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From: hendrik@cca.vu.nl (Hendrik te Winkel)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Wer hat The Singing Detective aufgenommen? (WDR)
Date: 18 Aug 92 07:01:24 GMT
Distribution: eunet
Organization: VU Amsterdam - dienst CCA/Cio

Hello net-readers (in Germany)
Who can help me out with this problem:
I missed the end of the last episode of the Singing Detective
last wednesday on WDR - german 'third' channel', because
it was longer than the other five and hence longer
than I expected. (aaaaarrrrggghhh)

Who has a video copy of it? Preferably in the neighbourhood
of Duesseldorf? I am visiting Duesseldorf again this weekend
and it would mean a lot to me if I can copy the final part
and make my collection complete: I have taped the Singing
Detective and wanted to keep it.

Also bitte, Ihr wurdet mir und meine Freundin eine
riesen Gefallen tun wenn Ihr eine Video von Teil 6 hattet.

(es war grad spannend....)

Thanks for any help.....
Hendrik te Winkel hendrik@cca.vu.nl
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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	Und ich sach noch Werner, mach das nich.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: tclemm@meaddata.com (Todd Clemmons)
Subject: Sports Cards/Stickers in Germany 
Keywords: cards
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:26:52 GMT

I'm curious to know if there are any types of sports cards or stickers that are collected in Germany. The types of sports cards that I am referring to are cards like our baseball player photo cards with statistics on the back or stickers like Panini that have baseball, football, or basketball player photos on the front. Please post or email me at tclemm@meaddata.com.

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From: lcjst2+@pitt.edu (Lester C Jacobson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: shopping hours
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:32:54 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article 5635  alan@dragon.acadiau.ca (Alan W. McKay) writes:
      
          [junk comparing US and Germany deleted]

>>Whose *forcing* people to take low-paying jobs? If they're so many 
>>terrific jobs in Germany why are people working at Tankstellen?
>>What's lacking in the States is proper education and training in
>>the workforce, not good jobs. Besides, working in "fast-food"
>>joints helped put me through college. It wasn't great work but it
>>helped pay the bills.
>
>Oh, c'mon, surely you can't be that nieve?  The whole *damn* system,
>that's who!  It creates an almost slave-class of the lower class.
>No good paying jobs, no social security, no medical insurance.  They
>are made to feel as though they are damned lucky to have what they
>have, and that it is there own fault that that don't have more.
>
>Geesh, some people just don't see the writing on the wall.

I'm assuming you meant "naive"?  Perhaps you could enlighten us as to who is
plotting to create this "almost slave-class."  The Trilateralists? Or perhaps
a secretive cabal of wealthy industrialists? The Knights Templar? ;-)

I intimate from your previous postings that you are moving to Germany. I wish
you all the best there.  I had the pleasure to study there for a couple of
years, and there are many aspects of life in Germany that I truly miss. 
It's a nice place, and I hope you will enjoy yourself.  However, I believe
that you will find that it is not a paradise on earth -- none that I know
of exists.

Someone previously posted to this group (Was it Werner?) that there are good
points to life in either country.  I am in complete agreement with this not- 
too-surprising assertion.  Luckily we are in situations which will 
allow us to choose where we want to make our homes.  But PLEASE do not
clutter up the list with taunts of how much better it is where you are. 

It seems that sooner or later just about every soc.culture.* group picks up
a thread about "life in the US vs. life here."  I think that this thread
has strayed enough from German culture that it should be taken elsewhere,
such as soc.culture.usa.  

>Alan W. McKay		| (902)542-2201.158	| Wolfville, N.S. Canada
>alan@acadiau.ca	| Acadia University	| SUB Box 6008, B0P 1Z1
>----------------------------------------- My Canada includes Quebec -----
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                            And Milosevic's Yugoslavia includes Bosnia...
               (Sorry, that's flame-bait, isn't it? Having once dated a
               very nationalistic Francophone from Quebec, I couldn't resist.)

