The word is dyke in dutch
cough * dijk * cough

I am colorblind and it is a serious handicap.

Before the euro, my country had two bank notes of similar color. I couldn't tell one from the other by color. One of 10 times the value of the other. On a few occasions, I received more change than expected.

I can't open an atlas and use it like you normally would. On every high school exam, the teacher had to help.

I am also a physicist and I couldn't do the spectra analysis practicum during my first year of study. I am likewise limited in the amount of colors I can use to graph data. Some data are multicolored 2D contour plots. Either I have to ask someone what the values are or make educated guesses or apply other time consuming tricks.

On the traffic lights, red is up, green is bottom. I hope they never change it/make it random or my life will be cut short.

It limits my options in life. I can never be a chemist for example.

I also feel I am missing out on some of the beauty in the world.

And so on and so on.

If someone loses a leg in an accident, do you deny him a wheel chair or prosthetic limb? Do you deny someone glasses as their eyesight deteriorates with old age? What about someone who is born deaf? Do you do deny that person the hearing aid implant?

I am colorblind and I want a cure, damnit !!!!

Thanks for pointing out that video, I missed it. So, there is a depth difference between the two screens. That could be annoying in actual usage.

Ah, another slashvertisement.
It might look good on paper, but maybe not in actual usage. There is probable a depth difference between the two screens due to screen thickness, unless one folds back and/or the other one forward. I can't tell from the picture. Another more obviously issue is the black edge right in the middle of your view. Am I supposed to use my perifial vision or turn my head constantly?

When the library of Alexandria was burned down (or the scrolls used as fuel), most of the ancient world was lost. Is this how we will lose our current world? Through unaccessible electronic bits?

Yeah well, I have seen ball lighting being produced in a demonstration at my university. The problem is that I can't remember the name of the student who did it (it was a master project, if you can believe it), nor do I know if the results are already published. Besides this article, I didn't find anything else. If you want to know more, contact the professor (Kroesen) of this group: http://www.phys.tue.nl/EPG/ He will know for certain. I am not working for this group, although I know the people there.

G.S. Pavia, A.C. Pavao et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 048501 (2007)

It will go down right? The budget..
Isn't America broke, compared to the rest of the world?

>And of course, Flanders was dependent on Wallonia in the past, they just have a really short memory now that the economic shoe has shifted.
Thereby ignoring economic studies that show that the flow of money was always greater from Flanders to Wallonia.

No, the Netherlands ain't bad. But why would we exchange an annoying minority in the south with a nice majority in the north. We want independence, so that we can determine our own future.

You wouldn't care if it is only 1 person. Would you care if it is 80% of your village? Would you care if they demand of you to learn chinese, because they don't want to learn Dutch? That is the attitude of the Walloons. You have to adapt to them.

>And Flemish "territorial integrity" ?! Who the _fuck_ are you to decide where your fellow countrymen can reside?
A large part of the country is french speaking, the other part is dutch speaking. When the Flemish move to Wallonia, they adapt and learn French. When the Walloons move to Flanders (mostly in the area around Brussels), they continue to speak French and expect the locals to adapt to them. After a few decades of refusing to adapt and learn the local language, the french speaking population has become the majority. Now they demand that the original Dutch-speaking village should no longer be part of the Flemish territory but part of Brussels. In my opinion, that is annexing. I don't care where they live, but they should have the decency to adapt and learn the local language. Until 50 years or so ago, Dutch was looked upon as the language of peasants and French was the defacto language. The Flemish are embracing their language and culture and taking control of their own future.

Why are you ashamed of Belgium, and which part of it did you leave? Belgium is an annoying entity that should stop existing, yes. But I am most certainly not ashamed from the region I came from. An independent Flanders would be a marvelous place to live in. Of course, if Belgium is doomed and you happen to live in Wallonia, then bad times could be ahead of you. Or you could get a job, instead of living of the welfare provided by the Flemish.