You CAN do that - but you should probably point out one of the major reasons why it works so great in Canada and why it wouldn't work out so well in the states.
The biggest difference is our population and size. We've got about the same population of California spread across an area larger than the entire United States. As such, our major population centers are simply less crowded, the density isn't there, and that helps keep hospitals from being over-burdened. This means our health care costs are simply lower than in the States.
Also we don't tend to spend as much on our military simply because we know the States is spending so much on theirs. If they went and reverted all those tax dollars away from their military spending, Canada might need to step up its own defense. As it is right now we play younger brother and let the US come to our defense if there's ever a need. That comes with certain obligations though, we sent our forces into Afghanistan where we perceived a real threat to the US, and our relationship was soured a bit when we didn't follow into Iraq. To give you a rough idea of how much we spend vs the Americans, guess how many Aircraft Carriers the Canadian Army has and how many the US has in service right now?
I'm a Canadian, and yes, I like our Health Care system. Whenever someone in the US says that they should mirror our Health Care system, you should remind them why that won't work. Remind them that there is no "One size fits all" system, there is no perfect way to run a government, the conditions for each country vary and as a result their governing should vary. Canada's works for Canada.
Feel free to send them up here though, but make sure they know how to drive in Minus 24 Celcius, blowing snow, fog, and black ice on the pavement. We don't need more people getting into car accidents, and using that health care coverage.
We just have an account in Active Directory called "Support" with Administrative Rights across the domain, and the Sysadmin holds the Root and Administrative Passwords to effectively hold total control if need be. He can change the Support Password and lock all of us out if he wishes, or give us the info to let us back in. But pretty much anything that needs to be done, we can do on that account, including adding the PC to the domain itself.
Or am I going to be laughed at for posting the Microsoft answer?
Unemployment among mathematicians is very, very low.
But that's because there are very few people who class themselves as mathematicians.
That's because Mathematician isn't a job. No one would claim their job is a Mathematician unless they were specifically getting paid to do research into math - which is very rare. Often you are paid to teach Math at a university while persuing your study of mathematics.
Our eyes are trained to do a whole lot of quick thinking and estimates before sending the raw data to our brain. This is one of the many reasons why simply hooking a camera up to the optic nerve doesn't quite produce the desired results - though our brains seem to be super-learning computers able to interact with almost any other kind of Input - Output, given enough time for trial and error.
I imagine our Eyes are trained to generalize the colour it sees and focus on the appearance of motion, because thats usually more important and relevant to survival, and our eyes are just like technology: Limited bandwidth.
You might call it a defect, I might think of it as evolutionary design.
I never meant it in the terms of skin colour, but using "blacks" and "whites" as substitutes of africoid and caucasoid unintentially created that side effect.
Race is not arbitary and socially constructed. The idea isn't that "black" is only Black in the US and "White" in Brazil, it's that black and white have a distinction no matter where you are in the world.
The most modern genetic tests CAN tell you whether someone is Caucasoidal or Africoidal, though not in the sense of "He's from Europe."
Someone's Ancestry and DNA IS a large role in their race - even someone of africoidal descent in America is still looked at the same way if they were fresh of the boat.
Just because one sub-set of the species is more varied than the other doesn't mean it doesn't have traits that seperate them from the others. There is a science behind determining someone's ancestry, and it has been proven to be quite accurate.
I don't know why people assume running an MMO server would be so costly - the amount of RAM that goes into simply running the 3D engine for the Client can store a lot of relevant information for a server that doesn't have to render a thing.
In my experience, Computer programmers are the code monkeys who do what engineers tell them to do. The software engineers are the guys who sit just above the code monkeys telling them what to write, what they need to fix, prioritizing jobs, and dishing out estimates.
They are usually different jobs, believe it or not.
I agree that the comparison to slavery is over the top. We knew blacks were human, for instance. Our knowledge of what dolphins can do is a fairly recent thing.
I dunno. Perhaps the comparison to slavery is a bit exaggerated but instead of using dolphins for labour we use them for entertainment, which is hard to say which is better. Sure, in some aquarians we do our best to keep the animals generally satisfied, though the same could be said for some slave owners.