As always,

jake   lcjst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu    A proud member of the almost slave-class.
 
Xref: sparky soc.culture.german:5758 misc.forsale:24009 rec.travel:11992
From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german,misc.forsale,rec.travel
Subject: Re: !!!!!! Frankfurt -> Toronto -> Halifax for $100 !!!!!!!
Date: 19 Aug 1992 00:22:00 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu



>"For $100, you take your chances.  Either you make it, or you don't"
>However, When I went to Germany this Christmas, they didn't look
>too hard comparing my passport and ticket.  If you are a gambler,
>you chance to save a lot of money.  The worst that can happen is
>that you lose your $100, and maybe a bit of time.

	I'm not going to suggest that you actually KNOW that
	the buyer is likely to get stopped, taken into custody,
	asked hard questions by armed men, and, possibly, get
	charged with fraud and other nasty stuff....  though
	the thought occured to me.

	knowing Germans, however, I'm "tickled pink", however,
	by the thought, that they probably make an effort to find
	you, too, to put you in the next cell until a court hearing....

	I enjoy "beating the system" as much as the next guy myself,
	though I try to avoid having others suffer the consequences
	of ignorance. nor do you, right?!?  (I mean, if I'd buy it
	from you, and then rat on you with the airline and police,
	you'd suffer the consequences of finding yourself in the
	same "frugal hostel" with me ...

				Cheers,		---Werner
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              "Free Advice and Opinions -- Refunds Available"
Xref: sparky soc.culture.german:5845 de.soc.recht:784
From: oli@math.rwth-aachen.de (Oliver Bonten)
Subject: Re: Transit visa for Germany
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 17 Aug 92 11:21:19 GMT

MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett") writes:

>It would seem one of the reasons for requiring transit
>visas in Frankfurt could be the threat of terrorism.
>The bomb that blew up the airliner over Scotland
>was planted in the Frankfurt airport.  I believe that
>some Libyans were implicated in the attack.

No, the real reason is the possibility that the passengers may ask for
political asylum. Doing so is not possible in a transit hall (it has sort
of exterritorial status), but for transit passengers outside this area.
So, passengers who want to leave the transit area, or for whom a tran-
sit area is not available need a visa.
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From: holley@sono.uucp (Greg Holley)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: shopping hours
Date: 17 Aug 92 00:42:54 GMT
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California

In article <Bt2475.xD@chinet.chi.il.us> harlow@chinet.chi.il.us (Steven A Harlow) writes:
   I wonder why the stores aren't open later in Germany.
   It seems that some entrepeneur could make a fortune by opening
   a store at later hours for those who wanted to shop later.

The shops aren't open later in Germany because there are laws regulating
the hours they can stay open.  These laws primarily protect smaller 
businesses, which presumably would have a harder time hiring shifts of
employees to keep stores open longer hours.

I've heard that Germany also has laws regulating special sales and discount
pricing, but I can't confirm that.

--Greg
-- 
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"My tale is so strange that, were it written with needles on the interior
corner of an eye, yet would it prove a lesson to the circumspect."
Xref: sparky soc.culture.german:5805 misc.forsale:24133 rec.travel:12069
From: grob@opera.chorus.fr (Lori Grob)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german,misc.forsale,rec.travel
Subject: Re: !!!!!! Frankfurt -> Toronto -> Halifax for $100 !!!!!!!
Date: 20 Aug 92 08:55:13 GMT
Reply-To: grob@chorus.fr
Followup-To: soc.culture.german
Organization: Chorus systemes, 6 av. Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France


%% alan@dragon.acadiau.ca (Alan W. McKay) wrote: 
%% ->Hi, me again, the guy with the ticket.  Well, my first comment is
%% ->"For $100, you take your chances.  Either you make it, or you don't"
%% 
%
%% 
%% ->However, When I went to Germany this Christmas, they didn't look
%% ->too hard comparing my passport and ticket.  If you are a gambler,
%% ->you chance to save a lot of money.  The worst that can happen is
%% ->that you lose your $100, and maybe a bit of time.
%% 
%% 

I think that as long as people are aware of the probable success
rate or non-success rate they are free to spend their money as they 
like. Myself, if I wanted to gamble with $100 I would go to a casino.

