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Summary: German software vendor shells out US$3.5 billion to acquire cloud-based human resources software maker SuccessFactors, but analysts say deal a tacit acknowledgement SAP's cloud strategy had failed, reports state.
German software vendor SAP announced it will part with US$3.5 billion to acquire SuccessFactors, a maker of cloud-based employee management software. With the purchase, SAP has tacitly admitted their past cloud strategy was a failure, analysts pointed out.
The New York Times reported last Saturday that the all-cash transaction offered SuccessFactors shareholders a 52 percent premium above last Friday's closing stock price and reflected the fact that many companies are switching to cloud-based software. The deal is expected to close early next year.
"The premium is significant and it shows that SAP was struggling in its cloud strategy, especially in talent management," Forrester Research's analyst Paul Hamerman said in the report. "The cloud has been a small part of SAP's revenue stream, about 2 percent; the deal adds to the revenue base and shows SAP's strong commitment to the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model."
In its press release, SAP said: "The cloud is a core of SAP's future growth, and the combination of SuccessFactors' leadership team and technology with SAP will create a cloud powerhouse."
In a separate Bloomberg report on Monday, Thomas Otter, vice president at Gartner, was cited as saying the acquisition will mean a "fundamental shift" in SAP's cloud strategy, which had been rather slow to get off the ground.
"This is a tacit admission that their cloud strategy was a failure," Otter told Bloomberg.
He added that the talent management market, in which SuccessFactors plays in, will probably be worth about US$3.5 billion this year, and SAP has paid effectively the year's market worth to purchase the company.
"It is a lot to pay for a niche in its portfolio but human resources technology is a hot space," the vice president noted.
Gartner had projected the global market for cloud services may spike from 2010's US$68.3 billion to US$148.8 billion in 2014, the report added.
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Report: RIM plans six BlackBerry 10 handsets for 2013
RIM might not have a stand at CES and it isn't holding any press conferences, but its executives are busy on the floor talking up the handsets coming out at the January 30 launch. CMO Frank Boulben told FierceWireless that the launch would see two handsets running the BlackBerry 10 operating system, one full touchscreen device …
Go Blackberry!
Does my heart good.
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Re: Go Blackberry!
Razr^^^ even
BB10 runs Android apps
This is a key solution others (WP?) should have tried. Hackers are now pirating Android apps and selling them in the Blackberry App store. You should be able to side-load Android apps to kickstart the BB10 ecosystem, forcing the utility into the device even without the app-maker's intent or consent. Almost all of the myriad Android apps (but nothing with NDK).
Yes, it's not Kosher. It's not legit. It's cheating. RIM will have to put a stop to it eventually when somebody legally calls their attention to it. In the mean time though, it's enough of the fine end of a wedge to get a credible product launch.
Scrappy move, RIM. I had counted you out. While I can't morally approve of this maneuver I can respect that it's what you had to do, and therefore ethical. I award you five points and move your token from "doomed" to "at risk". I'd have preferred you just made RIM quality Android handsets in the first place, and got the Google Play store. Hubris being what it is though, I understand.
Re: BB10 runs Android apps
"Yes, it's not Kosher. It's not legit." .... "While I can't morally approve of this maneuver I can respect that it's what you had to do, and therefore ethical."
It's alright Mikel, relax, Dalvik is open source. That's why Google chose it! It means that it is entirely ethical and legitimate (so long as RIM are complying with the license conditions).
Pirates will have to have been in email communication with RIM to get signing keys. They need those keys to re-package and upload apps to RIM's store. Then there's the money trail too (if the pirate has put a price on the application on the store). RIM are probably in a good position to help the original and wronged developers. Unlike Google who have created an ecosystem so anarchistic that piracy and malware are out of their control...
Look at it this way
- Using Dalvik in this way is something that any of the manufacturers can do, but only Google and RIM have done so.
- Whilst it's obvious that RIM have done this so as to boost app store growth, they can also claim to be supporting openness in mobile platforms.
- Remember write-once-run-anywhere? Remember when that was thought to be a good idea to benefit all end users? Apple screwed that up of course, and the very idea seems in the eyes of the world to have become alien and subversive...
