Actually, having toured across Canada in the last few months, Alberta's economy is starting to slide visibly, BC is relatively stable, Ontario is circling the bowl, Quebec is not far behind, and the east coast isn't in great shape ether. Saskatchewan and Manitoba are starting to boom with oil prospects and are actually behind on housing to keep up with the people moving there. Brandon Manitoba currently has 0.2% vacancy, only 7 out of 2,977 rental units available. No doubt they'll do as poor a job keeping up with population growth as Calgary has.
And I imagine someone from the UK might take issue with Alberta's love-it-or-leave-it attitude, or at least have a relatively severe adjustment period. Ontario or Nova Scotia would be the most familiar, BC would be the most novel, and if european culture is of value, Montreal is the the ticket. (Quebec City is "more european" but also pretty much prohibitively francophone)
Factor in climate and you get a whole new set of variables. Bitter winters and long distances between towns are probably the biggest reasons why the prairies haven't populated more already. They've got everything else going for them, including really nice people.
Overall anywhere that's not too francophone and has a university is a safe bet, except maybe Windsor, I don't get that town.
Screw the weather, 12 states have territory north of the southernmost point in Canada, including California, and I was in southwest Alberta for 2" of snow earlier this month...
The reason to come to Canada is to be free of the fear-mongering media of the US. Seriously, spend a month outside the US, see what's really going on, watch how it's reported, and you'll both laugh and puke over how it's reported in the US.
For starters, fire these strings into your favorite search engine:
"fox news bullshit"
"cnn news bullshit"
Compare those results with:
"cbc news bullshit"
"bbc news bullshit"
(and those are possibly the most bullshit of the G8 outside the US)
Not only is it completely impractical, not only it is not original, another much more practical contact-free charging method has been in widespread use for over 10 years. Inductance charging is reasonably efficient and very handy for waterproofing rechargeable devices, like my Panasonic shaver (link to charger image). Not nearly the range of "resonant charging", but all the other advantages apply, and no tumors or pacemaker failures.
We must protect at all costs the reliability of information online! Imagine if you had to question the veracity of everything you read! I wouldn't have the first clue what to buy!
Despite being more outspoken, those that believe the theft and distribution of copyrighted content should go unpunished are in the minority. It is also no surprise that popularity on SlashDot does not gain a concept any validity with the courts or legislature.
$1.92M is also a minute fraction of the billions lost to piracy every year. Like it or not, the RIAA has a clear legal claim to recoup any or all of those losses. Get caught, and you get to pay some of it back. Since the RIAA is a group of faceless corporations and nobody can be held liable for abusive conduct on the part of their lawyers, they will play depraved hardball with you.
If you were responsible to shareholders for losing a multi-billion dollar market share to thieves, would you treat them any better? Yeah, right.
My simple guess is any request with any destination is logged and then resolved at some later time. A database of people who use these other servers is maintained and flags are included such as "pedophile, hacker, warez, terrorist, etc". This list then is used to help law enforcement and or they will just come and round all of you up one day.
Dude, lack of quality mainstream music is also a direct result of piracy. Labels won't take risks on any new acts except lowest common denominator bullshit. Good bands are getting dummied way down upon being signed. My friend's kick-ass rock band got signed to Universal, who made them record and shoot a video for Frosty The Snowman!! The indie scene is doing fine, as am I, but I know several great indie bands that won't or can't take that next step thanks to piracy.
I do agree it's our job to adapt, but that's a difficult and costly process, and if you have a business model to sell ice to eskimos, I'm all ears.
People are spending their music money on other things, therefore it's the other things that are hurting the music business, and not piracy?
There is no evidence presented here that suggests that people would not spend more on music if piracy were eliminated. If it were, the biggest reason people would not spend an amount consistent with industry growth prior to piracy is because of the severe public stigma the RIAA has received from its battle against piracy. As well-deserved as that stigma is, it would not have developed had piracy had never existed. All major RIAA losses are in fact directly attributable to piracy, no matter what people otherwise spend their money on.
