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Indeed. I was just offering an extreme counter view to the GP. Check out this one here: https://www.google.nl/maps/pla...

There's no direction to topple that one without hitting something expensive. Fortunately there are a lot of them on farming fields in the middle of nowhere.

Gonna call BS on you. And anyone here can see why, as I will show how to prove you are wrong (and the EU is as well - this is just a way to skim some cash):

1. Go to http://www.google.nl/ - that's the Netherlands Google home page

2. Type in "Maps" and press Enter

I see non-Google maps on the first page, and the second page has tons of non-Google map options. Third page already has maps for iOS. So yeah - it's a bit different than you claim. And easy for anyone to check - thanks to Google localizing their engines and making it easy for anyone to use the local engine...

PS: I am currently in Japan, and Google Japan has the maps search return lots of alternatives on the first page; maybe Google is tracking which link is used more for a given country and sorts based upon that, kind of like how their algorithm is always discussed as working?

There is no evidence that viewing child porn causes the consumer to commit more child abuse, and some evidence that it is preventative.

I'll invite you to name your sources. In 2006 a documentary aired on the Dutch national television that made the case that viewers of childporn have a tendency to view worse and worse forms of it as well as try to create their own as well

I don't know one way or the other about the question of how viewing child porn affects pedophiles, but a documentary is not evidence. A documentary may be based on evidence, but the documentary itself is not, and I see nothing in the description that makes me think there was some solid data underlying the documentary's claims.

There is no evidence that viewing child porn causes the consumer to commit more child abuse, and some evidence that it is preventative.

I'll invite you to name your sources. In 2006 a documentary aired on the Dutch national television that made the case that viewers of childporn have a tendency to view worse and worse forms of it as well as try to create their own as well

Not to mention the fact that often access to childporn on these sites is obtained by submitting your own original content, which was the main driver behind one of the recent largest abuses in The Netherlands

So I call bullshit on your claims to be honest

Check the source - nytimes.com. Fake news! How do you spot fake news? Are they the same people cheering on the Hamilton cast for using the stage to push a political agenda? And yet they are upset at Kanye for using the stage to push a political agenda? Fake news!

Did your news tell you that Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Aso said today, "There's no point in Japan making policy based on the guesses of American newspapers when they're always wrong"? Why didn't your news tell you this? Maybe your news is fake news!

Is your news telling you Sessions is racist and yet he marched at Selma with civil rights leaders? Fake news!

If your news outlet didn't mention that Hillary got caught on tape rigging the 2006 Palestinian elections, you were definitely watching fake news.

Most damning of all, is your news telling you not to listen to alternative sources of news? THINK about that one for a minute. Who on earth would ever say something like that? Fake news, that's who.

Did anyone else misread this this way when they first saw the article?

Short answer: No

Long answer: It's only a 2 hour drive.

I live in the Netherlands.

Oh, Nederlands. Well I have known for a fact that Mastercard does have pre-paid cards there (I was looking to move there back in 2001 and I was quite aware of these back then).

Unsurprisingly, looking at it on Google, I found a fair few results on such cards. The security on pre-paid items tend to be quite poor. The trick is, you want to use something like a pre-paid gift card as they do not have a name associated with the card it self, so you're able to make payments with either any name, or a name you came up with out of nowhere during registration.

ARES quotes an energy efficiency of 80% which would outperform pumped water storage (70%), so that's pretty good.

Converting CO2 into carbon is being worked on, but no large-scale efficient process has been found yet.

CO2 to CO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudouard_reaction
CO to hydrocarbon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process

ARES quotes an energy efficiency of 80% which would outperform pumped water storage (70%), so that's pretty good.

Converting CO2 into carbon is being worked on, but no large-scale efficient process has been found yet.

What makes you think there's a bias against internal combustion for aircraft?
There are several projects aimed at using biofuel for jet engines. There have been commercial flights already that were powered in part by biofuels.
The unsolved problem here is the currently very limited supply of biofuels, but that's being worked on as well.

