If Ford discovered a flaw in the axles of all GM cars that could lead to accidents, you are damn skippy they have a moral obligation to let everyone know.
"But he's no more a criminal than the PC maintenance guy that looks at data on a machine he or she is repairing. Or someone who reads the papers sitting out on someone elses desk. No theft, no intentional vandalism, just access to information he or she didn't have."
A better example would be someone who drives into an industrail park, opens a locked door using a credit card, rumages around in peoples filing cabinets, and photocopies some things he finds interesting and then leaves.
Although I admit going through unauthorized systems is a trip, it is still illegal.
First time seeing REAL Commericals in Canada
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Superbowl XXXVII
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I am Canadian, and what many Americans may not know is that in Canada WE DON'T GET THE COOL COMMERCIALS (yes it is the one time I am jealous of Americans) at the Super Bowl. In Canada, our TV stations simul-cast American TV, inserting _Canadian_ commericals where the American ones would be, so instead of the Matrix we usually get Tim Horton's, and thus it has been my whole life.
Until now.:D
I watched the game at my friend's house who has an HDTV. While watching the game in glorious HD, the ABC HD signal was NOT simul-cast so we got all the good commericals. Not only that but most of them were in HD - the Matrix trailer in HD was the sweetest thing I have ever seen.:D
Congrats, I just got married myself this past September. For my side of the wedding party (males) I got everyone a webcam. I thought it would be cool to let everyone keep in touch with each other, and the price was right: $C45.
Being a Canadian citizen I feel that we are within our rights to order a media ban on publication within this country. While it is obvious we can't enforce that ban on the Internet, we can easily ban foreign media from the courtroom if they flaunt our request to not print.
Having said that, I think the media ban in and of itself is not feasable. It is designed to avoid polluting the jury pool (something that may have been done by post-arrest police leaks in the beltway sniper case), but an information vacuum is filled with rumour. I remember being in first year university where some of my floormates were from the St. Catherines area (southern Ontario), who knew someone, who knew someone who was a cop who viewed the Bernardo tapes. The crap that people heard through the 'broken telephone' was a lot worse than what turned out to be the case (although the reality was god-awful in its own right). The jury pool for Bernardo was destroyed anyway by everyone nattering about rumours, so you have to ask if it was worth it.
$50 per vote, and the politician needs to verify each person's vote visually? Yeah that's a pretty convenient way to stuff the ballot box.;)
The problem you are talking about already exists - they are called absentee ballots. Heard anything about vote buying with them? Nope. You know why? Because if a politican was caught soliciting votes they would be arrested and their political career would be over.
Same thing with Union bosses who tried to force everyone to vote in the plant while Teamsters stood over them - they would all be arrested as soon as someone squeeled.
>Why the *^&% should I again shell out the big bux for a watch that I am eventually going to wind up smashing with a sledgehammer like I did the MessageWatch??
Late breaking news:
Seiko announced it was reversing its decision to leave the FM data business.;)
1. Netscape was always free, no matter what they claimed - show me someone who paid for it and I'll show you an idiot. 2. IE 2 sucked IMMENSELY 3. IE 3 was slightly better than netscape 3, but it didn't gain too much market share 4. IE 4 was a LOT better than netscape 4 (and in fact this is when most users such as myself switched. It was miles more stable, user friendly, and, embaressingly, standards-compliant)
Don't get me wrong I think MS is the devil, but they spent a BILLION dollars developing IE, and it sure as s**t shows.
The ability to extract stem cells from an adult body is old news, but the question is does this new source of cells have the polymorphic qualities of the their fetal bretheren?
A local electronics shop is selling them for PENNIES ($CDN!;) ) and they have BOXES of 'em.
Anyone else remember how unfun, and unlike the movie that game was? You would fall down a hole and just get stuck with that stupid flower - god I hated that game!!!
It may not be an allegory for for WWII or the fall of the British empire, but the fact that the book was written right after the war ended, and its author once lived in the British Raj must surely have influenced its content. No book is written in a vacuum.
The first pioneer from New York who wanted to settle California probably didn't make it all the way
They probably wouldn't have made it all the way because they would have been crossing an Internation boarder: Mexico owned/controlled California until the U.S. annexed it along with half of the rest of Mexico after their war.
