[I'm Canadian] He very directly and truthfully explained that we were the most privileged sector of the Canadian population and that for those of us taking degrees that would lead to well paying jobs the cost of tuition could be higher almost all of us would still pay.
That of course is the real reason that tuition should be LOWERED, to allow the poor access to the same education so they too if they have the ability can access those high pay jobs and cease to be poor. Tuition goes up and up and fewer and few of the poor and working classes can gain higher education and exercise social mobility.
I can assure you that curing cancer will never happen in Europe or Australia, because they contribute a small fraction of the medical R&D that the US does. European drug companies have no money for research - it'd be unfair gouging of the pitiful sick people if they did.
The US accounts for 50% of the entire world's medical R&D budget. The rest of the world sucks on the US teat.
When it comes to medical isotopes for example the U.S. does the teat sucking, as last I checked you imported ALL of what you needed and were bitching that Canada's production was down while the reactor was rebuilt causing shortages.
Now that those who rebelled against education can get encouragement from others over social media, they don't want their kids to get too educated. They fear that they will have less influence over their kids than conniving, and plotting brain washers/educators. And they vote accordingly.
Then there are those who believe that education will shake their children's faith and drag them down to hell. Many of these home school, others try to remove "false science" from the curriculum to "protect" their kids and leave other kids open to conversion. Can't have the kids too educated so they reject religion. Have faith not learning.:(
Seriously, Canada, along with the UK, are our closest allies.
In addition, neither of them deserve the treatment that Trump has given them.
I now know how an East Germany felt.
Canada has been on these U.S. lists for a LONG time. As to the treatment consider how post 9/11 Bush kept thanking the countries that helped and backed the U.S., the only time he mentioned Canada was when questioned by the press for his omission to which he responded "You don't thank family". How dysfunctional is the the Bush family? So yeah we have had this treatment by a lot more than just Trump.
It isn't even just the politicos like Bush and Trump but also can be the people as in the incident where 3 playoff games played in the U.S. had the Canadian anthem booed but when after the 3rd U.S. game in the 3rd Canadian game the Canadian fans booed back and we got the "HOW DARE YOU!" treatment from Americans for finally booing the American anthem after being provoked 3 times (and this was the final Canadian game in the series so it was the last chance). So yeah we are used to it.
I myself in my Canadian home town was harassed by a pair of Americans, when I told them off their response was "Here in the U.S.A they had the right to do whatever they wanted". They didn't even know enough to understand that Canada isn't in the U.S.A.
Answer me this. Why is it that so many Americans come to Canada to celebrate your 4th of July independence from the British Empire? I ask because not only are they really obnoxious when they do but it seems wrong to visit a foreign nation that was Loyalist to that empire when you rebelled (and took in many of your loyalists when you won) to celebrate independence from that Empire. It just seems wrong.
many many breakthroughs were made by scientists doing 'pure' science for FREE? They worked for No Pay? Pan handled for food? I call bullshit Too.
You don't know much of the history of science do you? A lot of the early work on which modern science was based was from Scientists who were independently wealthy doing research because they wanted to KNOW. Then again Einstein came up with the theory or relativity as a patent clerk and his employers weren't paying him for that.
Ironically enough the countries on the list don't innovate anything, they just steal other's work. Developing drugs costs money. None of the breakthoughs would exists without a profit motive.
Bullshit. Where do you think the U.S. gets their medical isotopes from? It happens to be Canada mostly. When NASA needed an "arm" for the Space Shuttle who do you think designed and built it? A Canadian Corporation. Know any diabetics taking insulin? Thank Canada for their being alive. How about babies eating Pablum? Invented at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. And so on and so forth. I'm sure other countries on the list have their own discoveries.
Microsoft is part of a group that wants GPL users to go easy on violators and work with them to stop the violation without recourse to courts or financial settlements. Obviously Microsoft doesn't think that philosophy applies to violating their proprietary licenses. Exactly as I expected.
People like you always say "socialism works, it just hasn't been implemented right".
He didn't say ANYTHING about it whether it would have worked. So don't put words in his mouth. He did correctly state that what was done was not a UBI as currently defined which is accurate. Attack what he said not what you make up and attribute to him.
