"Probably because Iran has openly stated its desire to wipe Israel off the map should it ever have the means to do so."
Oh, yea, let's not not forget; the US also mistranslates Arabic to meet it's own goals of regime change. Just like it did with spanish and the 'communist threat' from south america in the 80's.
"But nobody is forcing these places to go along with the new schedule, just like nobody was forcing Canada."
Ummm? No one forcing us?
"Compare this to the number of people trying to communicate cross-border between Canada and the US. With the new schedule it would be a month of insanity rather than just the week between UK/Australia and the US."
That is exactally what is forcing us to change. We can't get Americans to use Metric when we exchange goods or even when we discuss the weather. Can't even get them to convert to imperial themselves.
How do we expect to get them to consider the hour time difference for a month? In the West here, we get a double whammy. Head office in Toronto has no problem scheduling meetings at 08:00 local (05:00 here) now California will be wanting things at 07:00 too?
"any canadian here want to eviscerate this patronizing and condescending depiction of canadians as the ultimate pantywaists for me?"
Your perceptions aren't our concern. (Is that punctuation I see, CTS?);)
You may take some of our attitudes and opinions as condecending amd patronizing - and they may well come out that way, but we really do have good intentions.
"are more dutifully disposed to obey american business interests than american citizens?"
We see the CD levy for what it is - a right to copy audio music. Not the right to download games and movies. When asked to behave ourselves, we will. But if asked to stop downloading audio - the gloves come off!
I wondered what Viagra did. I didn't ask, because I didn't want to go bouncing down the street looking that happy again.
Which also explains that stuff you put on your forehead. I don't know what it does ethier, but the ads are so annoying, I don't want to find out because I'll never buy it anyway. Probabally whitens your teeth.
Well, then he's trolling. 'Nationalized Healthcare' means we pay for it through our taxes, so price does matter. Many cancer treatments can run $12,000 a month, and are not covered by many provincial healthcare plans.
There are many things we must pay for, out of pocket. Perscription drugs and non-approved cancer treatments are two of them.
It's not a broken system. On my local news (Edmonton, home of the UofA) they are specifically NOT including drug companies in funding the trials, because they want the drug to be cheap.
FTA:
"A small, non-toxic molecule may soon be available as an inexpensive treatment for many forms of cancer, including lung, breast and brain tumours, say University of Alberta researchers."
Sir Frederick Banting, (another Canadian) did the same thing with his patent for Insulin, so that drug companies would never have a monopoly on something needed for people to live.
AKA: Salt (Sodium Chloride). Geeks know pure water does not conduct electricity. Salt provides the ions in your body that conduct electricity so things like your heart keep beating.
I think if you look at the NASA image, and look at the crater in the central area of Quadrant 1 - that looks a lot like it could have been made by Beagle.
I have no idea what that product does, and because of their marketing tactics, I have no intention of finding out. So, not only did they annoy me, they wasted their money.
Vegetable isle is dull? That's where all the good stuff is! I would skip the cerial isle, but caffine is located there;)
I guess that comes from getting all my TV via torrent, sans commercials.
"HEAD-ON CAN BE APPLIED DIRECTLY TO YOUR FOREHEAD"
I see those ads too, and I wonder - why? What does it do? Is it breath freshener? Why would I apply that to my forehead?
Yes, I know I could look it up, but isn't that the point of advertising - to tell me what your product does? (as opposed to driving me up a wall with the repetition)
"Since I'm not a server admin, I've always wondered about the use and importance of this "virtualization" I've been hearing so much about."
To further Moco's post; take for example of old software on much older hardware. It take a lot of care and attention and spare parts to keep an old Compaq NT4 box we have running, not to mention power and air conditioning. It's only purpose is to keep an old Foxpro based software archive running, for historical records purposes. No one wants to spend the money to get the software re-written in a modern language (the consultant took the source code with him).
The answer is to virtualize the hardware and software. If it 'breaks', we just move the image to another server. It'll be static anyway. For the one or two queries it recieves a month, it won't swamp our resources. And it's 4 drive arrays of 4G drives can be reasonably replaced with a cheap SATA2 drive.;)
And no one will ever realize the server isn't a 'real' server anymore.
Indeed. Too bad they don't bash the incompetent admins who set up the flaky Notes domain to begin with. Just like the chorus we get when someone says 'Sendmail is insecure'. They blame the Admin who didn't know how to set it up.
If Notes is so bad, why does mine take 5 seconds to open, 10 seconds to close, and all the outages I've had (3) this year were all network related? And our Notes domain has several hundred thousand users!
Funny. I've been using Notes (7.0 R HL277) And Sametime (Blue Edition) on my Thinkpad, running under Vista for a month now. Guess which company I work for? Hint - the IP subnet begins with 9.x.x.x.
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"Probably because Iran has openly stated its desire to wipe Israel off the map should it ever have the means to do so."
Oh, yea, let's not not forget; the US also mistranslates Arabic to meet it's own goals of regime change. Just like it did with spanish and the 'communist threat' from south america in the 80's.
No, it's packaged with "Windows Vista: Total World Domination" edition.
"But nobody is forcing these places to go along with the new schedule, just like nobody was forcing Canada."
Ummm? No one forcing us?
"Compare this to the number of people trying to communicate cross-border between Canada and the US. With the new schedule it would be a month of insanity rather than just the week between UK/Australia and the US."
That is exactally what is forcing us to change. We can't get Americans to use Metric when we exchange goods or even when we discuss the weather. Can't even get them to convert to imperial themselves.