- If MS and Apple did the same thing (and they could easily do so) then Dalvik would be the open mobile platform.
- The only thing preventing this is Apple and MS's desire to maintain / create walled gardens of their own and lock in end users (though the Dalvik source code is probably built on top of a POSIX environment, which Apple have but MS likely don't)
- They may do it anyway just to completely screw Google's strategy
Re: BB
Hah hah Eadon, have you walked in to a store recently and tried to ummmm, 'buy' a phone running Firefox or Ubuntu?
Thought not. At best, if they ever get released, these OS's will be downloaded by a few spotty nerds to replace the abomination known as 'Android' that came installed on the cheap, nasty, no brand handset that is all the spotty nerd could afford.
Once installed, the spotty nerd will find out that most of the features on their phone will no longer operate, the volume controls now work backwards and that nothing happens when you plug the charging cable in. The spotty nerd will then lose interest and get back to the more pressing matter of finding a girlfriend on the internet. They will probably not succeed.
Meanwhile, all the cool kids, their friends and their (non virtual) girlfriends are out buying Nokias.
Re: BB
"Meanwhile, all the cool kids, their friends and their (non virtual) girlfriends are out buying Nokias."
Hahahaha are you here all week?
No one cool ever bought a Nokia.
Re: No one cool ever bought a Nokia
Actually you might have something there: the only person I know with a WinPho handset is a lovely guy, but about as 'cool' as Hell's boiler room!
Re: BB
Phones OSs will live or die according whether they get picked up by the masses, or find a good niche as Blackberry traditionally have done. I don't think most people are looking to 'express their individuality' with a phone OS, especially if the phone it runs on looks much the same as a phone with a different OS.
Most people will consider whether it works, works easily, works easily with external services (you'll note that was the main thrust of Ubuntu's bid to the phone market) or runs the apps they want it to. Depending on their tech literacy or interest, potential buyers will form their opinion by either sticking with what they know, reading reviews, seeing how their mates get on with their's, or by playing with one in the shop. Blackberry have cunningly addressed the issue of apps, and I image a Ubuntu phone will take the same approach.
Generally, reviews of Windows Phone 8 are favourable but flag the lack of apps.
But c'mon, I know you're above this 'mine's cooler than yours, I'm a rebel not a sheep' nonsense.
My thumbs...
...they miss that qwerty keyboard on my old 9310. Now THAT was a phone you could do long emails on. Perfect for one-handed texting while eating lunch with the other. None of this swiping and poking at gorilla glass like all these modern phones.
Re: My thumbs...
I miss my Communicator as well. It briefly resurfaced the other day but the battery had dodo'd, which was a shame because the rest of the unit was in pretty decent condition. It's so hard to find a phone with a decent keyboard on it and weight be damned.
Android, iOs, BB Will by year's end Dominate.. WIndows anything? Whatever...
That's it.
'Nuff Said.
Watch. See ya 10/1/2014
Re: Android, iOs, BB Will by year's end Dominate.. WIndows anything? Whatever...
Hmm, not sure I completely agree with you. I think MS could do quite well in the corporate market where Office and Exchange integration does matter to a lot of people. And that, of course, is RIM's hunting ground too.
Where I think MS have gone wrong is be utterly unimaginative in how they do integrate in the corporate environment. They have merely mimicked the old BB way of doing it. This means corporate IT admins will want to lock it down, stop users installing their own stuff, and make the phone a boring corporate tool.
What RIM have done is worked out that BOYD matters, but so does corporate security. BB10 is designed to keep both the admin and the user happy. "BlackBerry Balance" is quite clever; the phone has a split personality with the admin having control of one and the user having control of the other. Corporate email / apps / data are safe (it's achieved a FIPS rating) but the user can still have fun with their apps, email, twitter, etc.
BlackBerry Balance is a very novel concept, and a clever one at that. RIM are relying on corporate IT admins understanding it and having the imagination to see why the idea would benefit everyone including themselves. If RIM don't work very hard to stoke up interest in Balance then MS could get away with it.
Re: Android, iOs, BB Will by year's end Dominate.. WIndows anything? Whatever...
Office and Exchange integration? Works perfectly on my S3, don't need a WinPho for that.
Re: Android, iOs, BB Will by year's end Dominate.. WIndows anything? Whatever...