"[Tecumseh is] one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things. If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would, perhaps, be the founder of an empire that would rival in glory that of Mexico or Peru."
After you mentioned the reservations in Arizona I looked up a map on the net and was actually shocked by the size of the reservations in Arizona: they are far larger than any place else in the US.
I think the population of the US is definately a factor in the treatment of Indians, but it was also because of expansionist tendencies of the US itself historically.
In the book I suggested there is a really sad passage quoting President Harrison (then Governor of Illinois Territory), where he talks of his impression of Tecumseh, the Indian leader hoping to unite all the Indian tribes and create an Indian country preceeding the was of 1812. Harrison says that Tecumseh is a great leader and one of the greatest orators of his time. He thinks he could have been the leader of a vast country such as Mexico (larger than the US then), but that he has the misfortune of being too close in proximty to the expanding United States.
That was a very astute and cogent message, you don't get that often here with passionate topics, thanks.:)
Obviously we will not change each others minds, but I would really like you to look into the statistics I mentioned, because they are true, your own government tallied them.
The gun issue is also not a matter of population density either. Toronto has a greater population density than Los Angeles, yet we have FAR less murders per capita. It is a CULTURE issue, and I think American's, on average, are more scared of their surroundings than Canadians.
I think it is clear we both are very happy that we live where we do. I just would like you to ponder why you feel you need to carry a gun, and why I don't.
You obviously didn't get the point about the lottery, what I meant was that humans were not designed to deal with statistics. I don't play the lottery either, not because they are a tax on the poor (they clearly are) but because I won't win. Same thing with owning a gun, you won't get shot by some maniac on a street corner either, so why buy a gun - you may think because it _MAY_ happen. I think your media has freaked you out by over-reporting violent crime over the past two decades so you over estimate the chances something will happen to you. Violent crime rates have gone down over the past two decades in the U.S., while reporting of them has gone up something like %300.
Your shots at Canada I will take as a joke, but if you honestly want an idea about our Country's population and economy, take the US, remove California, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Florida, Pensylvania, and Texas, what's left has a population and economy smaller than Canada's.
As for Indians not living in Canada and my apparent ignorance of this fact, you clearly missed my point (again), which was, unlike the Americans, Canadians didn't live in a constant state of FEAR of Indians. Indeed we tried very hard to come to live peacefully with them, and many of their tribes, e.g. Shawnee and Iroquois, were our allies against the Americans historically. Tecumseh was a leutenant in the British/Canadian army that successfully defended this country from the Americans in the war of 1812. You should read the Invasion of Canada by Pierre Burton - you may find it enlightening. While we haven't treated our Indians perfectly by any stretch (Louis Riel), we didn't systematically kill their leaders and take their land. We have also tried in recent history to own up to some of our past misgivings: the recently created northern Inuit territory of Nunavut is almost twice the size of texas. Can you even imagine Americans creating a state primarily for a native people?
2 people died because of a guy in a car shooting people as they drove by.
You think this justifies you carrying a gun.
A few questions:
You having a gun would have helped if you were in one of those cars how?
Do you play the lottery? Do you have any idea how small the odds are that someone will try to kill you with a gun?
Do you know how LARGE the odds are that the guy shooting those people stole his gun from someone just like you who has it legally?
--
I live in a city where ~60 people were murdered last year with a population of over 3 million (isn't it sad that we already know I'm not American). I have NEVER considered owning one. Most people who lvie here feel as I do according to polls. True, I come from a country that doesn't have a history of being scared all the time (Indians, Blacks and Terrorists oh-my), but we have very rational gun laws. It's called Canada, you should move up here with your family - you will be a lot more happy and free. Not free in the right to carry a gun sense, but free in the sense that you don't feel the need to.
Like any other foreign tissue you might want to integrate into your body, your immune system will fight to kill it (i.e. reject it). In order to stem this, you would be forced to take various anti-rejection meds which are notorious for having many unpleasant side-effects, even then rejection is still not guaranteed (can imagine having your body reject your FACE!?!?). Oh yeah and there is no going back if you change your mind, or if you get infected and lose the whole thing.
