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From: carl.camurca%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Carl Camurca) 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: I LOVE to go to GERMA
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:33:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Travel Online, St. Louis, MO
Reply-To: carl.camurca%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Carl Camurca) 

Hola, Chica!

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

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

Ummm, that's a little Bavarian bashing...
I'm a Berliner (it's really, literally true for me :-) ), and the
relationship between the Prussians (Berlin with surrounding) and
the Bavarians has never been the very best. When you there, make sure
you ask a native about the term "Saupreissn" :-))). You will learn a lot
of the explanation.

IM>greetings.... irene

gruezi, Carl.


 * OLX 2.1 TD * We now return to our regularly scheduled flame-throwing..
                  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: paul@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Paul Boehm)
Subject: Re: Castle Wolfenstein
Reply-To: paul@cs.tu-berlin.de
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:27:05 GMT

carl.camurca%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Carl Camurca)  writes:

>Hat irgendjemand in D. schon etwas von dem Computerspiel "Castle
>Wolfenstein" von Apogee gehoert? In den US ist es sehr populaer.
>Es geht um einen (natuerlich blonden, blauaeugigen) Held, der von den
>boesen Nazis in ebenjenem Castle festgehalten wird und seinen Weg durch
>abschlachten moeglichst vieler Nazis freischiesst. Sehr huebsche Bilder
>spritzenden Bluts.
>Es wuerde mich interessieren, wie Deutsche und Deutschland darauf
>reagieren.

Mir ist es absolut egal, was andere Leute so fuer Computerspiele
spielen. Jeder muss selbst wissen, auf was fuer Sachen er steht. 

Allerdings sollten viele US-Amerikaner eher mal Schreiben und Lesen
lernen. Liegt die Analphabetenquote in den USA nicht schon bei ueber 30%? 

P Boehm
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel)
Subject: Re: Need translation: computer terms
Organization: Public News & Mailserver, Commodore Germany PM UNIX, Frankfurt
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 13:43:52 GMT

ulrich@galki.toppoint.de (Ulrich Gall) writes:
>wolfi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Schwanke) writes:
>> yeti@hydro.la.asu.edu (Peter Hauschildt) writes:
>>
>> "Meine Harddisk hatte nen Headcrash, aber Gott sei Dank hatte ich sie
>> upgebackt."

Wenigstens ist es nicht mit d am Ende geschrieben!

>Es gibt immer Experten, die meinen, sie muessten alles uebersetzen. 

Ja, ich bin mittlerweile auch einer davon. Der Grund ist einfach, dass ich
es mit dem "richtigen Leben" zu tun habe, Leuten, die eben ueberhaupt kein
Englisch verstehen, und nicht Studenten. Die sind doch eine gewisse Min-
derheit, von denen man schlecht auf die Allgemeinheit schliessen kann.

> aber der Unterschied
>zwischen Erweiterungsspeicher, Expansionsspeicher und Extensionsspeicher wird
>durch eine deutsche Uebersetzung auch nicht klarer. 

Schlechtes Beispiel: Diese Materie *ist* so chaotisch, dass sie durch die
Uebersetzung aber auch nicht *schlimmer* wird, behaupte ich mal :-).

>Der VDE hat kuerzlich ein paar neue Uebersetzungen vorgeschlagen:

>Verklemmung  ( Wer das erraet, bekommt von mir den elektronischen 
>               Verbalkreativitaetsorden)

Ich rate mal: deadlock ? Na???

>Eintrittsvarianz (reentrancy)

Das hoert sich doch mal gut an...

-- 
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                                   or  peterk@public.sub.org
From: oli@math.rwth-aachen.de (Oliver Bonten)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: shopping hours
Date: 23 Aug 92 15:16:45 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen

pmiragli@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Pierluigi Miraglia) writes:

>Otherwise, it would be hard to explain why exactly opening a business
>longer hours would be "unfair". Is it unfair to work till 3 am so that
>you can write a better than average PhD thesis, say? Would it be then
>"valid" to prohibit the sale of, say, coffee so that similar efforts
>might be become physically impossible?

No, I don't think that the act of opening a business during night time
is unfair. I think that opening a business when it is not allowed to do
so is unfair (to law-abiding competitors). This would be the same if working
on a Ph.D. thesis during night time were forbidden. And whatever the law
is, I do not believe it makes sense if the law encourages people to break
it, which would be the case if no legal action against shops violating the
opening regulations were possible.
--
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Ach wie gut dass niemand weiss, dass ich oli@math.rwth-aachen.de heiss.
From: tim@sinix.UUCP (Tim Bissell)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: shopping hours
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:07:32 GMT
Organization: SNI AG Muenchen, STO XS

In article <Bt2475.xD@chinet.chi.il.us> harlow@chinet.chi.il.us (Steven A Harlow) writes:

>I wunder 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.
>There are no Seven-Elevens no Kwik Picks.
>What, aren't there any Indians in Germany?
>(Oops, another stereotype.)
>
>I asked my cousin why the stores aren't open later.
>She said nobody wants to work odd hours.
>What, not even to make money?

