"The European Union says Switzerland can only be part of the passport-free Schengen zone if voters come out in favour of extending an existing labour accord."
Did we vote last weekend on a "passport-free Schengen zone"? Didn't Swiss cabinet ministers tell us that "nothing will change on the border"? Wasn't it the Swiss diplomats that to the surprise of the EU insisted on including a Schengen accord in the second round of bilateral agreements and isn't it funny how it now comes back to bite them by threatening to bring down the entire bilateral agreements already in effect since 2002? :-)
I think the various pre and post vote statements from pretty much all sides are just playing out hilariously. Swiss-EU relations are quickly becoming reduced to a rather complex oxymoronic comedy.
As a result, it is already clear that it is only a question of time until the entire bilateral agreements (both I and II) between Switzerland and the European Union will have to be renegotiated.
Most recent
related coverage by swissinfo
:
> Swiss unimpressed by EU interference
> EU stands firm on bilateral accords
> EU attaches strings to Schengen accord
> Swiss were seduced by "criminal Europe"
Some highlights from
Schengen related articles published by the Forum für direkte Demokratie (in german)
:
09.06.2005, 13:39
Very nice! Very nice in deed. Clean and extendable - both
Rico
which was inspired by Prototype and
Prototype
which is an off-shoot from
Ruby on Rails
.
08.06.2005, 15:59
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"A new centre is opening this month in Bern to celebrate Paul Klee (1879-1940), one of the greats in the pantheon of modern art.
Klee described himself as "intangible" - a perhaps fitting epithet for a man who was seen at times as both bourgeois and bohemian, and who went down in history as a Swiss artist, even though he was German.
Klee was born and died in Switzerland, but his formative years were spent in Germany, where he became famous as an artist of the avantgarde."
swissinfo takes a journey through the life, times and works of Paul Klee
.
02.06.2005, 10:37
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E4X, SVG and <canvas> in Firefox 1.1
this summer, later
the rearchitected Gecko's graphics subsystem.
Brendan also
reports from the XTech
in Amsterdam: "don't hold your breath for XHTML 2"
01.06.2005, 9:19
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Being teased by
calling supperclass constructors
, I coinsidently learned that instead of foobar = foo ? foo : bar; I could write foobar = foo || bar; and I found the blog of Tod Ditchendorf with a goody of
how to implement threading in Mocha
:
new java.lang.Thread(new java.lang.Runnable() {
run: function() {
while (notYetDone) {
doSomething();
java.lang.Thread.yield();
}
}
}).start();
28.05.2005, 9:06
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What is Mocha?
Mocha is the original project name of the very
popular scripting language generally known as
Javascript
and
standardized as
Ecmascript
ECMA-262/ISO-16262.
We use the term Mocha to refer to the usage of Ecmascript
outside of the scope generally
attributed to Javascript
, integrating both client-side and server-side
programming with other technologies such as XML and Java. It
is an
extremely rich, powerful
and flexible programming language
and has a large, highly developed
syntax, a huge library of standard methods (functions) and built-in
capabilities to create complex, object-oriented data structures and
methods.
Mocha
also is a port in Yemen, historically famous as
the major source for "arabica" coffee beans. Due to its aromatic
undertones of chocolate, the term Mocha also often describes a blend of
coffee and chocolate when referring to a beverage or a flavor of ice
cream :-)
What is OpenMocha?
OpenMocha
is an Internet and Website application development framework for Mocha
developers. OpenMocha is an open source project that integrates various
Mocha related open source components around a core based on the Helma
application server.
In the OpenMocha framework, solutions are defined by collections of
Mocha Objects
,
which handle the various types of standard client-server requests.
These collections are dynamically inherited from the hierarchical tree
of parents for the requested page. The Mocha Objects are application
segments containing scripts and/or skins, separating logic and design.
Requests are processed by running through the appropriate collection of
Mocha Objects for the requested URL hierarchy and executing them
relative to the requested page.
The OpenMocha framework is made up of several related projects.
Mochascript
is an abstraction library extending both client-side and server-side Javascript environments. The
Mocha Object Engine
is the layer that implements the Mocha Objects and collections and
defines the layer of the framework that is itself implemented in
Javascript. The
Helma Object Publisher
serves as the application server for the Mocha Object Engine, providing
an embedded XML database and automatic mapping of objects to relational
databases such as MySQL,
PostgreSQL
or Oracle, integrating the
Rhino Javascript Engine
with the other
Java
components and providing the Mocha environment with access to
Java packages
. The
Jetty Java HTTP Server
provides Web,
XML-RPC
and
AJP13
services, while the
James Java Enterprise Mail Server
provides SMTP, POP3 and NNTP services. The OpenMocha framework also intregrates the
Lucene Search Engine
for powerful Java-based text indexing.
24.05.2005, 19:50
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Clean, crisp and
Googley
Dave Winer says: "Now, the big question, when will a new aggressive startup with a laser-like focus on search come along
to do to Google what they did to everyone else
? That's obvious now, isn't it?" ...and I agree, even if Google may not make the mistake of forcing this "innovation" on everyone by default.
