My son got a cheap MP3 player for last Christmas. Noticed it came with one song on it so it is not blank media. I'm sure lots of small artists would happily allow their music to come preinstalled on blank media just for the exposure.
Actually Audio CDRs are different. They support the Serial Copy Management System. Certain stand alone CD recorders only work with these CDRs and you can not copy the copy on these recorders. See http://www.ioproducts.com/digaudcdrmed.html for example
I'm trying to figure out how do you have an illegal internet connection to do illegal downloading. Unless you mean illegally hacking into itunes and downloading music but that wouldn't be much different then downloading from a peer to peer program. Anyways I doubt many people in Canada have an illegal internet connection to download music and I don't see how that would be any different anyways from legal downloading. You do know that downloading music is legal in Canada don't you? It is only illegal to distribute music in Canada. In other words in Canada you can come to my house and copy every CD I own legally but it is illegal for me to make copies for you. And connecting to my computer and copying music from it is just as legal.
I don't know about that. All the CDs I've looked to purchase lately made one hell of a lot of revenue as records. Things like the Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Doors etc. I buy old movies on DVD for under $10, sometimes $2.99. Old music seems to be priced about the same as new.
The real problem to global warming then is to reduce or control world population growth. You can do that by discouraging people to have children through various programs Funny enough the way to reduce population growth is to make people richer. Well off people have a tendency to have fewer children. Pretty well every first world country (discounting immigration) has negative population growth.
Federally cannabis is a schedule 1 drug like heroin, worse then Cocaine. While generally the feds won't bust you for a joint they have been known to. Timothy Leary IIRC was busted for 3 seeds in the carpeting of his car. If you are like I used to be, growing a years supply at a time you can easily be arrested for trafficking and if the prosecution plays its cards right you can get life. Up till recently (Reagen era) being a drug kingpin could mean death. Also some states also had the death penalty for things like smoking around children. Article on the history of marijuana laws in the States, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_mari juana_in_the_United_States The controlled substances act http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/csa.html Now I'm not sure about the dividing line in the USA between misdemeanors and felonies but according to this http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/csa/844.htm#a for a first offence you get a year, second offence 2 years and 3rd offence 3 years max plus a fine in all cases. Seems any crime that can put you in prison for 3 years would be a felony. Of course if you happened to grow a pound or so so you don't have to deal with dealers etc the penalties get much worst.
Well I hope it really works this way. One reason I still don't use Linux is it is just to jerky for a desktop system. As a server it is great but who needs to click on a link in Seamonkey and the mouse stalls along with everything else? I've run various versions of Linux and each release seems worse. Slackware 2 (Kernel v1.3) felt really fast and I used it quite a bit. 2.0.x kernels were pretty well as good then and the 2.2.x not much worse. 2.4.x kernels would periodically swap everything to swap and the system would come to a halt. Meanwhile the foreground app seemed to get more and more starved for cycles. Now I periodically boot into Linux, get frustrated with how slow it is, install Fluxbox, and still be frustrated by how slow it is. Meanwhile I would run the same apps in X under OS/2 and have a smooth computing experience. I think the saving thing for Linux is most people are coming from Windows and just expect a slow experience. I'm still running under OS/2 and generally things are smooth. Set up as a desktop system (priority=dynamic) the foreground app gets a priority boost as well as an IO boost while the background apps still get a decent amount of CPU. There are also other priority levels if you don't care about something getting cycles or even want them to get cycles no matter what for time critical apps. I'll have to migrate to Linux again eventually and I would really like it to be smooth and also it would be nice if it was configurable, eg which mouse button does what, what a folder looks like and this text app uses this editor and this text app uses this other editor without having to click through a list. Sure wish IBM way back had actually released the WorkPlace Shell as open source. It could of been fixed, expanded and we would have a great desktop system in Linux.
You make a good point. An even better question is about taking away their right to vote, especially considering that some felonies could easily be considered political crimes, eg smoking a joint in the privacy of your home. Once convicted you can never vote to change the possibly unjust law.
