Wait a moment: The explicit mention of Christianity is "absolutely necessary". As a guarantee for human dignity and freedom, the document should also contain a reference to God. - somehow my ribs are hurting from laughing now. In whose name have more people been killed, disparaged and disadvantaged (and continue to be in some cases), if not in the name of various gods of various factions? These really don't belong in any constitutions. I recommend anyone who disagrees to read church labor law and the effects it has, for example, on hospitals or schools with church co-sponsorship (since they aren't fully funded by the church anyway, the state always contributes heavily). There is hardly anything more objectionable than the behavior the church displays in such institutions when employees don't belong to the church - and that despite the church sometimes not even bearing 10% of the actual costs. No religion in constitutions! For a clear separation of state (or confederation of states) and church!
At Der Rollberg there's the original article.
Well, now that the whole economy has gone to the dogs, the payment of insolvency benefits to the employers' liability insurance associations has naturally increased, Mr. Hundt. Just teach your members better business practices, then the payment won't be due so often and the levy will decrease again ...
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Nice little report about Möllemann's arms deals and those of his spiritual predecessor (in the sense that he displayed similarly creative financial conduct), Heinz Herbert Karry.
I found the original article at Telepolis News.
It's quite amusing how all these US hawks are so stupid and spilling the beans. What arguments for the war do Wolfowitz and Perle have left for Dubya and Blair after their recent statements?
I found the original article at TAZ.
This is really great: an OO extension for DrScheme built on Tiny-CLOS (where object-oriented here means the typical object+functional mix from CLOS — not those minimal OO systems from typical class-based languages). Very nice. And a large pile of additional tools and utilities on top. Basically you could say the programmer tried to implement large parts of Common Lisp in DrScheme. Nice, since I'm an old CL fan and Scheme fan, here I get the best of both worlds.
Unfortunately the system hasn't been extended to the GUI system, which still exists in the more classical OO form from DrScheme. A CLOS wrapper around it (or perhaps something like a tiny CLIM? Yeah, yeah, I'll be quiet, but one is allowed to dream) wouldn't be bad either.
Somehow DrScheme reminds me fatally of my nice Xerox 1186-compatible Lisp machines with their mix of Interlisp-D and Common Lisp in the operating system. There too the basic stuff is implemented in Interlisp-D (in DrScheme it's Scheme) and then Common Lisp is layered on top (in DrScheme then Swindle). Very nice approach.
And one more funny thing: a small graphical tool that visualizes lambda calculus. Programming with colored blocks to make things clear.
I think I like DrScheme
Here's the original article.
Should work with DrScheme 200 and newer. Of course it doesn't work with 204, which I have running. So it's back down to the software cellar again and time to fix the problems with a pipe wrench.
Here you can find the original article.