Have you looked into locking down a Win8 phone using one of the current leading MDM providers? MS seem to be currently targetting the consumer rather than corporate market so, don't seem to have the relevant APIs published/available?
Corporates are probably quite happy as this means their staff won't be remotely tickling documents!
Nice. I'll be looking for a new phone mid this year and am not liking the big two. Don't like the look of WinPho8 but from what I've seen of BB10, it looks pretty decent. I think my next phone will be a BB...
Hopefully will generate a resurgence in hardware keyboards
My Desire Z is getting long in the tooth ... I might even switch to Blackberry
RIM plans to release 6 new BB10 handsets this year. A spokesman said "We're releasing six new handsets. If we sell four or five of them, we'll be delighted."
It's what I read on the title, and came here to see everyone post it, and urs was the first one, but last post... HEH :)
thanks, was thinking it was a wasted effort...
Looking forward to BB10. I'm due a new work device and whilst Android and Apple handsets are available, access to our work Exchange Server on this devices is limited to an application called "Good" to keep the lawyers and risk/compliance guys happy. "Good" is anything but.
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Call of the House.
Members summoned.
Address of Condolence.
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ORDERED, That the House be called over upon
Thursday next come Sevennight.
Ordered, That all the Members of this House do then
attend their Service in Parliament; notwithstanding any
former Leave given to be absent.
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Mr. Comptroller reported from the Committee appointed
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Commons in Parliament assembled, being deeply sensible
of the great Misfortune which hath befallen your Majesty,
and this Kingdom, by the Death of our most gracious
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Virtues were to aggravate our Sorrow.
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Preservation of your Majesty to us, on whose Life . . .
Welfare and Happiness of this Kingdom, and the Liberties of Europe, do, in so great a measure, depend;
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Tallahassee, Fla., June 25, 2012 - For the tenth year in a row, the Florida College System ranks among the top producers of associate degrees in the nation. The Top 100 Associate Degree Producers report released by Community College Week shows that Florida's colleges lead more than 1,200 colleges across the U.S. in a range of degree categories. Community College Week uses data from the National Center for Education Statistics to produce the rankings and the report.
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It initially began as a $1 million contract even though officials knew it was going to become far larger through later appropriations. The contract grew through five amendments approved by the State Building Commission.
Cate said the fuller costs were reflected in bidding and should have been included budgetarily at the onset.
The building management contract calls for paying Jones Lang LaSalle $38 million in direct management fees and expenses over the next five years. That excludes some $300 million in normal pass-through costs such as electricity, which Jones Lang LaSalle hopes to cut by $94 million over the next five years. Fifty percent of the management fees depends on that.
A second contract, split off from the first, puts Jones Lang LaSalle in charge of leasing state office space in the future. That allows the company to charge up to a 4 percent fee off the top of money coming to commercial real estate vendors.
"We are 100 percent confident in the end that this was a fair process and that this is the right thing to do for our state," Cate said.
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Along the way, the state plans to unload six "functionally obsolete" or otherwise unsuitable buildings, including the Chattanooga State Office Building and nearby James R. Mapp Building, which the company says are too expensive to repair and maintain.
Cate said Jones Lang LaSalle's assessment of state-owned space showed numerous code violations in a state system in which buildings were operated on a "run to fail" basis. In one building, a urinal was installed right next to a major electric switching station.
In Chattanooga, the state received seven bids -- including four owned by Chattanooga businessman Henry Luken -- to house the nearly 400 employees now in the two downtown state office buildings.
Savings from relocating employees in state offices to leased facilities across Tennessee is projected to save $100 million over 10 years.
During Tuesday's hearing, Cate sought to clear up one aspect of the Jones Lang LaSalle contract that drew newspaper headlines. Haslam, a multimillionaire, reported during his 2010 gubernatorial race that he owned at least $10,000 in the company's stock.
Cate noted that Haslam sold that in 2011 -- a fact reflected in Haslam's filing with a state ethics agency. Still, since most of Haslam's holdings were placed in a blind trust, Haslam says he doesn't know if he has any investments in the firm at this point.
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Daniel Shea waived his right to a preliminary hearing Thursday. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of two counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle and one count of injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle.
