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- 681: Personal Writing: History of Pete Dalberg Family
- ... lives in Libby Montana. Rowland was born in January of 1918 and died in 1985. During world war II Rowland was a fighter pilot. He had 59 missions when he was shot down in, Auckind Germany, and was a prisoner of war in Germany for 7 months. He was pretty badly shot up which probably contributed to his early demise. I Donald was born on Christmas day in Deary. That particular day as always we had reunions at my ...
- 682: Freedom of Speech & Censorship on the Internet
- ... to whet appetites. Warning labels involve some sort of judging and then the question is raised as to who shall be the judge. The Internet is world-wide so would the First Amendment apply in Germany? The material on the Internet which is grossly offensive by any standards, such as paedophile material, is extremely difficult to find because of its small amounts. Of the 976 obscenity cases handled between 1991 and ... is illegal in another: German law prohibits claims that the Holocaust did not happen, but this does not stop white supremacists from the US or another country from transmitting this claim to their sympathizers in Germany. This is a complicated issue because usually there is a feature of different cultures, for example, codes for women's dress in Islamic counties. It would be very difficult to find a common denominator that ...
- 683: Facing Reality
- ... and technological engineering develops, will if at all possible be incorporated into military systems. They must be aware or think about what the end results of their work might be utilized for. Weizenbaum has visited Germany a few times, and says that he is amazed by the sights in Germany that appear routine to the country's citizens. For example he has witnessed the feeling that every German citizen lives to close to nuclear weapons storage facilities. And the threat of soviet attacks that they ...
- 684: Einstein
- ... Einstein’s General Theory of relativity, but not many people know of his life that led him to discover what scientists have called, “The greatest single achievement of human thought.” Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1874. Before he was a year old his family had moved to Munich where young Albert’s father, Hermann Einstein, and uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. He was fortunate ... on relativity. He also received the Nobel Prize that year for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect. He traveled much during the following years until 1933 when the Nazi party came into power in Germany. At that time he went back to the United States and became a professor at Princeton University. When World War II ended he spent most of the rest of his life promoting peace. In 1952 ...
- 685: Heart Of Darkness 7
- ... to them. This overwhelming cultural interaction caused some Puritans to go mad and try to purge themselves of a perceived evil. This came to be known as the Salem witch trials. During World War II, Germany made an attempt to overrun Europe. What happened when the Nazis came into power and persecuted the Jews in Germany, Austria and Poland is well known as the Holocaust. Here, human's evil side provides one of the scariest occurrences of this century. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi counterparts conducted raids of the ghettos to ...
- 686: Gold And Its Uses
- ... hundredth of a millimeter. Japan is the major fabricator of electronics products in the western world, accounting for over 45% of gold consumption, followed by the United States with nearly 30%. The United Kingdom and Germany are the only other significant contributors at about 6 and 7% respectively, although South Korea is growing. Dental gold is the second important sector. Gold has been used in dentistry for almost 3000 years. The ... there has since been a recovery because of its non-allergic properties; demand has revived to 60 tonnes annually. Japan is the leading dental gold fabricator, accounting for roughly 28% of the market, followed by Germany and the United States. There is Significant unrecorded use, however, in Asia and Latin America where it is not unknown for dentists to melt down gold coin to make their own alloy. Other applications for ...
- 687: Computer Crime
- ... for not just the United States and Canada, but for every country in the world. Another computer heist, one of the largest ever, involved several highly placed employees of the Volkswagen car company of West Germany. In 1987 the company discovered that these "loyal" workers had managed to steal $260 million by re- programming the computers to disguise the company's foreign currency transactions. The workers that committed the crime received 10 years in Germany's prison system; not nearly as harsh as if they had stolen the money through non- computerized means. This sets an example that computer crimes are easy to execute, and are punished very lightly. This ...
- 688: The Renaissance
- ... after his death, and his scientific studies-particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics-anticipated many of the developments of modern science. Dürer Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528), the most famous artist of Reformation Germany, widely known for his paintings, drawings, prints, and theoretical writings on art, all of which had a profound influence on 16th-century artists in his own country and in the Lowlands. Dürer was born May ... observation of detail. These qualities are especially evident in a series of self-portraits, including an early drawing (1484, Albertina, Vienna) done when he was 13, a thoughtful portrait drawn in 1491 (University Collections, Erlangen, Germany), and a painting of himself as an extremely confident young man (1493, Louvre, Paris). Domenico di Tommaso Bigordi Ghirlandaio, (1449-1494) one of the artists that had a major influence on Michelangelo. Son of Tommaso ...
- 689: The Bulgarian and Soviet Virus Factories
- ... exchange such things only between themselves and in a very restricted manner, it is not surprising that similar "virus boards" began to pop up around the world. There are currently such BBSes in the USA, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, the UK and the Soviet Union. Stopping their activities is very difficult in legal terms, because the possession, storage or willful downloading of computer viruses usually is not considered as a criminal ... and even to determine which files are damaged. The only way is to reformat the hard disk. It is difficult to estimate the costs of all damage caused by Bulgarian viruses. There are reports from Germany about a 10,000,000 DM damage, caused only by the VACSINA virus. It is probable, however, that these numbers are largely overestimated. The huge number of known Bulgarian viruses causes also indirect damage to ...
- 690: Internet Pornography: Freedom of Press or Dangerous Influence?
- ... is the first electornic media source that is entirely global, and although some countries will and have tried to regulate it, there is no way to mesh what every country does to control the Internet. Germany made an attempt at regulating the Internet within their country, however, the aim was not only to ban pornography but also to ban anti-Semitic newsgroups and web sites. Prodigy, a global network server, helped the German government by blocking these Web sites. When Prodigy was pressured by groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, Prodigy stopped blocking these Web site, and there was nothing Germany could do. This just shows the "power" that the United States holds over the Internet. Two reasons account for this "power." First, 60% of all the information comes from the U.S., and secondly, the ...
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