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I don't really agree with the ruling, but in all fairness, the joke was about lighting him on fire. If that happened, I wouldn't really cry about it, but I can see how the SS would have concerns about the whole thing. If someone had joked about killing Kim while in DPRK, they'd probably take him out back and shoot him.

That may happen, Bush is asking for $80,000,000,000 more to fight his religious oil wars.

I won't touch the "Chinese are barbarians" thing.

But you left out Canada of the list! Consider that 50% of the total population of the country gave something of their own pocket, that the federal aid amount to 425 millions (CAN, but still) and that were only 10% of the US population... I think we made our effort! :)

If it's not the Beagle, it might be the Mars Climate Orbiter

It's not direct, it's the fact that teachers do openly state that god does not exist and never are they called upon for offending anyone. Portland Ore. schools have banned religously offensive items or clothing. This brings out the athiests who are immediately offended by someone wearing a crucifix. Students have been expelled for wearing head scarves, Pentagrams, Crucifixes and the Star of David. Lincoln Park High

Canada

Banning Christmas Colors

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2005/01/05/80877 4.html

This article gives a bit more detail about the situation that may make things a bit clearer.

"The jet, a chartered Cessna Citation, was landing Dec. 29 with six people aboard when a green light beam struck the windshield three times at about 3,000 feet, according to court documents. The pilot and co-pilot were temporarily blinded but were able to land the plane safely. "

Now, he may not have been trying to blind the pilots, but this guy had to realize that that is a possibility. Especially given his profession: he tests fiber-optic cables - with lasers, I assume, since it says the laser was purchased for his job AND he is quoted by police in the USA Today article as saying "Don't point it at your eyes. It could blind you" when the laser pointer was brought out during questioning.

The article says he hit the cockpit of the plane not once, but three times (!) with the laser. Stargazing my ass. He was seeing if he could really do what was in the news reports. And then, after hearing on the news that the Feds were taking this VERY seriously, he goes and points the beam at a helicopter. Not exactly the brightest bulb in the lamp, eh? A distant airplane, ok, maybe... maybe if you're a dumbass... I might believe you when you say you initially thought it was a star. A helicopter, close enough for the police to shine a spotlight on your house?

One more thing to note: Everybody is going nuts over the potential penalties in this case. 25 years and $500,000 is the maximum penalty. Keep in mind that this all has to go before a judge and possibly a jury, depending on whether his attorney thinks he'll be a sympathetic defendant for a jury. It is very rare in criminal law for a defendant to get the maximum penalty. More than likely, this guy will get less than a year in jail out of it all.

My opinion on this? This guy is one of the biggest dumbasses on the planet and probably deserves some jail time. 25 years is too much here, but some time behind bars is probably a good idea, both as a lesson for this guy and as a lesson for the "consequences ignorant" folks out there.

• Iraq - ~16,000
• Sudan - somewhere between 7,000 and 300,000 depending on who you ask

They usually do the calculations in feet, but program the lander in metres. That's why they failed last time.

Remember: http://clive.canoe.ca/CNEWSHeyMartha9911/10_metric .html

Although I don't think anything could be worth such a devastating loss of life, this does bear looking at:

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News /2004/12/28/799199-sun.html

Perhaps this will foster even better relations between two traditionally warring countries.
On an American related note, does it seem to anyone else that the President should make a press announcement and commit to help? All I've seen so far is Duffy making some promises, but no details.

In the southern city of Basra, police said Thursday they had arrested five Arab foreign fighters who escaped from Fallujah with plans to attack coalition troops and Iraqi police in the south.

The five - two Saudis, two Tunisians and a Libyan, were arrested Wednesday night at a checkpoint north of Basra, police said.

This guy's not on the fence about Apple at all. In fact, he hates Apple. I think Apple kicked sand in his face, or something. Part way through a juvenile rant about the latest Survivor episode, he lashes out at Apple:

Inside a hut, the producers have set up a satellite dish, a laptop from a useless and worthless computer company that is more concerned with making nifty gadgets than stable, versatile computers and a Web cam.

I haven't seen random vitriol like that for years. I guess he simply forgot to predict Apple's imminent demise. Or maybe he's saving that for next week's rant about The Real Gilligan's Island?

