Scientology in Belgium is interesting to say the least

* A lot of extreme right wing politicians has something to do with Scientology.
- Johan Demol - ex-member of a extreme right wing organisation "Front de la Jeunesse" , also ex-cop and ex-politician.
- When there is something in the news about Scientology in most cases you will see Hugo coveliers being interviewed as their laywer (who also have made some appearances in Scientology videos) spouting the same "religion prosecution" bullshit.

* Scientology tries to infiltrate into our government and organisations
- The secret service suddenly stopped working with the communication firm Nextel because of the fact that is has close ties with Scientology. What incident happened is a mystery.
- In the Flemish parlement there was a partner company (Ideas) of Hewlett Packerd that provided certain services that was a Scientology company. There was a lot of uproar because it came out that Scientology companies provided services to the Ministry of Defense, Local affairs and Social Services. Those departments that have very sensitive data... . Also because there are documented cases where in the nineties they also tried to infiltrate the French and German government departments.

* They over-flooded Belgian libraries with free (propaganda) material and books written by hubert.

Scientology is an extremely dangerous organisation. If it was me I would already put out International Arrest Warrant for the leaders of this dangerous cult.

The A10 machines runs ubuntu/linux for a while you know... The accelerated x11 drivers suck, but rpi as a desktop isn't partically a party also.

The problem is that the movie industry sees it as the new cash cow.

* When you look at good movies like Avatar and Hugo you will notice that there is such a thing as doing 3D right. The problem is that this is not the case for most movies.

* Most movies available are (bad) conversions of movies that where never produced with 3D in mind.

* It is ridiculous expensive not only the movie tickets but you need to see the prices they are asking for one stupid 3D movie here in this country. 28 a 35 euro's... And then they complain those things aren't selling even if a lot of people have 3D tv's at home (as you weren't able for a period of time to buy tv's without 3D)

I hated 3D because the active glasses made me sick and gave me headaches, with the passive versions I don't have a problem.

Insurance has been raising for a couple of years as there is an increase of natural disasters that are purely related to the weather.

Regardles of the who and what, but the climate is changing noticable. Normally at these part in this time of year it is freezing but now we are getting temperatures in the range of 15-18 degrees. We also have more floods then in the previous years. It may be warmer, but we also have a lot more rain.

...and there is no reason they couldn't include higher resolution screens...or better keyboards. You could use them exactly like you would a tablet or a keyboard

Then you still have the clumsiness of the form. A tablet is a thousand time easier to pick up and to handle in different situations.

I'm gonna let you into a secret people create content *all* the time from tweets to email to photos MORE than they ever have.What has lost importance is Office.

And for that kind of content (pictures, tweets) what is the added value of a computer ? Nothing. When I speak about "creating content" I'm talking about situations like office, photoshopping, etc. I surely wouldn't put office in the same range of sending a 140 character message, the average e-mail or taking a picture.

For me that is one THE biggest reasons that Microsoft will fail in mobile space. Office isn't that a big deal for the general (let me stress the general non techie group which is the biggest market) public so Office on tablet isn't that big USP like they make it to be. But then again the average nerd, developer, ... really doesn't understand the general public that much. They always tend to see their perspective and then they are baffled about the popularity of certain things or even brands like Apple.

I find it funny that people - then again the inmates are still running the asylum in tech land - still make fad claims or make the comparisons with netbooks.

I found netbooks clumsy devices because of the small (lower res) screens and the small ficky keyboards. Even today I still don't see any good use for them.

Tablets on the other hand are mostly content consuming* devices and regarding their usefulness in that regards, they are miles away from more PC. Hell they are not even on the same planet. For surfing/reading/... from my coach, on the train,.. I would pick a tablet over a laptop on any day. Hell if I'm in the same room as my PC and I have the tablet at hand, I mostly will pick up the second one.

* I'm gonna let you into a little secret most of the population don't use computers to create content... .

I was always under the impression his reasoning had to do with his irrational hatred agains iDevice users. When you explain your actions with "I don't care for iDevice users" there isn't much room for discussion.

Now when looking at his resume which is plasterd with Nokia adventures, I have the feeling it has a lot more to do with butthurt and frustration regarding the downfall of Nokia.

The whole freedom, fsf, whatever claim seems also weird for somebody that mentions different software patents on his resume. I find it kind of hypocritical for somebod with high freedom morals.

Seeing his works relations with Nokia I want to bet on it, nithing will happen. That ks typical for such kind of people.

The abuse of FRAND patents is more dangerous then design patents. The latter is something you can work around, which is not the case of patents that are essential for standards.

It is a shame that it as popular to hate Apple as owning iDevices, as it is something that even is applaud just because it is used against Apple. But if you forget the names it is a very disturbing trend.

It baffles me that I know a lot of people against SW patents, but then are cheerleading when a Nokia, Motorola or Samsung is playing the FRAND card. And don't start that the enemy of my enemy, BS. You can't be a little against software patents.

Yeah not because of commercial motives of sellong adwords, but because they want to give stroke victims their clarity of speech back.

Are you serious ? It would be nice if they can pull it off, but lets not pretend that Google is an philantric institution. These things are pure marketing like we see a lot, but never go very concrete.

Switzerland issues fully automatic assault rifles (real assault rifles, not just "scary looking semi-autos") to every mentally competent male of military-eligible age.

What I really find weird as a European is that gun loving Americans always tend to point to Switzerland. I think there is a lot of misinterpretation regarding swiss gun politics as it totally different of the situation in the states.

* There is mandatory yearly training for people that are a member of that militia.
* As of 2007 they don't issue personal ammo. Only special rapid deployment & military police has ammo stored at home.
* When a person service is ended and he wants to keep the weapon it is first sent to the factory to remove the automatic feature. * The sales of automatic weapons and silencers is forbidden.
* To carry a gun you need to have a "Waffentragschein" permit which in most cases is only given to private persons working in security
* To buy a weapon as a private citizen is regarding permits and background checks not that much different as in most European countries. Switzerland is also a Schengen country.

The swiss gun politics in no way is that similar as in the States.

On the internet I have seen members of the nintendo defence force but the blame on governments, but the reality is that a Microsoft or Sony also operates in the same markets and they don't have such a moronic way of dealing with this.

Why they just do 't check the age based on the birthday, a checkbox or whatever... You know how like xbox live, psn or even steam handles it.

Nintendo and technology... It is like announcing cloud saves and tying an account to a single machine... Oh wait. Really when nintendo is in involved it really doesn't surprises me one bit.

Is that why they are so much pushing casual and kid games like Batman and COD ? The WiiU has been released today in Europe and seeing what is available as launch titles, I would hardly call it targeted at the "casual" and "young" crowd... . Give me a break, really that old "Wii" explanation doesn't fly with the WiiU.

What really struck me as odd is that you pay 100 euro's more for a system that produces the same kind of visuals (maybe with less performance) then a xbox 360 or PS3. The WiiU totally doesn't make any sense... it WOULD make sense if it was targeted at "casual" and kids but then again a 300-350 euro costing system is really stretching it.

it doesn't seem very humble to make this about indie's, linux or DRM. For me the spirit is about charities more then some technicalities. The complaining will do more harm for those causes then for humble bundle releasing this bundle from a general public pov.

It also struck me as odd because one of the main selling points in the gaming community is that you can get steamkeys... . And seeing how succesfull this bundle is, boy what a mistake...