This is why I vote for the greens. I don't support the majority of their policies, but at least they believe what they're campaigning for.
I'd rather someone was honestly trying to make the world a better place rather than toeing the party line or selling out to the highest bidder.
If their support ever gets into double digits I might reconsider, but I think it's valuable to have a few people in parliament who are in politics for the right reasons.
The Dominion Post actually. A merger of The Dominion and The Evening Post. The Evening Post being one of the last surviving traditional evening papers.
It's the army training zone, and clearly marked as so. I've heard explosions and seen lights on numerous occasions. I suppose it's rare enough to be unexpected though.
"For users who still don't have a mobile, you shuffle them to the 'legacy' password login system, warning them along the way they're going the low-security path."
Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.
Electrical systems for heating... can have significantly higher efficiency
Huh? Burning gas to produce heat is pretty damn efficient. Whereas if you convert it to electricity you'll get 60% efficiency at best and then lose 5-7% in transmission. Perhaps the article has a different definition of efficiency.
Probably the best thing I did when I was living in Korea for a months was to eat all of their food. They couldn't believe that a westerner would eat the same food they did, and were really impressed. I didn't like most of it, but I still ate it without complaining.
I blame/thank my mum's terrible cooking when I was growing up and her "if you complain about the food you can cook tomorrow" rule. I can eat just about anything without making a fuss.
That may be so, but it ended up a hung jury. If I was in that situation today I'd probably say something to the judge about that person's conduct, although I have no idea what would happen.
My one time on a jury we were deciding the fate of an Iraqi immigrant in a grievous bodily harm case. One of the Jurors called him a racial slur and said that they always do stuff like that. I eventually convinced everyone for a 'not guilty' verdict except for that one guy. So, it was a hung jury.
I'm not American, and this was before the Iraqi war, but xenophobia is universal and consequently shows up in Jury rooms.
The majority of people are either apathetic to intellectual property (don't know, don't care), or somewhat hostile towards it. Only a small minority support it, and those are usually people with "something to lose"; i.e. middle-aged adults who now own property, have a family, etc., and while they might be morally opposed to it, they're not going to rock the boat, so in essence they support the paradigm by inaction.
Not in my experience. I had a friend ask me to download the complete Kings of Leon back catalogue for her, then say how 'bad' it was to do so. She actually felt guilty about it. I asked her why and she said 'because I should be supporting them'. I told her to go to their concert next time they're in town since they'd get much more money out of that.
Some people believe the crap that gets thrown around by the record labels about starving artists.
I think many parents keep their children tabula rasa in the sex department to blind their children to marital conflicts (such as infidelity). And if it gets ugly, they don't want baby to pipe up when the cops arrive "mommy cheated on daddy, so daddy smacked mommy around"
A 3 year old is perfectly capable of saying "I saw mommy kissing 'uncle' stewart". They don't have to understand the ins and outs of sex to figure out that it's meant to be a secret either.
Slashdot Mirror
No one is *really* downloading ... a game update to a Blizzard title via Bittorrent.
I don't know how much torrent traffic there is, but a few million people downloading a 5 gb WoW patch would be reasonably significant wouldn't it?
This is why I vote for the greens. I don't support the majority of their policies, but at least they believe what they're campaigning for.
I'd rather someone was honestly trying to make the world a better place rather than toeing the party line or selling out to the highest bidder.
If their support ever gets into double digits I might reconsider, but I think it's valuable to have a few people in parliament who are in politics for the right reasons.
This is clearly not the real Mr Burns since you remembered Homer's name.
Yeah anyone who does that must be stupid!
To whomever tagged this 'fastestindian'. The moniker refers to Burt Munro who was a New Zealander.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Fastest_Indian
This was performed by The University of New South Wales, which is in Australia.
The Dominion Post actually. A merger of The Dominion and The Evening Post. The Evening Post being one of the last surviving traditional evening papers.
It's the army training zone, and clearly marked as so. I've heard explosions and seen lights on numerous occasions. I suppose it's rare enough to be unexpected though.
You sound like the exception. Hence:
"For users who still don't have a mobile, you shuffle them to the 'legacy' password login system, warning them along the way they're going the low-security path."
Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.
Set in 1999 IIRC
I seem to recall it dropped off by 1/sqrt(2) not 1/2. Can't tell you why though!
That makes sense. Those students from "disadvantaged family backgrounds" would be the ones who had the most difficulty getting their foot in the door.
Which is precisely what high calibre colleges offer.
Yes you're right, as I posted earlier, heat pumps cheat!
Yeah, good point. Heat pumps break the rules, so to speak.
Electrical systems for heating ... can have significantly higher efficiency
Huh? Burning gas to produce heat is pretty damn efficient. Whereas if you convert it to electricity you'll get 60% efficiency at best and then lose 5-7% in transmission. Perhaps the article has a different definition of efficiency.
Free Trade is not for everyone!
Disappointed because I didn't like it,
Probably the best thing I did when I was living in Korea for a months was to eat all of their food. They couldn't believe that a westerner would eat the same food they did, and were really impressed. I didn't like most of it, but I still ate it without complaining.
I blame/thank my mum's terrible cooking when I was growing up and her "if you complain about the food you can cook tomorrow" rule. I can eat just about anything without making a fuss.
Get Autohotkey, and map numlock to set numlock to off. I did the same for my capslock key.
That may be so, but it ended up a hung jury. If I was in that situation today I'd probably say something to the judge about that person's conduct, although I have no idea what would happen.
My one time on a jury we were deciding the fate of an Iraqi immigrant in a grievous bodily harm case. One of the Jurors called him a racial slur and said that they always do stuff like that. I eventually convinced everyone for a 'not guilty' verdict except for that one guy. So, it was a hung jury.
I'm not American, and this was before the Iraqi war, but xenophobia is universal and consequently shows up in Jury rooms.
* For some definitions of "World"...
Ah yes, I assume only Canada and America will take part?
The majority of people are either apathetic to intellectual property (don't know, don't care), or somewhat hostile towards it. Only a small minority support it, and those are usually people with "something to lose"; i.e. middle-aged adults who now own property, have a family, etc., and while they might be morally opposed to it, they're not going to rock the boat, so in essence they support the paradigm by inaction.
Not in my experience. I had a friend ask me to download the complete Kings of Leon back catalogue for her, then say how 'bad' it was to do so. She actually felt guilty about it. I asked her why and she said 'because I should be supporting them'. I told her to go to their concert next time they're in town since they'd get much more money out of that.
Some people believe the crap that gets thrown around by the record labels about starving artists.
I think many parents keep their children tabula rasa in the sex department to blind their children to marital conflicts (such as infidelity). And if it gets ugly, they don't want baby to pipe up when the cops arrive "mommy cheated on daddy, so daddy smacked mommy around"
A 3 year old is perfectly capable of saying "I saw mommy kissing 'uncle' stewart". They don't have to understand the ins and outs of sex to figure out that it's meant to be a secret either.
I prefer cricket, and it's more culturally relevant here since nobody plays baseball.
You only get one strike, but you don't get penalized until 9 of your friends also get out.
or we have and the people are very dumb
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Um
WTF is wrong with that kid's parents? Yeah, I'm just going to stand by filming my kid being molested instead of doing something to stop it.