How many people can afford to live in Vancouver with an average house being what, $950,000. A condo being about half of that. That is why so many people commute from Chiliwack to Vancouver. It's getting to the point where the only affordable housing is going to be Hope. Vancouver is a great city to live in which is why the Chinese are buying it up which means that you almost have to be a millionaire to afford to live there. Not long ago on the radio they were saying that the average Vancouverite spends 66% of their pretax income on accommodation.
Microsoft was in such a strong position that their negotiating with the OEMs consisted of, "If you want a competitive deal, you don't sell any operating system besides Windows (and before that it was MS-DOS). Not much of a choice.
The original Statute of Anne set it at 14+14 for the advancement of learning. America basically took the original almost word for word including the 14+14 terms. They did expand it to include maps and charts IIRC.
I often hear about smalltown USA where they get most of their income from speed traps and such which target out of towners. From what I hear it sounds like bribery except you pay the Judge instead of the Police Officer.
Why shouldn't Texas, assuming a large majority of Texans vote for it, be able to secede from the Union? If Texas really wanted to secede I'd be all in favour of sanctions against the rest of the United States of America for trying to stop it. Personally I think secession should require a super majority, much the same as a super majority is required for changing most countries constitutions.
Depends on the route you take. IIRC Messenger used gravity assists from Venus and the Earth to get to Mercury (Mercury is harder to get to then Jupiter) so a solar assist would help on the Venus to Earth leg of the trip. Solar assist might also help in slowing down when arriving as well.
Though I never entered the sciences, if I had it would have been Voyager. I remember reading about the idea of a grand tour of the solar system and how (relatively) soon the planets would be in an alignment that made it possible and it would be a long time before the celestial configuration allowing the grand tour to happen would roll around again. That idea was more inspiring then going to the moon and it was fantastic when Voyager actually did the grand tour.
As I said, here in BC (we have a Mormon splinter group about a mile north of Idaho). So it is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which has as section #2 (after the guarantee) 2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
True, there are a couple of hundred people living below the dam that'll be screwed if it burst as well as a main highway. The power company has spent a lot of money on seismic upgrading to the point if the dam breaks there are probably one hell of a lot of problems already as it would be a major earthquake. Plus the power company is now the government. (Due to taking over the transit system they also took over the dam that supplied the power for transit) There are no people upstream besides people going camping and perhaps still the odd logging or silviculture camp. Very few public roads were used as it was all done with rail including the shortest railroad line in the world. And of course they had to create an electric network to sell the power as there wasn't any electric network at the time of construction. The government did give them the water rights, at a time when they gave out land, water, etc rights all the time.
Well after a hundred years (next Jan 1st will be the centennial of it coming on line) of operation there is no sign of silting up so it doesn't seem to be to big a worry. http://www.mission.museum.bc.ca/milestones-stave.html
I'm not American and around here what you described yourself is liberal. Shit the Liberal political party ran a budget surplus for 8 years until the Conservatives got in on a platform of less taxes and since we have enough money to pay down the national debt we should increase spending. (and the government has grown and even worst become much more secretive). Now we're running a large deficit with the right wingers screaming that they're the only ones who can fix it because they're right wingers and liberalism is bad. Unluckily enough people watch American TV shows to believe the Orwellian propaganda. The liberals have also traditionally increased personal freedom with slogans like "The government has no business about whatever you do in private" (quote from memory and probably not accurate) whereas the right wing wants to build more jails and create more laws.
I'm not American. The GP pointed out his political philosophy which around here is liberal yet he claimed to be Republican and that the Democrats are left wing. The Democrats are obviously pretty right wing and non-liberal in the sense that personal freedom is very important to the liberals around here.
Left wing = For the People Right wing = For the Aristocracy Originally the left wing were the supporters of the French Republic and the right wing were the supporters of the French Monarchy. Just like in the States the Conservatives (Tories) were for the Monarchy including after the Revolution appointing George Washington King and the Liberals were for a Constitutional Republic. Now the right are for the established new aristocracy, namely corporations and the left are for the common person. Both American political parties seem to be for corporations before people so both are right wing.
Mules are known to very occasionally get pregnant and give live birth. A mule is a cross between a horse with 64 chromosomes and a donkey with 62 chromosomes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule#Fertility
NT was designed from the ground up to be processor agnostic. I've even got a Byte Magazine around somewhere with a little news article about Microsoft first getting OS/2 NT V3 to boot up (to text mode). It was a MIPS processor IIRC. This was before it booted on X86 and even before they officially switched it to Windows. OS/2 was (and still is) tied to X86 and the PPC version had to have a new kernel, different device driver system as well as the last of the 16 bit API ported to 32 bit. Even the object format was ELF instead of OMF. Some of it was ported to X86 OS/2 like the GRADD video driver model. The problem for both was applications. OS/2 was ahead in that regard as IBM wrote an excellent JIT compiler to run DOS and WIN 3.1 in with I understand comparable speed to X86.
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How many people can afford to live in Vancouver with an average house being what, $950,000. A condo being about half of that. That is why so many people commute from Chiliwack to Vancouver. It's getting to the point where the only affordable housing is going to be Hope.
Vancouver is a great city to live in which is why the Chinese are buying it up which means that you almost have to be a millionaire to afford to live there.
Not long ago on the radio they were saying that the average Vancouverite spends 66% of their pretax income on accommodation.
Microsoft was in such a strong position that their negotiating with the OEMs consisted of, "If you want a competitive deal, you don't sell any operating system besides Windows (and before that it was MS-DOS). Not much of a choice.
The original Statute of Anne set it at 14+14 for the advancement of learning. America basically took the original almost word for word including the 14+14 terms. They did expand it to include maps and charts IIRC.
