In the US and Canada for example, driving will peak based on how far you need to go to get things done. Two things have changed on that front, first being that things are closer. An example, 10 years ago if I wanted to go to a store like walmart I would have had to drive 30mins, it's 3minutes now. Same with a Canadian tire, but the size of my city has only grown by 5k people. The thing that really throws a wrench into this of course is if live out in the middle of nowhere Canada or US. In which case driving 2-4hrs twice a month to buy your groceries is still the norm, that's providing it's not dropped off by plane. Even having things dropped off by plane is getting scarce however, it's cheaper to do 5 months of deliveries by truck in the dead of winter for remote cities.
In most other places, notably japan unless you have the money to pay for private parking when you go to work you'll live the life of the 2hr rush, and be packed in, and leave your car at home. But everything you more than likely need is in walking or biking distance, and when it isn't you can get just about everything sent to your home. Sure that's happening in north america albeit at a slower pace. Japan can't dedicate space to roads, we can. Which leads japan to having more dedication to public transportation.
Personally to me it comes down to the whole space vs no space issue. We're not short on room in north america not even close. The only upper limit you have to that here, is the amount of space you can dedicate to roadways to ease conjestion.
I live in Canada. I have more personal liberties than an american has now(even with the s.1 clause -- aka the government may restrict freedoms as deemed necessary by the courts of law). I generally like the US too, but the GP is right. You thought Bush was bad, you were wrong. Obama is worse, and anyone with 3 firing neurons could have figured that out when he was running for office.
It's much easier to concentrate if you're all alone in your parent's basement.
I'm sure this will come as a crushing blow, but the majority of gamers today are in the 30-45yr old bracket, married, and have kids. You can do searches on your favorite search engine and read all about it.
Maybe you should have said, "It's much easier to concentrate, if you're all alone, the kids aren't yelling and you're hiding from your wife, kids, and enjoying me time."
When I see it. I'll lay down harder money that we're entering a new solar minimum, SS counts are low, we've even had months with 0 sunspots in the last year and a half. I'll lay down that we're entering another phase on par with the dalton minimum.
Japan was a royal-democracy before WWII that's the thing. The old timers of that generation before the current are already dead, but they wrote the songs, stories, and told their tales about how living free even with a god-emperor was freer than the hyper-nationalist dictatorship run by the military.
Guess you missed most of the world shifting to democracy. Shifting to democracy wasn't love, hugs, and cookies. It was violent, unbelievably so. France slaughtered royalty and politicians alike. In the UK they were drawing magistrates in the streets. The US not only fought the British, but threw them out. India's shift was very violent as well, so was pakistan's. Israel's was the same. Oh lets not forget Argentina either.
People can be ready and want democracy. The shift to give people rights beyond what the government(royalty, or dictatorships), was violent everywhere. So yes, you can bring democracy by force. In fact, most of the democratic world was brought into existence by force. It's the erosion of democracy that's silent.
Fucking people over with 'sheet music' is the biggest pile of bullshit you'd ever believe. Here in Canadaland, our city orchestra's regularly get screwed over by it.
Hey what's a mere 10k-20k to allow performances? On songs that were made 250 years ago.
The real problem is most people writing exams have no clue how to write one. There are courses, back when I was taking a college course on law. I had 8 different instructors, all of them retired, or still currently serving cops who were the top in their field(drugs investigation, traffic law, criminal code, etc) and were and are subject experts in their field and still regularly testify. Out of those 8, 6 couldn't write an exam to save their life. You could memorize the material learned and passed well. The other two(traffic law, and criminal code including drug law), could write an exam that showed you knew how to understand the material.
Personally I believe that's the problem. Most exams show you can memorize the material, not understand it. It's the exams that show that you know how to take learned material and apply it to the world where you'll choke either cheaters, or people who don't understand out. And really that should be the purpose of exams anyway.
Actually there's 8k standard use symbols in both Chinese and Japanese. But don't worry your head over it, there's only a mere what? 22k 25k? That you need to know these days to be able to pass grade school.
