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I'm not sure which one that is. Maybe you found an F-Scale test? That's outdated. You might try the survey from Altemeyer's paper, I think it's in Chapter 1: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

This simplistic and damaging law-making gets traction because of the people who are overly punitive.

That trait of excessive eagerness to punish is often coupled with these other traits:

• conventionalism
• authoritarian submission
• authoritarian aggression
• anti-intraception (anti-{need to analyze behaviors and feelings of others})
• superstition and belief stereotypy
• power and "toughness"
• destructiveness and cynicism
• projectivity
• exaggerated concerns over sexuality

Authoritarian Personality WP article

"The Authoritarians" paper

This is what's referred to as the "b-b-but ... Clinton!" response. A perceived attack against a "groupist's" in-group generates a retaliatory attack against the groupist's main out-group.

(It can happen among so-called "liberals" as well, but tends to happen overwhelmingly more often among "conservatives", thus the "b-b-but ... Clinton!" label. (Actually a bit ironic... A better label is solicited.))

This kind of dog pack, "Us v. Them" mentality, when so deeply ingrained as to be reflexive, undermines discourse (and thought itself) to the point of making progress impractical. It is recommended that you completely disengage from such persons. And don't troll them, either, folks — that's just ornery and it doesn't help. Indulging your emotions by lashing out at idiots is really more of the same mental malfunction that made those idiots idiots in the first place. Topical righteousness is never justification for being an ass. (Not that this is what you, QC, were doing... I'm addressing the general audience.)

"Note that "Enterprise" has a long history even outside of fiction."

Here's a link to that long history you were talking about. According to the list there had been nearly two dozen ships named Enterprise before Star Trek was even thought of. Here's a few that made it to wikipedia.

It's thought that the Star Trek Enterprise was named after this famous aircraft carrier which was the most-decorated U.S. Navy vessel of World War II.

So even without Star Trek it's likely that we would see many vessels named Enterprise.

I guess you think what I wrote was crap. Specifically anything? Look, that's a problem with nebulous emotional thinking. It doesn't address specifics well enough to make any headway. So, please try to be specific.

I think it's great you came up with a scenario, though. I find that that's a wonderful way to mull over ideas. (Remember, get specific, though, in your analyses. "Feels wrong!" is a useful first pass, but getting stuck there and acting out from such a position is a bane to civilization. Don't be a bane.)

Did you choose 3 months because you thought it was relevant to the discussion of embryos that's the focus here, or did you maybe hope to do some sleight of hand to slip things further into unclear territory? Supposedly EEG signs begin to occur at around 12 weeks.

Look, despite the vitriol I've got for obnoxious ignorance, the truth is that I care about the well being of all sentience. I want you not to hurt, I want cats and dogs not to hurt, I want even criminals not to hurt. That last bit probably doesn't jibe with your mentality, but it probably jibes with that Jesus hippy's mentality. Anyway, I am not opposed to forcing a stop to misbehavior, though I prefer alternatives.

The scenario you offer is complex, and I'm guessing you don't care to have a sincere discussion. I'll let you do the heavy lifting of disentangling all the specific issues and then I'll address each of them in turn. How's that? I expect, however, that you will be unable to discern the components, let alone be willing to work towards anything except promoting your agenda.

A quality of the "Authoritarians": Exceptionally punitive, even of victims.

The kind of psychology that urges a person to dismiss the potential for conspiracy...

is the same kind that urges people to bow to authority.

Please, learn more about the mindset and be better prepared to combat it.

This introductory survey matches up nicely with Robert Altemeyer's more substantial body of work. See http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

Education and broad life experience moves people away from conservatism, and things like having children move people towards conservatism - where people start out on the spectrum depends on their parents (for the most part).