Sign me up!;)
This would be interesting however, if they were to use cloned fetal tissue created from your own body, in which case rejection is a non-issue and you could look 18 for the rest of your life.
What you are in fact seeing is a the president of a company that just got spanked for almost feeding genetically modified, drug-producing food to the general population (including infants) of the US getting promoted to a four-year term on a board that helps determine how ALL food is produced and the safety measures that should be in place. It also just so happens that the company is based in Texas, you know that state where the President, Vice President and the Majority Leader of the House are all from, contrary to the American Constitution?
Blackcomb and Whistler are both ski resorts in BC (Longhorn is a Saloon on the Whistler side). The reason these were chosen is because a lot of the Windows Design team go there from Seattle for ski trips.
An article is written that the Northwest Passage *MAY* open in the future, and already many of you are saying screw 'Canada we are going to use it without your permission because you don't have an adequate navy to enforce your rights there'. Some of you have even hinted at NUCLEAR retaliation if we do try to enforce our rights.
WTF is wrong with you people?
Why must Americans stick their finger in everyone's eyes? Is this honestly how your country feels about us and other countries' rights? Your arrogance astounds me.
I know I blew out more than my share back in the day, it would be a shame if you would have to ditch the whole SYSTEM because one of those crappy little plastic nubs that touch the sensors snapped (as they often did).
I won't even mention how many joysticks I blew out on my c64 playing Summer Games;)
Compare Balmer's talk with the new foreign policy Bush just gave congress.
With both you have a large seemingly unbeatable force with money to burn that believes it can outspend the competition to maintain a monopoly. This monopoly is widely loathed yet many people cherish the stability it brings. Meanwhile you have a DIY group of individuals who are trying to bring down said monopoly with ingenuity and far less funds.
Not that I think Linux hackers are terrorists IN ANY WAY, likewise I am not condoning terrorists either. I just find it interesting as a comparison.
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"operations in 19 states, including Canada"
;)
Um yeah, not to nit-pick, but Canada is a sovereign nation, larger than the US geographicaly, and a member of the G8. It not merely a U.S. state.
If Ford discovered a flaw in the axles of all GM cars that could lead to accidents, you are damn skippy they have a moral obligation to let everyone know.
"But he's no more a criminal than the PC maintenance guy that looks at data on a machine he or she is repairing. Or someone who reads the papers sitting out on someone elses desk. No theft, no intentional vandalism, just access to information he or she didn't have."
A better example would be someone who drives into an industrail park, opens a locked door using a credit card, rumages around in peoples filing cabinets, and photocopies some things he finds interesting and then leaves.
Although I admit going through unauthorized systems is a trip, it is still illegal.
I am Canadian, and what many Americans may not know is that in Canada WE DON'T GET THE COOL COMMERCIALS (yes it is the one time I am jealous of Americans) at the Super Bowl. In Canada, our TV stations simul-cast American TV, inserting _Canadian_ commericals where the American ones would be, so instead of the Matrix we usually get Tim Horton's, and thus it has been my whole life.
:D
:D
Until now.
I watched the game at my friend's house who has an HDTV. While watching the game in glorious HD, the ABC HD signal was NOT simul-cast so we got all the good commericals. Not only that but most of them were in HD - the Matrix trailer in HD was the sweetest thing I have ever seen.
I think I am ruined for life.
Congrats, I just got married myself this past September. For my side of the wedding party (males) I got everyone a webcam. I thought it would be cool to let everyone keep in touch with each other, and the price was right: $C45.
Being a Canadian citizen I feel that we are within our rights to order a media ban on publication within this country. While it is obvious we can't enforce that ban on the Internet, we can easily ban foreign media from the courtroom if they flaunt our request to not print.
Having said that, I think the media ban in and of itself is not feasable. It is designed to avoid polluting the jury pool (something that may have been done by post-arrest police leaks in the beltway sniper case), but an information vacuum is filled with rumour. I remember being in first year university where some of my floormates were from the St. Catherines area (southern Ontario), who knew someone, who knew someone who was a cop who viewed the Bernardo tapes. The crap that people heard through the 'broken telephone' was a lot worse than what turned out to be the case (although the reality was god-awful in its own right). The jury pool for Bernardo was destroyed anyway by everyone nattering about rumours, so you have to ask if it was worth it.