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Some kind of GPGPU CUDA/CAL benchmark would be good to see. If the new Adobe CS4 products support both architectures they may make a good test.
GPUs as computational accelerators are a coming idea - many common media tasks will benefit. But all the benches concentrate on games and game related things.
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Quick Linux compatibility check?
Given that you've probably got quite a few Linux users in your readership, would it be possible to do a brief check of hardware like this on Linux?
Nvidia kit generally has very good OpenGL support, and is very good with simulators like X-Plane, Silent Wings or FlightGear. It would be nice if you could see if the ATI/AMD kit is beginning to improve the Linux driver support since the two companies merged.
It would be nice if you could do a more in-depth report than "yes, it works and it looks nice", but even thats better than nothing :-)
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ATI may finally be getting their act together. When I got to rebuild (my now three year old) game rig I may have to take a look at their cards in comparison to nVidia, thanks.
ATI Linux driver support has improved dramatically from several years ago. I have a number of machines with ATI cards (3870, 24-something, a 690 based uATX board with integrated graphics and a Dell with embedded ATI graphics). The ATI installer is pretty bulletproof and the performance is good. Not at all like back in the days of the 9700. I used to worry about using ATI with Linux: I do not anymore.
I have read that neither ATI nor Nvidia supports CF/SLI under Linux. I don't know if it is true. Can anyone confirm or refute?
The driver is built around a kernel module and if the kernel is updated then the graphics driver must be reinstalled, which is a pain. But Nvidia is the same in this regard.
FWIW, ATI's CAL or Stream Computing SDK also runs on Linux now. As much as I have played with it, it seems to work well (I have not had as much experience with CAL as with CUDA though.)
AFAIK - as of about 8 months ago - neither CAL nor CUDA will use both GPUs if the GPUs are in Crossfire/SLI mode. This would be a problem with ATI or Nvidia. If the cards are not paired up then both are available - I've verified this with an Nvidia 8600 and 8800 in the same box, and it is what ATI says in it's docs.
Spurious results
The two 4870 X2 bars in the charts have the same description, I assume the second is overclocked? However some of the benchmark/timing results for various cards are clearly spurious compared to their overall performance differentials. I suggest you revisit this.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 6:50PM
We made a late arrival to the Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival. Plenty of good stuff to buy, but we were in the mood for kettle corn.
I thought the tops of the tents would make a nice black and white
Of course, we needed a picture of Maddy and friend
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Adrian Wilson's career in Arizona may be coming to an end
If Sunday's game at University of Phoenix Stadium was safety Adrian Wilson's last chance to play in front of Cardinals fans, well, it was an unceremoniously ending (28-13 loss to the Chicago Bears) to a wonderful 12-year run.
Since coming to the Valley in 2001, the former third-round pick out of North Carolina State has been the heart and soul of the Cardinals' defense. And even before the team reached its only Super Bowl during the 2008 season, Wilson remained true to the organization through some really lean years (six consecutive losing seasons from 2001-2006).
Before there were expectations of the team winning division titles and making deep postseason runs, Wilson made a commit to remain a part of the team's long-term solution.
In an age where the sports industry is built on championship rings and free agency money, that level of loyalty is almost unheard of. Yet the five-time Pro Bowler never wavered in his passion for the Arizona Cardinals.
Even after a 2011 season in which he made yet another trip to Hawaii (despite playing the entire year with a torn biceps injury), Wilson agreed to restructure his contract (which reduced his base salary for this season) during training camp, because he wanted to do what was in the best interest of the team.
But as the first 15 games of the 2012 campaign have indicated, the 33-year-old's days in the Valley may be numbered. In the team's Week 11 loss to the Atlanta Falcons, defensive coordinator Ray Horton opted to use Rashad Johnson in nickel packages instead of Wilson. It's a trend that has continued more and more over the past five weeks.
When asked whether he got emotional or nostalgic during the team's home finale Sunday, Wilson suggested his mindset was on the Bears not on a potential Arizona departure.
"You know I hadn't thought about [the game being my last in Arizona] at all, until you guys brought it up," Wilson told media members following Sunday's defeat. "If they make a decision, I'm pretty sure it's going to be quick."
