And to think their refusal to validate the UN resolution against Iraq because of doubts about the intelligence (which was the direct cause for all the vitriol against the French in the past few years like the "Freedom Fries") turned out to be *completely justified*. Who's the funny guy now?
The Republic of the Seven United Provinces (currently known as The Netherlands) was recognized as an independent nation in 1648 already. Get off your high horse. (Before that, the Republic of Rome, etc.) Insightful my ass.
Wow, you just went out and said it. For your information, the preferred nomenclature is American Ponte of African Descent, or maybe Pontifex Maximus in keeping with the whole ego thing.
So basically, boys(n) = 1 - (n - 1) / 2 for all natural numbers? So 100 boys are actually -48.5 boys?
No, wait... if one boy is a boy, and two boys are half a boy, and three boys are zero, then the value of a boy must be zero! Reminds me about that nursery rhyme about sticks and snails and puppy dog tails...
I installed the Super Server flavor of the Firebird database some weeks ago at work. Came in a FirebirdSS.tar.gz package and was referred to in the docs as the 'SS' (as opposed to the 'CS', or classic server). I swear, the initial reaction in Holland, where I'm located, is immediately on the Schutsstaffel. When some crazy loon committed suicide some months ago by driving his Suzuki Swift into the crowds at the Queen's Day parade, media were quick to point out that the guy might have been a right radical, given the "SS" of his car. Okay, that's obviously nonsense, but that's the knee-jerk reaction to the abbreviation SS here. (Or to NSB, which is why the Dutch national skating federation (formerly known as... ) changed its name to *Royal* national skating etc (or KNSB) straight after the war
That's basically BREIN's argument, and that's why the courts are now involved to form a legal opinion. The Pirate Bay may have been convicted for lesser crimes, but I doubt Swedish jurisprudence carries much weight in Holland.
No; servers who "publish" the material are illegal, but clients who access the material are not. It's like the Dutch marihuana regulations: growing is illegal, but posession for private use is not. This allows the government to go after the big cartels who run distribution networks (talking both drugs and music piracy here), but leaves joe average alone. As we Dutch say with a little rhyme, "don't ask how it's possible, but benefit from it".
A small difference with, say, the USA is that downloading music and films is legal in the Netherlands, but uploading is not. So even if BREIN's assertion that FTD is aiding and abetting downloading is correct, that does not in itself mean that anything illegal is going on. In fact, the reason FTD is suing BREIN is because they are fed up with the slander against them; BREIN has publically accused them of illegal behavior, and now FTD wants to get a legal ruling that tells them to go piss up a rope.
When I first became interested in Linux around 2005 or so and wanted to find out more about it, one of the first sites I tried was linux.com. (Hey, why not, I learnt about distros a little while later.) What a mess it was. The new site is a lot better, but I still don't think it has the portal quality that a site with the standing of "linux.com" needs. Where is the elevator pitch about what Linux is, where is the explanation of the ways it's similar to Windows and the ways it's not? Instead we get press releases from the Linux Foundation. Think of the other 95% of the world when you're scaping linux.com, guys.
Benson's Law is actually independent of the number base used. It wouldn't be much of a mathematical property if it wasn't. No matter how you convert a number, you will always see the same bias.
Because I'm going to hell anyway, here's a better clip with the street-level point of view. First time I saw this, my blood drew cold.
...some idiot plowed deliberately through the crowd at a Queen's Day rally in an apparent attempt to commit suicide and take the Royal family with him. Seven people died. Since this was live on national TV, there is surreal broadcast-quality footage that makes it look like some bad movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Vs-9tfkX0
First thing in my mind when I read this post.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
