Gun Control helps in possibly two ways: 1) Posession of firearms is illegal for private citizens. Thus sales of firearms to private citizens is illegal. Makes it very hard for kids to get the firearms, either directly or via stealing/borrowing from older friends/parents. OR 2) Posession of firearms within X kilometres of a populated region/city is illegal. Likewise sale of firearms to a person in such a region is illegal (the firearm can be purchased, but must be shipped out-of-city, to a gun-club etc. The gun-club must also provide proof (to authorities) that the gun is being stored there, and must prevent membership from removing it without permit (such as a hunting license to go on a hunt), and track it if they do remove it (ie: it must be checked with another club within X days))
Gun Control isn't simply restricting who can buy guns, or how quickly. Such pitiful measures will never work anyways. They key is to prevent the sale of the weapon in the first place. Guns aren't all that useful. Crime rates in regions where gun posession is prevelant are pretty much never lower than regions where it is not (which should be common sense). Thus posession of a gun really doesn't protect you. Buy a bottle of pepper spray if you must. Sure, it can be abused, but it can't for the most part kill.
No. What you need to do is respect their privacy. They deserve the same freedom from unauthroised intrusion into their affairsas you do. So you grant them that freedom. But you still keep an eye on them, and try to engage them in friendly conversation to know what's going on. If you see the kin run out the doy, and see the truck coming down the street, THEN you put on the Parent costume and start acting like one. You don't forbid the kid from going out from fear of a truck, or hand-hold them the rest of their lives. Once the kid hits a reasonable level of mental development you can expect that you can let them go outside without them running into the path of a truck. But that doesn't mean you don't stop glancing out the window every now and then. You can never be entirely certain. And PArenting is governing. I must assume as a parent, you've imposed at least one rule on your child, even if it is simply to use the toilet instead of the carpet. Well hey, you've just participated in 'governing' (which is simply the execising of authority). The key thing to 'good' parenting is the extent to which, and manner in which a parent governs.
Being a Canadian company, Corel already dumps tonnes of money/software into the local education systems, especially in the Capital Region (Ottawa), where they are located. Many secondary schools (at least in my home town) are often associated with a corporate sponsor (well, that's not the term they use, but let's not mince words). Corporations are more than willing to sink hundreds of thousands of dollars into school systems for infrastructure. It makes good PR, and makes up for insufficient government or regional funding. And no, we didn't have their logo tatooed onto our foreheads:) Most people weren't even aware of the sponsorship, except our new auditorium got a new name:) South Africa was probably chosen semi-randomly. Perhaps because, as previous indicated by others, of the smaller Redmond-influence.
Brokerage fees occur when ordering any foreign goods, be it from Japan to the US, or the US to Canada. It depends on what's being shipped though (under various treaties/laws, some items may/will be exempt) Brokerage fees are fees charged at the border by a broker to prepare all the neccessary legal documents to import the goods legally under the various laws of the destination country (Such as the Excise Tax Act in Canada) Note however that UPS will charge brokerage fees for Ground Shipments. If you ship UPS ABW (Airborne Express Worldwide, or 2nd Day), you won't be charged. On the other hand, if you ship via a DECENT carrier (Purolator comes to mind.) you'll never be charged brokerage fees (these companies will either absorb the cost, or have some sort of arrangement with affiliates in the receiving/originating country) Of course, you'll still be charged your 7% Goods and Services tax, which is to be expected. Under NAFTA, most brokerage fees are being phased out between the participating countries. Notice that Software and intellectual material (books) are duty-exempt, and used items (have the shipper mark the package "Used Goods") are GST-exempt.
As for some of the quasi-anti-Candian remarks in the post: Well, at least we can distribute nearly any level of crypto we want to international parties. And what's this I hear about an RSA patent? Not up here. As for those inconvenient content laws: What do you expect from a Socialist Country? At least I can go to the hospital without being charged... Granted if I lived in the States I'd be making 10X what I do here, after taxes. Hmmm. On that note, maybee I'll move to California for a couple of years:)
Now, on to the ORB topic (I almost forgot...): Does anyone know of any Ontario distributors? And what about specs on noise output, and resistance to gravatational shocks, and rapid temperature changes (withing the operating parameters)?
