* Be prepared for a shock when you see your first paycheque. The income tax, CPP (pension) and EI (employment insurance) deductions will take a bigger chunk of your earnings than you are used to.
Also be in shock when you realize your standard of living is higher, life expectancy is greater and your health care doesnt cost you an additional $4000(giveortake) per year.
Be amazed when your family is not killed in the invasion of foreign nations, and be astounded by your overall sense of wellbeing resulting in the sense of responsibiltiy-for-ones-community.
...as for Canada's "inferiority complex", I'd just like to inform our USAian neighbours, that inspite of what Oprah winfrey tells you, not all criticism is born of insecurity.
Canada *dosnt have* an "inferitority complex" as much as USAians are incapable of seeing us WITHOUT *their* Superiority Complex -- get it? The USAians are projecting... and it speaks more to your hubris than our opinion of the world -- get it?
Its clear that Mr. Petreley is still thinking outside the box. In these days of Back To Basics strategies, its clear that focusing on the core fundementals of your enterprise' value propisition requires a shift, a shift to thinking Inside The Box.
Thinking OUTSIDE the box is last week's failed methods, all new leaders are clearly embedded Inside The Box(TM).
whatever pal, the USA has been propping up theocracys and oppressive dictators in exchange for Oil (and arms sales) for 50 years.
Arming and supporting ($) the Zionists while they abuse Arabs is also an example of America's negative influence.
As for your condemnation of Communist Utopia, spare me, speaking to an American about Communist theory is like talking to McDonalds about fine cuisine... they have alot to say, but dont know shit.
What is the cost of killing fish? What is nano-tech going to do for us? Solve world hunger? Cure cancer? And, is this new technology going to be environmentally sustainable?
Already it appears it is another instance of our getting ahead of ourselves. New materials, new compounds, new chemicals need to be PROVEN to be safe before they are let out of the lab -- NOT the other way around (ie, they are released until they show they are destructive).
How many 'serious runners' would wear a shoe like this? In fact, Im sure all the owners of such shoes will be geeks or plain have-it-all sheeple. Do we really need to add an electronics-factory waste stream to the already terrible running shoe industry? Do people really want to pollute ourselves of the planet soooo badly that they must have useless crap *in* their shoes? Hell, why not look at a little more responsible and appropriate footwear.
480W is a cost and pollution concern. Consider if you ran it for 10hrs a day, every day you end up around 135kWh per month, or in Ontario, ($0.043/kWh) $5.80.
I live in a 100 year old brownstone townhouse in a downtown burrough of a Southwestern Ontario city. My *total* power bill is between 500-650kWh per month.
I am very conscience of the amount of pollution I am responsible for, I eat local organic foods, avoid corporate-controlled business at all costs, ride my bike to work... etc. I cannot believe that anyone would actually burn nearly 500W for a *VIDEO CARD*! Unreal. Hell, why not just set up a few dozen space heaters outside in the winter to keep your patio warm?
never mind aluminum, use this cardboard case. Simple, cheap and easy.
Aluminum requires a TONNE of energy to produce -- have a read about Embodied Energy. Do a search on embodied energy -- it will change the way you think about consumption, pollution and the solution to sustainability.
it costs time, effort and money to make these musical works
The manner of being renumerated is in question -- does a plumber ask for a fee everytime i flush my toilet? The reality is it does not take money from, nor does it cost anything when i manufacture a song (cp).
Now, recording / etc may (or may not frankly) cost money. It has become simply not reasonable for musicians to expect to be paid in this way. Its time to invent an new model, after all, the old one is an abstract, not natural law.
But the Berne Convention (and others) covers copyright between nations (ie: protect ours this, that, and the other-way and we'll protect yours the same). If I buy from Russia -- and its legal in russia -- than I can import it into my own country. Nothing is the matter.
Here is the real problem: Copyright is an outdated and broken concept, with all manner of issues involved now that physical scarcity of music has ended. Outside of oppressive cabals rigging the market (Koda/RIAA etc), how do you expect this all to work? It costs nothing to move $intellectual-property, so geography is irrelevant. It costs nothing to manufacture (cp mysong.wav yoursong.wav;wget http://allmusicisfree.com/yoursong.wav).