As for the whole "We knew blacks were human" - that entirely depends on who you ask. It's still an issue today, even with the general equality that goes around. Archaeologists are able to determine whether someone was Caucasoidal, Africoidal, or... Well I forget the other one but it relates to Asian cultures. Simply put - our skulls have different patterns depending on your race, things like brow ridges, size of cheek bones, size of eye holes, etc etc - all White people have similar features, all black people have similar features. Because of this - some people are using that archaeological evidence to suggest that there is a greater seperation in our "species" than one might be willing to realize. (Species is the wrong word there, I know generally the idea is that 2 different species cannot produce offspring or if they can, the offspring can't reproduce). The issue of racism in terms of humanity has not ended.
As for dolphins, I knew they were smart since as far back as I can remember, watching Flipper on TV. How recent were you meaning?
Sounds like all they need to do is hook something onto the ship that can read signals inside the plasma, some kind of antenna that can withstand the stresses associated.
Essentially the signal doesn't travel all the way through the plasma, thats why theres a blackout.
But we never thought about trying to receive from inside the plasma.
Facebook does not own me or my information (according to the laws of my country), therefore they have no rights to sell that information. I am not the product.
I'm going to guess that theft is also illegal in your country and that it never ever happens?
The problem with web apps is that anyone can do the same. If they do it better than you, your customers will migrate. At first just to test it, and then spending more and more time at the new site. This is what happened to LiveJournal, MySpace, Friendster and many others, and nothing Facebook does prevents people from trying out other services.
Besides having a community base that includes more active users than all those you just listed combined?
All internet companies are butterflies. Something newer and hipper will come around. Facebook too will one day go the way of MySpace and LiveJournal.
(And Google will one day go the way of Altavista, Hotbot and ftpsearch.ntnu.no)
I respectfully disagree, sir.
Altavista was not much more than a Search Engine. Google has obviously gone beyond that, by penetrating the phone market, email and other web services, its own web browser, operating system, and is rapidly expanding into other markets.
Much in the same way - Facebook has grown much farther than the "This is my profile, this is my journal, msg me plz" teen fanfare sites. Kids as young as you can imagine having facebook profiles, elders nearing their end, and everyone in between. More than one country or nation. The potential only being limitted by web standards. As web applications grow, so does Facebook, and the entourage of applications available within it.
Sure, one day, somewhere, these might falter, have some catastrophic failure, etc etc. I'm sure they won't be around forever.
But for something like say... a 10 year investment period? I'd sign up if I had the money.
If I'm going to respect copyright, tell me why I don't deserve to have these movies on my Nintendo DS, Netbook HDD, PS3, etc in whatever the latest resolution is. I've cumulatively shelled out hundreds of dollars (with inflation adjustments) for these three movies and yet I'm continually paying for them in the latest format.
The same reason you'd have to pay a second time to see a movie in theatre again, is it not?
Its because you keep paying for them in the latest format, supposedly your money goes towards the people updating the formats, producing the physical media, and so on and so forth.
I suppose you can just decide not to respect copyright till it reforms? Meh, its your choice. I don't have anything insightful to say. And no, I have not experienced BD-Live, my room mate has a PS3 but has never once tried to use that feature.
The burden of proof is on the one who makes the claim.
This.
As a scientist you should never discount an idea without first reviewing the facts. Facts are much more powerful than any first hand accounts of people who say they saw, felt, heard, or smelled something.
The typical ghost hunting equipment is a Video Camera, Flashlight, Thermal filter for the Camera, and Magnetic field detector.
However, I have never once seen any footage that couldn't have been explained by high school physics, or shown to be anything more than a hoax. And you likely won't either. If you are a skeptic, you should not be afraid to wander the dark hallways and should be able to determine that any odd readings are actually coming from a logical source that most people are too afraid to check into.
I remember watching one show, and they were absolutely surprised that this "one pipe" was giving off a lot of heat and this "other pipe" was giving off some weird Magnetic field. I dropped my jaw as it was obviously a central heating pipe (no doubt with hot water flowing through it) and an Electrical conduit, no doubt powering the lights upstairs. I then hit my head against the wall when they said it was clear evidence of something weird going on.
Counting cards results in you losing your winnings. That's one way.
Otherwise, it's no more theft than a phishing attack is stealing people's login info - they play off the gullibility of those without the knowledge of whats really happening.
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You CAN do that - but you should probably point out one of the major reasons why it works so great in Canada and why it wouldn't work out so well in the states.
The biggest difference is our population and size. We've got about the same population of California spread across an area larger than the entire United States. As such, our major population centers are simply less crowded, the density isn't there, and that helps keep hospitals from being over-burdened. This means our health care costs are simply lower than in the States.
