Located 381 results from search term 'Belgium'
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Commented in Meta documents show main metaverse is losing users and falling short of goals, report says
Here in Belgium on the streaming sites there's a lot of advertising by Meta for their metaverse. Almost to the point that they seem desperate to get it sold. Imho when a product or service "needs" that much advertising, it's probably not worth trying or even looking at it. A good product advertises itself.
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Commented in Opinion: For just $25 billion, the U.S. could jump-start a project to quickly vaccinate the entire world against COVID
On a thought: Europe can do that, too. Hell, 25 billion is about one-eighth of Belgium's yearly amount of tax-avoidance, so there, even my small country can do it. But yeah, I understand the importance of greed, politics and banking, which goes way above decency and common sense in nowadays ideology.
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Commented in SolarWinds security fiasco may have started with simple password blunders
"The bottom line: We may never know the full range and extent of the damage, and we may never know the full range and extent as to how the stolen information is benefiting an adversary."
Okay, so an intern leaves the password "solarwinds123" on Github and then the Russians, a thousand of them - AT LEAST - "hacked into their servers" to obtain a not specified amount of information that can do not really specified damage. Or not. The password was on Github since 2017, which is four years ago, and nothing was done about it, when those bloody Russians (or Chinese, or Dutch, or, god forbid, some (1000!!) people from a non existing country) picked that password up and used it to undermine national security, or so, in the US.
Why not blame everything on a non-specified intern every time something like this comes in the (already a sewer of a) news-feed? That saves a lot of time, money and, most of all, head space. Or is the world doing so great that bull-shittery like this becomes the new standard for politics and is common sense passé?
I don't know how other readers on this very high standard website think about this, but somehow this reeks as a shitty story so bad, that even artificial intelligence doesn't want to have anything to do with it. Or, as we call it here in this household: propagande merdique.
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Commented in Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
In my city (Ghent) there are already over 1400 charging points, which is pretty okay considering the fact that politics in my country (Belgium) did (and still does) everything to withhold any progress or evolution towards renewables. Good thing it is becoming economically really viable, otherwise there would be no change at all.
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Commented in Telegram's People Nearby feature reveals exact user locations through triangulation
That's always been possible with cellphones in general. In my days as graffiti-writer we hardly took our cellphones with us for that very reason. All they need is your phonenumber and triangulate between three celltowers, which are plentiful in dense areas, and that's pretty much it. ;-) The only advance for a "hoodlum" like me is that it takes a while to do so and the police needs your phonenumber, which is not difficult to obtain, because here in Belgium you need to register your name when you buy a simcard. By the time they are done triangulating, the train/wall/object is decorated and I am already on my way home. :-) Nowadays I'm easier to find: just in my workshop. Appointments only. :-)
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Commented in Italy struggles to contain virus
It's really scary to see what the different impacts are in the European countries. Here in Belgium we have different measures and rulings than in, for instance, the Netherlands, our neighbors. They have way more cases than we have, while a same approach in Spain gives also more deaths (and cases). Is it the underlying healthcare system, or is it the care for elderly that counts? These are interesting points to study after this is over with? Your thoughts?
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Commented in Employers need to give paid sick days to fight COVID-19
I work two days a week in a bike repairshop (to support my artistic venue, otherwise it is hunger-games). My boss told my colleagues and me that if we thought it was not doable to work, because of measures taken by government, we are allowed to take days, even weeks, off without any consequence. I live in Belgium and my boss has a higher than average IQ and understands humans.
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Commented in France Is The First Country To Ban All Five Bee-Killing Pesticides
Neither will Belgium.
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Commented in How Britain stole $45 trillion from India
I'm born in the Netherlands and now live in Belgium, both countries wouldn't be even close to what they are now if it wasn't for their respective colonies.
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Commented in 40 billion phone calls predicted in 2019, half expected to be scams
Yes, I already have my phone number already on the don't-call list! It doesn't help! The US don't-call list is not very effective. It sounds like the one in Belgium is much, much better. Scammers don't go by the law, and I feel like there is too little done here to stop them. I definitely wish there was more that could be done to report them. I've considered typing up a list of numbers that are scams or robo-calls and putting it up online to make a database. But then I heard that some of the scammers make it look like their phone number is something that it isn't really, and I would hate for an innocent number to go up on my database. So in the end, if I get repeated calls from a number that doesn't leave a message, I eventually block that number from my phone.
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Commented in 40 billion phone calls predicted in 2019, half expected to be scams
We have this in Belgium; Register to be put on the "Don't-call-me-anymore" list Never want to receive sales calls again? Register free of charge to be put on the "Don't-call-me-anymore" list.
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Commented in Birds on a houseboat by Martinus
There are moments in life I can't complain about, indeed. :-) But I try to keep my head down and paint on. My Calvinistic roots shine through here and there. But not today. I am splashing a bit, just for the @#!& of it. One day of Bourgondic lifestyle. Integrating (for 15 years already!) in my beloved Belgium has its' perks. This afternoon I tried pretty much the best icecream in town ("tried" is an understatement, volume-wise) and now I'm off for duck & noodles. :-) Tomorrow it's back to the chaingang. ;-)
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Commented in Come here! by Martinus
Including making the frame and preparing the linen, it takes about a month to six weeks from start to finish. Pricing for this size and quality starts at €1800,=. I'm a bit against shipping and handling, since those companies have the tendency to break stuff. My clients, if any, are from the area (Ghent, Belgium) and come by to pick it up. :-)
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Commented in Belgium finds loot box systems to violate gambling laws
Is this title user created? Because it's kinda of misleading. Not all loot boxes were found in violation of Belgium's laws.