The reality that daily kos is being used as a credible news source should be making everyone stop and go wtf are these idiots going on about. If you're using a source that's considered the lunatic fringe of the left, you have nothing to stand on.
Except there's 3 variations of chinese that are 'modern' and are used in typing. Which means that unless you know the particular usage(and it varies by region), and can pick out the pictographs that are different. You might have a problem understanding simplified, std. chinese, std. hang, or japanese.
Most translation software that's good does std. chinese, and simple. But can't tell the difference between either, or that you've just pasted in a sentence in japanese. At least korean is easy to figure out.
I'm sure it won't stop your bashing. But the bastion of Canadian politics(aka the Liberal Party), were the forerunners of this same style of legislation... dun, dun, dun...in 2000.
I'd argue differently. I learned to write programs with 5k of memory(that'd be on the old vic20's), until I got an expansion cartridge for well more memory. You can get free vb compilers, you can even get visual C++ for free from microsoft, or if you prefer dev c++ and run it on 'nix.
Why? Seriously? If you're not going to bring back the whole point of an original magazine then why dump something on the market that's already covered by other publications. It would be like bringing back Commadore Compute, but without having the programs you could copy, edit, and modify for your own amusement. Argh.
But you know, I honestly think there could be a market for a revamp of things like that. Games/apps/etc, published either online or magazine, where you could show kids and get them involved in things like programming. Hell it worked for me.
The CRTC was meant to ensure that things were fair. This is also the same organization that states that 60% of your content must be Canadian, even if it's on an american station. If there wasn't this level of regulation, we would have had competitors years ago. Now all depending you may or maynot remember the 90's when the CRTC decided that bell's government monopoly was no longer legal, and forced the CRTC too force bell to open their circuts(paid with public money on loan), to competitors.
This meant that for the first time ever, Canadians across the country could have a telephone provider other than Bell. Regulation is what enabled bell in Canada to have 130 years of monopoly. It's also what is stifling the internet in Canada, by ensuring that caps are absurdly low. 60gb? A family of 4 can go through that in 3 weeks. A person watching Netflix can go through it in a weekend.
No I agree. The problem is getting government to create the proper legislation that's fair and just for all parties involved is damn near impossible right now because of special interest groups. Government as a whole has some serious problems that need to be fixed.
And even when the regulations are properly enforced, there's a good chance someone is going to screw you over. A regulation is just that, you mess up. You might get a fine, you might get a slap on the wrist. But the chances of the government coming along and baring you from doing service in an area? Nil. And I really don't want to get started on the courts, and their interpretations of regulations.
If you've been reading/. for the last year and half(which by your UID I'd say you have). You'd know what the CRTC is, what UBB is and why there's been so much shit written about it both in Canada and in the US. Actually it's not my problem if you haven't been paying attention to anything beyond your own special little world.
You can start by going here: http://www.dslreports.com/ Then use the search function, I also suggest looking at the Cdn. broadband, Teksavvy forums.
See even living in Canada, I pay attention to what's going on in the US. And Europe, and Asia. Because the insular 'me' world, went bye-bye 10 years ago.
They only have influence if you watch it. And these days of the information age, the only people who watch TV the most are in the 40-60 bracket last time I looked. They are for all things a dying breed, most of the people here span two generations of information technology. We can remember the world without information being so easy to get, and we know how awesome it was when we could get it.
The current generation of kids(20 and under) have no idea what life was like beforehand. They'll be the ones driving the stake through the heart of the music/film/tv industries.
The real problem with government regulation is it can screw you in the face. Take Canada for example where the CRTC has decided that UBB is just fine, oh and we get to charge more. And you can only use 60gb/mo even if you're on another ISP. The SS Fail Train has set sail for the bottom of the Atlantic.
I always likened it to the place where all the douchebags of the internet liked to congregate. 4chan has it's moments, but even they have some semblance of class.
