Archive 12. December 2005

Nobody is talking about control again

Zypries will Dateitauschbörsen bekämpfen:

The Minister of Justice wants to help protect copyright and trademarks better. On the Internet, this primarily affects file-sharing networks.

Disclosure of names. Fixed compensation claims. Right to demand bank and business records. But she doesn't talk about how all this mess should be controlled so that it is not further abused, does she, the Federal Incompetence.

Westerwelle is hardly surpassable in absurdity

His latest move: FDP will not form a coalition with the Greens at the federal level

"The Greens are a political opponent and not a strategic partner," said Westerwelle after the board meeting. Furthermore, it is not the FDP's task to lead the Greens out of their insignificance, said the FDP leader. However, Westerwelle does not see the "collegial parliamentary work" with the Greens endangered by the renunciation of the coalition option.

So, two things are really impressive about this:

• with what vehemence someone who has nothing to say in federal politics still believes that anyone cares about his statements on federal coalitions
• and the idea that someone first kicks a potentially necessary partner in the political work (after all, you are sitting together in the opposition - and the Left Party certainly won't want to have anything to do with the little citizen's gang) in the ass, but then expects to continue playing with them.

What kind of stuff is he smoking, anyway?

Sue Wikipedia?

How mentally deranged do you have to be to publicly call for a mass lawsuit against Wikipedia (see the report at netbib), and then explicitly list making money as the goal? To stand up as if Wikipedia were an evil corporation that needs to be sued into the ground? And then not even have the guts to put their pathetic name next to it, so you can directly see what kind of sausages are behind it?

Stealing and modifying the Wikipedia logo to use it for their own site wasn't even too embarrassing for them.