Damn you Firefox! *shakes fist*

[solidark]

You know what I hate? I hate it when Firefox starts to annoy me with twice-a-day popups whining UPDATE OR DIE!!! because sooner or late I give in and, well, update. And it usually ends in disaster because I have a bazillion add-ons and themes installed and usually something weird happens and things refuse to work together. Like, right at the moment

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[uozaki]

You know what's weird? I finally gave in to the update button for 3.6.18 too, and now Personas finally WORKS for me. Granted half of everything else sucks to compensate, but the thing where Personas doesn't skin the status bar at the bottom if you're using WinXP set to Classic DOES skin it now. Still trying to figure out how to lose the drop shadows on the bookmarks bar and the white-based ghosting of non-focus tabs, but, eh, one thing at a time, right.

Also, yes, that is an EXTREMELY common Thing Americans Know About Germans. (I too believed it, but then I have no idea what the autobahn actually IS, so... yeah. I will not be driving like a maniac in Germany, I guess. Turns out since we built our country around freeways, we're not too good with how the systems work in other places...)

[uozaki]

Also, I think the reason we don't have auto-speeding-traps like that is we are obsessed with our Civil Liberties, which apparently includes the right to be a total idiot. Some places have red-light cameras, which do the same thing for people running red lights, and apparently the movement now is to disable them, because...I don't know? I'm sure there's some kind of ridiculous legal angle detractors are taking.

[solidark]

I admit that until I started working here I sometimes thought that the German obsession with the speed limits was a little exagerrated but by now I've seen the results of so many stupid accidents due to speeding, I do think that 90% of those radar traps are justified. More people should have to copy the photos from the police files and the medical reports (by doctors if the person is lucky and by the coroner if they aren't). I think it would change their outlook too

[solidark]

Well, it does work, the probolem is that it just works with the default theme, which is, IMO, the ugliest thing ever. To make things clearer, I made screenshots:

1. My current Firefox with the Vfox3 Basic theme = minimalistic, clean, efficient

2. My current Firefox with the default theme with a Persona (in this case Nyanko-sensei) on top = fugly, cluttered, too many colours and clunky buttons

And until I upgraded Vfox and the Personas worked together beautifully *sniff*.

I found out that apparently the developers pulled the compability feature, just because they could! it makes no sense whatsoever! And although there would be a very simple solution in theory (just change one boolean in the about:config sheet to "true") it doesn't work because when I restart, FF changes it back to "false". It's highly annoying :/ And it looks like there is no workaround

[yachinami]

Yeah, I'd heard the no speed limit on the Autobahn thing, though I never really though much about it. I also heard somewhere in Germany there is a city (I think it was just one specific city) that holds a (monthly?) raffle where you can win a portion of the money from all the speeding tickets in the area. Or something. IDEK.

As for radar speed-traps and whatnot, I think I'd agree they aren't that widespread, at least in certain places? I heard of cameras for people who run red lights down in a city maybe 45 minutes to an hour south of where I live (and I think they all have a sign for each camera, indicating it's monitoring traffic), and there are obvious cameras posted here and there on the highway (though I've gone at least 10 miles over the limit (usually 5 over is as fast as you can go and have most cops ignore you) passing them a few times and haven't had a ticket mailed to me yet), but other than that I never see anything indicating anything on the regular roads in town I live in.

[solidark]

There are indeed sections of the Autobahn where you can drive as fast as your car can go but they are few and far between. There is simply too much traffic and if they allowed it everywhere the police and firemen would do nothing all day except scraping human remains off the tarmac (no, seriously, the Germans are crazy).

I haven't heard of that speeding tickets lottery *lol*. Maybe that was in Switzerland (they do have laws that allow this, I think. Or at least they can change them much more easily than other European countries).

So they do indeed exist. I dunno but if I were the US administration I would probably put them everywhere, like they do here. It's like a reliable money printing machine (because some people are just plain stupid. My boss's dentist comes with a speeding ticket about every two months. And he isn't the only one). Many counties here make a considerable part of their budget by putting these things everywhere ^^;;

[usisblog]

They say? Sorry to dissapoint you but I'm sure it is against law. We have a rule for nearly everything ;). Maybe there was such a city once but today cities are so low on funds they really need that money themself. Darn democrats, you started it

[solidark]

There is one in front of your house? I never noticed it! But then, I'm probably not supposed to anyway (I mean, if everyone did, they couldn't make money with it).

Here, the very... creative... ideas the police has for placing speed traps (also the manually operated ones!) are a source of much amusement around here. They often hide in bushes (very funny when all you can see is the cap of the policeman in question holding the radar pistol above the bush) and in winter they also hide in the big trash cans (no, I'm not joking). Oh, the exciting lives of policemen in rural Bavaria... ;)

*cough* You know that people here say that the "Ossis" are crazy? Not that they're much better here, at least not to my knowledge. But if I have to drive in thick fog (or snow) and the idiot behind me is, like, 2 meters away I get absolutely furious! I try to get as far away from the person in front of me as possible but some people seem to need the sight of the rear lights in front of them to feel comfortable :/ Which is... dangerous.

Jekyll/Hyde personality

[usisblog]

Jupp, das ist normal. A hat so eine und K wäre in in den US längst wegen verbaler sexueller Belästigung verklagt. Bisher hatte ich nur 2 Chefs (beide männlich), die ganz normale, sympatische Menschen sind: L und den Typen, den A erfolgreich rausgeekelt hat. A hat den immer für einen Vollversager gehalten und es fuchst ihn -glauch ich- dass er sich deratig erfolgreich selbstständig gemacht hat. Im Gegensatz zu uns füllt er nämlich eine Marktlücke.

Re: Jekyll/Hyde personality

[solidark]

Naja, das Problem wäre ja nicht, dass mein Chef ein Arschloch wäre, weil das ist er die meiste Zeit nicht, aber er hat so Phasen, da könnte ich ihm echt die Akten um die Ohren schlagen. Und morgens, wenn er reinkommt (also eher am späten Vormittag) weiß man nie, welche Phase heute dran ist :/

Hast du mal bei deinem Ex-Chef angefragt, ob er zufällig eine Sekretärin braucht?

Re: Jekyll/Hyde personality

[usisblog]

Das ist mit A genauso. Bernd kann inzwisch anhand dem Sitz der Kravatte sagen, ob es heute ein guter oder schlechter Tag wird. Manchmal hat er auch gute Laune, dann kommt ein Anruf und die Hölle bricht los.

Nö, leider ist er gut versorgt *seufz* und da A dessen Schwager ist, hänge da der Haussegen schief bei jeder Familienfeier. A ist extrem nachtragend. Falls ich je einen anständig bezahlten, unbefristeten Job finde, darfst Du davon ausgehen, dass er meine Kündigung als persönliche Beleidung auffasst.

Re: Jekyll/Hyde personality

[solidark]

Jup, das mit den Anrufen kenne ich. Dann rennt er durch die Gegend wie ein Huhn ohne Kopf, brüllt ohne Grund Leute an und meine Kollegin muss ihm mit einem sich ankündigenden Herzinfarkt drohen (sie hat zur Zeit Herzprobleme und das weiß er auch), damit er wieder auf den Teppich kommt :/ (wenn es ihm dann leid tut, kauft er für uns alle Kuchen ^^;;)

...darfst Du davon ausgehen, dass er meine Kündigung als persönliche Beleidung auffasst.

Das sollte er auch, denn das hat er sich ja wohl verdient!

Editiert, weil ich dachte ein n wäre ein m *lol*. Ich brauche eine neue Brille. Oder ein neues Layout.