More to the topic at hand, this is a big thing. Belgium declaring some loot boxes downright illegal sets precedent for the rest of the EU to follow suit.
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Commented in The Hellion/Electric Eye - Judas Priest
JUN 24 Graspop Metal Meeting Dessel, Belgium
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Commented in Coffee must carry cancer warning, California judge rules
Not the same, but here in Belgium there is on the packaging of butter a warning that it contains milk.
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Commented in How countries around the world translated Trump
But Belgium has made it on the hellhole list
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Commented in In 1939, I didn’t hear war coming. Now its thundering approach can’t be ignored
We better listen to people like the old man in the column. Because most of us have never been in a war, let alone seeing one start. I wouldn't know what to do when such a thing happens. This is also not from just Trump, all these war-drums. Every US president ha s started or prolonged wars, all over the world and actually for the fuck of it. And business.
Two years back even some clients started asking about it. People see, people know, people feel, but people are parallized. Like me, they don't know what to do. I understand "war" from a textbook explanation and from stories of people who've been in one, but it ends right there.
History doesn't repeat itself, we let history repeat, even better, we want history to repeat. Because mankind is too fucking scared to try something new. But, on the other hand, is it mankind we are talking about? It is one country and one country alone that is on a constant rampage throughout the world. With as a consequence that we, not US people, can suffer all we want. I'm not sorry when I say that it is about damn time the US got a cookie of its' own dough. They're not far away from some internal turmoil, even a complete crash with civil war is a good possibility. That's where the cookie comes in and the US can start teaching different languages at schools.
So, you can stop history repeating itself, by boycotting the only and main aggressor and, when "your" politician doesn't want to listen, well, let him or her feel it a little. War is too extreme to let it pass and slide, like all the other things. Belgium will be, for the third time, a battlefield for others. And the people, the Belgians? They seem to enjoy it, because no one is speaking out. They are busy being racist and counting money.
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Commented in Driving for more than two hours a day makes you less intelligent, study finds
And Belgium
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Commented in Erdogan says Germany is 'committing suicide'
Here in Belgium he was also not allowed to give speeches a few months back. Which is how it should be, I think.
So, to be on the same line, Germany has to follow suit or else it will not show any unity with Europe, which will be against their own politics. That's how Germany can keep quite some territory under control (together with France).
Edit (after some thinking): My guess is that Erdogan wants to get a firm control over Europe, but he clearly forgets the influence of his country by the start of pretty much both world wars. I am not sure if he does know his country's history, but if so, it looks like he is out for something really stupid.
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Commented in Mutant-I by Venom
It is half-way professionalism. I have too little jobs to survive, but enough jobs to keep on painting and working on the side. I work one day per week as a creative youth worker and one day per week I work at a bicycle-workshop, repairing and building bicycles. Those jobs are real fun, but I know they are a nescessary "evil" to overcome this time.
I would love to go full professional, but it takes quite some money in Belgium to start a decent business, i.e. the laws, rules and taxes are not pro-newbies. To have a start with a small workshop will cost me, without any client whatsoever, at least 40 to 50 thousand euro's. That's what the banks demand. That's before government comes barging in and taking money before you have even earned a dime. So, there, it is tough to stay afloat as artist.
My goals are not really entrepreneuring, as you can understand from what I've written above, I strive for the museums. Crazy enough it is an end-goal for many, but I see it as this: your value rises after that, it takes way less work to earn the same and the jobs are getting better, more challenging. So, my first rest-stop is the museum. :-)
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Commented in EU warns Poland that it has 24 hours to start taking in refugees
And what will the EU do to prevent the rise in crime and possible terror attacks that will surely follow? Because they haven't been doing a great job in England, France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, etc.
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Commented in McDonald's accused of copying graffiti logo – here's why we should protect street artists' original tags.
As far as I know (and for Belgium), am I the only copyright holder of all the works I make. Even in commission, the art work's copyright stays mine unless agreed upon differently. With using other people's work, for instance a photo or a logo, I officially need permission to use it for that project. I usually differ here between a commercial commission (for stores, businesses) and private commissions. For the commercial ones you bet I will ask for permission, mostly via the business that gives out the commission. It goes something like this: "That logo is copyright protected, am I allowed to use that without any legal consequences?" Answer (99.9%): "Yeah sure. You do that, under my responsibility, eventhough I am not sure if it is allowed." Then again: I am not a lawyer, but an ordinary painter with a flamboyant way of expressing. My roots tell me not to bother, my wallet states otherwise. It's a very unclear business. I understand all the photography, the biting by newbies, even the shameless taking of names, but when a company crammed with high-end lawyers just do that, they will end up on top. They have more dough.
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Commented in US demoted to 'flawed democracy' by The Economist's research arm
I have been reading the entire pdf of the report and I have the idea that "the west" is not just in a decline, but rather some sort of global levelling out is taking place. My question remains wether this will end up good or bad for us, because I have never lived under anything authoritarian or hybrid for that matter. And not planning on it, also. Looking at my country (Belgium), you'd say it is in steep decline, but my view is blurred by sentiment. I love living here, but I hate voting here: poor pool of choices and a very elitist hierarchy are the main causes for that.
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Commented in California Democrats legalize child prostitution
Here in Belgium it's the exact same shit. And I predict you some real bad austerity and here the politicians constantly say things in terms like "wait until you see the next round of cuts". Smile wide on camera. This is a very concerning and true matter, I think, because little by little Belgium is changing into a regime of some sorts.