Maybe nobody had done any maintenance on it because it didn't need any. From the sounds of it everyone here found it to be working fine so there doesn't seem to be much need for the code to have been touched.
Seems like we need someone to go in and to small insignificant changes to the parts of Firefox that we want to keep as is.
The issue is that they removed a feature that stopped cookies from being installed and suggested using an add-on which removes the cookies after you leave the site or close the application. There is quite a difference in behaviour. In the latter case the cookies can still be used to track the user.
It's hydroelectric power and probably old dams that have already been paid off. There's no fuel costs. So far that area still has pretty good water levels so they haven't need to build out a lot of backup power sources. Their biggest expenses are maintaining the grid, expanding it to new areas, upgrading capacity, and payroll.
They didn't land, they used the all new Acme electronic coin toss simulation booth. With all of the trouble and insecurity of real coins Acme is proud to produce it's new product that will ensure a fair decision every time with the latest security measures* to make sure nobody interferes with the result.
* - Source code and testing units are NOT available.
Single passenger row. So if you are going with someone you can't talk to them during the trip. Or a parent can't sit with their child. Image a young brat misbehaving for the trip and the parent isn't beside them to get them to stop. And what are you supposed to do with someone who is afraid to travel that way? Strap them in and leave them alone?
I know the selling point is the speed of the trip but, for example, if business people can't make use of the time while on there then it becomes less useful for them.
In Canada putting a blank ballot in the box would be spoiling a ballot, same as marking it incorrectly or all of the candidates. When you decline to vote they put the ballot away separately and fill out a form stating that someone declined to vote. This way they know that exactly how many people declined to vote.
There already is a "none of the above" option for the federal Canadian and provincial, at least in Ontario, elections. After they check your name off the register and go you hand you the ballot you decline (or abstain). This gets counted separately from ballots that are spoiled. I haven't looked up what happens if many people decline to vote because not many know about it so type spoil ballots or vote for the best of the worst. Or you get idiots pulling stunts like this.
I know that in my city you can also decline your ballot. You should also be able to do that in all of the other cities in Ontario since that is where the law is made for voting in municipal elections.
Getting new teachers. That's funny. All they are going to do is get the existing teachers to take a course during the summer if they choose to take it and then have them teach the courses no matter what. In high school my computer science course was taught by the math teacher.
It's probably more the insurance cost and the threat of lawsuits that is keeping out the classes rather than the cost of setup and materials. God forbid if little Johnny or Mary gets burnt.
It's not a matter of money on whether or not to fix JWST (or even to repair the Hubble). We don't have the technology to any repairs. If the James Webb goes up an doesn't work then we can't go up there and fix it. We would have to create a new method to transport people, have them live for a mission, and provide a lock in order to transfer in and out of space. We are a long way from that.
If anything happens to it then it's gone. We have no way to get to it to fix the telescope. Heck we can't even get to Hubble to fix that even if we wanted to.
And you only hear of the few extreme cases. The wait times for the ER are long in Canada because too many people go there for things that they should be going to a clinic for and so they wait. And the Ontario government isn't helping things with this. My family doctor is part of a clinic and if I don't go to that clinic or the ER then my doctor gets a penalty. So if I have a bad cold that I'm worried that may be turning into bronchitis and the clinic doesn't have any openings today or isn't running their walk-in that day I'm supposed to go to the ER. It's not an emergency. It's something that I want to prevent from becoming one and the proper place for me to go is a clinic. The few times that I've had to go to the ER I've been seen within a short period of time.
I have heard about people that have had to wait in corridors and it's terrible. But it's caused due to a lack of beds in other wards in the hospital. Part of that problem is that there are too many patients in there that should be in long term care facilities.
They have regular periods of maintenance and when you inspect the cables if you see the labels are becoming worn then you replace them. You don't need to have labels that last 50 years. You just need to do your maintenance properly.
People don't watch NASCAR to see cars go round in a circle a few hundred times. They go to see the crashes. It's the adrenaline from the potential of an accident by having so many cars going together so closely at such high speeds that attracts people. And because the drivers are in the car and in danger the attraction is even greater. There's no way racing drones is going to recreate that when it's just a chunk of plastic on the line.
Or the city could just buy the system for the police and collect the money for themselves without giving all of the information to a private company. The unpaid fine information is given to the company and for matches to be made so must the data from the cameras.
It doesn't say that the fines are not collectible. You could be a day late paying the fine and be hit by this system.
Good idea. I was thinking that around the 7 hour mark of the movie where they guy from the CBC Vinyl Cafe do a slow monologue about the chemistry of paint drying. And about half-way through that have Brian Blessed take over for a sentence or two.
and they made me teach creationism I'd teach about the creation story from the Native Americans or some other culture. ("Oh, you meant the Christian creation story!, Silly me.") Or I'd spend a class going over the creation fables of a large number of cultures. You can make me tell it to them but I'm going to put it in the proper context.
Reagen and Thatcher pretty much showed that it doesn't work because the economy doesn't grow fast enough to pay for the tax decrease. Plus the benefits don't reach down to all levels of society so it just creates greater inequality.
