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Good morning, and welcome to this fabulous new chance to run my life for me!

Today's problem is the following:

I own a computer with a 40 GB HD (all full, except for the space I need to download my weekly shows) and an external harddrvie with 300 GB. Sadly, that one is now full, too (backups of photos and everything on my HD, my screencaps, music, movies and many TV shows.) The TV shows currently on my HD are not burned on CDs. In fact, I haven't bought CDs since I bought the HD. But if I want to continue watching TV, something needs to go.

Which leaves me with the following options:
- Buy a new harddrive. Only, when I get a new computer, I will have more HD space anyway. Okay, you can never have enough, but still, two external harddrives? Isn't that overkill?
- Burn everything on CD. That would be cheap, but it would leave me with yet more CDs cluttering my room, and with 50 CDs I could only clear 35 GB, which isn't all that much.
- Buy original DVDs of the things that are on my harddrive. I rather like this option, except that it is expensive and not everything is available on DVD.
- Buy an external DVD burner. That would allow me to clear up more space on my HD than with CDs, and I wouldn't quite as many disks lying around in my room.

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Poor pigglet is dirty.

Ankara. The authorities in Turkey imposed censorship of the cartoon for Winnie the Pooh of the Walt Disney Studios because of the participation of the Piglet, AFP reports citing publications in the Turkish press. According to the info the Turkish state owned TV TRT took the decision on basis that the pig for the Islam was a “notorious character”, AFP comments.
First the leadership of the TV channel considered the variant of cut all scenes with the participation of the Piglet but afterwards gave up the idea because of the leading role of the best friend of the Winnie the Pooh.
Other private TV channels are still broadcasting the cartoon and the VHS cassettes are freely on sale, AFP comments.

*bangs head against wall*

Okay, I don't usually talk about politics in here, but today, after forty years, the government in my state changed. State as in federal state, I'm hoping the world would notice if the German government had changed overnight.

I'm not sure if I'm happy about the change, but a part of me says that change after such a long time can only be a good thing. Anyway, what I really wanted to comment on is the one headline that those of you who read newspapers will probably read by tomorrow. Our dear Chancellor Mr. Schröder asked for early elections. Which basically means that the current government tries to quit. (well, they hope that the new elections will be in their favour, but you never know.) And that, just so you know, and I'm sure many of the germans on my flist don't know it either, is not possible. The German Constitution does not allow early elections. Period.

Oh, it has been done before, by Mr. Kohl, I'm sure many of you remember him. Tall, fat guy, known as Birne? But basically what hew did in 1982 was impeach himself only so that he could get re-elected, His own party had to vote against him in order for the impeachment to be successful. Afterwards, the constitutional court criticised that procedure as possibly against the constitution. They didn't have the chance to decide if it was unconstitutional or not, but they did criticize it, and they don't do that just for fun.

So, Mr. Schröder, if you really get your new elections, I hope you lose. Because the constitution is the one thing you don't mess with. Just yesterday I commented on someone's lj about how great the german constitution is and how it protects us. I'm ashamed to see that the german government is so easily willing to ignore it.

(and really, I'm all for a woman to be in charge, but could we get one with better hair? *g*)

P.S.: A link for those of you who want to know but have no idea what I'm talking about.

P.P.S.: In good news, it seems like the right wing asshole part aka as Republicans didn't get many votes at all. Yay us, there's still hope.

My lj is usually a politics-free zone.
I'm not interested in talking about politis here, for no special reason.
But today I've got to say something.

Read this, if you haven't yet.

This scares me beyond belief.
My country is a democracy, with rights for everyone, and courts that are independent, and - while we are at it - homosexual marriages (because they are, even if we don't call them marriage).
I feel safe in my country.
I may not agree with many of the things our current government does, but I trust them to protect our constitution and our civil rights. I trust them to keep peace. I trust them to accept religions, and to protect our children against aids and unwanted pregnancies. I trust them to be relatively SANE.

And sanity is the one thing that "the world's greatest leader" clearly lacks. If he gets elected again? God help us all.
To think that someone like him has the power over a-bombs is the scariest thing ever.
To think that a religious fanatic is the leader of what may be the one of the most important nations of the world.
When I hear about his AIDS programs, or rather, the nonexistence of them, when I hear that he wants children to be taught that abstinence is the only protection against pregnancy, I am so afraid for this world.
I feel bad talking about another country like that, about a situation I can't properly judge, because I don't live there. Besides, it's always easy to sit and point, without actively changing things, and I have no right to change things in other countries, so I really don't have a right to talk badly about them.
But in this case, I must.
Because I am honest to god scared, scared that the world as we know it is about to change more than we can ever imagine, and not for the better. And it certainly won't become safer.

Today I heard that (starting in a few years) the US are going to allow only people with a new passport to enter the country, a passport which includes your fingerprint. For a terrorist, it will be the easiest thing ever to counterfeit such a passport, but for us normal people it means that a government which isnt even my own has my fingerprint on record, and I have NO saying in what they do with it.
If this becomes reality, then I am sorry to say that I will never ever visit that beautiful country again.
The US government scares me.
Sometimes, the whole world scares me.

Edited: Oh, and I don't really care about the content of the original post, which prompted the Secret Service to investigate. They may have been right to investigate, but maybe not.
The whole thing just made me come out of my hole and say how I feel about things.

LJ especially, and fandom in general, are - at least in my experience - rather multinational communities. We don't judge people because of where they come from or what they believe, these things simply don't matter much online.
I wonder why?
Is this because we are all incredibly open-minded, liberal people who are tolerant of different lifestyles and beliefs?
Somehow, with such a large group of people from all over the world, I don't believe that is the case. Especially not when I look at shipper-wars, or the downright hate that can result when someone dislikes someone elses favourite characters and dares to say so.
In a way, fandom isn't different in these things. We just focus our energy on different things. It's not the religion or skin color upon which we judge someone new in our little circle, but his prefered fanfic and wether or not he likes het, gen, slash etc.
These things may not be the most important ones, but it beats fighting over religious beliefs any time.