This page collects pages on Switzerland. I live in this country and I think Switzerland has a lot to give to the world. Switzerland has a lot of foreigners, several official languages, and a political system that merits analysis. (RSS, Search)
I have a cold. Third day at home. No more fever today, but my nose still seems to contain more on the inside than one would have thought possible when looking at it from the outside.
When I’m awake, I play a lot of Skyrim. Amazing how closely the weather seems to match the weather outside. Switzerland in winter… To be more precise, all the big cities are in the flat lands north of the Alps and south of the Jura Mountains (a bunch of hills, we’d say). In winter, the sky is usually overcast. If you want to see the sun, you have to go up. We live under a leaden sky. In the cities, the snow melts quickly. Outside, patches of white on brown grass.
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The terms and conditions of the iTunes app store have changed. I need to agree to them. There’s 110 fucking pages of legal mumbo jumbo to read. I click the button to get on with the show, thinking that this can’t possibly be a contract I’m signing.
Idiots.
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Comments on 2010-06-21 Terms and Conditions
I have only one word to say about all that iPhone crap: Jailbreakjailbreakjailbreakjailbreakjailbreak
– Marco 2010-06-22 07:11 UTC
Grrrr. New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your “precise, real-time location”.
– AlexSchroeder 2010-06-22 09:54 UTC
Meeting Creative Commons Switzerland – if you’re in Switzerland, and interested in copyright law, and Free Software or Creative Commons, this meeting is for you.
18.1.2010, 19:00, ETH Zürich, HG F33.5.
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The stupid church bell rings at seven at night, at nine in the morning – I can’t sleep with the window open, I can’t talk with friends in the courtyard, I can’t walk past the church with my headphones on listening to music because of the noise.
This Sunday the Swiss accepted an initiative that runs counter to anything reasonable people would expect: Did they forbid the ringing of church bells? No. Did they stop the state church from getting their tithes via the state as part of ordinary tax payment? It’s true, if you belong to one of the state churches you have to opt out if you don’t want to pay church tax as part of your ordinary tax payment. The answer is “No” to both of these.
Instead, they voted to outlaw the construction of Minarets for fear of Islamification of the country. [1]
Yay for boneheads!
PS: Also, the initiative to ban the export of weapons didn’t win, so we’re still allowed to sell weapons and continue the disgraceful charade of “not dealing with warring nations" – but only by behaving like dogs and being faster than Bush in declaring hostilities in Iraq over so as not to endanger a major sale of armoured personnel carriers. Blech!
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Comments on 2009-11-29 Swiss Xenophobia
Very creative article, Alex. Swiss nationalism is disgusting.
– AaronHawley 2009-11-29 22:33 UTC
manchmal ist es nicht schön, schweizer zu sein 
– zeno 2009-12-02 21:50 UTC
und gutes vorbild sind wir auch nicht wirklich: http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?v=info&ref=nf&gid=206488696376
– zeno 2009-12-02 21:54 UTC
Bleurgh.

– AlexSchroeder 2009-12-02 22:28 UTC
The median salary in Switzerland is CHF 5823 per month. For men it is CHF 6248 per month, for women it is CHF 5040 per month. Apparently the gap has widened again for the first time since 1996. [1]
(Median salary for top banking management now reached CHF 58333 – per month!)
CHF 1 is about USD 1 is about EUR 0.66 is about GBP 0.59 right now.
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Comments on 2009-11-18 Swiss Salaries
Hi Alex, I prefer choose weight-units statistical or also inequality index, if I want to know how live the majority of citizens in any country …
– JuanmaMP 2009-11-18 17:18 UTC
I’m reading the front page of this week’s WOZ and find some numbers:
Related:
Money corrupts.
Banish arms exports. November 29, 2009.
(Deutscher Artikel bei der WOZ: Tödliche Kontinuität.)
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Vier T-Shirts in den USA gekauft. Wert: CHF 123. MwSt: CHF 9.35. Dienstleistung der Post für die MwSt: CHF 18.00!!
Krass. 
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People get worked up about pornography – the pictures, the corruption of our youth, the disgusting aspects of it, etc. What I hate, however, is that here in Switzerland a newspaper kiosk will have computer magazines and gaming magazines somewhere on knee level, and just above it, on eye level, naked women, quickies, anal offerings, and other interesting details. Whenever I want to buy my beloved gaming magazine, I have to stare at porn.
I should add a picture.
It reminds me of my Spam folders. Reading the subject lines is already an insult.
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Comments on 2008-12-15 Pornography
Admit it, you posted this only to have a ‘Porn’ tag! 
– RadomirDopieralski 2008-12-15 20:03 UTC
Hahaha! 
– AlexSchroeder 2008-12-15 22:33 UTC
Blocher has been replaced! Widmer-Schlumpf accepts cabinet post.
Some positive developments at last.
Blocher is the head of the People’s Party (SVP) – the one that has been involved in the Islamophobic activities criticized by the OSCE a few weeks ago. (→ OSCE expert concerned by Swiss Islamophobia)
Obviously removing an exponent does not cure the Swiss of Islamophobia, so I hope that his removal is but a symptom of a changing attitude. As they say, “hope dies last.”
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Maurice Brown Are you the same Alex Schroeder whose father is “Helmut”, now in Brazil?
– Maurice Brown 2012-06-06 08:52 UTC
AlexSchroeder Yes indeed! Hi Maurice.
– AlexSchroeder 2012-06-06 21:08 UTC
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