I'd link you directly to the blog post by Michael Geist on this issue, but his blog site appears to be down right now. Here's the rss feed through livejournal:
A couple of excerpts of his analysis/summary that will interest you:
"traffic management that degrades or prefers one application over another may warrant investigation under section 27(2) of the Act."
"Even for non-sensitive traffic, the CRTC has ruled that it is possible to slow down to an extent that it amounts to blocking or controlling the content, therefore requiring prior approval."
Hold on, you're complaining about obesity when people are still dying of cancer? I insist that everyone in the world stop trying to solve every problem except for cancer! And, since I like boobies so much, I insist that the only type of cancer that people be allowed to attempt to cure be breast cancer. Once we've got breast cancer solved (which surely won't take very long, with every scientist in the world working on it), we can move on to prostate cancer.
Eventually, we'll get all cancers cured, and then we can talk about solving the obesity epidemic.
I agree with you, though. Nobody should bother trying to help people with anorexia until every other malady known to man is stamped out of existence.
Seriously, put up or shut up. If there really is a law in your city prohibiting cyclists from using a road, I need to know. I ride a bicycle, and everywhere that I know of, it is legal to ride said bike on the road (with the exception of controlled-access freeways).
Please tell me the name of your city, so I can avoid it like the plague.
You don't even need to name your city. Post the text of the by-law that states that bicycles are prohibited from using roads.
In Ontario, it is an offense under the highway traffic act to open your door in a manner to obstruct moving vehicles on the road. And a bicycle is classified as a vehicle on the road.
This decision states that, in this particular instance, with the evidence in his disposal, the administrator's decision to strip-search the student was unreasonable, and thus unconstitutional. That is all. It does not prevent strip-searching future students should more compelling evidence be found.
Agreed. Once acceleration is no longer 9.8m/s^2 due to wind resistance, you feel the force of gravity. Once you've reached terminal velocity, your inner ear can't tell the difference between falling from an airplane and standing on the ground.
Okay. Step back. Embryonic stem cells are harvested from blastocytes that are 4-5 days post-fertilization. At that point, they are only 100-150 cells.
Do you know how big 150 human cells is? Typical cell size is about 10um. In a bundle, that group of 150 cells is probably about 60um across.
Do you know what the volume of the average menstrual flow is? 30ml. Let's say you did manage to abort 4 days after fertilization, and wanted to collect that embryo. Guess what? You'd be looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack. The odds of finding that blastocyst are so small as to approach zero.
Embryonic stem cells are collected from blastocysts created by in vitro (translation - in glass) fertilization. Fertile eggs and sperm are harvested, them mixed in the lab. The fertilized eggs are allowed to grow into embryos, then the stem cells are harvested. Minus the harvesting stage, this is exactly what is done for in-vitro fertility treatments.
Abortions are not a viable way of collecting embryonic stem cells.
Ah, I see. Sadly, it's not the icy roads that stop me, but the salt on the roads. I don't have a "winter beater" bike, and I'm unwilling to replace all of the components on my bike once a year because of corrosion and rust.
Were it just traction holding me back, I'd be the first one buying studded tires and warmer clothes.
Those are bicycle tires. Last year, I put 3,000km on my bike. You don't get much more than that out of bike tires without greatly increasing your risk of flats.
Proximity to transit was a conscious prerequisite when we bought our house. We're a 7 minute walk from the main bus line in the town. A six minute walk from the grocery store. A twenty minute walk to downtown, or a twenty-five minute drunken stumble home.
I can get to work by bus without transferring, in about 45 minutes. I usually nap, and haven't missed my stop yet.
One of my co-workers bikes to work in the summer, and runs in the winter. Once every week or so, he has to drive to take a supply of clothes, but otherwise, he's running for 2+ hours a day.
I live 6.5km from work, and bike it both ways as soon as the snow is melted. I probably spend $200/yr on bike maintenance (tires, brake pads, toys and accessories), and $50/mo for four months to take the bus through the winter.
We have no car. It costs $50 to rent an economy car for a three-day weekend, which we might do a dozen times throughout the year.
I get 40 minutes of cardio per day, so I don't need a gym membership. I shower at work so my gas and water bills are lower.
My wife buys a bus pass every month.
Our total commuting bills are (calculates) roughly $1600/year (not counting gas for the car rentals).
No, you don't need to do anything to a fetus. By the time you've got a fetus, there's no embryonic stem cells left.
And yes, there are currently hundreds of embryos being flushed down the toilet during fertility treatments, because way more are created than are necessary.
It's also interesting to note that somewhere in the neighbourhood of 75% of naturally created viable embryos do not implant in the uterine wall, and are flushed out of the female body. Nobody laments those.
Unless the police forced the accused to download the material, it's not entrapment. Entrapment has a very precise legal definition. Again, not knowing what they did to obtain the information that the specified IP was downloading kiddie-porn, I cannot comment on the appropriateness of it.
However, were it actually a honeypot, I highly doubt that it contains actual child pornography. More likely, it contains a set of files with names like 12_y_o_girl_rape.mov, that are actually copies of Kittens, Inspired by Kittens. The police aren't entirely stupid.