There's a fascinating study (more specifically about authoritarian tendencies, but the conservatism/liberalism aspect is discussed as well) at http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/. It's fairly long, but it's quite readable and it's /very/ informative.

himi

I am the proud developer of the actual site that TFA is linking to, you can see it at: http://umanitoba.ca/mainframe We are all amazed by the popularity of this event! And just for the record, the mainframe was RECYCLED so don't worry, we are very environmentally friendly here at the U of M!

Why link to an inaccurate summary posted on another forum? Go to the source for the actual information: http://umanitoba.ca/mainframe/index.php

Original link incorrect... Here is a timeline of the mainframe from the university's website..

Here is a timeline of the mainframe from the university's website..

Basically The Treaty mentioned gives Earth Governments total power and control over the entire Universe!

It's a ridiculous and worthless piece of paper written by arrogant power hungry and greedy humans who have the gumption to think that they have sovereign power and control who can go where and when and with whom. Then they tell everyone that they are "free" and we buy it.

Do as the fictional Astronaut Farmer did, ignore them. He tried it there way and they just tried to protect their interest of control over power and freedom of movement. Then he just went.

Ignore the Treaty, it's worthless. Go to the moon. Do it now. Go to Mars. Do it now.

What will they do? Shoot you down after you launch? There's a good chance of that, but, na, the worst they'll try to do is give you a ticket or want you to slap their silly NASA logo onto YOUR ship. Meanwhile the rest of the world will be cheering you all the way.

Freedom. True Freedom is freedom from the control of others. True Freedom and Power. Of course, with power comes responsibility... as Ben Parker says... and which current world governments and those with power fail to heed.

Do we really want our Sol Solar System run and controlled by the likes of those in power (pick any country in the world)? Not on your life. Most governments on Earth are anti-peace through their actions of killing people via their state sponsored terrorism.

"Even the most vile serial killers have nothing on the deadliest organizations on Earth - governments that encourage war and genocide." - Elliott Leyton.

See the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's excellent two part documentary series "The Man Who Studies Murder", part two is on State sponsored Murder - the largest killer of humans on the planet:
http://www.arts.mun.ca/anthropology/people/scau/leytonE.php
http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=51458
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourinterview/2007/04/anthropologist_and_author_elli.html
http://www.google.ca/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=+%22the+man+who+studies+murder%22&btnG=Search&meta=

"The Man Who Studies Murder, Part 2: The Anthropology of Murder looks at the culture of killing and why some countries produce more killers than others. The murder rate in Canada is 1 in 100,000 while in the United States it is a remarkable 10 murders per 100,000, the highest rate of any western, developed nation. Leyton argues, using Newfoundland as an example, that this can be explained by cultural differences. Killing is rare in that province because the people there developed a peaceful means of preventing conflict and violence using ostracism, gossip and ridicule. In the United States, on the other hand, violence was instrumental in the creation of the country, and, as a result, became socially acceptable. It is an American's constitutional right to bear arms, and the United States is the only western nation to still use capital punishment."

"Leyton also argues that governments are the real serial killers by ordering their soldiers to go to war. While the politicians try to justify wars and make them legitimate with propaganda, they are still murder. Government complicity in mass murder is highlighted using the examples of genocide in Rwanda and the holocaust in Nazi Germany. The tape does not explain the cultural causes of those tragedies."
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol11/no11/themanwhostudiesmurder.html

One can also point to Iraq

I'm afraid the spread of creationist, anti-birth control, narrowly defined evangelical Christianity is not as cancerous as you'd think. They proselytize so heavily because their faith has a very poor retention rate. 1/3rd of evangelicals leave the religion by the time they graduate high school, and half by middle age. Moreover poor Evangelicals, who make up the bulk of the market for televangelism, radio evangelism and other broad-base strategies, will have more children, but less chance of having a successful child - just like all poor people, their children will have poor education and job opportunities, and are more likely to commit crime. Poor children also die sooner - I wish this were not so, but it is statistically true. The evangelical movement, despite its claims to generate Providence for its members, tends to make them poorer, not richer - partly thanks to money spent directly on worship, but also because it encourages parents to produce more children than they can realistically support.