After all the seller, while obviously well intentioned is risking
nothing. 

The possible inconveniences include having to buy a one way full
fare ticket internationally at the last minute, which is much
more expensive than a RT bought in advance, paying any penalties
for fraud that may be imposed, having to deal with possible
unpleasantness from the nice men at immigration and passport
control, and possibly paying for hotel etc when you don't get
out as expected. 

On the other hand if it works, its clearly a good deal.

I would like to hear from anyone who has gotten away
with flying internationally on someone else's ticket
when the ticket and passport don't match.

I just have no idea of how much of a problem it is
and it is possible that I am exagerating the difficulty,
but as I say, during times of political "tension", they 
check again at the gate, I have no idea what they do if
at the gate your ticket and boarding pass and passport 
don't match.

Also, if your luggage gets lost. Its been checked under
someone else's name, how do you recover it? 

Finally as Werner said, its quite possible that if it was discovered
the seller would also have some problems, although I don't know
how likely this is. It seems to me that only if the seller did
something like help the buyer get through by checking in his luggage
and showing the ticket and his passport would this be a problem.
Then of course the seller had better hope that there is nothing in
the ticket buyers luggage that is suspiscious later.

I am sure that I am drastically exaggerating this. But I still
would like to hear from people who have flown on other's tickets
internationally, those who have succeeded and those who have failed.

After all Alan is only doing what is reasonable, he doesn't
need the ticket back and for $100, it is potentially a big savings.
I am only curious as to how likely it is to work.

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From: U37533@uicvm.uic.edu (Irene Marquez)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: I LOVE to go to GERMANY
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:50:12 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

In article <1849.178.uupcb@wugate.wustl.edu>,
carl.camurca%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Carl Camurca) says:

>You're right, you don't have to worry about it. Although, they have some
>strange customs and people in Bavaria... ;-)

Carl, what are you talking about???  Please fill me in!
maybe i'll start worrying.  =)  Actually, i'm not worried, but
am interested.  Do tell.....

>IM>But thanks for your concern.  =)
>
>Somebody has to be concerned, if not the German government and
>*THE MAJORITY* of the Germans.
>
That is very sweet of you.  Too bad you won't be around there
when i'm there.  I'll be traveling alone.  It's a bit scary, but
exciting all at the same time.

greetings.... irene
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: oli@math.rwth-aachen.de (Oliver Bonten)
Subject: Re: new info on moving cars from U.S. to Germany (TUeV)
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:28:51 GMT

pjd@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Peter J Dotzauer) writes:

>However, the consulate has a different opinion on that, saying that
>one must license the car in Germany as soon as one takes up 'residence'
>there (Wohnsitz). I wonder how they can decide whether I'm just on
>an extended visit or whether I took up residence already. I even
>pressed the consular officer, how soon do I have to do that, the same
>day, the same week, or what. He replied, as soon as you can. Leaves
>a lot of room for interpretation, and is certainly not legally binding.
>Opinions and sarcastic comments welcome :-)

Taking residence is something you do by going to the town hall and regis-
tering with the residence office (Einwohnermeldeamt). If you are going
to live in Germany (for more than 6 months, I believe), you are supposed
to register with this office within 6 days from moving into your flat/
house. Failing to do so is a violation of order and you won't get papers
(tax card etc.) anyway, nor be able to register your car.

It is common practise in European countries, that you have to register
your car where you have taken residence. The mentioned 1year period is
valid in case your are not a resident of Germany (e.g. lent your car to
a friend here...). The term "as soon as possible" allows you enough time
to work on your car (or have someone work on it) in order to meet the
specs.
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From: brahme@atpg.ICS.UCI.EDU
Subject: German transit visa: avoid flying thru europe
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german,soc.culture.indian
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:43:01 GMT


One of the easiest ways to solve the problem of transit
visa to germany is avoid flying thru germany.