A strong laser pen apparently can cause trouble from a distanceto the cockpit of up to 20 km at night. In the Netherlands someone has bothered airplanes approaching Schiphol airport from a distance of about 10 km.

Here is a news article in Dutch mentioning those distances. The Google translation to English is here, but it shines to be very good at choosing the wrong meaning when confronted with homonyms.

Indeed it has been around for a while. I'm not sure who the inventor is but I know that Dutch Astronaut Wubbo Ockels conceived the idea for himself in 1995 and start filing patents, the first one being 1997. Here's a video with a prototype which was used to (partially) power the music at a Dutch concert some years ago. Strange that there is no mention of him in the cited article.

Indeed it has been around for a while. I'm not sure who the inventor is but I know that Dutch Astronaut Wubbo Ockels conceived the idea for himself in 1995 and start filing patents, the first one being 1997. Here's a video with a prototype which was used to (partially) power the music at a Dutch concert some years ago. Strange that there is no mention of him in the cited article.

I suspect that you misremember or that the one who told you this was lying. At least, I can't find any information that confirms this. To the contrary, this book uses the Vietnam war as evidence for the importance of treatment for survival.

https://books.google.nl/books?...

Check Micron

ah, but now I get so many hits on inassignee:micron non-volatile memory even for only patent (applications) that were published since 2014 that I don't know where to start...

Probably this new technology is somewhere among those, but who knows which ones...

Linguistically speaking, the whole eskimo-snow thing has been mostly debunked.

However, for those interested, I cam across this (Dutch) page (google translate). Apparently, there is a branch of science called hydronomy that deals with the etymology of names for bodies of water...

Canal, channel, and dutch kanaal is from the latin canalis, while "gracht" is from the germanic graven (to dig, in English in grave and groove). Dictionaries are unclear on a real distinction between kanaal and gracht, but in my intuition in general a gracht is in an urban setting (including moats around cities and castles) and has a dual purpose of defense and transportation, while a kanaal is longer and aimed at transportation.

Of course, both kanalen and grachten are also extremely important for drainage, where they are joined by the "wetering" (water-ing), which is a dug canal with drainage as its original purpose. In general, it would be dug parallel to a river to help drain the land next to the rivier, and would drain to a lower point, often a "spui" (spew) which would drain into sea at low tide using a sluice. A well know example is the boerenwetering (farmers watering) in Amsterdam, which used to run from around Ouderkerk to the Spui square in central Amsterdam. The water near the Rijksmuseum (Hobbemakade / Ruysdaalkade) still bears the name, and if you look at the map you see how along a straight line from the Spui to Ouderkerk there are still a lot of remains of the old Wetering.

TMI, I know :)

Holy shit!
https://www.google.nl/search?q...

Hell isn't all that far from Detroit and I have been hearing they have quite a problem with, like, 2 meters of snow this year.
So yeah. Hell froze over.

Thes guys are quite crafty: The official reason we switched to pin and chip
As you can see in the images there are some ways.
1. A sensing and transmitting layer over the keypad.
2. A camera drilled into the ATM, aimed at the keypad.
3. Good old fashioned looking over a shoulder. (could be called lack of reasonable protection).

Like the Amsterdam Coat of Arms, for example.

Not to discredit, but to clarify TFA:

While students at MIT and Harvard do cross-register, the logistics of travel from one campus to another limit the extent to which this is practical. Online makes it possible for students to take classes from across universities more conveniently.”

We're talking two subway stops. Or they can rent a bike, which are all over the place and very well maintained: http://www.thehubway.com/stati...

Or, shorter than walking from one end of campus to the other end of several large universities....

We're talking two subway stops. Or they can rent a bike

We're not talking about the Netherlands, we're talking about the United States of FUCK NO I WON'T BE SEEN ON A BIKE OR IN PUBLIC TRANSIT.