I was shocked at first why the Bourne Supremacy director was doing a film all about a now defunct band out of Winnipeg

The foregoing comparisons might be misleading. THC's effects differ qualitatively from many other drugs, especially alcohol. For example, subjects drive faster after drinking alcohol and slower after smoking marijuana (Hansteen et al., 1976/ Casswell, 1979; Peck et al., 1986; Smiley et al., 1987).. Moreover, the simulator study by Ellingstad et al. (1973) showed that subjects under the influence of marijuana were less likely to engage in overtaking maneuvers, whereas those under the influence of alcohol showed the opposite tendency. Very importantly, our city driving study showed that drivers who drank alcohol over-estimated their performance quality whereas those who smoked marijuana under-estimated it. Perhaps as a consequence, the former invested no special effort for accomplishing the task whereas the latter did, and successfully. This evidence strongly suggests that alcohol encourages risky driving whereas THC encourages greater caution, at least in experiments. Another way THC seems to differ qualitatively from many other drugs is that the former users seem better able to compensate for its adverse effects while driving under the influence.

Yesterday, Environmentalists claim that over the last 30 years, the polar ice caps have 'lost' 8% of their volume. Oh the HUMANITY!! This report is everywhere you go, and being covered by everyone. At the same time, everyone is ignoring 3 year-old report researched by a Canadian scientist (not environmentalist) debunking the wild-eyed doom-and-gloom rhetoric saying that the ice isn't melting, it is shifting, like slush would.

I remain skeptical.

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You liberals know you are wrong...get over it

URL corrected
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/10/29/6923 05-cp.html

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/10/29/6923 05-cp.html

Even Canada do not want it's private information in US hands.

Between this and the shortage of strippers, er er er exotic dancers, I don't know how you get by.

In China, the bicycles have bells.
I don't know about Canada, but in most of USA the a$$hole cyclists will speed by a pedestrians shoulder either with no warning or a shout of 'on your left' at the same instant he makes his startling appearance. Good thing they wait till the last moment too. Because fully 20+% of them don't know which side is left!

Solutions such as theft resistant covers for restautant patrons say a lot...

As for the poor Canadians. In the USA...

1)Cellphone ubiquity rivals China.

2)Stoplights give warning but only to the clever.

(hint, watch the walk signal)

3)Taxi's take charge cards, busses and trains take debit cards.

4)No free exercise machines, but planty of parks, jogging trails, and those exercise stations wit chinup bars, etc.

5)Anti-theft slip covers. There is generally no need. Some restaurants do have hooks for bags under the table. Others have plenty of chewing gm to stick your bag to. Seriously, there's no need to worry for your items, if checked.

6)Daily banking? 7/24 by machine, internet, or telephone.

7)Some of the restaurants I patronize offer these. It's pretty neat. Others have such attentive waiters that there is no need for bells. Others actually have hand operated bells.

8)parking data? "lot full" is pretty damn clear and on busy days the competing lots generally have a guy screaming, "park here".

9)Computer seating maps? These are not 'new'. Heck, ticketron and local symphony hall have them for a decade and tickets may be pruchased on line. Even the airlines have seating maps!

10)Free hemming. I have yet to purchase trousers that did not include any required alteration. Sure, sometimes they want $5 or $10 but I've yet to see this charge dropped when I reply with, "If you are going to charge, I'll just purchase my trousers at ."

Poor Canadians ;-)

I smile because it is much easier to find fresh beaver up your way...

As a Canadian, you would expect that it has NOT affected me. But in the light of recent news, I'm not so sure anymore. I'll get flamed for this, but why should your government Patriotism give them every right in MY country? Canadians are patriotic too, love they country, want to protect it, etc... did we ever invade USA citizens privacy like this? Sure, its to fight terrorism... but be careful not to damage your relations with your allies by doing so (if its not already done, with France and the Iraq war).

No, that was a road game. Summary. The trend is for their last *home* game before the election.

Erm...the unemployment rate in Canada right now is 7.1%. It hasn't been 10% since the recession in the early nineties.

This is slashdot; it's my Rob-given right to take any quote out of context, totally destroying the meaning ;). I agree with you, the intention isn't evil. It's just dumb.

Why have blackouts at all? From the DirectTV website (NFL Sunday Ticket FAQs):

Q: Reasons for NFL blackouts:
A:
To make sure the team benefits from a stadium full of enthusiastic fans.
To protect home game attendance of the teams.
To assure the entertainment value of a full stadium -- for people in the stands and for people watching TV.
To protect local television coverage.

