to buy the car they want, but nor should the government have to solve the problems they make with their choices."
Monderman's obsessions can cause friction at home. His wife hates talking about road design. But work is his passion and his focus for as many as 70 hours a week, despite quixotic promises to curtail his projects and stay home on Fridays.
The current plan, instigated by Mrs. Monderman, is for him to retire in a few years. But it is unclear what a man who begins climbing the walls after three days at the beach ("If you want to go to a place without any cultural aspect, go to the Grand Canaries," he grumbled) will do with all that free time.
"The most important thing is being master of my own time, and then doing things that we both enjoy," he said. "What are they? I don't know."
Copyright © 2005 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
junge - 22. Jan, 17:41
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Freitag, 21. Januar 2005
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Wieviel % der twoday.net Blogger nutzen w.bloggar oder eine andere Applikation?
- Worin liegt der grösste Vorteil?
- Ist w.bloggar das beste (kostenlose) tool?
Vielen Dank für Kommentare!
junge - 21. Jan, 17:47
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Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2005
Schnell einen sexy Slip gefällig?
wer - als Frau - untenherum unpassend gekeidet ist, für den gibt es jetzt die Lösung:
> der Slip-o-Mat
> der Slip-o-Mat
junge - 20. Jan, 15:27
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Mafia macht doppelt soviel Umsatz wie FIAT
junge - 20. Jan, 13:30
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Erfahrungen mit Video-IP-Telefon?
Bin auf der Suche nach der besten (billigsten) Möglichkeit, Bildttelefonie in guter Qualität führen zu können. Ist es noch zu früh für kombinierte Telefon-Video-Geräte (=Bildtelefone) und sollte ich einfach eine Webcam zum skype zusätzlich nutzen?
Hat jemand hier bereits Erfahrungen gesammelt?
Besten Dank.
Hat jemand hier bereits Erfahrungen gesammelt?
Besten Dank.
junge - 20. Jan, 10:33
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eBay: gute Zahlen, schlechte Kursentwicklung
junge - 20. Jan, 09:10
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Mittwoch, 19. Januar 2005
Bald sind alle Polizisten blau
sieht richtig fesch aus: da hat der Colani etwas Schönes geschneidert:
junge - 19. Jan, 22:07
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Käuflich sind sie alle: rot, grün, schwarz und gelb
Wo sind die Politiker, die ihre bescheidenen Repräsentanten-Gehälter nicht mit netten Nebeneinnahmen aufbessern? Gab es die nur im alten Athen?
> Polit-Prostitution
> Polit-Prostitution
junge - 19. Jan, 11:20
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Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005
Wer braucht diese Ministerin?
Das deutsche Volk wohl nicht....:
junge - 18. Jan, 21:02
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Wer braucht diesen Baukonzern?
junge - 18. Jan, 20:58
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Träge, inflexibel, satt
Den Leuten geht es (noch) zu gut. Sie wollen nicht Ihr Verhalten, ihre Gewohnheiten ändern - ihre Bestandsgarantien verlieren.
Dazu passend diese nette Meldung: >>
- Die Verschuldung steigt in Höhen, die unsere seltener gewordenen und werdenden Nachkommen gar nicht bezahlen werden können und die politisch handelnden Personen haben jede Verantwortung gegenüber der Gesellschaft verloren.
- Es wird nicht verstanden, dass mehr - und nicht weniger - geleistet und weniger - und nicht mehr - Prosperität ins deutsche Haus stehen.
Dazu passend diese nette Meldung: >>
junge - 18. Jan, 09:22
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Montag, 17. Januar 2005
EU wird aufgeweicht
Die besten Verträge sid die, an die sich keiner halten muss oder die, an die sich alle halten können. So denken unsere Politiker seit jeher: was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern (=Stabilitätspakt)...
Die EU spielt schon heute weltwirschaftlich nur noch die 2. Geige (IHT) und in ein paar Jahren wird uns wahrscheinlich die Schweiz im Bruttosozialprodukt überholt haben. Daher - lasst die Verträge Verträge sein und freut Euch, Ihr Versager:
Der Instabilitätspakt
Die EU spielt schon heute weltwirschaftlich nur noch die 2. Geige (IHT) und in ein paar Jahren wird uns wahrscheinlich die Schweiz im Bruttosozialprodukt überholt haben. Daher - lasst die Verträge Verträge sein und freut Euch, Ihr Versager:
Der Instabilitätspakt
junge - 17. Jan, 23:17
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Deutsche sind feige!
Das Wichtigste für den Deutschen ist, dass das Arbeitslosengeld pünktlich gezahlt wird - wie aus den Diskussionen zu Hartz 4 ersichtlich.
Selbst Ideen generieren und umsetzen ist dem Michel fremd - irgendjemand hat gefälligst dafür zu sorgen, dass genug Geld im Hause ist.....
