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Switzerland: 10Gbps symmetric for ca. 50 USD/month, no limits (Salt.ch)

Sweden: 10Gbps symmetric for ca. 60 USD/month, no limits (Bahnhof.se)

Frankfurt, Germany: 1Gbps symmetric for ca. 35 USD/month, no limits (FiberOne.de)

Netherlands: 1Gbps symmetric for ca. 45 USD/month, no limits (Tweak.nl)

No plan with a data volume limit is simple. You should be outraged.

https://bahnhof.se/priv/bredband
https://ipredator.se/page/payment#payment_pricing

Maybe?

And we've got our own intelligence gathering service (http://www.fra.se/)

May be better than some others at least.

Best would of course be if it wasn't necessary and the governments just let us be.

True.

As for

Customers will act rationally, and providers will miss out on a great opportunity.

no, they likely won't. Just as with encryption. People are to ignorant and lazy.

As for what to use instead there's some companies which have hold their noses high and don't bend over easily.

http://www.bahnhof.se/ for instance.

The stuff Pirate bay / Piratpartiet / Wikileaks / same or similar people is running/supporting like https://ipredator.se/ likely can be trust as far as the highest management goes at least. Not much to do against things like raids though. Though I could THINK of a scenario where say Bahnhof had disks with user data encrypted and log files removed and flat out resisted to help (what if they was judged to? I don't know.)

Anyway for me personally that's one great reason to use them as my ISP / give my money to them rather than someone else (I currently don't use them but I've got full opportunity to and likely should switch. I user Bredbandsbolaget now but since the last few months they have resisted giving me a discount and as such I don't really have no reason to stay with them.)

Here's an idea. Most mass shooters use body armour. The Constitution protects the right to bear arms, but not the right to wear armour. Banning body armour would give armed citizens a better chance to take down shooters.

If that's not possible how about giving armed citizens the ability to defeat body armour? A lipstick sized explosively formed penetrator weapon should do the trick.

I'd like to think I'm suggesting this for the greater good of society but to be honest the idea of Jane Q Public carrying one of those in her handbag fills me with fiendish, nihilistic glee.

Sweden has Bahnhof.

Clear Sky was definitely a letdown, but apart from not being quite as scary as the original, Call of Pripyat is a very worthy sequel.

Especially if you're playing on Master difficulty (absolutely mandatory) with Ceano's Call from Pripyat* mod, which makes the game much more intense. It slims down the HUD, so no more ammo counter, no more easy-mode radar with enemies pointed out and color coded for your convenience. It also makes enemies, anomalies and mutants much deadlier, makes the bullet physics more realistic, makes hunger affect you stamina regeneration, makes it necessary to sleep or you'll pass out from exhaustion, weapons have more realistic scopes, quest rewards are smaller, your HUD no longer has indicators for thrown grenades or from where you're being shot, you get far fewer medkits and they work slower and don't heal quite as much damage, food only cures hunger instead of healing etc. etc.

In short, it makes the game a lot harder and somewhat more realistic, it's a much more engrossing experience with the mod installed and one of the best games I've ever played, I consider it absolutely essential.

It includes the Atmosfear mod as well, which puts some of the best weather effects I've ever seen in the game.

* http://privat.bahnhof.se/wb220832/stalker/ceanos.download.html

A Swedish company called Banhof can perhaps give you some inspiration. They have monitoring and servers in an old nuclear safe bomb shelter in Stockholm. Well worth a look. Pictures: http://www.bahnhof.se/pionen/gallery/ Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwlATf9xse4 http://bahnhof.se/video/movie1.mp4 http://bahnhof.se/video/movie2.mp4

A Swedish company called Banhof can perhaps give you some inspiration. They have monitoring and servers in an old nuclear safe bomb shelter in Stockholm. Well worth a look. Pictures: http://www.bahnhof.se/pionen/gallery/ Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwlATf9xse4 http://bahnhof.se/video/movie1.mp4 http://bahnhof.se/video/movie2.mp4

A Swedish company called Banhof can perhaps give you some inspiration. They have monitoring and servers in an old nuclear safe bomb shelter in Stockholm. Well worth a look. Pictures: http://www.bahnhof.se/pionen/gallery/ Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwlATf9xse4 http://bahnhof.se/video/movie1.mp4 http://bahnhof.se/video/movie2.mp4

A datacenter in Sweden. Originally a civil defence command central, 30m underground in a nuclear secure bunker: http://www.bahnhof.se/pionen/gallery/ A guided tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwlATf9xse4

check out this swedish bunker for ideas.
http://www.bahnhof.se/panorama/

Actually, the point I was trying to get across was that these photos are documented, real photos. Granted they are staged publicity shots for the data center owners. The originals with high res TIF versions are avialable here. This means that although they are the real facility, they are using lighting effects and such that are not present during normal operation.

That said, more realistic photos can be seen Here

Crazy cool data center:
Film 1 (English)
Film 2 (Swedish)

Crazy cool data center:
Film 1 (English)
Film 2 (Swedish)

.. filled with pretty pictures. http://www.bahnhof.se/pionen/gallery/ We're using this hall since a few months back now. They're very solid, good setup. Very futuristic entrances (sliding doors and the whole shebang).

Swedish ISP Bahnhof already did this. Still cool though...