This hodge-podge of nonsense is collapsing under its own stupidity... and I say good. Its high time The People got to enjoy the benefits of our technological advances.
No, they aren't taking my money, but they're definitely taking someone else's money. Not only that, but I have to live in a world and witness things turn to shit due to religion.
I believe that theism is actually a barrier to our continued existance. Theism prevents people from assuming responsibiltiy for themselves, their actions and their communities. Most theists have an 'afterlife myth' of some sort, this afterlife becomes the goal. The hear and now -- this world -- becomes a means to an ends. No longer are theists concerned with the responsibilities they have here, but how do they use the "here" to get to $afterlife.
Theism is a barrier to human progress and our continued existance, only rational people can address reality and participate in constructing a sustainable future. The theists capable of wild flights of fancy (obviously), they cannot be "depended on", singularily or collectively.
If you dont realize that "Religion is a mere matter of Geography" than what manner of predictable (read: reasonable) behaviour can we depend on you to manifest? What *unreasonable* behaviour? Stoneing Heretics? $witch Hunts? Crusades? Sacrifices? Terrorism? Oppression?
For the record, no not all expeditions of the 20th century met with such fates. There were several before WWII, and several more in the 19th century. None yielded and definitive results. Ok, fair enough.
Besides, if they do find an ark, that revolutionises the entire way we think about the universe and ourselves.
Why is that? Occams razor would help us decide why an Boat exists in this location.
The Tale of Noah is actually the tale of a person building the ark at this location. Priests built the boat to display as proof.
Simply discovering an ark at this location would not prove much relating to the christian god.
The bible says a man was born of a virgin mother, who could walk on water -- do you want our scientists to investigate this also?
Scientific principles absolutely demand that someone must go up there and search for it. What principles are those? Assume there is a non-fiction basis for a story of a man who put all the animals on the plant on a single boat -- under instruction of god -- to save himself from a world-wide flood of 40(!) days?
You want rigiourous scientific investigation of this claim???
Mount Ararat is named in the Bible as the resting place of the Ark. That section of the Bible was written more than 2000 years ago. Scientific principles absolutely demand that someone must go up there and search for it.
You wolud only believe this if you assumed (ie: didnt understand) the nature of The Bible itself. For starters, studies of the bible show that its books are written by different individual authors. The Bible is, in fact, a collection of older works -- some were chosen for inclusion, others were not, these are called the Apocryphal Books. The Bible describes people walking on water, do you expect scientists to test that theory too?
I'll grant you that it is worth investigating (just to dispell this fable (an In Search Of episode comes to mind...)) but lets be realistic, even if they DO find a pile of wood (a boat? a hut? a apple cart?) on this mountain, is it Noah's? is it God's inspiration? did it once contain ever species of animal on the planet?
We dont need your Marketroid version of creativity as a constricted mandate. You marketing types can go about remaking the world for the walmart/survivor/church crowd in a bland uniformity, but leave US the heck alone.
No one needs your professional work (capitalist propaganda) and this forum dosnt need a lesson in Newspeak from the propaganda brigade.
Could the Source be released MINUS the NDA covered parts -- with descriptoins of the missing software in 'pseudo code' or atleast a funtional description so that they can be replaced?
I can image a tool like this would be very usefull for hacking....
What astounds me is that this group would name itself "a pedestrian advocacy group". The segway is a motorized vehicle. A segway is *not* a pedestrian.
Where does this newspeak lunacy end? If siliver wants to argue that segways are safe, and should be allowed to mingle -- I disagree -- but so be it, he is perfectly within his rights to bring his argument. But to try and frame and cripple the debate by purposefully polluting language is f'ing sad.
Segways belong on the street like other motor vehicles -- Autos have for far too long had intimidated others out of the public rights-of-way. I encourage Everyone to buy a Segway and form a Segway Critical Mass -- they are better than cars. But they have no place on sidewalks.
Why dont you get in shape instead? Inspite of what Oprah winfry says on day-time TV, it is not "ok" to be obese. It is unhealthy as fuck, and a testament to A) your lack of self control and will power and B) a monument to your selfish decedance.
One audience consists of geeky hobbyists; the other includes the intelligent, wealthy, and powerful. The message might not have changed in all these years, but it is reaching increasingly important people every day.