With piracy as abundant as it is, a working business model to sell ice to eskimos is understandably hard to develop. If your competition was stealing your customers with illegal tactics, would you A) lower your prices and take the loss, B) close up shop and work at McDonald's, or C) rat the bastards out.
And the last thing MAFIAA-bashers should complain about is how they treat pirates that press and resell illegitimate media copies! That is absolutely undeniable theft that benefits nobody except the thieves.
Sure they've crossed the line on many occasions, but that's how all corporations fight competition on a routine basis. Cry about it all you want, neither their unscrupulous legal practices nor their ensuing unpopularity compromises their copyrights. Sooner or later you won't be able to pirate anything with any reasonable ease.
It could work well as a semi-portable, meaning the rig goes in a small briefcase between home and work, so you get free long distance in both locations and can downgrade your cel to pay per use.
That's exactly what I take on tour with my band. I just hook up my VOIP adapter through my laptop* and I have my landline at every venue and hotel room with wi-fi. I just use my cel as a pager and for texts. I'm 2000mi from home right now, and I just got off the phone with my mom over a lousy 1Mbps connection, no problems.
* Often the VOIP adapter needs to be patched through an ethernet switch or router to cooperate with the laptop, no big deal though.
They CANNOT afford to let people realize that going without isn't such a bad option.
People are addicted to their lifestyles in that they are very reluctant to change. But when they see that some change might not be so bad, that endagers what the music industry has come to rely on.
Don't mistake the RIAA for "the music industry". Not every musical act is a marketing scam, as you seem to depict here. We can certainly get by without manufactured acts like Brittany Spears and Justin Timberlake, but without the indie scene no new genuine talent develops.
[bias warning - I'm an indie musician on tour about 2000mi from home]
IMO the best eras of games occurred when the platforms stagnated in technical advancement. For example the Commodore 64 was the most popular gaming platform for years after all its video resources had been exploited to their fullest. The lack of new ground to break forced game developers to break new ground in game development rather than video exploitation.
When I put it like that, it makes complete sense. Funny how nobody under age 25 seems to grasp it.
I thought ADHD was just a pharmaceutical disorder, kind of like how Father's Day is a Hallmark holiday. It's only considered a disorder instead of just a character trait because pharm companies claimed to have found a cure.
Our "sense of direction" is a cognitive property, not a sense, no more than our "sense of humor".
Similarly I consider proprioception to fall under the "touch" category, since it uses the same nerve endings. If you separate proprioception then the same logic can say temperature is another sense, texture another, pain, wind, etc. They're all cognitive interpretations of the same stimuli apparatus.
Due process has absolutely nothing to do with this. Internet access is not a right under any constitution I know of. ISP's can legally disconnect users at any time for any reason, they're just not motivated to do so. The RIAA aims to change that.
I no longer think of this as a pro-piracy issue, it's really a denial-of-pro-piracy issue. You hate the RIAA and therefore you are entitled to steal from them, but you don't condone illegal behavior, so it must be legal somehow.
Believe what you wish, but sooner or later the bough will break, and you will start paying for music, or you will cry like a little girl and then start paying for music. If you think ISP's care about anything except your business, you'll cry even harder.
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Actually, having toured across Canada in the last few months, Alberta's economy is starting to slide visibly, BC is relatively stable, Ontario is circling the bowl, Quebec is not far behind, and the east coast isn't in great shape ether. Saskatchewan and Manitoba are starting to boom with oil prospects and are actually behind on housing to keep up with the people moving there. Brandon Manitoba currently has 0.2% vacancy, only 7 out of 2,977 rental units available. No doubt they'll do as poor a job keeping up with population growth as Calgary has.