I often hear about smalltown USA where they get most of their income from speed traps and such which target out of towners. From what I hear it sounds like bribery except you pay the Judge instead of the Police Officer.
Why shouldn't Texas, assuming a large majority of Texans vote for it, be able to secede from the Union?
If Texas really wanted to secede I'd be all in favour of sanctions against the rest of the United States of America for trying to stop it.
Personally I think secession should require a super majority, much the same as a super majority is required for changing most countries constitutions.
The Soviets weren't and they were there a long time as well.
Depends on the route you take. IIRC Messenger used gravity assists from Venus and the Earth to get to Mercury (Mercury is harder to get to then Jupiter) so a solar assist would help on the Venus to Earth leg of the trip.
Solar assist might also help in slowing down when arriving as well.
Though I never entered the sciences, if I had it would have been Voyager. I remember reading about the idea of a grand tour of the solar system and how (relatively) soon the planets would be in an alignment that made it possible and it would be a long time before the celestial configuration allowing the grand tour to happen would roll around again.
That idea was more inspiring then going to the moon and it was fantastic when Voyager actually did the grand tour.
I should add the current ongoing court case is about polygamy which has morphed into whether the polygamy law is constitutional.
As I said, here in BC (we have a Mormon splinter group about a mile north of Idaho). So it is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which has as section #2 (after the guarantee)
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
So freedom of religion even comes before speech. Section 1 does include the reasonable limits clause so it is not quite as all encompassing as the US Bill of Rights though your Supreme Court acts like you also have a reasonable limits clause.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_Two_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_One_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms
But see, it's not child abuse, because you're helping those 14 year-old girls get into heaven.
What a racket.
That's their argument and with freedom of religion being high on the list of freedoms they may get away with it.
The problem,at least up here in BC is these old guys are forcing 14 year olds to marry them. http://www.google.com/search?q=polygamy+canada&hl=en&client=seamonkey-a&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&prmd=ivns&source=univ&tbs=nws:1&tbo=u&ei=LPN_TavVIJO-sQPMxvj7BQ&ved=0CGcQqAI I don't have a problem with adults making an informed decision to engage in most any relationship but do have a problem with child abuse.
True, there are a couple of hundred people living below the dam that'll be screwed if it burst as well as a main highway. The power company has spent a lot of money on seismic upgrading to the point if the dam breaks there are probably one hell of a lot of problems already as it would be a major earthquake. Plus the power company is now the government. (Due to taking over the transit system they also took over the dam that supplied the power for transit)
There are no people upstream besides people going camping and perhaps still the odd logging or silviculture camp.
Very few public roads were used as it was all done with rail including the shortest railroad line in the world.
And of course they had to create an electric network to sell the power as there wasn't any electric network at the time of construction.
The government did give them the water rights, at a time when they gave out land, water, etc rights all the time.
Well after a hundred years (next Jan 1st will be the centennial of it coming on line) of operation there is no sign of silting up so it doesn't seem to be to big a worry.
http://www.mission.museum.bc.ca/milestones-stave.html
Good idea, at least here in the rain forest. The amount of water running down my driveway could probably power a few houses.
The damn where my power comes from was privately built without any subsidies.
I'm not American and around here what you described yourself is liberal. Shit the Liberal political party ran a budget surplus for 8 years until the Conservatives got in on a platform of less taxes and since we have enough money to pay down the national debt we should increase spending. (and the government has grown and even worst become much more secretive). Now we're running a large deficit with the right wingers screaming that they're the only ones who can fix it because they're right wingers and liberalism is bad. Unluckily enough people watch American TV shows to believe the Orwellian propaganda.
The liberals have also traditionally increased personal freedom with slogans like "The government has no business about whatever you do in private" (quote from memory and probably not accurate) whereas the right wing wants to build more jails and create more laws.
I'm not American. The GP pointed out his political philosophy which around here is liberal yet he claimed to be Republican and that the Democrats are left wing. The Democrats are obviously pretty right wing and non-liberal in the sense that personal freedom is very important to the liberals around here.
Probably due to no choice as no Chimps were mutated into a lack of spines.
He only did that due to the likely upcoming election. If he ever gets a majority then his true colours will show and I very much doubt it's pinko.
You've just pointed out that the Democrats are right wing and you're a good example of a liberal.
Left wing = For the People
Right wing = For the Aristocracy
Originally the left wing were the supporters of the French Republic and the right wing were the supporters of the French Monarchy. Just like in the States the Conservatives (Tories) were for the Monarchy including after the Revolution appointing George Washington King and the Liberals were for a Constitutional Republic.
Now the right are for the established new aristocracy, namely corporations and the left are for the common person.
Both American political parties seem to be for corporations before people so both are right wing.
Mules are known to very occasionally get pregnant and give live birth. A mule is a cross between a horse with 64 chromosomes and a donkey with 62 chromosomes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule#Fertility
NT was designed from the ground up to be processor agnostic. I've even got a Byte Magazine around somewhere with a little news article about Microsoft first getting OS/2 NT V3 to boot up (to text mode).
It was a MIPS processor IIRC. This was before it booted on X86 and even before they officially switched it to Windows.
OS/2 was (and still is) tied to X86 and the PPC version had to have a new kernel, different device driver system as well as the last of the 16 bit API ported to 32 bit. Even the object format was ELF instead of OMF. Some of it was ported to X86 OS/2 like the GRADD video driver model.
The problem for both was applications. OS/2 was ahead in that regard as IBM wrote an excellent JIT compiler to run DOS and WIN 3.1 in with I understand comparable speed to X86.
Still have to change the radio station regularly though to get away from him.
God I hate Brian Adams and his sucking on dirty underwear.