I heard it was a combination of

a) strong Unions

b) a law that allows competitive shops (i.e. shops selling the same
   stuff as you) to *sue* you if you open outside normal trading hours.

Shopping in Germany sucks bigtime.  Don't ask me about Banks, the Post
Office, the Telephone Dictatorship...

Tim.

ObBalance:  Great beer, greate babes, lots of public amenities.
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From: carl.camurca%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Carl Camurca) 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: American ignor-/arrogance
Date: 15 Aug 92 14:03:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Travel Online, St. Louis, MO
Reply-To: carl.camurca%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Carl Camurca) 

RDC>I needn't travel to a country to know facts about it.

In the first approach. But for the statements you make, you need to
travel there.

RDC>Roger David Carasso,        please me ask and I will give it,

greetinx, Carl.

 * OLX 2.1 TD * In der Kuerze liegt die Wuerze
From: hf@informatik.uni-kl.de (Harald Fuchs)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: Computer Terms (follow-up)
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:42:01 GMT
Organization: Kaiserslautern University, Germany


>>@	der Klammeraffe (slang)
> auch: das at

Auch: das Genscher-Ohr
--

Harald Fuchs <hf@informatik.uni-kl.de>
From: pjd@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Peter J Dotzauer)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: new info on moving cars from U.S. to Germany (TUeV)
Date: 14 Aug 92 02:38:41 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

In order to find out what changes need to be made for a car to pass
the German TUeV inspection, one needs to contact

TUeV Rheinland of North America, Inc.
Auto Export Division
12 Commerce Rd
Newton, CT 06470

For a fee of $ 30, they'll give you binding information about what
needs to be changed in your car.

Just send your check, address, type of car, body style (e.g. hatchback),
and year of manufacture. They'll send you the information immediately,
they say. If you have a fax number, they can also fax it to you.

The information they send you can take to a mechanic or shop in the
U.S., and get the conversions done there. I assume that would be less
expensive than having it done in Germany.

The tel. of the place is (203) 426 0888, but they'll tell you the same
thing as I said above.

As far as the German TUeV is concerned, you could actually drive a
car for a year in Germany, with valid U.S. license plates, until you
have to get it licensed there and take it through the TUeV inspection.
Of course, you'd need German insurance from the very start (even for
driving it off the ship) (Haftpflichtversicherung).

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 :-)
-- 
Peter J. Dotzauer - pjd+@osu.edu - pjd+@ohstmail - osu-mps!pjd
From: zxmkr08@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Cornelius Krasel)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: Hope me helped
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:23:50 GMT
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG

In <1992Aug18.134712.1@cc.helsinki.fi> zheng@cc.helsinki.fi writes:

>I am a chinese living in Helsinki Finland, I am planning to visit
>a germany ssmall city called MARTINSRIED, It's post-code is 8033,
>but I don't know anything about it.

>If you happen to see this message and know that town, Could you tell 
>me where it is?  which big city it close to? and any other infomations
>WIll be appreciated.

Martinsried is a small village near Munich, and Munich can be reached easily
from there by public transport. Living in Munich was discussed in greater 
detail some days ago in this newsgroup; almost everything of that is also
valid for living in Martinsried.

I worked there in the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry for a year;
it was real fun!

--Cornelius.
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Xref: sparky soc.culture.german:5707 misc.forsale:23889 rec.travel:11898
From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german,misc.forsale,rec.travel
Subject: Re: !!!!!! Frankfurt -> Toronto -> Halifax for $100 !!!!!!!
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:06:56 GMT
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton

alan@dragon.acadiau.ca (Alan W. McKay) wrote: 
->I have a 2 way ticket from Halifax to Frankfurt via Toronto, but I am
->only going 1 way.  I have to specify a return date before I leave, so
->you can pick any flight (Air Canada) between August 28 and October 28.
->With it you can check your baggage either to Toronto or to Halifax.

of course, you can change the name on the ticket, right?  if you
can't, then it is useless for international travel.
--
# henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc.  / <henry@ads.com>
From: pebi@aem.umn.edu (Peter A. Bidian)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: Dr. = Dr. ?
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:04:10 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

jfadams@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James F Adams) writes:

>Hello s.c.g Users!

