Oh never mind. Caught him too.
Damn. The guy behind that poor man’s Ocean’s 11 Berlin poker heist, the mastermind guy himself, got busted too.
Who would of thought that possible? That it would have taken this long to get him, I mean.
Wo sind die 242 000 Euro Beute?
Germany is still not the “digital society” some of you might assume it must be.
An organization called Initiative D21 just broke down Germany’s predominantly technophobic Internet angst population into several angst making groups:
The “digital outsiders”, 35% of the population, are actually frightened by computers and refuse to touch them.
The “occasional users” with 30% will actually use Internet technology from time to time but don’t ask them to work with it regularly or deal with things like Excel (I feel their pain about Excel, I must say).
The “digital pros” with 12% gladly work with Excel and even do PowerPoint, although I wouldn’t know why they would want to.
“Trend users” go further and even build websites and spend why too much time online – on the couch.
Then there’s the “digital avant-garde”, 3% of the population, the real sick puppy techno Internet freak types.
Personally, I don’t know what’s more worrisome; the first or the last group.
Die Deutschen sind immer noch Internet-Muffel
Pakistan is just different, you know. Than Germany, I mean.
I was at a the hairdresser, an elderly man who doesn’t resort to electric clippers. All he has is a creaky pair of scissors, a comb and aerosol with water. He did a neat job bit I wasn’t entirely happy.
I said: “I look like Hitler.”
He looked at me in the mirror, gave a satisfied smile and said: “Yes, yes, very nice.”
In the Islamic world, not just in Pakistan but right across from Iran to northern Africa, anti-Semitic sentiment of course plays a role.
Actually, it’s their currency that has a cold at the moment.
Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told the Bundestag on March 16 that the country may have to consider ordering “intelligence agencies to set up surveillance of who is getting together with whom for which kinds of speculative processes, and where” to protect the euro.
Now we know why the Bundeswehr is unprepared for combat. It’s because the Bundeswehr is unprepared for combat (we already knew that they were unwilling).
But at least now it’s official or something. The being unprepared part, I mean. So that way nobody has to feel bad about it or anything, I guess.
Germany’s parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces criticized the country’s support of its soldiers, saying the Bundeswehr lacked the most basic necessities for its missions abroad.
A bomb of a business, a roaring trade, a gold mine. And the same procedure as every year.
“Germany Now World’s Third Largest Arms Exporter.” Now? Been that way for years, folks. Get used to it already.
Pacifists. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
“When it comes to arms exports, few will be surprised that the US tops the list.”
Still. But it looks like we’re not going to be getting it anymore. Here in Berlin, I mean. When it comes to cheap rent.
The average rent for new rentals has gone up nearly 5 percent since 2008, in some of the angesagte (hot) districts nearly 7 percent.
So much for finding your cheap ecologicial, I mean economical niche in Berlin, I guess. Although it’s still WAY cheaper to live here than in other German cities or gar (even) in “real” cities like London, Paris, New York, etc. And it will probably stay that way for a while yet, maybe, I hope.
This trend will continue, however, the smart guys say. There are ever more renters out there looking for apartments in a stagnant market – and only about 13 percent of Berliners actually own their own. Ich bin ein Berliner, they must be thinking, but I don’t necessarily want to own a piece of it.
Dieser Trend wird anhalten, so der Marktbericht, den die GSW am Donnerstag vorstellte. Denn in Berlin konkurrieren immer mehr Haushalte um die stagnierende Zahl der Mietwohnungen – und Wohneigentum leistet sich nur eine Minderheit (13 Prozent).
More Germans are leaving the church these days. More than usual, I mean. I wonder why?
“The flood of revelations began in late January when an elite Jesuit school in Berlin admitted systematic sexual abuse of pupils by two priests in the 1970s and 1980s. A school attached to a cathedral in Regensburg where Benedict’s brother was choir master was among those later implicated.”
Celibacy is the sign of full devotion.
Especially when you find them strewn along the side of the A10 near Berlin, wrapped up in little aluminium packets.
And especially when you consider that nobody here pays with marks anymore. And especially so when they’re the old Reichsmark type issued between 1913 and 1923.
Maybe this was a foiled caper by those great poker tournament robbery robber guys. Maybe it wasn’t.
Hinweise auf den Besitzer des Geldes fanden sich nicht.
Tank this. Damn. Hurt feeling time again for Europeans with a military industrial complex.
“Airbus and its U.S. partner, Northrop Grumman (NOC), declined to bid on the tanker contract because they didn’t think they could win. That’s because they believed that the Pentagon’s specifications for the deal favored Boeing’s smaller 767 over the larger Airbus A330.”
Erst sah es so aus, als würde EADS Tankflugzeuge für die US-Luftwaffe bauen. Dann hat die US-Regierung die Ausschreibung im Sinne des heimischen Konzerns Boeing geändert. In Europa läuft das bei solchen Projekten nicht anders. Dabei braucht die Rüstungsindustrie dringend mehr Wettbewerb.
Observing Hermann 