BaatZ - Slashdot User

Comment: Tax Administration (Score 1) 548

by BaatZ on Sunday July 26 2009, @11:16AM (#28827603) Attached to: What is your least favorite industry to deal with?

The Dutch will probably vote for the Dutch taxes administration. They mess up big stuff (data loss), random stuff (you don't exist / you have no house / we don't like you), driving-you-insane-stuff (give us back all we ever paid you because of erased checkboxes) and they're not friendly about anything. Their slogan was literally "we can't make it more fun, but we can make it easier" for more than 2 decades, but since the accidents they just shut up and have no slogan at all anymore, offering a mea culpa every year or so and still not solving it. When you're not affected, it's a good laugh with all the clumsiness :)

Comment: What build ? (Score 1) 435

by BaatZ on Tuesday May 05 2009, @07:30AM (#27828919) Attached to: First Look At Windows 7 On an Entry-Level Netbook

This is the 7100 build so for all us leechers: nothing for you to see here, please move along.

Comment: Mexican Flu (Score 1) 607

by BaatZ on Friday May 01 2009, @03:22PM (#27792223) Attached to: Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu"

In The Netherlands, it's officially called "Mexican Flu / Mexicaanse Griep". The meat industry indeed made an official statement that eating pig's meat is still safe, and the government backed that statement by finding a new name.

Comment: Why not ? (Score 1) 102

by BaatZ on Wednesday April 01 2009, @04:09PM (#27423835) Attached to: IPv6 Over Social Networks

Maybe, in the far future, we can have ipv12 where all trees will be interconnected to combat infestations and maybe even our own imune system hooked to ipv2^n so we can finally deal with food poisoning.

Comment: FOOL (Score 5, Informative) 199

by BaatZ on Wednesday April 01 2009, @07:47AM (#27414659) Attached to: Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability

Face Observation Opera Language == FOOL. quite obvious but a pitty, i'd like this feature !

Comment: Submarine parties ! (Score 1) 548

by BaatZ on Sunday October 05 2008, @09:10AM (#25263493) Attached to: Which Would You Rather Own?

I always wanted a submarine. How cool would it be to invite your friends for a combined trip and party to break the ice at the northpole ? Off course, it's painted yellow...

DNA vaccine may treat multiple sclerosis-> 0

Submitted by

GSASoftware

on Tuesday August 14 2007, @12:18PM

GSASoftware writes "Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a serious, as-yet incurable neurological disease which causes blindness, paralysis and other serious symptoms. In a new development, a neuroimmunology researcher in Montreal has developed a therapeutic DNA vaccine. The cause of the disease is not fully understood, but it appears to be auto-immune. If a DNA vaccine can be an effective therapy for this auto-immune disease, is it possible that DNA vaccines could treat other auto-immune diseases like Crohn's, eczema, and others?"
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Are we doomed as generation Y? How to save urself

Submitted by cccuicui on Sunday March 11 2007, @05:30PM

cccuicui writes "I am sick of seeing all my friends going to live back with their parents or sharing a room, we are facing a crisis. Under this idea I had a good time reading this article in Career Blueprints, at least there are some ideas for the ones in despair... something different for the omelet to start the week..."

Online file conversion with Youtube integration

Submitted by

Pascal Beyeler

on Sunday March 11 2007, @04:43PM

Pascal Beyeler writes "Have you ever had the need to convert a file but you hadn't the necessary programs? Now you don't need the applications anymore. You can convert the files online for free at mediaconverter.org. Just upload the file and choose the file type to convert to. There's also a Youtube integration. You've just to enter the link and choose the file type. As soon as the file conversion has finished you'll receive a notification email. Converting files made easy."

America in debt

Submitted by

HomelessInLaJolla

on Sunday March 11 2007, @04:37PM

HomelessInLaJolla writes "
Create debt. Maintain debt. Keep people in debt. Work them until they die of debt.

Courtesy of the "This day in history" service part of the NYTimes daily e-mail delivery.

In 1941, President Roosevelt chose to saddle the American population with an increased debt that, as a nation, they had not truly acquiesced to. The 14th Amendment (specifically section 4), conveniently for those brokering power and money to the rest of us, stops citizens, or even states, from contesting the validity of that debt.

Some politicians (in particular, then Senator Wheeler of Montana) attempted to point out the ulterior motivation behind the Lend-Lease bill:

"The American taxpayer must make up his mind now that we have given the President power to carry on undeclared wars all over the world. He is probably going to have his taxes doubled and the national debt will be $100,000,000,000 instead of $65,000,000,000 if the war lasts for any length of time. "This is what the Morgans and the other international bankers asked for and I hope they like it. "As far as I am concerned I will make no effort to tie the hands of the President regarding the appropriations. It is up to the conservative majority in the Senate to the money. They supported the bill."

And it continues today. Inescapable debt is slavery.

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