I think a more apt analogy would be a telephone number. If the police were able to determine that a call made from a certain telephone number was illegal, then looking in the phone book to associate that telephone number with a name and address would be appropriate, and not require a warrant.
My concern here is what the cops did to determine that a particular IP was downloading kiddie-porn. Did they set up a honeypot and catch flies? Or did they snoop on the communication between two parties not related to the police? If the first case, then I have no problem with the ruling. If the second case, well, I have no problem with the ruling, but I equate that to wire-tapping of a phone, and the cops better have had a warrant for that activity.
Can you apply the same solution to writing novels? Or are you aware of novelist tours, where people pay money to sit in a crowded, dirty theatre and be read to by the author?
There is a place for copyright in this world. I'm not saying that the current implementation is correct, but abolishing it altogether is not the answer.
Remember, copyright applies to more than just music, movies and computer code.
The Fourth Amendment restricts the Government's ability to perform unreasonable search and seizure. It could be argued that CCTV's controlled by the Government (or any of it's agencies) is a violation of the spirit of that amendment.
The fourth amendment, however, does not apply to private persons. It is perfectly acceptable for me to open a club where everyone must be searched prior to entry, so long as each patron is informed of this beforehand, and consents. Same way that stores posting "no guns" signs are not in violation of the second amendment.
How does having a space station at one of the Lagrange points make access to space cheaper? Unless we can find some method other than chemical propellents to get stuff into orbit, the access cost is pretty much unchanged.
As a meat-eater, please let me point out one other argument that I respect:
It is possible to sustain yourself on vegetables with less total environmental impact than eating meat. You'll probably want a citation for that, but I'm too ADD to provide you with one. Something to do with the number of hectares to support a cow, vs. the number of people you could feed with soy from the same sized plot.
And that doesn't even take into account the cow-burps adding to the greenhouse effect.
There are well-known and well-documented health risks associated with consuming your own kind. It increases disease transmission by an order of magnitude. I'm not allowed to give blood because there is some risk that I have vCJD, because I ate a cow that ate another cow.
However, I would be perfectly comfortable with eating lab-grown, guaranteed safe human flesh, a la test tube beef (where they grow the tissue only using a cloning-like process).
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I'd link you directly to the blog post by Michael Geist on this issue, but his blog site appears to be down right now. Here's the rss feed through livejournal:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/michaelgeistrss/505360.html
A couple of excerpts of his analysis/summary that will interest you:
"traffic management that degrades or prefers one application over another may warrant investigation under section 27(2) of the Act."
"Even for non-sensitive traffic, the CRTC has ruled that it is possible to slow down to an extent that it amounts to blocking or controlling the content, therefore requiring prior approval."
Hold on, you're complaining about obesity when people are still dying of cancer? I insist that everyone in the world stop trying to solve every problem except for cancer! And, since I like boobies so much, I insist that the only type of cancer that people be allowed to attempt to cure be breast cancer. Once we've got breast cancer solved (which surely won't take very long, with every scientist in the world working on it), we can move on to prostate cancer.
Eventually, we'll get all cancers cured, and then we can talk about solving the obesity epidemic.
I agree with you, though. Nobody should bother trying to help people with anorexia until every other malady known to man is stamped out of existence.
Seriously, put up or shut up. If there really is a law in your city prohibiting cyclists from using a road, I need to know. I ride a bicycle, and everywhere that I know of, it is legal to ride said bike on the road (with the exception of controlled-access freeways).
Please tell me the name of your city, so I can avoid it like the plague.
You don't even need to name your city. Post the text of the by-law that states that bicycles are prohibited from using roads.
In Ontario, it is an offense under the highway traffic act to open your door in a manner to obstruct moving vehicles on the road. And a bicycle is classified as a vehicle on the road.
This decision states that, in this particular instance, with the evidence in his disposal, the administrator's decision to strip-search the student was unreasonable, and thus unconstitutional. That is all. It does not prevent strip-searching future students should more compelling evidence be found.
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The xenon gas is the reaction mass. Calling it a fuel implies that the energy comes from the xenon gas, which it does not.
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Agreed. Once acceleration is no longer 9.8m/s^2 due to wind resistance, you feel the force of gravity. Once you've reached terminal velocity, your inner ear can't tell the difference between falling from an airplane and standing on the ground.
It looks like a bad Google translation. The original French:
2 moteurs triphasés synchrones de 2 x 100 kW linéaires (2 synchronous tri-phase motors, each 2x100kW linear)
The Google translation:
2-phase synchronous motors of 100 kilowatts x 2 linear
Can I hear your mustard story?
Okay. Step back. Embryonic stem cells are harvested from blastocytes that are 4-5 days post-fertilization. At that point, they are only 100-150 cells.
Do you know how big 150 human cells is? Typical cell size is about 10um. In a bundle, that group of 150 cells is probably about 60um across.
Do you know what the volume of the average menstrual flow is? 30ml. Let's say you did manage to abort 4 days after fertilization, and wanted to collect that embryo. Guess what? You'd be looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack. The odds of finding that blastocyst are so small as to approach zero.