So does the blackout have the desired effect? This year in San Diego, with blackout, vs. last year with all games on TV, average attendance is DOWN 14% (reference). This despite the Chargers doing much better (4-3) than their normal season (almost always losing). And with other teams (like K.C. who almost always sells out) with normal attendance, some (like Seattle) with much higher attendance (new stadium). I'd suggest that the blackouts result in lost "butts in seats", lost attendance, and lost fans.

Oh well, I guess "we" Canucks really can't stand that Texan swagger.

We're doing the experiment in San Diego, and so far it looks like the blackout is hurting ticket sales.

For the past decade or so, blackouts were prevented by the city purchasing all the unsold tickets-- every home game was a sell out, courtesy of the taxpayers. This year, the clause was killed and so non-sold out home games (which is every home game) is blacked out. By the NFL's logic, therefore, you'd expect higher attendance at the game, right?

So far, with three home games this season, average attendance is DOWN 14% ! It looks like even the perennial biggest seller of the year, the Raiders game this weekend, won't sell out and so will be blacked out. The net result of the blackout? NOBODY CARES. The chargers are having a pretty decent season (4-3 so far, usually we're 1-6 at this point) and NOBODY CARES. When you take the games off the TV, the audience doesn't take it upon themselves to spend $100 each to go to the game, they just find something else to do Sunday. Lost ticket revenue, lost TV revenue, lost fans. Idiots.

Don't laugh. While things are probably drastically different now, back in August 2001 someone took a poll involving questions like "How do you feel about the US annexing Canada?" The vast majority in all the provinces was against it, but Quebec was the province that was most in favor it.

No, had Kerry (or Gore) been president from 2000-2004, Hussein would have continued to implode under the sanctions (and continuous airstrikes) that disarmed him in the 1990s - which even Bush Sr's war failed to do. Gore or Kerry would have preserved the US leadership of a world of allies, making possible a federal Iraq with a Kurd state, a Sunni state, and a couple of Shi'ite states, balancing not only each other, but Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and their other neighboring tyrannies. I'm no "leftist" (whatever that means); I'm a realist who remembers the country before Bush threw away our democracy and safety for his halfbaked apocalyptic visions, sent by corporate neocons masquerading as prophets.

As long as you're going to change the subject (and blame me for it), I'll also reply to your .sig. Your childish "black and white" thinking of "friend of my enemy is my enemy" is as foolish as Arafat's "enemy of my enemy is my friend". Leave alone Arafat's agenda in associating himself with Kerry to hurt him among Republicans, while ingratiating himself with the probable next president. How does your binary worldview integrate Iran's endorsement of Bush? That's a lot more plausible, considering Bush's government's Iran/Contra roots, his allowance of Iran to go nuclear, and Kerry's history of direct public opposition to both collusions between BushCo and Iran? Or does your "true Catholic" allegiance let you accept both contradictory poles of your binary dilemma, when spouted by princes of the faith?

"TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The head of Iran's security council said Tuesday the re-election of President George W. Bush would be in Tehran's best interests

"We do not desire to see Democrats take over," Rowhani said when asked if Iran is supporting Democratic Senator John Kerry against Bush.

The Bush campaign said "No thanks."

"It's not an endorsement we'll be accepting anytime soon," Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel said."

So yes, Iran endorsed Bush. It's not suprising that Bush didn't "accept" the endorsement, but that doesn't mean Iran wouldn't prefer to see Bush win.

BTW, your post is ironically humorous considering how unglued from reality the republican line has become.

Thank you, drive through :)

It's quite likely that you don't need heat if your power interruption is only going to be 8 hours. During the Quebec ice storm we were out of electricity for 7 days. The house will stay decently warm for the first 2 days. It will be chilly for the next 2 and getting cold after that. But even after 7 days the appartement was still above freezing in weather that was always a little below freezing.

My recommendation: don't sweat 8 hours of power failiures.

That said, if you really need electricity, say to prevent perishable from going bad your best bet is a generator essentially because it's easy to refuel and keep going for days. You also get decent power in relatively small packages.

Yes, the Canadians love their government-run healthcare so much that the private sector medcial centers are growing. I don't even like Rush Limbaugh so I'll use the actual Canadian news sources.

