Western Canada (mostly BC and Alberta) has a lot of MJ around. I don't really know why, I have no idea if it's ALL grown here, or imported, or what not, but there seems to be more pot than any other drug. I've been approached downtown for the option to buy, sell, or asked directions to somebody who does buy or sell, for a couple of different drugs but mostly weed. The house behind my parent's place while I was growing up had 2 police raids that caught 2 marijuana grow ops, and 1 meth lab. [tinfoilhat] I think that when some criminals get evicted like that, the price of the house gets put up below market value, and the drug lords are the first to know so they just buy it up again and plant some more pawns in there [/tinfoilhat].
But yeah, we've got a few of these subcommunities just outside Calgary, like Chestemere and Airdrie, that don't REALLY have heavy policing, so thats usually where the grass is growing. Whenever the police raid a Chestemere house, it's usually a really big score. I think the RCMP had a shoot out in Chestemere a couple years ago where the druggies pulled out some semi automatics.
We've got a street near downtown known as "17th Ave" - and its chalked full of shops and restaurants for about 2 dozen blocks. I know there is a hemp store along there and I've only ventured in once (with a group of friends) - and it really reminded me of the Volkwagen van from the Disney/Pixar movie Cars. You know where every morning he puts on the Jimmy Hendrix American Anthem and the jeep goes "Will you turn off that disrespectful racket?!" and he goes "Respect the classics, maaaaaan". Yes, the people in the hemp shop are definately saying "Man" A LOT. And they've expanded, I think they have 3 or 4 shops now across town.
Anyways, so I haven't been out east as much as I'd like, but I hear Toronto is really the center of Canada for Crack. It's kind of funny when you can identify your regions of Canada based on what drugs are popular.
Also, all the big Apps now-a-days start in the Apple Store and work their way to the Mac and PC Via Facebook. I know, its like the flow of time is reversed, but you'll be used to it in about negative 2 weeks.
Ten years ago some people really thought that Linux was going to replace Windows on everyone's desktop, open source projects were going to kill Office, etc.
Which never happened.
I've been noticing more companies are dropping the Bundled Office for a discounted price and using OpenOffice instead. Don't get me wrong, I agree with windows being unlikely to disappear. But I could see Office becoming a free product included with Windows in order to stay competitive with the Open Source Alternatives.
And if by some magical cosmic occurence that everyone switches to Ubuntu overnight, I could even see Windows becoming free (as in beer) to stay afloat, while they pull something out of their hat to make enough money to sustain themselves.
I don't think it makes sense to teach specifics in college, except vocational colleges like community colleges. That's the kind of stuff you learn on your first few jobs anyway, and it's so rapidly changing that trying to get college to teach it is a moving target no one will hit.
I don't think its as bad as everyone is saying (or at least in my anecdotal experience). I mean, yes, I was taught Object Oriented Programming in C# and VB.NET and we used Python and Perl and Java and Oracle and a whole smorgasborg of languages that will undoubtedly be trumped and obsolete in 5-10 years time.
But I think hands on experience with that kind of stuff is the best way to grasp the theory of it. I think its best that you are taught a wide variety of specific items so that you can draw the similarities to understand the theory.
It's one thing to visualize an object oriented system in your minds eye based on the diagrams they show you in a text book. You can be in awe and wonderment on how great a system like that is - but it won't do you much good without practice in its application. This is why I think its okay to spend a week learning the basics of something like C++, then you can program something Object Oriented in it. Then you can spend less than a Week learning Java, because the fundamentals are the same, its mostly syntax, and then you go even further into Object Oriented. Than you keep going further and further with a bunch of different specifics - but its easier and easier to grasp each time because everytime you do it differently you are building the foundation of the theory behind it.
So that when you graduate, you not only have a broader skillset but you have good experience in the theory. Now I know that when something better comes along (more and more people are talking about WPF for example), all I need to learn is the syntax, and its main design features, and how those will help my design and development process. The theory hasn't changed, just the process has been made more efficient. And this is what my school taught me to prepare me for work in IT.
"You bring a programmer or network administrator on board, and they don't have the big-picture view of how the business runs," he says. One recent hire, he notes, could program user interfaces but had no concept of a database. Another didn't know what an invoice was.
Where the heck are you finding your graduates? e-Click online university? I only skimmed this article, but it seems to be along the lines of "You'll need soft skills such as communication and adaptation". I thought this was already the situation, surely one can't get a job on server management skills alone right? They had to go through at least 1 interview.
Seriously, things are only changing as much as we expected them too. 5 years from now people will be as ill prepared for a career as they are now compared to 5 years ago.
