I don't particularly agree with the "greenies" but I must admit the previous reply leaves much to be desired in terms of details. I did not take any economics classes, and I wish he would enlight both of us as to what he is alluring.
Ahh yes, paying taxes to politicians for using the life-giving O2 to live out our lives. What a perfect "scheme" it is indeed. I'm sure paying these taxes will immediately make the planet cooler and bring it closer to the perfect temperature it needs to be at.. wait, what IS that temperature anyway?! Anyone know?
Even the tibia and skull belonging to a 4-year-old were full of tetracycline, suggesting that they were giving high doses to the child to try and cure him of illness.
And why wouldn't they give this "cure" to a child? Did they have clinical trials that showed liver damage with extensive use of alcohol? And it's not like their younger population got drunk and got into bar fights.
That's like finding out ancient tribes used to smoke marihuana or consume magic mushrooms and saying "Oh gosh! How could they do this, didn't they know Liberals in the future will outlaw fun and make it it illegal?!"
Tekksavvy doesn't provide service in Mississauga where I live, I already tried. And I cannot use DSL service because the lines are bad in my house - and Bell obviously isn't about to start digging up the street so I can have fast internet access from a 3rd party ISP, so I'm forced to stick with anyone who can provide Cable internet in my area.
My current ISP is Rogers Inc and I'm using their 15mbit/1mbit package which costs about $54 and comes with about 90GB cap (that's not a misprint).
Since I'm a heavy user, I always end up using upwards of 300gb/month, which they charge extra for. My total monthly bill is always $102.
Now, I can get the same speed service with NO bandwidth cap from "Montreal-DSL" for $54 flat. The two big ISP's Rogers and Bell will now be losing half of the money I was giving to them each month just for being total dicks, and I'm calling to start the switch over tomorrow morning.
I don't think there's really a way to turn it around and make excuses for the hosting company. I'm generally in favor of the small guys doing their own thing, even using someone's code - but in this case, it was purley for profit and not for fun any sort of personal enjoyment.
I do have a problem with the damages awarded though... I mean - How in the world did they come up with this figure?
You're right in your careful thinking. I have a D-Link home router sitting literally 3 feet away from me on my desk, and with the WiFi radio transmitter on HIGH, I really had a hard time falling asleep after an 8hr period sitting beside it. I was restless and felt like crap all day long. I don't know if it was the weather, maybe just me feeling less than perfect or if the router actually played any role in it. But It's now on LOW and a little out of the way of my head, today I woke up at 6am and feel a little better.
It's hard to say if it actually helped or if I'm simply trying to perpetuate my own imagined outcome, but better safe than sorry, right?
These scanners would be placed at entrances to any major buildings. Airports, sports stadium, schools, police stations, etc.. Scanning hundreds of people every hour.
I don't know why you're trying to mislead into believing Google did or did not steal any private information, but perhaps you simply have some insider information that The New York Times simply doesn't have and they got it all wrong?
From Germany Asks Google to Surrender Private Data
The German demand underscored the seriousness of the quandary Google now faced after its admission last Friday that it had stored the snippets of [b]Web sites and personal e-mail messages from people around the [i]world[/i][/b] while compiling its Street View photo archive.
Johannes Caspar, the data protection supervisor for the city-state of Hamburg, where Google's German headquarters are located, said Tuesday that he had given Google until May 26 to hand over one of the hard drives that it had used to collect and store information in Germany, where Street View is not yet available.
Through a spokesman, Google reiterated its offer to destroy the WLAN data in conjunction with regulators, but [b]stopped short of saying it would hand over a hard drive, which would allow regulators to see for the first time what kind of data had been collected.[/b]
There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas - parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia - where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree - a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.
To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather....
OOOPS!... sorry, I mistakenly was quoting scientific data from the 1970's with regards to Global Cooling. Nothing to see here I guess, just forget I ever mentioned this. Thank goodness we have honest reporting and scientific fact finding these days, nothing like an apocalyptic blast from the past eh? Now don't forget to stay scared and make sure you let your state agencies dictate how much you eat and what temperature you can keep your house at.
I'm sure they'll get it right with Global Warming this time!! Maybe we'll even die because of it in 10 years!
