The two-disc set is priced at $ 29.98 in the U.S. and $ 41.98 in Canada.
Assuming a currency exchange of 1.5 can$ to one us (overly pessimistic), the price would be C$44.97.
Oh, but then, assuming thay you live in BC, or any of the other provinces where 14% sales tax is the norm, the total would be brought to a nice and cozy $47.86. This is, of course, assuming that you pay no income tax (har, har) to the Canadian Government.
This brings up an interesting point.
If a Canadian works for minimum wage ($7) that would equal about 6.8 hours of work. The american pays (assuming $6.50 minimum wage, at least in Oregon) 4.6 hours of work are required - both calculations made w/o income tax comparisons, etc...
If Lucas expects me to work my ass off for seven hours to watch his fucking movie, he has to realize something - that his DVD set is priced too fucking high in Canada.
Mind you, broadband access in canada runs about $40 a month, $40 in the states. Almost enough incentive for you to buy a cable/dsl line and download the Divx Rip, which, mind you, has been out a few weeks before the movie was.
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I just finished a game where 10% of the players had aimbots. Yeah, it was kind of shitty, but the point is, these 5kr1pt kiddies or whatever were killed, on average, the same amount of times as the rest of the people there. The majority of the cheaters are either children or incompetent assholes who couldn't win a game against a bunch of bots.
One advantage you have against these losers is their equally pathetic knowledge of computer security. I love windows security, these lamers don't even know that they need a firewall. It's kind of cute, can also be amusing.
I don't know what to say, check this link out.
It's an ebay auction for an aimbot, look at final price and the COUNTER!!! It show how pathetic these people are.
Though I still hate you fuckers with T3's and 30ish ping - thats almost as bad as cheating;)
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Did you take this out of a sci-fi book? I swear that I read it somewhere (I'm thinking something of a discussion between two people while in hyperspace). Deja-vu.
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thermite.
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Methinks that they don't give a shit about sending stuff to aliens, but making a few $ while trying to see whether the solar sail concept really works.
Lets be, well, understanding that this is the USA and nothing happens if its not for money or personal gain.
Why was there a link to mission to mars there? I never saw it..
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Hmm.. My casio triple sensor watch (awesome little thing - compass, altimeter, barometer, thermometer) picks up the barometric pressure quite well, the sensor is very small and really cheap. I think a company gives pressure sensors away as samples for free.
eTrex Summit - any particular version number / model? It'd be cool to get one of these and use it as a backup altimeter
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If we are all bored, and want to hit the mensa site, and "see how intelligent you are", here is a sample workout. Quite a bit of math.. Interesting for bored people who just finished exams and are hyped on caffeine and ginko.
http://www.mensa.org/workout.html
oh.. one of their questions - the "card box " question is weird - who has ever heard of a POSTbox (the british? No offense, but I've never heard of that word before) we call 'em MAIL boxes.
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(that even this is kind of off topic). That the mensa admission is not based on IQ, but a "standardized test". I believe the average IQ for mensa members is about 180 or 200).
Though I'm not sure, you see, because I'm not a "Mensa Master".
Oooh.. does anybody else like to watch them lose on jeopardy?
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Yes it is an addiction, but such a wonderful one. Seriously though, some lines should be drawn between the hard core audiophiles, and those who want to get a great sound.
Oh.. didn't/. feature a house with a half million dollar subwoofer that some guy built into his foundation and was the size of a swimming pool?
I love this part.
Hoang was so amazed by the sound, and so depressed by the life of a doctor, that he quit his job. "I sold my stuff, including my stereo, and lived on it for two years. I tried a few other jobs, but mostly I just wanted to listen to music.
It's kind of like cocaine, the rich pricks that can afford it, deserve it. Me - I'll just go to a live show and sit way the hell in the back with the rest of the vulgar.
Peace.
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What is with the color scheme, I though only bsd stories were red (or something)
Second, I think that this would be really great, you wouldn't have to go and ask "Bob the forgetful" or "Alice the daughter of chaos" for the sales figures / etc from '95. Honestly, waiting for people to get you stuff is a pain in the ass, especially if, well, you know.
As for privacy, well, quite honestly, if you're at work, don't expect any. Seriously, with windows boxes being so open, its a joke to even consider that your files can not be searched at the current time. Shit, everybody runs windows 95/98 at all companies I have worked for except one (they used nt 4.0).
I don't think emails should be included in the search, but you get enough "personal information" (read gossip) around the water cooler / coffee maker / cappuchino (SP?) machine / ping pong table.
as for
For instance, an employee alleging harassment by another co-worker could demand an employer search for incriminating evidence in e-mail accounts and PC hard drives.