>Having recently completed a graduate degree (Ph.D) at an American university, I
>heard it is necessary to have the academic title recognized in order to use it 
>in Germany.  The culture or education ministry of the particular federal state 
>is responsible for this (such as the Ministerium fuer Wissenschaft und 
>Weiterbildung Rheinland-Pfalz).  I have written to them and received an answer 
>as to the information I must provide to apply, but I am curious whether anyone 
>on the Net has any experience with this kind of application.  In particular:
>1. How long does it take ?
>2. How much does it cost ?
>3. Has anyone has any problem with it?

>(I post this in English, since some American readers interested in working in 
>Germany may also want to find out...)

>Thanks in advance !

>James Adams                                DON'T respond to electronic

Hi

As far as a know that is different from Bundesland to Bundesland. I have
a friend who moved to Krefeld and he said it was no problem. I don't
know how long it took (but not very long - think he had it 6 month after he
left, but I don't know when he applied), but it kost him 120 DM and now
he can use Dr.-Ing. (USA) as a title. This is not so easy in Baden Wuerttemberg.
I heard there it is a longer process and the cost was more like 1000 DM.

I would be interested to hear more about it too. I might need it later too.

Cheers,

Peter


		                                                               
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From: MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: Informatik/Computer Science vergleichbar ?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 10:22:38 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

asa@sage0.gsfc.nasa.gov (Annette Strupp-Adams) writes:

>Ein Bekannter, er ist Deutscher, studiert Computer Science (Informatik) an
>einer der hiesigen Universitaeten. Nach abgeschlossenem Studium moechte er
>nach Deutschland zurueckkehren und dort als Informatiker arbeiten.

>Sollte er auf jeden Fall seinen Magister in Informatik hier machen oder wird
>er mit seinem B.S. Abschluss auch konkurrenzfaehig sein?

Er wird sich mit seinem BS nicht legitim als Diplom-Informatiker bezeichnen
koennen; meines Wissens wird ein Bachelors (egal ob BA oder BS) vielerorts
als ein besseres Vordiplom angesehen. Es kommt natuerlich auch ganz auf die
hiesige Uni an; wenn er ein BS einer in Deutschland bekannten Uni hat siehts
besser aus als wenn er eins von einer unbekannten hat.

Konkurrenzfaehigkeit ist sowieso ein relativer Zustand. Manche Arbeitgeber
werden ihm vielleicht wegen seiner US-Erfahrung bevorteilt bewerten, auch
ohne MSCS. Manche nicht.

__________________________________________________________________________
Stephan Somogyi                     generalist                     MacUser
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: br@nadia.stgt.sub.org (Bernd Rosenau)
Subject: Re: Need translation: computer terms
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:39:44 GMT
Organization: Stuttgart Net Systems, FRG

In article <1992Aug14.165819.29997@ennews.eas.asu.edu> 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.

I think it is better to use the english terms in university environments.
I have problems with articles about computer subjects where every word is
translated, i have to re-translate them into english to understand to text 
:-))))).
I enjoy reading english books about computer subjects much more than

all those badly translated german issues :-)) 

Cheers, Bernd.>
>ciao,
>					Yeti.
>
>
>
>
From: carl.camurca%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Carl Camurca) 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Castle Wolfenstein
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:41:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Travel Online, St. Louis, MO
Reply-To: carl.camurca%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Carl Camurca) 

Hallo!

Hat irgendjemand in D. schon etwas von dem Computerspiel "Castle
Wolfenstein" von Apogee gehoert? In den US ist es sehr populaer.
Es geht um einen (natuerlich blonden, blauaeugigen) Held, der von den
boesen Nazis in ebenjenem Castle festgehalten wird und seinen Weg durch
abschlachten moeglichst vieler Nazis freischiesst. Sehr huebsche Bilder
spritzenden Bluts.
Es wuerde mich interessieren, wie Deutsche und Deutschland darauf
reagieren.

gruss, Carl.

 * OLX 2.1 TD * The worst thing about censorship is ...........
From: alti@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Thorsten Altenkirch)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: shopping hours
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:36:10 GMT
	<l8tumeINNi8j@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu>
Organization: LFCS, Edinburgh
In-reply-to: werner@cs.utexas.edu's message of 17 Aug 92 01:03:10 GMT

In article <l8tumeINNi8j@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu> werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) writes:

	   and what is the reason for it (be that law or regulation)?
	   depending on where one cares to put the emphasis, opposing
	   views tend to mention "the power of the labour unions prevents
	   employees from being 'abused' by having to work odd/long hours"
	   (i.e. motivation is social benefit) or "business is trying to
	   minimize cost and competition";

I thought about this and I came to the conclusion that there must be
the rule that they need some stupid laws in every country, e.g. they
have these bloody pub licensing laws in Britain (although Scotland is
slightly better) - you go to an open air concert & you get NO BEER,
etc. The US ? They have the death penalty... So maybe shop closing
laws & pub licensing aren't so bad after all.

