Bei manchen Autofahrern blitze es aber auch gleich zweimal. So fuhr ein Raser in Dortmund mit Tempo 96 statt 50 in eine Kontrollstelle. Dabei wurde festgestellt, dass er seine Kraftfahrzeug-Steuer nicht bezahlt hatte. Mit quietschenden Reifen fuhr er wutentbrannt davon - und landete mit Tempo 78 direkt in der nächsten Tempofalle. Macht zusammen 230 Euro Geldbuße, vier Punkte in Flensburg und einen Monat Fahrverbot.
Schlagwort: Gesellschaft
Too many wheels for pity.
Slave State.
Let us take an illustration. Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacturing of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?
Math Is Freedom.
Von Mächtigkeit reden Achtjährige und meinen nicht Könige oder Kanzler, sondern Mengen von Haselnüssen und Rosinen. Und wenn sie sagen, irgend etwas sei irgend etwas anderem "eineindeutig" zuzuordnen, dann stottern sie nicht, sondern sind stolz darauf, daß sie dem Vater auch dann überlegen sind, wenn er Abitur und Doktortitel besitzt. Laut Mengenlehre-Gegner Hans Stahl (Stuttgart) "sehen die Kinder früh, zu früh, ihre Eltern hilflos und unwissend. Damit schwindet die Achtung, die Kinder können nicht mehr ihre Eltern fragen, deren Vorbild verblaßt".
It's not like with cars. It's worse.
Not really knowing how to use a computer is deemed acceptable if you’re twenty-five or over. It’s something that some people are even perversely proud of, but the prevailing wisdom is that all under eighteens are technical wizards, and this is simply not true. They can use some software, particularly web-apps. They know how to use Facebook and Twitter. They can use YouTube and Pinterest. They even know how to use Word and PowerPoint and Excel. Ask them to reinstall an operating system and they’re lost. Ask them to upgrade their hard-drive or their RAM and they break out in a cold sweat. Ask them what https means and why it is important and they’ll look at you as if you’re speaking Klingon.
They click ‘OK’ in dialogue boxes without reading the message. They choose passwords like qwerty1234. They shut-down by holding in the power button until the monitor goes black. They’ll leave themselves logged in on a computer and walk out of the room. If a program is unresponsive, they’ll click the same button repeatedly until it crashes altogether.
How the hell did we get to this situation? How can a generation with access to so much technology, not know how to use it?
Date Seats.
The front is for people who don't have dates.