Well, they say Xst time is the charm... seriously, good look for the launch and just that little bit more luck for Xst barge landing!
(Cue the Shepard's prayer...)
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20 years of VR* juuust before it's final breakthrough**
30 years of the paperless office juuust before it's final breakthrough
60 years of AI juuust before it's final breakthrough
*anyone still remember the cybersex-hype from the 1990ies?
**I've said it before and I'll say it again: the biggest obstacle to VR's success is still that you look like a dick using it
Apparently his term ends on 2016-10-31 - so yes, there will be a campaign (I've first typed that as campaingn, I wonder why, but it didin't look right) in the late summer / fall. If his party will put him forward as a candidate again. But as this is already his second term, he'll be entitled to a full pension from the job as mayor.
BTW, it's about an hour's drive from Quickborn to Hamburg and its Reeperbahn. Where you can see the Beatles-Platz and visit Beatlemania, the Beatles museum. Which is the only reason why so many people go there every night, honestly.
Thomas Köppl is a member of the CDU, (CDU homepage), which of course doesn't mean that he's not a hypocrite.
However, Köppl is available for a personal meeting, provided you contact his office to arrange an appointment.
On the subject ot the AfD: don't even get me started, that'd be a post deleted by a moderator for sure.
Beat me to it, have an upvote... South Tyrol was part of Austria until the end of WW I. East Tyrol and Tyrol proper (sometimes referred to as North Tyrol) are part of Austria. There is NO West Tyrol, mainly because Switzerland is sort of in the way.
Although technically South Tyrol is near the Italian border, but I know what you mean and you are right of course.
"Print is dead." - Dr. Egon Spengler
Silverado (1985), a personal favourite, mainly due to it's cast (what's not to like?).
All genres have a variable popularity, it's a fashion thing, but they rarely ever die. The first movies ever made were Westerns (in the US at last, yes, I know - the Skladanowsky brothers, the Lumière brothers, Méliès, Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, etc.), The Great Train Robbery was shot in 1903 and is a Western. Given the potential of the format, Western movies will always be an option. Also, they can be transposed into other settings - Outland (1981) is arguably High Noon (1952) in space.
Otterbox - yes. Highly recommended. I have one for my tablet, works great, and personally I like the industrial look. Got it for my new tablet because I killed my last tablet by dropping it. And of course I haven't dropped the new one not once since it's been in the box. You really get a good grip with that.
Re tucking the phone between shoulder and the cheek (on my face, that is) - I have one of these gadgeds that look like an old telephone receiver. Got it as a gift, saw it as a toy first, but now I'm actually using it, and it just works.
Book tip: "Limit"* by Frank Schätzing** features a protagonist based more than loosely on Branson. Got rich in the media business, now operates the world's first space elevator and has just buildt a hotel on the moon. Pretty good sci-fi themed political thriller, AFAIKT the science bits are researched quite well, so no 'Duh' moments.
*yes, there is an english version
**yes, the guy who dreamt up the Yrr
Drop ypur panties, Sir William - I can't wait till lunchtime!
You don't so much read amanfrommars1's comments as decode them.
My personal approach is somewhat like the way you have to use on those "Magic Eye" books (remember them? must've been in the 1990ies IIRC), only not applying it to the eyes but the whole brain. A bit like meditation. You try to take it all in, don't focus on anything specific, and sometimes an idea or a mental picture or a clear sentence emerges.