REST does not necessarily mean there is no state on the middle tier; the state to fulfill the request for a resource is not dependent on that state.

REST并不一定就意味着在中间层没有任何状态；为实现对某资源的请求的这个状态并不依赖于该状态。

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People in any country will not want their homeland to be a dependent colonial state.

任何国家的人民都不希望自己的祖国变成殖民者的附属国。

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What his numbers show is that British exporters would probably be more damaged by a eurozone implosion than German ones: or to put it another way, businesses in the UK - which, to state the stunningly obvious, is not a member of the euro area - are more dependent on the health of the eurozone than German companies.

BBC: Can Germany afford eurozone collapse?

Certainly experience from abroad does not suggest that state funding is a panacea: the German constitutional court, fearing that parties were becoming over-dependent on public funds, ruled in 1992 that state funding for politics should be reduced.

ECONOMIST: Fuelling the political machine