The word is STALKING. It is illegal in the real world and should be illegal in the online world as well. I leave your site (or never use it) and you shouldn't be allowed to STALK me.
Not expecting them to heat up as much, putting them in a confined location where they cannot expand.
I have yet to see a removable AA, AAA and so forth standard battery without some form of spring loading that gives room for expansion so I doubt very much this is an issue. Now with machines whose design does not involve user changeable batteries space may be tight but not with user replaceable standard batteries.
Well Microsoft haters will hate. Chances are this BSOD is a fairly rare condition, and sending out an update at would introduce the BSOD vs the additional benefits of the update is a decision that will need to be made.
For all products there is a point where someone will need to say "this isn't perfect, but it is good enough". Because the cost of the flaw is minor while the improvements are great.
So Microsoft did the responsible thing Considered releasing a product that could possibly BSOD, or make people wait for a big set of improvements which could allow people to hack into their systems, or break something else. They figured the BSOD condition was common enough to not release it.
The cost of the flaw is not minor to the poor sap whose computer is screwed with an update they aren't allowed to block even if they KNOW their computer will be affected by it. Give the OWNERS of the computers back the CONTROL of the computers which is theirs by rights as the OWNER of that machine.
People didn't revolt, few even had a clue it existed. MS just didn't make it work. According to one of their engineers no one at Microsoft could even clearly define what it was.
All depends on what they eat... I've got a hunch they fed on needles and bark of certain conifers (considering the likely state of things during the Ice Age), in which case their meat could taste like terpentine...
For your information the DoDo did not go extinct during the ice age but during recorded history in 1662 to be precise and was a tropical bird.
I remember the American outrage when Brazil announced they would be fingerprinting Americans entering the country - Just like the U.S. had begun fingerprinting everyone entering the U.S.. Now this. Hell I couldn't even list my past phone numbers and E-mail, don't have twitter or facebook accounts. This is getting ever more excessive.
From the novel Space Viking by H. Beam Piper and unhappily seeming more and more applicable to his homeland the U.S.A.
"I'm sorry, Prince Edvard. You had a wonderful civilization here on Marduk. You could have made almost anything of it. But it's too late now. You've torn down the gates; the barbarians are in."
You know the answer to that. Trump is SPECIAL, the rules and laws don't apply to him. That is why the "Party of Family Values" doesn't take him to task for multiple divorces, adultery, cameos in porn movies, "grab'em by the pussy" and so on and so forth.
When Trump was confronted about being a billionaire and not paying any income tax his comment was along the lines of "that makes me smart". So by his logic if Amazon is paying less in taxes that makes THEM smart.
Outside a crosswalk does not always mean jaywalking. In many jurisdictions if you are a certain distance from the next corner it is legal to cross. So she may or may not have been legally crossing.
So, the GPL isn't as cut a dried and obvious as Slashdotters insist it is.
And the issues regarding the license wasn't FUD after all.
Color me surprised! I thought all Slashdotters were legal experts.
The license is clear on what you are allowed to do (which is more than copyright law requires them to do) with the copyrighted material. These companies want to restrict copyright holders who use the GPL from using the legally allowed means of ENFORCING that copyright once it has been violated. Where do these companies get the right to dictate to the copyright holders how they will enforce it?
I'll take these guys seriously once they make a legally binding commitment to handle violations of THEIR copyrights by the same rules that they want to impose on people using the GPL.
While NASA has done some interesting experiments in orbit, it seems unlikely that the returns from orbital experiments would ever produce results which could result in profit for private enterprise.
You do recognize that NASA does little research at generating marketable products don't you? They are more into "pure" science than commercial research or production. Bigelow is hoping that people with potential commercial ideas will be using their stations. Also of course their stations can allow pure science to be done without (much) NASA participation and with for example SpaceX transporting the people and materials at much lower cost than was previously possible.
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A/ Don't install Windows, B/ Don't boot into Windows. No crashes from Windows either way.
amiga3D : "This is the good side of DNA databases"
msnash : "Shut up, why u always see the bad side in everything?"