Canadians want 2-tier health: poll

British Columbia is looking to expand its use of private medical clinics

Private medical clinic opens in Montreal

Pettigrew open to discussing role of private MRI clinics

Even the Canadian medical pot users complain that "He doesn't need government-grown schwag that costs $150 Canadian per 30 grams"

I suppose you are going to aruge that Rush Limbaugh controls the Canadian media because they disagree with you? Do you own research, folks! Blindingly following Socialists is as danagerous than blindingly following the Republicans or Democrats.

Yes, the Canadians love their government-run healthcare so much that the private sector medcial centers are growing. I don't even like Rush Limbaugh so I'll use the actual Canadian news sources.

Canadians want 2-tier health: poll

British Columbia is looking to expand its use of private medical clinics

Private medical clinic opens in Montreal

Pettigrew open to discussing role of private MRI clinics

Even the Canadian medical pot users complain that "He doesn't need government-grown schwag that costs $150 Canadian per 30 grams"

I suppose you are going to aruge that Rush Limbaugh controls the Canadian media because they disagree with you? Do you own research, folks! Blindingly following Socialists is as danagerous than blindingly following the Republicans or Democrats.

Here is the story link, ironically in a Canadian web site.

Now, don"t you feel safer?

I saw this on a TLC documentary about a year ago. This guy Patrick Critton hijacked a Canadian plane to Cuba back in 1971 and got away. The Canadian police re-opened the case, and searched for the man in all the police databases. Nothing was found. So then they did a Google search on the guys name, and lo and behold, one link from a local newspaper in Westchester County, NY had this guys name. The police went down there and sure enough, it was the same guy, over 30 years later. He had turned his life around and become a pillar in the community, mentor to young kids, etc etc.

Here's a link
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSLaw0206/11_hijacker-cp.ht ml

They tried this in Canada by implementing a ban on publishing polls 48 hours before the election, and not allowing Media stations to report on election results before all polls across the Country closed (4 Time Zones - 4.5 in Newfoundland)

But, a provincial judge found the ban unconstitutional and struck down the law. Our most recent federal elections was a free-for-all, but it still didn't make much difference in the final results due to Ontario's urban population.

They are already doing this for dumps. They have been doing this in Michigan using Toronto's imported garbage, and it looks like another one is being developed near Montreal. It looks like the Montreal facility will power a paper plant, and if memory serves me correctly -- I can't actually find a link now -- the Michigan dump(s) are selling the power to the grid.

Nintendo dominates the handheld market, and will probably continue to do so. And the handheld market is what this article is about.

What was the moral you were espousing again?

It's funny, because while it's good you didn't misclassify a viral infection as bacterial, you've just contributed to the misclassification of colds as influenza.

For info on telling flus from colds:

http://chealth.canoe.ca/flu/information.asp?channe l_id=133&menu_item_id=128&which=3

A google search for "President bush denomination" reveals some interesting information, most of it from the 2000 election. These three links where the first to jump out to me as interesting.
Bush was raised in Presbyterian and Episcopalian churches which are certainly not on the born again side of the christian theological spectrum. He had a conversion experience in 1985 when he quit drinking and has been an active United Methodist ever since. The term born-again Christian is more often associated with Baptist and non-denominational Baptist like groups than it is with United Methodist who tend to use the term conversion. President Bush is in disagreement with the official position of the United Methodists Church on many issues including but not limited to the death penalty, abortion, gays in the military, affirmitive action, and the 2nd amendment right to bear arms. The United Methodist Church allows and encourages a person's own consceince to determine what is right and thus has a membership with diverse views often in disagreement with the clergey and/or official heirarchy. They are not the sort of denomination that excumminicates or kicks people out for that sort of thing.
Politics make strange bedfellows, and President Bush finds himself agreeing with the Baptist position on public policy issues more often than he does his own church and certainly uses Baptist rhetoric and speaking style. This however probably has more to due with the Bush's being Texan than being Christian. I am a Catholic Texan myself and many if not most of the United Methodist I know would probably agree with Bush on most of these positions. See for instance Hank Hill from King of the Hill who is also a United Methodist. I realize he is a cartoon, but he is a cartoon written by an actual Texan not someone from the "outside." The stereotypes and preconceived notions we have about ourselves, say a lot more about us and have a lot more truth to them than the stereotypes of outsiders, see excentric Texan oil barron billionare with big cowboy hat from the Simpsons who says things like "In Texas we got rid of the envirionment. Nobody seems to have missed it," and in the end does not beleive in protecting the environment as Lisa does but stops destroying it because he likes her character, style, actions, or some such thing, just as an excentric Texas oil-man billionare found in so many movies, shows, etc. would. Not that we find that particular stereotype to be negative, insulting, or the like, but it has no particular basis in reality or maybe it does and I just do not know many (read any), Texas oil-men billionares.
As a fairly devout Catholic I know I should believe that capital punishment is wrong in a modern society that has the ability to easily imprison people who are a danger to society for the rest of their natural life, but as a Texan I really want those bastards to be killed. In the end fiscal conservitism wins out, and I decide we can imprison one murderer and two rapist or child molesters for life instead of sticking a needle in one murders arm. Drug users are rehabilitable and we should all take a page from of all places Alabama's book and sentence them to mandatory treatment. Their reoffender rate is quite low.

