I read the hobbit when I was in grade 5, my teacher thought it was pretty damn neat. And said "If there are words or sentences you don't understand, come to me and I'll explain." But easy sci-fi and fantasy are the best, WoT is pretty heavy reading, so is most of it. My suggestion though is comic books. That's what started me on sci-fi.
Sadly you'd be surprised at exactly how far China would be willing to go to get what they want. It again comes down to trust, and what do they want. Unstable leaderships and all.
And who do you think the Iran-Iraq war was started by? Just a tip, Iran was the actual aggressor. They simply spent a decade or via proxies inside Iraq rousing up the mob.
Accuracy can be hit or miss. A lot of people in the translation communty use tools like chiitrans, chiitrans2, Translation Aggregator(TA) and agth. Google reguarlly flags sites with these as malware and specifically mentions these as malware, when they're no such thing. They also regularly flag mentions of RPG maker 2k(JP) as malware. To me it seems more like the engine is looking for anything that injects or hooks, which chiitrans, TA and agth do. Or non-standard character sets which the old RPG maker is. It uses the old non-ISO language flags. Newer versions like RPG Maker VX Ace do everything properly.
Worried about a nuclear Iran? Yes. Worried about a nuclear US, China, Russia, India, UK, France, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel? Yes.
See this is the logical breakdown that some people have. MAD. Some government actually do care, no matter how destructive the soviets were to their own people. They actually did have some understanding of their actions to the world as a whole. Knowing there would be nothing left of the world if they nuked the US. The US knew the same. India and Pakistan are at a similar point. Though as Pakistan slips further towards the militant islamist side it become less so. North Korea wants a bomb to threaten anyone, and will use it against the south, simply to use it. Israel has it to protect itself from arab states that have repeatedly tried to annihilate it(another form of MAD).
Trust is a tricky thing. What you should be asking is, what do they care about if they have it and what do they care about if they use it, and expect to gain from it.
No censorship either. Who the hell does the UN think it is?
It thinks that it's gods gift to man kind, that's what it thinks it is. I mean did you catch the supreme arrogance a few months ago where a guy from the UN came to Canada and said that we have a 'food crisis'? Yep. Because we like out fizzy drinks and potato chips, and maple syrup. Never mind that a week or so later that they were begging the Grain Bank here to donate more raw grains to Africa.
At worst the UN wants to be the EU to the world. Where there is no representation to the person on the street, but they have executive fiat to do whatever they want, protected by ivory walls and can try their little experiments to see what happens. That's working out *really* well in Europe you might have noticed. How many bailouts are they on these days? I think they just begged both Canada and the US for more money.
Greetings from post WWII Europe and East Germany. Where the STASI did exactly this, and neighbors spied on each other. I wonder how long before the underground springs up and things start getting smuggled around? Well I'm sure there's a few ex-east germans who would be more than willing to give the Brit's tips on how to do it.
Warrants are required in Canada, even under exigent circumstances now. The SCC recently struck down even prior existing laws(telephone) on that. The only exception is home entry in case of emergency, where you can see/hear/know a person in an obvious case of distress.
In Canada there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in public. It is a 'public space' and in turn, public areas don't have the same level of privacy as private areas. There is however reasonable expectation of privacy in private, and on your private property. Meaning that if you're walking naked in your house, and you leave the drapes/blinds open. It's the other persons fault for staring through the window.
All of those still require massive amounts of FIT(feed in tariff) style programs to be viable. Look at Ontario where I live, we're paying 0.72c/kwh for wind. And in 3 years we'll be the most expensive place in north america for power.
Will Microsoft allow.Net to run on Windows 8?!??! Are you seriously asking this?
Of course not. They're creating.FIRE This new API requires developers to get IV's of liquid pain injected into their bodies, and allows them to experience coding mistakes first hand.
I'll bet that we won't in our life time. Not unless we put giant solar arrays in orbit or built them on Mercury to beam energy back to earth in the form of microwave energy. Nuclear will be the wave of the future for us, our children, our children's children, and probably the next 6 or 8 generations.
32% isn't widespread. Not in the least, you want widespread? Take a look at the polling(nationwide for NHK) done for lay-judges, where 90% approve of it, but 68% would be hesitant of taking the position themselves in a trial.
I didn't realize it was a common thing for people to pry dead mice from the mouths of stray cats.;)
You'd be surprised, there's warnings put in newspapers, local flyers and on the TV in metro centres here, for the city folk not to do this stuff. It might seem stupid if you've ever lived in the country, it's kinda like "where does hamburger come from" obviously the store.