Also we don't tend to spend as much on our military simply because we know the States is spending so much on theirs. If they went and reverted all those tax dollars away from their military spending, Canada might need to step up its own defense. As it is right now we play younger brother and let the US come to our defense if there's ever a need. That comes with certain obligations though, we sent our forces into Afghanistan where we perceived a real threat to the US, and our relationship was soured a bit when we didn't follow into Iraq. To give you a rough idea of how much we spend vs the Americans, guess how many Aircraft Carriers the Canadian Army has and how many the US has in service right now?
I'm a Canadian, and yes, I like our Health Care system. Whenever someone in the US says that they should mirror our Health Care system, you should remind them why that won't work. Remind them that there is no "One size fits all" system, there is no perfect way to run a government, the conditions for each country vary and as a result their governing should vary. Canada's works for Canada.
Feel free to send them up here though, but make sure they know how to drive in Minus 24 Celcius, blowing snow, fog, and black ice on the pavement. We don't need more people getting into car accidents, and using that health care coverage.
We just have an account in Active Directory called "Support" with Administrative Rights across the domain, and the Sysadmin holds the Root and Administrative Passwords to effectively hold total control if need be. He can change the Support Password and lock all of us out if he wishes, or give us the info to let us back in. But pretty much anything that needs to be done, we can do on that account, including adding the PC to the domain itself.
Or am I going to be laughed at for posting the Microsoft answer?
Unemployment among mathematicians is very, very low.
But that's because there are very few people who class themselves as mathematicians.
That's because Mathematician isn't a job. No one would claim their job is a Mathematician unless they were specifically getting paid to do research into math - which is very rare. Often you are paid to teach Math at a university while persuing your study of mathematics.
Our eyes are trained to do a whole lot of quick thinking and estimates before sending the raw data to our brain. This is one of the many reasons why simply hooking a camera up to the optic nerve doesn't quite produce the desired results - though our brains seem to be super-learning computers able to interact with almost any other kind of Input - Output, given enough time for trial and error.
I imagine our Eyes are trained to generalize the colour it sees and focus on the appearance of motion, because thats usually more important and relevant to survival, and our eyes are just like technology: Limited bandwidth.
You might call it a defect, I might think of it as evolutionary design.
I never meant it in the terms of skin colour, but using "blacks" and "whites" as substitutes of africoid and caucasoid unintentially created that side effect.
Race is not arbitary and socially constructed. The idea isn't that "black" is only Black in the US and "White" in Brazil, it's that black and white have a distinction no matter where you are in the world.
The most modern genetic tests CAN tell you whether someone is Caucasoidal or Africoidal, though not in the sense of "He's from Europe."
Someone's Ancestry and DNA IS a large role in their race - even someone of africoidal descent in America is still looked at the same way if they were fresh of the boat.
Just because one sub-set of the species is more varied than the other doesn't mean it doesn't have traits that seperate them from the others. There is a science behind determining someone's ancestry, and it has been proven to be quite accurate.
Indeed.
I don't know why people assume running an MMO server would be so costly - the amount of RAM that goes into simply running the 3D engine for the Client can store a lot of relevant information for a server that doesn't have to render a thing.
Network admin. You can always just pull up a traffic sniffer and pretend you are collecting data.
Nah, you really don't.
In my experience, Computer programmers are the code monkeys who do what engineers tell them to do. The software engineers are the guys who sit just above the code monkeys telling them what to write, what they need to fix, prioritizing jobs, and dishing out estimates.
They are usually different jobs, believe it or not.
I agree that the comparison to slavery is over the top. We knew blacks were human, for instance. Our knowledge of what dolphins can do is a fairly recent thing.
I dunno. Perhaps the comparison to slavery is a bit exaggerated but instead of using dolphins for labour we use them for entertainment, which is hard to say which is better. Sure, in some aquarians we do our best to keep the animals generally satisfied, though the same could be said for some slave owners.
As for the whole "We knew blacks were human" - that entirely depends on who you ask. It's still an issue today, even with the general equality that goes around. Archaeologists are able to determine whether someone was Caucasoidal, Africoidal, or... Well I forget the other one but it relates to Asian cultures. Simply put - our skulls have different patterns depending on your race, things like brow ridges, size of cheek bones, size of eye holes, etc etc - all White people have similar features, all black people have similar features.
Because of this - some people are using that archaeological evidence to suggest that there is a greater seperation in our "species" than one might be willing to realize. (Species is the wrong word there, I know generally the idea is that 2 different species cannot produce offspring or if they can, the offspring can't reproduce). The issue of racism in terms of humanity has not ended.