$50 per vote, and the politician needs to verify each person's vote visually? Yeah that's a pretty convenient way to stuff the ballot box. ;)
The problem you are talking about already exists - they are called absentee ballots. Heard anything about vote buying with them? Nope. You know why? Because if a politican was caught soliciting votes they would be arrested and their political career would be over.
Same thing with Union bosses who tried to force everyone to vote in the plant while Teamsters stood over them - they would all be arrested as soon as someone squeeled.
>Why the *^&% should I again shell out the big bux for a watch that I am eventually going to wind up smashing with a sledgehammer like I did the MessageWatch??
;)
Late breaking news:
Seiko announced it was reversing its decision to leave the FM data business.
I think this would be a better description
1. Netscape was always free, no matter what they claimed - show me someone who paid for it and I'll show you an idiot.
2. IE 2 sucked IMMENSELY
3. IE 3 was slightly better than netscape 3, but it didn't gain too much market share
4. IE 4 was a LOT better than netscape 4 (and in fact this is when most users such as myself switched. It was miles more stable, user friendly, and, embaressingly, standards-compliant)
Don't get me wrong I think MS is the devil, but they spent a BILLION dollars developing IE, and it sure as s**t shows.
The ability to extract stem cells from an adult body is old news, but the question is does this new source of cells have the polymorphic qualities of the their fetal bretheren?
If you ask me there is no competition:
;) ) and they have BOXES of 'em.
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the 2600
A local electronics shop is selling them for PENNIES ($CDN!
Anyone else remember how unfun, and unlike the movie that game was? You would fall down a hole and just get stuck with that stupid flower - god I hated that game!!!
It may not be an allegory for for WWII or the fall of the British empire, but the fact that the book was written right after the war ended, and its author once lived in the British Raj must surely have influenced its content. No book is written in a vacuum.
The first pioneer from New York who wanted to settle California probably didn't make it all the way
They probably wouldn't have made it all the way because they would have been crossing an Internation boarder: Mexico owned/controlled California until the U.S. annexed it along with half of the rest of Mexico after their war.
Here is the direct quote:
"[Tecumseh is] one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things. If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would, perhaps, be the founder of an empire that would rival in glory that of Mexico or Peru."
After you mentioned the reservations in Arizona I looked up a map on the net and was actually shocked by the size of the reservations in Arizona: they are far larger than any place else in the US.
I think the population of the US is definately a factor in the treatment of Indians, but it was also because of expansionist tendencies of the US itself historically.
In the book I suggested there is a really sad passage quoting President Harrison (then Governor of Illinois Territory), where he talks of his impression of Tecumseh, the Indian leader hoping to unite all the Indian tribes and create an Indian country preceeding the was of 1812. Harrison says that Tecumseh is a great leader and one of the greatest orators of his time. He thinks he could have been the leader of a vast country such as Mexico (larger than the US then), but that he has the misfortune of being too close in proximty to the expanding United States.
Stoolpidgeon,
:)
That was a very astute and cogent message, you don't get that often here with passionate topics, thanks.
Obviously we will not change each others minds, but I would really like you to look into the statistics I mentioned, because they are true, your own government tallied them.
The gun issue is also not a matter of population density either. Toronto has a greater population density than Los Angeles, yet we have FAR less murders per capita. It is a CULTURE issue, and I think American's, on average, are more scared of their surroundings than Canadians.
I think it is clear we both are very happy that we live where we do. I just would like you to ponder why you feel you need to carry a gun, and why I don't.
OK I need to address some of your responses:
You obviously didn't get the point about the lottery, what I meant was that humans were not designed to deal with statistics. I don't play the lottery either, not because they are a tax on the poor (they clearly are) but because I won't win. Same thing with owning a gun, you won't get shot by some maniac on a street corner either, so why buy a gun - you may think because it _MAY_ happen. I think your media has freaked you out by over-reporting violent crime over the past two decades so you over estimate the chances something will happen to you. Violent crime rates have gone down over the past two decades in the U.S., while reporting of them has gone up something like %300.
