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Maybe it was after midnight. Not completely sure when I got back from dinner. I was changing 10 time zones that day.
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“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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How about this then? The blog "A fistful of Euros" quotes an article by Business Week's man in Frankfurt:How Germany Can Drive You Crazy
I’ve had a New York motorist’s license for 30 years. So why did I need to endure months of driver’s ed again and a tortuous bureaucracy?
Not long after I began driving lessons, my instructor had a revelation. “You can already drive,” he said, exhaling the smoke of yet another cigarette as we puttered along in a Volkswagen Golf equipped with an extra brake on the passenger side. No kidding, I thought. I’ve had a U.S. driver’s license for more than 30 years.
So why, 11 years after moving to Germany, was I starting the same driver’s training program as a German teenager, one that involves 40-plus hours of car and classroom instruction and costs $1,200? The answer reveals one of the less attractive aspects of German society. Not the side that’s fun-loving and generous, but the side that’s pathologically risk-averse and mindlessly bureaucratic, bent on making everything -- putting up a building, starting a new business, buying a house -- so difficult that nothing happens. It’s one of the small ways the nation sabotages its own economy.Comment
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Ah, come on, let's not make this a thread for general Germany bashing
One thing about German TV programmes I do like is the voice synchronizations of foreign movies. I don't understand German well, but they look very well done. I bet, if I had subtitles to go with that, I'd learn German in no time
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Another thing I used to do - when watching Formula 1 on Croatian TV, I'd skip the commercials by switching to RTL for a couple of minutes. I guess many people did that because now - our commercials are synched with RTL's
RTL supposedly has good Formula coverage, as German speaking people here tell me.Comment
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At least German TV widly abandoned the Talkshow Mania by now,
the Replacement (Court Shows) are bad but not worse.
*Hopes for more DIY Shows*Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!Comment
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