- Anteil der zugewanderten Bulgaren und Rumänen, die in die Sozialversicherung einzahlen: 80%
- Anteil der CSU Abgeordneten, die in die Sozialversicherung einzahlen: 0%
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No inflation Friday: the dollar has lost 97% of its value against stamps
(…) Perhaps the even bigger lie is that of the actual inflation statistics. They tell us that there’s no inflation… or minimal inflation. And they tell us that the ‘target’ rate is 2%. Bear in mind that 2% annual inflation means your currency will lose over 75% of its value during the course of your lifetime. But these figures are massively understated. And you don’t have to look hard for proof.
US postage stamp rates, for example, are set to increase this weekend. They’ve been going up almost every year since 2006. This weekend, the rate for a one-ounce first class letter will rise to 49c from 46c, a 6.5% increase. And the price to send a postcard will rise from 33c to 34c, a 3.0% increase.
If you take a longer-term view, the price of a postcard back in 1951 was just one cent. This means that the dollar has lost over 97% of its value against postcard shipping rates in the last six decades.
Let’s look at this another way. According to the US Department of Labor, the average household income in 1950 was $4,237. This means that the average US household could afford to send 423,700 postcards back then. Today’s median household income is $51,017 (and that’s for a majority of dual-income households). This means the average family in the Land of the Free can now afford to send about 150,050 postcards.
It’s a huge difference. The standard of living denominated in postcards has declined by nearly two-thirds since the 1950s. (…)
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Hier die interessantesten Links über die ich diese Woche gestolpert bin:
Last One Out Turn Off the Music — Patrick Lenz
Automagically turn of your Sonos, when you leave the house. This hack uses location based reminders, dropbox and Hazel to stop the music, when your iPhone leaves your home area. Awesome!
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Schönen Sonntag,
Julian
Average Net Worth in Euro Per Capita in 2012 (and growth compared to 2011):
- Switzerland: 141.895 (6,3%)
- USA: 100.710 (10,3%)
- Japan: 83.610 (4,5%)
- Belgium: 73.520
- Netherlands: 68.760 (12,1%)
- Kanada: 66.550 (8,6%)
- Singapore: 66.400 (7,9%)
- Taiwan: 65.080 (6,9%)
- Great Britain: 58.905 (7,7%)
- Australia: 57.400 (25,3%)
- Sweden: 54.065 (13,9%)
- Denmark: 53.370 (18,1%)
- Israel: 49.390 (7,8%)
- Italy: 45.770 (6,0%)
- France: 44.310 (6,1%)
- Austria: 41.985 (4,7%)
- Germany: 41.950 (6,7%)
- Ireland: 29.980 (15,3%%)
- Portugal: 20.930 (6,2%)
- South Korea: 19.180 (10,3%)
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And then there’s the economical ‘doch’, an invention that should have been imported years ago. I say, ‘The world won’t end today.’ You answer, ‘Oh yes it will.’ A German answers, ‘Doch’, a four-letter contradiction instead of a four-word one. ‘Doch’ has an elegant finality about it—having the last word without spelling it out. ‘ You’re not going out dressed like that!’. ‘Doch.’ Try to argue with that.
Aus einem mir unbekannten Grund veröffentlicht egoFM auf seinen Webseiten nicht die Adressen der http Streams, mit denen man den Sender beispielsweise mit VLC auch auf dem Computer ansehen könnte. Hier sind sie:
192kb/MP3-Format
- http://www.egofm.de/stream/192kb
- http://www.egofm.de/stream/192kb.pls
- http://www.egofm.de/stream/192kb.m3u
128kb/MP3-Format
- http://www.egofm.de/stream/128kb
- http://www.egofm.de/stream/128kb.pls
- http://www.egofm.de/stream/128kb.m3u
44kb/AAC-Format
- http://www.egofm.de/stream/44kb
- http://www.egofm.de/stream/44kb.pls
- http://www.egofm.de/stream/44kb.m3u
NSA phone record collection does little to prevent terrorist attacks, group says (Washington Post):
An analysis of 225 terrorism cases inside the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has concluded that the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism.”
In the majority of cases, traditional law enforcement and investigative methods provided the tip or evidence to initiate the case, according to the study by the New America Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit group.
The study, to be released Monday, corroborates the findings of a White House-appointed review group, which said last month that the NSA counterterrorism program “was not essential to preventing attacks” and that much of the evidence it did turn up “could readily have been obtained in a timely manner using conventional [court] orders.”
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