Quite true. Although many CS degree-holders go on to get degrees in web design, basic coding, and systems administration (which for the most part do not require any or much extensive education in formal Computer Science, they just require basic technical skills), for the real cream (if this is your thing), such as R&D, advanced design, or just new technologies, you simply NEED a university degree. Where else do you learn the math to recognise properties of multi-dimensional curves (useful in graphics design and cryptography), matrices and vector spaces (Graphics, numerical analysis, languages), recursive properties and enummeration (compilers, parsers, AI, lang recog), statistics (predictive processing), limits and functions (algorithm analysis and design), or even the CS-learned skills of LR-parsing, concurrency (as in implementing it from scratch, not just using it), compilation and code generation, issues concerning true real-time applications, coding theory (error correction, et al), tree theory (algorithms), etc etc. If all you want to do is write programs that display fancy GUIs (without understanding the nature of GUIs or human psychology and sociology, another university thing), print text in different fonts, draw windows on the screen, or implement somebody else's protocol, go for it. But if you want to do something exciting, such as design the OS that uses the GUI, or the graphics algorithms that'll render it in 3D, flawlessly; invent the protocol that others will implement, or the compilers that will allow them to implement it, then you'll likely need that piece of paper.
If anything else, you can also pick up electives at university in the arts, or other areas, that may help you innvoate in the future, or even assist you in entrepreneurial ventures.
Perhaps this is due to an increasing disassociation between computer science and mathematics at the post-secondary level. I find that among my American friends, SOME of their US colleges (I don't mean all. Others are quite good) don't put enough (sometimes any) emphasis on mathematics. (Some of them even get away without three full years of mathematics. Ack!) Fortunately at university here up in the GWN, Computer Science is nothing but a major attatched to a Bachhelor of Mathematics degree. I still find it amusing when people read my documentation and papers on various alogirthms and can't wrap their brains around my basic use of sigma-summation or pi-product notation, even after an explanation. If you don't understand the mathematicla root of the process, how can you code it [decently]? Or even improve it? Or make a better/new solution?
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Gun Control helps in possibly two ways:
1) Posession of firearms is illegal for private citizens. Thus sales of firearms to private citizens is illegal. Makes it very hard for kids to get the firearms, either directly or via stealing/borrowing from older friends/parents.
OR
2) Posession of firearms within X kilometres of a populated region/city is illegal. Likewise sale of firearms to a person in such a region is illegal (the firearm can be purchased, but must be shipped out-of-city, to a gun-club etc. The gun-club must also provide proof (to authorities) that the gun is being stored there, and must prevent membership from removing it without permit (such as a hunting license to go on a hunt), and track it if they do remove it (ie: it must be checked with another club within X days))
Gun Control isn't simply restricting who can buy guns, or how quickly. Such pitiful measures will never work anyways. They key is to prevent the sale of the weapon in the first place. Guns aren't all that useful. Crime rates in regions where gun posession is prevelant are pretty much never lower than regions where it is not (which should be common sense). Thus posession of a gun really doesn't protect you. Buy a bottle of pepper spray if you must. Sure, it can be abused, but it can't for the most part kill.
No. What you need to do is respect their privacy. They deserve the same freedom from unauthroised intrusion into their affairsas you do. So you grant them that freedom. But you still keep an eye on them, and try to engage them in friendly conversation to know what's going on. If you see the kin run out the doy, and see the truck coming down the street, THEN you put on the Parent costume and start acting like one. You don't forbid the kid from going out from fear of a truck, or hand-hold them the rest of their lives. Once the kid hits a reasonable level of mental development you can expect that you can let them go outside without them running into the path of a truck. But that doesn't mean you don't stop glancing out the window every now and then. You can never be entirely certain.
And PArenting is governing. I must assume as a parent, you've imposed at least one rule on your child, even if it is simply to use the toilet instead of the carpet. Well hey, you've just participated in 'governing' (which is simply the execising of authority). The key thing to 'good' parenting is the extent to which, and manner in which a parent governs.
