Don't forget the minister whose department is actually negotiating these things:
Stockwell Day Minister of International Trade House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 Phone: 613.995.1702 Fax: 613.995.1154 Web: http://www.stockwellday.com/EN/4984/ Email: DayS@parl.gc.ca
Yeah I'm all for pushing power down to municipal and regional level governments, where that makes sense.
That's one thing I don't get about American health care though. How is it that no state has implemented universal care? Given that there will be clusters where people support the notion, I would have expected some states to have it by now.
Except that what gave the States its huge (but diminishing) lead in science and tech was encouraging immigration. Closing the border is only going to cause all the smart people to aggregate elsewhere.
Sometimes there can be systemic groupthink that somehow suppresses non-mainstream research. For example, in The Trouble with Physics, Lee Smolin writes about how for a while with fundamental physics it was either string theory or nothing. I'm not saying that's the case with climate research, I have no idea. But it appears that temporary systemic bias can affect the scope of discussion in a field, at least for a while.
If someone wants to request the tapes, they could prove interesting. Here's the access to information act form (pdf). Fill it out, include a $5 cheque, and sent it to the CBSA atip coordinator:
Paul Colpitts Access to Information and Privacy Coordinator 410 Laurier Avenue West, 11th Floor Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0L8 Telephone: 613-941-7431 Facsimile: 613-957-6408 ATIP-AIPRP@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca
There are serious problems with a setup that could require someone to work 24 hours straight. The quality of the work will drastically suffer compared to a system with much shorter work periods.
Looks like cities in Illinois are covered by the state's Freedom of Information Act. There's nothing stopping anyone from issuing a FOIA request to find out the details.
I feel like this race to the bottom would be helped if people came up with a widely accepted shorthand for "http://", which with j.mp domains is like 1/3 of the length of the url. Something like "@username" for urls. "//"?
That's a really good point. They could probably set up a structure to deal with it though. Create up a third company (say URL Inc) and transfer ownership of the domain to it. Give archive.org ownership of URL Inc but have them contract out operation perpetually to the url-shortening company (say bit.ly Inc). Put non-assumability language in the contract, so that a transfer of ownership of bit.ly Inc would terminate the agreement.
Hopefully bit.ly's commitment will force the other common players (tinyurl, tr.im, etc) to join as well. Bit.ly was the only main player on their list so far. A great next-step would be to get the twitter image sites (twitpic, img.ly, etc) on board as well.
Haha this is what I get for spouting barely-remember undergrad math. Thanks for the interesting conversation, I spent a couple hours looking at windowing functions and MDCTs and all that on Wikipedia. Cheers.
A power cage, olympic bar and some plates will likely cost the same as a year's membership at one of those gyms. With the cage, it's possible to do the big lifts in relative safety from the comfort of your own home. All you need is a basement or a garage.
There's some evidence out there that weight lifting and high-impact interval training will cause you to lose fat faster than just cardio type activity will. Take a look at these articles (Exercise+diet, HIIT).
44.1kHz sampling is enough to reproduce an 11kHz signal exactly, despite only sampling it four times per period. Read about the sampling theorem. Specifically: "If a function x(t) contains no frequencies higher than B hertz, it is completely determined by giving its ordinates at a series of points spaced 1/(2B) seconds apart."
Here is some support of Rogers benefiting from government subsidy of telecom in Canada, in the book Telecommunications in Canada. The gov't subsidized Canadian Pacific with cash and land, and CPR went on to offer telegraph services (57). A similar story happened with CN. A large stake in those networks was later purchased by Ted Rogers to use for voice communication (62).
Do you have a source for the claim that Bell Canada's network was paid for with gov't money? I hear it all the time but have never seen it justified. I'd love to have a credible source to use when I make the argument for further opening up the last mile.
Can't speak for the GP, but the AGPL is still a freedom based license. The fundamental purpose of the GPL is to enshrine the four freedoms, all of which are user freedoms. The AGPL simply recognizes that webapps were a loophole that people could use to deny users their (FSF) rights.
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Interesting! Thanks for the tip.
Don't forget the minister whose department is actually negotiating these things:
Stockwell Day
Minister of International Trade
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Phone: 613.995.1702
Fax: 613.995.1154
Web: http://www.stockwellday.com/EN/4984/
Email: DayS@parl.gc.ca
Yeah I'm all for pushing power down to municipal and regional level governments, where that makes sense.
