Die Reportage “Das Riester-Dilemma” ist nun sowohl in der ARD-Mediathek auch auf Youtube (s.u.) verfügbar. Für alle, die schon lange wissen wollten, ob sich die Riester-Rente wirklich lohnt, ist dies wohl einer der wenigen Beiträge, die sich auch der Entstehung des Riester-Rentengesetzes kritisch rekonstruktiv nähern. So kommt auch die Lobbyismus-Expertin Dr. Diana Wehlau zu Wort, [...]
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[misc] Das Riester-Dilemma – Die Riester-Lüge? ARD Reportage vom 09.01.2012
March 13th, 2012 
J. ΞPSTΞÏN 
Posted in Short Stories 
Tags: ARD, Dokumentation, Finanzbranche, Lobbyismus, Politik, RBB, Riester-Dilemma, Riester-Rente 
No Comments »[Media] Newspaper Articles About Copying And File Sharing
April 28th, 2010 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Abstract According to the RIAA the media industry is suffering heavy losses due to increased copying and file sharing in the last 10 years. Sanity and reason shows there must be something true with that argument. But are the numbers the media companies are providing correct? What can we learn from history? The following links [...]
Posted in News, Short Stories Tags: .nfo, Abmahnung, Bittorrent, Emule, File Sharing, Filme, illegal, Megaupload, Moviez, Muzaq-Production, Muzic, P2P, Rapid Share, rapidshare, Rar, Torrent, zip No Comments »[Stories] Lovelock’s Gaia Theory Explained by Himself…
February 15th, 2010 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Following an approach of explaining biological processes on earth the Gaia theory says (the surface) of planet earth including its biosphere can be viewed as a single living organism that every life form is a part of. Sounds familiar? Yes, I bet you’ve watched Avatar in cinema. The Gaia theory has been developed by biologists [...]
Posted in News, Short Stories Tags: 3D, Avatar, Biology, Biosphere, Ecology, Gaia, Gaia Hypothese, Gaia Theory, Gaia These, Hypothesis, James Cameron, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, Titanic No Comments »[Pre] Palm Pre’s Slider Oreo Issues
January 31st, 2010 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Forum reports seem to be growing about this issue. A certain amount of first generation Palm Pre’s being sold all over the world seem to have slider issues. “It just wobbles too much, thus making it feel like a 500€ plastic toy.”, said a customer in a local O2 store. Our testing device received from [...]
[News] Copenhagen: The Fight Continues
December 26th, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN More than 14 million people from around the world already joined AVAAZ.ORG. It is by far the largest ever online petition in the history on mankind. From their about us page: Avaaz.org is a new global web movement with a simple democratic mission: to close the gap between the world we have, and the world [...]
Posted in News, Short Stories Tags: Climate, Coldcut, Copenhagen, Greenpeace, Hexstatic, Kopenhagen, Largest, Movement, ninja tune, Ninja Tunes, NinjaTune, NinjaTune.com, NinjaTunes, Online, Online Petition, Petition, Timber, World Leaders No Comments »[misc] Incomplete List of Proverbs Equal in German and English
November 3rd, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Reading english proverbs in english articles that are equal to german proverbs always makes me ask if the article has been written by a german trying to write english (much like I do ;-). So I found some proverbs that I just wanted to archive for later reference. If you know some more, let me [...]
Posted in Short Stories Tags: deutsch, englisch, english, German, Proverb, Proverbs, Sprichtwörter, Sprichwort No Comments »[iPhone] iBluetooth available
March 12th, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Eventually a Bluetooth application has become available for the iPhone. As this is not approved by Apple it can be downloaded only via Cydia on jailbroken iPhones. iBluetooth costs 4US$ and can be downloaded from the iSpazio repository. The purpose of the shareware fee is buying a complete Bluetooth stack to make it available to [...]
[MacOS] Pushing OS X on PCs Major Steps Forward
November 29th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN yet another incomplete news (AIN) Since David Elliot (also known as DFE) showed the OS X on PC scene how to boot Leopard Retail DVDs on non EFI systems (=standard PCs) using his „Boot 132 CD“ there is even more strong progress – OS X is technically almost completely untied from a Macintosh computer. Based [...]
[Stories] Germany now Losing Private Data, aswell
October 5th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Recently we reported about how different british administrations and companies deal with data privacy of their employees and customers. They lost so many data, we continental Europeans never thought we could ever make that up again. As a German, I can now proudly tell you guys: T-Mobile Germany alone lost more data sets during a [...]
Posted in News, Short Stories Tags: Data privacy, Deutschland, Hack, T-Com, T-Mobil, T-Mobile, T-Mobile Germany 1 Comment »[Stories] German Unity Day
October 3rd, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN For you guys around the world: today is national holiday here in Germany. Eighteen years ago, both German states became reunited. A day where we may pause for a moment and look back, what happened. Our team members have been born between 1968 and 1975 – all of us in the western part of Berlin. [...]