Author: Joop Beris

  • SSH tunneling error

    SSH tunneling error

    When trying to set up a SSH tunnel through a remote host in order to bypass a pesky firewall, I received an error which I did not immediately understand.

  • ACTA countdown running

    ACTA countdown running

    Despite (or maybe thanks to) rumours that the EPP Group in the EU Parliament was going to try some last minute trickery to get ACTA off the agenda for this coming Wednesday, this latest threat has failed to materialize. This means that the countdown to the vote on ACTA in the European Parliament is still…

  • Karel de Gucht: Vote of EU Parliament on ACTA doesn’t matter

    Karel de Gucht: Vote of EU Parliament on ACTA doesn’t matter

    I have written before on the shocking arrogance of the European Commission. However, it now appears that matters are even worse than previously thought. EU Commissioner Karel De Gucht held a speech the day before the INTA Committee voted on ACTA, announcing that the vote of the EU Parliament on ACTA doesn’t matter, ACTA will…

  • I’m a terrorist

    I’m a terrorist

    What? Yes, I am a terrorist. At least, according to Marielle Gallo, a member of the European Parliament, wife to famous historian Max Gallo. In a heroic effort to prove to the world how far Mrs. Gallo is removed from her constituency (and sanity, some might argue) she stated in a recent interview that those…

  • Breaking news: INTA committee rejects ACTA 19 – 12!

    Breaking news: INTA committee rejects ACTA 19 – 12!

    This just in: The INTA committee, the committee in the European Parliament that is responsible for ACTA has just accepted the motion to REJECT ACTA! This is good news!

  • Reason

    Reason

    To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. – Thomas Paine