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CountMike said:

I think it was Donald Duck. I'm thinking more about a spray and a swatter.

Him too, but this guy was real.

A Guy

This can/will affect us here too

It certainly will.

That law has so many holes and problems in it that the ship will eventually sink. I just hope it doesn't pull down all useful content with it. There are already countries where this kind of stuff has been tested and it has failed completely.

Last I heard of, apparently few (10+) deputies pushed wrong button to vote or didn't even know what they were voting for !!!!

We don't just need Brexit, we need InternetExit.
Where we cyberfolk create our own nation and get the UN to recognize us.

By the way, if & when Germany starts this crap, I will start to refuse to use the internet for official stuff(state & gov), and only use snail mail, at that I'll find the slowest delivery service too

Today I'm visiting Hive Helsinki (Ecole 42 programming school in Finland founded and funded by Supercell) to check out what all the fuzz is about. If I like it, I hope I can arrange my life so I can study there for a couple of years.

As an non-native English speaker, I sometimes hear a word or an expression I do not fully understand. Usually, it's not a big deal because context will reveal the meaning. But, sometimes I really must check word or expression, to be sure I understood it correctly.

Like watching TV, yesterday's episode of Madam Secretary (best political drama ever!). I had to pause it three times to Bing a word I did not understand. These three words I needed an explanation for were remuneration, varnishing and antagonistic.

You geeks speaking English as your mother tongue, or you non-native speakers speaking fluent English, you are now allowed to laugh at me. But for me, this is a good example about how wonderful IT and cloud services can be: I do not know something, so I just need to Bing it. The answer and explanation exist and are stored somewhere, I just need to find them.

It is wonderful how easily all existing information can be found today, be it a solution for a mathematical formula or a scientific dilemma, or like in my case, explanation for a word I did not understand.

Kari

Kari said:

As an non-native English speaker, I sometimes hear a word or an expression I do not fully understand. Usually, it's not a big deal because context will reveal the meaning. But, sometimes I really must check word or expression, to be sure I understood it correctly.

Like watching TV, yesterday's episode of Madam Secretary (best political drama ever!). I had to pause it three times to Bing a word I did not understand. These three words I needed an explanation for were remuneration, varnishing and antagonistic.

You geeks speaking English as your mother tongue, or you non-native speakers speaking fluent English, you are now allowed to laugh at me. But for me, this is a good example about how wonderful IT and cloud services can be: I do not know something, so I just need to Bing it. The answer and explanation exist and are stored somewhere, I just need to find them.

It is wonderful how easily all existing information can be found today, be it a solution for a mathematical formula or a scientific dilemma, or like in my case, explanation for a word I did not understand.

Kari

Your English is better than a lot of native English speakers Kari. Nothing to laugh at.