What about buying a 10$ USB 3-button mouse for the iMac? It's really not that difficult, and track pads, be they one, two or three button ones, annoy the hell out of me.
I'm old school: I want a CD containing the same thing I would have gotten if I'd bought it in the store, period. Alas, I can't think of any OEM that does this nowadays.
Which, IMHO, is why it's best to a) buy from a locally ownes, small business, or b) (preferable) to build your own. a) is just as good, if not better, an option for the beginner as is buying from one of the big guys.
..how the internet has turned into the point-and-click-and-drool equivalent of television. The main hubs were always that, though they started out as lower-bandwidth versions of what they are now. Basically, the intelligence level of the net at large has gone down, way down.
There remain, however pockets of hope... and I think that Katz discounts these a little too easily.
Acadaemit networks and some virtual worlds like muds and moos still exist that form a vital and ever-changing community. A lot of them are still free, too:-]
I think too of places like brunchma.com which are ever interesting and full of activity.
At the same time... I miss Salon's free days (though i do pay for it now). I miss the old FUCK list on attrition.org. I miss a lot of things.
But I'm not giving up on the net yet. It just has too much potential.
If you happened to live in Salem some 200+ years ago, you'd have been put to death for having been a wiccan, whether you were one or not.
more like you would have been put to death for being a midwife. i'm not entirely sure what the situation with midwives was in salem, but it was certainly the case with the witchhunts in europe that the people put to death were often either a) rich widows whose property people wanted, or b) midwives, who were seen as having way too much power over birth, someting the doctors of the time wanted to get in on.
i won't go into my whole anti-medicalised-birth rant (i'm going to study midwifery in university, evenually, and so i have a lot to say on the issue, but it will eventually get posted on my long un-updated website.
IANAL, but i think the royalties go to make up for people who burn music ilegally. that's how it is with audiocasettes; you have the right to make a fair use copy (ie a backup, or a copy for your car or to keep up at your cottage), but not to give it to a friend or whatever, and you're charged a bit (it's at least 20-30c/tape here in canada) to make up for the people who make non-fair-use copies.
with all the bad press Microsoft gets with anti-trust lawsuits, flawed security, etc
we like to think that they get lots of bad press... but really, your average local 6pm news, or your average city newspaper, doesn't give them that much coverage.
remember, slashdot takes a good chunk of the bad press from things like the NY times, the register etc. and puts it all in one place. but j. random luser does not read slashdot. he reads usa today or xyz smalltown paper, or in canada trash like the national post (gah. i detest that paper).
so despite what we, as readers of/. may see as a lot of M$ coverage, people don't normally see it in as concentrated a form as we do.
i'll confess to not knowing much about the whole dvd thing, but i'm planning on getting a laptop (an ibooks with combo cdrw/dvd perhaps) and plugging it into my tv, for when i go away to university. how does the whole region coding thing work for that?
Ahh the joys of digital video and having much time on your hands due to the suckiness of the Ontario high school system... i'm going to have an ~hour-long documentary on my friends and my experiences at the Summit of the Americas a-la "this is what democracy looks like"
tons o'fun.
it was made on about a 100$ budget (including tapes, transportation, and lodging in QC)..
i wonder what kind of resources it would take to actually make a movie, as opposed to a documentary, if it was all done on a volunteer basis...and fully digitally of course
i've been meaning to ask this for a while:
why is dsl soooooo much cheaper in canada than in
the us? i mean, i pay 40$cdn a month including modem for sympatico. it sucks, but so does a lot of dsl stateside. but i pay the equivalent of ~26$US for it.
yes it is. the psychological devastation and physical trauma it causes is well-documented (tho i'm too lazy to look it up:-]
>I'm not minimizing it, it's very bad.
by saying it's not that horrific a crime you are minimising it.
>but, getting stabbed , beat up, shot, whatever,
>those are all worse (which is why they are used
>as threats to coerce rape).
physically, perhaps, but certainly not emotionally. and rape can be just as physically damaging as any other type of violence. plus, do you think it's worse having reconstructive surgery on an arm or on you genatalia?
there's more:
> if you count child abuse as domestic violence,
>women perpetrate more domestic violence than men
>do.
according to the executive summary of the Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (american):
"Among children in single-parent households, those living with only their fathers were approximately one and two-thirds times more likely to be physically abused than those living with only their mothers."
url: http://www.calib.com/nccanch/pubs/statinfo/nis3.cf m
there are many different statistics on abuse rates, but overall, men make up more of the abuse.
as far as prison rape goes, i really don't know enought to deal with that issue, so i just won't.