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In the US and Canada for example, driving will peak based on how far you need to go to get things done. Two things have changed on that front, first being that things are closer. An example, 10 years ago if I wanted to go to a store like walmart I would have had to drive 30mins, it's 3minutes now. Same with a Canadian tire, but the size of my city has only grown by 5k people. The thing that really throws a wrench into this of course is if live out in the middle of nowhere Canada or US. In which case driving 2-4hrs twice a month to buy your groceries is still the norm, that's providing it's not dropped off by plane. Even having things dropped off by plane is getting scarce however, it's cheaper to do 5 months of deliveries by truck in the dead of winter for remote cities.
In most other places, notably japan unless you have the money to pay for private parking when you go to work you'll live the life of the 2hr rush, and be packed in, and leave your car at home. But everything you more than likely need is in walking or biking distance, and when it isn't you can get just about everything sent to your home. Sure that's happening in north america albeit at a slower pace. Japan can't dedicate space to roads, we can. Which leads japan to having more dedication to public transportation.
Personally to me it comes down to the whole space vs no space issue. We're not short on room in north america not even close. The only upper limit you have to that here, is the amount of space you can dedicate to roadways to ease conjestion.
No. They run along hitting the string between two cans.
I live in Canada. I have more personal liberties than an american has now(even with the s.1 clause -- aka the government may restrict freedoms as deemed necessary by the courts of law). I generally like the US too, but the GP is right. You thought Bush was bad, you were wrong. Obama is worse, and anyone with 3 firing neurons could have figured that out when he was running for office.
It's much easier to concentrate if you're all alone in your parent's basement.
I'm sure this will come as a crushing blow, but the majority of gamers today are in the 30-45yr old bracket, married, and have kids. You can do searches on your favorite search engine and read all about it.
Maybe you should have said, "It's much easier to concentrate, if you're all alone, the kids aren't yelling and you're hiding from your wife, kids, and enjoying me time."
It can't? I live in Canada, democracy was forced on us via the destruction of the privy council.
When I see it. I'll lay down harder money that we're entering a new solar minimum, SS counts are low, we've even had months with 0 sunspots in the last year and a half. I'll lay down that we're entering another phase on par with the dalton minimum.
Japan was a royal-democracy before WWII that's the thing. The old timers of that generation before the current are already dead, but they wrote the songs, stories, and told their tales about how living free even with a god-emperor was freer than the hyper-nationalist dictatorship run by the military.
Guess you missed most of the world shifting to democracy. Shifting to democracy wasn't love, hugs, and cookies. It was violent, unbelievably so. France slaughtered royalty and politicians alike. In the UK they were drawing magistrates in the streets. The US not only fought the British, but threw them out. India's shift was very violent as well, so was pakistan's. Israel's was the same. Oh lets not forget Argentina either.
People can be ready and want democracy. The shift to give people rights beyond what the government(royalty, or dictatorships), was violent everywhere. So yes, you can bring democracy by force. In fact, most of the democratic world was brought into existence by force. It's the erosion of democracy that's silent.
I mentioned this before, but companies fuck people over hard for sheet music. They even try when you write your own based on non-copyrighted work.
Fucking people over with 'sheet music' is the biggest pile of bullshit you'd ever believe. Here in Canadaland, our city orchestra's regularly get screwed over by it.
Hey what's a mere 10k-20k to allow performances? On songs that were made 250 years ago.
The real problem is most people writing exams have no clue how to write one. There are courses, back when I was taking a college course on law. I had 8 different instructors, all of them retired, or still currently serving cops who were the top in their field(drugs investigation, traffic law, criminal code, etc) and were and are subject experts in their field and still regularly testify. Out of those 8, 6 couldn't write an exam to save their life. You could memorize the material learned and passed well. The other two(traffic law, and criminal code including drug law), could write an exam that showed you knew how to understand the material.
Personally I believe that's the problem. Most exams show you can memorize the material, not understand it. It's the exams that show that you know how to take learned material and apply it to the world where you'll choke either cheaters, or people who don't understand out. And really that should be the purpose of exams anyway.
Actually there's 8k standard use symbols in both Chinese and Japanese. But don't worry your head over it, there's only a mere what? 22k 25k? That you need to know these days to be able to pass grade school.