If the team decides to part ways with Wilson, they will being so with one of the most beloved members of the organization over the past decade. And also one of the most accomplished.
In the team's 38-10 victory over the Detroit Lions in Week 15, Wilson became just the sixth player in NFL history to record 25 interceptions and 25 sacks for a career, joining Ray Lewis, Rodney Harrison, Ronde Barber, William Thomas and Brian Dawkins.
However, as Sunday's game illustrated (one solo tackle), Wilson's best days may be behind him. Yet for the Arizona's strong safety, the thought of leaving the only franchise and city he's ever known isn't a comforting one, even if it means going to a team with a brighter future.
As he made sure to remind everyone Sunday, the move would be harder on his family than it would be for him.
"What goes through my mind is having to move my family, having to find my kids another school, will they like the school," said Wilson, who has three children ages 3, 8 and 10. "That's what goes through my mind [when talking about a potential move], it's my family. I can adjust."
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The 1970s were a strange time. Much of the entertainment produced in that decade seems to have been created by aliens masquerading as humans; everything seems vaguely familiar, but enough small details are off just enough that the cumulative effect is decidedly creepy. So it is with this piece of video, Lady and the Tramp: A Lesson in Sharing Attention. The odd thing is that I found this by accident on a videotape full of recordings from the Disney Channel in 1988 – it was used as interstitial filler between programs. The Disney Channel didn't interrupt their programming for commercials in those days, so if a film ran short the rest of its time slot would be filled with ads for other Disney Channel programming or various materials pulled from the company vaults. This was, of course, the era when the Disney Channel aired actual Disney-related material – this featurette was aired before a showing of The Reluctant Dragon – but I can't imagine what inspired someone at the Channel to dig this deep into their archives.
It would be difficult for me to enumerate everything I find amusing or bizarre about this, so best to just watch it yourself. Note that it takes place in the familiar confines of Disney's hallowed Golden Oak Ranch in California.
One hallmark of the alien-controlled media of the 1970s is that adults take freakishly inappropriate delight in "whimsical" things that are in actuality devoid of whimsy. Things like a child whirling around with a Peter Pan marionette, joylessly exhorting him to do Peter Pan-esque things. Simply put, did children of the 1970s actually enjoy playing alone in the wilderness by torturing marionettes, and did crusty but lovable neighbors enjoy standing there watching?
In the end, my absolute favorite thing about this film is the end credits, where the filmmakers go out of their way to label "Uncle Phil" as a "Friend and Neighbor." Because, you know, it's best to clear those things up if you're trying to sell your film in certain markets. This begs many questions. Was Uncle Phil made a friend and neighbor in post-production? When Disney tried to sell the film to the Texas School Board? If they thought it important to make Uncle Phil not an actual uncle, then why call him Uncle Phil in the first place? Just make him Neighbor Bob or Reverend Steve or Councilman Lester. Why introduce the confusion caused by the Uncle Phil moniker in the first place?
It was this kind of mistake that led to the aliens tipping their hand and exposing themselves in 1977, leading to our liberation via the Star Wars; this, in turn, led to the eponymous film which you thought was fiction but which is actually a fairly accurate documentary. And that's why kids don't play with marionettes anymore.
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Internet s&x auction ends in pregnancy, legal feud
Nobody could have predicted that the plans of a woman in Germany to auction herself online for anonymous sex with six different men could go wrong. Even the noblest of intentions have their ways. After discovering she was pregnant from her amorous senary, the woman successfully sued the web site that hosted the auction to reveal …
German babies are expensive !
German babies are the most expensive to father in Europe. I know this first hand.
In Germany the child has more rights than the parents
When the authorities finally catch up with you and prove fatherhood, your payments are back dated to birth. Also if they stay in full time education, you pay until the child is 27 years old inc. the years national service !!
Re: German babies are expensive !
Yeah, but you're getting German quality and know-how. Not like those cheap babies made in China ;)
Why on earth should the parents have more rights than the child? They went into the deal taking full responsibility for the consequences of their actions, and the obvious sacrifices this would include. The child, on the other hand, didn't even get to give it's consent. Seems to me that the child should obviously get the most rights.
Would you sleep with me for a £100million ? - yes...