Being a Canadian company, Corel already dumps tonnes of money/software into the local education systems, especially in the Capital Region (Ottawa), where they are located. Many secondary schools (at least in my home town) are often associated with a corporate sponsor (well, that's not the term they use, but let's not mince words). Corporations are more than willing to sink hundreds of thousands of dollars into school systems for infrastructure. It makes good PR, and makes up for insufficient government or regional funding. And no, we didn't have their logo tatooed onto our foreheads :) Most people weren't even aware of the sponsorship, except our new auditorium got a new name :)
South Africa was probably chosen semi-randomly. Perhaps because, as previous indicated by others, of the smaller Redmond-influence.
Brokerage fees occur when ordering any foreign goods, be it from Japan to the US, or the US to Canada. It depends on what's being shipped though (under various treaties/laws, some items may/will be exempt) Brokerage fees are fees charged at the border by a broker to prepare all the neccessary legal documents to import the goods legally under the various laws of the destination country (Such as the Excise Tax Act in Canada)
:)
Note however that UPS will charge brokerage fees for Ground Shipments. If you ship UPS ABW (Airborne Express Worldwide, or 2nd Day), you won't be charged. On the other hand, if you ship via a DECENT carrier (Purolator comes to mind.) you'll never be charged brokerage fees (these companies will either absorb the cost, or have some sort of arrangement with affiliates in the receiving/originating country)
Of course, you'll still be charged your 7% Goods and Services tax, which is to be expected.
Under NAFTA, most brokerage fees are being phased out between the participating countries.
Notice that Software and intellectual material (books) are duty-exempt, and used items (have the shipper mark the package "Used Goods") are GST-exempt.
As for some of the quasi-anti-Candian remarks in the post: Well, at least we can distribute nearly any level of crypto we want to international parties. And what's this I hear about an RSA patent? Not up here.
As for those inconvenient content laws: What do you expect from a Socialist Country? At least I can go to the hospital without being charged...
Granted if I lived in the States I'd be making 10X what I do here, after taxes. Hmmm. On that note, maybee I'll move to California for a couple of years
Now, on to the ORB topic (I almost forgot...):
Does anyone know of any Ontario distributors?
And what about specs on noise output, and resistance to gravatational shocks, and rapid temperature changes (withing the operating parameters)?
Quite true.
Although many CS degree-holders go on to get degrees in web design, basic coding, and systems administration (which for the most part do not require any or much extensive education in formal Computer Science, they just require basic technical skills), for the real cream (if this is your thing), such as R&D, advanced design, or just new technologies, you simply NEED a university degree.
Where else do you learn the math to recognise properties of multi-dimensional curves (useful in graphics design and cryptography), matrices and vector spaces (Graphics, numerical analysis, languages), recursive properties and enummeration (compilers, parsers, AI, lang recog), statistics (predictive processing), limits and functions (algorithm analysis and design), or even the CS-learned skills of LR-parsing, concurrency (as in implementing it from scratch, not just using it), compilation and code generation, issues concerning true real-time applications, coding theory (error correction, et al), tree theory (algorithms), etc etc.
If all you want to do is write programs that display fancy GUIs (without understanding the nature of GUIs or human psychology and sociology, another university thing), print text in different fonts, draw windows on the screen, or implement somebody else's protocol, go for it.
But if you want to do something exciting, such as design the OS that uses the GUI, or the graphics algorithms that'll render it in 3D, flawlessly; invent the protocol that others will implement, or the compilers that will allow them to implement it, then you'll likely need that piece of paper.
If anything else, you can also pick up electives at university in the arts, or other areas, that may help you innvoate in the future, or even assist you in entrepreneurial ventures.
Perhaps this is due to an increasing disassociation between computer science and mathematics at the post-secondary level. I find that among my American friends, SOME of their US colleges (I don't mean all. Others are quite good) don't put enough (sometimes any) emphasis on mathematics. (Some of them even get away without three full years of mathematics. Ack!)
Fortunately at university here up in the GWN, Computer Science is nothing but a major attatched to a Bachhelor of Mathematics degree.
I still find it amusing when people read my documentation and papers on various alogirthms and can't wrap their brains around my basic use of sigma-summation or pi-product notation, even after an explanation. If you don't understand the mathematicla root of the process, how can you code it [decently]? Or even improve it? Or make a better/new solution?