Not to discredit, but to clarify TFA:

While students at MIT and Harvard do cross-register, the logistics of travel from one campus to another limit the extent to which this is practical. Online makes it possible for students to take classes from across universities more conveniently.”

We're talking two subway stops. Or they can rent a bike, which are all over the place and very well maintained: http://www.thehubway.com/stati...

You might very well be mistaken. XXX is intrinsic to the coat of arms of Amsterdam. Obviously this fine demo comes from a developer working for the city government, you insensitive clod!

There are several explanations why this is so, with fire, flood, pestilence being the prevalent theory.
http://boingboing.net/2006/04/...

Sort of, yes. We do tend to have far smaller supermarkets than US ones. To give you an idea: there are 2 supermarkets about 300 meters from my home (separated by about 100 m). Then, there are 2 other supermarkets about 600 m from here, and after that the number of supermarkets sort of exponentially increases the further I go from home. Just look at this map for a good example of supermarket density in Europe ;-).

I know as a girl I was seeing for a bit of time was a vegetarian. She used to take shots of wheat grass juice every on a regular basis as it contained some of the missing B vitamins. Depending on how you're doing the vegetarian thing, you might not be getting sick (e.g. if you are actively eating wheat grass).

But it's not sufficient to simply stop eating meat, you need to make sure your diet covers appropriate vitamins and minerals as well.

And there are citations....

first link on google :

http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/nutrition/b12.aspx

google results :

https://www.google.nl/search?q=b12+supplement+for+vegetarian&oq=b12+supplements+for+ve&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.6627j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8

Here's some recent articles on the topic of shaping light beams so it curves or has extended focal range or dark spots

by the way the "lightning" redirection problem we originally of interest not as a weapon but to create virtual lightning rod arrays in the air to discharge destructive lightning harmlessly. Why? well back then there had been a few great arpanet outages and people realized how vulnerable we were ebcoming to lightning stikes as we depending on the ubiquitous internet to always be able to route around problems. turned out this was a weak point. I suspect it may have become less of one now in part because optical fiber now carries stuff. But I don't know. But it was the utility companies paying for the research at the time.

lightning weapon using self filamentation:
http://www.army.mil/article/82262/Picatinny_engineers_set_phasers_to__fry_/

curving light "beams"
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16936-curved-laser-beams-could-help-tame-thunderclouds.html

forming a pseudo non-diffrating "beam" --- which is a totally wrong way to describe this.
http://www.mtu.de/en/technologies/engineering_news/others/Menges_Forming_non-diffracting_beams_en.pdf

that too was applied to the lighning problem

even a slashdot articlee referencing that:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/04/15/0147234/curved-laser-beams-could-help-tame-lightning

a patent:
http://www.google.nl/patents/US6937791

So, is Doritoes going to start putting professional gamers on their bags like Wheaties does with ball players on theor cereal? Are we goning to be seeing fat kids with Cokes and Doritoes yelling, "I'm in training! I have t eat this way!"

Ummm...Fat?

https://www.google.nl/search?q=Kim+'viOLet'+Dong+Hwan&espv=216&es_sm=119&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ

Instead they relied on a product called CityEngine, which is more typically associated with local government bodies' urban planning and urban design.

You mean local governments don't actually think about their urban development, but just let it be generated by the computer? That would explain those impossible-to-navigate suburbs that make no sense at all

Instead they relied on a product called CityEngine, which is more typically associated with local government bodies' urban planning and urban design.

You mean local governments don't actually think about their urban development, but just let it be generated by the computer? That would explain those impossible-to-navigate suburbs that make no sense at all

Instead they relied on a product called CityEngine, which is more typically associated with local government bodies' urban planning and urban design.

You mean local governments don't actually think about their urban development, but just let it be generated by the computer? That would explain those impossible-to-navigate suburbs that make no sense at all

What's wrong with the Gherkin? I can see why some people object to having an old city's skyline marred by skyscrapers, but if we're going to erect tall buildings anyway, I much prefer this over the next rectangular glass-and-steel slab.

