There's some info on texas department of public saftey's site
You need a permit to buy/possess:
(A) a condenser (B) a distilling apparatus (C) a vacuum drier (D) a three-neck or distilling flask (E) a tableting machine (F) an encapsulating machine (G) a filter, Buchner, or separatory funnel (H) an Erlenmeyer, two-neck, or single-neck flask (I) a round-bottom, Florence, thermometer, or filtering flask (J) a Soxhlet extractor (K) a transformer (L) a flask heater (M) a heating mantel or (N) an adaptor tube
I didn't realise it was so broad. I suppose the condenser bit bans refrigeratiors and air-conditioning. 'Transformer' bans almost all electronics. Obviously it isn't enforced like this, but that's not really the point.
Apparently glassware (and chemistry in general) is only useful for making bombs and drugs, right? Then they wonder why there is a shortage of scientists and engineers. It would be funnier if it wasn't so sad.
Just phone numbers. '5' is half way on an old crossbar switch, so 555 was reserved for testing... Since it was unroutable, media began using it for fake numbers.
Which is so they don't have problems like 867-5309. (which is a routable number)
Bombers are ideal for carpet-bombing poor people with no anti-aircraft systems. Much cheaper than using guided missiles if you want to level the whole country anyway.
(well, B-52s were cheaper at least, this new boondoggle probably not so much).
I think most of the post-50's hardware is more about jerbs, kickbacks, dick waving, and elections than it is about the hardware anyway.
This is true, but the base install is pretty limited, so it's hard to compare, really.
(I think it's been three holes since the dawn of OpenBSD, by the way).
That said I still use it on some of my outward-facing stuff. PF is great. The pre-chrooted httpd is nice. Some other parts, not so much, though... can't think of a good example right now, but once in a while I run into things that amaze me with backwards-ness compared to my linux boxes.
Oh, and the documentation is a work of art compared to linux. That's a really nice feature.
The way I remember it at my local canadian university, for engineering, was something like this.
10% international students, 90% reserved for citizens, 75% of which was reserved for in-province applicants, and 5% for Aboriginals. (give or take 5% on all of those, I'm a bit fuzzy).
Does it make a difference though, money wise? I presume the overall amount the university gets is roughly the same per student, just the govn't isn't subsidizing the foreign nationals. Maybe it's a flawed presumption.
Also, what is the point of the separate x-buntus? Why not just apt-get install $other_window_manager, if that is what you want? Why is it a different distro?
Canada post is entirely free of govn't cash lately - it is self sustaining off of postage costs and such.
Though they used to be a direct arm of the government, and presumably got all the (previously govn't) real estate, trucks, etc, gifted to them. (30 years ago or so)... so that should make things easier.
They've got it weird though, being on DST year round.
In the deep of winter, daylight is roughly 8am - 4pm (clock time 9 - 5). In summer it's also shifted, from 3am - 9pm (sun) to 4am - 10pm (clock).
DST doesn't really help, too much light in the summer and not enough in the winter, no way around it. I suppose it would make sense to follow the sun, or UTC, and set business to reasonable hours.
They should probably mention that the "pieces of wood" are treated with arsenic. I don't think it's very crazy to state that arsenic is a health hazard.
However it would be nice if they claimed what the hazard was. Something like This product has been treated with copper II arsenate, a toxic compound, cat 1 carcinogen and dangerous to the environment. Perhaps PEL and how much you can expect to be exposed to in normal use, etc.
The boilerplate one is understating some things, and crying wolf on others. Not terribly useful.
Some time ago I bought some pliers - it has the normal boilerplate, with California bolded and different text, to be disparging redneck style, I suppose. But it doesn't say what the carcinogen is... I'm thinking either lead or random plasticizers in the PVC handles.. who knows.
Even Stalin had less stalin-ey names. KGB, MVD, GRU, etc, don't have such ugly 'homeland' parts in the title.
Although I suppose some of the early agencies had "people's" in the title, but that's sort of.. more of a translation thing. (root word is narod, which can be people, nation, folk. "People's something" sounds more pinko than "national something", though, doesn't it.)
- The foundation is not the one at fault that the UK manufacturers are greedy and lazy
Bullshit. I could have told them it will cost more, possibly have higher lead time and / or less capacity in the UK. They knew bloody well the whole time it would end up being made in China.
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Do you think they may have been testing 'flaws' in machines here?
This is an area where you can skew the votes 30-40% and not change the victor.
Anyway, you guys need to come join our wonderful 'write an X on paper' system. We get results the same night, too.
I just love when I have no access to my files and programs when my wireless service is shitty.
(Never mind the speed and privacy issues).
There's some info on texas department of public saftey's site
You need a permit to buy/possess:
(A) a condenser
(B) a distilling apparatus
(C) a vacuum drier
(D) a three-neck or distilling flask
(E) a tableting machine
(F) an encapsulating machine
(G) a filter, Buchner, or separatory funnel
(H) an Erlenmeyer, two-neck, or single-neck flask
(I) a round-bottom, Florence, thermometer, or filtering flask
(J) a Soxhlet extractor
(K) a transformer
(L) a flask heater
(M) a heating mantel or
(N) an adaptor tube
I didn't realise it was so broad. I suppose the condenser bit bans refrigeratiors and air-conditioning. 'Transformer' bans almost all electronics. Obviously it isn't enforced like this, but that's not really the point.
