Der Grund für meinen Einspruch gegen dieses Verfahren ist recht simpel. Ich habe mir nach dem Einstieg an Heinrich-Heine ein Ticket am Automaten gezogen ( das Ticket liegt glücklicher Weise hier auf dem Tisch). Darauf hin hat der Prüfer mich bereits in einem unverschämten Ton gefragt, wo ich eingestiegen sei. Ich habe ehrlich angegeben, dass ich in Heinrich Heine zugestiegen sei und mir nun ein Ticket ziehen wolle. Der Prüfer sah also eindeutig, dass ich ein Ticket gekauft habe. Kurz nachdem ich die Bahn am HBF verlassen hatte, kam der Prüfer auf mich zu und erbat sich mit einem Grinsen auf dem Gesicht mein Ticket zu sehen. Zuversichtlich, da ich ja im Besitz eines Tickets war, zeigte ich ihm das Ticket. Vollkommen im Stil seiner hämischen Art hat er mich darauf hingewiesen, dass das Ticket nicht gestempelt und damit ungültig war.

Darin liegt der Grund meiner Beschwerde. Zum einen, an manchen Automaten der DB muss man explizit darum bitten das Ticket nicht entwertet zu erhalten, daher ging ich davon aus, das Ticket sei entwertet. Dann hat der Fahrer mich dabei beobachtet, wie ich das Ticket zog und offensichtlich auch, dass ich es nicht gestempelt habe. Ich weiß zwar nicht wie hoch die Provision je Bußgeldverfahren ist, aber er hat sicher seinen Vorteil darin gesehen, mich nicht freundlich darauf hin zu weisen, das Ticket zu stempeln, wie es sich ehrlicher Weise gehört hätte.
Zuletzt möchte ich darauf hinweisen, dass ich gemäß StGB § 265 a (1) nicht versucht habe, mir Beförderung zu erschleichen sondern ganz im Gegenteil sogar noch mit dem Kontrolleur interagiert habe in der Absicht, für die Fahrt, zu zahlen.

Darauf hin hat sich die Rheinbahn kurzum gemeldet. Da der Text weitgehend simpel ist hier eine kurze Subsummierung:

Auf dem Display der Automaten wird auf die Tatsache hingewiesen, dass das Ticket nicht entwertet ist. Das hätten Sie bemerken müssen.
Wir unterstellen keinen Vorsatz, dieser ist auch nicht notwendig, um ein "erhöhtes Beförderungsentgelt" zahlen zu müssen. Der Fakt, dass Sie ein nicht entwertetes Ticket hatten, reicht.
Unsere Mitarbeiter sind gehalten, lediglich die Tatsache zu verifizieren, dass Sie keinen Fahrschein haben, Einzelentscheidungen obliegen der Fachabteilung. Achso, eine Provision erhalten die Mitarbeiter nicht. (Kommentar: NATÜRLICH NICHT... *hust*)
(Jetzt wirds witzig...wörtliches Zitat:)
Aus der vorstehenden Darlegung können Sie entnehmen, dass das erhöhte Beförderungsentgelt berechtigt erhoben wird. Wir bedauern deshalb, auf die Zahlung des Betrages von 40,-€ nicht verzichten zu können und bitten höflich um Überweisung unter Angabe unseres Zeichens bis zum 20.4.2011.


Soweit dazu. Laut Wikipedia und einigen Foren basiert die Forderung nach erhöhtem Beförderungsentgeld auf §12 EVO. Dieser Paragraph ist aber laut einigen Gerichtsentscheiden verfassungsrechtlich mindestens bedenklich, wenn nicht unhaltbar. Die simplistische Ausdrucksweise der Rheinbahn in dem Anschreiben lässt das nicht ganz deutlich werden, ich vermute die Schreibtischtäter haben eine gute Rechtsabteilung die das in 8/10 Fällen ausbügeln kann. Vermutlich glauben die sogar, es wäre rechtmäßig, man glaubt ja häufig was man glauben mag. Nun, ich erwäge das ganze vor Gericht zu tragen, wenn ich denn jemanden finde, der mir dabei unter die arme greift.

EDIT: Hätte ich fast vergessen. Strafrechtlich scheint das ganze sehr vague zu sein, denn es muss Vorsatz nachgewiesen werden. Das wird wohl schwer, denn ich habe mir ja sogar ein Ticket gekauft.

Warum ich das hier überhaupt post: Das hat nichts mit einer Anti-Rheinbahn Aktion zu tun, ich finde es nur einfach unerhört, wie hier Geldmache betrieben wird, scheinbar ohne Rücksicht auf geltendes Recht und Präzedenzfälle. Also, ein fettes DISLIKE an die Rheinbahn. Wenn ihr das ähnlich seht, bitte teilt euch mit.

What lounge does…

• Contact Management: whose employee was Mr. Smithers, and does he work in corrections?
• Project Supervision: who send what when to whom, and did we get a response?
• Action Tracking: Did Lisa call Mr. Burns and verify that meeting date?

Based on a simple yet extensible backend, LoungeRM can adapt easily to your requirements. Need a field for numbers of children? Simply add it to the contact. Not happy with the fields provided for actions? Just rename them.

… and what it doesn’t.
LoungeRM is an attempt to provide an easy, quick and light solution in a market full of highly inflated tools – our favourite antagonist is SugarCRM. We do not want to build a „customer relations invoice project management employee accounting solutions provider“ thing. That’s why we call it „RM“ only. It is not necessarily for customers, you could use it to track pets or employees or the status of tools, computers, planes, rental equipment, anything really that can be represented by our data model. Taking the perception that existing tools are to inflated and have to much overhead for the average user, we focus on an easy-to-use interface which can be handled while on the phone, in a meeting or on a mobile device without having to spend hours on writing one report. The time used to document an action should not be longer than the process itself.

