Archive 26. June 2004

Doctors protest against public insurance

Funny. When it came to cutting copayments for therapeutic treatments for public insurance patients, the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians didn't exactly jump into action. Nobody really stands up for patient rights - and ultimately for patients' healthcare provision either. In the end, it's all just about the money.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

"Bernd the Bread" only has to suffer during the day now

Well, thanks to this stupid ISH thing, I haven't had the Kinderkanal from 21:00 onwards anyway, just MDR or something like that, so I haven't been able to watch Bernd for much longer. It's still a shame though ... At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

Digital Camera with 30x Optical Zoom

That would be something for Jutta - after all, she's already thought about wanting to have a spotting scope with Digilux. There's the original article at PhotographyBLOG.

Largest flower production since euro introduction discovered

Why didn't they just counterfeit coins? They're in short supply.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

idw - University of Bremen: Early building blocks of the genome discovered in meteorite

Eventually we'll discover that we're all aliens

Here's the original article.

LinuxTag: Global File System under GPL

Finally. Maybe there's finally a usable cluster filesystem solution for Linux. We've needed that for a while now ...

At heise online news there's the original article.

Mark/Space launches The Missing Sync 4.0

The feature list sounds nice. Especially the Internet connection sharing via Bluetooth. It would be quite convenient to chat on the Palm from the couch using the Mac's Internet connection, wouldn't it?

At The Macintosh News Network you can find the original article.

More Work, Less Money

What comes next? Will more companies blackmail their employees and unions? Because that's exactly what Siemens did here. And then it's celebrated as a patriotic act. The original article is at WDR.de.

Union demands more sex

Oh man, when something like these pathetic CSU politicians comes out, then I ask for more restraint ...

And again it shows that there is nothing so stupid that a politician couldn't be found to express it publicly.

At tagesschau.de - The news from ARD you can find the original article.