Friday, December 24, 2010

Chemical Reactionstoy Cars

A Christmas wish

For Christmas I would like to see the Canton of Zurich renounces nuclear power plants. Arguments for and against as many have already been explained on the listing I can do without here. Soon ending a decade that was marked by wars, terror and violence and I am looking for a more peaceful and free future and for that will be without the Canton of Zurich on nuclear power plants.
Iran proves that an exclusively peaceful use, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty its signatory states under international law agrees that it can not be effectively controlled. India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea have not signed the contract just so they can promote the uncontrolled civilian and military uses of nuclear energy. The world was not following the collapse of the Soviet Union peacefully, but was divided into many groups and movements, some with only destructive views. Such groups will use nuclear weapons if they get the chance. A voluntary ban on such a huge Waffe erscheint zumindest unwahrscheinlich. Je mehr Staaten, und damit auch zunehmend Staaten mit grassierender Korruption und politischer Instabilität, die Atomkraft zivil nutzen, umso wahrscheinlicher wird ein militärischer Missbrauch und desto grösser das Risiko, dass Atomwaffen in die falschen Hände geraten. Solche kritische Staaten dürfen nie in Besitz der Atomtechnologie kommen, auch nicht für die zivile Nutzung. Völkerrechtlich und auch aus Gründen der Gerechtigkeit haben aber alle Staaten das Recht dazu.
Die einzige Möglichkeit, dies zu ändern ist freiwilliger, globaler Verzicht auf die Nutzung der Atomenergie und damit auch im Kanton Zürich. Statt das Geld in neue Atomkraftwerke to put, I would like to see the Canton of Zurich is launching a peace project. These include the promotion of alternative energy sources, improving the relevant technologies and their adaptation to developing countries, development and construction of transportation technologies on energy. Thus, the proliferation and potential misuse of nuclear energy and the restricted countries receive sun and wind in abundance a development perspective and the ability on the world market is a wanted product to offer. That would be an asset to humanity, and progress for peace.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Saying To Put On Picnik

San 10 measures in the nature and landscape protection

The recovery program is necessary and no area should be left out on potential savings from a review. The reductions in the nature and landscape protection but are evidence of some imagination of the Government Council, are not justified and dangerous. Little imagination, simply because there the expenditure will be reduced, where the lobby is weakest, not justified because the relevant agencies are among the few places in the cantonal administration, which have the trend of expenditure under control and dangerous, because our future adaptation and jeopardize development potential.

Although still the year of biodiversity, and have heard most of this term already, it is to give more sense in this context by the understandable species richness, even though the two concepts are not perfectly congruent. This wealth must be protected and preserved as it is the money-wealth majority uncontested. The claim that the species richness has increased in recent years to qualify, unfortunately. There were already billionaires in Switzerland before the balance of the 300 richest Swiss in their golden issue performed. An increase that is due to the fact that is executed a closer look, is not a real increase, but simply the result of an improved and much needed Inventory. All relevant indicators for the conservation of species diversity show negative or at best stable developments. Species richness is mainly due
  • the increasing urban sprawl with the appropriate land use,
  • the input of nitrogen and pollutants in soil and water,
  • the fragmentation of habitats,
  • intensifying Agriculture and
  • the intensive use of the landscape with the disturbance and noise and light pollution
risk. In the meantime, it was recognized that a diverse and intact nature is also an important location factor. This is good, but we should also ask what else does the species richness for us. Farmers who share the latest research to know that species-rich systems deliver higher and more stable yields than monocultures. Biodiversity has an added value in francs. Elsewhere biodiversity provides important functions. Death of the beekeepers, the colonies need to fertilize wild bees left plants. A system of plants and animals filtered our drinking water. Technical filters cost more, much more. This list could go on for a long time. What we must not forget this: We need these services, not nature. And we brauchen sie auch in der Zukunft.

Durch den Klimawandel drohen 30 % bis 50 % der Arten zu verschwinden. Welche genau es sein werden, wird die Zukunft weisen. Wie ein Investor in unsicheren Zeiten in unsicheren Zeiten, der sein Portfolio diversifiziert, brauchen wir für unsere Zukunft einen grossen Artenreichtum und eine hohe genetische Vielfalt. Alles andere wäre fahrlässig. Sinnbildlich kann man es so sagen. Wollen wir auch in der Zukunft sicher einen 6-er würfeln, müssen wir schauen, dass wir möglichst viele Würfel haben.

Deshalb sollten wir genügend Gelder für den Natur- and provide landscape protection. The measures, which can carry the District so that are only a second best solution in place, but as long as it is free of misunderstood liberalism, destroy the environment at the expense of all, as long as unfortunately remain the main threat factors and as long as the second best solution is the only that we have.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Money Tree Invitation Poems

VI "for competitive Canton Zurich"

Among the enticing title "for competitive Canton Zurich" submitted to the cantonal committee a trade association is a national initiative to halve the property taxes. For the evaluation of this initiative, we should answer three questions.