> diese Meldung >>
Manchmal frage ich mich, wieviel Plätze D auf der Wohlstandsskala (2004: 18) noch purzeln muss, damit diese elende Trägheit, Faulheit und Risikoaversion nachlassen......
...sogar die Ösis sind smarter :-)
Selbst Ideen generieren und umsetzen ist dem Michel fremd - irgendjemand hat gefälligst dafür zu sorgen, dass genug Geld im Hause ist.....
> diese Meldung >>
Manchmal frage ich mich, wieviel Plätze D auf der Wohlstandsskala (2004: 18) noch purzeln muss, damit diese elende Trägheit, Faulheit und Risikoaversion nachlassen......
...sogar die Ösis sind smarter :-)
junge - 17. Jan, 20:03
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Sonntag, 16. Januar 2005
Frauen und Autofahren
ts, ts, ts......manche wussten es schon immer:-) ......
Weibliche Rowdys am Steuer
Wer auf der Überholspur tobt, hupt und flucht, muss nicht unbedingt männlich sein - auch Frauen fallen nach Erkenntnissen amerikanischer und japanischer Psychologen immer häufiger durch Rowdytum auf der Straße auf.
Die Wissenschaftler befragten in beiden Ländern knapp 400 Studenten unterschiedlichen Geschlechts. Ergebnis: In ihrer Aggressivität am Steuer standen zumindest die amerikanischen Testteilnehmerinnen ihren männlichen Kollegen nicht nach, in einigen Bereichen übertrafen sie diese sogar: Sie gaben an, häufig zu dicht aufzufahren, riskant zu überholen und ausgiebig von Hupe, Lichthupe und obszöner Zeichensprache Gebrauch zu machen.
Auch der Verlockung, aufgestauten Ärger oder Langeweile mit dem Thrill der Tachonadel zu bekämpfen, erlagen die US-Fahrerinnen überdurchschnittlich oft, während ihre japanischen Geschlechtsgenossinnen sich insgesamt gesitteter verhielten. Die Zeiten, in denen der weibliche Teil der Menschheit als rücksichtsvoll im Straßenverkehr galt, scheinen nach Ansicht der Forscher vorüber: "Frauen halten sich nicht mehr an die Regeln", urteilt Studienleiter John Houston, Psychologe am Rollins College in Florida. "Sie mögen in der Vergangenheit die vorsichtigeren Fahrer gewesen sein, aber inzwischen lässt sich das nicht mehr aufrechterhalten."
Deutschen Statistiken zufolge ist zu schnelles Fahren allerdings noch immer eine männliche Domäne: Nur 17 Prozent der an das Flensburger Kraftfahrtbundesamt gemeldeten Raser sind Frauen.
Weibliche Rowdys am Steuer
Wer auf der Überholspur tobt, hupt und flucht, muss nicht unbedingt männlich sein - auch Frauen fallen nach Erkenntnissen amerikanischer und japanischer Psychologen immer häufiger durch Rowdytum auf der Straße auf.
Die Wissenschaftler befragten in beiden Ländern knapp 400 Studenten unterschiedlichen Geschlechts. Ergebnis: In ihrer Aggressivität am Steuer standen zumindest die amerikanischen Testteilnehmerinnen ihren männlichen Kollegen nicht nach, in einigen Bereichen übertrafen sie diese sogar: Sie gaben an, häufig zu dicht aufzufahren, riskant zu überholen und ausgiebig von Hupe, Lichthupe und obszöner Zeichensprache Gebrauch zu machen.
Auch der Verlockung, aufgestauten Ärger oder Langeweile mit dem Thrill der Tachonadel zu bekämpfen, erlagen die US-Fahrerinnen überdurchschnittlich oft, während ihre japanischen Geschlechtsgenossinnen sich insgesamt gesitteter verhielten. Die Zeiten, in denen der weibliche Teil der Menschheit als rücksichtsvoll im Straßenverkehr galt, scheinen nach Ansicht der Forscher vorüber: "Frauen halten sich nicht mehr an die Regeln", urteilt Studienleiter John Houston, Psychologe am Rollins College in Florida. "Sie mögen in der Vergangenheit die vorsichtigeren Fahrer gewesen sein, aber inzwischen lässt sich das nicht mehr aufrechterhalten."
Deutschen Statistiken zufolge ist zu schnelles Fahren allerdings noch immer eine männliche Domäne: Nur 17 Prozent der an das Flensburger Kraftfahrtbundesamt gemeldeten Raser sind Frauen.
junge - 16. Jan, 17:33
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Ladenschluss ist obsolet
Na endlich; es tut sich doch etwas im Land des Michel:
SPD will Ladenschluss kippen
Die SPD-Fraktion des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses will den Ladenschluss an Werktagen abschaffen. Damit tut sie so, als sei die Föderalismuskommission nicht gescheitert.