Did you verify all these and double-check them to make sure they were not calculated wrong? Oh you did? I'd like to see your results if you have them posted somewhere. I don't trust much the IPCC puts out, so I'm going to take their data with a grain of salt, even the stuff they claim they got right.
I'm no physicist so pardon my ignorance but maybe you can help explain. Are we able to change the state of one of these particles at will? And if we are, does the other entangled particle change states as well?
If the two particles simply exhibit a mirror-like effect but we have no way of changing their state, then I agree that this is quite useless at this stage. However, if we are able to change the state of one particle and the other changes as well, then we can have data-transfer (think 1s and 0s, ON and OFF) across limitless distances.
Military would salivate over this a communication channel that cannot be interrupted through regular means like rock and walls, yet is absolutely un-tappable no matter where you are in the universe.
This will be done at the ISP level. All ISPs in America will have to comply or face fines and other charger I'm guessing. Sort of like having your own remote-controlled kill-switch box at every ISP.
I don't see how anybody in America will be able to use the internet to get news or communicate with other Americans in a time of emergency if this should ever go into effect.
Unless Obama gives a definite time line of how long it will take to "figure out" what went wrong, I think this judge did the right thing. What if Obama wants to shut it down indefinitely? What if a federal investigation will take 8 years to complete? What if takes 15?
I agree with the judge and his reasoning, saying because this drilling platform blew up, doesn't mean all the other ones will all go up in flames by next Tuesday. How come he hasn't placed a moratorium on planes, cars, electric plants, buildings, even transport ships in the sea like the Exxon Valdez?.. they all blew up at once time or another and caused either environmental damage or loss of human life.
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I don't think he knows it but.. your "joke" is much closer to the truth than he'd like to admit, and I think that's why he's a bit pissed off.
I don't particularly agree with the "greenies" but I must admit the previous reply leaves much to be desired in terms of details. I did not take any economics classes, and I wish he would enlight both of us as to what he is alluring.
Ahh yes, paying taxes to politicians for using the life-giving O2 to live out our lives. What a perfect "scheme" it is indeed. I'm sure paying these taxes will immediately make the planet cooler and bring it closer to the perfect temperature it needs to be at.. wait, what IS that temperature anyway?! Anyone know?
Why SHOULDN'T someone pay a fine if they claim copyright or patent ownership over something they actually don't?! I don't understand.
Even the tibia and skull belonging to a 4-year-old were full of tetracycline, suggesting that they were giving high doses to the child to try and cure him of illness.
And why wouldn't they give this "cure" to a child? Did they have clinical trials that showed liver damage with extensive use of alcohol? And it's not like their younger population got drunk and got into bar fights.
That's like finding out ancient tribes used to smoke marihuana or consume magic mushrooms and saying "Oh gosh! How could they do this, didn't they know Liberals in the future will outlaw fun and make it it illegal?!"
Tekksavvy doesn't provide service in Mississauga where I live, I already tried. And I cannot use DSL service because the lines are bad in my house - and Bell obviously isn't about to start digging up the street so I can have fast internet access from a 3rd party ISP, so I'm forced to stick with anyone who can provide Cable internet in my area.
For comparison to those outside of Canada:
My current ISP is Rogers Inc and I'm using their 15mbit/1mbit package which costs about $54 and comes with about 90GB cap (that's not a misprint).
Since I'm a heavy user, I always end up using upwards of 300gb/month, which they charge extra for. My total monthly bill is always $102.
Now, I can get the same speed service with NO bandwidth cap from "Montreal-DSL" for $54 flat. The two big ISP's Rogers and Bell will now be losing half of the money I was giving to them each month just for being total dicks, and I'm calling to start the switch over tomorrow morning.
Don't listen to conspiracy nuts, all these things that have been talked about 20 years ago and have come to pass are just coincidences!! I swear!
This has nothing to do with bringing any advantages to you, and I don't see why anyone in their right mind would assume otherwise.
I don't think there's really a way to turn it around and make excuses for the hosting company. I'm generally in favor of the small guys doing their own thing, even using someone's code - but in this case, it was purley for profit and not for fun any sort of personal enjoyment.
I do have a problem with the damages awarded though... I mean - How in the world did they come up with this figure?
