German gay couples get inheritance equality
17 Aug 2010 - Germany's Federal Constitutional Court announced a ruling that registered homosexual partners should receive the same inheritance rights as married couples. The unequal treatment of heterosexual and homosexual partners when it comes to inheritance taxes and exemptions is unconstitutional.
In the last decade German gay couples saw their rigths grows slowly and the Constitutional Federal Court decision is the last one of a long series of steps towards equality. In fact Germany introduced "registered civil partnerships" for same-sex couples in 2001 but stopped short of granting them the full rights and privileges afforded to married couples. Before the Court's decision the surviving registered partners were taxed as if they were inheriting from a distant cousin, with rates ranging between 17 and 50 percent, as opposed to 7 and 30 percent for survivors of opposite-sex partners. Now the Constitutional Court ruled that there is not a significant difference between married spouses and registered life partners to justify discrimination against the latter. The government must present legislation to stop the discrepancy by the end of the year. A draft law already produced by the government aims to iron out the inheritance tax difference, but the Constitutional Court went even further and demanded that the legislation to be retroactive — applying to all cases that came up since civil partnerships were introduced (2001).
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LG and Samsung both showed off 55-inch OLED TVs due later in 2012. The screens are only a few millimeters thick and provide astounding color contrast and clarity. Granted, the TVs might cost $8,000 when they hit Best Buy, but both South Korean vendors, who truly set the agenda for the TV industry, say these are real products that will come out.
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“The most exciting TVs at the show from both a design and picture quality standpoint are the two 55-inch OLED TVs announced by LG and Samsung,” David Katzmaier, who oversees TV coverage for CNET, tells me. “Their prices will be astronomical by LCD and plasma standards, but their images are clearly better and they can be as thin as five millimeters. They seem like disembodied images in person.”
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The 55-inch TVs underscore the steady progress on the tool sets required to produce large OLEDs. A good portion of this work is being performed in-house, but third parties have also come up with tool ideas. A start-up called Kateeva (read first story ever on them here) is working on a tool that creates large OLEDs with something akin to ink jet printer nozzles.
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I asked a number of companies—Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi—at CES in 2008 when we might start seeing OLED TVs priced for the mainstream. 2015 nearly all of them said. So the industry has three years to whack the price of the $8,000 TVs coming out in the second half. Three years: that’s nearly two cycles of Moore’s Law. Going by the usual rules of thumb, that means manufacturers might be able to pop out $2,000 55-inch OLED TVs for the 2015 holidays. Crazier things have happened.
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OLEDs have the potential to be 100 percent efficient, say researchers at USC and other universities. While the industry isn’t there yet, the headroom gives OLED the opportunity to beat LED LCDs in lumens/images per watt and will help the industry meet any energy efficiency regulations. Car makers want electric cars to increase their fleet mileage. OLEDs will do the same for the consumer electronics industry.
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OLEDs can also be fashioned into lights. You can transform entire walls, and even windows, into light fixtures. You may not buy them for your home right away, but the W Hotel and other hipster establishments will to create architectural showpieces. The existence of other markets will increase the investment in tool sets and manufacturing. (Regulations will also help drive the OLED lighting market.)
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Conversely, TVs have also been a springboard for new types of lighting. Luxim, which makes plasma bulbs for streetlights and public spaces, started as a supplier for the projection TV industry and TV manufacturers remain one of the most ardent purchasers of red, green and blue LEDs.
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The TV industry is facing a problem when it comes to size. TVs simply aren’t getting bigger and bigger. Consumers graduated rapidly from 20-inch to 30-inch to 40-inch LCDs. The 40-inchers have given way to 50-inchers to some degree, but how many people do you know own 72-inch televisions?
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So how can vendors beef up margins and stave off second-tier vendors in an LCD price war? Make TVs from a new material that companies that depend on contract manufacturers can’t exploit yet! Somewhere, a guy from McKinsey charged $185,000 for the same piece of advice.
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TV formats often fail. Plasma and rear-projection swooned to LEDs, even though both could tout benefits and even better image quality. Back in the early 2000s, Samsung looked at carbon nanotube TVs. Toshiba also had nano sets that died before coming to market. These efforts ultimately died because they were isolated efforts. The idea was good—the industry teamwork was not.