And it allows children under 12 to be employed with the permission of the director. Under the current regime, permission will always be given. That is, in essence, child labour.
We're going to see a lot of "traditional" Christian families and Indo-Canadian families bringing their 8-year-old kids to work every day to do backbreaking fruit picking for ten hours a day, then bringing the kids home for homeschooling.
That Linux sells consoles is statistically insignificant. The number sold because Linux can run on them is so small as to not even be considered a rounding error.
The Soviets took Berlin. The US visited when it was over.
The outcome of the European war would have been the same without US involvement; it might have lasted two months longer.
The US supplied arms and war materiel to Germany before 1938; it has been suggested that US loans and grants to the rest of Europe after Germany was cut off were merely a counterbalance.
I used to be a quasi-management drone at the Victoria outlet of Chapters (the big book chain in Canada). For a while, I ran the fiction section, and wanted to divide up the SF/Fantasy section, separating the two genres. I was flatly refused at all levels, all the way to the top, even though the other big bookstores in town sectioned their SF and fantasy books separately.
In the years since I worked there, they've made the switch (the management change after the buyout by Indigo may have led to this).
Now I can ignore the fantasy books again at Chapters. Or I would, if I didn't get physically ill (Clockwork Orange-style) when I think about spending money at Chapters.
I've generally enjoyed Sawyer's work, but the two novels before Hominids, that is, Calculating God and Humans, were subpar SF. Luckily, his short story collection, Iterations, was excellent.
That said, my disappointment with Humans (and, granted, some of my disappointment stemmed from my inability to suspend disbelief about the anti-privacy worldview) helped me to decide not to pick up Hominids in hardcover. I'll read it in paperback, but in a year where Kiln People was eligible, Sawyer should not have won.
I read the article, and it really startled me. I live in BC and have an Easynews account, and I've been getting Sobig in the mail constantly for the last couple of weeks.
I never open those messages, natch, never use the preview pane, and have an active firewall, but I still had to check my Visa account to make sure.
I suspect that I'm not the only one who was scared by this, and that, in the final analysis, is a Good Thing.
It's kind of sweet, but I found There to be boring and pointles after a couple of weeks. There were only a limited number of things to see and do. There're only so many hoverboard trick contests you can go do beore you wonder what the point is. Vast areas of the world are undeveloped, so you spent endless minutes driving around nearly featureless plains and valleys.
The signpost system is abused heavily by users, so that other areas of the world have the scenic views disrupted by billboards.
Completed scavenger hunts are never removed from the field; many ties I completed a hunt only to get to the end of the hunt and to find the sign edited to say that it ended last week (they couldn't be bothered to edit *each* of the signs, or pull them from the world.)
The member-run trivia nights are a joke; public events where the prizes are given to friends fo the hosts. If you want to give Sally a ball, just give her the ball. Don't go through the rigamarole of running a music trivia event and picking Sally to answer the high-point questions regardless of when she raised her hand.
"But it's all about social interaction!" you may cry. No, real life is about social interaction. Games are about competing to have fun.
That's the only real disadvantage of a parliamentary system. You don't elect your leader directly, but at the same time, he does have to be elected into his own riding, as does his cabinet.
It's not like the US, where the president has carte blanche to name whomever he wants into cabinet positions.(*)
But consider that in the US, there's no effective way to choose who the president is, either. Just as Paul Martin is a shoo-in as next Liberal leader, Bush is a shoo-in as the next Republican candidate. Just as we can't choose (without paying to join he party) to vote for Shiela Copps as PM, Americans can't choose (without paying to join the party) to vote for some other Republican candidate for president.
Sure, one can write him in as a candidate, but that's so ineffective as to be a non-issue.
(*) Actually, the Prime Minister can put anybody in the country into a ministerial position, just as can any Premier of any province with their own cabinets. In practice, however, this is a really bad idea and has been done a scant half-dozen times in the last century. Premier Dosanjh did this during his term as BC Premier, placing the (unelected, non-MLA) Ed John into the role of Ministry of Children and Families. This has been considered widely to be one of the reasons behind the fall of the NDP government in BC.
Join the Liberal Party. Go to your local riding association. Elect a riding president who supports Copps. Send that delegate to the leadership convention.
A couple of hundred people per riding is all it takes.
"Inconstant Moon", from the more recent (90s) series. It starred Michael Gross and Joanna Gleason, and is considered one of the finest, if not *the* finest, episode of the series.
Copyright is automatic upon the creation of an original work. Simply because it is being distributed by broadcast does not mean that the work is in the public domain.
Copyright also does not prevent a work from being viewed, performed, used or cited in court; that is explicitly fair use.