On the other hand, mothers over 30 are highly likely to raise children who become financially, academically, and socially successful, but more likely to raise fewer children. Since these women almost certainly use birth control to delay having children, they are almost certainly not evangelicals.

These are two entirely different strategies for procreation. One procreates quickly and abundantly, the other builds up resources and invests them in a few offspring. Both of these are valid strategies. But when you combine the high mortality rate of poor children with the low retention rate of Evangelism in general, you can see why the faith recruits so vigorously; the chances of a middle-class Evangelical family producing one adult offspring who will pass their beliefs and practices on to the grandchildren is not so high; probably about as high as in a middle class non-Evangelical family. Evangelicals do create more offspring in numbers, but in terms of the movement replicating itself, it doesn't work so well.

For those wondering where I get all these statistics and assertions, they come partly from Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians, and partly from Levitt and Dubner's excellent book Freakonomics, although Chris Hedges' American Fascists also adds some context to Altemeyer's numbers. I also used a little bit of logical glue here and there, but I hope that will be acceptable.

Emergencies Act (1985, c. 22 (4th Supp.)):
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc/cs/E-4.5/bo-g a:l_IV/en#anchorbo-ga:l_IV

Which replaced the War Measures Act
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/publaw/217566_26573.h tml
( http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~sprague/wma.htm )

I miss King Pierre:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDCC-1-71-101-618/conflict_ war/october_crisis/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis

P.S. Stephen Harper is a dickwad!

Didn't your CS programs have "software engineering" courses? Here are the courses from the two Universities that I've been a student at:

University of Manitoba: Description: 074.335 Software Engineering 1 (3)L
Introduction to software engineering. Software life cycle models, system and software requirements analysis, specifications, software design, testing and maintenance, software quality.

Course homepage here. The University of Alberta has a similar page here.

Is this unique? Doesn't every CS program have 1-2 courses that exactly focus on gathering requirements and building some code as a team? Maybe it doesn't work - in my experience the best/most motivated programmer in the group ends up doing 95% of the work... but the course exists.

3) Calculate winning lotto numbers and donate the money to random charities

(Ben) Pak Ching Li is the guru if you are actually interested.

(link) to one of his papers.

The fact is you're already investing tons and tons of money on your education. If you have money to burn, spend it on getting good grades (legally of course :). Get good grades.

You can waste time trying to make 10% on your 10k loan (~4k over 4 years) or you can be successful in school and make an extra 5k+ on your starting salary (every year).

Good grades also lead to scholarships, opportunities for Co-op position or research assistant positions. Where I'm from (University of Manitoba), the marking and teaching assistant positions pay way better than McJobs, they're conveniently located on campus and you get incomparable experience.

Your education is a huge investment, you can dick around and try investing "extra money" or you can focus on being the top of your class. Do the latter and you won't need to worry about the "few grand" you could've made in College. The best of the best effectively get paid to go University, why not be one of them?

Whatever, AC. I'll freely admit that I missed the South Park reference -- I don't watch South Park (not so much because I don't think it's funny, but rather because it isn't on TV in China, which is where I live) -- but your attempt to out-linguist me as it were is rather ill-placed, because I know my shit.

The fact that "more retroflex" sounds exist in other languages (like Mandarin) does not mean that retroflex is not a valid place of articulation in English, and most acedemic literature refers to the English r as a retroflex r. From a page at the University of Manitoba's Linguistics Department (scroll down to the "retroflex" heading):

We have been calling the [r] sound of English a retroflex. Yet the symbol for it appears in the IPA chart in the dental-alveolar-postalveolar mega-column. The English R-sound (the non-"bunched" version) certainly counts as an apico-postalveolar and has a legitimate claim on the symbol even without a retracted diacritic. The tongue tip is certainly more curled back for an [r] than for any other sound of English. But the amount the tongue is curled back isn't too impressive when compared with languages which have a whole set of true retroflexes (e.g., languages of Australia or India). In some languages, retroflexes are so extreme that the tongue tip touches the hard palate or contact is made by the underside of the tongue tip.

