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Op 29-6-2010 20:17, ervaqre schreef:
>>> 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.

It had to do with the Elfstedentocht. So it must have been nice and frosty for a 
couple of weeks. I don't remember too much snow though, unlike the past winter. 
Still neither seemed too extreme to me either.

>> 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.

Your failing memory, no doubt. Oh, how the omnipotent dictators have fallen.

>>> 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.

That explains the size of their population.

I've heard about those 1 on 1 website copies as well. Sometimes with coding 
mistakes or easter eggs and such. There was one that basically ripped everything 
off Youtube, right? And it didn't remove those clips kicked on account of 
copyrights.

> 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's so wrong. Everyone knows America is a town in Limburg, Netherlands.

>>>> 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?
>
Because you've spent the second half of the nineties watching Cartoon Network? I 
know I did. Cow and Chicken, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Dexter's Laboratory and 
The Powerpuff Girls have warped my mind forever. Though Looney Tunes pre-warped 
it of course.

-- 
Danny.