window

window shopping?

well, forget about window shopping here. this shop closed and they put a nicely striped thing in the window and a don't post bills sign

caution!

high voltage, so keep away!

What the hell happened to this country?

Today students flooded the university with those flyers.

Yesterday, Germanys federal cabinet voted for internet censorship.

I tried to translate the text:

"Rest in Peace
Article 5(1), Basic Constitutional Law

Everybody has the right to give his opinion freely in writing, speaking or imaging and to spread his opinion and to inform himself with free access to public sources. Freedom of press and freeedom of commentatorship by broadcast and film are warranted.
There won't be a censorship.

*May 23th 1949 - June 18th 2009

"It's noones intention to build a wall". - W. Ulbricht

Beneath the cloak of fighting against child porn, federal cabinet concluded the implementation of a wide ranged censorship of the internet which was free until this day. This censorship is meant to be through a sectret filter list of Federal Criminal Police Office and so it will abscond from any democratic control.

We as worried citizen are aghast at this act of censorship with which our Federal Government is pigeonhole next to states like China, Iran or North Korea."

On the backsite of the flyer they talk about the stupidity of internet censorship because it's easy to delete most of this ugly content out of the internet. Furthermore this law is violating seperation of powers which is grounded in constitutional law...

Additionally they give some liks to websites where they discuss internet censorship.
Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely the opinion that child porn is one of the most horrible things in our society! But there is no way internet censorship will solve these problems. The only thing internet censorship will protect are some perverts that are "protected" from visiting child porn websites, not the children!

Please leave a comment about this important topic or discuss it with your friends. I think everyone should know about it because Germany might not be the country getting such ideas last...

High and higher

Some creeping plant climbing up a wall.

Colored houses

The first thing I mentioned about Passau when I was about to move here was the big number of colored houses. I haven't seen a city or town before that got so many houses in different colors.
This photo shows only a few of those houses, there are located along Danube bank.

Veste Niederhaus

Veste Niederhaus is a fortress just like Veste Oberhaus but it's located on the foot of the hill while Veste Oberhaus is located on the top as you can see in yesterdays post.
Unlike Oberhaus you can't visit Niederhaus because it's still privately owned.