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  1. Re:You don't have it straight ... on Former Police Officer Indicted For Teaching How To Pass a Polygraph Test · · Score: 1

    Your country is the one that pretends to have absolute free speech due to your constitution banning laws such as this. Free speech includes the freedom to lie to government investigators and yet your congress seems to have passed (many) laws restricting speech.

  2. Re:kph? on Japanese Maglev Train Hits 500kph · · Score: 1

    When I learned traversing (a rough form of surveying) we used a metric chain of 50 metres, a 50 metre 1/4 in. nylon rope with every metre marked.
    Another fact, here in western Canada (Fraser Valley), the roads were laid out as a grid with each main road a mile apart and numbered by 8's so zero avenue ran along the border, 8th ave a mile or 8 furlongs north, 16 ave 2 miles or 16 furlongs north etc (streets started at the ocean and increased the same way going east) so each plot was a section (640 acres) or often split into 4, or quarter sections (160 acres). Most building lots traditionally were 33 ft or 66 ft on a side as well.
    As for acre, according to wiki, it comes from the old English æcer, often spelt aker with the equivalent Swedish being åker, probably from the same Latin root of ager or Greek (agros). (Of course slashcode eats the Greek spelling)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

  3. Re:$62,000 per person, $156,000 per family on Japanese Maglev Train Hits 500kph · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't the gas tax be high enough to pay for the highways? Shit, could be like Canada where the gas taxes are high enough to cover tax cuts for the 1%. As a bonus the oil companies can blame the high price of gas on the taxes (gas went up 4 cents a litre this week) and have surcharges (1 cent a litre) to cover the pipeline to send bitumen to China. Perhaps the oil companies will manage that for Keystone.

  4. Re:Only a politician that supports terrorists on Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button · · Score: 1

    They all seem to lead there. Sadly when you get a group of nice harmless people trying to better themselves it's really easy for a psychopath to come in and take over. It doesn't matter the political philosophy, most people just can't deal with a smart psychopath as to deal with them means being psychopathic and killing them before they ruin the movement. Meanwhile the psychopath has no problem eliminating their opposition.

  5. Re:The UK doesn't have freedom of speech on Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button · · Score: 1

    Is that the Senators who receive checks from the PMs office? Or perhaps members of the party that buried neutering Elections Canada in an omnibus budget bill so not only can't they issue subpoenas but can't even mention any investigations into illegal wrong doing including getting funding from American political groups as well as American oil companies (and other nations oil companies).

  6. Re:This already exists on Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button · · Score: 2

    There are posts getting deleted due to down modding? Weird considering the ones that are rated -1 and still here. At that all I see is a rating system with posts rated on a scale of -1 to +5, I read them all, or at least skim them. If others want to self censor and miss some good posts by AC which is rated at 0, well that's their choice and whether people should have the right of self censorship, why not, there's only so much time.

  7. Re:The UK doesn't have freedom of speech on Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button · · Score: 1

    I don't think the two are really comparable. One is putting protesters as far away as practical from those who they are protesting, sometimes in a cage, and the other is just having a public place where almost anything goes.
    Plus reporters and members of the public are not discouraged from going to Hyde Park

  8. Re:The UK doesn't have freedom of speech on Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button · · Score: 1

    Do you get as pissed off at the Harper CRA focusing on environment and civil liberty non-profits?

  9. Re:Hybrids on How 4H Is Helping Big Ag Take Over Africa · · Score: 2

    The problem comes in if in a couple of years the DuPont seed is not readily available, perhaps due to war or perhaps just a corporate decision to raise prices above what is locally affordable.
    Always stupid to be too dependent on an entity across the sea who doesn't give a fuck about you.

  10. Re:Alternative? on How 4H Is Helping Big Ag Take Over Africa · · Score: 1

    Actually there was a study a couple of years back that showed people who used homeopathy methods were healthier then the norm. It was theorized that the reason for this was that the users of homeopathy also made various other choices that led to healthier outcomes, things like not smoking, exercising and eating a better diet.
    The same idea applies to GMO crops, while no more unhealthy then regular crops that are pushed by big agriculture companies, the problem is that the traits they are aiming for does not include healthy food. Instead it is things like being uniform in ripening, resistance to bruising, traveling well and such, things that make a crop more profitable in to-days supermarkets or better for shipping around the world.
    It's perfectly true that GMO food is no more unhealthy then much of the food available today and it is perfectly true that most of the food available today is not as healthy as food in the past.
    Profit is not made by growing healthy ugly food but by growing desirable food and whether that desirable looking food actually contains vitamins after its trip to your fridge matters not.

  11. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    The principle problem with your idea is that it is a violation of human rights. The right to keep and bear arms is not one issued by governments, it is a human right. You can't actually take it away any more than you can take away my right to free speech or freedom of religion.

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    No it isn't. How many countries have ever considered the right to bear arms as a right in the last couple of hundred years? Why should being able to randomly kill people from a distance where you can't even see them be a right? (Every time I've had a bullet fly by me shot from somebody to far away to even hear the gunshot I've become more anti-gun) Like many things such as having a bonfire needs have changed with time and the need to think bearing arms is a right vanished long enough ago that even when the American Bill of Rights was being written, it wasn't clearly a right though the idea that it was better to have an armed population instead of a standing army won out. Perhaps if America got rid of its army you could argue the need for the right to bear arms.

  12. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    Compare to Canada, bigger then the States, has cattle ranchers, often in places that make Wyoming densely populated, also has cities, some quite large and densely populated though not as big as NY and also has animals that consider human good eating. Has one size gun control and we traditionally have enough guns around to fight off the Americans who have tried to invade so have avoided the dictator shit that you mention down the page though our current government is pro-American and in American style is removing democracy in the hopes of changing to a dictatorship in the mold of America where the government is run by the oil companies or the bankers.

