Free Linux ebooks
Good old boards.ie, found a link there to a site with lots of good Linux ebooks.
Update: After getting completely hammered and exhausting their bandwidth, it looks like this site is gone.
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Archive for March, 2006
Ryanair in landing-near-to-destination shocker
A Ryanair fight from Liverpool to Derry last night landed at a British army base rather than the City of Derry airport, which is 6 miles away.
Yes, I’m still laughing.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Village People cop in custoday after breaking bail. This is cracking me up.
I passed, by the way.
70-298 down, 6 more to go!
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Is this ironic?
Is the fact that I’m doing all my studying for MCSE2003 exams on a Linux box more than a little ironic?
/strokes Ubuntu 5.10
Cats are such easy targets
06.03.24 Humour |
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Quality PC on offer at Aldi again
Aldi have the very nice Medion MD8800 PC for 1100 euros again next Thursday. Good price for a good PC.
People are discussing it here. They’ve also got some 250GB external hard disks, TFT monitors and a few other bits and bobs.
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Germany’s crazy church tax
06.03.23 General |
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Apparently, all Germans that are members of a number of established religions (mostly Catholics and Protestants), are required to pay a “church tax“, which is 9% of their income tax.
Reminds me of tithes from the middle ages.
And, hilariously, the non-religious don’t pay any church tax, or any other extra tax in its place. DW-World reports that this is causing millions to leave the church in Germany - Once a person declares to state authorities that they are no longer a member of one of the religions involved, they no longer have to pay church tax, saving themselves a lot of money.
The German state collects billions of euros each year in church tax, and passes it on to the religions involved.
As an atheist I find this both hilarious and disturbing. Hilarious that the religious are getting hit with extra taxes, and disturbing that the state actually goes along with fundraising for them.
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