Would you sleep with me for £10? - what kind of girl do you think I am?
We've already established that - now I'm just haggling about the price.
children are smart
because I do not know one child with a job and kids.
Does the father get a say in "lets abort"?
So, after all this effort, does the father get to say "I don't want a child, I'd like you to abort"?
One would bloody hope so.
The men in question *obviously* were not looking for fatherhood.
If the lady in question is forcing one to become a father here, when there is still time to avoid it, that would be very, very wrong.
What do you tell the child?
"Mummy made some money sleeping with men, and then you came along, and threw the whole business plan out the window...
But never mind. We got monthly cheques now!"
Happy Valentines!
One auction, six winners ?
I think she was flogging the same item to all !
Re: Lis Paratt
>> "The child, on the other hand, didn't even get to give it's consent. Seems to me that the child should obviously get the most rights."
Children do not pay taxes. They are not productive citizens of the state. They do not provide direct value to society, only the potential for it in the future. Seems to me that the parents should obviously get the most rights, which then should protect and care for their children responsibly.
By your logic, I should be able to demand from my government privileges offered by a different country, or decline to adhere to its laws or pay its taxes -- after all, it wasn't my fault that I was born here; I didn't get a choice in the matter, so why should I have to be subject to it?
@Anonymous Coward
Yeee Gods!
I've often heard the joke about German children going to school, college, then university, and when they finally leave university they pick up their pension on the way out, but I didn't know it was really that bad!
@Lisa Parratt
"Why on earth should the parents have more rights than the child? They went into the deal taking full responsibility for the consequences of their actions"
This could be a case of what happened to me, entrapment.
In Germany I have heard of a number of cases where girls get to the magic late 20's and decide it time to have a baby. They then look to trap a guy by having his baby without his consent. The girl that trapped me was actually seeing 2 other married guy's with the secret aim of getting a baby. She has since admitted it.
It is the only way
There isn't any other way to do it, unless you wish to either force the women to abort, which would be ethically and morally terrible, or deny a child the information required to know who his other parent is, which I think should be a right.
Sure the men certainly didn't want to have a kid and probably presumed that matters were in place to prevent it, but at the end of the day, you take the chance.
Surely the (un)lucky father should at least get a refund from the woman in question? Because, let's face it, he's not getting the goods he expected (an uncomplicated sexual encounter).
Paris, because even she is clever enough to use contraceptives.
Be wary
It's enough to put you off gangbanging for life
Clearly wanted the baby....
So lets go back to basics here - why the hell was contraception not a factor here at all!?
With the lack of contraception even considered, it sounds to me like she wanted to get pregnant way before she set up the auction.
Could be for one of many different reasons - fame (she got to appear in world famous el-reg), money (for all that child support cash), being a total nut job, etc.
Now not wanting to sound like those arse politicians who reckon certain young women (Chav types) regularly get knocked up just for the support payments, the circumstances in this case are more than a little suspect are they not?
Non fulfilment of contract?
If they bought the service at an auction, then surely by getting pregnant she has broken the terms of the sales contract and they are entitled to their money back and compensation for stress.
To put it very basic..
.. it's now not entirely clear who screwed who..
Mine's the sheep-skin :-).
DNA database
I wonder how long before the UK government use their shiny new DNA database to track errant "fathers" - not only to reclaim benefits already paid for a child, but to stitch them up for all future maintenance payments.
Not only would you be able to get a match via direct DNA match, they could extrapolate "supposed" familial matches to widen the net to get offspring of people already in the database to narrow the search.
If the data could be trusted and 100% accurate, no problem - the issue here is it isn't. The error and false positive rate is soaring as the database fills.
One of the best articles you're likely to find on what the government won't tell you is wrong about DNA matching (and they've actively tried to get the page removed from the net) can be found by searching for "nutteingdq" or "nutteing2" in google.
(don't bother using the newest Firefox beta on these pages though, as it crashes on mine :-})
Who put the custard in the clown's pocket?
Given that the Fraulein probably had 6 different flavours of custard swilling around in her wizard's sleeve, it will be interesting to see which (or indeed HOW MANY) of the six will be asked to cough up for the three-eyed offspring that results from that recipe.....
