Jure Cuhalev

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14 Jan, 2010

Slovenian government is trying to censor the Internet

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Rant| Tech

Most forms of gambling is illegal in Slovenia with a few highly regulated exceptions that are given concession from the government. Most notable are Loterija Slovenije (Slovenian Lottery) and Športna Loterija Slovenije (Slovenian Sport Lottery) in addition to real-world casinos and gambling places.
With growing popularity of online gambling these organizations as well as government are [...]

29 Dec, 2009

A confession of newage virtual schizophrenic

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Rant| Tech| everyday life| ideas

Hi, I’m Jure and one of the things I do is to help people talk and work with their communities so they can improve their products or services. Often they want to outsource at least part of the talking to me, so I’m given a new online identity. The name is still the same, but [...]

22 Dec, 2009

Laško Eliksir #fail

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Rant| everyday life

So apparently there is a new brand of Laško beer – Eliksir, a stronger beer that is normally known as bock. There are advertisements everywhere, urging you to skip your traditional cup of mulled wine and go for the “winter beer”.
So why #fail?
It turns out that it’s incredibly hard to find, so hard that we [...]

04 Nov, 2009

“Running is bad for your knees”

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Rant

It always amazed me at how two-faced our society is. On one hand, everyone is talking about exercise and healthy living/eating/etc, while on the other they’re criticizing and discouraging anyone who actually decided to follow the advices everyone is so full of.
The first one I always hear is:
running is bad for your knees, you’ll have [...]

26 Oct, 2009

Arrr, Slovenia, the land of pirates!

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Rant| Tech

After a very sad performance of Slovenian quasi Pirate Party last week, where we could see that they have no idea how copyright works, we now have even more evidence that Slovenia is a land of pirates that have no respect for other people’s intellectual work.
@skatey and @Zealoth point out to a blunt copyright infringement [...]


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jure100px_colour Jure Cuhalev is an Open Source Hacker, with background in Social Sciences and Usability and User Experience (UX).