I knew that there was another province in Central Canada but couldn't remember which one it was.
Personally I think we would be better off building our own transmission grid across Canada so that the provinces can sell electricity to one another. Ontario could save a lot of money by not building new nuclear plants (or wind or solar) if they built a few transmission lines to Quebec and bought power from them. The latest numbers were something like $26B for the bids when they recently wanted to build a couple of new reactors and estimates of a couple of billion for the transmission line(s). I'm sure that Alberta could use the power from Manitoba or BC to close their coal plants.
If you are rebuilding the transmission network then you can place new lines where they will be best suited for new technologies such as solar, wind, and geothermal. The current grid is built to get electricity from the places that are good for the existing technologies to be located. Mostly these are where large amounts of water are located. Either for hydroelectric dams or for cooling (required for both nuclear and coal fired plants).
However reducing carbon emissions (not energy loss) can also be brought about by removing the zones that exist in the US electric grid to make it easier to sell electricity from one area to another. I believe that Texas has an isolated electrical grid. If a new transmission network was created then when Texas had excess electricity from wind turbines (which have already been installed) then it could easily sell it to another state which could prevent them from burning fossil fuels to meet their needs. The Pacific Northwest has abundant hydroelectric power which could be sold to a greater number of states which would offset using fossil fuels.
Also because Canada is connected into the network we would have more opportunities to sell power. Quebec sells a lot of electricity generated at their dams and Ontario has times when their nuclear plants are producing more than the province requires. BC is also a big hydroelectric producer and could sell into the US. Currently they are limited in the number of states that they can sell because of how the transmission network in the US works.
It's not unsolicited advertising. It's an email from a friend that you don't give a shit about. Before Amazon provided an easy way for them to send the news of their recent order then they would have gone to their email client and sent you an email from there. You wouldn't have called that spam.
Yes, but it isn't some asshole in marketing sending you the message. It is someone who knows you and has bought something. They then have to actively choose to put your email into a form (or maybe it can connect to your address book, I don't know I never used the stupid thing).
Do I like it? Not at all. But I don't think it's spam. Amazon isn't going through your contacts and saying that you bought X without your knowledge. Or it's not firing off emails to random people saying a person with a purchase history like yours just bought X. That would be spam (unless they opted in).
If I had the inclination I could send an email to my friends saying that I bought X from Amazon using my email client. Amazon is making it easy for me. I never understood why people would want to share when they order something. It's when you get something or when it's set up and running that's exciting to me.
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Maybe nobody had done any maintenance on it because it didn't need any. From the sounds of it everyone here found it to be working fine so there doesn't seem to be much need for the code to have been touched.
Seems like we need someone to go in and to small insignificant changes to the parts of Firefox that we want to keep as is.
The issue is that they removed a feature that stopped cookies from being installed and suggested using an add-on which removes the cookies after you leave the site or close the application. There is quite a difference in behaviour. In the latter case the cookies can still be used to track the user.
It's hydroelectric power and probably old dams that have already been paid off. There's no fuel costs. So far that area still has pretty good water levels so they haven't need to build out a lot of backup power sources. Their biggest expenses are maintaining the grid, expanding it to new areas, upgrading capacity, and payroll.
They didn't land, they used the all new Acme electronic coin toss simulation booth. With all of the trouble and insecurity of real coins Acme is proud to produce it's new product that will ensure a fair decision every time with the latest security measures* to make sure nobody interferes with the result.
* - Source code and testing units are NOT available.
Single passenger row. So if you are going with someone you can't talk to them during the trip. Or a parent can't sit with their child. Image a young brat misbehaving for the trip and the parent isn't beside them to get them to stop. And what are you supposed to do with someone who is afraid to travel that way? Strap them in and leave them alone?
I know the selling point is the speed of the trip but, for example, if business people can't make use of the time while on there then it becomes less useful for them.
In Canada putting a blank ballot in the box would be spoiling a ballot, same as marking it incorrectly or all of the candidates. When you decline to vote they put the ballot away separately and fill out a form stating that someone declined to vote. This way they know that exactly how many people declined to vote.
There already is a "none of the above" option for the federal Canadian and provincial, at least in Ontario, elections. After they check your name off the register and go you hand you the ballot you decline (or abstain). This gets counted separately from ballots that are spoiled. I haven't looked up what happens if many people decline to vote because not many know about it so type spoil ballots or vote for the best of the worst. Or you get idiots pulling stunts like this.
I know that in my city you can also decline your ballot. You should also be able to do that in all of the other cities in Ontario since that is where the law is made for voting in municipal elections.
Getting new teachers. That's funny. All they are going to do is get the existing teachers to take a course during the summer if they choose to take it and then have them teach the courses no matter what. In high school my computer science course was taught by the math teacher.
It's probably more the insurance cost and the threat of lawsuits that is keeping out the classes rather than the cost of setup and materials. God forbid if little Johnny or Mary gets burnt.
It's not a matter of money on whether or not to fix JWST (or even to repair the Hubble). We don't have the technology to any repairs. If the James Webb goes up an doesn't work then we can't go up there and fix it. We would have to create a new method to transport people, have them live for a mission, and provide a lock in order to transfer in and out of space. We are a long way from that.