"We" made a similar island for storing contaminated sludge in a part of the IJsselmeer. This reservoir island is 1km across (so slightly smaller but same order of magnitude) and 45m deep.

Some links: google maps, Dutch wiki, google translated Dutch wiki.

According to this page, this island cost around 250 million to build. At 1 km across and 45m deep, it can hold around 35E6 sq meters of water=3.5E10 kgs of water. No idea whether it works that way, but the potential energy might be m*g*h=3.5E10 * 9.81 * 22 (avg.) ~ 7E12 joules, or the output of a 3500MW power plant for 7E12/3.5E9 2000 seconds or about half an hour, assuming 100% efficiency and no fuckups in my orders of magnitude.

I'm assuming it is easier to build this in the ocean than to dig it in a shallow lake (the lake around the reservoir is about 2.5m deep), because otherwise why not just dig it in the shallow lake? Since the north sea is about 50m deep offshore from the low countries, a reservoir of 3km accross wil hold 9 times as much energy, or around 5 hours of output from one plant. Whether that is enough or not I have no idea. I would suppose that the cost could be around 9*250 million = 2.5 billion euro, which is cheaper than building a new plant but nothing to sneeze at.

This is similar to Plan Lievense (translation), a 30 year old idea. The original plan did call for storage on land, by pumping water into a reservoir. Only problem is that a breach of the reservoir had the potential of creating a massvice flood.

As for room on the North Sea, there are already plans for wind farms to be built there. Since ships have to steer well clear of these, you could build this reservoir in the middle of it.

You'd also need bottles with a tube and a ball valve because otherwise the pressure would probably force a great deal of beer into the cabin. No gravity to keep it in the bottle, and free flowing liquids amongst that number of life-preserving computers is not something that I'd like to test.

For the beer itself: it seems you'd want a strong tasting beer. Taste buds down in space (well, actually it's smell), so I'd advise a very malty brown beer. No pils malt (3-5 EBC), replace that with munich malt (15 EBC) or even Amber malt (up to 50 EBC). The medium-roasted malts should be a bit darker than usual to: some caramel malt of 350 EBC. Throw in 2% or so of the chocolate malt (900 EBC) or black malt (1200 EBC).
FYI: EBC is a measure for the amount of roasting of the malt. Higher is darker and tastier. Low is the basis, medium the body of the taste and high is the dark color and roasted taste. Chocolate malt is still sweet, dark malt is a bit charred to my taste.

While I agree with you that solar can't be the only part of the solution: doesn't Japan have roofs? Don't they have roads? "Land set aside for solar" can still be used for housing, roads and industry.
Besides: they have a quite large area near to Fukushima that's too irradiated to live in. The least irradiated parts could be used to build some solar plants. Radiation isn't absolute so the edges of the area could have building projects. As the radiation lessens or cleanup crews progress (or even if the area is covered with a 2m thick layer of dirt, stones and sand) projects can advance to areas closer to the stronger irradiated area. Some work could be done with robots (such as laying the thick layer of dirt, stones and sand).
The Fukushima powerplant was 246 km from Tokyo and on the same island so a HVDC cable without mountain ridge crossings would probably be no big problem.
Note: I am not an engineer in any of these things. I have no intimate knowledge of the area and the land.

Get yourself stored for a billion years, go to a library, get to the time masheen and let us know of what you have discovered. Thanks.

Fortunately, DNA analysis allows you to do just that, no time machine required.

It's also plainly obvious from an inspection of the whale's skeletal structure.

The victim was found in a field along the road to her home. She had celebrated Queens Day in a disco and was biking home. Sperm was found on her body and she had a cut in her neck. A closer examination revealed that she was strangled with her own bra. DNA found on a cigarette lighter in bag matched DNA found on her body, suggesting that the person who killed her, was someone she knew. Google translate of Dutch fact article.

