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DG is a mighty pirate...

>> 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.

I kind of forgot why we are talking about winter while it is summer.

>> 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.

Hey, my memory is not failing! I still remember when this

>> 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.

Hmmm, the closest Youtube clone I can think of is Youku, but these 
days it doesn't look like Youtube anymore. There are some good things 
about these Chinese sites though. For example, since Chinese reply 
with WTF when you say copyright, many full-length movies can be found 
on Chinese video sites. I find this useful for when you like to see a 
particular scene of some movie, but cannot be bothered to download the 
torrent. 

There is also an extremely popular website (Xunlei Kankan) which uses 
bittorrent technology, but allows you to watch it only on an http 
website so that the company can put on a shitload of ads there. This 
also means you cannot use regular bittorrent clients and need to 
install a browser plugin (works best with IE6, which has a market 
share of 95% in China). In addition, almost all of these movies have 
been encoded in the Real Media format, you know, from Real Player 
which we all hated ten years ago and vowed never again to install on 
our computers. Chinese use it because it is pretty much the only 
cracked encoding program translated into Chinese. Anyhow, if you can 
see through the ads (Chinese have no idea what an ad blocker is) it 
works pretty much okay. Of course, that is if you use Windows with 
IE6. For Linux users such as myself, it doesn't work.

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

Nobody here knows the Netherlands, they all call it Holland! Actually, 
even many people from Holland call the Netherlands Holland, and I also 
know many people from the Netherlands, but not from Holland, who call 
the Netherlands Holland.

>> 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.

Oh...I need to watch Dexter's Laborator NOW

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