What is it with this attitude towards people of differing languages?
Did you not see the XKCD comic where the guy is bitching about how if people don't want to learn English, they should leave the country, and then the girl behind him starts speaking Cherokee?
It's incredibly hypocritical to claim that YOU have any more heritage or culture than African Americans, after all, some of them are 3rd of 4th Generation, some Great Grandparents brought over by slave trades and such. Does that make them less of a citizen somehow, being born and raised in America when their ancestors were forced here?
Its one thing if "a certain group not assimilating" means a direct opposal of the laws and regulations in the country that was set forth by a democratic system. THEN you can tell those people to GTFO.
Its another thing entirely if "not assimilating" means they want to preserve their heritage or speak their own language or whatever. Last time I checked, not speaking American* in America was not a crime.
*PS, do you guys actually call it American? Don't get me wrong, its your call and everything, I'm not one to interfere with your culture and all. It just seems really cheesey, as if American is so different from all other Englishes that we couldn't possibly understand you.
I mean how do you determine what kind of environment you're looking for if you don't even know how the robot was designed?
Am I looking at the super hot volcanic planets or are we talking about the super cold ice cubes - or a gas giant with its large gravitational magnitude?
I get this impression that whatever environment the sentient machines were designed in would probably be the best environment for them to live in.
No one believes it, and you're not making us think you have a big dick.
Also - not what I claimed. I claimed condoms break easily, and to be honest it doesn't really have much to do with the size - it's more about adequate lubrication for the full duration.
When I read that though - it doesn't clearly state that those are the ten commandments either, in fact the link you posted starts
"The LORD said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke"
which is to say, the original 10 commandments.
And either way, when I read the rest of the passage, I don't see how the rest of what is said is part of the 10 commandments, it sounds like it is an entirely seperate covenant.
But are you trying to say the 10 commandments should be as
1)Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land (Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites). Destroy their Idols.
2) Do not make cast idols.
3)Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast
4)The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.
5)Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
6)Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year
7)Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
8)Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God
9)Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk
and....
What else? Did I miss one? Or was that first one to be broken into two, not to make treaties and destroying their idols as two seperate commandments?
Thats because it wasn't considered theft until this technology came about.
I imagine if you approached Shakespeare and told him that his plays could be shown across the entire planet without any extra effort on his part - he would be thrilled.
If I had a nickel for every condom that broke on me, I could buy myself another pack of Condoms.
Wearing protection, while it helps, is not the best way to go about staying uninfected.
And no I'm not saying that Abstinence is the right choice either, I think I'd probably go insane. But you can, you know, develop relationships with people before sleeping with them, so theres that level of trust where you'll inform each other of any STD's or STI's. THATS the best way to stay clean while being sexually active.
I wear one because I don't want any unwanted pregnancies. Before you jump in with "Isn't she on the pill?" - Yes, she is. Theres 2 reasons for that, one being that there are always those rare cases where the pill isn't 100% effective. The other reason being that it shouldn't be entirely her responsibility. If the odds were one in 1000 while on either the pill or using condoms, both of us doing our part makes it a 1 in a million chance instead.
I don't know if you know this - but Speed Dating is actually a popular thing amongst many single people (especially in the states). It removes the stigma of having to spend an entire evening with someone, having to pay out a lot of money on a date, etc etc - something that very busy people don't have a lot of time for.
Especially when girls are looking for "The One" - they feel the need to search through hundreds of guys to find "Him". 100 guys with 1 date a week would take 2 years.
With Speed dating a girl can go through that many in a month.
In most cases, speed dating appeals just as much if not moreso to women than it does to men. The idea of "Take it slow" is when getting intimate, which is not part of speed dating, thats swinger parties you're thinking of.
AND - in the case with cigarettes, when they got sued, all their money went to the state, not someone who was addictive. So if NCsoft has to pay out 3 million dollars, it shouldn't go to Craig, it should go the State.
Slashdot Mirror
but I've never seen anything an "Apple patent points to".
Me neither, but I read the entire article and the only thing popping into my head was
"Yeah, I guess its been a while since a Macrumour was around or a prototype phone was leaked"
Western Canada (mostly BC and Alberta) has a lot of MJ around. I don't really know why, I have no idea if it's ALL grown here, or imported, or what not, but there seems to be more pot than any other drug. I've been approached downtown for the option to buy, sell, or asked directions to somebody who does buy or sell, for a couple of different drugs but mostly weed. The house behind my parent's place while I was growing up had 2 police raids that caught 2 marijuana grow ops, and 1 meth lab. [tinfoilhat] I think that when some criminals get evicted like that, the price of the house gets put up below market value, and the drug lords are the first to know so they just buy it up again and plant some more pawns in there [/tinfoilhat].