Berlin - Um die Konkurrenzfähigkeit und Anziehungskraft Berlins zu erhöhen, sollen die Läden in der Hauptstadt nur noch am Sonntag geschlossen bleiben. Dies beschloss die SPD-Fraktion heute zum Abschluss ihrer Fraktionsklausur im sächsischen Radebeul.
Die SPD-Fraktion zog damit die Konsequenzen aus dem Scheitern der Föderalismuskommission. Dort war bereits vereinbart worden, dass die Regelung des Ladenschlusses von der Bundes- in die Länderhoheit übergeht. Berlin unterstützt zudem bereits eine Bundesratsinitiative von Baden-Württemberg, die ebenfalls fordert, dass die Länder künftig selbst über die Öffnungszeiten der Geschäfte beschließen.
SPD will Ladenschluss kippen
Die SPD-Fraktion des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses will den Ladenschluss an Werktagen abschaffen. Damit tut sie so, als sei die Föderalismuskommission nicht gescheitert.
Berlin - Um die Konkurrenzfähigkeit und Anziehungskraft Berlins zu erhöhen, sollen die Läden in der Hauptstadt nur noch am Sonntag geschlossen bleiben. Dies beschloss die SPD-Fraktion heute zum Abschluss ihrer Fraktionsklausur im sächsischen Radebeul.
Die SPD-Fraktion zog damit die Konsequenzen aus dem Scheitern der Föderalismuskommission. Dort war bereits vereinbart worden, dass die Regelung des Ladenschlusses von der Bundes- in die Länderhoheit übergeht. Berlin unterstützt zudem bereits eine Bundesratsinitiative von Baden-Württemberg, die ebenfalls fordert, dass die Länder künftig selbst über die Öffnungszeiten der Geschäfte beschließen.
junge - 16. Jan, 17:27
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L'etat, c'est moi!
Das sagte mal einer, der es sich leisten konnte. Dank der Traditionsstärke unserer französischen Nachbarn könnte man auch heute wieder vom Sonnenkönig sprechen:
> aus: International Herald Tribune, 15.1.2005
Plan would shield Chirac as senator for life
PARIS Supporters of President Jacques Chirac are pushing for a constitutional change that would make him a senator for life after he leaves office and thus shield him from the threat of future legal proceedings, newspapers reported Friday.
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The proposed measure would mean that all former presidents automatically become members of the upper house of Parliament instead of joining the Constitutional Council, France's highest judicial authority, which they do under the existing arrangement.
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Chirac, 72, cannot be prosecuted as long as he remains president, but when he steps down he risks being placed under judicial investigation in a series of party-finance scams during his 18-year tenure as mayor of Paris.
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By becoming a life senator, the conservative president would enjoy parliamentary immunity, which would make it extremely difficult, though not impossible, to bring him before the courts, the left-leaning Libération and Le Monde newspapers said.
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The risk of being made to face trial after he loses his presidential immunity is believed to be a major factor in Chirac's deliberations over whether to run for an unprecedented third term in 2007. So far he has kept the possibility open.
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The proposal, which would require changing the country's 1958 constitution, is being promoted by Senator Patrice Gélard, a Chirac supporter, and will be formally proposed in the Senate on Tuesday, Le Monde said.
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But both papers agreed that its chances of success were small, as any constitutional change would have to be confirmed by referendum.
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Chirac was mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, during which time courts have established that his Rally for the Republic party used a number of illegal devices to raise money with its influence at City Hall. Attempts to question Chirac on the affair have foundered because of his presidential immunity.
.PARIS Supporters of President Jacques Chirac are pushing for a constitutional change that would make him a senator for life after he leaves office and thus shield him from the threat of future legal proceedings, newspapers reported Friday.
.
The proposed measure would mean that all former presidents automatically become members of the upper house of Parliament instead of joining the Constitutional Council, France's highest judicial authority, which they do under the existing arrangement.
.
Chirac, 72, cannot be prosecuted as long as he remains president, but when he steps down he risks being placed under judicial investigation in a series of party-finance scams during his 18-year tenure as mayor of Paris.
.
By becoming a life senator, the conservative president would enjoy parliamentary immunity, which would make it extremely difficult, though not impossible, to bring him before the courts, the left-leaning Libération and Le Monde newspapers said.
.
The risk of being made to face trial after he loses his presidential immunity is believed to be a major factor in Chirac's deliberations over whether to run for an unprecedented third term in 2007. So far he has kept the possibility open.
.
The proposal, which would require changing the country's 1958 constitution, is being promoted by Senator Patrice Gélard, a Chirac supporter, and will be formally proposed in the Senate on Tuesday, Le Monde said.
.
But both papers agreed that its chances of success were small, as any constitutional change would have to be confirmed by referendum.
.