Your categorizing 'r' as an alveolar approximant is not incorrect, but then neither is my characterization of it as retroflex.

Of course, in this situation one could argue that because I am going on about the confusion of l and r, yours is the better characterization in this situation... but Mandarin has an active distinction between r and l (in no dialects that I am familiar with are the two sounds in non-contrastive distribution, although in some southern dialects n and l are non-contrastive). Which means that they confuse l and r about as often as a French or Italian person does, which is to say, never.

Because their retroflex r actually manifests itself uniquely in syllable final positions (with the notable exception of some phrases in Beijing dialect, where elision takes place, and the retroflex could be meaningfully analysed as occupying the initial position), they do sometimes have problems pronouncing r when it occurs at the beginning of a word (such as river, which sometimes comes out as wiver.) This only happens with speakers making a concerted effort to reproduce the "proper" english pronunciation, however. Most "naive" attempts at pronunciation will have Mandarin speakers replacing the difficult syllable initial r with their own r (a retroflex fricative), much as French speakers (like my parents) will replace the English r with a uvular r in their speech, the former being too difficult to pronounce.

To recap, your characterization is correct, but mine is as well, although I admit yours is more useful in this context, and, as I mentioned earlier, Chinese speakers never confuse r and l, even though someone cracks a stupid joke about it in literally every China related thread.

http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~djc/asr/

1.) Yes. It still has some issues, but it's a very nice addition to Eclipse.

2.) CVS integrates well with Eclipse. I've used it for hobby projects, and even set up my own CVS server. It will do what you want it to.

3.) It doesn't seem too difficult. Check this out.

Apologies to the guy you responded to if he wanted to do all this himself. I've been on a kick to champion Eclipse, but it's never nice to step on a geeks toes...

I tried messing with an SWT-based hello-world in eclipse and was frustrated that nowhere is there a simple how-to on how to do it.

You may want to check out the Getting Started with Eclipse and SWT page if you haven't already done so.

It contains some pretty good tutorials on the basics of SWT development.

--
http://joshstaiger.org/

The AMD 65 is actually an AMD 64 but with those old Pentium floating point units included instead of the modern ones.
You know, because they're for the "cheapy processor" market.

The article you referred to is interesting. He makes some good points, and some that I think are false. Overall, it seems to me like he has an axe to grind: the tone of the article seems quite biased. In particular, he seems to assume that lack of proof that Jesus lived is proof that he didn't. Taking his approach to history, I think we would have to conclude that many historical figures from more than a millenium ago never existed. After all, all we know of Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates comes from copies of copies of copies of works that were translated and transcribed by foreigners from originals that are now lost. I don't think Mr. Gauvin's reasoning leads to a viable, rational approach to ancient history. It's reasonable to suppose that a collection of ancient documents written around a hundred years after the events they describe may contain distortions of the facts, and probably even serious distortions in the case of religious texts. It doesn't seem very rational though to suggest that rather than just being a distorted account of what happened instead everything was just made up from scratch. The balance of probability seems to me to point more toward there being at least a kernal of truth in the stories.

I did a bit of googling on Gauvin (skimming mostly). It doesn't look like he has any academic credentials. There is an interesting biography of him at the University of Manitoba Library. It doesn't look to me like he is a good example of how to apply unbiased rational thought to an issue.

I've learned Go with the BIG. It's the best introduction I've found so far:

Beginner's Introduction to Go

I would guess that the grandparent was refering to Intel's statement about the Pentium Floating Point Division Bug; only those who really needed to divide floating point numbers with precision would get get a replacement processor...

That argument is crazy, if you don't mind my sayin'.

No, I don't mind you saying. I'm presenting my point of view (as someone who works in a mixed public/private healthcare system in Australia). You get to make your own mind up.