Btw: If somebody wants to raise my blood pressure all they have to do
is to defend those #$@%^^&%%$ shop closing laws.

T.

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Thorsten Altenkirch		alti@dcs.ed.ac.uk
LFCS, Edinburgh
Scotland
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: wayne@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de (Wayne Tvedt)
Subject: Re: shopping hours
Organization: 250 Million Pet Rocks
Distribution: world 
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:17:28 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod) writes:
>I know that I prefer to live in a country,
> -- where I have no problems finding a pub which is open after 11pm,
> -- where I can have a coffee (btw, a good one, like the Starbuck coffees
>    in Portland (OR) or Seattle!) at this time and sit down for a while,
> -- where I must not hurry to go into a restaurant after 9pm (if I
>    will be served than anyhow, very often not), or after 10pm, if
>    that matters. (Please note, I speak of restaurants -- not of
>    junk/fast-food stations.)
> -- where I'm not thrown out after my dinner but can sit down with my
>    friends on another bottle of wine for a talk,

	You don't have much choice, the way they are so leisurely in
bringing you your check here...

> etc.

>Try to get a coffee on Newbury Street in Boston after 11.30pm,
>impossible. (And perhaps that happens to you after you had a totally
>dissatisfying dinner at Dan Burry (sp?) -- avoid this restaurant. Go
>to Maison Robert... ;-) But at the same time you can buy T shirts en
>masse. Same in all other medium to large cities we were (Not to speak
>of small towns... :-( ).

	You just don't see what America is all about. ;-) At least the coffee
shops (and almost all business except liquor stores) are *allowed* to
stay open as late as they think they can do so profitably.  If more
people wanted to have, say, coffee bars open late at night, gradually
you would start to see more late-night coffee bars.  Actually, in lots 
of cities there are plenty of snotty late night bars.  Some people move
to those cities for such conveniences.  You'd think in Germany there
might be at least a few late-night civilization zones, but no.

>I'm happy not having a coffee/wine/<insert your favorite beverage>
>here in the late evening. If the price is, that I'm not able to buy T
>shirts such late in the evening -- that's worth it.

	When they came for the late night coffeehousers, I did not object
because I was not a late night coffeehouser...

--
Wayne Tvedt                                     wayne@mathematik.uni-bremen.de
                                              ...fold globally, expand locally
From: alti@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Thorsten Altenkirch)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: Native Americans
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:33:51 GMT
	<1992Aug18.232851.10389@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
Followup-To: soc.culture.german
Organization: LFCS, Edinburgh
In-reply-to: kyle@Csli.Stanford.EDU's message of 18 Aug 92 23:28:51 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.232851.10389@Csli.Stanford.EDU> kyle@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Kyle Wohlmut) writes:
   In article <l92bppINNkfq@west.west.sun.com> markk@sagredo.West.Sun.COM
   (Mark "Campy" Kampe) writes:
   >ritz@brtph95.bnr.ca (Charles "Everything tastes better on a Ritz"
   >Ritz P215) writes:
   >>    Comparing the Nazi atrocities to the United States policies
   >> towards Native Americans is specious at best for many reasons.
   >
   [lots and lots of gif-gaf deleted]

   You guys are both spouting out a lot of unsubstantiated gobbledygook.
   Neither of you have cited a single source for all these things that
   'really happened' and atrocities that were 'common practice,' and so
   far I haven't seen any reason to believe anything either one of you
   has said.

I don't agree - I found Mark's reply quite reasonable and it actually
fits very well with what I know already. What is this rubbish "with no
sources" ??? I haven't seen many citations in network news at all. And
sources may lie as well...

   Not that I expect you guys care overmuch...

I personally wouldn't because you seem to be quite fast to call what
other people say 'gobbledygook' and 'gif-gaf'. Can you do better ?

T.
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LFCS, Edinburgh
Scotland
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
From: rschoen@titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Reinhard Schoen)
Subject: Re: Sudeten. Wie viele?
Organization: University of Ulm, SAI
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 13:32:51 GMT

In article <psima01.713621474@convex>,
psima01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (M. Maisack) writes:

> wie viele Sudetendeutsche lebten eigentlich in der CSFR

Drei Millionen. Es gab mehr Deutsche als Slowaken in der
Tschechoslowakei.

> (vor 1945) und wie viele wurden vertrieben (nach 1945)?

Alle, die nicht umgebracht wurden.

> 
> Michael
> 

Reinhard