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Everyone knows a ramp sow. Some are likeable solo entertainers, others are annoying. They enjoy the limelight and need attention like moths need light.

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Do you know Jan Philipp Albrecht? It's the Greens' European politician's fault that you were spammed by emails with consent forms at the end of May and are now even more perplexed - because you don't know what it's all about or because you don't understand the...

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Software is a wonderful thing, it solves all problems. No money in your account? Simply choose from the hottest loans online. Wanderlust? App's the way to go! Lonely? Fall in love again every eleven minutes. Is that too much for you after a few days?

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When I recently returned from Munich's largest beer garden, Transport Logistic, I wondered what it was all about. What I remember is a nice music, Weißwürscht and a freshly tapped Helles....

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Two misconceptions persist in people's minds. First: video killed the radio star, second: automation destroys jobs. The first was trumpeted to the world by The Buggles in 1979, people hear it today...

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Most people have a keen sense of genuine discrimination. We have nothing against foreigners, but these foreigners are not from here - in Bavaria, for example, this applies to everyone north of the Main line and somewhere south of the Alps, in Hamburg even beyond the city limits. Discrimination or local patriotism?

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One alternative is two options. So if a trainee sends me a press release that says: "The user has two alternatives: either he receives the picking instructions on the screen or via a light display", then...

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Nobody really has it that easy these days, least of all the marketing people. On the one hand, the cliché that they spend all day playing table football has long since become obsolete. On the other hand, just before the...

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Kion buys Dematic, Körber Inconso. Kion buys Egemin, Körber Aberle. Kuka buys Swisslog, Körber Qubiqa. Kion buys Retrotech, Midea buys Kuka. What does this show us? Intralogistics is an industry of the future, otherwise so many would not be investing such horrendous sums...

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This year's CeMAT was a bit like the Olympic women's soccer tournament: hard-working, not very dynamic, but with fairly politically correct commentary, and in the stands the free ticket holders were competing to see who could stifle a yawn better.

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