(OT: Just culture)
On 17.12.2008 13:11, Ian G wrote:
Have they legislated that pi is 3 again?
Welcome to Europe, we hope you enjoyed your flight, and will travel on
pi airlines around the globe again :)
For the record, it was the US - Indiana specifically - which legislated
pi, see a quick "google legislating pi".
In Germany, the politicians and bureaucrats bought into the PKI thing
in a big way, and proceeded to make it part of their business.
True.
Now, in Germany, unlike in other places, they tend to do things only
when there is a law to back them up.
Also true, when it comes to bureaucracy, because said bureaucracy is
heavily determined by the most complex tax laws in the world, and other
regulations. In general, things are more regulated, and yes, that's
cultural - which has good and bad parts. For example, the windows
actually keep the warm in, because the house builder is *forced* to use
good isolation.
But, as the later posts said, there is *no such law* or regulation which
forced a new root each year. You see a lot of hot air about laws,
regulations and courts, both in US and Germany.
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