  13. Re:to quote from a +5 comment in another thread on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 1

    Or even the interview with a rape victim. There's definitely parts of police work that should be kept private and in my country victims of sexual assault usually have their anonymity protected even in the courts.

  14. Re:Completely agree on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're right. Actually we should trim the bureaucracies down to the minimum. Courts involve too much bureaucracy so remove them. Police over site committees, same thing. The police can have the freedom to arrest anyone they consider a criminal, they can also have the freedom to punish, whether a beating, a summary execution or just delivering the criminal to the local private prison, which will also have no over site as we don't need no bureaucracies interfering with private business.
    Thinking about it, we can save the tax payers money by letting the private prison industry hire the police instead of publicly funding them. I'm sure the invisible hand of the market will fix any abuse by the people boycotting the goods produced by the prisoners.

  15. Re:Thank you, Presidents Reagan and Clinton. on The Plane Crash That Gave Us GPS · · Score: 1

    Seems really weird to have a blanket no-strike law on the civil service. Here the union would have been heavily fined and if that didn't work, the workers would have been fined or ordered back to work by the courts and if that didn't work, held in contempt and perhaps thrown in jail until they agreed to go back to work or quit.

  16. Re:Thank you, Presidents Reagan and Clinton. on The Plane Crash That Gave Us GPS · · Score: 1

    in my country we have something called "essential services" which covers various government employees and can make it illegal for them to strike, they can still usually do things such as refuse overtime. So the ATC would have just been ordered back to work rather then firing them all.

  17. Re:How long will it take slashdot to spin this? on Gates Donates $500M+ To Fight Malaria and Other Diseases · · Score: 1

    He's giving away 1% of his unimaginable fortune, probably less when tax breaks and other business is taken into account. he could give away 90% and still be unimaginably rich. Compare to the homeless guy splitting his last meal with another.
    Percentage wise he has done a lot less then some people I've known, he was just lucky to be born with a golden spoon in his mouth, had amazing luck and timing and took full advantage of that. It's good that since meeting Melinda he has become more generous but considering what he could do he's doing the equivalent of many of us giving a grand or 2 to charity to get a write off.

  18. Re:This is great news! on Silicon Valley Swings To Republicans · · Score: 1

    I think you mean that he spelt politician wrong

  19. Re:I'm surrounded by morons on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call 1688 almost a thousand years ago, though it can be argued whether it was an invasion when all those Dutch ships sailed into London and the King ran away leading to the crowning of a Dutchman and his wife.

  20. Re:Louisiana too on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't be stupid. The founding fathers chief interest was in stealing the land from the natives that already lived there.
    They were pissed off at King George who wanted to treat all his subjects equally, pissed of that Canada (Quebec) had become a colony and the evil Roman Catholics had gained rights as well as the taxation shit and the English treating the colonists rights as shit. (The only real reasons for the colonists to revolt)
    America was the home of the Braves and Free until the colonists fucking killed them and stole their land.
    Oh one of the rights that they were protecting was the right to buy and sell people, something that perhaps you'd be in favour of, freedom you know.

  21. Re:Build on Building All the Major Open-Source Web Browsers · · Score: 1

    According to https://developer.mozilla.org/... you just need to make sure that c:\mozilla-build comes before cygwin on the PATH and run something like start-shell-msvc2013.bat (various bat files depending on msvc version). Pretty simple.
    Mozilla doesn't require exact versions of everything, it just needs working versions of everything and if you're worried about problems with Mercurial, just use your default Python 2.7 and corresponding hg.exe.
    Best to start by following their exact instructions then pruning the files in \mozilla-build and testing. generally most of the tools can be replaced. There are exceptions like autoconf213 which is totally incompatible with newer autoconfs.
    For most tools it doesn't matter the exact version as long as the required features are supported, which in general means fairly up to date and non-buggy like some versions of sed. The configure script even does some checks for bad versions.
    Best practices are frequent backups so if you do screw a repository with using the wrong VCS version you can recover and getting in the habit of using scripts to setup your environment.
    It is a bit more time consuming and works best at the command prompt so may not be worth it for you but not that hard.

  22. Re:Build on Building All the Major Open-Source Web Browsers · · Score: 1

    How hard is it to write a script to adjust your path, open a cmd window and type in mozenv.cmd?

  23. Re:Build on Building All the Major Open-Source Web Browsers · · Score: 1

    Building Firefox (the only one I have experience with) will never work that way unless there has been a lot of patching to the official source. Firefox isn't designed to be installed with make install and install isn't even a target and building means "make -f client.mk"
    From client.mk

    # Build a mozilla application.
    #
    # To build a tree,
    # 1. hg clone ssh://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central mozilla
    # 2. cd mozilla
    # 3. create your .mozconfig file with
    # ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
    # 4. gmake -f client.mk
    #
    # Other targets (gmake -f client.mk [targets...]),
    # build
    # clean (realclean is now the same as clean)
    # distclean

  24. Re: Ugh! on Days After Shooting, Canada Proposes New Restrictions On and Offline · · Score: 1

    I heard it on CBC radio along with him talking to Obama as well. I can understand talking to Obama but the Israel PM? But then Harper loves the Israelis, even said that any criticism of them is antisemitism and was right on side with their reaction to those 3 teenagers getting murdered.

  25. Re:Won'd past constitutional challenge on Days After Shooting, Canada Proposes New Restrictions On and Offline · · Score: 1

    All the reports I've heard said he wasn't on the terrorist watch list. He was in Ottawa to apply for a Libyan passport and if I remember correctly he was being routinely investigated for the Canadian passport application.
    The legislation might help as it creates the crime of bad thoughts and these guys were thinking bad stuff.
    Thought crime, coming to our country courtesy of the Conservative government.