Your shots at Canada I will take as a joke, but if you honestly want an idea about our Country's population and economy, take the US, remove California, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Florida, Pensylvania, and Texas, what's left has a population and economy smaller than Canada's.
As for Indians not living in Canada and my apparent ignorance of this fact, you clearly missed my point (again), which was, unlike the Americans, Canadians didn't live in a constant state of FEAR of Indians. Indeed we tried very hard to come to live peacefully with them, and many of their tribes, e.g. Shawnee and Iroquois, were our allies against the Americans historically. Tecumseh was a leutenant in the British/Canadian army that successfully defended this country from the Americans in the war of 1812. You should read the Invasion of Canada by Pierre Burton - you may find it enlightening. While we haven't treated our Indians perfectly by any stretch (Louis Riel), we didn't systematically kill their leaders and take their land. We have also tried in recent history to own up to some of our past misgivings: the recently created northern Inuit territory of Nunavut is almost twice the size of texas. Can you even imagine Americans creating a state primarily for a native people?
2 people died because of a guy in a car shooting people as they drove by.
You think this justifies you carrying a gun.
A few questions:
You having a gun would have helped if you were in one of those cars how?
Do you play the lottery? Do you have any idea how small the odds are that someone will try to kill you with a gun?
Do you know how LARGE the odds are that the guy shooting those people stole his gun from someone just like you who has it legally?
--
I live in a city where ~60 people were murdered last year with a population of over 3 million (isn't it sad that we already know I'm not American). I have NEVER considered owning one. Most people who lvie here feel as I do according to polls. True, I come from a country that doesn't have a history of being scared all the time (Indians, Blacks and Terrorists oh-my), but we have very rational gun laws. It's called Canada, you should move up here with your family - you will be a lot more happy and free. Not free in the right to carry a gun sense, but free in the sense that you don't feel the need to.
Like any other foreign tissue you might want to integrate into your body, your immune system will fight to kill it (i.e. reject it). In order to stem this, you would be forced to take various anti-rejection meds which are notorious for having many unpleasant side-effects, even then rejection is still not guaranteed (can imagine having your body reject your FACE!?!?). Oh yeah and there is no going back if you change your mind, or if you get infected and lose the whole thing.
;)
Sign me up!
This would be interesting however, if they were to use cloned fetal tissue created from your own body, in which case rejection is a non-issue and you could look 18 for the rest of your life.
What you are in fact seeing is a the president of a company that just got spanked for almost feeding genetically modified, drug-producing food to the general population (including infants) of the US getting promoted to a four-year term on a board that helps determine how ALL food is produced and the safety measures that should be in place. It also just so happens that the company is based in Texas, you know that state where the President, Vice President and the Majority Leader of the House are all from, contrary to the American Constitution?
Blackcomb and Whistler are both ski resorts in BC (Longhorn is a Saloon on the Whistler side). The reason these were chosen is because a lot of the Windows Design team go there from Seattle for ski trips.
An article is written that the Northwest Passage *MAY* open in the future, and already many of you are saying screw 'Canada we are going to use it without your permission because you don't have an adequate navy to enforce your rights there'. Some of you have even hinted at NUCLEAR retaliation if we do try to enforce our rights.
WTF is wrong with you people?
Why must Americans stick their finger in everyone's eyes? Is this honestly how your country feels about us and other countries' rights? Your arrogance astounds me.
I know I blew out more than my share back in the day, it would be a shame if you would have to ditch the whole SYSTEM because one of those crappy little plastic nubs that touch the sensors snapped (as they often did).
;)
I won't even mention how many joysticks I blew out on my c64 playing Summer Games
Compare Balmer's talk with the new foreign policy Bush just gave congress.
With both you have a large seemingly unbeatable force with money to burn that believes it can outspend the competition to maintain a monopoly. This monopoly is widely loathed yet many people cherish the stability it brings. Meanwhile you have a DIY group of individuals who are trying to bring down said monopoly with ingenuity and far less funds.
Not that I think Linux hackers are terrorists IN ANY WAY, likewise I am not condoning terrorists either. I just find it interesting as a comparison.
Thoughts?
Don't give me any credit on the correct spelling:
I spell checked before posting and the checker changed mannerisms into aneurisms. Whoops.
-Shieldwolf