Well they do keep putting the date off where it is required but it is definitely coming. Even worst is our (Canada) government is now making children have to have ID to travel within our country. My son can't even travel now (by air) because he doesn't have enough ID. (Actually after IIRC September)
That won't work either. You vote in a new party, lets call it The New Party and next thing you know Jeb Bush is their Presidential Candidate. And if he gets voted in then the same old crew gets in with him. Same thing with the Other New Party except maybe its Hilary running as the Candidate. Same thing with the other elections, the entrenched power base just moves to the New Party. This happened in British Columbia, the right wing party self destructed, people voted in a party that was long dead and within 4 years the old right wing party had replaced the leadership of the new party and we have many of the same names under a different banner.
Actually a commercial Linux program such as the copy of Wordperfect 8 I have here (built for Corel Linux which was based on Debian 2.0) will almost certainly run on a new copy of Redhat. True you might have to install libc05 and Xlib05 but that should be quite easy.
Try it. I don't have Redhat here and with my 26.4 kbs internet connection I am not going to spend a few days DLing it. I do have the newest Ubuntu here and Wordperfect does run fine. This is the commercial version which came as a tarball and the only dependencies are libc05 and xlib05 which were very easy to install with apt. For the fun of it I did try to install the free versions deb which unfortunely has a dependency on xlib5g (IIRC). It would of installed but apt wanted to remove one hell of a lot of stuff to install the xlib5g deb.
There are lots of old Windows programs that given a chance will install an incompatible version of a DLL in \windows\system that will break the rest of Windows and even now will install different versions of DLLs to their own directories which Linux programs could just as well do. Oh sure, that would be just awesome. Each app with its own set of libraries. Yay. Unluckily that seems to be the way things are going. And it is not like hard drive space is expensive anymore and for most people bandwidth is pretty plentiful too. Windows has always had problems with multiple versions of some DLLs, which was finally fixed in XP by loading different DLLs for each app. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dll_hell. Anyways most Linux apps come from your package manager and are linked against a common set of libraries so you don't get the problem to often.
Actually a commercial Linux program such as the copy of Wordperfect 8 I have here (built for Corel Linux which was based on Debian 2.0) will almost certainly run on a new copy of Redhat. True you might have to install libc05 and Xlib05 but that should be quite easy. There are lots of old Windows programs that given a chance will install an incompatible version of a DLL in \windows\system that will break the rest of Windows and even now will install different versions of DLLs to their own directories which Linux programs could just as well do.
./configure --disable-shared --enable-static will fix most of these problems at the cost of a larger binary. Also you should make sure you are using very stable versions of your libraries. eg Debian stable. I have wordperfect 8 which runs fine on Ubuntu and Debian, just had to apt-get install libc05 and xlib05 (or something along those lines, its been years for Debian and quite a while for Ubuntu).
You really should study history. We could start with when Canada had to march down to Washington and burn the white house down though it could be argued that Canada wasn't an independent nation then. We could start with the First World War when so many Canadian were sacrificed by the bloody English that we lost the economic leadership of North America and still were one of the main reasons the west won the war. Perhaps the second World War where Canada was fighting for freedom right from the beginning and also lost one hell of a lot of people and were also recognized as one of the best fighting forces around. Perhaps after the war when we got seriously pressured not to build our own nuke (we learned a lot helping with the Manhattan project) by the USA who came out of both World Wars quite strong by sitting out the worst of them. Or perhaps the '60's when we created the best fighter in the world and once again were seriously pressured to drop it. And to finish us of all our bright minds were lured away to get a man on the moon. Canada has never lost a war yet. Even the French Canadians have the distinction of being the only undefeated French for longer then the USA has even existed.
First, at no [unclassified] point in the 1960's did we have nuke-tipped weapons less than 100 miles from their border.
The crisis all started when missiles were deployed in Turkey. Perhaps a hair over 100 miles but still only 16 minutes from Moscow. At the time the US had 8 times the nukes as the USSR and much better delivery. The USSR had crappy cruise missiles to be launched from submarines on the surface (range about much less the the US polaris missiles 1000 mile range) and like 4 big ICBMs and a few more smaller ones. So perhaps the US didn't have missiles within a 100 miles but time wise they were pretty close and out gunned the USSR by quite a bit. Basically the USSR was aiming at parity whereas the USA was aiming at total domination. And considering what Russia has gone through over the years it is a lot more understandable why they are so paranoid. Moscow had been burned down within memory (less then 20 years) where as the last time Washington was burned down was approaching 150 years (1813?)