Why would you suggest that the wealthy and intelligent are more important?
It's not car companies saying EVs arn't viable. It the entire engineering and science community. You can't change physics and thermodynamics. Much the same you can't change the laws of batteries.
No. The auto-industry dominates public discourse and production on all matters of personal transportation. I will repeat, EVs arent "unviable" in a techincal sense, they are simply not sold. Renault sells an EV in Europe. Many auto co.s sell EVs in Japan. I would buy a GM EV1 today if they were available. Ford had the Smart (smart is still going without a ford relation) India has its own home-grown electric auto.. etc etc etc.
This is a matter of speaking to the public. I am dead set against commercial-public communication (marketing/advertising) -- i feel it is dangerous to public discourse -- the fact that the auto cos dont ADVERTISE EVs is a good indication that they wont succeed. They spend bundles telling people to drive through pristine habitat in their (usually suburban-used) SUVs, where is the "EVs are 100% all you need in the city! HOW WONDERFULL!" marketing??? IT DOSENT EXIST! Why? Because it would undermine their EXISTING market... and due to (obvious) ills in Capitalism, this entrenched paradigm (ICE-based autos) hold all the cards... so, no challengers welcome.
As for hybrids, id say they are a step in the right direction. It will help bring the technology to benefit from economies of scale, and sooner than later, they can drop the ICE for a HydrogenFuelCell or Pure EV.
Hybrids are the way to bring EVs to market... but the Auto Cos are going to get it snuck-up-on-them.
The one shortage in this will be the undercarriage / car body / interior are designed to weight 2000lbs instead of a more EV friendly weight... but much like Americans themeselves, they like their autos slow, fat, heavy and lethargic.
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* Be prepared for a shock when you see your first paycheque. The income tax, CPP (pension) and EI (employment insurance) deductions will take a bigger chunk of your earnings than you are used to.
Also be in shock when you realize your standard of living is higher, life expectancy is greater and your health care doesnt cost you an additional $4000(giveortake) per year.
Be amazed when your family is not killed in the invasion of foreign nations, and be astounded by your overall sense of wellbeing resulting in the sense of responsibiltiy-for-ones-community.
...as for Canada's "inferiority complex", I'd just like to inform our USAian neighbours, that inspite of what Oprah winfrey tells you, not all criticism is born of insecurity.
Canada *dosnt have* an "inferitority complex" as much as USAians are incapable of seeing us WITHOUT *their* Superiority Complex -- get it? The USAians are projecting... and it speaks more to your hubris than our opinion of the world -- get it?
Even though there is all the blah blah about Revelations and yadda yadda yadda
Huh? What is the blah blah yaddda yadda revelations?
Its clear that Mr. Petreley is still thinking outside the box. In these days of Back To Basics strategies, its clear that focusing on the core fundementals of your enterprise' value propisition requires a shift, a shift to thinking Inside The Box.
Thinking OUTSIDE the box is last week's failed methods, all new leaders are clearly embedded Inside The Box(TM).
Tell your friends.
What about the Free Kolab server?
whatever pal, the USA has been propping up theocracys and oppressive dictators in exchange for Oil (and arms sales) for 50 years.
Arming and supporting ($) the Zionists while they abuse Arabs is also an example of America's negative influence.
As for your condemnation of Communist Utopia, spare me, speaking to an American about Communist theory is like talking to McDonalds about fine cuisine... they have alot to say, but dont know shit.
What is the cost of killing fish? What is nano-tech going to do for us? Solve world hunger? Cure cancer? And, is this new technology going to be environmentally sustainable?
Already it appears it is another instance of our getting ahead of ourselves. New materials, new compounds, new chemicals need to be PROVEN to be safe before they are let out of the lab -- NOT the other way around (ie, they are released until they show they are destructive).
Will we learn to be prudent as well as ingenious?
How many 'serious runners' would wear a shoe like this? In fact, Im sure all the owners of such shoes will be geeks or plain have-it-all sheeple. Do we really need to add an electronics-factory waste stream to the already terrible running shoe industry? Do people really want to pollute ourselves of the planet soooo badly that they must have useless crap *in* their shoes? Hell, why not look at a little more responsible and appropriate footwear.
