Although the last time, he did offer a weaselly defense (before deleting the thread) that I copied to the Rogoff page, which arguably became part of the case against him. So maybe there is some value to confronting him. Let me know beforehand if you decide to do it; I'd like to be lurking when it all goes down.

Well with respect to our website, which is all I care about in this case, it's a travesty that any player has control over his/her webpage.

Cg.com player pages should reflect actual posting history. They should not be culled by the player in question for propaganda purposes.

Good Heavens I don't blame you for that. I'd be upset too if your avatar were replaced with a PNG:

[Event "Leipzig Olympiad Final"]
[Site "-"]
[Date "1960.11.01"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Shams"]
[Black "Mikhail Tal"]
[ECO "C18"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "42"]

But I hate all ads!

No problem, you can disable this feature at any time. To do so:

<On Firefox: click the Adblock Plus icon and choose Filter Preferences from the menu. Uncheck "Allow non-intrusive advertising" and you are done.

On Chrome: right-click the Adblock Plus icon in the address bar on the right, then choose Options and uncheck "Allow non-intrusive advertising."

On Opera: click the Opera menu button in the left corner at the top (on OS X: click Window at the top), choose Extensions, find Adblock Plus there, click on Options and uncheck "Allow non-intrusive advertising."> https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptab...

What if an ad is allowed that doesn't meet the requirements?

<Please report it <https://adblockplus.org/en/getting_...> it as you usually would. If an advertiser abuses his placement on the exception list we can always remove it from the list.>

lol How did you know I run both ad block and ad block plus?

If they had an ad block plus plus I would add that too.

I want all ads blocked. If I go to a website and it has a pop up of any kind I never go there again.

I don't want anything popping on the screen at any time.

They forced me to go to "google +" or my youtube channel would become useless.

"google +" has a HIGHLY ANNOYING MOVING BELL that gives you messages.

I disabled it with the trusty sliding adblock bar so I never have to see it again for the rest of my life.

I hate them. I hate Google. I hate Yahoo. I hate Microsoft. I hate Adobe. I hate youtube.

I know!

I used to think google was generally a fine company with several marvelous innovations like google maps/streetview.

But they've been losing credit lately - and now trying to run normal youtube users off the site..

Sure, it's possible to design a new character specifically for google+. Perhaps a lovely old catlady who likes knitting and her two grandchildren - but that wouldn't fool them in the slightest given that they seem to have collected all information I ever exchanged with the interweb.

Praise to Adblock Doubleplusgood; before they're bought by a big company and subsequently destroyed.

Yes and the most powerful "forcing move" was not allowing us to reply to comments any more.

You have to reply via "google +" and if you're like me, you have ZERO "google +" circles so you're replying to nobody.

They are trying to shift all of the "social functions" of youtube over to google sharing crapgroups.

Oddly, you can still "reply to a reply" directly on a youtube video comments page.

Maybe they just forgot to put in part of the code that lets you be the first one to reply.

<Hanh> previously posted a method to "hide your history" when searching on youtube.

<Hanh> do you remember? Can you repost that information?

With this method apparently we could search youtube and "they" would give us "real" related view suggestions, because we would appear to "them" as a first time ever searcher.

I'm pretty sure it works because I tried it after <Hanh> posted the method.

But then I forgot about it, which was possibly a dumb idea, because nowadays my "personalized related video list" is not even remotely related to the video I watched at all.

I could watch a video on puppy farms and my related views list is still full of Mohammed Ali fights and Serial Killer Documentaries.

Ah, yes.

However that is actually somewhat useful inasmuch that the recommended music tends to be rather okay.

As opposed to the recommendations I'd get whenever they think I'm just some random Dutch guy. Because there are apparently a load of Dutch videomakers who think they're the most hilarious ever. Or at least since someone tried to slice bread and chopped off their thumb.

To counteract this flood of brainslush I tried telling them a dozen times I was actually some British person living accordingly in Brittany. But in no-time they'd see through my foil and go "oh, it looks like you utterly accidentally changed your prefered settings. Let's change them back for you without asking".

So I've given up on that.

<You have to reply via "google +" and if you're like me, you have ZERO "google +" circles so you're replying to nobody.>

Really? I thought after accounts had been linked it'd go as per usual. Well that's messed up then.

I really do hope the general Social-stuff of the internet implodes. It's okay if people want to be sociable and use sites to be jealous of eachothers pictures. But I don't really understand the assumption that everyone would want to ingrate and share everything by default.

Apparently many youngsters have been leaving facebook in favor of.. well nothing centralized it seems. Which seems like a nice start.

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In other winternews: I froze to death last night, and woke up at 5am when my toes told me they wouldn't actually fall off but opted to give me hell instead.

Which may be part of the reason why I'm a bit more verbal than usual in having google stuff it.

Speaking of which, I quickly checked whether 'to stuff it' was an existing English expression before today. And it did that autofill-in thing. First thing that came up "stuff dutch people like". What the hell.

I already know what Dutch people like. I'm Dutch. I don't have to search for it.

also add
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39...

http://www.refreshyourcache.com/en/...

Yeah. Getting all those cheese related refs must be terribly annoying.

Merry Christmas to you and yourn.

Blue Suede Shoes
http://youtu.be/FuEMdfwmQTM

(This is an early Beatles song)
Money
http://youtu.be/HEnRVaDxQE0

We are always delicious! :) Especially with a selection of cheese on the side.

<Yeah. Getting all those cheese related refs must be terribly annoying.>

Completely superfluous - we Dutch breath the whole cheese-culture. Because we make our own cheese in the cheesecellar and smells tend to rise.

Indeed, the Dutch are known for their good taste, especially with fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Will you be serving any Dutch people for your Christmas dinner? If so, will you be inviting <dak>?

Don't get me wrong. Neither Mr. JFQ nor myself has ever questioned the Christmas dinner choices of our friends.

This is the best bio of Feynman I've seen yet. I love the interviews with his friends and colleagues.

Brilliant! That's the full documentary that pieces of were posted all over youtube. I'm downloading it now. Did you know he was friends with a hippie bongo player? He liked him, but couldn't "grok" to his areas of interest.