Jikes. I’m having a hard time digesting Phil Greenspun’s latest post ¹ on muslim immigrants taking over European countries, his comparison of the situation with the fears people had jews. Am I missing something? Time to say loud and clear that I support an open society as described by Karl R. Popper. A society where people can change their government by non-violent means. A society where people can live in peace. I also like a society where minorities are protected from a majority by a constitution, so that democracy cannot turn upon itself. I couldn’t care less what passport people have, what color their skin has, what religious beliefs they have, where they came from, and how many kids they have. The foreigners I know here in Switzerland all say that it is a wonderful country. An open country. Very little racism. Very little xenophobia. Very little patriotism. That’s why I like it, here.
Preisvergleich für Microsoft Office XP Standard Version – basierend auf den Preisen bei Interdiscount in der Schweiz ² und einem Telefonanruf von *Khmar* auf #emacs an seine lokale Microsoft Vertretung in Indien.
||Land||Währung||Preis||CHF||Vergleich|| ||:--:||:--:||:--:||:--:||:--:|| ||Schweiz||CHF||999||999||100%|| ||Indien||INR||9608||296||30%||
Kaufkraftvergleich – geschätzte pro Kopf *Purchasing Power Parity* in USD für 2002 gemäss dem CIA Factbook ³
||Land||Kaufkraft||Vergleich|| ||:--:||:--:||:--:|| ||Schweiz||31700||100%|| ||Indien||2540||8%||
Diese Zahlen sind Teil von einem Vortrag, den ich zusammen mit Mike Widmer im Namen von Openlaw ⁴ bei der DEZA ⁵ gemacht habe.