But yeah, we've got a few of these subcommunities just outside Calgary, like Chestemere and Airdrie, that don't REALLY have heavy policing, so thats usually where the grass is growing. Whenever the police raid a Chestemere house, it's usually a really big score. I think the RCMP had a shoot out in Chestemere a couple years ago where the druggies pulled out some semi automatics.
We've got a street near downtown known as "17th Ave" - and its chalked full of shops and restaurants for about 2 dozen blocks. I know there is a hemp store along there and I've only ventured in once (with a group of friends) - and it really reminded me of the Volkwagen van from the Disney/Pixar movie Cars. You know where every morning he puts on the Jimmy Hendrix American Anthem and the jeep goes "Will you turn off that disrespectful racket?!" and he goes "Respect the classics, maaaaaan". Yes, the people in the hemp shop are definately saying "Man" A LOT. And they've expanded, I think they have 3 or 4 shops now across town.
Anyways, so I haven't been out east as much as I'd like, but I hear Toronto is really the center of Canada for Crack. It's kind of funny when you can identify your regions of Canada based on what drugs are popular.
Because who uses a couch and a desktop?
Also, all the big Apps now-a-days start in the Apple Store and work their way to the Mac and PC Via Facebook. I know, its like the flow of time is reversed, but you'll be used to it in about negative 2 weeks.
Actually your algorithm is the correct one and everyone else's is wrong.
Ten years ago some people really thought that Linux was going to replace Windows on everyone's desktop, open source projects were going to kill Office, etc.
Which never happened.
I've been noticing more companies are dropping the Bundled Office for a discounted price and using OpenOffice instead. Don't get me wrong, I agree with windows being unlikely to disappear. But I could see Office becoming a free product included with Windows in order to stay competitive with the Open Source Alternatives.
And if by some magical cosmic occurence that everyone switches to Ubuntu overnight, I could even see Windows becoming free (as in beer) to stay afloat, while they pull something out of their hat to make enough money to sustain themselves.
I don't think it makes sense to teach specifics in college, except vocational colleges like community colleges. That's the kind of stuff you learn on your first few jobs anyway, and it's so rapidly changing that trying to get college to teach it is a moving target no one will hit.
I don't think its as bad as everyone is saying (or at least in my anecdotal experience). I mean, yes, I was taught Object Oriented Programming in C# and VB.NET and we used Python and Perl and Java and Oracle and a whole smorgasborg of languages that will undoubtedly be trumped and obsolete in 5-10 years time.
But I think hands on experience with that kind of stuff is the best way to grasp the theory of it. I think its best that you are taught a wide variety of specific items so that you can draw the similarities to understand the theory.
It's one thing to visualize an object oriented system in your minds eye based on the diagrams they show you in a text book. You can be in awe and wonderment on how great a system like that is - but it won't do you much good without practice in its application. This is why I think its okay to spend a week learning the basics of something like C++, then you can program something Object Oriented in it. Then you can spend less than a Week learning Java, because the fundamentals are the same, its mostly syntax, and then you go even further into Object Oriented. Than you keep going further and further with a bunch of different specifics - but its easier and easier to grasp each time because everytime you do it differently you are building the foundation of the theory behind it.
So that when you graduate, you not only have a broader skillset but you have good experience in the theory. Now I know that when something better comes along (more and more people are talking about WPF for example), all I need to learn is the syntax, and its main design features, and how those will help my design and development process. The theory hasn't changed, just the process has been made more efficient. And this is what my school taught me to prepare me for work in IT.
YMMV.
From TFA
"You bring a programmer or network administrator on board, and they don't have the big-picture view of how the business runs," he says. One recent hire, he notes, could program user interfaces but had no concept of a database. Another didn't know what an invoice was.
Where the heck are you finding your graduates? e-Click online university? I only skimmed this article, but it seems to be along the lines of "You'll need soft skills such as communication and adaptation". I thought this was already the situation, surely one can't get a job on server management skills alone right? They had to go through at least 1 interview.
Seriously, things are only changing as much as we expected them too. 5 years from now people will be as ill prepared for a career as they are now compared to 5 years ago.
What is it with this attitude towards people of differing languages?
Did you not see the XKCD comic where the guy is bitching about how if people don't want to learn English, they should leave the country, and then the girl behind him starts speaking Cherokee?