And I imagine someone from the UK might take issue with Alberta's love-it-or-leave-it attitude, or at least have a relatively severe adjustment period. Ontario or Nova Scotia would be the most familiar, BC would be the most novel, and if european culture is of value, Montreal is the the ticket. (Quebec City is "more european" but also pretty much prohibitively francophone)
Factor in climate and you get a whole new set of variables. Bitter winters and long distances between towns are probably the biggest reasons why the prairies haven't populated more already. They've got everything else going for them, including really nice people.
Overall anywhere that's not too francophone and has a university is a safe bet, except maybe Windsor, I don't get that town.
Screw the weather, 12 states have territory north of the southernmost point in Canada, including California, and I was in southwest Alberta for 2" of snow earlier this month...
The reason to come to Canada is to be free of the fear-mongering media of the US. Seriously, spend a month outside the US, see what's really going on, watch how it's reported, and you'll both laugh and puke over how it's reported in the US.
For starters, fire these strings into your favorite search engine:
"fox news bullshit"
"cnn news bullshit"
Compare those results with:
"cbc news bullshit"
"bbc news bullshit"
(and those are possibly the most bullshit of the G8 outside the US)
Add facial recognition, and we become the content, whether we're content about it or not.
I'll take age and treachery against youth and strength any day.
Didn't work for the Red Wings, at least not this year.
Agreed. Single-manned cross-ocean trips by sailboat have been done many times, even before GPS navigation, should be much easier by air.
Not only is it completely impractical, not only it is not original, another much more practical contact-free charging method has been in widespread use for over 10 years. Inductance charging is reasonably efficient and very handy for waterproofing rechargeable devices, like my Panasonic shaver (link to charger image). Not nearly the range of "resonant charging", but all the other advantages apply, and no tumors or pacemaker failures.
We must protect at all costs the reliability of information online! Imagine if you had to question the veracity of everything you read! I wouldn't have the first clue what to buy!
Despite being more outspoken, those that believe the theft and distribution of copyrighted content should go unpunished are in the minority. It is also no surprise that popularity on SlashDot does not gain a concept any validity with the courts or legislature.
$1.92M is also a minute fraction of the billions lost to piracy every year. Like it or not, the RIAA has a clear legal claim to recoup any or all of those losses. Get caught, and you get to pay some of it back. Since the RIAA is a group of faceless corporations and nobody can be held liable for abusive conduct on the part of their lawyers, they will play depraved hardball with you.
If you were responsible to shareholders for losing a multi-billion dollar market share to thieves, would you treat them any better? Yeah, right.
My simple guess is any request with any destination is logged and then resolved at some later time. A database of people who use these other servers is maintained and flags are included such as "pedophile, hacker, warez, terrorist, etc". This list then is used to help law enforcement and or they will just come and round all of you up one day.
Fixed that for you
Dude, lack of quality mainstream music is also a direct result of piracy. Labels won't take risks on any new acts except lowest common denominator bullshit. Good bands are getting dummied way down upon being signed. My friend's kick-ass rock band got signed to Universal, who made them record and shoot a video for Frosty The Snowman!! The indie scene is doing fine, as am I, but I know several great indie bands that won't or can't take that next step thanks to piracy.
I do agree it's our job to adapt, but that's a difficult and costly process, and if you have a business model to sell ice to eskimos, I'm all ears.
People are spending their music money on other things, therefore it's the other things that are hurting the music business, and not piracy?
There is no evidence presented here that suggests that people would not spend more on music if piracy were eliminated. If it were, the biggest reason people would not spend an amount consistent with industry growth prior to piracy is because of the severe public stigma the RIAA has received from its battle against piracy. As well-deserved as that stigma is, it would not have developed had piracy had never existed. All major RIAA losses are in fact directly attributable to piracy, no matter what people otherwise spend their money on.
Lack of quality customers hurting music industry more than music quality.