Adidas sucks.
480W is a cost and pollution concern. Consider if you ran it for 10hrs a day, every day you end up around 135kWh per month, or in Ontario, ($0.043/kWh) $5.80.
I live in a 100 year old brownstone townhouse in a downtown burrough of a Southwestern Ontario city. My *total* power bill is between 500-650kWh per month.
I am very conscience of the amount of pollution I am responsible for, I eat local organic foods, avoid corporate-controlled business at all costs, ride my bike to work... etc. I cannot believe that anyone would actually burn nearly 500W for a *VIDEO CARD*! Unreal. Hell, why not just set up a few dozen space heaters outside in the winter to keep your patio warm?
nvidia sucks.
never mind aluminum, use this cardboard case. Simple, cheap and easy.
Aluminum requires a TONNE of energy to produce -- have a read about Embodied Energy. Do a search on embodied energy -- it will change the way you think about consumption, pollution and the solution to sustainability.
it costs time, effort and money to make these musical works
The manner of being renumerated is in question -- does a plumber ask for a fee everytime i flush my toilet? The reality is it does not take money from, nor does it cost anything when i manufacture a song (cp).
Now, recording / etc may (or may not frankly) cost money. It has become simply not reasonable for musicians to expect to be paid in this way. Its time to invent an new model, after all, the old one is an abstract, not natural law.
IANAL:
But the Berne Convention (and others) covers copyright between nations (ie: protect ours this, that, and the other-way and we'll protect yours the same). If I buy from Russia -- and its legal in russia -- than I can import it into my own country. Nothing is the matter.
Here is the real problem: Copyright is an outdated and broken concept, with all manner of issues involved now that physical scarcity of music has ended. Outside of oppressive cabals rigging the market (Koda/RIAA etc), how do you expect this all to work? It costs nothing to move $intellectual-property, so geography is irrelevant. It costs nothing to manufacture (cp mysong.wav yoursong.wav;wget http://allmusicisfree.com/yoursong.wav).
This hodge-podge of nonsense is collapsing under its own stupidity... and I say good. Its high time The People got to enjoy the benefits of our technological advances.
Of course he does. God just made all that stuff happen. These 'issues' are irrelevant to a theist, God conquers all reason.
Dont you see how it works?
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No, they aren't taking my money, but they're definitely taking someone else's money. Not only that, but I have to live in a world and witness things turn to shit due to religion.
I believe that theism is actually a barrier to our continued existance. Theism prevents people from assuming responsibiltiy for themselves, their actions and their communities. Most theists have an 'afterlife myth' of some sort, this afterlife becomes the goal. The hear and now -- this world -- becomes a means to an ends. No longer are theists concerned with the responsibilities they have here, but how do they use the "here" to get to $afterlife.
Theism is a barrier to human progress and our continued existance, only rational people can address reality and participate in constructing a sustainable future. The theists capable of wild flights of fancy (obviously), they cannot be "depended on", singularily or collectively.
If you dont realize that "Religion is a mere matter of Geography" than what manner of predictable (read: reasonable) behaviour can we depend on you to manifest? What *unreasonable* behaviour? Stoneing Heretics? $witch Hunts? Crusades? Sacrifices? Terrorism? Oppression?
You forgot:
Step 5: Ark!
For the record, no not all expeditions of the 20th century met with such fates. There were several before WWII, and several more in the 19th century. None yielded and definitive results.
Ok, fair enough.
Besides, if they do find an ark, that revolutionises the entire way we think about the universe and ourselves.
Why is that? Occams razor would help us decide why an Boat exists in this location.
The Tale of Noah is actually the tale of a person building the ark at this location.
Priests built the boat to display as proof.
Simply discovering an ark at this location would not prove much relating to the christian god.
The bible says a man was born of a virgin mother, who could walk on water -- do you want our scientists to investigate this also?
Scientific principles absolutely demand that someone must go up there and search for it.
What principles are those? Assume there is a non-fiction basis for a story of a man who put all the animals on the plant on a single boat -- under instruction of god -- to save himself from a world-wide flood of 40(!) days?
You want rigiourous scientific investigation of this claim???
