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Hi Sander, Thanks for the mini-Baedeker guide ! Did you notice this line in my post:
"If this contest represents Euro culture (and, I don't really believe it does),"
I'd say EuroVision is to (what I consider) real culture as fleas are to the dog they live on. That EuroVision's lowest-common-denominator Americanized flavor is what sells in the global village: well, what else could you expect from Homo Sap collectively ? Just examine the lingua franca of the Lounge for further proof 
cheers, Bill
p.s. I had a wonderful time in Amsterdam, where I accompanied a dying disabled Dutch friend back from Thailand for medical care. I stayed very near the wonderful Rijksmuseum. While taking physical care of my friend took four hours a day, the rest of the time I was free to explore the city; I found people friendly, hospitable. And, I was lucky the weather was excellent the two weeks I was there (in late August).
A highlight of the trip for me was the opportunity to meet in person a client in Den Hague who I had assisted in collecting S.E. Asian art (at that time I was a kind-of dealer-consultant). The client, a French Ph.D. in chemistry working for the EU, had a world-class collection of south Indian sacred art, including both Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu sculpture. Another highlight was being able to meet a world-class expert on Etruscan, Roman, and Mediterranean world ancient art who was able to advise me regarding what may be a rare medallion I had found in Thailand, which probably is greater-Roman world origin circa 100-200CE, and probably was shipped across India, and then to the Indian trading enclave of Oc Eo on the coast of Vietnam where many Roman artifacts were discovered by the French archaeologist Malleret in the 1920's.
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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BillWoodruff wrote: Did you notice this line in my post:
"If this contest represents Euro culture (and, I don't really believe it does),"
I did, but I wasn't sure how educated you were in what Europe really has to offer.
Judging from your travel report you're probably more aware of what Europe (or any continent) has to offer in terms of culture and history than me 
I'm not very interested in art outside film and music (although I did study Common Art and Cultural Sciences). I did visit most places I mentioned in my previous post (I haven't been in London and Paris).
I enjoy visiting other countries and checking out some historical sites. I don't enjoy reading a lot more about them though. I guess I'm more of a visual kind of guy 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
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Yep...and it's always good for a party. The Twitter commentary was great fun too.
Anna ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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Hey, just saw your message while browsing the Lounge. So, still on CP from time to time ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Yep. I try to drop in every so often, but it depends how busy things are.
Anna
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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0. I did not watch Eurovision
1. I did not read you entire post.
2. Why do you give rats ass to singing reality show?
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0. Why does it disturb you that other people on the Lounge post about things they are interested in, but which you, evidently, are not ?
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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Because it does not make sense for an intelligent community.
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Europop has been a well known area of trash culture to be laughed at for many years. I'm not sure it's entirely the US's fault, they've been taking bits of our (British) pop culture for it for ages.
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BillWoodruff wrote: then I think the USA has indeed conquered Europe: the worst of American
"culture" and music, that is.
We had to pay them back for Techno.
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Heard of Keepod? Nope, nor had I.
It's a bootable memory stick[^] with a PC version of Android on it that will boot any PC, even if it doesn't have an HDD. They have given one to each child at the school, the idea being that if they download a virus it can't affect anyone else sharing the computer. So each child carries his favourite, preferences (and virii) with him from computer to computer.
And a small chunk of an enormous African slum gets connected to the internet (via the traditional carrier bag router and "unofficial" electricity) and a bunch of children get a small-but-noticeable chance to improve themselves and maybe, just maybe, work their way out of the slum.
Good on 'em! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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We must have been reading that in sync! Sounds like a fantastic idea. Hope it succeeds
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Great idea!
/ravi
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Thanks for the link.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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+1 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Not to rain on your parade, but I'm gonna play grandpa here and say they had that back in the 70s. We called them floppy disks you insert to boot a computer to boot it. There were no internal disks. It became obsolete. Go figure. Then booting from internal drives became the cool thing. Now it's the non-cool thing. Damn I'm sounding old.
And there's no such word as virii. Look it up.
Hope this ever so friendly, informative, yet slightly annoying message brings you joy as it slams your post on this fine Mother's Day.
Jeremy Falcon
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I remember them well. To damn well...
Jeremy Falcon wrote: And there's no such word as virii.
I know... http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4816675/The-plural-of-Virus.aspx[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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(A likely possibility )
How does one go about approving an article. I have the privilege for it now but I can't figure out how to do it.
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At the top of the article you will see a box, within which is a line like:
Approve or report this article:
with a box to the right. Hover your mouse over the box and you will see the possible choices. At the bottom of the article are the forums for making comments to tell the author whether you liked it or if you have suggestions for improvement, or why you are rejecting it.
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Ah, there we go. I got to the wrong page. Thanks!
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It still takes votes: you can't do it on your own.
Go to the Home page: http://www.codeproject.com/[^] and look on teh right hand side:
There is a section "NN items need approval" - wave you mouse over and a list will appear.
Pick a subject you know something about (which will be more than the author does for many of 'em) and click on it.
Examine, read, and decide. Then you just use the icon next to "Approve or report this article:" to select one of teh options.
It's a good idea to include a message at the bottom when you reject though, as without that it's difficult if not impossible for the author to improve.
Oh, and you'll need a link here as well: http://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1652005/Spam-and-Abuse-Watch.aspx[^] to mark up plagiarism and spam. And there is a lot of that!
Please, don't let rubbish through, no matter who it came from, and first time plagiarists generally get a warning rather than an "Spam and abuse" posting, unless they have been here long enough to know it's a big no-no.
Spammers just get marked in S&A, and terminated with extreme prejudice!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Quote: unless they have been here long enough to know it's a big no-no.
Premium authors don't go through the approval queue so you have to hunt them down in other ways 
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Thanks for the great run-through. I apparently got myself on the wrong page. Thanks!
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You're welcome!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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