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Russian agent Gans here.
Some exclusive insider informations from the ex-DDR!
When I lived in East Germany like 4 years ago, I've met someone called "Mielke", an old man in his 60s. Not Erich Mielke of course, but someone else with that name. Being curious, I've asked him many things about the former times. Stasi? Ah come on, he said, that wasn't such a big topic. The "West" only made that up. I don't know anyone who had problems with the Stasi, he said.Yes, he looked his daily news up on RT too. "But reading isn't enough. I tend to forget the important part!", he said. Then he wrote it down, every morning, the whole article. To remember it better. He was able to quote his news sources word by word. It meant a lot to him and the way how he talked himself into a rage was hillarious. Especially the parts about the "fat bosses with cigars" on the top of some capitalist company.
Of course his old socialist heart was sparkling full of joy about the DDR medicine system. Consider this: The doctors didn't have to make lots of money. They just had to do their job, which was to cure the people. Nowadays, a cured person is the worst what can happen for a hospital, because it's a lost customer! Unnecessary expensive surgery, in which people are talked to. Current waiting times were also unknown, Mr. Mielke told me. If the medicine system didn't have to work efficent, then it's possible to have more people there than necessary.
Question: Is it a good thing if ALL companies have to make money? If all companies have to be optimised in efficency? What happens, if workplaces become too efficent? Is that a pleasant work then?
The downside was of course, that some of the DDR workplaces had nothing to do, people got bored, it was a waste of time basically. And to get more money, the actual work was done after the working times, so inoffical work. That's not a good motivation.
Ah, well. I could share even more stories from the Eastern part of Germany. But both sides have their values. Even with the wall or the Stasi, there is more behind the curtain.
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Russian agent Gans here.
Some exclusive insider informations from the ex-DDR!
When I lived in East Germany like 4 years ago, I've met someone called "Mielke", an old man in his 60s. Not Erich Mielke of course, but someone else with that name. Being curious, I've asked him many things about the former times. Stasi? Ah come on, he said, that wasn't such a big topic. The "West" only made that up. I don't know anyone who had problems with the Stasi, he said.Yes, he looked his daily news up on RT too. "But reading isn't enough. I tend to forget the important part!", he said. Then he wrote it down, every morning, the whole article. To remember it better. He was able to quote his news sources word by word. It meant a lot to him and the way how he talked himself into a rage was hillarious. Especially the parts about the "fat bosses with cigars" on the top of some capitalist company.
Of course his old socialist heart was sparkling full of joy about the DDR medicine system. Consider this: The doctors didn't have to make lots of money. They just had to do their job, which was to cure the people. Nowadays, a cured person is the worst what can happen for a hospital, because it's a lost customer! Unnecessary expensive surgery, in which people are talked to. Current waiting times were also unknown, Mr. Mielke told me. If the medicine system didn't have to work efficent, then it's possible to have more people there than necessary.
Question: Is it a good thing if ALL companies have to make money? If all companies have to be optimised in efficency? What happens, if workplaces become too efficent? Is that a pleasant work then?
The downside was of course, that some of the DDR workplaces had nothing to do, people got bored, it was a waste of time basically. And to get more money, the actual work was done after the working times, so inoffical work. That's not a good motivation.
Ah, well. I could share even more stories from the Eastern part of Germany. But both sides have their values. Even with the wall or the Stasi, there is more behind the curtain.
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@D.Draker: If you notice a car still being in use after lots of years, it has to be a reliable one. Every region has their own staff of legacy cars, that appear regularly. I conclude from that, that these models must be quite reliable if people still use them after so many years. People wouldn't mess around too much with broken down cars, because they need them for their daily life and repair costs can go out of control.
The Lada Niva is the most surprising car that appears often in the former part of the German Democratic Republic, where I lived some years ago.
I never owned a car, nor do I understand anything about car mechanics. It's just counting numbers and seeing the machines that lasted can't be that bad. That's enough for me to call it a good car.
