Is there an alternative to gedit?

I liked gedit because it's simple and has themes, so you can change the background and syntax highlighting (I want a dark background.) Fortunately at work I still have gedit 3.4.2, but one day at home after an upgrade gedit's UI became horrible. Hell, even Control-N was fucked up. I don't want a new file in a new window, I want a new file in a new tab, dammit!

It's been said before, but I would like to ask: does a German caption and a DHL truck make you think "this is in Germany!" or something?

That said, what a dumb wreck. Changing lanes while trucks are obscuring the road ahead. A real good idea.

Yep, I am aware the sequels were only "co-written".

I don't like aborting stories though, so I kept reading.

Saw Divergent on the plane earlier this year. Basically a Harry Potter clone, with a nonsensical plot. Fortunately I watched the movie on a red-eye flight, or it would have been a bigger waste of my time.

And yet a sequel is already in the works...

I've watched the first 16 episodes or so of season 1 of Arrow on Netflix. It may have been renewed twice and has good ratings, but I find the series subpar.

Most of the show consist of horrible dialogues and close-ups of Stephen Amell's muscles.

The only time I can bear watching that show is when Willa Holland (eyecandy) or John Barrowman (a real actor) are on-screen.

You don't have to buy an "OV-chipkaart" (public transport chip card) to get anywhere by train. If you use the train only incidentally, you can buy a paper ticket with a chip on it. You have to check in and out with it, but for the rest it's the same limited functionality.

The chipcard has been met with criticism since its inception, though. Aside from the usual privacy concerns, it's poorly implemented. You have to check in and out between different transport companies, for example. And of course the companies rake in the money because the tariffs are, in practice, higher than the traditional way. And a lot of people forget to check out, so they pay the full deposit (20 euro for the train) because the companies make it hard to get the money back.

I'm looking forward to using my ATM card with a NFC chip on it for train travel. That way I don't have to top up or have unused, unreachable money on my card. It's not very anonymous, but the current anonymous card isn't 100% anon either if you top it up with an ATM card or credit card, anyway.

Slightly off-topic, but...

I skimmed TFA and saw images of the bike lanes. it's good to see that they are segregated bike lanes, separate from car traffic. Even better that there's a cushion and a parking lane between the two types of transportation.

It amazes me why some cities think it's a good idea to have bike lanes BETWEEN car lanes. So much can go wrong in those lanes: cars changing lanes, car doors opening, etc. That will never promote or stimulate biking.

Where possible, I'd like to see bike routes to schools, especially in the USA. Children will get healthier and more independent if they bike to school instead of just sitting in their parent's car.

On that note -- that's why I refused to consider Amazon's Kindle e-readers after that debacle with the George Orwell e-books.

I've read many paper books and have owned an e-ink e-reader for 1,5 years now. E-ink has a lot of advantages: no bookshelves full of books, the books always weigh the same no matter how many pages it has, they're generally cheaper than paper, no shipping costs, etc. I can also tell you that since it also uses indirect light, there is NO (extra) strain on the eyes whatsoever. You can also adjust the font or font size to your liking, which makes it ideal for elderly people too.

By the way, I recently got a tablet and tried to read a book on it. That was much less pleasant, even with white letters on black background. Because of the bigger screen and colors, it is suitable for comics though. Until full color e-ink readers with screens bigger than 5" come along.

This little joke actually raises an interesting topic, as sign language usually does not follow the same grammar as spoken/written language. Sign languages can differ from country to country or from region to region, similar to dialects. The hands aren't the only things used to convey meanings either: facial expressions or body movements are used too.

An example of sign language using the line above could be to represent the words "breasts", "you" and "like", in that order, with expressing the meaning "very much" by widening the eyes or exaggerating the sign for "like". If a software program can only recognize signs and nothing else, the "really" gets lost in translation. And then you have to put the words in the right order as well.

Yep. Please. In the meantime, I'll re-watch Firefly and Serenity.

(T:TSCC would've been better, but it's not the best series of the bunch she has played in.)

Whereas midichlorians have pretty high UIDs, right?

(No, not me.)

Yeah, and just last month, Dutch minister Verhagen and Secretary Teeven declared they would reject any ACTA clones. (Dutch).

However, these are politicians promising things, so they should be reminded of their own words.