Wait, it is statistically impossible for complex life to evolve so the kludge is a super duper designer just popped in to existence and designed it? Which is more unlikely, God spontaneously appearing or life evolving over billions of years?
No but there are small moonlets that appear to be mostly ice and of course some asteroids are quite likely ice and Kuplier belt objects are very likely to be ice and other volatiles. Be quite the trip bringing a big chunk back from beyond Pluto
Its not just the lack of a magnetic field. See Venus, no magnetic field where as Mercury does have one but no atmosphere. It is a combination of things including no magnetic field, low gravity and perhaps other things like Venus having lots of lightning.
Roosevelt put citizens of Japanese descent into internment camps during WWII, so now Bush is allowed to imprison citizens too, and it's OK. There fixed it for you.
About 500 years ago white people showed up and it became the land of slavery, genocide and marketing. You have to admit those marketers were good. Know any other countries who had genocide as an official policy who convinced most everyone they were the land of freedom and opportunity?
Well at least you guys had Saddam well trained enough that he did ask permission to invade Kuwait. Just too bad for Saddam that you bastards weren't honest and told him that you would be mad if he did attack Kuwait instead of egging him on. I mean he did ask the USA ambassador for permission and you could of said no. Here is a transcript http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie .html Too bad that Saddam trusted America. Pretty fucking stupid, he died for trusting the US of A. Oh, I consider obscene profits to be when the CEO of Exxon retires with 1/2 a billion dollars of payment to be obscene. (ok, it was only $400 million)
Actually trees aren't renewable over the long run. A couple of points. Soil gets depleted when you're harvesting biomass and not replacing nutrients. In a lot of forests the nutrients are bound up in the living biomass as large amounts of rain leech nutrients out of the soil. Trees prevent erosion and when the trees are removed the soil washes away. Second growth timber is never of the same quality as the first growth. Around here the first growth is hundreds to thousands of years old. Nice tight grain makes beautiful building material. The second growth is good for paper and press board
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My son got a cheap MP3 player for last Christmas. Noticed it came with one song on it so it is not blank media.
I'm sure lots of small artists would happily allow their music to come preinstalled on blank media just for the exposure.
Actually Audio CDRs are different. They support the Serial Copy Management System. Certain stand alone CD recorders only work with these CDRs and you can not copy the copy on these recorders.
See http://www.ioproducts.com/digaudcdrmed.html for example
I'm trying to figure out how do you have an illegal internet connection to do illegal downloading. Unless you mean illegally hacking into itunes and downloading music but that wouldn't be much different then downloading from a peer to peer program.
Anyways I doubt many people in Canada have an illegal internet connection to download music and I don't see how that would be any different anyways from legal downloading. You do know that downloading music is legal in Canada don't you? It is only illegal to distribute music in Canada.
In other words in Canada you can come to my house and copy every CD I own legally but it is illegal for me to make copies for you. And connecting to my computer and copying music from it is just as legal.
I don't know about that. All the CDs I've looked to purchase lately made one hell of a lot of revenue as records. Things like the Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Doors etc.
I buy old movies on DVD for under $10, sometimes $2.99. Old music seems to be priced about the same as new.
The real problem to global warming then is to reduce or control world population growth. You can do that by discouraging people to have children through various programs
Funny enough the way to reduce population growth is to make people richer. Well off people have a tendency to have fewer children. Pretty well every first world country (discounting immigration) has negative population growth.
Federally cannabis is a schedule 1 drug like heroin, worse then Cocaine. While generally the feds won't bust you for a joint they have been known to. Timothy Leary IIRC was busted for 3 seeds in the carpeting of his car. If you are like I used to be, growing a years supply at a time you can easily be arrested for trafficking and if the prosecution plays its cards right you can get life. Up till recently (Reagen era) being a drug kingpin could mean death. Also some states also had the death penalty for things like smoking around children.i juana_in_the_United_States
Article on the history of marijuana laws in the States, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_mar
The controlled substances act http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/csa.html
Now I'm not sure about the dividing line in the USA between misdemeanors and felonies but according to this http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/csa/844.htm#a for a first offence you get a year, second offence 2 years and 3rd offence 3 years max plus a fine in all cases. Seems any crime that can put you in prison for 3 years would be a felony.