Embryonic stem cells are collected from blastocysts created by in vitro (translation - in glass) fertilization. Fertile eggs and sperm are harvested, them mixed in the lab. The fertilized eggs are allowed to grow into embryos, then the stem cells are harvested. Minus the harvesting stage, this is exactly what is done for in-vitro fertility treatments.
Abortions are not a viable way of collecting embryonic stem cells.
Ah, I see. Sadly, it's not the icy roads that stop me, but the salt on the roads. I don't have a "winter beater" bike, and I'm unwilling to replace all of the components on my bike once a year because of corrosion and rust.
Were it just traction holding me back, I'd be the first one buying studded tires and warmer clothes.
And you're free to be the one innocent man that is imprisoned for life with no hope of parole.
I'd rather live on the block with 10 guilty guys, thanks very much.
Those are bicycle tires. Last year, I put 3,000km on my bike. You don't get much more than that out of bike tires without greatly increasing your risk of flats.
Proximity to transit was a conscious prerequisite when we bought our house. We're a 7 minute walk from the main bus line in the town. A six minute walk from the grocery store. A twenty minute walk to downtown, or a twenty-five minute drunken stumble home.
I can get to work by bus without transferring, in about 45 minutes. I usually nap, and haven't missed my stop yet.
One of my co-workers bikes to work in the summer, and runs in the winter. Once every week or so, he has to drive to take a supply of clothes, but otherwise, he's running for 2+ hours a day.
I live 6.5km from work, and bike it both ways as soon as the snow is melted. I probably spend $200/yr on bike maintenance (tires, brake pads, toys and accessories), and $50/mo for four months to take the bus through the winter.
We have no car. It costs $50 to rent an economy car for a three-day weekend, which we might do a dozen times throughout the year.
I get 40 minutes of cardio per day, so I don't need a gym membership. I shower at work so my gas and water bills are lower.
My wife buys a bus pass every month.
Our total commuting bills are (calculates) roughly $1600/year (not counting gas for the car rentals).
No, you don't need to do anything to a fetus. By the time you've got a fetus, there's no embryonic stem cells left.
And yes, there are currently hundreds of embryos being flushed down the toilet during fertility treatments, because way more are created than are necessary.
It's also interesting to note that somewhere in the neighbourhood of 75% of naturally created viable embryos do not implant in the uterine wall, and are flushed out of the female body. Nobody laments those.
I think the Pastafarians have their causation backwards, and in order to get rid of pirates, we should be contributing more to global warming.
Really the best approach is to save up the 1500g, and have a black or red mage in your party learn lit2.
Unless the police forced the accused to download the material, it's not entrapment. Entrapment has a very precise legal definition. Again, not knowing what they did to obtain the information that the specified IP was downloading kiddie-porn, I cannot comment on the appropriateness of it.
However, were it actually a honeypot, I highly doubt that it contains actual child pornography. More likely, it contains a set of files with names like 12_y_o_girl_rape.mov, that are actually copies of Kittens, Inspired by Kittens. The police aren't entirely stupid.
I think a more apt analogy would be a telephone number. If the police were able to determine that a call made from a certain telephone number was illegal, then looking in the phone book to associate that telephone number with a name and address would be appropriate, and not require a warrant.
My concern here is what the cops did to determine that a particular IP was downloading kiddie-porn. Did they set up a honeypot and catch flies? Or did they snoop on the communication between two parties not related to the police? If the first case, then I have no problem with the ruling. If the second case, well, I have no problem with the ruling, but I equate that to wire-tapping of a phone, and the cops better have had a warrant for that activity.
Can you apply the same solution to writing novels? Or are you aware of novelist tours, where people pay money to sit in a crowded, dirty theatre and be read to by the author?
There is a place for copyright in this world. I'm not saying that the current implementation is correct, but abolishing it altogether is not the answer.
Remember, copyright applies to more than just music, movies and computer code.
The Fourth Amendment restricts the Government's ability to perform unreasonable search and seizure. It could be argued that CCTV's controlled by the Government (or any of it's agencies) is a violation of the spirit of that amendment.
The fourth amendment, however, does not apply to private persons. It is perfectly acceptable for me to open a club where everyone must be searched prior to entry, so long as each patron is informed of this beforehand, and consents. Same way that stores posting "no guns" signs are not in violation of the second amendment.
How does having a space station at one of the Lagrange points make access to space cheaper? Unless we can find some method other than chemical propellents to get stuff into orbit, the access cost is pretty much unchanged.
As a meat-eater, please let me point out one other argument that I respect:
It is possible to sustain yourself on vegetables with less total environmental impact than eating meat. You'll probably want a citation for that, but I'm too ADD to provide you with one. Something to do with the number of hectares to support a cow, vs. the number of people you could feed with soy from the same sized plot.
And that doesn't even take into account the cow-burps adding to the greenhouse effect.
There are well-known and well-documented health risks associated with consuming your own kind. It increases disease transmission by an order of magnitude. I'm not allowed to give blood because there is some risk that I have vCJD, because I ate a cow that ate another cow.
However, I would be perfectly comfortable with eating lab-grown, guaranteed safe human flesh, a la test tube beef (where they grow the tissue only using a cloning-like process).