i'd be interested in seeing where you saw this stat debunked. it's a fairly commonly quoted one, as you may know, and make a lot of sense if you think about it.
look at it this way: rape is acknowledged as an under-reported crime. it can happen through a good chunk of a woman's life. if you think about the number of people you know who've been mugged or gotten into a fight or whatever, and consider that over the entirety of a woman's life, she has a fairly good chance of having a crime committed against her, and that as a woman she's statistically more likely to be raped, the number 1 in 4 starts to make a lot of sense.
the most important thing to remember in this is how under-reported rape is. so few rapists are convicted, due to institutionalised discrimination (i think here of the case in italy where the woman was told she could not possible have been raped, as she must have helped the accused man get her tight jeans off) and the like, that it would be laughable were it not such a horrific crime.
sorry about the somewhat faulty logic, but i hope imade my point.
one could say he promoted it heavily, and that would be more truthful than saying he invented it. but he did certainly play an important part in its rise.
Gas-electric hybrids don't need any additional infrastructure. They use what exists, ie. gasoline, but in a far more efficient manner than traditional cars through things like regenerative braking and more efficient (but still powerful, think VTEC) engines.
I wonder how long it will be before this type of thing is econically viable.
A hybrid version of the Dodge Durango is only a $3000 tax credit away from costing the same as a normal-fuel Durango (see here)
Unfortunately I don't think that's the kind of thing Cheney (who is the one actually controlling things), with is interest in the oil industry, would let slip.
Not necessarily. I've read that vehicles run on biodiesel (see the National Biodiesel Board and the Veggie Van for more info) have exhaust that smell like french fries. I'd take a wild and crazy guess that this car's exhaust smell more like wet leaves than anything. But then again, I'm an optimist.
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the most productive tool available to them - makes sense to me, but then why are so many people still using windows and other microcrap?
wouldn't this encourage karma whoring to an excessive degree?
What about buying a 10$ USB 3-button mouse for the iMac? It's really not that difficult, and track pads, be they one, two or three button ones, annoy the hell out of me.
I'm old school: I want a CD containing the same thing I would have gotten if I'd bought it in the store, period. Alas, I can't think of any OEM that does this nowadays.
Which, IMHO, is why it's best to a) buy from a locally ownes, small business, or b) (preferable) to build your own. a) is just as good, if not better, an option for the beginner as is buying from one of the big guys.
..how the internet has turned into the point-and-click-and-drool equivalent of television. The main hubs were always that, though they started out as lower-bandwidth versions of what they are now. Basically, the intelligence level of the net at large has gone down, way down.
:-]
There remain, however pockets of hope... and I think that Katz discounts these a little too easily.
Acadaemit networks and some virtual worlds like muds and moos still exist that form a vital and ever-changing community. A lot of them are still free, too
I think too of places like brunchma.com which are ever interesting and full of activity.
At the same time... I miss Salon's free days (though i do pay for it now). I miss the old FUCK list on attrition.org. I miss a lot of things.
But I'm not giving up on the net yet. It just has too much potential.
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If you happened to live in Salem some 200+ years ago, you'd have been put to death for having been a wiccan, whether you were one or not.
more like you would have been put to death for being a midwife. i'm not entirely sure what the situation with midwives was in salem, but it was certainly the case with the witchhunts in europe that the people put to death were often either a) rich widows whose property people wanted, or b) midwives, who were seen as having way too much power over birth, someting the doctors of the time wanted to get in on.
i won't go into my whole anti-medicalised-birth rant (i'm going to study midwifery in university, evenually, and so i have a lot to say on the issue, but it will eventually get posted on my long un-updated website.
IANAL, but i think the royalties go to make up for people who burn music ilegally. that's how it is with audiocasettes; you have the right to make a fair use copy (ie a backup, or a copy for your car or to keep up at your cottage), but not to give it to a friend or whatever, and you're charged a bit (it's at least 20-30c/tape here in canada) to make up for the people who make non-fair-use copies.
then it'll probably be war on bin laden and afghanistan
See the article "A Love Song for Napster" on Discover.com.
we like to think that they get lots of bad press... but really, your average local 6pm news, or your average city newspaper, doesn't give them that much coverage.
remember, slashdot takes a good chunk of the bad press from things like the NY times, the register etc. and puts it all in one place. but j. random luser does not read slashdot. he reads usa today or xyz smalltown paper, or in canada trash like the national post (gah. i detest that paper).
so despite what we, as readers of /. may see as a lot of M$ coverage, people don't normally see it in as concentrated a form as we do.
well... lets see. canadian tv. we've got: the cbc, which i love....oh wait. i'm thinking cbc radio. cbc tv kinda sucks sometimes.
and global, which plays a lot of american shows.
and a bunch of american channels.
so, ya, as tv goes, we're pretty hard up.
then again, this is coming from someone who disdains tv and doesn't watch it much at all.