Mount Ararat is named in the Bible as the resting place of the Ark. That section of the Bible was written more than 2000 years ago. Scientific principles absolutely demand that someone must go up there and search for it.
You wolud only believe this if you assumed (ie: didnt understand) the nature of The Bible itself. For starters, studies of the bible show that its books are written by different individual authors. The Bible is, in fact, a collection of older works -- some were chosen for inclusion, others were not, these are called the Apocryphal Books. The Bible describes people walking on water, do you expect scientists to test that theory too?
I'll grant you that it is worth investigating (just to dispell this fable (an In Search Of episode comes to mind...)) but lets be realistic, even if they DO find a pile of wood (a boat? a hut? a apple cart?) on this mountain, is it Noah's? is it God's inspiration? did it once contain ever species of animal on the planet?
in short, give me a break.
professional graphic designer,
BACK! BACK I SAY!
We dont need your Marketroid version of creativity as a constricted mandate. You marketing types can go about remaking the world for the walmart/survivor/church crowd in a bland uniformity, but leave US the heck alone.
No one needs your professional work (capitalist propaganda) and this forum dosnt need a lesson in Newspeak from the propaganda brigade.
Could the Source be released MINUS the NDA covered parts -- with descriptoins of the missing software in 'pseudo code' or atleast a funtional description so that they can be replaced?
I can image a tool like this would be very usefull for hacking....
What astounds me is that this group would name itself "a pedestrian advocacy group". The segway is a motorized vehicle. A segway is *not* a pedestrian.
Where does this newspeak lunacy end? If siliver wants to argue that segways are safe, and should be allowed to mingle -- I disagree -- but so be it, he is perfectly within his rights to bring his argument. But to try and frame and cripple the debate by purposefully polluting language is f'ing sad.
Segways belong on the street like other motor vehicles -- Autos have for far too long had intimidated others out of the public rights-of-way. I encourage Everyone to buy a Segway and form a Segway Critical Mass -- they are better than cars. But they have no place on sidewalks.
Why dont you get in shape instead? Inspite of what Oprah winfry says on day-time TV, it is not "ok" to be obese. It is unhealthy as fuck, and a testament to A) your lack of self control and will power and B) a monument to your selfish decedance.
Wake up America: It is NOT ALRIGHT to be OBESE!
One audience consists of geeky hobbyists; the other includes the intelligent, wealthy, and powerful. The message might not have changed in all these years, but it is reaching increasingly important people every day.
Why would you suggest that the wealthy and intelligent are more important?
It's not car companies saying EVs arn't viable. It the entire engineering and science community. You can't change physics and thermodynamics. Much the same you can't change the laws of batteries.
No. The auto-industry dominates public discourse and production on all matters of personal transportation. I will repeat, EVs arent "unviable" in a techincal sense, they are simply not sold. Renault sells an EV in Europe. Many auto co.s sell EVs in Japan. I would buy a GM EV1 today if they were available. Ford had the Smart (smart is still going without a ford relation) India has its own home-grown electric auto.. etc etc etc.
This is a matter of speaking to the public. I am dead set against commercial-public communication (marketing/advertising) -- i feel it is dangerous to public discourse -- the fact that the auto cos dont ADVERTISE EVs is a good indication that they wont succeed. They spend bundles telling people to drive through pristine habitat in their (usually suburban-used) SUVs, where is the "EVs are 100% all you need in the city! HOW WONDERFULL!" marketing??? IT DOSENT EXIST! Why? Because it would undermine their EXISTING market... and due to (obvious) ills in Capitalism, this entrenched paradigm (ICE-based autos) hold all the cards... so, no challengers welcome.
As for hybrids, id say they are a step in the right direction. It will help bring the technology to benefit from economies of scale, and sooner than later, they can drop the ICE for a HydrogenFuelCell or Pure EV.
Hybrids are the way to bring EVs to market... but the Auto Cos are going to get it snuck-up-on-them.
The one shortage in this will be the undercarriage / car body / interior are designed to weight 2000lbs instead of a more EV friendly weight... but much like Americans themeselves, they like their autos slow, fat, heavy and lethargic.
YES YES YES! Anyone who disposes of a HD, WITHOUT first removing the magnets is a fool. These magnets are great fun... amazing.