The "Frost piss" title has never been so appropriate here: you will certainly like the chapter "Several Observable in the fix branched Figures form'd on the surface of Urine by freezing", page 88 (Google Books index). Hey, that frozen urine crystal looks marvelous !

This is obvious and even the Dutch supreme court recognised this.

The point in this case is that the hyperlink is not to a public site, but to a semi-private site that you can only find with the hyperlink (GeenStijl, who will appeal this ruling, point out that google does index filefactory).

This is certainly no general ruling that hyperlinks to infringing content are illegal or constitute infringement in general. The question is whether the hyperlink can be seen as an act of publishing, e.g. opening up to the public something that was not publicly accessible before. Obviously, hyperlinks in general point to material that is already publicly available, so this does not apply.

If that is the whole problem, why not rename the https protocol to "secure"?

I personally don't think it's a bad idea to make secure:// an alias of https://./ The only problem would be that just using https does not tell anything about the connections actual security.

https://www.google.nl/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=massive+security+hole+ruby&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&safe=off&client=opera&hs=7y2&rls=en&channel=suggest&q=security+hole+rails&oq=security+hole+rails&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=serp.3...11909.11909.2.12120.1.1.0.0.0.0.171.171.0j1.1.0...0.0.M8PkiUtwDPo&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=81cfb75de4601914&biw=1725&bih=1037

READ the snippet google gives for the first result.

Back then, every rails fan tried to wave the massive by default security flaw as being unimportant. This PHP thing only affects those running CGI which is pretty are and BAM, it is a massive flaw and the end of the world.

Pieces of software and hardware are sometimes design with the wrong assumptions, it happens. Follow the industries best practices, or become a fanboy and burry your head in the sand when it is your pipelines turn to be ridiculed.

http://www.google.nl/imgres?q=neelie+smit+kroes&hl=nl&client=firefox-a&hs=I0G&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&biw=1016&bih=566&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=DW-fmlY-LwrqwM:&imgrefurl=http://www.nieuwbouw20.nl/2009/11/12/kroes-had-funda-zuka-in-de-smiezen/&docid=UPKEeICTXAEJGM&imgurl=http://www.nieuwbouw20.nl/wp-content/uploads/image/neelie_smit_kroes.jpg&w=260&h=320&ei=94GRT5qYI8SA-wbivoioBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=248&vpy=114&dur=3021&hovh=249&hovw=202&tx=88&ty=271&sig=114800705648495513111&page=1&tbnh=119&tbnw=93&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:68

I am creating a strip to conceal them behind. Up on the ceiling, 5 cm (2 inch) from the walls. The LED strips (remote controllable) will go behind them, facing the wall. I installed this setup at my parents' half a year back and it looks just great.
We call it "Koofverlichting" (I am dutch, dunno what it would be called in English). It looks like this. A smooth "glow" over the wall. Imagine Minas Morgul with a controllable light color (yes, sickly green is possible, although ill advised).
It cost me about E80/5m strip. 3 strips is enough for "mood lighting" in my living room, although I have 3 dimmable 15W CFL's for normal lighting. I can't read with just these 3 strips.
I bought them in a discount store. They are equipped with a double sided tape, you only have to pull the film off to stick them to a flat surface. Easy to install if you don't feel like hiding them or already have a place to hide them.

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as in my search for Kwantum Mechanics? If a combination has X times as much results with a slightly different spelling Google assumes you made a typo, but gives you a link to force the results.

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Pictures: http://www.google.nl/search?q=bassie+en+adriaan+robin
What its from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassie_%26_Adriaan

They could have written "Mythbusters rock":

http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&source=s_q&geocode=&q=37.724692,-121.880527&sll=52.469397,5.509644&sspn=6.621128,16.358643&vpsrc=6&ie=UTF8&ll=37.724772,-121.880504&spn=0.001484,0.001997&t=h&z=20/

(you have to zoom in to see it)

http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=papercraft+bomb&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=650l3477l0l3813l15l10l0l4l4l0l197l1244l4.6l14l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=802&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

They seem to be quite common.