I think to get India from the US (singapore airlines is
the best IMO)

Among the international airlines I have travelled
1. Air India Good food; govt style service
2. British Airways: Reasonably good service;
 Very Cold (unwanted) kind of service if you are indian at London.
 (I have avoided london since 1983)
3. Lufthansa: Good service on the us sector; average/below average (rude)
           service on the indian sector
4. Sabena: Average service
5. OK (Czech airline): Ok service, very little leg room, you cant put your
                    bags in the overhead compartment, so you have to share
		    the leg room with your bag.
6. Swiss airways: ok service (i spent only an hour an Zurich;it was ok then)

7. Singapore airline: The best airline I have travelled. Very courteous
	people. Good treatment of Indians. Also the plane travels thru
(SFO flight) thru Hongkong, Singapore/bombay. The culture at all these
places is like bombay. So you can feel at home right away.

So If german transit visa policy bothers you; just stop flying by
Lufthansa, as simple as that and petition that air india be privatized.

If air india is privatized it would become the best way to travel to india.
Also since the indian sector is so profitable, they will start providing
a daily service from the west coast to bombay, and all your problems
about having to deal with european visa (and other attitude) policies
will disappear. So the problem begins at home.

Dhananjay Brahme
From: hinkel@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: WITZBOLDE
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:05:28 GMT
Organization: Western Michigan University

Es kommt mir {einem Amerikaner] vor, dass einige Witzbolde, die sich in
NEWS.SOC.CULT.GERMAN einmelden, beschraenkte Ahnung von der deutschen Kultur
und besonders der deutschen Sprache haben. Das schwarze Brett wird immer
schlimmer. Liegt es jemandem, die Sache auf deutsch zu besprechen?
Xref: sparky soc.culture.german:5701 soc.culture.europe:7433
From: chl@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Carsten Lechte)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german,soc.culture.europe
Subject: Re: I HATE GERMANY
Keywords: Bigotry, racism
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:17:22 GMT
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg

rdc@netcom.com (Roger David Carasso) writes:


>1992: THE NAZI FASCIST PARTIES ARE GROWING IN GERMANY AND ITALY
>1988: 1/3 OF ALL AUSTRIANS QUESTIONS WOULD NOT SHAKE HANDS WITH A JEW.

First: there are no fascist PARTIES in Germany, 'cause they are not allowed.
:-)
There is an increasing number of brain-amputated, violent youths who think
they are neonazis but really are too stupid to understand anything about any
given ideologie.

>Germany, Italy, Austria, Latvia, and Croatia, are so full of fucking
>bastards, and rascists even in this age, and I have no doubt that
>they'd welcome an invading Serbian army to do a little ethnic
>cleansing, just as the welcomed the German Nazi Bastards of 50 years
>ago.
Any country is full of intolerant bastards, only that it does not always
cumulate in genocide.
As for the ethnic cleansing: ask every Germany (only 80millions) and then
tell me how many actually did welcome "an invading Serbian army".


And of course there have been other mass murders in history...

Solong.
From: miller@FS1.cam.nist.gov (Bruce R. Miller)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: Shopping hours (Was: living in munich...more questions)
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:05:50 GMT
Organization: NIST - Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory


In article <1992Aug19.165603.12931@sinix.UUCP>, David Griffith writes:
> In article <0iif2lx@Unify.Com> veit@Unify.com (Veit Irtenkauf) writes:
> >In article <1992Aug13.141644.7782@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>, wayne@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de (Wayne Tvedt) writes:
> >> pavlik@apap4.pap.univie.ac.at writes:
> >> >Is there anything liberal in the USA ?
> >> Yes.  Shopping hours at malls and supermarkets.
> >Now, finally, we are at *the* topic at all - shopping hours!
>
> Agreed! ...
>	It's so puritanical here. [in germany]

???? Huh????