They can do / do that stuff right now, lets not kid ourselves, have no expectation of privacy at work, shit, especially if they own the computers, facilities, etc.. there is nothing that they can not do.
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thanks;) I was hoping somebody would catch that.
Not that gore would of have been better.
But enough about politics . . . How do you do a smiley with a toungue in cheek?
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Perhaps you can explain to me why this stuff is kept secret?
I mean, wouldn't you want to impress (i.e. scare shitless) your enemies instead of hiding this stuff?
Wouldn't it be more prudent to smack the hell out your enemies with the latest and greatest, and use the new stuff to maintain superiority?
Everyone knows that the aurora is a current project . . . and the B2, when deployed, has been "awesome" on each and every mission.
Maybe someone who has worked with this stuff could explain this - though you probably worked on the aurora . ..
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A war against Canada?
Try it motherfuckers, remember, we live among you, and 80% of our citizens are located within 100 miles of your (well, undefended) border, ready to plunge our hockey sticks into your basterdized monarch hating bodies.
(insert map of north america with maple syrup flowing down from canada to the USA)
Besides, all we need to do is shut off the ICBM monitoring systems located on OUR land, staffed by OUR (and your, but hey, in war there are casualties) people to scare this ever-loving shit out of you.
And finally, at least we know where the USA is located on a map, while 90% of your High School (heheheheh, in itself quite funny) graduates (falls on floor laughing) can't locate Canada. Your military would beeline for arkensas and north dakota and retaliate against it's own civilians while we would head for washington to burn your white house down...
Seriously though, calling Canada a third world nation is sorta overstepping your bounds, you see, Canadians still have sufficient electricity to power their major cities (this summer should be fun in New York and other major cities).
Moreover, we provide quite a bit of electricity and natural gas for you Americans, so we can make things substantially worse - if you live on the west coast - check how much of your electricity comes from the great white north.
Not to mention that we can sneak our diesel powered subs from our military bases to your ships without even surfacing to recharge the batteries (nuclear subs always generate noise because of the cooling plant, diesel electrics are dead quiet) and sink them. "Canadians blowing shit up" (official term) would also be cause for concern.
Check this song out, an interesting perspective on the War 1812.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/166/166947.h tm l
So when you go to Washington
Its buildings clean and nice
Bring a pack of matches
and we'll burn the white house twice!
And the white house burned, burned, burned
and we're the ones that did it.
It Burned, burned, burned,
while the president ran and cried. . .
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Do you have any idea if these birds had any umm.. offspring?
Alright, it wasn't that funny, but I'd love to turn the full power of an Aegis Destroyer Radar array on a flock of birds 1.5 miles away.
Maybe I'm just sadistic or something;) It'd be cool to study the effects of large amounts of radar on say, seagulls, but not pelicans.
I read somewhere that the radar strength is several thousand watts and can be focused to.5 degree or so... pretty cool stuff. The ship can really let "unfriendly" pilots know that they are lit up...
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Realistically... who in the world wants to pick a fight with the US? Are you expecting the chinese to row across the pacific (bypassing Hawaii with a non-existant blue-water carrier fleet)just to prevent the hordes wanting a green card?
If China decided to invade Taiwan, there is no doubt that the usa would intervene. Not that the USA's geographical position doesn't place them at an advantage (i.e. isolation).
Qubecans
that's awesome... I won't say anymore.
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In this case, widespread implementation of this technology might well see the design of a cellular-frequency homing missile...
Or a TLAM D, (tomahawk).
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:WtaEEKhsSBk :w ww.history.navy.mil/wars/dstorm/ds5.htm+desert+sto rm+start&hl=en
TLAM-D can dispense up to 166 bomblets in 24 packages. The submunitions can be armor-piercing, fragmentation or incendiary. TLAMs were used against chemical and nuclear weapons facilities, surface-to-air missile sites, command and control centers and Saddam's presidential palace.
Or cell phone towers... It's not like we don't have satelite imagery.
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It's also kind of ironic that once the a/c is detected, its a bit too late for whatever target is in that "major city with 100% cell phone coverage". You can't exactly deploy a phalanx in an city. (well, you could, but. ..)
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Yes, but the concept of stealth isn't about being completely undetectable (we would of called it invisibility or something), but is about "reduced visibility".
Consider this. A B-52 flying towards its target is highly visible on radar from quite a distance - it practically jumps out of the screen at the operator. You can't miss it, even if you're asleep on the radar panel. 3 or 4 of them return an even greater image.