Fixed that for you. It needed the perspective of a touring musician. (Tonight I'm playing show #23 of 26 shows in 25 days)
With piracy as abundant as it is, a working business model to sell ice to eskimos is understandably hard to develop. If your competition was stealing your customers with illegal tactics, would you A) lower your prices and take the loss, B) close up shop and work at McDonald's, or C) rat the bastards out.
And the last thing MAFIAA-bashers should complain about is how they treat pirates that press and resell illegitimate media copies! That is absolutely undeniable theft that benefits nobody except the thieves.
Sure they've crossed the line on many occasions, but that's how all corporations fight competition on a routine basis. Cry about it all you want, neither their unscrupulous legal practices nor their ensuing unpopularity compromises their copyrights. Sooner or later you won't be able to pirate anything with any reasonable ease.
FTA: "Guo's laser unleashes as much power as the entire grid of North America"
Doesn't sound like much of a power saver to me.
It could work well as a semi-portable, meaning the rig goes in a small briefcase between home and work, so you get free long distance in both locations and can downgrade your cel to pay per use.
That's exactly what I take on tour with my band. I just hook up my VOIP adapter through my laptop* and I have my landline at every venue and hotel room with wi-fi. I just use my cel as a pager and for texts. I'm 2000mi from home right now, and I just got off the phone with my mom over a lousy 1Mbps connection, no problems.
* Often the VOIP adapter needs to be patched through an ethernet switch or router to cooperate with the laptop, no big deal though.
They CANNOT afford to let people realize that going without isn't such a bad option.
People are addicted to their lifestyles in that they are very reluctant to change. But when they see that some change might not be so bad, that endagers what the music industry has come to rely on.
Don't mistake the RIAA for "the music industry". Not every musical act is a marketing scam, as you seem to depict here. We can certainly get by without manufactured acts like Brittany Spears and Justin Timberlake, but without the indie scene no new genuine talent develops.
[bias warning - I'm an indie musician on tour about 2000mi from home]
IMO the best eras of games occurred when the platforms stagnated in technical advancement. For example the Commodore 64 was the most popular gaming platform for years after all its video resources had been exploited to their fullest. The lack of new ground to break forced game developers to break new ground in game development rather than video exploitation.
When I put it like that, it makes complete sense. Funny how nobody under age 25 seems to grasp it.
And don't get me started on movies...
. . . if I owe a bank $250 billion, the federal reserve has a problem, and my bank executives get $25 billion in bonuses.
Another variant.
I thought ADHD was just a pharmaceutical disorder, kind of like how Father's Day is a Hallmark holiday. It's only considered a disorder instead of just a character trait because pharm companies claimed to have found a cure.
As usual, politicians aren't making efforts to actually be productive, but rather to *seem* productive.
Imagine how hard drug cartels are laughing over this one. No question a an unwinnable war is lost when the clear loser claims to have won.
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Then legalize the drugs. Then use the profits from the government-sold drugs to start up rehab centers. Problem solved.
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ahem. Say again?
Our "sense of direction" is a cognitive property, not a sense, no more than our "sense of humor".
Similarly I consider proprioception to fall under the "touch" category, since it uses the same nerve endings. If you separate proprioception then the same logic can say temperature is another sense, texture another, pain, wind, etc. They're all cognitive interpretations of the same stimuli apparatus.
Due process has absolutely nothing to do with this. Internet access is not a right under any constitution I know of. ISP's can legally disconnect users at any time for any reason, they're just not motivated to do so. The RIAA aims to change that.
I no longer think of this as a pro-piracy issue, it's really a denial-of-pro-piracy issue. You hate the RIAA and therefore you are entitled to steal from them, but you don't condone illegal behavior, so it must be legal somehow.
Believe what you wish, but sooner or later the bough will break, and you will start paying for music, or you will cry like a little girl and then start paying for music. If you think ISP's care about anything except your business, you'll cry even harder.
I run three monitors, allowing access to three unmodified pages simultaneously and spread the "tab-load" across them.
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