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Op 23-8-2010 8:09, ervaqre schreef:
>>> 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.

We're Dutch. We'll turn any conversation towards the Elfstedentocht.

>>> 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

JISBU happened?

>>> 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.

Yep, turns out some of that stuff is actually legally on Youtube.

> 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.

I think I'd rather take a hot poker to the eyes than watch anything Real-related 
again. Although you can play those links through VLC, right?

>> 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.

And then there are the gansta-rappers that replace the first l with a -.

>>> 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
>
Then go for some Pinky and The Brain.

-- 
Danny.