Recent content by thorsten

Personally, I think the system is pretty bad - it made sense 200 years ago, but many things are outdated. For example, voting on a Tuesday leads to a low participation, Democrats in Alabama as well as Republicans in California basically don't count, etc. That being said, the rules were clear...

40k AR$ for a used MBP (while apple released a new model this year) with marks and 2 previous owners... Sounds like a steal :D

I'd google for criticism of the electoral system-based voting from 2012 before putting money on it - you'll find a lot of the same arguments that are brought up now and it was way before Trump... In fact, in a 2011 poll the majority of Americans preferred a system using popular vote - overall...

Well, (dis)proportionality is a clearly defined concept, so no matter whether one likes the voting system or not, it's disproportional https://en.wikipedia...ty_(mathematics

Just imagine that one president would do something against the law but has control over the judges and thus does not get prosecuted. Then the next president removes the control and let the judges work freely which results in bad people going to jail. In this case, they'd be related, but I...

Crossing a street can be highly dangerous, too...

No, its not erroneous: the most commonly used definition of the Holocaust - in Europe and in the US - is the genocide of Jews by the Nazi regime. Consequently, the other victims are not ignored or overlooked, but just don't fall into this definition.

If the numbers always follow this pattern, why not just block everything that looks like +54 11 5101 00 ** on the phone?

That was a general issue (at least in the K years): getting the parts into the country in a reasonable timeframe. But it doesn't matter where the notebook was bought - either the local service partner has the part or not. Sorry to burst Bajo's bubble, but they don't produce Apple replacement...

Apparently you still don't understand the difference between a random website on the internet and several peer-reviewed scientific studies from a research group focussing on firearm research.

Just FYI: the warranty of Macbooks is international. For iPhones/iPads it might be different, but for a Macbook you still have a similar warranty compared to a local purchase.

Thanks, you will do us a favor as you seem not capable of either reading or understanding the sources/studies I linked in several posts. So keep reading your rifleman and armed citizen magazines - you are definitely the target group...

I just believe in facts based on unbiased scientific studies, while you believe in the American Rifle Man and Fox News stories. I don't decide what's news and what's not, I look at facts, not "news". But I also learned that it's not worth discussing topics with people who will stick to their...

You see, discussing these topics doesn't lead to much as long as people believe in anecdotal evidence and highly biased magazines more than independent scientific studies. It's like saying human-induced climate-warming doesn't exist because it was pretty cold in B.A. the last weeks and there's a...

The self-defense argument is another NRA propaganda. The facts are pretty clear but I'm pretty sure someone can come up with some anecdotal evidence of a friend of a distant relative who read an NRA article describing that someone prevented a crime using his gun - which is clearly more relevant...