Now the word "good" can mean different things of course. One meaning could be efficency, safety, speed, elegance or simplicity... from what I've read the Lada Niva is quite minimalistic and simple. Simple = reliable? Looks like it's the case with the Niva. I want a reliable product, even at the cost of becoming bulky and heavy. In my world of bicycles that means sticking to a 30 year old steel bicycle with three gears. It's painfully slow, but it has shown it's reliability and most imporant: Repairability! You can fix many things by yourself where you need a mechanic on a newer bicycle.
You're right, the Niva is Fiat-based. Lada didn't invent everything from scratch and bought some old car plans from Italy instead. Maybe that was cheaper.
My size: I do fit into an old Renault Twingo. Maybe that's enough for a Lada Niva, too? I have never driven in one! I was just a bystander counting the Nivas. Maybe the car is too rough and gases it's passengers. Maybe all the Lada drivers have to drive with open windows? I haven't noticed that so far I must admit!
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Russian agent Gans here.
Some exclusive insider informations from the ex-DDR!
When I lived in East Germany like 4 years ago, I've met someone called "Mielke", an old man in his 60s. Not Erich Mielke of course, but someone else with that name. Being curious, I've asked him many things about the former times. Stasi? Ah come on, he said, that wasn't such a big topic. The "West" only made that up. I don't know anyone who had problems with the Stasi, he said.Yes, he looked his daily news up on RT too. "But reading isn't enough. I tend to forget the important part!", he said. Then he wrote it down, every morning, the whole article. To remember it better. He was able to quote his news sources word by word. It meant a lot to him and the way how he talked himself into a rage was hillarious. Especially the parts about the "fat bosses with cigars" on the top of some capitalist company.
Of course his old socialist heart was sparkling full of joy about the DDR medicine system. Consider this: The doctors didn't have to make lots of money. They just had to do their job, which was to cure the people. Nowadays, a cured person is the worst what can happen for a hospital, because it's a lost customer! Unnecessary expensive surgery, in which people are talked to. Current waiting times were also unknown, Mr. Mielke told me. If the medicine system didn't have to work efficent, then it's possible to have more people there than necessary.
Question: Is it a good thing if ALL companies have to make money? If all companies have to be optimised in efficency? What happens, if workplaces become too efficent? Is that a pleasant work then?
The downside was of course, that some of the DDR workplaces had nothing to do, people got bored, it was a waste of time basically. And to get more money, the actual work was done after the working times, so inoffical work. That's not a good motivation.
Ah, well. I could share even more stories from the Eastern part of Germany. But both sides have their values. Even with the wall or the Stasi, there is more behind the curtain.
Over.
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Russian agent Gans here.
Some exclusive insider informations from the ex-DDR!
When I lived in East Germany like 4 years ago, I've met someone called "Mielke", an old man in his 60s. Not Erich Mielke of course, but someone else with that name. Being curious, I've asked him many things about the former times. Stasi? Ah come on, he said, that wasn't such a big topic. The "West" only made that up. I don't know anyone who had problems with the Stasi, he said.Yes, he looked his daily news up on RT too. "But reading isn't enough. I tend to forget the important part!", he said. Then he wrote it down, every morning, the whole article. To remember it better. He was able to quote his news sources word by word. It meant a lot to him and the way how he talked himself into a rage was hillarious. Especially the parts about the "fat bosses with cigars" on the top of some capitalist company.
Of course his old socialist heart was sparkling full of joy about the DDR medicine system. Consider this: The doctors didn't have to make lots of money. They just had to do their job, which was to cure the people. Nowadays, a cured person is the worst what can happen for a hospital, because it's a lost customer! Unnecessary expensive surgery, in which people are talked to. Current waiting times were also unknown, Mr. Mielke told me. If the medicine system didn't have to work efficent, then it's possible to have more people there than necessary.
Question: Is it a good thing if ALL companies have to make money? If all companies have to be optimised in efficency? What happens, if workplaces become too efficent? Is that a pleasant work then?
