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DG is a mighty pirate...

>> I thought you people had an extremely sever winter last winter
>> already? Also, I've heard that winters are expected to become more
>> severe in Europe because of global warming, so Pixel'd better start
>> the production of his merit badges. Or perhaps he can outsource them.
>
> The most severe winter in 12 years. Still wasn't as bad as the winter I got 
> frostbite or the one we had snow bunkers that lasted for weeks and survived a 
> full hour of snowball fights each school day. I'm not saying things were better, 
> back in the day. But they sure were colder.

In 12 years? I don't remember the winter of 1997/8 as being 
exceptionally cold! But then again, my yardstick are winters of down 
to -40 degrees that I have experienced in Canada or Chinese Siberia. 
Every time I hear some Dutch person tell me it is cold in the 
Netherlands I simply cackle insanely.

> Maybe Pixel can give "merit badge production"-merit badges to kids making the 
> merit badges in lieu of money.

I talked to Pixel a few days ago on some messaging network. I 
completely forgot what we talked about however.

>> It's not always the firewall though, but also the extremely limited
>> bandwith available that connects the Chinese internet to the outside
>> world. So even the websites that are not blocked are often difficult
>> to reach.
>
> Good to see the propaganda of the Chinese government is doing its job and 
> convincing even the residing foreigners. ;-p

No, no, it is for teh real. After all, only about one in ten of the 
Chinese websites is linked to a website outside of China. And for 
about every popular website in, well, the real world, there exists a 
Chinese alternative. They're sometimes almost exact copies, since 
Chinese people love making copies.

For instance, today some Chinese student wanted to show me her 
Powerpoint presentation about some American author. The presentation 
was an exact copy of some Chinese copy of Wikipedia, with even the 
links to other Wikipedia articles still in place. The most surprising 
thing was that she was actually proud of it, and that her Chinese 
professor considers such presentations to be of good quality. This 
same student also thought the USA is a country in Europe.

>>> That cop is going to be a ticked off relic and you will be fined.
>>
>> That's fine with me. I'm innocent anyway. It wasn't me.
>
> A-ha! We have found the notorious criminal, number one on Interpol's most wanted 
> list: I.M. Innocent!!!

Why does this remind me of I.R. Baboon?

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ervaqre is teh wicked