6-7 years ago I worked for the then biggest payment service provider, BIBIT, we were part of the Royal Bank of Scotland and had a massive datacentre in Scotland, I am now unable to tell how big, only that it was huge.
Well every time Sony had a launch of some product (PS3, films, etc) they had to tell us in advance because they laid our whole datacentre flat. I recall once having to stay up in the middle of the night because we thought a massive DoS attack was going on as no other merchants were able to connect to our systems... and it was just that the idiots had forgotten to tell us in advance that they were going to send in payments for a new campaign.
This gives you and idea of how big they were already back then (and payment data is not very "heavy", just XML) and how chaotic they operate.
Sending out huge amounts of data would be of no concern at all for them, nobody would have noticed anything.
A difference is that vegans don't eat McRibs and they generally don't give a fuck if somebody else does it. OK, they do care but they won't feel offended and certainly not in the way relinuts do. These do not only air their opinions but try to force-feed them down our throats and generally succeed, even in countries with an atheistic majority such as mine.
I don't think this was news outside of the Netherlands but while we live in a country with a 40% of atheists (many of them belonging to the 'liberal' right) and most of the religious people do keep their believes in private and support laicistic views (including abortion and euthanasia) we have got two proposals for law changes blocked in recent years:
One was the abolition of the Blasphemy Law, a law that makes it illegal to insult godly beings (from any religion, BTW), a law which is absolutely useless, has never been enforced and is in clear contradiction with the right of free speech which is as fundamental here as it is in the USA and is included in our Constitution (dating back to 1806). A few Catholic ministers from the CDA (a party that's now a minority) and a couple of members of the two Christian parties were enough to block it. So, we still have a stupid and useless law just for the sake of a few old farts (with the support of an also small bunch of Muslims, of course).
Another example was the ban on ritual slaughter without previous stunning of the animal. There was and is massive social support and there was a majority in both chambers supporting it. Yet Muslim and Jewish orthodox didn't want to hear about it and pulled a stunt sending in some high-ass imams and rabbis to lecture the Chamber of Deputies and with the help of (again the same) Christians the law was rejected and in a country were we have a Party for the Animals and even the far Right makes this an important point it is still allowed to any guy wearing some fancy robes to cut the throat of any animal he likes in the name of his religion. I actually wonder if they would also permit this in the name of the Cult of Cthulhu or as a sacrifice to Hekate, but I assume that it's only our dear right-to-left-writing friends who can do that.
Morale: Even in completely agnostic places we are still captives of these that are entitled for no good reason to impose their particular beliefs and fancies upon the rest of humanity. And this has to stop.
A sport is a competitive activity that includes physical activity. Gaming is not a sport in the same way that poker is not a sport and if gaming has to be in the Olympics, then poker, monopoly and yatzee should be too.
This means that the Danish are not claiming the North Pole and neither are the Russians!! This is all a hoax set up by the Evil IPCC meant to tax the hardworking US citizen en steal their guns!!
Spain is the European country which has a lower proficiency rate in foreign languages, specially English.
Now they have a perfect excuse for being even lazier...
Worse, given the general low literacy of the Spaniards they may even become convinced that the rest of the world actually speaks Spanish... not that they aren't doing it yet.
BTW: Please, MS, Google, etc... improve your Dutch / English translators, they utterly sucks in both ways, and these are closely related languages.
Well, the bands I listen too don't play for much more than 30 EUR (for a full event with a few dozens of them). And some even encourage that people download their stuff or even put it directly online.
There is a whole huge scene of bands out there who are not playing by the rules of the show-bizz and I am not talking about some crappy neighborhood bands but the Extreme Metal scene where bands issue their stuff at small labels and as most do not make a living of it they make real art and are true to their fans instead of making expensive shit.
And we the fans actually BUY their stuff, because we want to. We buy T-shirts, official patches and albums... and the best of it is that we can even mosh and have a few beers with the musicians while another band is playing.
This is the scene I know, and we are millions around the world, but I am aware that other scenes work much in the same way such as the dance scene.
What the masses do, I don' t care. I just don't give a fuck about media for the stupid. And well, Pirate Bay is not getting too much attention from me either, al being said.
How many killings of abortionists doctors and buildings blown up did you have in the USA by Right Wing Militias, the KKK, etc? Well, these are all Christians.
Recall Rwanda? That was a civil war among the Catholic and Protestant Hutus and the Tutsie based on the assumption that these were left wing socialists and both the CAtholic and Protestant churches were main instigators. The conflict broke a few historical records of people murdered in less time. This alone leaves even ISIS look like a friendly bunch.
Right now there is a conflict in de Central African Republic were Christians are doing some very nasty things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And in the way things are developing in your country everybody is expecting that there will be an outbreak of violence from ultra-Christian groups such as the Hutaree or similar.
I think that all you religious apologists need a wake-up call.