You're right in your careful thinking. I have a D-Link home router sitting literally 3 feet away from me on my desk, and with the WiFi radio transmitter on HIGH, I really had a hard time falling asleep after an 8hr period sitting beside it. I was restless and felt like crap all day long. I don't know if it was the weather, maybe just me feeling less than perfect or if the router actually played any role in it. But It's now on LOW and a little out of the way of my head, today I woke up at 6am and feel a little better. It's hard to say if it actually helped or if I'm simply trying to perpetuate my own imagined outcome, but better safe than sorry, right?
These scanners would be placed at entrances to any major buildings. Airports, sports stadium, schools, police stations, etc.. Scanning hundreds of people every hour.
Why would there be a trial if the machine has proven your guilt?
And very nicely rendered, might I add.
Sorry, I guess my html screwed up.
Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/technology/19google.html?_r=1
I don't know why you're trying to mislead into believing Google did or did not steal any private information, but perhaps you simply have some insider information that The New York Times simply doesn't have and they got it all wrong?
From Germany Asks Google to Surrender Private Data
The German demand underscored the seriousness of the quandary Google now faced after its admission last Friday that it had stored the snippets of [b]Web sites and personal e-mail messages from people around the [i]world[/i][/b] while compiling its Street View photo archive.
Johannes Caspar, the data protection supervisor for the city-state of Hamburg, where Google's German headquarters are located, said Tuesday that he had given Google until May 26 to hand over one of the hard drives that it had used to collect and store information in Germany, where Street View is not yet available.
Through a spokesman, Google reiterated its offer to destroy the WLAN data in conjunction with regulators, but [b]stopped short of saying it would hand over a hard drive, which would allow regulators to see for the first time what kind of data had been collected.[/b]
Here's a clip of one of the phone calls
MP3 Audio
Taken from: RevK's rants
Just for reference: Newsweek: Global Cooling (1975)
There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas - parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia - where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree - a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.
To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather....
OOOPS!... sorry, I mistakenly was quoting scientific data from the 1970's with regards to Global Cooling. Nothing to see here I guess, just forget I ever mentioned this. Thank goodness we have honest reporting and scientific fact finding these days, nothing like an apocalyptic blast from the past eh? Now don't forget to stay scared and make sure you let your state agencies dictate how much you eat and what temperature you can keep your house at.
I'm sure they'll get it right with Global Warming this time!! Maybe we'll even die because of it in 10 years!
Did you verify all these and double-check them to make sure they were not calculated wrong? Oh you did? I'd like to see your results if you have them posted somewhere. I don't trust much the IPCC puts out, so I'm going to take their data with a grain of salt, even the stuff they claim they got right.
Pardon my skepticism.
I see, it makes more sense now - thanks.
I'm no physicist so pardon my ignorance but maybe you can help explain. Are we able to change the state of one of these particles at will? And if we are, does the other entangled particle change states as well?
If the two particles simply exhibit a mirror-like effect but we have no way of changing their state, then I agree that this is quite useless at this stage. However, if we are able to change the state of one particle and the other changes as well, then we can have data-transfer (think 1s and 0s, ON and OFF) across limitless distances.
Military would salivate over this a communication channel that cannot be interrupted through regular means like rock and walls, yet is absolutely un-tappable no matter where you are in the universe.
This will be done at the ISP level. All ISPs in America will have to comply or face fines and other charger I'm guessing. Sort of like having your own remote-controlled kill-switch box at every ISP.
I don't see how anybody in America will be able to use the internet to get news or communicate with other Americans in a time of emergency if this should ever go into effect.
Unless Obama gives a definite time line of how long it will take to "figure out" what went wrong, I think this judge did the right thing. What if Obama wants to shut it down indefinitely? What if a federal investigation will take 8 years to complete? What if takes 15?
I agree with the judge and his reasoning, saying because this drilling platform blew up, doesn't mean all the other ones will all go up in flames by next Tuesday. How come he hasn't placed a moratorium on planes, cars, electric plants, buildings, even transport ships in the sea like the Exxon Valdez?.. they all blew up at once time or another and caused either environmental damage or loss of human life.
What?! Anti-American nation that has WMD's?! Where have I heard this before?