Billing via IP? explains more about the absurd IP-based billing procedure. The whole self-presentation is already confusing enough. The procedure itself is even more confusing. So no wonder that T-Systems hitches itself to this cart - if there are stupid ideas, they always seem to shout "Here!" ... (found at Isotopp)
Archive 1. March 2005
Back to the Future: The Story of Squeak - how one of the coolest Smalltalk environments came to be.
At concord.antville.org there is a reference to these color photographs from the First World War made by the French army.
And while we're on the subject of marketing lies: does anyone remember SoftRAM95? It's been 9 years now ...
Giant ground drawings discovered in Peru - then we can look forward to a lot of "interpretations" from ufologists again ...
Well insulated.
I am well insulated. No cold gets in. No heat gets out.
Haindling, "Achtung, Achtung"
Read: Free-range research with clubbing
Read: Open-field research with clubbing to death - for allegedly scientific research purposes, corvids are being killed in Leer to investigate the effects on the population of ground-nesting birds and small game. Yes, the Hannover University of Applied Sciences actually thinks that they need to kill animals in large numbers for this. By the way, the traps not only kill corvids but also severely injure birds of prey when they are caught. One might also think that there are enough corvids around, but a whole series of birds of prey are seriously endangered.
There is no idea so stupid that it couldn't occur to someone and others let themselves be harnessed to such a cart.
The linked post contains further links on the topic, including a petition against this nonsense.
Are Overtime Mandatory?
Wouldn't the Frankfurt ruling conflict with the ruling from the ECJ? So, wouldn't overtime have to be explicitly mentioned as a mandatory component in the contract? Of course, it's only an ECJ ruling, so it's not binding until a corresponding national law exists. But somehow it seems to have already found its way in, if you look at the many references to this topic on Google.
And this also doesn't align with the ruling from Frankfurt. Or perhaps the Süddeutsche has omitted an important detail - because transferring files doesn't sound like an emergency or an extraordinary operational situation to me. And also that the employee would have had an explicit notice about the overtime obligation.
Of course, I'm not a lawyer and therefore probably not suited to follow the strange thought processes of judges and lawyers, but somehow it's been on my mind what the ARD guide says - and that's pretty much the opposite of what the ruling in Frankfurt says according to the Süddeutsche ...
Skidoo Too: Ruthsarian Layouts
Skidoo Too : Ruthsarian Layouts is a rather simple 3-column layout with a flexible middle column. The special feature: the order of the source is such that the middle column comes first. This improves usability for Lynx users because they can immediately access the content and do not have to skip the navigation first. The layout is Public Domain.
He also has another layout on the page that has two flexible columns and only specifies the left column as fixed, same source order.
SPD: "No tax relief for foreign top earners" - Koch wants to make it even easier and more lucrative for the Ackermanns of this world to fleece the German economy ...
Found in Lummaland: We will all be fired. Wow, exciting, a filter that blocks employees of a company from accessing weblogs so that no corporate secrets are published and no false image of the company is drawn. Nonsense. But you can make money with such marketing lies.