Chirac was mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, during which time courts have established that his Rally for the Republic party used a number of illegal devices to raise money with its influence at City Hall. Attempts to question Chirac on the affair have foundered because of his presidential immunity.
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> aus: International Herald Tribune, 15.1.2005
Plan would shield Chirac as senator for life
PARIS Supporters of President Jacques Chirac are pushing for a constitutional change that would make him a senator for life after he leaves office and thus shield him from the threat of future legal proceedings, newspapers reported Friday.
.
The proposed measure would mean that all former presidents automatically become members of the upper house of Parliament instead of joining the Constitutional Council, France's highest judicial authority, which they do under the existing arrangement.
.
Chirac, 72, cannot be prosecuted as long as he remains president, but when he steps down he risks being placed under judicial investigation in a series of party-finance scams during his 18-year tenure as mayor of Paris.
.
By becoming a life senator, the conservative president would enjoy parliamentary immunity, which would make it extremely difficult, though not impossible, to bring him before the courts, the left-leaning Libération and Le Monde newspapers said.
.
The risk of being made to face trial after he loses his presidential immunity is believed to be a major factor in Chirac's deliberations over whether to run for an unprecedented third term in 2007. So far he has kept the possibility open.
.
The proposal, which would require changing the country's 1958 constitution, is being promoted by Senator Patrice Gélard, a Chirac supporter, and will be formally proposed in the Senate on Tuesday, Le Monde said.
.
But both papers agreed that its chances of success were small, as any constitutional change would have to be confirmed by referendum.
.
Chirac was mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, during which time courts have established that his Rally for the Republic party used a number of illegal devices to raise money with its influence at City Hall. Attempts to question Chirac on the affair have foundered because of his presidential immunity.
.PARIS Supporters of President Jacques Chirac are pushing for a constitutional change that would make him a senator for life after he leaves office and thus shield him from the threat of future legal proceedings, newspapers reported Friday.
.
The proposed measure would mean that all former presidents automatically become members of the upper house of Parliament instead of joining the Constitutional Council, France's highest judicial authority, which they do under the existing arrangement.
.
Chirac, 72, cannot be prosecuted as long as he remains president, but when he steps down he risks being placed under judicial investigation in a series of party-finance scams during his 18-year tenure as mayor of Paris.
.
By becoming a life senator, the conservative president would enjoy parliamentary immunity, which would make it extremely difficult, though not impossible, to bring him before the courts, the left-leaning Libération and Le Monde newspapers said.
.
The risk of being made to face trial after he loses his presidential immunity is believed to be a major factor in Chirac's deliberations over whether to run for an unprecedented third term in 2007. So far he has kept the possibility open.
.
The proposal, which would require changing the country's 1958 constitution, is being promoted by Senator Patrice Gélard, a Chirac supporter, and will be formally proposed in the Senate on Tuesday, Le Monde said.
.
But both papers agreed that its chances of success were small, as any constitutional change would have to be confirmed by referendum.
.
Chirac was mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, during which time courts have established that his Rally for the Republic party used a number of illegal devices to raise money with its influence at City Hall. Attempts to question Chirac on the affair have foundered because of his presidential immunity.
.
junge - 16. Jan, 16:52
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Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2005
Montag, 10. Januar 2005
Weltrekord
aus Spiegel online:
WELTREKORDLER
Deutschland jetzt Nummer eins bei Solaranlagen
Im vergangenen Jahr wurden in Deutschland erstmals mehr Sonnenstrom-Anlagen eingebaut als irgendwo sonst auf der Welt. Noch ist das Umsatzvolumen der Branche vergleichsweise klein - die Wachstumsraten aber sind umso größer.
> zum Artikel
Schön - immerhin ein Welt(!)Rekord....in einer Disziplin, die deutscher nicht sein könnte: die ineffizienteste (d.h. schlechteste) Methode der Stromgewinnung begeistert den deutschen Michel. Und ich schätze, dass mindestens 50% der Deutschen diese Nachricht positiv bewerten...
Komisches Volk, die Deutschen......
WELTREKORDLER
Deutschland jetzt Nummer eins bei Solaranlagen
Im vergangenen Jahr wurden in Deutschland erstmals mehr Sonnenstrom-Anlagen eingebaut als irgendwo sonst auf der Welt. Noch ist das Umsatzvolumen der Branche vergleichsweise klein - die Wachstumsraten aber sind umso größer.
> zum Artikel
Schön - immerhin ein Welt(!)Rekord....in einer Disziplin, die deutscher nicht sein könnte: die ineffizienteste (d.h. schlechteste) Methode der Stromgewinnung begeistert den deutschen Michel. Und ich schätze, dass mindestens 50% der Deutschen diese Nachricht positiv bewerten...
Komisches Volk, die Deutschen......
junge - 10. Jan, 16:45
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