And you are paying for the moving and the new housing, right? That's awesome from you.
BTW, I have a few friends and we want to organise a Death Metal meeting in your living room. You don't mind right? You can jsut move somewhere else where there are no Dead Metal fans moshing:)
Well, easy solution, we find two crappy-ass Kuiperbelt objects and name them Yahveh and Jesus. A few months later there will surely be some silly Disney character (a roach or a siphilitic duck for instance) called Jesus and Yahveh and this will be the end of Christianity (and Islam as they have the same Yahveh guy as God).
Or, the most common approach used by document writeres: One monitor in landscape and a second monitor in portrait, with the desktop in the landscape one and the document being displayed in the protrait monitor. Works very nicely for me. Nowadays most desktop environments use dual screens anyway.
Nice and interesting info about why monitors are landscape. I was jsut asking myself the same;)
Mine was kind enough to accept my fist in his belly... well, there was a second one who got a boot in his balls. Lession learned: Never try to bully a guy you don't know in the middle of the winter when everybody wears boots.
Message for wanabee bullys: When a new guy comes to school, first ensure he is bully-able and at least half your size XD
it does not cost "more" as there is no alternative private initiative that could take over this task except if they were subcontractors of hte government... as it actually is the case.
I assume that you are familiar with the Netherlands. I will thus ask you to recall why our whole elderly care (1) is a mess because of the attempt of privatizing a sector where there is no profit to be made and that is therefore not attracting any private companies and create competition (well, that and the budget abuses and bonus scandals among the higher management). And of course the obsession of our dear government to resolve any problem cutting on the budget.
I love how neo-libs and "Libertarians" are always lecturing the rest of the world about the market forces and the law of offer and demand while they happily ignore it themselves. But of course, they are supersmart because they can spell "entrepreneurs"...
(1) sorry, ik heb geen betere vertaling voor ouderenzorg kunnen vinden.
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Bisste Deutscher? LOL
I mean obviously that "other merchants were _UNABLE_ to connect..."
6-7 years ago I worked for the then biggest payment service provider, BIBIT, we were part of the Royal Bank of Scotland and had a massive datacentre in Scotland, I am now unable to tell how big, only that it was huge.
Well every time Sony had a launch of some product (PS3, films, etc) they had to tell us in advance because they laid our whole datacentre flat. I recall once having to stay up in the middle of the night because we thought a massive DoS attack was going on as no other merchants were able to connect to our systems... and it was just that the idiots had forgotten to tell us in advance that they were going to send in payments for a new campaign.
This gives you and idea of how big they were already back then (and payment data is not very "heavy", just XML) and how chaotic they operate.
Sending out huge amounts of data would be of no concern at all for them, nobody would have noticed anything.
Yeah, they could put a hawt chick as dictator of NK, this would sell better than the fat boy and his band of idiots.
Fuck!!! Yeah!!!!
Sex Pistols !!!
Never Mind the Bitcoins !!
A difference is that vegans don't eat McRibs and they generally don't give a fuck if somebody else does it. OK, they do care but they won't feel offended and certainly not in the way relinuts do. These do not only air their opinions but try to force-feed them down our throats and generally succeed, even in countries with an atheistic majority such as mine.
I don't think this was news outside of the Netherlands but while we live in a country with a 40% of atheists (many of them belonging to the 'liberal' right) and most of the religious people do keep their believes in private and support laicistic views (including abortion and euthanasia) we have got two proposals for law changes blocked in recent years:
One was the abolition of the Blasphemy Law, a law that makes it illegal to insult godly beings (from any religion, BTW), a law which is absolutely useless, has never been enforced and is in clear contradiction with the right of free speech which is as fundamental here as it is in the USA and is included in our Constitution (dating back to 1806). A few Catholic ministers from the CDA (a party that's now a minority) and a couple of members of the two Christian parties were enough to block it. So, we still have a stupid and useless law just for the sake of a few old farts (with the support of an also small bunch of Muslims, of course).
Another example was the ban on ritual slaughter without previous stunning of the animal. There was and is massive social support and there was a majority in both chambers supporting it. Yet Muslim and Jewish orthodox didn't want to hear about it and pulled a stunt sending in some high-ass imams and rabbis to lecture the Chamber of Deputies and with the help of (again the same) Christians the law was rejected and in a country were we have a Party for the Animals and even the far Right makes this an important point it is still allowed to any guy wearing some fancy robes to cut the throat of any animal he likes in the name of his religion. I actually wonder if they would also permit this in the name of the Cult of Cthulhu or as a sacrifice to Hekate, but I assume that it's only our dear right-to-left-writing friends who can do that.
Morale: Even in completely agnostic places we are still captives of these that are entitled for no good reason to impose their particular beliefs and fancies upon the rest of humanity. And this has to stop.
They send balloons with stuff.
http://www.newsweek.com/activi...
