I haven't read The Dead but I greatly enjoyed John Houston's film adaptation of it. I also never read Ulysses but the BBC produced a very listenable book at bedtime of it that I can remember listening to in the Summer of 1991 as the coup was underway in Russia (I wasn't there btw)
You need to ask what would you have done before condemning the German people. It's easier to believe the "safe" truth even if you have doubts about it than set yourself up for a knock on the door and a trip to a concentration camp as happened to very many Germans, both before and during the war. Most of us are cowards and wouldn't intervene if someone was being mugged on a public street. How much more courage does it take to stand up to a totalitarian regime.
You can still get duffers in such jobs as often a candidate is put forward who's agreeable all parties and as such can be the lowest common denominator who won't rock the boat.
Which is interesting, because those aren't common in Germany. For the Bundespräsident, they have another interesting thing: there are no limits on how many terms you serve, you just can't serve more than two in a row.
But that's also true for e.g. the US and russian presidents, no? Except those actually hold real power.
In practise, most german presidents will just be way too old four years after they leave office to be a viable candidate, and it looks a bit absurd for them to be pushed back into the office, exactly because there's very little real power.
I don't think it's possible for the US president, they are limited to 10 years (two terms + two years if they were vice president and became acting president) which, afaik, is per life-time.
I agree though, it's not an issue, precisely because the German president has historically not acted partisan (even though he's usually a member of a party) and not be involved in day-to-day politics, so it's not too hard to find somebody that everybody can agree on. This may change if the office becomes more politicized, but I doubt we'll see somebody get re-elected after having paused for a term.
That's correct - a US president cannot serve more than two terms. If they were already acting as President for two or more years, they can only be elected to the position once. This was codified in the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution.
I really wish one of the existing db technologies, Firebird, got a shot in the arm. It has both embedded and server modes which makes it unique as far as I know. Also the database is a single file which with firebirds "careful write" methodology remains consistent at all times so while you can make a backup at any time because it has MVCC, even a file copy of the database file with open transactions should not be corrupted. The installer size comes in under 10 MB. It's being actively improved, is open source with a very liberal licence but sadly it only gets a tiny fraction of the attention that SQLite, postgres etc receive
Very good. I thought I'd have no trouble but did. On windows , where there's loads of room, if you had fake and true to either side of the cards that would be helpful
Um, yes it does? I'm not a paying supporter and I didn't mean it that way, but I can assure you there are more than 4800 people in the world that care about Free software. Even if there were only 4800, would it really change my point?
Good channel I found it through my interest in making cider.
He made an apple scratter which works fairly well ( https://youtu.be/htT-gZ7ck64?t=147 ) but having done more research I think Claude Jolicoeur's (renowned cider maker) is better ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuEqqSgoGcQ ).
You can see how superior the latter is in the videos
which because of its "wedge angle" has no need for a hand plunger to force the apples between rotor and the stator