Of course if you happened to grow a pound or so so you don't have to deal with dealers etc the penalties get much worst.
Well I hope it really works this way. One reason I still don't use Linux is it is just to jerky for a desktop system. As a server it is great but who needs to click on a link in Seamonkey and the mouse stalls along with everything else?
I've run various versions of Linux and each release seems worse. Slackware 2 (Kernel v1.3) felt really fast and I used it quite a bit. 2.0.x kernels were pretty well as good then and the 2.2.x not much worse. 2.4.x kernels would periodically swap everything to swap and the system would come to a halt. Meanwhile the foreground app seemed to get more and more starved for cycles. Now I periodically boot into Linux, get frustrated with how slow it is, install Fluxbox, and still be frustrated by how slow it is.
Meanwhile I would run the same apps in X under OS/2 and have a smooth computing experience.
I think the saving thing for Linux is most people are coming from Windows and just expect a slow experience.
I'm still running under OS/2 and generally things are smooth. Set up as a desktop system (priority=dynamic) the foreground app gets a priority boost as well as an IO boost while the background apps still get a decent amount of CPU.
There are also other priority levels if you don't care about something getting cycles or even want them to get cycles no matter what for time critical apps.
I'll have to migrate to Linux again eventually and I would really like it to be smooth and also it would be nice if it was configurable, eg which mouse button does what, what a folder looks like and this text app uses this editor and this text app uses this other editor without having to click through a list.
Sure wish IBM way back had actually released the WorkPlace Shell as open source. It could of been fixed, expanded and we would have a great desktop system in Linux.
You make a good point.
An even better question is about taking away their right to vote, especially considering that some felonies could easily be considered political crimes, eg smoking a joint in the privacy of your home. Once convicted you can never vote to change the possibly unjust law.
Well they do keep putting the date off where it is required but it is definitely coming.
Even worst is our (Canada) government is now making children have to have ID to travel within our country. My son can't even travel now (by air) because he doesn't have enough ID. (Actually after IIRC September)
And you guys go on about being free. If someone (or group of someones) voluntarily enter a union they should be able to leave it.
I thought your constitution said something about all people being equal?
That won't work either. You vote in a new party, lets call it The New Party and next thing you know Jeb Bush is their Presidential Candidate. And if he gets voted in then the same old crew gets in with him.
Same thing with the Other New Party except maybe its Hilary running as the Candidate.
Same thing with the other elections, the entrenched power base just moves to the New Party.
This happened in British Columbia, the right wing party self destructed, people voted in a party that was long dead and within 4 years the old right wing party had replaced the leadership of the new party and we have many of the same names under a different banner.
I do have the newest Ubuntu here and Wordperfect does run fine. This is the commercial version which came as a tarball and the only dependencies are libc05 and xlib05 which were very easy to install with apt.
For the fun of it I did try to install the free versions deb which unfortunely has a dependency on xlib5g (IIRC). It would of installed but apt wanted to remove one hell of a lot of stuff to install the xlib5g deb. There are lots of old Windows programs that given a chance will install an incompatible version of a DLL in \windows\system that will break the rest of Windows and even now will install different versions of DLLs to their own directories which Linux programs could just as well do. Oh sure, that would be just awesome. Each app with its own set of libraries. Yay. Unluckily that seems to be the way things are going. And it is not like hard drive space is expensive anymore and for most people bandwidth is pretty plentiful too.
Windows has always had problems with multiple versions of some DLLs, which was finally fixed in XP by loading different DLLs for each app. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dll_hell.
Anyways most Linux apps come from your package manager and are linked against a common set of libraries so you don't get the problem to often.
Actually a commercial Linux program such as the copy of Wordperfect 8 I have here (built for Corel Linux which was based on Debian 2.0) will almost certainly run on a new copy of Redhat. True you might have to install libc05 and Xlib05 but that should be quite easy.
