From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-24 01:33:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:42:11 +0200 Message-ID: <4hl2nv8otk583ui3mg8odl77vsqrpi06pt@4ax.com> References: <6roimvg39s8h5ba64u9pn0trsa4d3u4kai@4ax.com> <4XCbb.13251$Uv2.12148@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <3F6F2719.8FBA3239@huber-net.de> <0300nvcg47vu2dm1kikvtvu0ir974p7m0o@4ax.com> <3F706E04.8C1E164B@huber-net.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1064392426 5250332 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42846 Date: 2003-09-24T10:42:11+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:00:04 +0200, Steffen Huber wrote: >"Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:45:13 +0200, Steffen Huber >> wrote: >> >> >"Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote: >[snip] >> >> In McDonald's restaurant, I guess. Here in Germany, there is a >> >> tradition to go in all family each weekend to a McDonald. Not to a >> >> theatre or museum, note. >> > >> > >> > >> >You must be living in a different Germany. >> > >> > >> >> Just being afraid of the recent wave of attempts to close orchestras >> and theatres all over the country. > >*Hopefully* a lot of that redundant stuff gets closed as soon as possible. >While I love going to to theatre, visiting museums and listen to >classical music, I hate the idea that to provide me with a low enough >entry price, other people's money gets spent. Come on, do you really believe that all our taxes go to keep tickets cheap? >Look at Berlin. 300 million Euros are paid year by year for their >numerous operas, museums, orchestras, theatres etc. > >Nobody has the right to decide that a museum is worth more than a >McDonald's or a Rolling Stones concert if it costs other people's >money to subsidise the "worthy" stuff. So, we return back to the proposition: people prefer McDonald's to museum. BTW, I agree that subventions in any form is a medicine worse than the disease. Now, why science, literatue (except Harry Potter), culture and arts cannot exist without subventions in our precious society? --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de