19.05.2005, 20:18
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Bill Clinton in Berne
: "we have to go beyond security to the second job which is to build a world with more partners, and fewer terrorists, and fewer enemies."
19.05.2005, 0:52
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> Persisting Client-side Errors to your Server
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> Dive Into Greasemonkey
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> Brown bears knock on Switzerland's door
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> The experience to make what people want
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> "Just" use HTTP
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> Yes, what is gather?
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> A Free Song for Every Swiss Citizen
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> Java in Harmony
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> Jan getting carried away
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> Evil Google Web Accelerator?
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> JSON.stringify and JSON.parse
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> Ajax for Java
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> The launching of launchd
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> Timeless RSS
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> Kupu
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> SNIFE goes Victorinox
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> AJAX is everywhere
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> Papa Ratzi
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> How Software Patents Work
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> Ten good practices for writing Javascript
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> Free-trade accord with japan edges closer
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> Mocha at a glance
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> Adobe acquires Macromedia
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> Safari 1.3
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> View complexity is usually higher than model complexity
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> Free Trade Neutrality
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> SQL for Java Objects
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> Security Bypass
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> Exactly 1111111111 seconds
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> Kurt goes Chopper
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> Choosing a Java scripting language
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> Spamalot's will get spammed a lot
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> The visual Rhino debugger
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> The Unix wars
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> EU-Council adopts software patent directive
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> FreeBSD baby step "1j"
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> Never trust a man who can count to 1024 on his fingers
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> Visiting the world's smallest city
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> Finally some non-MS, non-nonsense SPF news
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> Swiss cows banned from eating grass
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> Ludivines, the "Green Fairy" of absinthe
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> First Look At Solaris 10
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> EU Commission Declines Patent Debate Restart
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> Alan Kay's wisdom guiding the OpenLaszlo roadmap towards Mocha?
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> 1 Kilo
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> Re: FreeBSD logo design competition
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> Schweizer Sagen
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> Europas Eidgenossen
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> XMLHttpRequest glory
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> Art Nouveau La Chaux-de-Fonds 2005-2006
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> The Beastie Silhouette
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> The Number One Nightmare
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> Safe and Idempotent Methods such as HEAD and TRACE
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> Sorry, you have been verizoned.
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> Daemons and Pixies and Fairies, Oh My!
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> Sentient life forms as MIME-attachments: RFC 1437
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> Anno 2004: CZV
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> Web Developer Extension for Firefox
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> Refactoring until nothing is left
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> Brendan, never tired of providing Javascript support
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> Catching XP in just 20 Minutes
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> Designing the Star User Interface
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> Rhino, Mono, IKVM. Or: JavaScript the hard way
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> Re: SCO
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> Judo
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> Convergence on abstraction and on browser-based Console evaluation
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> Today found out that inifinite uptimes are still an oxymoron
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> New aspects of woven apps
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> Original Contribution License (OCL) 1.0
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> Unified SPF: a grand unified theory of MARID
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> BSD is designed. Linux is grown.
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> 5 vor 12 bei 10 vor 10
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> Mocha vs Helma?
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> Schattenwahrheit: Coup d'etat underway against the Cheney Circle?
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> Abschluss Bilaterale II Schweiz-EU
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> From Adam Smith to Open Source
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> Linux - the desktop for the rest of them
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> Big Bang
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> Leaky Hop Objects
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> Return Path Rewriting (RPR) - Mail Forwarding in the Spam Age
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> Microsoft Discloses Huge Number Of Windows Vulnerabilties
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> Steuerungsabgabe statt Steuern
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> Anno 2003: deployZone
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> The war against terror
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> The war against terror (continued)
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> The relativity of Apple's market share
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> Are humans animals?
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> Server-side Javascript
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> The Cluetrain Manifesto
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> Anno 1999: Der Oberhasler
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> Anno 1998: crossnet
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> Think different
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> Geschwindigkeit vs Umdrehungszahl
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> Anno 1997: Xmedia
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> "The meaning of life is to improve the quality of all life"
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> Anno 1996: CZV
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> Searching Gopherspace
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> How do I set a DEFAULT HTML-DOCUMENT?
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> Crossnet - der kollektive Intellekt der Schweiz
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> Global Screen Design Services
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> NEW-LIST digests
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> ACTIV-L Digest
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> Eternal September
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> AOL expanding Internet services
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> Anno 1993: Macro-micro navigator
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> Freude herrscht!
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> Anno 1992: Intouch i-station
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> Anno 1991: mediacube
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> Anno 1990: RasterOps
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> Anno 1989: Lambada by Kaoma
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> Anno 1988: Perfect by Fairground Attraction
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> Acorn Archimedes RISC Technology
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> Anno-1986:-Max-Headroom-in-the-News
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> Anno 1985: Amiga 1000
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> Hello World on C128 in CP/M Mode
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> Anno 1982: Vic-20
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> The Future Is Unwritten
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> Anno 1968: Mony Mony and People Got to Be Free
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> August 28th 1968: William Buckley Vs Gore Vidal
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