There’s A Virus Going Round

1982: Michel Mulders, Henri Overduin and vocals by Arianna Kraak lyrics; last night as I drove down town to have a ball and fool around at the streets I catch the word they say a virus is going round now you read the Sunday papers watching movies late at night how come noone told me yet what's on everybody's mind: there's a virus going round the word's all over town there's a virus going round it's all they talk about there's a virus going round and it's going 'round and 'round there's a virus going round spreading over town out on the street they break the news you say they're worried about the way I look tomorrow is another day you don't believe a word I say there's…

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Unblurring in streetview

Dear Google, I find it quite abusive how you tend to use your own product (gmail, of all) to communicate to your users telling them you are *not able* to communicate per e-mail, by using a "no-reply@google.com" from-field. Furthermore, it is highly illogical for you to switch areas to be blurred in streetview, and then claim there is no switching it off at all. How is it even possible then, for Google to know which areas need to be blurred and which do not have to be blurred ? What kind of strange code do you use, where you seem unable to use proper switches (i.e. either ON or OFF, like with every normal switch)? Here's an idea: Out of your gigantic for-profit earnings, put 100k a year…

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‘Random’ Words To Describe Grid-Locations On Earth?

what3words? Tried using it, for about a month, only to find nobody was prepared to also install the app, or remember 3 words chosen by an unknown third party, or clicking "Navigate to" in that app and then opening Google Maps, while having been obliged to create an account with them, which by that point on android phones is already being milked as advertiser food because they're opened using just 1 Google account that happens to be on the same device. It's just another deep hole towards collecting big data from innocent android users. If anything, it seems to be trying to patent location info, which is ridiculous. And the "///" seem to be a way to induce thoughts of a protocol being used, but it isn't really…

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Leef en laten leven?

Da's wel erg makkelijk hè? Asociaal herrie maken, en dan zeggen dat de ander dat moet tolereren omdat ze leven in een grote stad. Zo groot is die stad trouwens niet. Bangkok, *dat* is een grote stad. Daar is het, naar verhouding tot het verkeer en aantal mensen, muisstil, viel me op. Je mag best geluid maken, maar wij leerden als kinderen om *niet te hard* te praten op straat, en zeker niet 's avonds, wij leerden rekening te houden met wat anderen misschien als afleidend of storend zouden kunnen ervaren. Ook dieren trouwens, in een bos bijv. Als je in de natuur met heel veel hard getetter kinderen hoort kwebbelen, en de ouders/groepsleiders zeggen daar niets van, dan weet ik al meteen hoe laat het is. Een…

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Julian made into human trafficking victim

And the massive government corruption prevails. Shame on America. Shame on Lenin Moreno. Shame on the UK and Australia for not even standing up against the former two. Shame on the mass media who manufactured consent for this. Shame on the sniveling empire sycophants cheering right now for an Orwellian assault on press freedoms. Shame on all European governments (including my own) for remaining silent slaves of the US-led torture regime keeping Assange imprisoned and offline. Human rights? Show me where to find any have been watched after for this case. You can't. They are scum and they know it. It's thuggery at its finest. The US, UK and Swedish judicial processes are a complete illegal joke, insults to any civilized community. Those working for police and justice…

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Google does not seem to understand what email is about..

Sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? Clearly Gmail use their Spam 'detection' as a non-stop alpha version test-system, there's generally an alarming number of false positives in their Spam folder, or, wait, they don't call it a folder, they *label* it as being spam. I have been running my own mail-server(s) ever since the BBS/fidonet days in the 1990s, and I can assure you, the reader; I do know how email works, I know what each header in an email means, I know why and when it gets blocked, bounced, deferred, queued, tagged, blacklisted, you name it. Been there, done it all. And that's why I'm so fed up with google's attempts to monopolize the email-sphere by forcing all other mail service providers to jump through unpredictable hoops in order…

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Severe blow to the free and open internet (for the average Jane&Joe)

So, Articles 11 and 13 have been approved by MEPs. Very bad news for the internet. Unless member states push back, Google News (among others) will shut down across the EU and all kinds of censorship mechanisms will become widespread. Creators and social media will not benefit. Amazing how time and time again those sociopaths in powerful positions, when they see something that works well, they manage to fuck it all up. GDPR also proved to be a disaster for internet in the EU but this will be even worse. And, as always, apparently the MEP's that voted in favor didn't even know what they are really voting on, because the result will just be the total opposite of what they hoped to achieve; - It will be…

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The unfathomable nonsense religion of ‘mining cryptocurrency’

Fun fact; Blockchain technology doesn't require any mining AT ALL, no cracking hashes, no crunching of numbers. Another fun fact: A good reliable functional cryptocurrency does not require mining AT ALL. It's an insane idea brought forward by virtual value backed by nothing (about the same as the one behind the dollar and euro today), implying that one has to do 'something special' in order to create new currency. A so-called 'proof of work' consensus algorithm. Completely unneeded. Mining is a deplorable wasteful mechanism by which only retards think they 'create value'. Mathematical and cryptography advancements have long surpassed any requirement of having to crunch numbers in order to 'create' new virtual currency. Funniest fact: Bitcoin creation ends when a set amount of them has been created by…

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The stupidity-bubble of the moral majority

Pilger tells it like it is. Senior international lawyers of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded with good reason that Assange was being illegally detained - and further rejected the appeal by the UK - because there is no real case and no real investigation in progress against Assange. The UK gov (or the entire West's governments for that matter) didn't like the United Nations Human Rights Council's verdict, just puts that aside as if we, the people, are all idiots and didn't catch that corruption of justice. It's truly pathetic, and *all* our governments (and media) have handled this like enormous assholes. They all can't handle the truth, claiming "why doesn't he step outside?". Some people apparently missed what happened to Manning, and since…

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