An opportunistic hospital that charged emergency patients an exorbitant amount would find that, aside from those very emergency patients, it had no business. If I had been charged like that during a time when I was helpless, I know I'd go well out of my way to avoid ever paying them for anything in the future. And thus, the "invisible hand" of the market would force them out of business, leaving only the hospitals who don't use such shady practices. See? Nothing beyond free market necessary.

I would like to think its that simple, and certainly things like the internet do equalise the relationship between health providers and consumers. However, I can assure you that health care requires more than a free market.

The original inventors of the obstetric forceps were the Chamberlen family, back around 1650. They kept the invention a secret for 50 years by using the instrument within a black box. No I'm not making this up: See this link During that 50 year period thousands of women died horrible deaths from prolonged labour and exhaustion. The family did well however.

This isn't so different from what we see today in patent laws, which most people on ./ think are crazy (myself included).

But by free market principles, if a company invents a better process, great, more profit for them. In health care you want to publish this stuff to remove your monopoly. Status and respect aren't economically rational goals, but its better to be famous for publishing something in a medical journal (for your competitors to use freely) than get rich exploiting a secret.

I really believe that health care (particularly when it relates to emergencies, psyciatric illness and other areas when judgement is impaired) should not be driven by market forces, at least in any society that wants to call itself civilised.

Michael

Yes, and this error appears only when using large numbers required for far distance simulations. Guess what combany is
behind?

Will and Grace is Mainstream. Six Feet Under is mainstream. Simpsons is mainstream. (Smithers, anyone?)

Here is just a short list (read:hundreds) of gay characters that are on TV. Yes, I can change the channel. But I have to change the channel a lot. If my preference was to have sex with donkeys, and I made a group of people that thought likewise, and we wanted to have programming on TV reflect out lifestyle CHOICE, you may be a little more upset. (I now await to be modded flamebait again because I'm a straight white male and my opinion in this world no longer matters)

There's a group in my graduating electrical engineering class that did their undergrad design project on something similar, Design, Construction, and Testing of a Microwave Radar System for Through-Wall Surveillance. It uses 1 - 3 GHz microwave frequencies and some pretty straightforward electronics to provide signals to a computer, which does the image resolution. I was able to see a first-hand demonstration of it, and it's impressive for an undergrad project! Just in case you thought this "New radar" in the article is revolutionary or something.

Now developers will have to compete with people who will live on poutine!

Won't work in the summer, but you'll be too busy trying to scrape mosquitos out of your cooling fan to care.

SMTP-AUTH, as the other people suggest, is one solution.

But setting up SMTP-AUTH in sendmail is a pain.

A much easier solution (still somewhat complex, but less than SMTP-AUTH, IMO) is to use DRAC to set up pop-before-smtp and imap-before-smtp.

Every time a person uses POP/IMAP, drac allows them to relay mail for the next 5 minutes. This way, they can use your SMTP server to send their email.

It's not as classy of a solution as SMTP-AUTH, but it works well enough.

A huge list of math texts.

David MacKay has posted his book Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms on his website. (This is despite it being a recently published work available through major bookstores.)

The classic, Numerical Recipes in C, is available online for free.

Some more math texts.

Another grab bag of online texts (mostly math).

Yet even more math and CS stuff.

>Contrary to a minority of Quebecer's wishes

(cough), a difference of only 50,000 Quebecers is a really, really, really, big minority. As in, what it takes to get Bush elected type of minority. Had I hindsight, myself and 49,999 Canadians would have found it worth their time to move there for a short while to get them the hell outta Canada.

If Canada were the US we'd be rid of that annoying wart. Doctor, bust out the Compound U already!

Mix those facts in with a liberal splash of our once second-in-command party being a group intent on breaking Quebec from Canada along with Bill 101 outlawing English Free Speech in Quebec public schools (a RIGHT guaranteed to ALL CANADIANS by the charter) and I, for one, after that, refer to Quebec as a separate country also. I mean, WTF do they keep that "I will remember the time you damn British beat us" license plate motto for? Because they prefer to use "tough love"?