They are doign this for years already and seemingly with good results.
A sport is a competitive activity that includes physical activity. Gaming is not a sport in the same way that poker is not a sport and if gaming has to be in the Olympics, then poker, monopoly and yatzee should be too.
Blasphemer!!! AGW does not exist!
This means that the Danish are not claiming the North Pole and neither are the Russians!! This is all a hoax set up by the Evil IPCC meant to tax the hardworking US citizen en steal their guns!!
Spain is the European country which has a lower proficiency rate in foreign languages, specially English.
Now they have a perfect excuse for being even lazier...
Worse, given the general low literacy of the Spaniards they may even become convinced that the rest of the world actually speaks Spanish... not that they aren't doing it yet.
BTW: Please, MS, Google, etc... improve your Dutch / English translators, they utterly sucks in both ways, and these are closely related languages.
They call it interracial porn
Indeed.
The site was instrumental during the European fight against software patents back in 2004... Ah, the good old times :_)
Well, the bands I listen too don't play for much more than 30 EUR (for a full event with a few dozens of them). And some even encourage that people download their stuff or even put it directly online.
There is a whole huge scene of bands out there who are not playing by the rules of the show-bizz and I am not talking about some crappy neighborhood bands but the Extreme Metal scene where bands issue their stuff at small labels and as most do not make a living of it they make real art and are true to their fans instead of making expensive shit.
And we the fans actually BUY their stuff, because we want to. We buy T-shirts, official patches and albums... and the best of it is that we can even mosh and have a few beers with the musicians while another band is playing.
This is the scene I know, and we are millions around the world, but I am aware that other scenes work much in the same way such as the dance scene.
What the masses do, I don' t care. I just don't give a fuck about media for the stupid. And well, Pirate Bay is not getting too much attention from me either, al being said.
How many killings of abortionists doctors and buildings blown up did you have in the USA by Right Wing Militias, the KKK, etc?
Well, these are all Christians.
Recall Rwanda? That was a civil war among the Catholic and Protestant Hutus and the Tutsie based on the assumption that these were left wing socialists and both the CAtholic and Protestant churches were main instigators. The conflict broke a few historical records of people murdered in less time. This alone leaves even ISIS look like a friendly bunch.
Right now there is a conflict in de Central African Republic were Christians are doing some very nasty things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And in the way things are developing in your country everybody is expecting that there will be an outbreak of violence from ultra-Christian groups such as the Hutaree or similar.
I think that all you religious apologists need a wake-up call.
And you are paying for the moving and the new housing, right?
That's awesome from you.
BTW, I have a few friends and we want to organise a Death Metal meeting in your living room. You don't mind right? You can jsut move somewhere else where there are no Dead Metal fans moshing :)
Makemake?? This one was 3D printed?
Well, easy solution, we find two crappy-ass Kuiperbelt objects and name them Yahveh and Jesus.
A few months later there will surely be some silly Disney character (a roach or a siphilitic duck for instance) called Jesus and Yahveh and this will be the end of Christianity (and Islam as they have the same Yahveh guy as God).
Never fails!
Yeah, why Spectrum?
And more importantly, does it work in vanilla Ubuntu or is it Debian Unstable only?
We still don't know how abiogenesis works and our current environment could perfectly be such a "harsher environment".
Ah, OK, this explains a lot!
Now I finally know what all these Chinese are doing in Amsterdam!
Or, the most common approach used by document writeres: One monitor in landscape and a second monitor in portrait, with the desktop in the landscape one and the document being displayed in the protrait monitor. Works very nicely for me.
Nowadays most desktop environments use dual screens anyway.
Nice and interesting info about why monitors are landscape. I was jsut asking myself the same ;)
Mine was kind enough to accept my fist in his belly... well, there was a second one who got a boot in his balls. Lession learned: Never try to bully a guy you don't know in the middle of the winter when everybody wears boots.
Message for wanabee bullys: When a new guy comes to school, first ensure he is bully-able and at least half your size XD
Just gimme a cattle prod and an opportunity to shock the fuck out of people without legal consequences!
You are wrong.
it does not cost "more" as there is no alternative private initiative that could take over this task except if they were subcontractors of hte government... as it actually is the case.
I assume that you are familiar with the Netherlands. I will thus ask you to recall why our whole elderly care (1) is a mess because of the attempt of privatizing a sector where there is no profit to be made and that is therefore not attracting any private companies and create competition (well, that and the budget abuses and bonus scandals among the higher management). And of course the obsession of our dear government to resolve any problem cutting on the budget.
I love how neo-libs and "Libertarians" are always lecturing the rest of the world about the market forces and the law of offer and demand while they happily ignore it themselves. But of course, they are supersmart because they can spell "entrepreneurs"...
(1) sorry, ik heb geen betere vertaling voor ouderenzorg kunnen vinden.