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If you add drunk people to fitness quotes, things get hilarious. (more at randommization.com)-wraith808 (April 17, 2015, 11:38 AM)
I just saw it and thought of this thread. It's just, well, interesting. The tiny country sits on about seven square kilometers (less than 3 square miles) of land along the Danube River, between the official borders of Croatia and Serbia. According to Liberland’s President Vit Jedlicka, the land was considered “terra nullis” or nobody’s land.
Despite being just under three square miles in area, Liberland is not the smallest country on the planet. In fact, it is larger than the Vatican and Monaco.
According to a news release posted on the Liberland site, the founders are Czech citizens who formed something called a “Preparatory Committee,” elected a president (Jedlicka) and decided to declare their new state and planted a flag.
Image source: Liberland.org
President Jedlicka (second from right) and other Liberland founders at flag raising. Image source: Liberland.org
Those interested in becoming a citizen of the fledgling nation need to file an application. However, there is no official time frame attached to the process. According to the site, applications will be dealt with “in due time.”
What does it take to qualify to be a Liberland-ian? According the web site, potential citizens must:
- have respect for other people and respect the opinions of others, regardless of their race, ethnicity, orientation, or religion
- have respect for private ownership which is untouchable
- do not have communist, nazi or other extremist past
- were not punished for past criminal offenses
British media about Liberland:
http://www.ibtimes.c...oatia-serbia-1496715
http://www.bbc.com/n...m-elsewhere-32332473
Czech media about Liberland:
http://www.novinky.c...ie-vlastni-stat.html
http://www.parlament...dna-se-o-vtip-370737
http://zpravy.e15.cz...i-byrokracii-1180861
http://tn.nova.cz/cl...cany-liberlandu.html
Slovak media about Liberland:
http://www.sme.sk/c/...il-vlastny-stat.html
http://www.tvnoviny....-ziadat-o-obcianstvo
http://www.pluska.sk...ody-vas-pobavia.html
Polish media about Liberland:
http://wiadomosci.on...-na-balkanach/kjl6ln
http://pikio.pl/na-b...-marzen-korwinistow/
Hungarian media about Liberland:
http://index.hu/kulf...rland_vajdasag_cseh/
http://444.hu/2015/0...g-mellett-liberland/
Austrian media about Liberland:
http://wirtschaftsbl...Serbien-und-Kroatien
http://www.krone.at/...berland-Story-448505
http://www.kleinezei...n-Staat-an-der-Donau
Turkish media about Liberland:
http://www.ahaber.co...et-kuruldu-liberland
http://www.hurriyet....r/dunya/28745773.asp
http://www.sabah.com...et-kuruldu-liberland
Serbian media about Liberland:
http://inserbia.info...d-croatia-liberland/
http://www.blic.rs/V...ju-Srbije-i-Hrvatske
http://www.tanjug.rs...rbije-i-hrvatske.htm
http://www.kurir.rs/...rland-clanak-1741441
Croatian media about Liberland:
http://www.croatiawe...clares-independence/
http://www.jutarnji....-liberland-/1331520/
http://www.dnevno.hr...rvatske-srbije-8526/
Video reports:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=TrRccMnuiEA
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=sp9Blx7B-Po
Was gravitating towards EditPlus, but have now started using emmet (formerly zen coding) with Sublime Text.-tomos (April 16, 2015, 12:13 PM)
That's one thing that's always befuddled me... people are happy to get back a lot of money. It's your own money that you gave the government interest free for a year. My perfect world is when I'm at $0 owed or returned.-wraith808 (April 16, 2015, 09:44 AM)
#WhoIsLarkenRose? We're just laughing this time because it's "cute little candy crush".-TaoPhoenix (April 15, 2015, 10:46 PM)
Personally I love the Walking Dead comic, and think the tv show is absolute unwatchable crap. Just terrible acting, directing, writing, the whole 9 yards, terrible.
It's hard for me to put my finger on the core of why it falls so flat for me, but i think the inability to resist trying to come up with grosser and grosser scenes of gore and faces getting smashed reveals what the producers/writers/directors think makes a good show. All of the emotions just feel unearned and fake to me..-mouser (March 31, 2015, 06:54 PM)
Been watching Daredevil on Netflix. Best superhero tv show I've seen. If you have Netflix, try it. All of the episodes are up at the same time. I'm through 8 out of 13, and wish there were more.-wraith808 (April 15, 2015, 08:28 AM)
Yikes, A Guy Played So Much Candy Crush That He Ruptured a Tendon
Let us bring you yet another cautionary tale of a deceptively sweet and bubbly menace to our nation. We speak, of course, of Candy Crush. A 29-year-old man actually ruptured a tendon after weeks of torturing his thumb in pursuit candy matches. We kid you not.