..or schrodinger's bonsai
...dvd players on computers?
i'll confess to not knowing much about the whole dvd thing, but i'm planning on getting a laptop (an ibooks with combo cdrw/dvd perhaps) and plugging it into my tv, for when i go away to university. how does the whole region coding thing work for that?
any links or replies would be appreciated
If this helps:
it's like Usted/Ustedes in Spanish.
Ahh the joys of digital video and having much time on your hands due to the suckiness of the Ontario high school system... i'm going to have an ~hour-long documentary on my friends and my experiences at the Summit of the Americas a-la "this is what democracy looks like"
tons o'fun.
it was made on about a 100$ budget (including tapes, transportation, and lodging in QC)..
i wonder what kind of resources it would take to actually make a movie, as opposed to a documentary, if it was all done on a volunteer basis...and fully digitally of course
argh i can't spell. mental resources exahausted due to writing SAT's this morning. wail=wait
...the "Linux is a cancer" comment that Ballmer made yesterday...oh wail, that wasn't satire...
i've been meaning to ask this for a while:
why is dsl soooooo much cheaper in canada than in
the us? i mean, i pay 40$cdn a month including modem for sympatico. it sucks, but so does a lot of dsl stateside. but i pay the equivalent of ~26$US for it.
why oh why?
thanks
>it's not actually that horrific a crime.
:-]
f m
yes it is. the psychological devastation and physical trauma it causes is well-documented (tho i'm too lazy to look it up
>I'm not minimizing it, it's very bad.
by saying it's not that horrific a crime you are minimising it.
>but, getting stabbed , beat up, shot, whatever,
>those are all worse (which is why they are used
>as threats to coerce rape).
physically, perhaps, but certainly not emotionally. and rape can be just as physically damaging as any other type of violence. plus, do you think it's worse having reconstructive surgery on an arm or on you genatalia?
there's more:
> if you count child abuse as domestic violence,
>women perpetrate more domestic violence than men
>do.
according to the executive summary of the Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (american):
"Among children in single-parent households, those living with only their fathers were approximately one and two-thirds times more likely to be physically abused than those living with only their mothers."
url: http://www.calib.com/nccanch/pubs/statinfo/nis3.c
there are many different statistics on abuse rates, but overall, men make up more of the abuse.
as far as prison rape goes, i really don't know enought to deal with that issue, so i just won't.
i'd be interested in seeing where you saw this stat debunked. it's a fairly commonly quoted one, as you may know, and make a lot of sense if you think about it.
look at it this way: rape is acknowledged as an under-reported crime. it can happen through a good chunk of a woman's life. if you think about the number of people you know who've been mugged or gotten into a fight or whatever, and consider that over the entirety of a woman's life, she has a fairly good chance of having a crime committed against her, and that as a woman she's statistically more likely to be raped, the number 1 in 4 starts to make a lot of sense.
the most important thing to remember in this is how under-reported rape is. so few rapists are convicted, due to institutionalised discrimination (i think here of the case in italy where the woman was told she could not possible have been raped, as she must have helped the accused man get her tight jeans off) and the like, that it would be laughable were it not such a horrific crime.
sorry about the somewhat faulty logic, but i hope imade my point.
one could say he promoted it heavily, and that would be more truthful than saying he invented it. but he did certainly play an important part in its rise.
Gas-electric hybrids don't need any additional infrastructure. They use what exists, ie. gasoline, but in a far more efficient manner than traditional cars through things like regenerative braking and more efficient (but still powerful, think VTEC) engines.
I wonder how long it will be before this type of thing is econically viable.
A hybrid version of the Dodge Durango is only a $3000 tax credit away from costing the same as a normal-fuel Durango (see here)
Unfortunately I don't think that's the kind of thing Cheney (who is the one actually controlling things), with is interest in the oil industry, would let slip.
That's got to be an awful smelling vehicle.
Not necessarily. I've read that vehicles run on biodiesel (see the National Biodiesel Board and the Veggie Van for more info) have exhaust that smell like french fries. I'd take a wild and crazy guess that this car's exhaust smell more like wet leaves than anything. But then again, I'm an optimist.
hrm...the babelfish doesn't translate well all the time does it....