Yep, the shops close early, the `service' stops way before that and,
even then, it's not service.... BUT...
What's that got to do with PURITANICAL?????
In this context, the only use of `puritanical' that I'm aware of is in
the sense of the so-called `protestant work ethic' --- and that's the
Opposite of what we're talking about here.

You want Puritanical!?!?!? ....
.. well, let me just ask,  You're not from the USA, are you?
From: dhg@sinix.UUCP (David Griffith)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: Shopping hours (Was: living in munich...more questions)
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:56:03 GMT
Organization: SNI AG Muenchen, STO XS

In article <0iif2lx@Unify.Com> veit@Unify.com (Veit Irtenkauf) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.141644.7782@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>, wayne@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de (Wayne Tvedt) writes:
>> pavlik@apap4.pap.univie.ac.at writes:
>>
>> >	
>> >Is there anything liberal in the USA ?
>> 
>> 	Yes.  Shopping hours at malls and supermarkets.
>> 
>
>Now, finally, we are at *the* topic at all - shopping hours!
>Everytime, when I'm back in Germany, I'm annoyed by the shopping hours
>and the pressure I feel to have to do all my shopping within a certain
>timeframe.  I just love to have the freedom here to go shopping when
>I want to do it and not when someone else wants me to do it.
>
>And, service here is much better, too.

Agreed! Last weekend was even worse than usual due to a religous holiday -
the shops were closed all day Saturday as well as Sunday. It's unbelievable
that in a modern industrial nation the shops normally close at 2pm on a
Saturday. It's so puritanical here. Also, when they say that the shops
close at 2pm, what they mean is that that is the time when the shop 
assistants want to go home. Ten minutes before that they're shouting at you 
"KOMMEN AN DIE KASSE BITTE!" and generally hassling you even though the
queues at the check-out are a mile long.

And talk about rude! In the UK there is a saying that "the customer is
always right", here in Munich the customer is always wrong. Shop staff
seem to resent having to stand there and sell you things. They'll bite
your head off soon as look at you. And the wierd thing is that most people
here just passively accept being shouted at by surly shop assistants.

Dave Griffiths
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: eggertj@moses.atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert x6127 g41)
Subject: Re: zu beugen oder nicht zu beugen, das ist hier die frage!
Reply-To: eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu
Organization: MIT Lincoln Lab - Group 41
Date: 19 Aug 92 09:27:43

In article <16t4puINN62c@iraul1.ira.uka.de> smuench@i61s4.ira.uka.de (Stefan Muench) writes:
>  ...eines kann ich in dieser Hinsicht auf jeden Fall empfehlen:
>
>	   Spektrum der Wissenschaft
>
>   Von allen bisher gelesenen Magazinen ist es das mit dem besten Deutsch
>   und mit den wenigsten Rechtschreib-, Druck- oder Zeichensetzungsfehlern.

Komisch, da Spektrum der Wissenschaft eine amerikanische Publikation
ist.  Auf Englisch heisst es sogar "Scientific American".
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: wolfi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Schwanke)
Subject: Re: Need translation: computer terms
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: soc
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:31:34 GMT

yeti@hydro.la.asu.edu (Peter Hauschildt) writes:


>I guess you can simply use the english term. I am German, but for most
>of the words and terms in your list I dont know the German equivalences
>(joystick, cache, modem). Some have German equivalents ( 9 pin printer=
>9 nadel-drucker, hard drive=festplatte), but at least in university-type
>environments the english terms should cause no understanding problems.
>I dont know about other environments.


There was a discussion about that earlier on here.

Sure most people understand English terms, and many have'nt been translated
anyway. But forcefully using English terms, if a much more worthwhile
German one exists, is really bad style.

"Meine Harddisk hatte nen Headcrash, aber Gott sei Dank hatte ich sie
upgebackt."

That sort of Germish is meant to sound cool, but it's just ghastly.

Greetings

Wolfgang

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