The reality that daily kos is being used as a credible news source should be making everyone stop and go wtf are these idiots going on about. If you're using a source that's considered the lunatic fringe of the left, you have nothing to stand on.
Except there's 3 variations of chinese that are 'modern' and are used in typing. Which means that unless you know the particular usage(and it varies by region), and can pick out the pictographs that are different. You might have a problem understanding simplified, std. chinese, std. hang, or japanese.
Most translation software that's good does std. chinese, and simple. But can't tell the difference between either, or that you've just pasted in a sentence in japanese. At least korean is easy to figure out.
I'm sure it won't stop your bashing. But the bastion of Canadian politics(aka the Liberal Party), were the forerunners of this same style of legislation ... dun, dun, dun...in 2000.
Quiet man! You're speaking sense here, actual security? FOB's? What? You're insane!
I'd argue differently. I learned to write programs with 5k of memory(that'd be on the old vic20's), until I got an expansion cartridge for well more memory. You can get free vb compilers, you can even get visual C++ for free from microsoft, or if you prefer dev c++ and run it on 'nix.
Why? Seriously? If you're not going to bring back the whole point of an original magazine then why dump something on the market that's already covered by other publications. It would be like bringing back Commadore Compute, but without having the programs you could copy, edit, and modify for your own amusement. Argh.
But you know, I honestly think there could be a market for a revamp of things like that. Games/apps/etc, published either online or magazine, where you could show kids and get them involved in things like programming. Hell it worked for me.
The CRTC was meant to ensure that things were fair. This is also the same organization that states that 60% of your content must be Canadian, even if it's on an american station. If there wasn't this level of regulation, we would have had competitors years ago. Now all depending you may or maynot remember the 90's when the CRTC decided that bell's government monopoly was no longer legal, and forced the CRTC too force bell to open their circuts(paid with public money on loan), to competitors.
This meant that for the first time ever, Canadians across the country could have a telephone provider other than Bell. Regulation is what enabled bell in Canada to have 130 years of monopoly. It's also what is stifling the internet in Canada, by ensuring that caps are absurdly low. 60gb? A family of 4 can go through that in 3 weeks. A person watching Netflix can go through it in a weekend.
No I agree. The problem is getting government to create the proper legislation that's fair and just for all parties involved is damn near impossible right now because of special interest groups. Government as a whole has some serious problems that need to be fixed.
And even when the regulations are properly enforced, there's a good chance someone is going to screw you over. A regulation is just that, you mess up. You might get a fine, you might get a slap on the wrist. But the chances of the government coming along and baring you from doing service in an area? Nil. And I really don't want to get started on the courts, and their interpretations of regulations.
If you've been reading /. for the last year and half(which by your UID I'd say you have). You'd know what the CRTC is, what UBB is and why there's been so much shit written about it both in Canada and in the US. Actually it's not my problem if you haven't been paying attention to anything beyond your own special little world.
You can start by going here:
http://www.dslreports.com/
Then use the search function, I also suggest looking at the Cdn. broadband, Teksavvy forums.
See even living in Canada, I pay attention to what's going on in the US. And Europe, and Asia. Because the insular 'me' world, went bye-bye 10 years ago.
They only have influence if you watch it. And these days of the information age, the only people who watch TV the most are in the 40-60 bracket last time I looked. They are for all things a dying breed, most of the people here span two generations of information technology. We can remember the world without information being so easy to get, and we know how awesome it was when we could get it.
The current generation of kids(20 and under) have no idea what life was like beforehand. They'll be the ones driving the stake through the heart of the music/film/tv industries.
The real problem with government regulation is it can screw you in the face. Take Canada for example where the CRTC has decided that UBB is just fine, oh and we get to charge more. And you can only use 60gb/mo even if you're on another ISP. The SS Fail Train has set sail for the bottom of the Atlantic.
I always likened it to the place where all the douchebags of the internet liked to congregate. 4chan has it's moments, but even they have some semblance of class.
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