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So this is how Americans would rate me on the political scale...
German for cynics, lesson 0815:
Auto, das: fängt mit "Au!" an, hört mit "Oh!" auf und dazwischen steht ein "t" wie "teuer".
Seen at jmaynard's journal, who got it from km5r, who didn't write where she got it from...
Today I tried to purchase an Onkyo TX-SR503E receiver here in Nuremberg. I went to three subsidiaries of Media Markt (American Readers: similar to Fry's), to both Expert Tevi shops and Saturn. Even though all of these shops are supposed to sell Onkyo equipment, only one of the Tevi shops actually had it on display -- and only the exhibit of the smaller version (SR-502E) for the mail order price of the SR-503E. Every other shop just had Yamaha (which would be fine if I wouldn't have to pay EUR 50 more compared to Onkyo for the name alone), Sony (no way!), Kenwood (too expensive for me), Harman/Kardon (even more expensive) and Denon (no idea whether their products are good, but too expensive for what I was looking for, anyway.) I wasted four hours of time searching for the product I want. Never again, next time I'll mailorder it right away.
Is it just me who thinks that pushing ones personal political agenda in the face of thousands of people who have lost their lives, their relatives or "just" everything they own incredibly cynical? The latest example currently spreading through blogs and chat rooms is an apparently outragious example of racism in the coverage of the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. But what is really going on here? If you take a closer look at both press agency notices you'll find that the one which is talking about "finding bread and soda" (which is, of course, unfortunate wording) is from AFP, while the other one, which is correctly describing it as "looting", is from AP -- two entirely different agencies, photographers and editors. This, per se, is hardly an example for racism, especially as AFP is a French agency and the caption probably was translated from French incorrectly.
Usually, I don't post job related stuff here, but to be honest: running Linux on my Apple Titanium PowerBook (in short: TiBook) is just too cool :-)
After a not-so-nice experience of a co-worker I guess I'd better not travel with a backpack next time I visit the U.S... (The rant is by said colleague, not me.)