So uhh, how much Candy Crush do you need to play before it becomes dangerous to your physical health? According to a case report in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, the man told doctors he’d been playing for six to eight weeks pretty much nonstop—in his words, “playing was a kind of secondary thing, but it was constantly on.” That whole time, his left thumb was swipe swipe swiping, until it basically gave out. He came in with pain and unable to move his thumb. And yes, he needed surgery.
The oddest detail, according to the authors of the report, is that the man never noticed any pain before his tendon ruptured, possibly because he was so absorbed in the game. “Although this is only a single case report, research might consider whether video games have a role in clinical pain management and as nonpharmacologic alternatives during uncomfortable or painful medical procedures,” the case report concludes. So Tylenol or Candy Crush, pick your poison?
ps. Didn't mean to derail the topic -- i do think it's useful to talk about political-related apps, especially those dealing with political free speech.-mouser (April 14, 2015, 11:09 AM)
Here are 8 great apps that make your world a little freer—and a whole lot easier to navigate.
Waze is a real-time, crowd-sourced map that not only tells you about traffic jams and finds the cheapest nearby gas station for you but also warns you of speed traps, police checkpoints, and ticket cams. Get this: The info is so good that the National Sheriffs Association is pressuring app stores to shut Waze down.
Open WhisperSystem’s Red Phone and Text Secure provide easy end-to-end encryption for phone calls, text messages, and chats. If you’re on Apple iOS, check out Signal.
Meerkat and Periscope allow you to livestream everything from your kids’ soccer games to police stops directly to Twitter. The only thing blocking these apps is that they’re only available on Apple’s iOS for now.
The Peacekeeper Emergency Response System app cultivates “benevolence” and independence in communities by allowing you to create your own personal emergency response network so that friends, family, and others can come to your aid at a moment’s notice—and you can come to theirs.
And then of course there’s Uber, the ride-sharing app that almost singlehandedly undermined taxi cab cartels all over the world. Uber is driving down a dark road by collaborating with state and local governments to keep out new competitors, but it’s also true that its ease of use and superiors product has brought safe, affordable rides to neighborhoods that never knew them before.
Here's a bonus app: Reason's mobile app is super-light and fast-loading—and constantly updated with our latest blog posts, videos, and articles about "Free Minds and Free Markets."
The Worst Room: A blog about trying to find affordable housing in new york city (and elsewhere)
The descriptions of these rooms for rent, along with the tags used by the author, are hilarious.-app103 (April 13, 2015, 01:44 PM)
We're in the midst of a tech revolution that's changing childhood for the worse. It's the constant digital surveillance of our kids. Here are five devices that are turning moms and dads into the NSA.
(1) Today there are literally hundreds of baby monitors on the market that stream live video, and many are infrared so you can peer in the dark as your baby snoozes under his Mozart mobile. Some models pivot and tilt, which seems like the sort of tool that might appeal to Seal Team 6. But parents?
(2) Then there are all the gadgets you can attach to your baby, like the Owlet monitor. Do you know your blood oxygen level? Why are we treating healthy babies like they need neonatal intensive care?
(3) Making parents afraid for their kids is a goldmine for companies, which explains the coming arrival of Smart Diapers that help parents analyze the chemical content of their babies' output. Because how dare you toss such a vital diagnostic specimen just into the Diaper Genie?
(4) Once the kids venture out, there's a tsunami of tracking devices that allow parents to strap the equivalent of an FBI ankle bracelet onto their offspring. One of these is V. ALRT, which can detect if your kid falls down. Can you imagine how anxiety inducing—and yet completely useless—this will be? “Warning your child has fallen. Commence feeling bad."
(5) The new Apple Watch is a revolutionary device, but I worry it could turn into the Swiss Army Knife of tracking tools—video feeds, GPS locators, biometric sensors.
These gadgets promise they’ll give parents peace of mind, but they do the exact opposite. They create constant fear—fear so great that you believe you must buy these things or your child is in grave danger. Once you’ve become convinced that your happy, healthy baby in her crib needs blood oxygen monitoring—or that you need to track your teen's heart rate and GPS on a date, which is too disgusting to think about, you'll be a total wreck. Meantime, your kids feel all the joy of a prisoner under house arrest.
Saying, “these devices provide peace of mind,” is like saying, “this box of mosquitoes will provide a good night’s sleep." Do not open the box.
Russia just made a ton of Internet memes illegal
Isn't 9 EoL, or do you still get security updates for it?-Stoic Joker (April 10, 2015, 07:02 AM)
- (1) as a beginner, I want to be easily able to find everything.
- (2) using a non-standard keyboard (qwertz) I would like customisable shortcuts (bonus for exportable list of same)
- (3) would love to be able to compare files side by side (e.g. my version and someone elses - but this may be another category of software?)
-tomos (April 08, 2015, 04:44 AM)