That's one thing I don't get about American health care though. How is it that no state has implemented universal care? Given that there will be clusters where people support the notion, I would have expected some states to have it by now.
Except that what gave the States its huge (but diminishing) lead in science and tech was encouraging immigration. Closing the border is only going to cause all the smart people to aggregate elsewhere.
You could just have socialized support structures vest over time rather than reducing them entirely.
Sometimes there can be systemic groupthink that somehow suppresses non-mainstream research. For example, in The Trouble with Physics, Lee Smolin writes about how for a while with fundamental physics it was either string theory or nothing. I'm not saying that's the case with climate research, I have no idea. But it appears that temporary systemic bias can affect the scope of discussion in a field, at least for a while.
If someone wants to request the tapes, they could prove interesting. Here's the access to information act form (pdf). Fill it out, include a $5 cheque, and sent it to the CBSA atip coordinator:
Paul Colpitts
Access to Information and Privacy Coordinator
410 Laurier Avenue West, 11th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0L8
Telephone: 613-941-7431
Facsimile: 613-957-6408
ATIP-AIPRP@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca
There are serious problems with a setup that could require someone to work 24 hours straight. The quality of the work will drastically suffer compared to a system with much shorter work periods.
Looks like cities in Illinois are covered by the state's Freedom of Information Act. There's nothing stopping anyone from issuing a FOIA request to find out the details.
I feel like this race to the bottom would be helped if people came up with a widely accepted shorthand for "http://", which with j.mp domains is like 1/3 of the length of the url. Something like "@username" for urls. "//"?
bit.ly is huge on twitter. It has mostly replaced tinyurl there. It became the default url shortener for twitter earlier in the year.
That's a really good point. They could probably set up a structure to deal with it though. Create up a third company (say URL Inc) and transfer ownership of the domain to it. Give archive.org ownership of URL Inc but have them contract out operation perpetually to the url-shortening company (say bit.ly Inc). Put non-assumability language in the contract, so that a transfer of ownership of bit.ly Inc would terminate the agreement.
Hopefully bit.ly's commitment will force the other common players (tinyurl, tr.im, etc) to join as well. Bit.ly was the only main player on their list so far. A great next-step would be to get the twitter image sites (twitpic, img.ly, etc) on board as well.
s/impact/intensity/
Haha this is what I get for spouting barely-remember undergrad math. Thanks for the interesting conversation, I spent a couple hours looking at windowing functions and MDCTs and all that on Wikipedia. Cheers.
Haha that'll teach me for not reading to the bitter end.
Apple didn't create CUPS. They just recognized a good thing and got on board.
A power cage, olympic bar and some plates will likely cost the same as a year's membership at one of those gyms. With the cage, it's possible to do the big lifts in relative safety from the comfort of your own home. All you need is a basement or a garage.
There's some evidence out there that weight lifting and high-impact interval training will cause you to lose fat faster than just cardio type activity will. Take a look at these articles (Exercise+diet, HIIT).
44.1kHz sampling is enough to reproduce an 11kHz signal exactly, despite only sampling it four times per period. Read about the sampling theorem. Specifically: "If a function x(t) contains no frequencies higher than B hertz, it is completely determined by giving its ordinates at a series of points spaced 1/(2B) seconds apart."
Here is some support of Rogers benefiting from government subsidy of telecom in Canada, in the book Telecommunications in Canada. The gov't subsidized Canadian Pacific with cash and land, and CPR went on to offer telegraph services (57). A similar story happened with CN. A large stake in those networks was later purchased by Ted Rogers to use for voice communication (62).
Do you have a source for the claim that Bell Canada's network was paid for with gov't money? I hear it all the time but have never seen it justified. I'd love to have a credible source to use when I make the argument for further opening up the last mile.
Can't speak for the GP, but the AGPL is still a freedom based license. The fundamental purpose of the GPL is to enshrine the four freedoms, all of which are user freedoms. The AGPL simply recognizes that webapps were a loophole that people could use to deny users their (FSF) rights.
I love that book, but assigning Cryptonomicon in a high school class would be a jerk move. It's heavier than most of the students' laptops.
Except that the FSF and Stallman likely inspired that view in Red Hat.