This move is also meant to make blogging easier and more enjoyable to me, potentially resulting in a more steady publication frequency.

Since I’m still trying to find a new style for blogging – the blog being on my professional website – I ask you to bear with me until I’ve accomplished that. If you don’t like what you see, please let me know!

Thank you for reading this blog, and see you on the other side!

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The target is suspected to have had dealings with several terrorists in the US and elsewhere. Although a US citizen, this guy has no access to a lawyer, will not be tried, and has no means to show proof of his innocence.

Don’t get me wrong, I am willing to believe that al-Awlaki is a dangerous terrorist.

You have to ask yourself, though, what it means for a western country to break the division of power this openly, and putting a kill order on a citizen.

With pesticides being the most likely reason, this could be disastrous for any culture. Bees do most of the pollinating, so “no bees no food”.

Combine that with a loss of crops from climate change in the next thirty years and you have a global catastrophe. Jiminy.

I knew that stuff was evil. And it’s everywhere in the US (but not in Canada).

Fascinating to find this to be written like a business textbook.

(via DF)

Take a look at the following screenshot. It was taken from the website of German weekly DIE ZEIT.

For our English readers follows a rough translation:
“SOCIETY”
[Picture]
“Police arrested the wrong person”

“The first success of a manhunt already turned out to be insubstantial after a few hours. The suspect arrested on Friday night is already free again.”

They don’t even tell you what the story is about! Everybody learns that in 5th grade: What, when, where, how many, why or something like that.

As far as I’m concerned, all major German newspapers have failed in their attempt to set up successful websites.

Being otherwise dressed conservatively helps, though.

I take it in from when I get up, eating my breakfast in front of my feeds, until I go to bed, checking my emails one last time before I switch off the light.

Guess I need to get one of these “lives” one day.

That reminded me of a feeling that I’ve had for a long time. In both school and university I had the feeling that most of the time was wasted by being fed or memorizing information.

In my opinion, it should not the most important goal of any educative institution to transfer knowledge. I mean, any kid with internet can learn quite accurately about anything these days!

What we need, children and adults alike, is a platform to talk to other people about this information. We want to learn about other people’s ideas and views, criticize them and build on them.

The main purpose of a school should be to facilitate this process. It seems to be very few that do that enough.

They didn’t challenge the concept or the EU guideline in general, but found that the German legal framework needs more judiciary oversight, clear definitions of when to use it, and safer data storage.

They also iterated that the data is only to be used for crimes of a certain severity.

Once again my trust in the Constitutional Court is affirmed. They save our butts against bad or incomplete laws every time.

As much as I welcome this verdict, I do feel for the police. Even though it doesn’t seem like the now obsolete laws saw much use (yet), I understand that it’s hard to properly prosecute criminals if the laws are so uncertain.