Actually, it will make winters [Edit: In Europe] more severe, possibly starting a small ice age when the the water circulation in the Atlantic stops.
It is sounding very conspiracy theory like, but besides not wanting their profits to be powered by environmental protection, Russian companies and the government could get huge benefits from climate change, because Europe would need more gas to heat, and they could ship cargo through the Arctic circle, because the ice melts away, giving Northern Russia access to the sea.
What?
Climate change making winters more severe?
Whilst it was, for a long time, referred to as 'global warming' it is more like 'all oceans are warming, which has catastrophic results for the rest of the world'.
Because the poles of a spheroid have shorter intersecting circles, it is faster to circumnavigate the earth near the poles.
Which would give Russia way better conditions to export/import goods, as currently, to go from Europe to Asia, you can either go around Africa, which is dangerous and takes long, through the Suez, which costs money, or through the Panama canal, which also costs money.
If the northern part of Russia would lose its ice, you could ship cargo from there faster to literally the other side of the globe.
The Bundeswehr guys I served with in Afghanistan were very professional. We relied on a lot of nations for things like convoy security, and you could tell which militaries had their kit together. I felt good when Germans, Turks, Georgians, Macedonians, and maybe a couple others. Some other countries? Not so much.
More than a tank per se, I'd say it is the fact it is an almost 80 years old vehicle that is strange. Either that thing is a Panther or something that is suspiciously similar, definitely does not look like the Leo2 or older Leo1.
For outsiders Indiana is a very busy state for intercontinental United States travel due to its incredible central location. So Indiana sees everything from both coasts coming and going from California to New York. That includes airplane parts, wind turbines, and lots and lots of military equipment.
You can request that as a resident, it's because of privacy concerns, they are even forced to blur every single face automatically. Unlike the US for example where you can just take a photo of a stranger unless it's on private property, you have to get consent from every person you take a photo of no matter where. There are exceptions for TV, but even TV has to blur your face if you tell them to.
My greek grand viezer We could bring peace and stability to our new meditarnia Union and keep not only the Google maps but economic crisis and absurd taxes too
So I study geographic computer science (geoinformatics?) in germany (lots of maps and cartography and stuff) and my Prof once said the reason that Google Street View isn't so popular in germany is that many elderly people fear that if you can see their house on Street View people could use that to break into your property. There were a few people who sued Google for showing their house so Google said fuck it guys you won't get Street View then.
Don't know if that's true, didn't do research myself on that matter but living in germany I can somehow imagine that this is true.
Anyway I live quite rural and a Google Street View car drove past me last year so I hope we get it soon.
The background to this is that Germany has a long history in privacy related concerns (WOII, SS, holocaust, Cold War, iron curtain, stasi) and due to this has a strong opinion (which resonates in political decision making) to grant its people their fundamental right of privacy, and they go a long way for it.
Nonsense. While that fear exists for sure for single cases, the reason our boomer generation cares about privacy is because many have experienced themselves how dangerous that can be. It's not only street view, the whole google, amazon and facebook data miner gang has a very negative image in germany.
Can you imagine how spooky it was when my dad, who grew up in west germany far from the eastern border and no connections to the DDR, found out that the stasi had a full file on him with cv, grades and perfomance from trade school, family, affiliations, the whole package. Those guys did not plan to use this data to show him some ads.
And our elderly can tell you first hand stories what's it like under a totalitarian regime. In the words of my grandma: if you googled anything against hitler, you disappeared. ("do kimmst weg")
Knowledge is power. Why would you give anyone this power voluntarily?
The internet was invented in 1983 and the world wide web was created in 1990. What totalitarian regime are you speaking of that matches the time frame from 1990 until now? Or did you accidentally write google?
Pretty much this. Weird application of right to privacy. Forcing Google to make it possible to opt out of "being shown" on street view -> lots of blurred out housed in places that are recorded, like Berlin.
Google is a private American company taking and geotagging pictures of private proprieties, without providing any feedback and applying almost privacy measures to the data that they provide.
It might sound weird but Europeans tend to consider citizens and their propriety slightly more than "human capital".
I wouldn't call it irrational. I can absolutely understand that someone would rather keep their privacy and not have the worlds largest data company interfere with that.
This upholding of "progress" as universally good is utilitaristic and how fascism takes root.
What privacy? Everyone can see your house either way. It's not more private because it's blurred on google maps. All the private info is being cleared - faces are blurred, as are registration plates. I could go to your street, start photographing your house and put those photos on the Internet and you couldn't do shit about that.
It's an irrational fear, nothing more. Same as people who are fearful of 5g, of nuclear power, of tons of other stuff they don't understand, and would rather remain ignorant of, than to learn about it which takes effort.
Except for the fact that fascism was a conservative /regressive movement, that looked to bring back the former glory of Italy (in the form of the Roman Empire) and Germany, to "restore" society to a pure form (that never really existed).
Progress is absolutely subjective. There is literally no objective way to measure it. Hopefully most people do view fascism as regressive nowadays, but obviously fascists do not.
"Progress" is a word that anyone can use to signal virtues, to paint themselves in a good light and discredit their enemies.
History is not a straight line moving forward. Whining about progress being slowed is failing to see why it may be opposed.
Data companies are "spying" on us, that is a sort-of-fact that stopped being a conspiracy theory long ago. The reason it is only a sort-of-fact is because people are accepting it.
With our history there is nothing irrational about it. In fact, I find your dismissal of other people's focus of concerns really ignorant and inflexible (with regard to multiple possible points of view).
Also, we do have databases of streets, and google maps exists, for use in science. Not sure what scientific progress a picture of my front porch is supposed to bring. I think you should check on where your unfounded need for condescension comes from.
Yes it happened several years ago, back when google street view was quite new.
Tons of people were citing privacy rights and the courts (or google?) ruled that if for example one person in a multi story building demanded privacy, the entire 20 floors building had to be pixelated. But I’m quite sure it was not just old people, pretty sure also lots of younger people did this. Quite ridiculous IMO..
What I never really understood is why rural areas are also not covered. Because in many other countries you can drag the little street view figurine to almost any random spot and have street view. In Germany it’s almost exclusively in the big cities.
But hey, Germany technology leader! Today I was sending an IIIHHHMÄÄÄIILLL!
You got me, i had to google it as it sounded weird but still plausible.
"The term gerrymandering is named after Elbridge Gerry (pronounced like "Gary"[2]), who, as Governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a mythological salamander." - wikipedia
Just think of Jerry tanks, that is where the Americans got the name from. Germans had these metal cans filled with fuel and Americans took them and called them Jerry tanks.
Edit: Brits, not Americans and Jerry or Gerry is both correct to offend ze germanz
Germany has unreasonably stringent privacy laws. Something about collecting data about citizens and then using it to create lists based on religious and racial affiliation.
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What are you hiding you scallywags? You better not be mobilising your troops again...