However, you can fly a B-1 or 2 about 31 km (or miles, I know 30 something is about the limit) from a radar station and it will not be picked up at all. Therin lies the advantage of stealth - you don't have "unrestricted use of the airspace", but fairly good use of it. Added to the fact that radar stations are as inconspicious as a stripper stripping inside a church during mass, the "stealth" aircraft can change their course in time. (i.e. you're approaching the top of a hill, you can see light from the car's headlights quite a long time before you see the headlights themselves.)
I guess my point is, that we know that this technology exists and that everybody and their brother has access to it, but since radar stations are kind of far apart, this would be a great advantage over the "current" system.
of course, you can also argue that once the stealth aircraft is detected over a city (where all the cell sites are. . . it is a bit late and you are kind of fucked....)
Incidentally, the B1/2 also holds more bombs than the b-52, which is a whole shitload bigger (but also a shitload cheaper)
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The two-disc set is priced at $ 29.98 in the U.S. and $ 41.98 in Canada.
Assuming a currency exchange of 1.5 can$ to one us (overly pessimistic), the price would be C$44.97.
Oh, but then, assuming thay you live in BC, or any of the other provinces where 14% sales tax is the norm, the total would be brought to a nice and cozy $47.86. This is, of course, assuming that you pay no income tax (har, har) to the Canadian Government.
This brings up an interesting point.
If a Canadian works for minimum wage ($7) that would equal about 6.8 hours of work. The american pays (assuming $6.50 minimum wage, at least in Oregon) 4.6 hours of work are required - both calculations made w/o income tax comparisons, etc...
If Lucas expects me to work my ass off for seven hours to watch his fucking movie, he has to realize something - that his DVD set is priced too fucking high in Canada.
Mind you, broadband access in canada runs about $40 a month, $40 in the states. Almost enough incentive for you to buy a cable/dsl line and download the Divx Rip, which, mind you, has been out a few weeks before the movie was.
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I also haven't heard of a kid being expelled from school for posting a website about the faculty at the school in Canada, although in the states...
Oh. Required filtering on school computers if the school wants federal $ is also another wonderful "American" invention.
TBYP
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One advantage you have against these losers is their equally pathetic knowledge of computer security. I love windows security, these lamers don't even know that they need a firewall. It's kind of cute, can also be amusing.
I don't know what to say, check this link out.
It's an ebay auction for an aimbot, look at final price and the COUNTER!!! It show how pathetic these people are.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt
Though I still hate you fuckers with T3's and 30ish ping - thats almost as bad as cheating
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$225,000,000.
Methinks that they don't give a shit about sending stuff to aliens, but making a few $ while trying to see whether the solar sail concept really works.
Lets be, well, understanding that this is the USA and nothing happens if its not for money or personal gain.
Why was there a link to mission to mars there? I never saw it..
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eTrex Summit - any particular version number / model? It'd be cool to get one of these and use it as a backup altimeter
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http://www.mensa.org/workout.html
oh.. one of their questions - the "card box " question is weird - who has ever heard of a POSTbox (the british? No offense, but I've never heard of that word before) we call 'em MAIL boxes.
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Though I'm not sure, you see, because I'm not a "Mensa Master".
Oooh.. does anybody else like to watch them lose on jeopardy?
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Oh.. didn't
I love this part.
Hoang was so amazed by the sound, and so depressed by the life of a doctor, that he quit his job. "I sold my stuff, including my stereo, and lived on it for two years. I tried a few other jobs, but mostly I just wanted to listen to music.
It's kind of like cocaine, the rich pricks that can afford it, deserve it. Me - I'll just go to a live show and sit way the hell in the back with the rest of the vulgar.
Peace.
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Second, I think that this would be really great, you wouldn't have to go and ask "Bob the forgetful" or "Alice the daughter of chaos" for the sales figures / etc from '95. Honestly, waiting for people to get you stuff is a pain in the ass, especially if, well, you know.
As for privacy, well, quite honestly, if you're at work, don't expect any. Seriously, with windows boxes being so open, its a joke to even consider that your files can not be searched at the current time. Shit, everybody runs windows 95/98 at all companies I have worked for except one (they used nt 4.0).
\\BobsComputer\C\My Documents\FuckIHateMyBoss.doc
isn't exactly hidden.
I don't think emails should be included in the search, but you get enough "personal information" (read gossip) around the water cooler / coffee maker / cappuchino (SP?) machine / ping pong table.
as for
For instance, an employee alleging harassment by another co-worker could demand an employer search for incriminating evidence in e-mail accounts and PC hard drives.
