Topic: AUSTRIA - on December 11, 2023 at 4:13:00 PM CET
Österreichische Strohmänner
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 15, 2017 at 11:52:00 AM CET
Richter schickt Arzt zum Psychiater
"Ganz gesund können solche Verletzungen nicht sein", merkt Richter Andreas Rom an: Der Angeklagte ritzte sich, rammte sich einen Schraubenzieher in den Bauch, den dann eine Tochter herausziehen musste. Er probierte, sich aufzuhängen. "Ich hab’ gewusst, der Strick reißt", schildert der Mann vor Gericht. "Aber ich wollte wissen, wie das Gefühl ist." Nun ist der Angeklagte jedoch Arzt mit aufrechter Praxis in der Steiermark . Die abstrusen Eigenverletzungen und Suizidabsichten haben auch mit der aktuellen Anklage zu tun: Dr. Eduard Lopatka wird vorgeworfen, seine vier mittlerweile erwachsenen Kinder gequält und bedroht zu haben (Die Opfer übermittelten am Freitag dem KURIER die Erklärung, mit vollem Namen in die Öffentlichkeit gehen zu wollen)."Durch wiederholte Ankündigung, er werde sich erhängen oder erschießen", führt Staatsanwalt Christian Kroschl aus. Außerdem soll er ihnen Zigaretten, Tabletten und Cannabis gegeben sowie sie gezwungen haben, verdorbene Lebensmittel zu essen. Zwei Töchter soll er in die Drogensucht getrieben haben.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 11, 2017 at 5:42:00 PM CET
Der neue Schuh-Genosse aus dem Waldviertel
Heini Staudinger, bekannt als Waldviertler Schuh-Rebell, hat schon der Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA) gezeigt, dass er sich den bestehenden Regeln nicht einfach beugt. Kein Wunder daher, dass er bei seinem Wunsch, die eigenen Unternehmen – GEA Schuhwerkstätte in Schrems und die GEA Läden in Österreich und Deutschland – in eine Genossenschaft umzugründen, mit den bestehenden Genossenschaftsverbänden nicht auf einen grünen Zweig kam. Die Mitgliedschaft in einem Verband ist aber Voraussetzung für jede Genossenschaft.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 11, 2017 at 5:39:00 PM CET
Gorgeous and Intriguing Photos Of Pre-Cold War Vienna 1959-1960
“In 1959 I had just turned 18. I had my first ‘proper’ camera,” writes Libby Hall. “A rangefinder made by, I think, Agfa. I knew almost nothing about photography, except that I was passionate about doing it. “I spent the next four years in Vienna and Geneva, returning to New York for six months in 1960 to work filing negatives in the fabulous new Life magazine photo lab.. I gradually learned more about photography, and began to get cameras with better lenses.”
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 6, 2017 at 1:43:00 PM CET
Österreichs Innenminister will „in allen Fragen eine lückenlose Überwachung“
In einem Hintergrundgespräch hat der österreichische Innenminister Wolfgang Sobotka mehr Überwachung angekündigt, berichtet der Standard: Delikte wie der Tritt gegen eine Frau in einer Berliner U-Bahn-Station oder unterlassene Hilfeleistung im Fall eines in einer Essener Bankfiliale gestürzten 82-Jährigen rechtfertigen laut Sobotka auch in Österreich „in allen Fragen“, und diesen Satzteil wiederholt der Innenminister stark betont, „in allen Fragen eine lückenlose Überwachung“. Die vom Minister vorgeschlagenen Maßnahmen haben es in sich. Neben elektronischen Fußfesseln für verdächtige Gefährder und einem Ausbau der akustischen Überwachung im öffentlichen Raum, fordert der ÖVP-Mann eine Vernetzung und Zugriff des Staates auf alle in Österreich eingesetzten privaten Überwachungskameras.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 6, 2017 at 1:41:00 PM CET
Der Fake-News-Fake
Die allgemeine Verharmlosung des Lügens hat mittlerweile dazu geführt, dass Betrug ganz offiziell als Dienstleistung angeboten wird Gerade zu Jahresbeginn sollten wir uns wieder darauf besinnen: Früher war nicht alles besser. Aber manches schon. Zum Beispiel das: "Es existiert ein Mensch, der allein Schuld an allen gesellschaftlichen Fehlentwicklungen von heute hat." "Wer?" "DER STEINSCHEISSER-KOARL!!!"