Fuck 'em, eh? Most Quebecers are assholes, and I fairly judge that by the fact they keep electing a separatist majority government for themselves, over, and over, and over again.

Oh, and for those who aren't convinced, how about this? Only *TOTAL* assholes try to turn a known burial ground into a golf course. At least the original inhabitants of Canada have better manners.

We don't need them, and they DEFINATELY don't want us.

[It was worth the karma]

C'mon up to Canada for your education. The tuition is about half (or less) of what it is in the states, if you're gay you can get married, and we're about to decriminalize marijuana.

Better yet, you don't have to pay to see our rankings:

1 Toronto
2 Queen's
*3 McGill
*3 Western
5 UBC
6 Montreal
7 Alberta
8 Sherbrooke
9 Ottawa
10 McMaster
11 Dalhousie
12 Saskatchewan
13 Laval
14 Calgary
15 Manitoba

We set up a small undergraduate research lab at the University of Manitoba's EE Dept. For the summer we are doing research in networking and telecommunications. All of our workstations are running slackware linux and we find most of what we need in this distro. OK, so this is slightly contrived (we're doing networking after all) but we rely big time upon iptables, tcpdump, iptraf, Sun's java, and lotsa unix utilities. I think people underestimate how many useful tools are in linux.

Yes, here's a little background on gnutella and the protocol.

In fact, I do not agree that people have these rights. A right one has, is an obligation that another must fulfil.

Ooops, you are correct. I misused the term "right" in my above statement. Let me rephrase:

The fact is, capitalism works great if we are all brought into the world as healthy, law abiding, and fully educated adults. This is not the case. If you agree that every person should be offered an education paid for by society because they are a burden to society without one, then you must agree that government funded education makes sense.

In Canada, particularly, social services benefit those who administer them far more than the society they are supposed to improve: this creates an incentive to keep the system as inefficient as possible, and thus grow the bureaucracy around it even more.

This claim makes sense until you realize one very important fact about Canadian health care: those who administer health care in Canada must use that very health care system. So must their wives and children. They can't even go to the U.S. for treatment, because the newspapers would be all over it. The fact is, money spent on health care administration in Canada is one third of the amount, per capita, in the U.S. Canadian health care administration is much more lean than its U.S. counterpart.

Now, the administrative costs of, for example, U.S. healthcare, are astronimical, what with the different physician networks, insurers, secondary service providers, etc.: everyone administers things a different way, so if you need surgery, you have to make sure the (a) hospital, (b) labs, (c) primary surgeon, (d) assisting surgeon, (e) anastheseologist, etc. are all "in network" -- often this is not the case and one has to read the fine print on one's health insurance policy. That IS maddening and inefficient.

Ok, I would claim, then, that in the U.S., the reason HMO's are so inefficient and frustrating is precisely because the people who administrate HMO's probably have healthcare plans outside of their own HMO!

What you endorse adds an element of force to coerce those who do not wish to go along.

Wow, that's right out of a Jan Narveson class I took!

Ok, then to truly "opt out" as you suggest, we are talking about returning to a "state of nature", or as it is more commonly referred to, anarchy. Now, you may be an advocate of anarchy, but the thing is, you were born into a social contract, which I realize you are now trying to get out of. I agree that you should have the right to leave that contract, but how is it done?

The social-contract-that-is-Canada controls all Canadian land. It belongs to the country, not to individuals (you only own title, not actual land, whether in Canada or the U.S.), so you would be forced to leave the country. Where would you go on Earth that you wouldn't have to join another similar social contract to reside on their land? The U.S. is clearly no different than Canada in this regard, so you're thinking Afghanistan?

