There are pointed questions being asked in Parliament about Snowden's most recent documents showing that the Canadian spy agency helped the Americans set up their spy shop on Canadian soil during the G20 conference three years ago. The documents show this was explicitly with with full knowledge that the Americans were after more than just security threat assessment data.
Like the Americans, our spy agency isn't allowed to spy on our citizens. It appears though that it is allowed to show the Americans where the keys to the back door are hidden.
The only positive thing you can say about this situation is that, like everything else in Canada, our scum are 10 years behind the scum in the U.S.
I've been involved in several backup tape data rescue projects, including tapes that were too far gone to recover anything. No thank you. It's hard to believe a "prolific audio engineer" would miss this point.
I'm currently digitizing a collection thousands of photographic slides, doing individual colour correction on most of them as the dyes have shifted. Most of them have never been viewed more than a half dozen times during their 50 year lifetime due to the hassle of setting up the projector.
Things I do not miss: film photography, magnetic audio and data tapes, and phonographic records.
Fuck analog. We've lost almost as much to media degradation as we have to DRM and copyright abuse.
Yeah, I quite liked my eReader for extended reading. What brought my eBook purchasing to a screaming halt was the eReader's death a week after the warranty expired. Even if it had lasted another 6 months or a year before the battery required replacement I'm not sure I want to pay a $120 replacement tax every 18 months just to keep reading the stuff I've already bought.
And then there's the inflated eBook prices, breaking DRM to transfer between devices, non-transferability, etc., etc.
Just another example that very intelligence, highly successful people are not always smart. Some readily preventible diseases need vaccines, others need knowledge, and some need both if humanity is to be rid of them. To quote Charles Dickens:
'They are Man's,' said the Spirit, looking down upon them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it.' cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. 'Slander those who tell it ye. Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And abide the end.'
Nice of Bill to be taking care of the girl though, I guess.
Still have the original Warcraft running in a DOS box. Apparently I need to patch the sound files so the Orcs say "Get of my lawn" instead of "Zug Zug".
Good point. The experience of the SARS patients during the outbreak 10 years ago is another example. Even trained medical professionals were reacting negatively towards them long past the point they were no longer infectious:
That's consistent with Consumer Report's tests. We've found the same thing over the years, to the extent we only have Sylvania CFLs in every fixture except for the high use area where we've installed LEDs.
My job regularly has me spending weeks away from anything but the occasional email download. Most of the time I don't give a rat's arse cause working the wilderness is awesome, but there are times when a game makes a nice break. The original Starcraft has become my Solitare. Pity Starcraft II needs to phone home regularly.
So, what about the problem that pulp and paper making technology changes in the last 100 years has resulted in paper with a much higher acid content than older paper? Modern paper (especially that used in cheap paperbacks) doesn't archive well. How long will it take to generate a container full of brittle paper fragments?
As a Canadian though, I'm always puzzled by the USPS hate and UPS love Americans have. For small parcels going across the border I always specify USPS. No idea what the insurance procedure is like since I've never had to put in a claim. Stuff always arrives and the custom fees are reasonable.
UPS on the other hand has been a nightmare, with all the insurance problems you've noted for USPS. It's at the point where I'll find another U.S. supplier if the only option is shipping by UPS. Anyone can have a bad day but with UPS it seems to be a philosophy. Bit ironic too that they filed a NAFTA lawsuit against Canada Post for shipping parcels and having an unfair advantage with their drop box network. If you can't compete on service and innovation, I guess...
Anyway, I really hope USPS gets its act together south of the border and eats UPS's lunch.
I don't live in a country where I will need a "weapon". I strongly suspect we won't be shooting each other in the face while looting following a disaster.
What I have I will share.
p.s.: I do have a couple of "firearms". Bambis are good food. I'm assuming bag limits and hunting seasons will be suspended for a time.