Don't have to worry about birds being killed either so the conservationists won't complain.
If anything happens to it then it's gone. We have no way to get to it to fix the telescope. Heck we can't even get to Hubble to fix that even if we wanted to.
And you only hear of the few extreme cases. The wait times for the ER are long in Canada because too many people go there for things that they should be going to a clinic for and so they wait. And the Ontario government isn't helping things with this. My family doctor is part of a clinic and if I don't go to that clinic or the ER then my doctor gets a penalty. So if I have a bad cold that I'm worried that may be turning into bronchitis and the clinic doesn't have any openings today or isn't running their walk-in that day I'm supposed to go to the ER. It's not an emergency. It's something that I want to prevent from becoming one and the proper place for me to go is a clinic. The few times that I've had to go to the ER I've been seen within a short period of time.
I have heard about people that have had to wait in corridors and it's terrible. But it's caused due to a lack of beds in other wards in the hospital. Part of that problem is that there are too many patients in there that should be in long term care facilities.
They have regular periods of maintenance and when you inspect the cables if you see the labels are becoming worn then you replace them. You don't need to have labels that last 50 years. You just need to do your maintenance properly.
People don't watch NASCAR to see cars go round in a circle a few hundred times. They go to see the crashes. It's the adrenaline from the potential of an accident by having so many cars going together so closely at such high speeds that attracts people. And because the drivers are in the car and in danger the attraction is even greater. There's no way racing drones is going to recreate that when it's just a chunk of plastic on the line.
Or the city could just buy the system for the police and collect the money for themselves without giving all of the information to a private company. The unpaid fine information is given to the company and for matches to be made so must the data from the cameras.
It doesn't say that the fines are not collectible. You could be a day late paying the fine and be hit by this system.
What if it turns out that the paint is really aliens from the future???
Shhh! That's going to be Moffat's big finale for Doctor Who.
Good idea. I was thinking that around the 7 hour mark of the movie where they guy from the CBC Vinyl Cafe do a slow monologue about the chemistry of paint drying. And about half-way through that have Brian Blessed take over for a sentence or two.
and they made me teach creationism I'd teach about the creation story from the Native Americans or some other culture. ("Oh, you meant the Christian creation story!, Silly me.") Or I'd spend a class going over the creation fables of a large number of cultures. You can make me tell it to them but I'm going to put it in the proper context.
Find something unknown, call it dark, and apply for funding.
Reagen and Thatcher pretty much showed that it doesn't work because the economy doesn't grow fast enough to pay for the tax decrease. Plus the benefits don't reach down to all levels of society so it just creates greater inequality.
I knew that there was another province in Central Canada but couldn't remember which one it was.
Personally I think we would be better off building our own transmission grid across Canada so that the provinces can sell electricity to one another. Ontario could save a lot of money by not building new nuclear plants (or wind or solar) if they built a few transmission lines to Quebec and bought power from them. The latest numbers were something like $26B for the bids when they recently wanted to build a couple of new reactors and estimates of a couple of billion for the transmission line(s). I'm sure that Alberta could use the power from Manitoba or BC to close their coal plants.
If you are rebuilding the transmission network then you can place new lines where they will be best suited for new technologies such as solar, wind, and geothermal. The current grid is built to get electricity from the places that are good for the existing technologies to be located. Mostly these are where large amounts of water are located. Either for hydroelectric dams or for cooling (required for both nuclear and coal fired plants).
However reducing carbon emissions (not energy loss) can also be brought about by removing the zones that exist in the US electric grid to make it easier to sell electricity from one area to another. I believe that Texas has an isolated electrical grid. If a new transmission network was created then when Texas had excess electricity from wind turbines (which have already been installed) then it could easily sell it to another state which could prevent them from burning fossil fuels to meet their needs. The Pacific Northwest has abundant hydroelectric power which could be sold to a greater number of states which would offset using fossil fuels.
Also because Canada is connected into the network we would have more opportunities to sell power. Quebec sells a lot of electricity generated at their dams and Ontario has times when their nuclear plants are producing more than the province requires. BC is also a big hydroelectric producer and could sell into the US. Currently they are limited in the number of states that they can sell because of how the transmission network in the US works.
It's not unsolicited advertising. It's an email from a friend that you don't give a shit about. Before Amazon provided an easy way for them to send the news of their recent order then they would have gone to their email client and sent you an email from there. You wouldn't have called that spam.
Yes, but it isn't some asshole in marketing sending you the message. It is someone who knows you and has bought something. They then have to actively choose to put your email into a form (or maybe it can connect to your address book, I don't know I never used the stupid thing).
Do I like it? Not at all. But I don't think it's spam. Amazon isn't going through your contacts and saying that you bought X without your knowledge. Or it's not firing off emails to random people saying a person with a purchase history like yours just bought X. That would be spam (unless they opted in).
If I had the inclination I could send an email to my friends saying that I bought X from Amazon using my email client. Amazon is making it easy for me. I never understood why people would want to share when they order something. It's when you get something or when it's set up and running that's exciting to me.