The downside was of course, that some of the DDR workplaces had nothing to do, people got bored, it was a waste of time basically. And to get more money, the actual work was done after the working times, so inoffical work. That's not a good motivation.
Ah, well. I could share even more stories from the Eastern part of Germany. But both sides have their values. Even with the wall or the Stasi, there is more behind the curtain.
Over.
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No, I don't think you're right here. Wealth is growing in China, so are their streets, the amount of cars, the amount of beer drunken... resulting in more waste. Optimisations of that problem happen afterwards, after consumerism becomes less interesting. It's a (sad) description of how things are, it's not a recommendation to become lazy and accept wrong developments. It all happened in Europe, too. Industrial times, many, many years ago. All what counted was growth, growth. growth...
Now that I think about China: Do you remember the first chinese car brand, that you have noticed on the streets? If that wasn't the case already, maybe it will happen soon. It was similar with the first Japanese cars being shipped to Europe somewhere around the 50s and 60s maybe (please don't nail me on that decade). Then a bit later the Korean cars (Hyundai, Kia, Daewoo, Ssangyong). China is next to enter the market here in Europe. Of course not all countries will conquer the car industry, but China probably will get their piece of the cake!
China having the most of the powerful super-computers in their country. 20 years ago, they weren't that far.
That news is just some years old: China developing their own microprocessor, an attempt of becoming independent from American companies. Clearly these things are a sign of ongoing development of China!
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Speaking of cars, I actually think the Lada Niva is one of the most capable cars out there. Maybe the picture of an angry goose sitting in a Lada Niva, honking your ears full with Russian propaganda gives you a slight chuckle to your day.
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Russian agent Gans here.
Some exclusive insider informations from the ex-DDR!
When I lived in East Germany like 4 years ago, I've met someone called "Mielke", an old man in his 60s. Not Erich Mielke of course, but someone else with that name. Being curious, I've asked him many things about the former times. Stasi? Ah come on, he said, that wasn't such a big topic. The "West" only made that up. I don't know anyone who had problems with the Stasi, he said.Yes, he looked his daily news up on RT too. "But reading isn't enough. I tend to forget the important part!", he said. Then he wrote it down, every morning, the whole article. To remember it better. He was able to quote his news sources word by word. It meant a lot to him and the way how he talked himself into a rage was hillarious. Especially the parts about the "fat bosses with cigars" on the top of some capitalist company.
Of course his old socialist heart was sparkling full of joy about the DDR medicine system. Consider this: The doctors didn't have to make lots of money. They just had to do their job, which was to cure the people. Nowadays, a cured person is the worst what can happen for a hospital, because it's a lost customer! Unnecessary expensive surgery, in which people are talked to. Current waiting times were also unknown, Mr. Mielke told me. If the medicine system didn't have to work efficent, then it's possible to have more people there than necessary.
Question: Is it a good thing if ALL companies have to make money? If all companies have to be optimised in efficency? What happens, if workplaces become too efficent? Is that a pleasant work then?
The downside was of course, that some of the DDR workplaces had nothing to do, people got bored, it was a waste of time basically. And to get more money, the actual work was done after the working times, so inoffical work. That's not a good motivation.
Ah, well. I could share even more stories from the Eastern part of Germany. But both sides have their values. Even with the wall or the Stasi, there is more behind the curtain.
Over.
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@D.Draker: Screw them, do the best for the town that you're living in! Then, all Europe can do is being a good example for these uprising economies of Asia. They have to go through the phases of economy, where most countries of Europe have gone through already. Unfortuneatly it's that stupid! Pollution is part of that, optimisations come after that.
@Mr.Scienceman2000: So many lies in the form of fluffy flower fields... with all of these "green" electric products made directly for the scrapyard. Unfortuneatly, we aren't over it yet. Next hype: E-Bikes, E-Scooters...
