The law is specifically written so that she has to authorize the prosecution. It's not "respecting the separation of powers" to prosecute something when it's in your sole discretion to prosecute it.
If the law did not normally require executive decisions it would be different.
There's the equivalent paragraph for regular people and Erdogan also demande prosecution under that provision. The primary difference is a slightly lower maximum sentence. That paragraph does not require government authorization. In practice, this decision does make little difference. It's a political statement.
Essentially, this has nothing to do with "regarding separation of powers", since the law in question requires "und die Bundesregierung die Ermächtigung zur Strafverfolgung erteilt", i.e. "that the federal government gives the courts authority to prosecute". Without order to prosecute from the executive, the judiciary would have no legal grounds.
It would have been in line with both the word and spirit of the law if she would have denied this authority.
> It would have been in line with both the word and spirit of the law if she would have denied this authority.
You're technically absolutely correct, but essentially it is about separation of powers. That is also the public perception.
Strategically and diplomatically it would be the wrong move to deny it - that can only backfire in a much worse way than it does now. This will all blow over.
Altough, I'm not so sure about the other suit which Erdogan placed using his german attorney.
When a law requires a government to give permission, it is implied that the decision is not arbitrary, but rather the result of a conscious effort to honor that law.
Requiring permission to prosecute doesn't mean the government can do what it wants in this case. That law is meant to be part of the respect that is given to honest diplomatic partners. At least in the diplomatic fiction, this is the case.
Denying that respect would cast doubt on the numerous treaties between the EU, Germany and Turkey, including NATO membership. Something Germany can ill afford currently.
Well, it's current law and they can't just repeal the law in a few days. Sitting it out is not an option with such a publicly visible case.
The only thing which bothers me is that it is going to be effective only starting 2018. In the current situation, they'd have a huge majority in the parliament.
They certainly could repeal the law in a few days, four days should be the minimum if I remember correctly. (And yes, there have been laws introduced to parliament and passed that fast before.)
I haven't tried sharing, but Paw saves everything to normal files, so it seems like not only can it be shared, but since it's just text, can easily be stored in something like git for easy management.
> There are probably very few people who have the patience to log everything they eat, diet or no diet, unless they have some kind of payoff close at hand!
After trying a few apps, I have found MyFitnessPal and tracking what I eat has become my daily routine. The app makes it very easy, has a great database of foods and in my case, I can almost always choose from my food history with 1 tap.
I'm in the 9th week of my diet, which simply means burning 1000 kcal more a day than I consume. My results are similar to the one in the blog post - spare 7000kcal a week and lose 1 kg.
Sure, measuring calories is imprecise at best, but my results speak another language.
The fitbit app sucks, it isn't well thought out and has numerous UI bugs. I had the fitbit one step tracker for a while until I lost it. Now I'm using my iPhone as step tracker, as I'm almost always carrying it in my pocket.
The MyFitnessPal app is great and includes a barcode scanner which makes it super easy to find the calories/macros for a big chunk of your food. It also allows you to set your goals for your macros (fat/protein/carbs) which is very handy. I'm able to hit my macro goals within +/- 5% a day which seems quite good.
I weigh and log virtually everyting (not coffee/tea/water though) but as you said, measuring calories is imprecise at best. I'm currently targeting ~3400kcal a day and I would estimate a healthy error margin of +/- 400kcal a day on that figure.
The biggest benefit is that it makes me totally conscious of what's going into my body and developing a feel for the caloric content of various foods (e.g. wow I had no idea 2 cups of spinach was only ~10 calories!).
I use MFP and weigh my food. Everyone gets caught up on the science and numbers. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the calories are exact or not. If you aren't losing weight then you trim some more out of your diet. If you are losing weight and that's your goal then you keep doing what you are doing. The tracker just helps give you a guideline and history.
That's correct - I have just tried to add my german small business. No chance. Why would they limit it to the US? Google's doing the exact same thing without restrictions.
For a while I hoped Apple would let go of their US-centric thinking, but it seems I was wrong.
Edit: I just remembered that with Google Maps, they sent me a postal letter with a code to confirm the address. Maybe they haven't set that up yet, but my point still stands.
Can anyone confirm if the confirmation process involves a postal letter?
I'd like to second that - I've been using the curved version (LG 34UC97-S) for 1.099 € with a mid-2014 rMBP and it is awesome. I'm not sure if the curving is necessary, but it certainly is nice.
It's astonishing that the Dart IDE is Eclipse-based - it seemed to me that Google learned its lesson after rewriting Android Studio on IntelliJ Idea, but I've been wrong.
You have to remember that Dart Editor was started before Google moved to IntelliJ for Android (at least publicly). Dart Lang is a relatively small team compared to the people working on the Android dev stuff, so my guess is that it probably was a matter of not dividing resources for an unnecessary transition. In my experience Dart Editor works quite well. Of course that's just anecdotal... Perhaps a Google engineer can shed more light on this matter.
I've been a user of their product https://transloadit.com/ for about a year now for video encoding and am very happy with it. The API is elegant, the whole service is reliable and fast.
Thanks for the kind words! Tus.io the beginning of a larger commitment to open source here at Transloadit, which will also translate into many new features (resumable uploads being the next one).
Node.js was a good choice for Transloadit when we started (2009). By good I mean better than PHP which we tried using for transloadit before.
I started playing with Go late last year, so far I'm under the impression that it's easier to write reliable software with it than node.js. Callbacks and exception handling are a huge PITA in node.js, and the community has chosen to refuse improvements that would help with some of the issues (promises).
Go is also an incredible joy to work with given the modern nature of the standard library, static typing, gofmt, built-in testing, and many other small things that the Go team has done right.
That being said, tus.io is not a Go project. Our first server implementation (tusd) is written in Go, but we're working on support for other plattforms like node.js as well.
Generally speaking node.js will continue to be part of our toolkit at Transloadit (for the quick & dirty), but I suspect that we'll use Go for the more criticial parts we work on going forward.
Well, it seems he has gathered capital from a number of investors, which may want to be paid back:
"Angel Investors and Advisors include; Ashton Kutcher, Betaworks, Brian Chesky, Hosain Rahman, Jessica Powell, Joanna Shields, Josh Kushner, Mark Pincus, Matt Mullenweg, Seb Bishop, Shakil Khan, Spencer Hyman, Stephen Fry, Troy Carter, Vivi Nevo, Yoko Ono and many more. We are also working closely with News Corporation on the summarization of their content."
Fair play to him for doing this himself, but he wasn't exactly poor to begin with. A bit of googling shows the jobs his parents hold and an address on Parkside SW19 (which is one of the most expensive roads outside central London).
Plus, she said that the law protecting foreign officials from defamation is obsolete and they will void it.