Der entschied für die gesamte EU
Sehr gut zu wissen. Nächstes Jahr hole ich meine Patientenakte von meinem Herkunftsland ab. Für eine Kopie wollen sie 22 Euro.
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I think the examples in the article are a bit too high level, although accurate - even more interesting when they affect grammar, like both MS Office and Grammarly leading a crusade against the passive voice.
More interesting to me though is how Microsoft Windows (not just Office) lead to the extinction of a whole punctuation point in my native Greek. The "Greek semicolon" was not included in the default Greek keyboard layout for Windows. While it remained as an option on the IBM keyboard that big organisations could choose to order, it vanished from retail and therefore from home users and the language simply lost an entire punctuation mark within a decade.
If there's a clear example of how technology can drive language change (to the extend that writing is part of language), I feel like that's one of the clearest examples.
Why was there this law in the first place?
In Europe at least, it was often explained as "same-sex marriage and parenthood are not allowed, and a legal gender change cannot be a loophole to that". But it appears to be a post-hoc rationalisation since the forced sterilisation programmes have many more targets in the past until it was progressively abandoned for more and more groups. It was also becoming untenable since more and more countries were legalising same-sex parenthood.
So, if we are being more honest, it's eugenics.
Given that the article is not about the UK, I don't see a good reason to reach for a UK-specific definition.
It's one of the most blatant self-made problems around migration that populists very disingenuously employ to paint their favourite picture of the "welfare queen" which has been a bold, racist lie since it was first used.
But I'm also a bit sceptical of how you can do this in a country without mandatory collective agreements in all sectors. Germany at least has a minimum wage, but that just means wage dumping can only go as low as 12 Euro per hour. Back in Cyprus, where the same question is constantly in the news, the most notorious anti-worker industry, the tourism sector, is begging for asylum seekers to be allowed in the jobs that they have most trouble filling with citizens, EU-residents, and work-permit holders. But they want to do so outside a collective agreement (one used to exist, but for various reasons is now dead-letter) and essentially without even the protection of a minimum wage (which Cyprus didn't have until this year, and now it has an idiotic version of it which defines a monthly minimum wage without a limit to hours worked).
I think that the introduction of asylum seekers in the workforce should happen, but it should happen in tandem with a massive pro-union legislation change that will make collective agreements mandatory across the board (similar to the Swedish and Finnish models, as far as I understand those). That might require re-aligning the way unionism is understood in Germany from per-workplace to be per-industry.
Garrett's post makes a great point in only a handful of lines. Strongly recommended reading for anyone who organises a community of any kind.
I would agree. To the extend that OP's thesis is true (which I don't think is fully true, but also not fully wrong either), I also find that the readiness to compromise both at the EU level and in most member-state parliaments that eventually need to transpose the directives into national laws, is a difference that stands out.
A multi-party system helps too, because there can be situational alliances that do not divide the parties internally. E.g. in one topic the Social Democrats, the Moderate Right and the Liberals can be on the same side and pass something (probably a free-trade deal) and on another topic the Social Democrats, the Greens, and the Left can pass something else (probably an environmental regulation). When there are only two parties in the legislature, such alliances break party lines, so it's a higher hurdle to overcome.
Oh, lucky. Meine Probe BahnCard läuft diesen Monat ab. Guter Deal, danke OP!
Thunderbird's Calendar supports local, off-line calendars and tasks.
It's the best FOSS calendar I have used, even if it has its rough edges.
Ich war lange Zeit sehr zufrieden mit BackInTime.
und diese dann synchronsiert werden wenn ich die Festplatte angeschlossen habe
Es gibt zwei Optionen unter Schedule: Repeatedly oder When drive get connected.
That’s how American ISPs do it.
That's how the German Telekom does it too with other connection options. It's definitely not an insurmountable problem for ISPs.
Although I never used it, I am aware that Calibre can serve books in your local network. I imagine that this offers some position and annotation sync.
Unfortunately, there was never great ebook hardware. I use a tablet with Android. KOReader for ePub, constantly trying new Android PDF readers but finding nothing decent.
While not intentionally, running Syncthing between all my computers means that my PDF annotations get synced across devices. ePub ones do not; afaik KOReader uses its own metadata format that it stores as a standalone file.
Before, when I was still in university, I used Zotero also for annotation management. Feels like an overkill nowadays since I only read for leisure.