Untimely meditations
One man's thoughts, observations and rants
Welcome to the personal blog of Joop Beris. I blog about a wide variety of topics, ranging from atheism to information security and lots in between. I welcome feedback on my articles but there are some guidelines. Feel free to share articles you like by using the sharing buttons but please give me credit if you want to share something. Also, check out my privacy policy and other legalese.
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Latest posts
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Vigilance remains necessary
Not one week after the crushing defeat suffered by ACTA in the European Parliament, comes another trade agreement fresh on its heels. This time, it is called CETA (Canada-EU Trade Agreement), a trade agreement between Canada and the European Union. Rather worryingly, certain provisions of the CETA text seem to be copied and pasted from…
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Victory! EU Parliament rejects ACTA
In what can only be called a crushing defeat, the European Parliament decided today, around 1 PM to say “No” to ACTA! With a vote count of 478 against to 39 for ACTA, we can finally say that this insidious treaty is now dead.
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. – Robert Bulwer-Lytton
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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.
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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…
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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…
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“You are created to love eternally a woman.” Are you saying people cant be gay?!
Yep. We are born, we live outof our innate fear of deathand our love of life. Then we die at…
The universe is random and infinite. How can these things exist without a creator??? Maybe because if you look closely…
Here is a simple analogy to prove this theory wrong. You have a box of donuts, you put it in…
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“There are two different kinds of people in the world: those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher
This makes so much sense!