How do we expect to get them to consider the hour time difference for a month? In the West here, we get a double whammy. Head office in Toronto has no problem scheduling meetings at 08:00 local (05:00 here) now California will be wanting things at 07:00 too?
"any canadian here want to eviscerate this patronizing and condescending depiction of canadians as the ultimate pantywaists for me?"
;)
Your perceptions aren't our concern. (Is that punctuation I see, CTS?)
You may take some of our attitudes and opinions as condecending amd patronizing - and they may well come out that way, but we really do have good intentions.
"are more dutifully disposed to obey american business interests than american citizens?"
We see the CD levy for what it is - a right to copy audio music. Not the right to download games and movies. When asked to behave ourselves, we will. But if asked to stop downloading audio - the gloves come off!
Alas, the Pirates of the North Saskatchewan are a dying breed
Vee only accept call from Moose AND Squirrel, Comrade.
I wondered what Viagra did. I didn't ask, because I didn't want to go bouncing down the street looking that happy again.
Which also explains that stuff you put on your forehead. I don't know what it does ethier, but the ads are so annoying, I don't want to find out because I'll never buy it anyway. Probabally whitens your teeth.
Those in marketing should just kill themselves.
How about sending a message to Parlament so they will think twice before attempting to implement the DCMA North?
Our Parlement is in a minority situation, and they need every vote they can get.
9. I just saved a lot on my car insurance.
Seconded. I liked the multiple ways you could play. Stealthy non-lethal defence, or straight out in your face offense.
Another that bit the big one after only 2 was 'Blood'. I loved the dark humour.
"If the police can do it, I'll bet your kid's lunch money that your teenage neighbor can as well."
You seem to underestimate British Police. You probabally shouldn't.
"They are probably using pretty basic hacking methods to hack into government computers. "
Who was it cracked Enigma without a computer again? And they probabally have the best tools available.
Ahh, see - we can't eat the freedom fries, because the heat from the deep friers melts our igloos. We just eat the fat from the baby seals we kill.
Well, then he's trolling. 'Nationalized Healthcare' means we pay for it through our taxes, so price does matter. Many cancer treatments can run $12,000 a month, and are not covered by many provincial healthcare plans.
There are many things we must pay for, out of pocket. Perscription drugs and non-approved cancer treatments are two of them.
Yes it does. And that system is cheaper per capita, and results in Canadians having a 1.5 year longer average lifespan.
n _health_care_systems_compared
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_and_America
It's not a broken system. On my local news (Edmonton, home of the UofA) they are specifically NOT including drug companies in funding the trials, because they want the drug to be cheap.
FTA:
"A small, non-toxic molecule may soon be available as an inexpensive treatment for many forms of cancer, including lung, breast and brain tumours, say University of Alberta researchers."
Sir Frederick Banting, (another Canadian) did the same thing with his patent for Insulin, so that drug companies would never have a monopoly on something needed for people to live.
"seems like sodium is the most important one."
AKA: Salt (Sodium Chloride). Geeks know pure water does not conduct electricity. Salt provides the ions in your body that conduct electricity so things like your heart keep beating.
I think if you look at the NASA image, and look at the crater in the central area of Quadrant 1 - that looks a lot like it could have been made by Beagle.
I think I'm making it for you.
;)
I have no idea what that product does, and because of their marketing tactics, I have no intention of finding out. So, not only did they annoy me, they wasted their money.
Vegetable isle is dull? That's where all the good stuff is! I would skip the cerial isle, but caffine is located there
I guess that comes from getting all my TV via torrent, sans commercials.
"HEAD-ON CAN BE APPLIED DIRECTLY TO YOUR FOREHEAD"
I see those ads too, and I wonder - why? What does it do? Is it breath freshener? Why would I apply that to my forehead?
Yes, I know I could look it up, but isn't that the point of advertising - to tell me what your product does? (as opposed to driving me up a wall with the repetition)
To add to your list . . . www.jameco.com and www.robotstore.com .
Both pretty good mail order places. (well, the same place basically).
That bitch thought I was psycho, so I had her erased. Muhahahahaha!
"Since I'm not a server admin, I've always wondered about the use and importance of this "virtualization" I've been hearing so much about."
;)
To further Moco's post; take for example of old software on much older hardware. It take a lot of care and attention and spare parts to keep an old Compaq NT4 box we have running, not to mention power and air conditioning. It's only purpose is to keep an old Foxpro based software archive running, for historical records purposes. No one wants to spend the money to get the software re-written in a modern language (the consultant took the source code with him).
The answer is to virtualize the hardware and software. If it 'breaks', we just move the image to another server. It'll be static anyway. For the one or two queries it recieves a month, it won't swamp our resources. And it's 4 drive arrays of 4G drives can be reasonably replaced with a cheap SATA2 drive.
And no one will ever realize the server isn't a 'real' server anymore.
Well, he can go to the arctic and rape all the penguins he wants to.
They, however, are in the antarctic.
Indeed. Too bad they don't bash the incompetent admins who set up the flaky Notes domain to begin with. Just like the chorus we get when someone says 'Sendmail is insecure'. They blame the Admin who didn't know how to set it up.
If Notes is so bad, why does mine take 5 seconds to open, 10 seconds to close, and all the outages I've had (3) this year were all network related? And our Notes domain has several hundred thousand users!
Funny. I've been using Notes (7.0 R HL277) And Sametime (Blue Edition) on my Thinkpad, running under Vista for a month now. Guess which company I work for? Hint - the IP subnet begins with 9.x.x.x.