Whether or not one makes a profit from redistribution does not eliminate the copyright.
How often? Manuel Noreiga comes to mind, but I'm sure it's happened since then.
The SCOTUS ruled a few years back that it was legal for the US to kidnap foreign nationals for trial in the US, even if the crime didn't occur in the US and even if the law wasn't broken in the suspect's country.
Is your severance package generous? That is, is it more than two weeks' pay? In any jurisdiction in Canada, you're entitled to two weeks' pay or two weeks' notice when being terminated without cause or laid off. They can't deny you that, end of story. Even if they go bankrupt, the principals of the company are personally responsible for two weeks' pay (if you don't get notice instead).
Now, IANAL.
If you sign away your right to sue, it's gone. You have entered into a binding contract; contract law in Canada is pretty straightforward. The questions become: is the severance package attractive enough? Will I regret signing away my ability to sue?
The third question is "do I want to burn my bridge?" If you refuse to sign, the odds increase that you won't get a good reference for future work, and tech work is harder and harder to find in Canada since the dot-bomb.
Were it me in your shoes and they were offering me (say) a month's pay, I'd sign, ask for a written reference, and start looking for work. Of course, I'd also bitch and moan about their ridiculous terms to anyone who'd listen, but that doesn't cost me anything.
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And it allows children under 12 to be employed with the permission of the director. Under the current regime, permission will always be given. That is, in essence, child labour.
We're going to see a lot of "traditional" Christian families and Indo-Canadian families bringing their 8-year-old kids to work every day to do backbreaking fruit picking for ten hours a day, then bringing the kids home for homeschooling.
The changes to the law are just plain wrong.
That Linux sells consoles is statistically insignificant. The number sold because Linux can run on them is so small as to not even be considered a rounding error.
He's not wrong, and you're only barely right.
As a guy who works at the BC Legislature: no. You're wrong.
The BC Liberal Party might well be to the right of every political party in power in the US. They just passed a law today making child labour legal.
My argument is iron-clad.
What alternative does he have? The same alternatives that have been brought up elsewhere: ignore it or use it as a marketing tool.
He got some money from at least one guy who posted his work to Usenet. That, by definition, is "some success".
He's draconian because of the means with which he is seeking redress.
I think he deserves to get paid. He's made a bundle from me. I've even bought his audio series, direct from him.
I own eight HE first editions.
He's being draconian. Full stop.
I doubt your sincerity as anything but a troll, troll.
Harlan Ellison is perhaps the most famous example of an author complaining about the copying of his work online.
He sued AOL, Remarq, and several individuals, and has met with some success, too.
Sadly, his RIAA-like draconian efforts have alienated a number of his fans, including myself.
The Soviets took Berlin. The US visited when it was over.
The outcome of the European war would have been the same without US involvement; it might have lasted two months longer.
The US supplied arms and war materiel to Germany before 1938; it has been suggested that US loans and grants to the rest of Europe after Germany was cut off were merely a counterbalance.
There is, interestingly, no levy currently applied to DVD-Rs.
I bought a DVD+-R burner and 50 2x DVD-Rs for about the same price as 300 CD-Rs. That means that, in essence, the burner was *free*.
The US history taught in public schools is not biased against the US; it is biased *towards* the US.
Any curriculum that would suggest that the US was the decisive force in Europe in WWII, for example, is propagandistic at best.
To balance the history curriculum, it would have to shift much more towards the 'negative'.
Screwed that up. Substitute Hominids for Humans and vice-versa, above.
I used to be a quasi-management drone at the Victoria outlet of Chapters (the big book chain in Canada). For a while, I ran the fiction section, and wanted to divide up the SF/Fantasy section, separating the two genres. I was flatly refused at all levels, all the way to the top, even though the other big bookstores in town sectioned their SF and fantasy books separately.
In the years since I worked there, they've made the switch (the management change after the buyout by Indigo may have led to this).
Now I can ignore the fantasy books again at Chapters. Or I would, if I didn't get physically ill (Clockwork Orange-style) when I think about spending money at Chapters.
I've generally enjoyed Sawyer's work, but the two novels before Hominids, that is, Calculating God and Humans, were subpar SF. Luckily, his short story collection, Iterations, was excellent.
That said, my disappointment with Humans (and, granted, some of my disappointment stemmed from my inability to suspend disbelief about the anti-privacy worldview) helped me to decide not to pick up Hominids in hardcover. I'll read it in paperback, but in a year where Kiln People was eligible, Sawyer should not have won.
And, yeah, I'm Canadian.
I read the article, and it really startled me. I live in BC and have an Easynews account, and I've been getting Sobig in the mail constantly for the last couple of weeks.