There are so many things wrong with this article I'm not sure where to begin. Five minutes of Googling would have shown the author his "simple, elegant solution" is neither simple, elegant, nor a solution. He clearly has no understanding of the decomposition process taking place inside a compost heap and what is produced. His claim that there are no toxic leachates for example can be shown untrue by anyone who has had to work with industrial quantities of waste sawdust and bark. Pile this material high enough that the lower layers go anoxic and you get some interesting stuff leaking out of the heap.
Baseless opinion from a marketing droid who can't be bothered to do a bit of research. I'm sure Fox will love it.
This practice will never be legit until MMOs are programmed to debuff (starve) a character that does dumb things like dump a tonne of stuff on the auction house for considerably less than the cost of materials.
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Indeed. I thought they were the equivalent of "Letters to Penthouse". I wonder if this company actually moved client product or just their own. "Product" in this case being lies and deceit.
Odd. You'd think she'd use the large HMOs that use SAS as their operating system as an example. "Every time I take an SSRI or get a colonoscopy I'm glad..."
This is making me feel better about dumping SAS in favour of R after 20 years. SAS is an excellent product rendered useless by their marketing and sales department. (Unless you can sling around the type of money an HMO has.)
It was a lot of fun dealing with closed proprietary data file formats when one of our major SAS using units decided to move to other software. Considering how much of our data is in MS Access now I'm beginning to think though that the problem might be learning disabilities rather than closed source.
Bingo! Got it in one!
I'll entrust my data to a cell phone when the network operators quit sodomizing me.
For the record, I do know how to use the camera on my phone. If there's ever an emergency to photograph, I'll figure out how to dump the (crappy) pictures afterwards. Until then, I have a somewhat long in the tooth Fuji that's pocket sized and still takes excellent pictures in good conditions.
I work in a lot of fringe areas and what would be really nice would be a cell phone with extra battery life and a boosted antenna system for marginal reception areas. Motorola does make such a beast but it's only available to the third world. Go figure.
Single points of failure suck. If it's going to be a week before you get back to a place where you can replace your toys it's best not to have your cell phone/address book/calendar/notepad/camera/mp3 player go down in one fell swoop.
... or cats. What the hell am I doing on this "Get rich quick doing nothing but browsing the web!" page? What keys did you furball arseholes walk on this time?
Indeed. It's funny how many replies in this thread obsess about finding a workable high tech solution. There's an old axiom: Many Eyes Make Bugs Shallow. The more technological the solution, the fewer eyes there are capable of spotting anomalies. Even your quill-pushing granny knows how locks, seals, and scrutineers from each party in the tallying room work.
You Americans need to hurry up and build that fence along the border. This is something else I'd really rather see stay south of the line. I'd rather my vote was tallied by a computer illiterate Canadian grandmother than a machine running proprietary corporate code.
Same with diving. I intend to be diving for a long, long, time, but I have no intention of dieing doing it. I sure as hell don't want my friends and family using that expression, especially if I drown as the result of "pilot error."
They are allowed to use that expression if I die in bed.
At age 90.
Of a massive heart attack.
Trying to satisfy an incredibly kinky twenty year old minx.
The power company here (British Columbia) tried to bring in a variation of this twenty years ago for electrically heated homes built with a "backup" heat source - wood, natural gas, whatever. The electric heating circuits were run though a second meter so they could be charged a different, supposedly cheaper rate and shut off completely if necessary. And by "shut off", I mean the power company rep would stop by with a padlock and plan to return sometime in the spring when the demand for heating power slacked off a bit.
It never caught on for residential construction, in part I suspect because B.C. Hydro itself sabotaged it with changing rates.
Following on your suggestion what might work would be a variation of one of the systems for using emergency power generators - wire a few "must have" circuits into a transfer switch so a generator can power them until the utility power comes back on line.
The idea of banning him completely from the internet, in my mind, is ridiculous. Not only would this have the potential to effectively prohibit him from working in an office environment, but as the internet becomes more and more integrated into our daily lives, it will become the punishment that continues to keep on punishing. Every year that goes by, his life gets harder. Interesting point. The effect would be similar to some of the side effects of judicial amputations practiced in some countries. These are often countries that have a tradition of people sharing meals from communal dishes. In these places one eats with the right hand only, reserving the left hand for wiping one's arse. Losing the right hand means you are excluded from important communal activities, remaining a social pariah long after the widget you stole is forgotten.