There are lots of old Windows programs that given a chance will install an incompatible version of a DLL in \windows\system that will break the rest of Windows and even now will install different versions of DLLs to their own directories which Linux programs could just as well do.
./configure --disable-shared --enable-static
will fix most of these problems at the cost of a larger binary. Also you should make sure you are using very stable versions of your libraries. eg Debian stable.
I have wordperfect 8 which runs fine on Ubuntu and Debian, just had to apt-get install libc05 and xlib05 (or something along those lines, its been years for Debian and quite a while for Ubuntu).
You really should study history. We could start with when Canada had to march down to Washington and burn the white house down though it could be argued that Canada wasn't an independent nation then.
We could start with the First World War when so many Canadian were sacrificed by the bloody English that we lost the economic leadership of North America and still were one of the main reasons the west won the war.
Perhaps the second World War where Canada was fighting for freedom right from the beginning and also lost one hell of a lot of people and were also recognized as one of the best fighting forces around.
Perhaps after the war when we got seriously pressured not to build our own nuke (we learned a lot helping with the Manhattan project) by the USA who came out of both World Wars quite strong by sitting out the worst of them.
Or perhaps the '60's when we created the best fighter in the world and once again were seriously pressured to drop it. And to finish us of all our bright minds were lured away to get a man on the moon.
Canada has never lost a war yet.
Even the French Canadians have the distinction of being the only undefeated French for longer then the USA has even existed.
First, at no [unclassified] point in the 1960's did we have nuke-tipped weapons less than 100 miles from their border.
The crisis all started when missiles were deployed in Turkey. Perhaps a hair over 100 miles but still only 16 minutes from Moscow. At the time the US had 8 times the nukes as the USSR and much better delivery. The USSR had crappy cruise missiles to be launched from submarines on the surface (range about much less the the US polaris missiles 1000 mile range) and like 4 big ICBMs and a few more smaller ones. So perhaps the US didn't have missiles within a 100 miles but time wise they were pretty close and out gunned the USSR by quite a bit.
Basically the USSR was aiming at parity whereas the USA was aiming at total domination. And considering what Russia has gone through over the years it is a lot more understandable why they are so paranoid.
Moscow had been burned down within memory (less then 20 years) where as the last time Washington was burned down was approaching 150 years (1813?)
Wait, it is statistically impossible for complex life to evolve so the kludge is a super duper designer just popped in to existence and designed it?
Which is more unlikely, God spontaneously appearing or life evolving over billions of years?
No but there are small moonlets that appear to be mostly ice and of course some asteroids are quite likely ice and Kuplier belt objects are very likely to be ice and other volatiles.
Be quite the trip bringing a big chunk back from beyond Pluto
Its not just the lack of a magnetic field. See Venus, no magnetic field where as Mercury does have one but no atmosphere.
It is a combination of things including no magnetic field, low gravity and perhaps other things like Venus having lots of lightning.
About 500 years ago white people showed up and it became the land of slavery, genocide and marketing. You have to admit those marketers were good. Know any other countries who had genocide as an official policy who convinced most everyone they were the land of freedom and opportunity?
Well at least you guys had Saddam well trained enough that he did ask permission to invade Kuwait. Just too bad for Saddam that you bastards weren't honest and told him that you would be mad if he did attack Kuwait instead of egging him on.e .html
I mean he did ask the USA ambassador for permission and you could of said no.
Here is a transcript
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspi
Too bad that Saddam trusted America. Pretty fucking stupid, he died for trusting the US of A.
Oh, I consider obscene profits to be when the CEO of Exxon retires with 1/2 a billion dollars of payment to be obscene.
(ok, it was only $400 million)
Actually trees aren't renewable over the long run. A couple of points. Soil gets depleted when you're harvesting biomass and not replacing nutrients. In a lot of forests the nutrients are bound up in the living biomass as large amounts of rain leech nutrients out of the soil. Trees prevent erosion and when the trees are removed the soil washes away.
Second growth timber is never of the same quality as the first growth. Around here the first growth is hundreds to thousands of years old. Nice tight grain makes beautiful building material. The second growth is good for paper and press board