Actually, here are your choices:

1) Become a bum. Homeless people don't pay property or income taxes, and can't receive health care in Ontario because you need a fixed address (AFAIK). You would still be allowed to vote, but you don't have to. You would be free to wander the vast wilderness of Canada, offering your services for cash, and buying only what you need or want. To avoid sales tax, you'd have to do mostly personal (under the table) purchases, but the government won't know, and they really don't care because you're small potatos. Large vendors like Wal-mart have agreed to the social contract, so they will charge you sales tax. Sorry. However, you can't own land if you're a bum, so see #2.

2) Go to a part of Canada that nobody lives on (there's lots), build a fence and declare yoursel

My concerns aren't privacy, I'm more worried about letting the average person run basically run this system. This smacks of 1930s/40s Germany, where you were asked to basically spy on your neighbor.

Second item if you google for it: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/poutine.au

I recently wrote this paper for a university class, describing the basic architecture of Gnutella and Freenet, to offer some technical insights into how these P2P networks tick. I think it's a good read, if you have a chance :) Personally, I gained a new appreciation for these systems while doing the research. Conditions of use and abstract here.

What I wish people could see is that P2P networks don't have to be about illegal content, just as FTP and IRC are not just about warez. Reliable P2P can become a core internet technology of the future. Imagine fast downloads of just about any large media (e.g. slackware CDs, public domain broadcasts/recordings, etc.).

I recently wrote this paper for a university class, describing the basic architecture of Gnutella and Freenet, to offer some technical insights into how these P2P networks tick. I think it's a good read, if you have a chance :) Personally, I gained a new appreciation for these systems while doing the research. Conditions of use and abstract here.

What I wish people could see is that P2P networks don't have to be about illegal content, just as FTP and IRC are not just about warez. Reliable P2P can become a core internet technology of the future. Imagine fast downloads of just about any large media (e.g. slackware CDs, public domain broadcasts/recordings, etc.).

For those not located north of the USA. Poutine is a Qubecois delicacy. Lots of calories for those cold days.


Some facts about poutine:

What it is -- French fries, cheese curds, gravy.
When invented -- Believed to be in 1957 by restaurant owner Fernand Lachance. Originally, it was sauceless with just fries and cheese curds.
How named -- Lachance used the French-Canadian word "poutine" to describe the gooey mess made by french fries and cheese curds. Poutine originally was a trifle made with leftover cake or cookies, custard and fruit.
Fat content -- About 60 grams a serving.
Where available -- Fast-food restaurants and chains such as Chez Ashton, Mike's, McDonald's in Quebec, and in some Burger Kings and Harvey's across Canada.
Quote -- "If you don't want to get fat, just eat it without the sauce." -- Lachance.

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Here is another site that has the Choral section in ogg

Here's a description of where various parts of the mouth are positioned to make different sounds:

retroflex

In retroflex sounds, the tongue tip is curled up and back. Retroflexes can be classed as apico-postalveolar, though not all apico-postalveolars need to be curled backward enough to count as retroflex.

The closest sound to a retroflex that English has is [r]. For most North Americans, the tongue tip is curled back in [r], though not as much as it is in languages that have true retroflexes. Many other North Americans use what is called a "bunched r" -- instead of curling their tongues back, they bunch the front up and push it forward to form an approximant behind the alveolar ridge.

(Actually, the [r] is an upside down r, but since /. filters out unicode now, I can't put the right character in). I take it you do the "bunched r" thing? But even so, that requires tongue movement too.

Exactly, while they're at it they might as well crack down on the Bellary Zilla Panchayat. Or, beyond that, get rid of the book A Friend Like Zilla. Better yet, wipe out the Zilla Dioda spider.

NOOOOOOOoooooooo...

I'm Canadian!


Welcome to the fold, eh! Want some poutine, ya hoser?

Instead of dictating to users the exact layout of sites, sites would give them information ... and individual's browsers would CHOOSE how to display them

That's how the web works now ... HTML is a markup language - it doesn't dictate anything.
Your browser might show <strong> bolded, mine might show it italics, underlined and green.