Man takes wrong turn: Half-naked motorist arrested with kiddie porn

It's very easy to second guess combat actions. The Canadian Inquiry Board, however, found that "It was the assessment of the CIB medical adviser that the operational use of the go pill had no adverse effect on the (pilots)."

"by the end of the summer", which gives them roughly a month until the first day of fall

This morning the newspaper said there was snow downtown here last night. And its currently 1 degree celcius. Time's up.

Wardriving doesn't have to involve entering the networks. You might just be walking down the street trying doorknobs, and counting how many are not locked.

I suspect this sort of activity is also of dubious legality. I know I sure wouldn't be impressed if someone I didn't know walked up to my door and tried to open it. If confronted, "oh, I was just counting how many doors were unlocked".

I'm sure some people wardrive as some sort of weird hobby, like trainspotting, but there is no doubt that many people wardrive in the pursuit of less savoury fulfilment.

I like the idea of everyone sharing their internet connection with everyone else, and I am sure there are directories of people who are willing to do so, but driving around trying to find open access points seems a bit like sticking a tap into peoples' phone lines.

BTW, I'm not flamebaiting, just seriously trying to get an understanding of this phenomenon.

C'mon. Let's take a concrete example:

• How will your system (both techcnology and human processes) know if it's "legal" to distribute the kernel today?

" You're making the false assumption that we use some sort of file detection software to figure out if something is copyrighted or not - which is not the case (you might want to read over our website before making statements like this). "

Sorry, no such assumptions were needed. The only assumption is that it's difficult to track down and verify the copyright holders involved in many if not most works.

"We clear each and every creative work on the network. When you select a creative work (such as The Beatles, Penny Lane) and associate it with a file (such as an MP3) - that creative work has been cleared for sale on the network by the artist. "

Clear with who? The Beastie Boys, or James Newton ? SCO or Novell or Linus or IBM? The author of this work, or the Tolkein estate. Don't tell me you'll be the courts, juries, and judges who will define the outcome of such cases. Or that you'll have psychic powers to guess when such cases will come up.

I don't doubt that your technology (as well as Kazaa's) could choose not to distribute some works; but to track down and maintiain the moving target of what's owned by whom is not "guarantee"able by encrypted tunnels and supercomputers. Unless you can answer the manual processes about keeping up with the legal system, I'd stay away from the word "guarantee" unless you have pretty deep pockets to fullfil the guarantees you offer to people like SCO who might expect billions for their disputed copyrights.

For example in Canada, the province of Ontario thought it would be a BRILLIANT idea to allow the construction of a private highway, rather than funding it with tax money. Lo and behold, the owners of said highway waited a couple of years for city growth to force people to become dependent on the 407 and are now jacking up rates to a level that is many times more expensive than any other toll highway in the world.

So now the Ontario government is trying to force the company to stick to more reasonable (and still quite profitable) rates, but the foreign owners of the highway are using threats of trade barriers to force Canadians to pay more and more and more to drive on their own highway!

It would be insane to give up public control of something so fundamental to modern society as EM bands. Increasingly, they are the "highways" that our society relies on to get things done. You think you hate it now that Microsoft basically dictates what software can and cannot be created, imagine if they literally "0wned" the airwaves.

Privatization is not a panacea, it is good when used in appropriate places, but can be a real drawback when a company can get too much power over the people who rely on its service.

