On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Martin Bayer <li...@mbayer.de> wrote: > > Nevertheless, carrying weapons of any kind is illegal in Germany during > any kind of public event, be it in a ministry building or not. But this > is more a question of common sense than of legislation.
a utility knife is not primarily a weapon, it is a tool... like most thing it _can_ be used as a weapon but still. A newspaper can be turned into a fairly efficient club with a better reach than a swiss army knife... should I be worried about carrying one in the street of berlin ? Clearly common sens will not get you anywhere without the cultural context of that 'common sens' > > While we're talking about common sense: If you were able to take an item > with you on a plane, it is likely you will be able to take it with you > when entering the conference center. knifes and even guns are allowed in airplane.. in checked luggage. and while we are on 'airport common sens'... does that mean that one cannot bring any bottle of water inside the conference venue ? Norbert -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: conference+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/conference/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