Can't survive on renewable energy, and can't built the old coal power plants fast enough even when you're buying up coal as fast as Canada can dig it out of the ground for you. Not a surprise...not a damn surprise. Especially when you've got the idle plants just sitting there.
Bubonic plague has been endemic (sustaining itself permanently, in this case in the animal population) in the western part of the US for yeas...
Yep. When I was in the US southwest in the 80's they were handing out phamplets at the national parks like the grand canyon(I think I have mine tucked away somewhere still--I was a kid and thought it was kinda cool) to avoid dead animals. This really isn't news, we see a dozen or so cases of it in Canada every year from the same way.
If the US is serious about science, math and technology, they'll stop harping about needing more education and start paying attention to revitalizing the field's job prospects and respectability.
Let's be honest okay? The US does need to be serious about it, but it's already at the saturation point. With too many people, and not enough positions. Or positions in other areas where they're importing people from other countries. Or where they're simply importing cheap labor(yay h1b?). Some people would be better off just getting a trade.
The last time people migrated in the numbers we're seeing today, the Roman Empire collapsed.
Really? History seems to disagree with you. The most recent would be WWII, before that it was the mass deaths due to the plagues in europe and people trying to escape mass death.
We like to drink. We like to eat. That tends to constrain where we settle.
Not really. We like to make things easy. Nothing is stopping you from living on the arctic tundra, except knowing how to survive.
Yeah that's nice. So, in breaking news people are migratory and always have been. But we like to build next to large bodies of water which put us at risk. We like large bodies of water because it triggers this idea that we have access to the basic essentials to let us survive. When I bought my house, I did enough research to where I was buying it to make sure I was 50ft above the highest recorded geologic flood stage known for my area. Which is pretty amazing, considering I'm in the great lakes region.
Then again they always were pretty good at keeping the flood plains around here clear. And there hasn't really been a serious flood since they built the dam, though it can only take 24".
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I read the hobbit when I was in grade 5, my teacher thought it was pretty damn neat. And said "If there are words or sentences you don't understand, come to me and I'll explain." But easy sci-fi and fantasy are the best, WoT is pretty heavy reading, so is most of it. My suggestion though is comic books. That's what started me on sci-fi.
Sadly you'd be surprised at exactly how far China would be willing to go to get what they want. It again comes down to trust, and what do they want. Unstable leaderships and all.
And who do you think the Iran-Iraq war was started by? Just a tip, Iran was the actual aggressor. They simply spent a decade or via proxies inside Iraq rousing up the mob.
year of the demise of the desktop...
Year of the linux? Maybe? Finally?
Now all we need to do is get developers to finally and once again support OGL.
Accuracy can be hit or miss. A lot of people in the translation communty use tools like chiitrans, chiitrans2, Translation Aggregator(TA) and agth. Google reguarlly flags sites with these as malware and specifically mentions these as malware, when they're no such thing. They also regularly flag mentions of RPG maker 2k(JP) as malware. To me it seems more like the engine is looking for anything that injects or hooks, which chiitrans, TA and agth do. Or non-standard character sets which the old RPG maker is. It uses the old non-ISO language flags. Newer versions like RPG Maker VX Ace do everything properly.
Worried about a nuclear Iran? Yes. Worried about a nuclear US, China, Russia, India, UK, France, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel? Yes.
See this is the logical breakdown that some people have. MAD. Some government actually do care, no matter how destructive the soviets were to their own people. They actually did have some understanding of their actions to the world as a whole. Knowing there would be nothing left of the world if they nuked the US. The US knew the same. India and Pakistan are at a similar point. Though as Pakistan slips further towards the militant islamist side it become less so. North Korea wants a bomb to threaten anyone, and will use it against the south, simply to use it. Israel has it to protect itself from arab states that have repeatedly tried to annihilate it(another form of MAD).
Trust is a tricky thing. What you should be asking is, what do they care about if they have it and what do they care about if they use it, and expect to gain from it.
Looks like you pissed off the "vi" fanboys again. They can't take a joke, big shock. Well, I guess someone had to throw a hissyfit like usual...
A thought off the top of my head... Can the digital lock provisions be used to protect personal communications?
Oddly enough yes. I'll see if I can find the SSC summery judgement on the issue it was 5 or 6 years ago.
No censorship either. Who the hell does the UN think it is?
It thinks that it's gods gift to man kind, that's what it thinks it is. I mean did you catch the supreme arrogance a few months ago where a guy from the UN came to Canada and said that we have a 'food crisis'? Yep. Because we like out fizzy drinks and potato chips, and maple syrup. Never mind that a week or so later that they were begging the Grain Bank here to donate more raw grains to Africa.