As for dolphins, I knew they were smart since as far back as I can remember, watching Flipper on TV. How recent were you meaning?
Oh come on people, we saw this joke coming a mile away.
Bury it.
I dunno, a girl you like giving you a blow sounds pretty mutual.
And to think, Myspace is still a central location for indie bands to start hosting their music online.
I'm not saying Facebook will last forever, but I could see it lasting till 2020.
Sounds like all they need to do is hook something onto the ship that can read signals inside the plasma, some kind of antenna that can withstand the stresses associated.
Essentially the signal doesn't travel all the way through the plasma, thats why theres a blackout.
But we never thought about trying to receive from inside the plasma.
Facebook does not own me or my information (according to the laws of my country), therefore they have no rights to sell that information. I am not the product.
I'm going to guess that theft is also illegal in your country and that it never ever happens?
The problem with web apps is that anyone can do the same. If they do it better than you, your customers will migrate. At first just to test it, and then spending more and more time at the new site. This is what happened to LiveJournal, MySpace, Friendster and many others, and nothing Facebook does prevents people from trying out other services.
Besides having a community base that includes more active users than all those you just listed combined?
Is Facebook a viable long term business model ?
All internet companies are butterflies. Something newer and hipper will come around.
Facebook too will one day go the way of MySpace and LiveJournal.
(And Google will one day go the way of Altavista, Hotbot and ftpsearch.ntnu.no)
I respectfully disagree, sir.
Altavista was not much more than a Search Engine. Google has obviously gone beyond that, by penetrating the phone market, email and other web services, its own web browser, operating system, and is rapidly expanding into other markets.
Much in the same way - Facebook has grown much farther than the "This is my profile, this is my journal, msg me plz" teen fanfare sites. Kids as young as you can imagine having facebook profiles, elders nearing their end, and everyone in between. More than one country or nation. The potential only being limitted by web standards. As web applications grow, so does Facebook, and the entourage of applications available within it.
Sure, one day, somewhere, these might falter, have some catastrophic failure, etc etc. I'm sure they won't be around forever.
But for something like say... a 10 year investment period? I'd sign up if I had the money.
Though I made some miscalculations. That's only the vertical velocity if it were flying horizontal at that height.
You can then extend that to 40 minutes and ~26 seconds before violently crashing the drone at about 250 meters per second.
If I'm going to respect copyright, tell me why I don't deserve to have these movies on my Nintendo DS, Netbook HDD, PS3, etc in whatever the latest resolution is. I've cumulatively shelled out hundreds of dollars (with inflation adjustments) for these three movies and yet I'm continually paying for them in the latest format.
The same reason you'd have to pay a second time to see a movie in theatre again, is it not?
Its because you keep paying for them in the latest format, supposedly your money goes towards the people updating the formats, producing the physical media, and so on and so forth.
I suppose you can just decide not to respect copyright till it reforms? Meh, its your choice. I don't have anything insightful to say. And no, I have not experienced BD-Live, my room mate has a PS3 but has never once tried to use that feature.
demonstrate that phenomenon to them.
Sounds pretty normal to me.
The burden of proof is on the one who makes the claim.
This.
As a scientist you should never discount an idea without first reviewing the facts. Facts are much more powerful than any first hand accounts of people who say they saw, felt, heard, or smelled something.
The typical ghost hunting equipment is a Video Camera, Flashlight, Thermal filter for the Camera, and Magnetic field detector.
However, I have never once seen any footage that couldn't have been explained by high school physics, or shown to be anything more than a hoax. And you likely won't either. If you are a skeptic, you should not be afraid to wander the dark hallways and should be able to determine that any odd readings are actually coming from a logical source that most people are too afraid to check into.
I remember watching one show, and they were absolutely surprised that this "one pipe" was giving off a lot of heat and this "other pipe" was giving off some weird Magnetic field. I dropped my jaw as it was obviously a central heating pipe (no doubt with hot water flowing through it) and an Electrical conduit, no doubt powering the lights upstairs. I then hit my head against the wall when they said it was clear evidence of something weird going on.
Counting cards results in you losing your winnings. That's one way.
Otherwise, it's no more theft than a phishing attack is stealing people's login info - they play off the gullibility of those without the knowledge of whats really happening.
When you convince Casino Employees to activate certain features just so you can exploit a glitch.
At that point it goes into a very grey shaded area.
Because you can then claim vehicular homicide on faults due to the manufacturer?