Many sympathies. I think (backed up by the findings in the survey) that most people feel that adults in that sort of hopeless situation should be allowed to end their lives, though of course family s… (View Post)

The Swiss rotate the Head of State around the 7 (?) Bundesraete (Ministers) in the Government, so you have a different Head of State each year - most people can't remember who the current one is… (View Post)

My parents and I were close friends with a Russian WHO translator in Denmark who was later alleged by a defector to be a KGB agent (WHO didn't take any action, and we shrugged it off) - he said … (View Post)

Rather the opposite. It's difficult to win election after election indefinitely, and people were clear about that in seeking a fresh start (though personally I was a loyalist). I don't reme… (View Post)

Generalisations about companies, public and private, tend to break down. I worked for over a decade for Ciba-Geigy/Novartis in Switzerland - very large multinational pharma companies. They weren'… (View Post)