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.

Isn't this basically a dupe of the story I submitted back in July?

Not that the public shouldn't be reminded again. CETA and other ACTA clones need to die.

Really? You must not like cynicism. Either that or the topics he usually posts about.

Amusing indeed. I tried the bike directions. You have to bike all the way to Norwich and take the ferry to Esbjerg. The alternative is the same as for the walking route.

Anyway, I'm from The Netherlands and I just tried to get the bike route from my home to work. Well, I know a much shorter route than what it gave me! Obviously it's very much in beta.

No matter what you may find of endangered languages, it's always worth preserving it. Because what if we had not, and in the future we'd encounter a civilization (doesn't have to be from other worlds) and have no way to decipher their language relatively fast?

This.

Sure, American football sure can cause brain damage. But so do boxing, ice hockey and a bunch other violent sports. Yet, the number of suicides seem low to me. Some of those suicides could be just the player having difficulties with life after the game whilst blaming it on your head gone wrong?

Nope. There's a movement going on to get the 2028 Olympics, because then it'll be 100 years ago that The Netherlands hosted its first and last Olympiad in Amsterdam 1928. According to Wikipedia, bidding will start in 2019 and the host city will be chosen in 2021. So there's still time to see how London and other host cities deal with this.

I'm from The Netherlands and as some people here may know, my country wanted to host the World Cup 2018 or 2012 together with Belgium. There was some outrage that the FIFA demanded exclusion from taxes from the Dutch and Belgian government. I'm actually glad that "we" did not get the World Cup, although "we" probably would have been the sanest choice (never hosted a World Cup before, played two [now three] World Cup finals, etc.)

I find it not surprising that Russia and Qatar (of all places!) won the bid. Especially Qatar does not make sense. Hold a professional football tournament in the Middle East in the summer?! Even if they succeed to bring down the temperature on the pitch through airconditioning or whatever, the country does not have much of a football culture and it's a very tiny country to boot, much smaller than Belgium or The Netherlands. I hope the FIFA gets in all kinds of trouble over this.

I have to add that BREIN cannot add IP addresses or domain names that have nothing to do with The Pirate Bay. If they do, Ziggo and/or XS4ALL can go to court to have them removed.

Legalese of the verdict (Dutch only): http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/detailpage.aspx?ljn=BV0549&u_ljn=BV0549. Paragraph 5.3 mentions which IP addresses and domain names should be blocked. These are (copied & pasted from aforementioned URL):

IP-adressen:

(i) 194.71.107.15
(ii) 194.71.107.18
(iii) 194.71.107.19

Domeinnamen/(sub)domeinen:

(i) thepiratebay.org;
(ii) www.thepiratebay.org;
(iii) thepiratebay.com;
(iv) thepiratebay.net;
(v) thepiratebay.se;
(vi) piratebay.org;
(vii) piratebay.net;
(viii) piratebay.no;
(ix) piratebay.se;
(x) www.thepiratebay.com;
(xi) www.thepiratebay.net;
(xii) www.thepiratebay.se;
(xiii) www.piratebay.org;
(xiv) www.piratebay.net;
(xv) www.piratebay.no;
(xvi) www.piratebay.se.
(xvii) depiraatbaai.be
(xviii) piratebay.am
(xix) suprnova.com
(xx) themusicbay.net
(xxi) themusicbay.org
(xxii) www.suprnova.com
(xxiii) www.themusicbay.net
(xxiv) www.themusicbay.org

Note that some of the domain names have been removed since the verdict by BREIN: suprnova.com, piratebay.no and variants.