Well, I'm not sure if I'd think it was great if Google logged what I share on IRC channels. I think archives and IRC are quite at odds with each other — IRC is simply fleeting conversation, like chatting at the regular table in a pub. I wouldn't think it was so cool if someone put a tape recorder on the table at the regular table to record everything ...
At Google Weblog there's the original article.
You sit in a 3-hour meeting and what happens? Suse gets sold. Something like that.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
He's certainly right about that. The more polemical and primitive the media become, the lower the level of public discourse sinks, and that really does harm democracy. After all, democracy doesn't consist only of elected representatives, but also of the people themselves. And the more stupidly they behave, the stupider the outcome. And sensationalist articles like the fuss over Florida Rolf (the costs for which are only a fraction of those for the ridiculous Eurofighter—yet he received far more space in the tabloid press) certainly don't help with opinion formation...
An important factor in a democratic society is functioning and critical press as a counterbalance to the state apparatus. The problem is that while our press is certainly critical, some of the unreflective drivel can hardly be called functioning.
Does every society get the press it deserves?
I found the original article at RP-Online: Multimedia.
So, the General is fired because the MP read his panegyric to Frontal21 of all places. Bad move, but the reaction (firing the General) is appropriate.
But what about the MP? Still only a reprimand, a bit of admonition and finger-wagging, and the — long overdue — removal from the Interior Committee (why did such a right-wing character get on there in the first place). Instead, he's now allowed to manage nuclear power plant safety.
But when will a real consequence — faction expulsion — be drawn here? Or does he have so much support within the Union that the necessary majority for it can't be assembled? How deep is the brown swamp in the Bundestag?
To Mr. Struck: from my own experience during my Bundeswehr service, this is definitely not an isolated case, the General. Believing that is very naive, Mr. Struck.
Marine researchers are puzzled by mysterious bubbling sounds from herrings. The fish apparently deliberately release air through their anuses in bubbles. Researchers suspect that herrings communicate this way. - and evolution does have a sense of humor
I found the original article at RP-Online: Science.