London Free Press Article

A two-province, 10-day road tour of solar cars built by university students ended in tragedy on its first day yesterday when one of the cars veered into a minivan east of Stratford, killing the driver. Andrew Frow, a 21-year-old engineering student from the University of Toronto, was killed in the collision just before 4:30 p.m. on Highway 7/8 between Shakespeare and New Hamburg, police said.

Frow received serious head injuries in the collision and was transported by ambulance to St. Marys Hospital in Kitchener, where he died, police said.

Rudy Schoenhoeffer, 45, of Stratford, the driver of the minivan, was not injured, police said.

The crash occurred after the six teams on the Canadian Solar Car Tour had made their way through London, stopping at noon at the University of Western Ontario.

Imran Atcha, co-project manager of the Western engineering solar car team, said he was shocked to learn of the North York student's death.

Western Ontario's solar car wasn't on the road tour because the local team is concentrating on building a new one, at an estimated cost of $100,000, for North American and world competitions next year, Atcha said.

The tour, sponsored by the Ontario government to raise awareness of solar technology, began yesterday in Windsor and was to end Aug. 21 in Quebec City.

The six teams were supposed to meet provincial Energy Minister Dwight Duncan at the University of Toronto tomorrow -- the one-year anniversary of the massive power blackout.

The University of Toronto team's solar car, a low, flat three-wheeled vehicle with a dome for the driver, was travelling east on Highway 7/8 when it started to fishtail, Const. Tim Diebel of North Perth OPP said.

"The vehicle crossed into the westbound lane and was struck by a minivan."

The solar-powered car was part of a convoy with a lead vehicle, the solar car and a chase vehicle following behind, Diebel said.

Police said the top and bottom half of the car ended up on opposite sides of the road after the impact.

A section of the highway east of Shakespeare was closed for hours while police investigated.

Diebel said police are examining various aspects of the accident, including the way the vehicle is steered and its stability under different conditions.

Ben Esposito, co-manager of the UWO solar car project, said solar-powered cars are steered with a direct steering arm, "basically one stick." The car is steered by pulling the stick in one direction or the other.

Atcha maintains the steering "is probably the most heavily tested part of the car, if anything for all of our safety checks, if we go to a race, that's one of the things they check for is the steering and braking for the car."

Esposito said the new car the UWO team is building likely will use a different steering system that involves two levers instead of one stick for better control and to create more room in the tight cockpit for the driver's legs and body.

Solar cars are capable of cruising speeds of 80 kilometres an hour and top speeds above 120, he said.

Atcha said solar cars are equipped with a roll cage and harness to ensure the safety of the driver.

"It's important for us that we have to follow a number of guidelines to make it safe for the road," Atcha said.

There are strict guidelines to follow and without them, solar-car teams are not allowed to race.

He said, "these cars aren't necessarily built to take on a head-on collision necessarily because that's not what the point is. It's a race car and just like any race car, they're not built the exact same as the passenger car."

In 2002, the University of Toronto's solar car collided with another vehicle while leaving from a stop in Belleville. The driver of the car received minor injuries.

Perth OPP Constable Glen Childerley said solar cars travel on

I knew some of the Blue Sky team from my work with the sustainable energy folks in Toronto. I didn't know Andrew, though.

There are a few pictures taken inside the Blue Sky car in April in my photo gallery.

Ben Esposito, co-manager of the UWO solar car project, said solar-powered cars are steered with a direct steering arm, "basically one stick." The car is steered by pulling the stick in one direction or the other.

Atcha maintains the steering "is probably the most heavily tested part of the car, if anything for all of our safety checks, if we go to a race, that's one of the things they check for is the steering and braking for the car."

Esposito said the new car the UWO team is building likely will use a different steering system that involves two levers instead of one stick for better control and to create more room in the tight cockpit for the driver's legs and body.

There was a story in the news recently about a Carjacker who couldn't drive a stick shift and got caught quickly.

Engineers on the ground calculated the size of the rocket-firing using feet-per-second of thrust, a value based on the English measure of feet and inches.

However, the spacecraft computer interpreted the instructions in Newtons-per-second, a metric measure of thrust. The difference is 1.3 metres a second.

bang the prime minister's wife

Ugh, have you SEEN the prime ministers' wife? You'd need to pay me $10M to bang her, no make that $20M.