Nice when a corporate bigwig is taken down. I've always wondered why the SPD lets an HR manager from the automotive industry reform unemployment insurance (keywords Bock and Gärtner and so on - and yes, I am aware of the auto chancellor). Will his name ever be separated from this absurd unemployment policy, or will politicians in the future still be proud of the name Hartz?
The churches in the dioceses of Hildesheim, Osnabrück and Münster are changing the calculation of church tax - and specifically, in marriages where one of the partners is not in the church, the joint income will now be used to calculate the church tax of the other partner. Robber baron thinking, which hopefully moves as many people as possible to turn their backs on this absurd association ...
Especially in view of such rather arbitrary changes, I see the state's collection of church tax even more critically. Because the state is making itself here the accomplice of the arbitrariness of the churches over their members.
Well, as Ralf reports in the Netzbuch under the nice title Wordpress, the Weblog Prostitute, Matt Mullenweg - the main developer of WordPress - has once again come up with a grand idea for making money. Naturally, once again at the expense of the PageRank he has built up through the many backlinks from WordPress blogs. And of course, once again without any major discussion or at least open communication within the community. This time it's about advertising placements through some ad space marketer at absurdly high prices.
When it comes to securing advertising partners, even public broadcasters are diligent and quick:
The NDR had initiated legal steps against the order on the same day and immediately achieved a temporary suspension of enforcement. Thus, the NDR was able to continue showing the Microsoft logo in its broadcasts on election night. This is now possible again for the time being after the temporary suspension has been lifted.
Oh yes, how wonderful, the NDR really put in a lot of effort so that it can continue to slap the Microsoft logo on inappropriate broadcasts - such as election coverage. Because that's important, you have to fight for that, that must be preserved. Product placement? Oh come on, it's all just talk. Probably politics is already sponsored by Microsoft and our federal chancellor will then wear a Microsoft logo on her coat.