Until there is no proper company ready, that offers a proper, simple, backdoor-free solution, I'll stick to my slow and heavy old bicycle. That was also produced by some company, despite that happened many years ago, but everything can be understood and repaired!Okay, this topic is seems to be quite dark, looking at the people out there, but never ever lose confidence in building up your own skills. They bring you forward. They make your brain function well. They'll keep you curious to learn new things. And try to get tough, then you don't need that many modern "aids", that make you dependant.
Sorry, I can't end this topic about the future on such a bad note!
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Russian agent Gans here.
Some exclusive insider informations from the ex-DDR!
When I lived in East Germany like 4 years ago, I've met someone called "Mielke", an old man in his 60s. Not Erich Mielke of course, but someone else with that name. Being curious, I've asked him many things about the former times. Stasi? Ah come on, he said, that wasn't such a big topic. The "West" only made that up. I don't know anyone who had problems with the Stasi, he said.Yes, he looked his daily news up on RT too. "But reading isn't enough. I tend to forget the important part!", he said. Then he wrote it down, every morning, the whole article. To remember it better. He was able to quote his news sources word by word. It meant a lot to him and the way how he talked himself into a rage was hillarious. Especially the parts about the "fat bosses with cigars" on the top of some capitalist company.
Of course his old socialist heart was sparkling full of joy about the DDR medicine system. Consider this: The doctors didn't have to make lots of money. They just had to do their job, which was to cure the people. Nowadays, a cured person is the worst what can happen for a hospital, because it's a lost customer! Unnecessary expensive surgery, in which people are talked to. Current waiting times were also unknown, Mr. Mielke told me. If the medicine system didn't have to work efficent, then it's possible to have more people there than necessary.
Question: Is it a good thing if ALL companies have to make money? If all companies have to be optimised in efficency? What happens, if workplaces become too efficent? Is that a pleasant work then?
The downside was of course, that some of the DDR workplaces had nothing to do, people got bored, it was a waste of time basically. And to get more money, the actual work was done after the working times, so inoffical work. That's not a good motivation.
Ah, well. I could share even more stories from the Eastern part of Germany. But both sides have their values. Even with the wall or the Stasi, there is more behind the curtain.
Over.
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Russian agent Gans here.
Some exclusive insider informations from the ex-DDR!
When I lived in East Germany like 4 years ago, I've met someone called "Mielke", an old man in his 60s. Not Erich Mielke of course, but someone else with that name. Being curious, I've asked him many things about the former times. Stasi? Ah come on, he said, that wasn't such a big topic. The "West" only made that up. I don't know anyone who had problems with the Stasi, he said.Yes, he looked his daily news up on RT too. "But reading isn't enough. I tend to forget the important part!", he said. Then he wrote it down, every morning, the whole article. To remember it better. He was able to quote his news sources word by word. It meant a lot to him and the way how he talked himself into a rage was hillarious. Especially the parts about the "fat bosses with cigars" on the top of some capitalist company.
Of course his old socialist heart was sparkling full of joy about the DDR medicine system. Consider this: The doctors didn't have to make lots of money. They just had to do their job, which was to cure the people. Nowadays, a cured person is the worst what can happen for a hospital, because it's a lost customer! Unnecessary expensive surgery, in which people are talked to. Current waiting times were also unknown, Mr. Mielke told me. If the medicine system didn't have to work efficent, then it's possible to have more people there than necessary.
Question: Is it a good thing if ALL companies have to make money? If all companies have to be optimised in efficency? What happens, if workplaces become too efficent? Is that a pleasant work then?
The downside was of course, that some of the DDR workplaces had nothing to do, people got bored, it was a waste of time basically. And to get more money, the actual work was done after the working times, so inoffical work. That's not a good motivation.
Ah, well. I could share even more stories from the Eastern part of Germany. But both sides have their values. Even with the wall or the Stasi, there is more behind the curtain.
Over.