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There are pointed questions being asked in Parliament about Snowden's most recent documents showing that the Canadian spy agency helped the Americans set up their spy shop on Canadian soil during the G20 conference three years ago. The documents show this was explicitly with with full knowledge that the Americans were after more than just security threat assessment data.
Like the Americans, our spy agency isn't allowed to spy on our citizens. It appears though that it is allowed to show the Americans where the keys to the back door are hidden.
The only positive thing you can say about this situation is that, like everything else in Canada, our scum are 10 years behind the scum in the U.S.
I've been involved in several backup tape data rescue projects, including tapes that were too far gone to recover anything. No thank you. It's hard to believe a "prolific audio engineer" would miss this point.
I'm currently digitizing a collection thousands of photographic slides, doing individual colour correction on most of them as the dyes have shifted. Most of them have never been viewed more than a half dozen times during their 50 year lifetime due to the hassle of setting up the projector.
Things I do not miss: film photography, magnetic audio and data tapes, and phonographic records.
Fuck analog. We've lost almost as much to media degradation as we have to DRM and copyright abuse.
Yeah, I quite liked my eReader for extended reading. What brought my eBook purchasing to a screaming halt was the eReader's death a week after the warranty expired. Even if it had lasted another 6 months or a year before the battery required replacement I'm not sure I want to pay a $120 replacement tax every 18 months just to keep reading the stuff I've already bought.
And then there's the inflated eBook prices, breaking DRM to transfer between devices, non-transferability, etc., etc.
Fuck that. Back to dead trees, and loving it.
Just another example that very intelligence, highly successful people are not always smart. Some readily preventible diseases need vaccines, others need knowledge, and some need both if humanity is to be rid of them. To quote Charles Dickens:
'They are Man's,' said the Spirit, looking down upon
them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers.
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both,
and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy,
for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the
writing be erased. Deny it.' cried the Spirit, stretching out
its hand towards the city. 'Slander those who tell it ye.
Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse.
And abide the end.'
Nice of Bill to be taking care of the girl though, I guess.
Piece of masking tape over the "Do Not Duplicate" stamp, and write "Rm 103" on the tape. Social engineering ain't just for bank cards.
Still have the original Warcraft running in a DOS box. Apparently I need to patch the sound files so the Orcs say "Get of my lawn" instead of "Zug Zug".
Memo to our American cousins:
Socialism isn't all that evil.
Love,
Canada
Good point. The experience of the SARS patients during the outbreak 10 years ago is another example. Even trained medical professionals were reacting negatively towards them long past the point they were no longer infectious:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/sars/
That's consistent with Consumer Report's tests. We've found the same thing over the years, to the extent we only have Sylvania CFLs in every fixture except for the high use area where we've installed LEDs.
My job regularly has me spending weeks away from anything but the occasional email download. Most of the time I don't give a rat's arse cause working the wilderness is awesome, but there are times when a game makes a nice break. The original Starcraft has become my Solitare. Pity Starcraft II needs to phone home regularly.
So, what about the problem that pulp and paper making technology changes in the last 100 years has resulted in paper with a much higher acid content than older paper? Modern paper (especially that used in cheap paperbacks) doesn't archive well. How long will it take to generate a container full of brittle paper fragments?
Good suggestions.
As a Canadian though, I'm always puzzled by the USPS hate and UPS love Americans have. For small parcels going across the border I always specify USPS. No idea what the insurance procedure is like since I've never had to put in a claim. Stuff always arrives and the custom fees are reasonable.
UPS on the other hand has been a nightmare, with all the insurance problems you've noted for USPS. It's at the point where I'll find another U.S. supplier if the only option is shipping by UPS. Anyone can have a bad day but with UPS it seems to be a philosophy. Bit ironic too that they filed a NAFTA lawsuit against Canada Post for shipping parcels and having an unfair advantage with their drop box network. If you can't compete on service and innovation, I guess...