Apparently glassware (and chemistry in general) is only useful for making bombs and drugs, right?
Then they wonder why there is a shortage of scientists and engineers. It would be funnier if it wasn't so sad.
They usually have the 'Erlenmeyer flask and molecular stick-model' icon for science/research stories.
I wonder if that makes slashdot illegal in Texas?
(You need a permit to own a flask in Texas now. Apparently that's gonna slow the meth wildfire. What a joke).
Just phone numbers. '5' is half way on an old crossbar switch, so 555 was reserved for testing... Since it was unroutable, media began using it for fake numbers.
Which is so they don't have problems like 867-5309. (which is a routable number)
Bombers are ideal for carpet-bombing poor people with no anti-aircraft systems. Much cheaper than using guided missiles if you want to level the whole country anyway.
(well, B-52s were cheaper at least, this new boondoggle probably not so much).
I think most of the post-50's hardware is more about jerbs, kickbacks, dick waving, and elections than it is about the hardware anyway.
This is true, but the base install is pretty limited, so it's hard to compare, really.
(I think it's been three holes since the dawn of OpenBSD, by the way).
That said I still use it on some of my outward-facing stuff. PF is great. The pre-chrooted httpd is nice. Some other parts, not so much, though... can't think of a good example right now, but once in a while I run into things that amaze me with backwards-ness compared to my linux boxes.
Oh, and the documentation is a work of art compared to linux. That's a really nice feature.
OpenBSD ports are a set of makefiles that will build packages, not OS 'ports' like you are thinking.
iCrowave and iFridge are coming next, obviously.
The way I remember it at my local canadian university, for engineering, was something like this.
10% international students,
90% reserved for citizens,
75% of which was reserved for in-province applicants,
and 5% for Aboriginals.
(give or take 5% on all of those, I'm a bit fuzzy).
Does it make a difference though, money wise? I presume the overall amount the university gets is roughly the same per student, just the govn't isn't subsidizing the foreign nationals. Maybe it's a flawed presumption.
So the 'T' bone is half a vertebra? Never dawned on me before, I guess that makes sense.
Also, what is the point of the separate x-buntus?
Why not just apt-get install $other_window_manager, if that is what you want? Why is it a different distro?
Still Debian based
I don't really understand this line of thought. People use Ubuntu, dislike it, then move to (K|X)buntu or Mint... What's wrong with plain old Debian?
I must be missing something.
No, it's still a crown corp, it just isn't a net loser these days - is what I was trying to articulate. Guess I did a poor job of that.
Canada post is entirely free of govn't cash lately - it is self sustaining off of postage costs and such.
Though they used to be a direct arm of the government, and presumably got all the (previously govn't) real estate, trucks, etc, gifted to them. (30 years ago or so)... so that should make things easier.
100 or 110km/h on divided highways in the prairies is something I would call artificially low.
The xrays don't really show up until the anode gets above 10kV or so, bigger TVs were ~30kV.
4/5/6 were pretty bloody good, if you've never played them.
They've got it weird though, being on DST year round.
In the deep of winter, daylight is roughly 8am - 4pm (clock time 9 - 5).
In summer it's also shifted, from 3am - 9pm (sun) to 4am - 10pm (clock).
DST doesn't really help, too much light in the summer and not enough in the winter, no way around it. I suppose it would make sense to follow the sun, or UTC, and set business to reasonable hours.
There are multiple types of caramel colouring, I presume (maybe that's stupid) that they don't all fall under the new regulations or so.
Perhaps they'll change to one that is slightly less stable in acidic environments or something like this. who knows..
They should probably mention that the "pieces of wood" are treated with arsenic. I don't think it's very crazy to state that arsenic is a health hazard.
However it would be nice if they claimed what the hazard was. Something like
This product has been treated with copper II arsenate, a toxic compound, cat 1 carcinogen and dangerous to the environment. Perhaps PEL and how much you can expect to be exposed to in normal use, etc.
The boilerplate one is understating some things, and crying wolf on others. Not terribly useful.
Some time ago I bought some pliers - it has the normal boilerplate, with California bolded and different text, to be disparging redneck style, I suppose. But it doesn't say what the carcinogen is... I'm thinking either lead or random plasticizers in the PVC handles.. who knows.
Even Stalin had less stalin-ey names. KGB, MVD, GRU, etc, don't have such ugly 'homeland' parts in the title.
Although I suppose some of the early agencies had "people's" in the title, but that's sort of.. more of a translation thing. (root word is narod, which can be people, nation, folk. "People's something" sounds more pinko than "national something", though, doesn't it.)
Farnell has a presence here (Newark)
of course you'll have to wait a few months now.
Big endian and little endian are both much more logical than... middle endian, american style date.
- The foundation is not the one at fault that the UK manufacturers are greedy and lazy
Bullshit. I could have told them it will cost more, possibly have higher lead time and / or less capacity in the UK. They knew bloody well the whole time it would end up being made in China.