A year ago, Bosch Siemens Hausgeraete (BSH), the firm's consumer products joint venture, filed two applications with the US Patent & Trademark Office for the Zyklon name across a range of home products, including gas ovens.
The problem is that the average English speaker knows about 10 German-sounding words, all of them associated with WWII and the Nazi era. For a German, these words are often normal vocabulary words without special freighting.
Case in point: anschluss, which just means "connection". You know, like a train connection. But the first time I saw "Anschluss ->" on a sign in a Frankfurt subway, I nearly spat coffee out my nose, because the only "Anschluss" I ever heard of was the 1936 Nazi annexation of Austria to the Third Reich.
My German friend nearly died when I tried to explain this to her.
Relevant Portion of CBC Interview Released
You know, the poor, relatively, get poorer all the time. And the rich are getting richer all the time.
This is wrong in so many ways it almost seems unfair to pick on it.
Almost.
Yo, Jean, I used to have a negative net worth -- I got out of school with $1000 in my bank account and $17k worth of student loans. Does that qualify as poor? And then I -- get this -- worked to earn money, and didn't piss it all away on consumer goods. And now my net worth is non-negative. Does that make me rich? Whoah, counterexample!
Maybe relative to the wealth increase enjoyed in the same period by Bill Gates all my efforts were insignificant. But I find it much more pleasant to live in a 2400 sq. ft. house than in a 300 sq ft. apartment, so maybe it wasn't insignificant to me.
Resentful? A little. Not of other people's earned wealth, but of sanctimonious kleptocrats.
Let nobody say that no Canadians are helping in the worldwide war on idiotarians.
Bump of Truth Action : SF Indymedia
I just caught someone trying to put one on my Celica by I am Canadian -- Thursday September 12, 2002 at 02:49 PMFunny I should see this now. I just got home from work. Out in the parking lot, what do I see? Someone squatting by the back end of my Celica. Figuring he was trying to break into the car or just vandalize it, I went over there to pimpslap the little bastard.
Grabbed him by the neck, chucked him to the ground and asked him what the fuck he was doing. I look over - see the "I caused 9/11" sticker - look back, and he's standing and taking a swing at me.
I guess you have to be pretty stupid to endorse the use of these stickers anyhow - but taking a swing at a 6'1", 185lb guy you don't even know, after he catches you trying to deface his car - that's pretty fucking stupid.
Naturally, I beat the shit out of him and called campus PD (I work at a university). He took the first swing - it was self-defense. They cheerfully carted him away. Hopefully he'll meet up with a big burly man named Bubba in the holding cell.
Not even Canadians are immune from this shit. I guess dickheadedness is a trait felt worldwide.
SF entrepreneurs can't compete against the man.
"We were going to try all out," said entrepreneurs, "but now we're going to half-ass it and if we don't win, blame it on patronage."
Can I just tell you all how happy I am to have moved out of that region?
Why is it more acceptable if the U.S. bribes the other security council members into not opposing a U.S.-led attack on Iraq than for the U.S. to just go in alone? What am I missing? Why?
Brain getting eaten again, but it's just work this week, not video games. Done writing up presentations for now, so they can go to the printer tomorrow.
Read the new Clancy book. It's no Cardinal nor even Bear. What happened to the bubble memory?
Sleep now. blog later.