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on August 4, 2016 at 5:42:00 PM CEST
The 28-Year-Old Activist Who Took on Facebook. And Won
A new U.S.-European Union data-privacy accord that took hold this week could have been a reason to celebrate for Max Schrems, the 28-year-old whose successful landmark lawsuit against Facebook last year led to the new rules affecting more than 4,000 companies. Instead, he's saying the new rules should be thrown out as well. Schrems says the new framework is muddled, allowing mass amounts of data collected by American technology companies to continue making its way to U.S. national security agencies. He expects the new policy to be struck down again by courts, leaving global companies further in limbo. “Privacy Shield is the product of pressure by the U.S. and the IT industry – not of rational or reasonable considerations," Schrems said in a statement after the rules, which began Aug. 1, were passed by European lawmakers last month. "It is very likely to fail again."
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on August 3, 2016 at 5:32:00 PM CEST
Strange, Seductive and Surreal Erotica from 1920-30’s Vienna
Atelier Manassé was a highly successful photographic studio established by husband and wife team Adorján von Wlássics (1893 - 1946) and Olga Solarics (1896 - 1969) in Austria in 1924—though some sources cite 1922. Principally based in Vienna—with a smaller office in Berlin—the studio flourished during the 1920s and 1930s. It was known for producing highly flattering portrait photography of film, theater and cabaret stars. It could be said Adorján and Olga were the airbrush pioneers of their day—artfully painting out any blemishes or wrinkles and reducing the unsightly flab from legs and waists. The resulting photographs were mass produced and sold to fans as much sought after postcards.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on August 1, 2016 at 4:40:00 PM CEST
Austrian Mint sells 41 tonnes of gold coins and gold bars in 2015
Earlier this year, the director of marketing and sales at the Austrian Mint confirmed to Bloomberg in an interview that the Mint’s combined gold bar and gold coin sales in 2015 had totalled 1.32 million troy ounces, a 45% increase on 2014, while the Mint’s silver sales in 2015 had reached 7.3 million ounces, a figure 58% higher than in 2014. Since Münze Österreich, or the Austrian Mint in English, only publishes its annual report in July of each year, we had to wait a few months to see the granular details behind these sales numbers. Now that the Austrian Mint’s 2015 Annual Report has been published, the detailed sales figures are as follows.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 30, 2016 at 5:06:00 PM CEST
Austria can benefit from Big Data solutions
Big Data solutions can contribute significantly to Austrian public administrations, a working group concludes in a report published in June. Benefits include improved quality of life, finding optimal business locations, and offering better guidance to citizens. The report by the Big Data working group aims to help public administration when considering Big Data solutions, providing legal, economic and technical context.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 29, 2016 at 5:22:00 PM CEST
FBI's Mass Hack Hit 50 Computers in Austria
In early 2015, the FBI embarked on a massive hacking campaign, delivering malware to thousands of criminal suspects who visited a dark web child porn site. The operation was known to affect over a thousand computers in the US, and to reach as far afield as Chile and Greece. Now, it has emerged that the FBI also compromised 50 computers based in Austria, with activists warning of the FBI’s expanding extraterritorial reach when it comes to hacking. The FBI’s “Operation Pacifier” campaign centred around a dark web site called Playpen. The FBI briefly took over the site, and sent a network investigative technique (NIT)—the agency's general term for a piece of malware—to visitors of certain child pornography-related threads. That malware grabbed suspects’ IP addresses, MAC addresses, and other technical information.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 25, 2016 at 1:32:00 PM CEST
Kreisel Brothers – Austrian Entrepreneurs
We keep hoping for the long-awaited 10X, or even 5X battery that would make electric aviation “pop” in a significant way. The Kreisel brothers in Austria are not developing new batteries or chemistries, but through careful design and manufacturing techniques, manage to reduce weight in their battery packages – one example being the two “ultra-lightweight battery units” they supply for PC-Aero’s Elektra One. With a total weight of “just 64 kilograms,” (140.8 pounds), the packs “provide [an] efficient and reliable energy supply for a range of 400 kilometers (248 miles)… a flight duration of three hours [and a] speed of 160 kilometers per hour (99.2 mph).”
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