They can do / do that stuff right now, lets not kid ourselves, have no expectation of privacy at work, shit, especially if they own the computers, facilities, etc.. there is nothing that they can not do.
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Are you saying that you make fake "cell sites", when you say beacons? Or a crap load of radar transmitters?
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Seriously, how the hell did you pull this off / explain this to your co? I imagine that this would get you dishonorably discharged PDQ now.
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Not that gore would of have been better.
But enough about politics . . . How do you do a smiley with a toungue in cheek?
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I mean, wouldn't you want to impress (i.e. scare shitless) your enemies instead of hiding this stuff?
Wouldn't it be more prudent to smack the hell out your enemies with the latest and greatest, and use the new stuff to maintain superiority?
Everyone knows that the aurora is a current project . . . and the B2, when deployed, has been "awesome" on each and every mission.
Maybe someone who has worked with this stuff could explain this - though you probably worked on the aurora . .
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I also don't think a B-2 carries tomahawks, but that b-52's do.
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Try it motherfuckers, remember, we live among you, and 80% of our citizens are located within 100 miles of your (well, undefended) border, ready to plunge our hockey sticks into your basterdized monarch hating bodies.
(insert map of north america with maple syrup flowing down from canada to the USA)
Besides, all we need to do is shut off the ICBM monitoring systems located on OUR land, staffed by OUR (and your, but hey, in war there are casualties) people to scare this ever-loving shit out of you.
And finally, at least we know where the USA is located on a map, while 90% of your High School (heheheheh, in itself quite funny) graduates (falls on floor laughing) can't locate Canada. Your military would beeline for arkensas and north dakota and retaliate against it's own civilians while we would head for washington to burn your white house down...
Seriously though, calling Canada a third world nation is sorta overstepping your bounds, you see, Canadians still have sufficient electricity to power their major cities (this summer should be fun in New York and other major cities).
Moreover, we provide quite a bit of electricity and natural gas for you Americans, so we can make things substantially worse - if you live on the west coast - check how much of your electricity comes from the great white north.
Not to mention that we can sneak our diesel powered subs from our military bases to your ships without even surfacing to recharge the batteries (nuclear subs always generate noise because of the cooling plant, diesel electrics are dead quiet) and sink them. "Canadians blowing shit up" (official term) would also be cause for concern.
Check this song out, an interesting perspective on the War 1812.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/166/166947.
So when you go to Washington
Its buildings clean and nice
Bring a pack of matches
and we'll burn the white house twice!
And the white house burned, burned, burned
and we're the ones that did it.
It Burned, burned, burned,
while the president ran and cried. . .
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Alright, it wasn't that funny, but I'd love to turn the full power of an Aegis Destroyer Radar array on a flock of birds 1.5 miles away.
Maybe I'm just sadistic or something
I read somewhere that the radar strength is several thousand watts and can be focused to
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If China decided to invade Taiwan, there is no doubt that the usa would intervene. Not that the USA's geographical position doesn't place them at an advantage (i.e. isolation).
Qubecans
that's awesome... I won't say anymore.
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Or a TLAM D, (tomahawk).
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:WtaEEKhsSB
TLAM-D can dispense up to 166 bomblets in 24 packages. The submunitions can be armor-piercing, fragmentation or incendiary. TLAMs were used against chemical and nuclear weapons facilities, surface-to-air missile sites, command and control centers and Saddam's presidential palace.
Or cell phone towers... It's not like we don't have satelite imagery.
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Consider this. A B-52 flying towards its target is highly visible on radar from quite a distance - it practically jumps out of the screen at the operator. You can't miss it, even if you're asleep on the radar panel. 3 or 4 of them return an even greater image.
However, you can fly a B-1 or 2 about 31 km (or miles, I know 30 something is about the limit) from a radar station and it will not be picked up at all. Therin lies the advantage of stealth - you don't have "unrestricted use of the airspace", but fairly good use of it. Added to the fact that radar stations are as inconspicious as a stripper stripping inside a church during mass, the "stealth" aircraft can change their course in time. (i.e. you're approaching the top of a hill, you can see light from the car's headlights quite a long time before you see the headlights themselves.)
I guess my point is, that we know that this technology exists and that everybody and their brother has access to it, but since radar stations are kind of far apart, this would be a great advantage over the "current" system.
of course, you can also argue that once the stealth aircraft is detected over a city (where all the cell sites are. . . it is a bit late and you are kind of fucked....)
Incidentally, the B1/2 also holds more bombs than the b-52, which is a whole shitload bigger (but also a shitload cheaper)
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