Because by seeing the bad side you can work to avoid it. Ignore possible problems and you can't block them from manifesting.
[I'm Canadian] He very directly and truthfully explained that we were the most privileged sector of the Canadian population and that for those of us taking degrees that would lead to well paying jobs the cost of tuition could be higher almost all of us would still pay.
That of course is the real reason that tuition should be LOWERED, to allow the poor access to the same education so they too if they have the ability can access those high pay jobs and cease to be poor. Tuition goes up and up and fewer and few of the poor and working classes can gain higher education and exercise social mobility.
I can assure you that curing cancer will never happen in Europe or Australia, because they contribute a small fraction of the medical R&D that the US does. European drug companies have no money for research - it'd be unfair gouging of the pitiful sick people if they did.
The US accounts for 50% of the entire world's medical R&D budget. The rest of the world sucks on the US teat.
When it comes to medical isotopes for example the U.S. does the teat sucking, as last I checked you imported ALL of what you needed and were bitching that Canada's production was down while the reactor was rebuilt causing shortages.
Now that those who rebelled against education can get encouragement from others over social media, they don't want their kids to get too educated. They fear that they will have less influence over their kids than conniving, and plotting brain washers/educators. And they vote accordingly.
Then there are those who believe that education will shake their children's faith and drag them down to hell. Many of these home school, others try to remove "false science" from the curriculum to "protect" their kids and leave other kids open to conversion. Can't have the kids too educated so they reject religion. Have faith not learning. :(
Seriously, Canada, along with the UK, are our closest allies.
In addition, neither of them deserve the treatment that Trump has given them.
I now know how an East Germany felt.
Canada has been on these U.S. lists for a LONG time. As to the treatment consider how post 9/11 Bush kept thanking the countries that helped and backed the U.S., the only time he mentioned Canada was when questioned by the press for his omission to which he responded "You don't thank family". How dysfunctional is the the Bush family? So yeah we have had this treatment by a lot more than just Trump.
It isn't even just the politicos like Bush and Trump but also can be the people as in the incident where 3 playoff games played in the U.S. had the Canadian anthem booed but when after the 3rd U.S. game in the 3rd Canadian game the Canadian fans booed back and we got the "HOW DARE YOU!" treatment from Americans for finally booing the American anthem after being provoked 3 times (and this was the final Canadian game in the series so it was the last chance). So yeah we are used to it.
I myself in my Canadian home town was harassed by a pair of Americans, when I told them off their response was "Here in the U.S.A they had the right to do whatever they wanted". They didn't even know enough to understand that Canada isn't in the U.S.A.
Answer me this. Why is it that so many Americans come to Canada to celebrate your 4th of July independence from the British Empire? I ask because not only are they really obnoxious when they do but it seems wrong to visit a foreign nation that was Loyalist to that empire when you rebelled (and took in many of your loyalists when you won) to celebrate independence from that Empire. It just seems wrong.
many many breakthroughs were made by scientists doing 'pure' science for FREE? They worked for No Pay? Pan handled for food? I call bullshit Too.
You don't know much of the history of science do you? A lot of the early work on which modern science was based was from Scientists who were independently wealthy doing research because they wanted to KNOW. Then again Einstein came up with the theory or relativity as a patent clerk and his employers weren't paying him for that.
Ironically enough the countries on the list don't innovate anything, they just steal other's work. Developing drugs costs money. None of the breakthoughs would exists without a profit motive.
Bullshit. Where do you think the U.S. gets their medical isotopes from? It happens to be Canada mostly. When NASA needed an "arm" for the Space Shuttle who do you think designed and built it? A Canadian Corporation. Know any diabetics taking insulin? Thank Canada for their being alive. How about babies eating Pablum? Invented at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. And so on and so forth. I'm sure other countries on the list have their own discoveries.
Microsoft is part of a group that wants GPL users to go easy on violators and work with them to stop the violation without recourse to courts or financial settlements. Obviously Microsoft doesn't think that philosophy applies to violating their proprietary licenses. Exactly as I expected.
People like you always say "socialism works, it just hasn't been implemented right".