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You're making it too easy here. My main message was, that PARTS of the DDR were good (which doesn't mean it was better overall). The old fanatic I described is obviously a problematic case, already highly indoctrinated plus indoctrinating himself even further (through handwriting the propaganda articles word-by-word to remember them more). The guy is a product an oppressive state, which the DDR was for sure.
Competition between companies is very important to make the evolution of products possible. Although competition becomes ill at a certain level, no competition leads to a stop in innovation (which happend with a lot of products in the DDR).
Even the die-hard socialist I described there wasn't happy with the Trabant. "Those were barely cars. More of a motocycle on 4 wheels. And they stank", he said. 2-Stroke engine of course. Still he wasn't convinced of a Lada Niva either (a surprisingly common car where I used to live).Basically I just wanted to offer another view to you.
If you say, "please stick your propaganda elsewhere than on my profile", I'll respect that and talk to you only about computers. But else, why not have a heated discussion? Maybe we two can learn something there!
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I am offended that I was born at the wrong moment and at the wrong time. I want to see the internet from 2005-2009, I don't want to see the current situation with the unnecessary staff and dull interface. I want to see the complete openness of people on the Internet and their kindness to me. I want to see how Windows was made lovingly and stable, not 10, which is filled with surveillance and unnecessary services. I want to see the past of the internet and what it was like.
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Hey, there is an old book by Tim Berners-Lee, which explained from his view, why the internet, as we know it grew strong! And it's not like there wasn't any opposition on the market. But the web was a free standard, open to everyone, no license costs, and that's why it succeeded. I can recommend to see the mastermind himself on a film, because you'll see a grown up child there.
Anyways, @Koishi Komeiji thank you for your kind words! Sometimes I write and the words just flow especially when it's about topics of heart. And this is about having proper computers for the future (also for the kids and youth that grow up now). And therefore some current ways of development have to be questioned. And the MSFN forum is a place, where this is done.
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I am offended that I was born at the wrong moment and at the wrong time. I want to see the internet from 2005-2009, I don't want to see the current situation with the unnecessary staff and dull interface. I want to see the complete openness of people on the Internet and their kindness to me. I want to see how Windows was made lovingly and stable, not 10, which is filled with surveillance and unnecessary services. I want to see the past of the internet and what it was like.
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Oh! I'm very sorry! That was a misunderstanding! I wanted to reply to pridesnow's original post. Because this feeling of being born in the wrong time is... difficult. Because you can't change it! It's written in stone.
But: The niche for old computers exists. Of course mainstream moved on, still the www-internet is in its core old stuff from 30 years ago. Even if you break down ordinary, modern sites with a text browser, you can read quite a lot of them.
I feel with you, because you do the same thing, that I still do, and I was born in the mid-90s: Staying with the computers that you've grown up with, because they are better. It requires a lot of stubbornness to "fight the system". And a fine feeling for when things get in the wrong direction. Although your computer may lack processing power, you as the user are much more powerful with it, because you know perfectly, what you have on the table (or under the table maybe). And it's definetly not thin air, stored in some company's cloud far away.
You're young, but the niche is out there and I can tell you for sure, that you will find what you're looking for, because you'll put the right keywords into your search engine. One day...
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I am offended that I was born at the wrong moment and at the wrong time. I want to see the internet from 2005-2009, I don't want to see the current situation with the unnecessary staff and dull interface. I want to see the complete openness of people on the Internet and their kindness to me. I want to see how Windows was made lovingly and stable, not 10, which is filled with surveillance and unnecessary services. I want to see the past of the internet and what it was like.
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Nooooo! Don't be sad! The world wild web is still out there. You just have to search! There are a lot of nice message boards, which are part of the web for a long time. I have a proposal for you. Maybe one day you'll find a Windows 9x machine somewhere. Then install Retrozilla on it. Then try out the web as you can use it with the old computer! Everything, that doesn't work, is immediately dropped from existence. Then the rest will be (as close as it can be) like a early 2000s web experience. Windows XP brings you more compatibility of course.
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