Cynical advice
Men, make a donation at the sperm bank and then have the snip.
Then you're in control
They're only filthy, scummy men
My question is, if the father has to pay for the upbringing of the child (and the judge has pointed out the child's right to know its father), will he be given equal custody, and a say in how the child is raised? Or, more likely, will he just have to pony up without having any say in the child's upbringing at all? My money is on the latter.
This is what feminism has brought us to. Women are accorded every right to cheat and exploit men as they wish, while men are blamed and demonised and forced to pay while being denied their right to be a father. If she wants support from him, and the kid's rights to a mother and father are so paramount, she should be forced to share equal custody, if she doesn't want to live with him. It is exactly this kind of entrapment behaviour that is why I've refused offers of sex (and I've been made a few!) and never intend to have it. Nobody will ever be able to sock me for maintenance while denying me the right to raise kids. I'd rather not have any.
perhaps I missed somthing....
How was the website allowed to pimp out this woman in the first place? Arent there laws against prostitution in Germany?
@perhaps I missed somthing....
There are no laws against prostitution in Germany. Perfectly legal under most circumstances. Brothels sometimes go through government-run job centrers to find new "employees" in fact.
i think that in germany prostitution is legal. similarly to switzerland, you need to have a licence to operate as a sex worker in a designated area. pimps are a no-no and so are brothels.
@Steve Evans, Yep 27!!
German's are very organized as well.
The rate you pay is layed out each year in the "duesseldorfer-tabelle"
It's a sliding scale based or your net pay. Remember the Germans have higher income tax (40-50%) but the cost of living is less. So when they see your UK 'take home' placed over the "duesseldorfer-tabelle" they get all excited.
To add to this a child get's a family allowance, which is split 50/50 to mother and father. If you are a German father this amount (kindergeld) is taken off the amount due for maintenance. BUT if you are NOT a German father, you don't get the 50% of the kindergeld. The mother get 100% and the father has to pay his full maintenance.
So be warned boys, a German shag is good, I say very good, just like those nice video's we see. But for the final cost you can get a lot of bad sex elsewhere. And we know everyone likes 'bad' sex.
As a lighter option, get a buy-to-let mortgage, buy a house and invest the same amount of money there. This way you will have something when you retire.
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@Colin Wilson - until they find a kid with more chromosomes that normal !!
@Steve Roper - hence the preference for professionals !! Pay-as-you-go and (hopefully) no lingering after-effects !!
Are you not allowed to print "sex"?
I was going to ask about the IT angle, but I guess it is V day after all :)
Reminds me of the machine that made the "milkshake" in the movie "Twins" for some reason, only she's the machine.
Perhaps she'll have twins, one tall and muscular, like Arnold Swartzerwotsisname, and on short and fat like Danny De-vito, and we could make a quite unfunny film out of it!?
I'm sorry... what?
These six gents... had sex with some random woman they met over the internet... and didn't use a condom?
They should be glad a child is *all* they got...
I guess that when she'll know who the father is, she'll sue him for rape also?
Some judges are obviously as smart as good ol' Paris...
What a lot of fuss
About the 'right to know' about a bit of DNA.
It's who nurtures and brings us up that counts, not who conceived us.
---An adopted child.
so she slept with 6 unknown men without using a condom????? and now she's bitching about her unborn child's interests? How about AIDS for an interest? silly silly woman...
P.Hilton cause she knows the value of rubber...
@ Damian Gabriel Moran
"Children are smart because I do not know one child with a job and kids." You obviously havent been down the Isle of Wight lately! Oh wait you said a JOB and kids. Sorry your right...
Honestly, i have no sympathy for any of these guys - who in their right mind hooks up with a random chick on the internet (or anywhere for that matter) and doesnt wear a condom! Your just asking for unwanted things (VD, pregnancy, etc). Frankly, if a girl says she doesnt want you wearing a condom or that its not necessary than frankly that should be raising the big yellow warning flags right there!
or was this a 'buy it now' item?
One auction, six winners ?
I think she was flogging the same item to all !
Um... isn't this a 'dutch' auction on eBay?
That could be Arnold Schwartzen-Linux and Danny De-Vista?
Makes me so glad
that I prefer men - none of these complications...
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