Anyway, I really hope USPS gets its act together south of the border and eats UPS's lunch.
I don't live in a country where I will need a "weapon". I strongly suspect we won't be shooting each other in the face while looting following a disaster.
What I have I will share.
p.s.: I do have a couple of "firearms". Bambis are good food. I'm assuming bag limits and hunting seasons will be suspended for a time.
Frickin' Aye!
And I'm not even an American....
Looks like they want money before they'll let you see possible matches. Smells like Ancestry.com
There are so many things wrong with this article I'm not sure where to begin. Five minutes of Googling would have shown the author his "simple, elegant solution" is neither simple, elegant, nor a solution. He clearly has no understanding of the decomposition process taking place inside a compost heap and what is produced. His claim that there are no toxic leachates for example can be shown untrue by anyone who has had to work with industrial quantities of waste sawdust and bark. Pile this material high enough that the lower layers go anoxic and you get some interesting stuff leaking out of the heap.
Baseless opinion from a marketing droid who can't be bothered to do a bit of research. I'm sure Fox will love it.
This practice will never be legit until MMOs are programmed to debuff (starve) a character that does dumb things like dump a tonne of stuff on the auction house for considerably less than the cost of materials.
Indeed. I thought they were the equivalent of "Letters to Penthouse". I wonder if this company actually moved client product or just their own. "Product" in this case being lies and deceit.
Odd. You'd think she'd use the large HMOs that use SAS as their operating system as an example. "Every time I take an SSRI or get a colonoscopy I'm glad..." This is making me feel better about dumping SAS in favour of R after 20 years. SAS is an excellent product rendered useless by their marketing and sales department. (Unless you can sling around the type of money an HMO has.) It was a lot of fun dealing with closed proprietary data file formats when one of our major SAS using units decided to move to other software. Considering how much of our data is in MS Access now I'm beginning to think though that the problem might be learning disabilities rather than closed source.
Bingo! Got it in one! I'll entrust my data to a cell phone when the network operators quit sodomizing me. For the record, I do know how to use the camera on my phone. If there's ever an emergency to photograph, I'll figure out how to dump the (crappy) pictures afterwards. Until then, I have a somewhat long in the tooth Fuji that's pocket sized and still takes excellent pictures in good conditions. I work in a lot of fringe areas and what would be really nice would be a cell phone with extra battery life and a boosted antenna system for marginal reception areas. Motorola does make such a beast but it's only available to the third world. Go figure. Single points of failure suck. If it's going to be a week before you get back to a place where you can replace your toys it's best not to have your cell phone/address book/calendar/notepad/camera/mp3 player go down in one fell swoop.
... or cats. What the hell am I doing on this "Get rich quick doing nothing but browsing the web!" page? What keys did you furball arseholes walk on this time?
Indeed. It's funny how many replies in this thread obsess about finding a workable high tech solution. There's an old axiom: Many Eyes Make Bugs Shallow. The more technological the solution, the fewer eyes there are capable of spotting anomalies. Even your quill-pushing granny knows how locks, seals, and scrutineers from each party in the tallying room work. You Americans need to hurry up and build that fence along the border. This is something else I'd really rather see stay south of the line. I'd rather my vote was tallied by a computer illiterate Canadian grandmother than a machine running proprietary corporate code.
At age 90.
Of a massive heart attack.
Trying to satisfy an incredibly kinky twenty year old minx.
I have my standards.
The power company here (British Columbia) tried to bring in a variation of this twenty years ago for electrically heated homes built with a "backup" heat source - wood, natural gas, whatever. The electric heating circuits were run though a second meter so they could be charged a different, supposedly cheaper rate and shut off completely if necessary. And by "shut off", I mean the power company rep would stop by with a padlock and plan to return sometime in the spring when the demand for heating power slacked off a bit. It never caught on for residential construction, in part I suspect because B.C. Hydro itself sabotaged it with changing rates. Following on your suggestion what might work would be a variation of one of the systems for using emergency power generators - wire a few "must have" circuits into a transfer switch so a generator can power them until the utility power comes back on line.