At worst the UN wants to be the EU to the world. Where there is no representation to the person on the street, but they have executive fiat to do whatever they want, protected by ivory walls and can try their little experiments to see what happens. That's working out *really* well in Europe you might have noticed. How many bailouts are they on these days? I think they just begged both Canada and the US for more money.
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Greetings from post WWII Europe and East Germany. Where the STASI did exactly this, and neighbors spied on each other. I wonder how long before the underground springs up and things start getting smuggled around? Well I'm sure there's a few ex-east germans who would be more than willing to give the Brit's tips on how to do it.
Warrants are required in Canada, even under exigent circumstances now. The SCC recently struck down even prior existing laws(telephone) on that. The only exception is home entry in case of emergency, where you can see/hear/know a person in an obvious case of distress.
In Canada there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in public. It is a 'public space' and in turn, public areas don't have the same level of privacy as private areas. There is however reasonable expectation of privacy in private, and on your private property. Meaning that if you're walking naked in your house, and you leave the drapes/blinds open. It's the other persons fault for staring through the window.
All of those still require massive amounts of FIT(feed in tariff) style programs to be viable. Look at Ontario where I live, we're paying 0.72c/kwh for wind. And in 3 years we'll be the most expensive place in north america for power.
Will Microsoft allow .Net to run on Windows 8?!??! Are you seriously asking this?
Of course not. They're creating .FIRE This new API requires developers to get IV's of liquid pain injected into their bodies, and allows them to experience coding mistakes first hand.
Don't worry, I'm sure the militant feminists(and their male supporters) will be out soon to scream that your post is racist and misogynist soon.
Can't survive on renewable energy, yet,
I'll bet that we won't in our life time. Not unless we put giant solar arrays in orbit or built them on Mercury to beam energy back to earth in the form of microwave energy. Nuclear will be the wave of the future for us, our children, our children's children, and probably the next 6 or 8 generations.
32% isn't widespread. Not in the least, you want widespread? Take a look at the polling(nationwide for NHK) done for lay-judges, where 90% approve of it, but 68% would be hesitant of taking the position themselves in a trial.
I didn't realize it was a common thing for people to pry dead mice from the mouths of stray cats. ;)
You'd be surprised, there's warnings put in newspapers, local flyers and on the TV in metro centres here, for the city folk not to do this stuff. It might seem stupid if you've ever lived in the country, it's kinda like "where does hamburger come from" obviously the store.
Can't survive on renewable energy, and can't built the old coal power plants fast enough even when you're buying up coal as fast as Canada can dig it out of the ground for you. Not a surprise...not a damn surprise. Especially when you've got the idle plants just sitting there.
Bubonic plague has been endemic (sustaining itself permanently, in this case in the animal population) in the western part of the US for yeas...
Yep. When I was in the US southwest in the 80's they were handing out phamplets at the national parks like the grand canyon(I think I have mine tucked away somewhere still--I was a kid and thought it was kinda cool) to avoid dead animals. This really isn't news, we see a dozen or so cases of it in Canada every year from the same way.
If the US is serious about science, math and technology, they'll stop harping about needing more education and start paying attention to revitalizing the field's job prospects and respectability.
Let's be honest okay? The US does need to be serious about it, but it's already at the saturation point. With too many people, and not enough positions. Or positions in other areas where they're importing people from other countries. Or where they're simply importing cheap labor(yay h1b?). Some people would be better off just getting a trade.
Interestingly enough this law will most likely get stuck down by the SCC considering we have fair dealing in play here.
The last time people migrated in the numbers we're seeing today, the Roman Empire collapsed.
Really? History seems to disagree with you. The most recent would be WWII, before that it was the mass deaths due to the plagues in europe and people trying to escape mass death.
We like to drink. We like to eat. That tends to constrain where we settle.
Not really. We like to make things easy. Nothing is stopping you from living on the arctic tundra, except knowing how to survive.
Yeah that's nice. So, in breaking news people are migratory and always have been. But we like to build next to large bodies of water which put us at risk. We like large bodies of water because it triggers this idea that we have access to the basic essentials to let us survive. When I bought my house, I did enough research to where I was buying it to make sure I was 50ft above the highest recorded geologic flood stage known for my area. Which is pretty amazing, considering I'm in the great lakes region.
Then again they always were pretty good at keeping the flood plains around here clear. And there hasn't really been a serious flood since they built the dam, though it can only take 24".