Warum haben so viele US-Amerikaner Donald Trump gewählt?

Am vergangenen Mittwoch hat die Stiftung Aktiv im Norden zusammen mit der VHS Hochtaunus zu einem Vortrag in der Grundschule am Eichwäldchen mit dem ehemaligen USA-Korrespondent der ARD, Arthur Landwehr, eingeladen.

Der Vortrag fand auf “historischen Boden” statt, merkte Joachim Kraus, Vorsitzender der Stiftung, an. Dort, wo jetzt die Aula der Grundschule steht, befand sich früher der Supermarkt der Amerikaner. Der George-C.-Marshall-Ring ist nach dem ehemaligen Außenminister der USA benannt. Robert Kempner war Stellvertreter des amerikanischen Chefanklägers bei den Nürnberger Kriegsverbrecherprozessen und bereitete die Prozesse in Camp King vor. Nun hat “Donald Trump in 100 Tage das geschafft, was Putin in 25 Jahren nicht geschafft hat: Die Weltordnung erschüttert”, sagte er.

Auch Arthur Landwehr, der zum ersten Mal in Oberursel war, sind die Straßennamen aufgefallen. Er sei auf dem Weg zum Vortrag durch den Elvis-Presley-Weg gelaufen.

Über die Aktionen des US-Präsidenten der letzten 100 Tage zeigte er sich wenig überrascht. “Donald Trump macht das, was er angekündigt hat”, sagte er und ergänzte: “Die Leute haben gewusst, für was sie wählen.”

Immerhin waren über 50% der US-Amerikaner, die gewählt haben, am Abend des 5. November glücklich, so Landwehr. Die Zustimmung bei den Republikanern über Trumps Handeln liegt immer noch bei 85%.

Ein Abend mit Arthur Landwehr
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Blu-ray v HD-DVD – just another format battle?

Today’s news shocked me at first: Toshiba has effectively conceded defeat for the HD-DVD format and Blu-ray is the winner.

It was a battle that, although it had interested me, was not one that I was going to let affect me. I am currently quite happy with the DVD standard for video and data, and although it’s interesting to see where the technology is going, I already see enough problems with the DVD subformats to worry too much about any new ones.

That said, I am worried that in the not too distant future, we will not be able to read the DVDs that we write today.

When I got married I archived all of the digital pictures on a CD and gave copies of this CD to our relatives. One of my friends asked me if I was sure that I would always be able to read them. At the time I thought that the CD format was pretty much standardised, and the pictures were in JPEG format – something that I couldn’t see dying out too quickly.

And yet now I find myself really wondering if I will be able to read the CDs in 10 or 20 years time. What will come after Blu-ray? Will the drives read the ‘old’ CDs? Or will reading a CD then become like reading a disc today.

Actually I still use 3.5″ discs as one bank that I deal with accepts DTA files on them. I also use one when I want to print flyers at the local copyshop.

So currently I find myself using 3.5″ discs, CDs and DVDs for my data, not to mention my USB stick and the SD card in my PDA and the MMC card in my mobile phone.

Is Blu-ray going to be just another format to add to the list?

I remember the VHS/Betamax time at the beginning of the 1980s – the current discussion has often been compared to this. At home we had VHS, at school Betamax. At least one person I knew had betamax at home, but everyone else had VHS – and eventually my school changed as well. Whatever happened to those betamax recorders?

The fact is, that I still use VHS cassettes. Yes, I can record a DVD instead, but when I want to play it somewhere else there are always compatibility questions: is it +R, -R, +RW, or -RW? Has the last session been closed? These two simple questions determine whether or not I can watch my recording on other equipment. VHS does not, normally, have this problem (although I did once have an SVHS recorder…)

Will Blu-ray bring the compatibility that VHS once did?

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