Another WW2 ration I've never seen

aquarius · Post by **aquarius** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:19 am

Hey guys, first of all: I know nothing about computers. I can switch my laptop to on and off, and that's it. So please don't ask me questions after reading my post

About the system that Ebay rejects some of us from seeing WW2 items, or for instance Bayonets (as happenend to me.):
Ebay has a chronic fear that it will be held responsible for whatever item has been or will be sold by its auctions. (We all are familiar to the Liability System in the US.) Also must be noticed that Ebay does its utmost best to be World Wide Political Correct. Ebay negociates all around the world to all kinds of governments. In some countries the governments expressed the opinion that its citizens should not be temptated to buy terrible things like fascists books, Iron Crosses with Swastika's and so on. Ebay has solved this 'problem' by looking into your computer at your IP-address and the language you have chosen to run your computer! In other words, if your IP-address is from Germany and you computer language is German, you will be blocked from certain Ebay postings!
So in my case the solution was very simple: I switched my computer language to English, and the blockings weren't there anymore.
Hopefully it will work for you too. If it doesn't work, it is useless to ask me for a solution.

aquarius · Post by **aquarius** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:52 am

Occasionally I watch German television, and I indeed wondered where Eva Hermann had gone. What I shame she's gone from tele. And I thought it was worse in my own country.
It is becoming a sort of mantra all around the democratic countries, that says "You can think whatever you want, as long as it is Political Correct". Even in the US -once the greatest democratic country in the world- the thoughts and minds are being oppressed. (Think about president Bush's speach: "you're either with us, or against us". A statement which leave no space for discussion or other opinions.)

Many of the Highways in Holland and Germany had stretches of asphalt that were ment to act as runways in case of a war. The nicest thing were indeed the parkings near these emergency runways. They were equipt with communication gear! Untill the Nineties almost nobody was aware of this, and thought that the gray colored boxes at the edges of the parkings were just... boxes. But these weren't just boxes, they were communication systems so air traffic controlers etc. could do their jobs as with ordinary airports.