/Mikael

Swedish ISP Bahnhof already did this. Still cool though...

/Mikael

This is where we have located the servers of the Swedish Pirate Party.

Part of the reason is that the ISP Bahnhof has taken at stance on privacy issues that we are very happy with as pirates. But of course part of the reason is that it's a pretty cool looking data center. :)

You can find a couple of pictures from when we installed our servers in the data center here.

/Christian Engstrom
Vice Chairman, The Pirate Party, Sweden

This place is cool, so I checked out their (Swedish) website:

http://www.bahnhof.se/colocation.php

I don't speak Swedish, so a quick run through Google Translate solves that for me:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bahnhof.se%2Fcolocation.php&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=sv&tl=en

Now, though, I want to know where I get my hands on the wicked nail-filtering UPS!:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bahnhof.se%2Fcolocation.php&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=sv&tl=en

"The environment in our server halls are dedicated for electronics. Temperature and humidity are regulated continuously, and thanks to our UPS: you're completely free of nails."

This is the same ISP that started a campaign for privacy certification of ISPs and that's fought tooth and nail against Lex Orwell - from general advertising/campaigning to releasing a public awareness-raising (open source) Firefox plugin to stating that they will flat-out refuse to comply with any official wiretapping request. (Swedish-only links I'm afraid)

They might actually need their bunker, with the way this country is going...

No it doesn't...but if you in addition to this also choose an ISP that shovs all their traffic encrypted out of the country and let's the trafic exit from another country, you're OK. Swedish ISP Bahnhof has plans to do this (link in swedish). http://www.bahnhof.se/privat/news.php?open=28

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Check out Bahnhof Internet, specifically http://integrity.st/

They guarantee:

1. only to close web pages that breaks Swedish law
2. not give information about customers to third parties
3. not to store information unless demanded by Swedish law
4. only to give user information to the police if demanded by the Swedish law
5. etc

</ad :-)>

Ok, apparently this fish has eaten a DOZEN dogs over the years: http://user.bahnhof.se/~wizard/GUSTeng03/artiklar_ moenchengladbach.html

So this was not just a single-dachshund type of fish. No this cat had a taste for dogs.

"I'm not sure if I can agree with your magnitude numbers for a brown dwarf."

I got the +17 number from here. For the record, 17 is pretty damned dim: Proxima Centauri has an absolute magnitude of 15.49. But even if you unrealisticly want to bump up Nemesis' absolute magnitude to 30, at 100,000 AU (twice your largest claim) it'd still have an apparent magnitude from earth of 24, still 16 times brighter than what modern ground-based telescopes can see. All you'd be doing is limiting the data that should be available on Nemesis to 80 years instead of 120.

"Each of these brown dwarfs are warm objects that emit a reasonable amount of infrared radiation. If it is a cold black dwarf similar to a larger Uranus--~60 K (and less than 13 Jupiter masses so that it can't have fusion)"

Aside from the fact that we'd still be able to see it, with 13 Jovian masses at 25,000 AU (half your smallest claim), the gravitational attraction on the sun would be 0.117 pm/s^2 (that's picometers). The center of the galaxy exerts an acceleration on the sun of 19,330 pm/s^s. Nemesis' gravitational influence would be indiscernible and meaningless compared to the gravitational effect of the rest of the galaxy. Its influence on us would literally be background noise, unless one tries to claim it influences us in some way other than gravity (*cough* astrology *cough*)

Gui loft?

http://user.bahnhof.se/~johanl/perl/Loft/

On a more serious note, Antipiratbyrån has been under some fire (very lame fire, since Swedish media generally don't understand the whole copyright issue) recently for planting copyrighed material as an excuse to raid the ISP Bahnhof. More on that here and (in Swedish) here.

The company (Bahnhof) also posted the FTP logs on their site... Quite a lot of uploading going on there.

Here are the logs of Rouge trading warez while working for APB:

Wed Sep 1 19:11:02 2004 16 disabled 50000000 /site/console/uploads/ps2/Dynasty_Warriors_4_Empir es-USA-PS2DVD-DAGGER/dgr-dw4e.021 b _ o r rouge IND 1 disabled

etc, etc.

Regarding the spelling, it's Bahnhof. Two 'h':s in there. This is actually a German word, meaning "railroad station". Not sure why a Swedish company would name themselves in German, but there you go. Btw, it looks as if the submitter could have done with an "(sp?)" marker as well, heh.

if said 'big object' is a 'ball of hydrogen which never got quite big enough to ignite' it would be called a brown dwarf (that is what brown dwarfs are!) and as big as jupiter (same size larger mass, denser etc)
basic facts

and we would have seen it by now!!!

OK

remember geeks, google is your friend!!

see also
http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/news/releases/2 000/00-206.html
and
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/1995/48/

Well, why not contact the author of the theme and request a port? Can't hurt... Assuming you do indeed mean Xenophilia, that is.

Like the article says, brown dwarves cannot be considered stars since they do not generate energy from a thermonuclear reaction. Having said that though, they DO give off more energy than they receive from outside sources, much like Jupiter does but on a far larger scale. A good primer site for brown dwarves can be found here .

Lastly, it is important to not confuse brown dwarves (almost stars) with white dwarves (dying stars).