I never open those messages, natch, never use the preview pane, and have an active firewall, but I still had to check my Visa account to make sure.
I suspect that I'm not the only one who was scared by this, and that, in the final analysis, is a Good Thing.
It's kind of sweet, but I found There to be boring and pointles after a couple of weeks. There were only a limited number of things to see and do. There're only so many hoverboard trick contests you can go do beore you wonder what the point is. Vast areas of the world are undeveloped, so you spent endless minutes driving around nearly featureless plains and valleys.
The signpost system is abused heavily by users, so that other areas of the world have the scenic views disrupted by billboards.
Completed scavenger hunts are never removed from the field; many ties I completed a hunt only to get to the end of the hunt and to find the sign edited to say that it ended last week (they couldn't be bothered to edit *each* of the signs, or pull them from the world.)
The member-run trivia nights are a joke; public events where the prizes are given to friends fo the hosts. If you want to give Sally a ball, just give her the ball. Don't go through the rigamarole of running a music trivia event and picking Sally to answer the high-point questions regardless of when she raised her hand.
"But it's all about social interaction!" you may cry. No, real life is about social interaction. Games are about competing to have fun.
Now, see, I think the flag thing is a reason to support Copps.
Whereas I see Martin's love of moving money offshore to be a reason to keep him out of public office.
Different strokes, I suppose.
But at least the CA will never run the country. Ever. That's something to be thankful for.
That's the only real disadvantage of a parliamentary system. You don't elect your leader directly, but at the same time, he does have to be elected into his own riding, as does his cabinet.
It's not like the US, where the president has carte blanche to name whomever he wants into cabinet positions.(*)
But consider that in the US, there's no effective way to choose who the president is, either. Just as Paul Martin is a shoo-in as next Liberal leader, Bush is a shoo-in as the next Republican candidate. Just as we can't choose (without paying to join he party) to vote for Shiela Copps as PM, Americans can't choose (without paying to join the party) to vote for some other Republican candidate for president.
Sure, one can write him in as a candidate, but that's so ineffective as to be a non-issue.
(*) Actually, the Prime Minister can put anybody in the country into a ministerial position, just as can any Premier of any province with their own cabinets. In practice, however, this is a really bad idea and has been done a scant half-dozen times in the last century. Premier Dosanjh did this during his term as BC Premier, placing the (unelected, non-MLA) Ed John into the role of Ministry of Children and Families. This has been considered widely to be one of the reasons behind the fall of the NDP government in BC.
Join the Liberal Party. Go to your local riding association. Elect a riding president who supports Copps. Send that delegate to the leadership convention.
A couple of hundred people per riding is all it takes.
I love watching Americans get pissy when anyone suggests that any aspect of another country is superior to the American way.
Smells like...victory.
Amazon has no date. August was listed on the last solicitation from Bantam as posted in a large local bookstore.
Figures that there'll be another delay.
"A Feast for Crows" is expected to be released in August. For real, this time (there were several delays).
"Inconstant Moon", from the more recent (90s) series. It starred Michael Gross and Joanna Gleason, and is considered one of the finest, if not *the* finest, episode of the series.
Copyright is automatic upon the creation of an original work. Simply because it is being distributed by broadcast does not mean that the work is in the public domain.
Copyright also does not prevent a work from being viewed, performed, used or cited in court; that is explicitly fair use.
Whether or not one makes a profit from redistribution does not eliminate the copyright.
How often? Manuel Noreiga comes to mind, but I'm sure it's happened since then.
The SCOTUS ruled a few years back that it was legal for the US to kidnap foreign nationals for trial in the US, even if the crime didn't occur in the US and even if the law wasn't broken in the suspect's country.
Is your severance package generous? That is, is it more than two weeks' pay? In any jurisdiction in Canada, you're entitled to two weeks' pay or two weeks' notice when being terminated without cause or laid off. They can't deny you that, end of story. Even if they go bankrupt, the principals of the company are personally responsible for two weeks' pay (if you don't get notice instead).
Now, IANAL.
If you sign away your right to sue, it's gone. You have entered into a binding contract; contract law in Canada is pretty straightforward. The questions become: is the severance package attractive enough? Will I regret signing away my ability to sue?
The third question is "do I want to burn my bridge?" If you refuse to sign, the odds increase that you won't get a good reference for future work, and tech work is harder and harder to find in Canada since the dot-bomb.
Were it me in your shoes and they were offering me (say) a month's pay, I'd sign, ask for a written reference, and start looking for work. Of course, I'd also bitch and moan about their ridiculous terms to anyone who'd listen, but that doesn't cost me anything.