It's incredibly hypocritical to claim that YOU have any more heritage or culture than African Americans, after all, some of them are 3rd of 4th Generation, some Great Grandparents brought over by slave trades and such. Does that make them less of a citizen somehow, being born and raised in America when their ancestors were forced here?
Its one thing if "a certain group not assimilating" means a direct opposal of the laws and regulations in the country that was set forth by a democratic system. THEN you can tell those people to GTFO.
Its another thing entirely if "not assimilating" means they want to preserve their heritage or speak their own language or whatever. Last time I checked, not speaking American* in America was not a crime.
*PS, do you guys actually call it American? Don't get me wrong, its your call and everything, I'm not one to interfere with your culture and all. It just seems really cheesey, as if American is so different from all other Englishes that we couldn't possibly understand you.
I mean how do you determine what kind of environment you're looking for if you don't even know how the robot was designed?
Am I looking at the super hot volcanic planets or are we talking about the super cold ice cubes - or a gas giant with its large gravitational magnitude?
I get this impression that whatever environment the sentient machines were designed in would probably be the best environment for them to live in.
Or she's really dry!
I can dance around the issue all day. lol.
Bingo, and those are the main reasons why guys are into it.
No one believes it, and you're not making us think you have a big dick.
Also - not what I claimed. I claimed condoms break easily, and to be honest it doesn't really have much to do with the size - it's more about adequate lubrication for the full duration.
One soldier states that games like MoH and Call of Duty are 'profiteering from war
Oh boy, if that soldier only knew who was REALLY profiteering from war.
And you don't understand math.
Break it down for me then. You see I was always under the impression that 1/1000 times 1/1000 equals 1/1000000 .
But clearly my understanding is wrong. Please, please explain.
When I read that though - it doesn't clearly state that those are the ten commandments either, in fact the link you posted starts
"The LORD said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke"
which is to say, the original 10 commandments.
And either way, when I read the rest of the passage, I don't see how the rest of what is said is part of the 10 commandments, it sounds like it is an entirely seperate covenant.
But are you trying to say the 10 commandments should be as
1)Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land (Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites). Destroy their Idols.
2) Do not make cast idols.
3)Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast
4)The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.
5)Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
6)Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year
7)Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
8)Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God
9)Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk
and....
What else? Did I miss one? Or was that first one to be broken into two, not to make treaties and destroying their idols as two seperate commandments?
Chapters I mean, derr.
About 14 verses back.
*point*
Agreed there is no 100% bullet proof plan - but if you want to be sexually active - do you have a better suggestion?
Thats because it wasn't considered theft until this technology came about.
I imagine if you approached Shakespeare and told him that his plays could be shown across the entire planet without any extra effort on his part - he would be thrilled.
...
How old ARE you?
Does your Commadore PET still work?
If I had a nickel for every condom that broke on me, I could buy myself another pack of Condoms.
Wearing protection, while it helps, is not the best way to go about staying uninfected.
And no I'm not saying that Abstinence is the right choice either, I think I'd probably go insane. But you can, you know, develop relationships with people before sleeping with them, so theres that level of trust where you'll inform each other of any STD's or STI's. THATS the best way to stay clean while being sexually active.
I wear one because I don't want any unwanted pregnancies. Before you jump in with "Isn't she on the pill?" - Yes, she is. Theres 2 reasons for that, one being that there are always those rare cases where the pill isn't 100% effective. The other reason being that it shouldn't be entirely her responsibility. If the odds were one in 1000 while on either the pill or using condoms, both of us doing our part makes it a 1 in a million chance instead.
Even with St. Quentin as the Plaintiff and Jesus Christ as the Judge - I think if I had a better lawyer I could still win.
You underestimate how easy it is to manipulate, condition and shape people's actions.
Not really, I've been down that road. And if I - and thousands of other people can get past their addictions - what does that say?
I don't know if you know this - but Speed Dating is actually a popular thing amongst many single people (especially in the states). It removes the stigma of having to spend an entire evening with someone, having to pay out a lot of money on a date, etc etc - something that very busy people don't have a lot of time for.
Especially when girls are looking for "The One" - they feel the need to search through hundreds of guys to find "Him". 100 guys with 1 date a week would take 2 years.
With Speed dating a girl can go through that many in a month.
In most cases, speed dating appeals just as much if not moreso to women than it does to men. The idea of "Take it slow" is when getting intimate, which is not part of speed dating, thats swinger parties you're thinking of.
AND - in the case with cigarettes, when they got sued, all their money went to the state, not someone who was addictive. So if NCsoft has to pay out 3 million dollars, it shouldn't go to Craig, it should go the State.