We will shortly provide some first screenshots,

First I need to tell you, we had great weather in Germany recently, so naturally we are all pumped by the first real week of spring weather – personally I get that funny smell of sun and fresh air, the need to be outside, the desire for every ray of sun. Now: today the new edition of Time Magazine arrived, as always on thursdays. And as always, the most interesting question is: What have they put on the cover this time. The fancy robot like thing from a couple of weeks back was cool. Today it was not cool by a thousand miles, it was actually shocking, desperate and was pushing all my buttons for feeling pain, hope- and helplessness and the urge to do something about it. Take a look: HERE! .

Only rarely has a single picture moved me quite like this one has. The next thing I did after flipping a few pages was go to some Red Cross website and donate my share to rebuild Japan. This is a first for me, and I attribute it to Time’s cover. It drives home the pain of so many in Japan, the last number I heard was 9k people dead, and sadly, this is a running count.

Now, call me a hypocrite, Haiti must have been about as bad. Africa suffers even without earthquakes. But this is quite a picture. Please comment and share your opinion.

Now a more joyful topic for a change, man needs contrasts and has to compensate things. Here’s my way of doing this: Rock’n'Roll music.This is a product of the past few days watching tutorials and experimenting a bit. A few words on technique:

• Any lick can be played in any key, naturally, but I would advise an easy C-F-G progression or any derivative of it, since only in C can you really use glissandos.
• The minor thirds in some lick that are played briefly before the propper third for a major chord have to be struck lightly with the third finger. Try aiming for the little rounded corner of the black key and let the finger slide down on, in C maj., E. Do not pull the minor third from way up on the black key – not fast enough.
• The glissando up is best executed with the nails of the 2nd and 3rd finger. Down you can use the nail of your thumb. Try an almost 90° angle vertically between key and nail. Try not to use your skin – that hurts.

Enjoy and comment on that too, if you want to tell me off or compliment or anything;).

• Roland FP-4 – stage piano
• Behringer Xenyx 1202 – 12 band mixer
• Fame MS-58 – low-cost offshoot of the famous SURE SM-58
• Yamaha PianoCraft 400 – PA, Studiomonitor, general purpose HiFi Syste
• Behringer RAGE 158 – Guitar Amp
• Behringer Tube Amp Modeller
• SONY closed Headphones – multi-purpose monitor or whatever I need to hear
• E-Guitar, no name, strat form
• plenty of cables, inserter cables for PC, mono and stereo jack cables, XLR for the mic and so on

So thats not really a lot of hi-spec equipment I have lying around here, but it is quite sufficient for the first humble attempts of getting something recorded. Keep in mind, that this stuff is also supposed to serve as on-stage live equipment, if we ever reach that stage.

Over the last couple of days, I started doing some work on a famous Cologne Karneval song called „Hey Kölle“ – German readers might know it. I figured it was easy enough to not make me want to throw the stuff out of the window, but challenging enough for my meager skills at recording.

I started out by doing what was easiest for me – the piano part. That was done rather quickly in 2 hours using three separat tracks for the various parts that interlink. I did some copy and paste for the chorus and had that gave me some acceptable results. Then i started practicing the guitar part – a challenge considering my close to non-existent guitar skills. I managed to arrange some powerchords for the whole thing, but left it at that – the recording was for another day.

For this morning, to be precise. So i revved up the amp, used my amp modeler to produce the sound I wanted and went to work. A few notes on that modeler: The Behringer Rage 158 does reasonably well as an amp, but its built in overdrive is – simply put – unusable. So I use the modeler to do all the overdrive, gain control and so forth. By mid-day, i had the rythm guitar recorded – not mixed yet, it basically kills the effect of the much nicer played piano – I still have to figure out how to make it sound good together.

Forgot to say, I did the drums with a Linux drum engine called Hydrogen. That was rather easy once I figured out what I wanted for drum patterns. That took me about one afternoon. So from the beginning, I recorded the other instruments along the drums, so that I kept the beat rather well – which is not usually one of my strengths.

This afternoon, the base line was due. Whith the nice Roland base guitar preset, I was now left at improvising for an instrument I had never played nor ever investigated any further. Suffice it to say, I am not yet happy with the outcome.

So by the end of this day, I now have drums, piano, rythm guitar and base line in the DAW programm (Ardour – quite nice linux software). The daunting task will be mixing and a lead guitar.

Modifizierte Taunts: 1-3; 7; 10; 20; 25-29.

Hier gehts zur Datei.

Have fun.

I finally found a workaround for the bug which raised the CPU-usage of gm-notify to 100% when using it on Maverick. Now it’s working flawless, so start having fun with it ! Other changes are:

• It’s opening the correct inbox according to your settings in Google Mail
• Bulgarian translation included
• when using mutt as client, the labels will be opened correctly

One great improvement on Maverick is, that gm-notify made it into the universe repository (thank you, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio). So if you can’t guess how to install it now, updated instructions are on the gm-notify page.

Thanks to all bug reporters and contributers for their work, and all users for their patience!

Without a user, our life were meaningless, with one it can be ever so much harder. Feel it yourself? Comment pls.

• Configurable autorun
• Usage of the default mail icon
• It’s possible to ignore the inbox

I wish you a lot of fun with this release – it should update automatically if you added the PPA to your repositories. For instructions about a fresh install visit the gm-notify page.

So, here comes the interesting part – new features:

• Google Talk Backend: What does that mean?  To cut it short -> Instant/Push-like mail notification
• Lucid Lynx Support: Complete integration with new indicator-applet features
• Hide Labels with a count of zero to keep it all tidy
• moreover it fixes about 30 Bugs

Have a look at the new gm-notify page on this blog for installation instructions. I hope you have fun with this