Die erste Frage ist: Wie viel Geld braucht der Staat um seine Aufgaben zu erfüllen? Der Regierungsrat hat ein Sanierungsprogramm aufgegleist und teilweise werden die entsprechenden Massnahmen bereits im nächsten Jahr umgesetzt. Dies ist aber kein Zeichen, dass der Kanton zu wenig Geld hat, auch wenn es so verstanden werden könnte. Vielmehr tut sich die Verwaltung schwer damit, ihre Aufgaben zu hinterfragen und alten Ballast abzuwerfen. Ein Sanierungsprogramm ist somit eine notwendige Zäsur verkrustete Strukturen aufzubrechen und kein Zeichen, dass zu wenig Geld für die notwendigen Staatsaufgaben vorhanden ist. Es stehen aber noch zwei Abstimmungen zu Steuererleichterungen bevor. Einerseits the revision of the tax law, and secondly the transfer of the capital tax to the income tax. Tax losses and strengthen the competitiveness will come also. Further tax cuts are not in the current situation makes sense. This clearly argues against the popular initiative.

The second question we must answer is: Which taxes we want to fund the state? Maybe it makes sense to lower the property tax and finance the state through other sources. To assess this question, we must evaluate the tax effects on national economy. We need incentives for desirable behavior and we need to reduce the negative incentives. That is stated quite simply: labor and consumption should be taxed deep. Resource consumption and income without services should be heavily taxed. The property tax is one in my view, quite to the group of taxes that should be deep. Therefore, we ask ourselves now whether they are too high. A wealth tax actually a target return on capital taxation, as they should be paid from investment income, without jeopardizing the financial structure. Seen in today's property taxes too high. The asset growth is not threatened. Compared with countries with no property taxes we have in Switzerland dafür auch keine Kapitalgewinnsteuer und die Erbschaftssteuer ist in vielen Kantonen zumindest für die direkten Nachkommen und Ehepartner abgeschafft. Eine Senkung oder Aufhebung der Vermögenssteuer als Gegengeschäft zur Einführung einer Erbschaftssteuer oder zur Kapitalgewinnsteuer wäre als Idee durchaus prüfenswert. Eine Senkung, wie sie die Volksinitiative fordert, ist aber nicht angezeigt. Dies auch nicht, weil längst nicht alle Vermögen durch eine Leistung der besteuerten Person zustande kommen. Man denke dabei nur beispielsweise an die grossen Umzonungen zu Bauland.

Die dritte Frage bezieht sich auf den Steuerwettbewerb. Mit der Revision des Steuergesetzes is also the property tax cut. For tax competition, this reduction is sufficient. Even here is to forget that the low-taxed municipality in the canton of our position in the tax competition is decisive and not the comparison between the District of main settlements.

What remains is the argument of double taxation. This argument is popular, but of course nonsense. It is a very simple way to prevent the property tax, such as consumption. That would simply mean a rate of 7.6 percent for the VAT. The taxpayer can choose what he prefers.

It is actually in the nature of our cash cycle that we tax the money more times. The argument will therefore always be nonsense. An alternative I know. We could abolish all taxes, and the National Bank prints the money and gives it directly to the canton of Zurich. This solution is hardly useful. Who has other ideas, they should please let me know, I take them gladly.

The conclusion can now read in this issue only: The popular initiative is unacceptable and hopefully the initiators have a show and pull it down before the vote. The would also help save taxpayers' money.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Where Can I Buy Matula?

Übung 4: Bestandsaufnahme und Fassadenentzerrung

The exercise is 4, it is an inventory correction and the facade of the main facade of the 50 years of settlement. Furthermore, we should create a din-A1 plan to show the location of the buildings, of which we have Facades were processed. We should burn our results on a labeled CD in Jewel Case Booklet Included gelayoutes.

Review:

By the previous exercise, I had some experience with Photoshop, but since the equalization needed new tools, I had to familiarize myself first. After initial difficulties and uncertainties of the correction date helped me get the job done then but no major problems.
Using Photomerge I added 2-3 combined output images, so I had a larger front facade. This facilitated my work. Then I used the Crop tool to straighten the front. For the disturbing elements, such as Bäume oder Autos, von der Fassade zu entfernen nahm ich den Kopierstempel bzw kopierte bestimmte Stellen um die Fassade anzugleichen.

Bild 1:
Original
Original

Fassadendarstellung


Bild 2: 

original
facade view


3:

original
original
facade equalization

plan to inventory and Fassa Dene equalization