When people ask me about my political opinion did I not have an answer for them, because what I believe is hard to describe. I did not know that there does actually exist a term for it. Here in the U.S. people ask me, if I am Republican, Democrat or a Green. I am neither of them. In Germany people asked me, if I am Conservative Christian Democrat, Social Democrat, Liberal, Green, Socialist or a Communist. I am neither of them. So what am I?I just found that out a few days ago when I watched the episode titled “Activism, Anarchism, and Power” of the educational series “Conversations with History” by the Institute of International Studies of the University of California at Berkley.The host Harry Kreisler had a 1 hour conversation with Noam Chomsky, linguist and political activist on March 22, 2002. I watched the video recording of it, which I downloaded from Google Video. Here is a link to the complete one hour episode.I learned that I am a Libertarian Anarchist. This has nothing to-do with liberals in the United States, who are completely different from who call themselves “Liberals” in Germany, which is different from what the word actually means. The anarchist part of it does also not refer to chaos or lack of organization of the society. I am sure most people get it wrong when they hear it for the first time and probably think that I am a Lenin citing and Molotov Cocktail throwing radical[…]
I did some historic research when I came across the famous John F. Kennedy speech in West Berlin from June 26, 1963 again where JFK said ???Ich bin ein Berliner???.I also came across a video that was supposed to be “funny”. However, the video is not, because the whole premise the joke is based on is wrong. In addition, the StumbleUpon flags for some of the normal video links showed as category “humor”. I did not understand what “funny” incident he referred to when somebody asked me about this “running joke” for the first time several years back.I learned then what obviously caused the amusement by some people. I do not know where they got the info from, but that somebody did probably not like JFK (I suspect Republican mischief here).May be even a German from somewhere else in Germany than Berlin, who does not like Berlin (I suspect a Bavarian here, because Bavarians and Prussians have a long history of not liking each other). A Bavarian Republican would fit the profile perfectly. Ouch, there are a lot of them, because by a twist of fate are the majority of Bavarians very conservative. Okay, I was just kidding regarding the suspicion of Republicans or Bavarians, but the fact is that somebody got it all wrong and that wrong information found its way through the heads of many Americans to this date.Now let me clarify and bust this urban myth about what JFK said and what he meant.“Ich bin ein Berliner”[…]
This is a very personal post, but I have to blog it somewhere. I could not post it at ReveNews.com nor at SearchEngineJournal.com so my personal blog has to take the “hit” hehe. It uses some unusual strong language what should not come as a surprise, if you look at the title of this post :). I just wanted to warn you. Okay, I touched the subject already in previous posts of mine, such as “American Made – or Wasn’t It” or “Immigration Issues, YouTube PERM Video and Backgrounds“. I also mentioned my issues at my post “VNV Nation saved the day (okay, my day)” so it???s not all new and out of the blue. Okay, here it comes… I got my fucking Green Card today!!!!! Here is a picture of that damn piece of plastic that needed over five years of constructing and manufacturing by the American bureaucracy Yes, five plus years of pain and sorrow are over! God damn it! Okay, better hehe. For details and some background, check out my immigration resources page at my family website at Cumbrowski.de, of course only if you are interested in this 😀 And guess what, this is also my 100th post here at my personal blog. If that isn’t a coincidence… Yeah, “double celebration” … Is it possible to get double-drunk?! I guess that would be called coma hehe. I am sorry for the foul and strong language, but it had to be … this time. I am sure that[…]
Original title: Political Systems Explained for Farmers Dummies.The fundamental principles of the different types of political and social systems explained via a simple example using two cows. You heard right, COWS. If you know what a cow is and are aware of the fact that the produce more than just steaks for your dinner, such as milk, you are good to go and should have no problem to understand it.I came across this on the internet and wanted share it with you. It’s hilarious. If any political system is missing, feel free to add your own “Two Cows Definition” of it as a comment below. Thanks. FEUDALISM You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. PURE SOCIALISM You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need. BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need. FASCISM You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk. PURE COMMUNISM You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them,[…]
My post from a week ago, about the major flaws in the new online banking security systems that banks around the country deployed recently, did not get any attention. The flaw was explained in detail and demonstrated (by actually hacking a bank account) at the Defcon 15 hacker conference in Las Vegas. One person dugg it at Digg.com and that was it. End of story, nobody seems to be interested. Well, it only affects pretty much everybody, at least everybody who uses online banking. Meanwhile did also other blogs that are specialized in application and system security write about the story. DarkReading.com was one of the most known publications who published the story “New Bank Practices Make Hacking Easier” a couple days after I published mine. Their story died at Digg.com, just as mine, but at least did some more bloggers pick up their story. Here are a few other bloggers who picked it up: M. M. Madan: Bank’s “Two Factor” Schemes Are Fundamentally Flawed AuthenticationWorld.Com: Why more authentication may be harmful to banks FIRST.org: New Bank Practices Make Hacking Easier Dr. Neal Krawetz/Hackerfactor.com: Black Hat and Defcon Post-Conference (as part of a general DefCon 15 summary Here is a picture of Brendan O’Connor, who presented the issue at the conference, which makes it easy to understand, why some people might not give him the attention he deserves.It is funny how things work sometimes. On the one hand are people going berserk and crazy about some “big privacy issues” that[…]
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