He didn't say ANYTHING about it whether it would have worked. So don't put words in his mouth. He did correctly state that what was done was not a UBI as currently defined which is accurate. Attack what he said not what you make up and attribute to him.
The word is STALKING. It is illegal in the real world and should be illegal in the online world as well. I leave your site (or never use it) and you shouldn't be allowed to STALK me.
Not expecting them to heat up as much, putting them in a confined location where they cannot expand.
I have yet to see a removable AA, AAA and so forth standard battery without some form of spring loading that gives room for expansion so I doubt very much this is an issue. Now with machines whose design does not involve user changeable batteries space may be tight but not with user replaceable standard batteries.
Well Microsoft haters will hate. Chances are this BSOD is a fairly rare condition, and sending out an update at would introduce the BSOD vs the additional benefits of the update is a decision that will need to be made.
For all products there is a point where someone will need to say "this isn't perfect, but it is good enough". Because the cost of the flaw is minor while the improvements are great.
So Microsoft did the responsible thing Considered releasing a product that could possibly BSOD, or make people wait for a big set of improvements which could allow people to hack into their systems, or break something else. They figured the BSOD condition was common enough to not release it.
The cost of the flaw is not minor to the poor sap whose computer is screwed with an update they aren't allowed to block even if they KNOW their computer will be affected by it. Give the OWNERS of the computers back the CONTROL of the computers which is theirs by rights as the OWNER of that machine.
People didn't revolt, few even had a clue it existed. MS just didn't make it work. According to one of their engineers no one at Microsoft could even clearly define what it was.
Just look what happened to WinFS
So what happened to WinFS? As I recall it was often promised and never shipped.
All depends on what they eat... I've got a hunch they fed on needles and bark of certain conifers (considering the likely state of things during the Ice Age), in which case their meat could taste like terpentine...
For your information the DoDo did not go extinct during the ice age but during recorded history in 1662 to be precise and was a tropical bird.
I remember the American outrage when Brazil announced they would be fingerprinting Americans entering the country - Just like the U.S. had begun fingerprinting everyone entering the U.S.. Now this. Hell I couldn't even list my past phone numbers and E-mail, don't have twitter or facebook accounts. This is getting ever more excessive.
From the novel Space Viking by H. Beam Piper and unhappily seeming more and more applicable to his homeland the U.S.A.
You know the answer to that. Trump is SPECIAL, the rules and laws don't apply to him. That is why the "Party of Family Values" doesn't take him to task for multiple divorces, adultery, cameos in porn movies, "grab'em by the pussy" and so on and so forth.
When Trump was confronted about being a billionaire and not paying any income tax his comment was along the lines of "that makes me smart". So by his logic if Amazon is paying less in taxes that makes THEM smart.
Outside a crosswalk does not always mean jaywalking. In many jurisdictions if you are a certain distance from the next corner it is legal to cross. So she may or may not have been legally crossing.
So, the GPL isn't as cut a dried and obvious as Slashdotters insist it is.
And the issues regarding the license wasn't FUD after all.
Color me surprised! I thought all Slashdotters were legal experts.
The license is clear on what you are allowed to do (which is more than copyright law requires them to do) with the copyrighted material. These companies want to restrict copyright holders who use the GPL from using the legally allowed means of ENFORCING that copyright once it has been violated. Where do these companies get the right to dictate to the copyright holders how they will enforce it?
I'll take these guys seriously once they make a legally binding commitment to handle violations of THEIR copyrights by the same rules that they want to impose on people using the GPL.
So no more Politicians on trains and planes? Cool.
Amazing. Didn't know employers could force you to be a smoker.
Trump gets residuals on his show and wants the money to keep coming.
While NASA has done some interesting experiments in orbit, it seems unlikely that the returns from orbital experiments would ever produce results which could result in profit for private enterprise.
You do recognize that NASA does little research at generating marketable products don't you? They are more into "pure" science than commercial research or production. Bigelow is hoping that people with potential commercial ideas will be using their stations. Also of course their stations can allow pure science to be done without (much) NASA participation and with for example SpaceX transporting the people and materials at much lower cost than was previously possible.