Then, #1 its parsecs, no 't'. and #2 a parsec is 3.26 lightyears, and thus a measurement of distance. Unless that person's webserver is located in the Orion nebula, I think its a given that its closer than 12 parsecs.
Heck, the Royal Bank here in Canada had all their systems go down for about a week so nobody could access any accounts and no transactions could be processed.
Now, just so you know this is not a small bank, its one of the big 4 up here (Royal, BMO, TD, and Scotia if I remember correctly).
Their system of notification was to post a sign on the door and a message on their phone service, but some people still had difficulty finding money for food.
I also lecture at a university - whenever students use their phone in class, it shows a distinct lack of respect for me and for the other students, some of whom are finding it difficult enough to follow the course content as it is.
Have you tried throwing chalk at them? It works extremely well. Warn your class beforehand that you will do it, and then follow through if it happens. I had one prof in my 2nd year (I'm a 4th year student atm) who did that, and the entire semester I only ever heard 1 phone ring.
No, removing the power to use John Doe legislation from a group would be a miscarriage of justice. That would prevent them from ever bringing a lawsuit against a person whom they did not know the exact identity. What would bring pride is a ruling against the complaints of the RIAA that they are sending these legal notices out for.
If you break a law in a country, and are in that country you can be arrested.
If you break a law in a country from outside of it, you must be extradited there to stand trial with the willing co-operation of your nation of residence.
Like I said, I agree with the law and would encourage my own country to follow suit. In fact, I encourage your country to go to the international community and encourage other countries to pass a mutual agreement for such a thing.
However, what I vehemently disagree with is the parent's expression which implies a belief that the imposition of American laws on the rest of the world is a good thing!
Set up shop outside the border and you're immune, sadly.
Sadly? Excuse Me?
Ok, I'm as much against spyware as the next guy, and from what I've read this seems like a pretty good, well intentioned bill.
But I am MUCH more opposed to having a foreign country impose its laws on me, restricting the freedoms that I possess according to my country's laws than I am to spyware.
Please, think before you say such things, people around the world are just as opposed to having the US impose its laws on them, as you would be in the opposite circumstances.
Yes, I am aware of that stretch of highway, as well as Hwy 99 through to Whistler. One lane bridge on a national highway anyone?
Those are the exceptions in this country, out of necessity due to the nature of the terrain.
Until I was 18, my family spent a lot of time driving through North-west Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, since then I've lived in Southern Ontario, but have been through Quebec and all the atlantic provinces numerous times. For the most part our nations roads and highways are relatively flat and straight with shoulders but very few 'run-away lanes' as the parent mentions.
We do have the good old 'white-knuckle' highways, but a comparatively low percentage of them to a lot of nations across the pond.
It's easy to just say you do ("why, I'm a practicing Catholic...") and then just adjust your actual actions and beliefs to whatever is comfortable or expedient.
Or what is right?
Give me a break, the problem in a large number of situations is the follow-the-herd mentality, because we see it as the safe approach. There is comfort in numbers, and being the same as others, and the threat of rejection by being different.
It is easier to agree than to stand up for what you believe in.
Thats a very interesting idea, no country in the modern day would possibly consider it, but it is very interesting none the less.
How would you propose though to fill president/prime minister as well as other important positions that usually require appointments or deal directly with foreign relations? In Canada we have someone called the Minister of Finance, one of a number of appointment positions by the Prime Minister from the pool of elected Members of Parliment. The Minister of Finance is in charge of keeping the governments books straight, putting together budgets and that sort of thing. With a direct lottery I could see issues of a wholly unsuitable person getting lotteried into such a position due to the demands placed upon that person.
The Canadian DaVinci project has already stated that they are a couple weeks from launching, so if SpaceShipOne for some reason is unable to complete its bid for the X-prize in the next 2 weeks there is a possibility it could occur.
In addition, they have stated that they will be proceeding with the launches regardless of whether the SpaceShipOne project succeeds in claiming the prize or not. Their goal is to prove that they can do it, even if they don't win the prize.
Its very easy really. You send the 500MB attachment from the same account. Haven't you ever sent email from an account to itself as a reminder to do something? I do it all the time at work, so that when I check my email at home it pops up.
Most stable as in, the US is one of the world's longest running democracies, and has held regular elections every 4 years for the past 220+ years in all but violence free peaceful, and relatively fair manner.
Stable democracry in this case is not referring to the country's activities, but the state of its democracy. And I'd be willing to concede that the US has a legitimate, and very good shot at that title, regardless if its official or not.
Technically, if we coudl find something that works entirely contradictory to a known law of physics (conservation of energy say...) then it would still work because if follows the laws of physics. It would just happen that we were wrong about what the laws of physics actually are.
Yes, and lets impose Customs Tariffs to keep companies from investing in poorer nations, forcing even them to cut more corners (such as reduce already pitiful wages even further) in order to compete in a marketplace that is already tilted in favour of the rich.
Countries that impose protectionist tariffs are not known for voluntarily and unilaterally reducing those tariffs for the benefit of foreign competition. If anyone thinks imposing tariffs as a threat for a country to pay its workers better, guess what? It doesn't work because those tariff rates are almost never dropped to reward countries that do!
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I know what you mean... I feel stupider by the minute reading about the latest going-ons. I think its some form of osmosis.
Apologies first.
Then, #1 its parsecs, no 't'.
and #2 a parsec is 3.26 lightyears, and thus a measurement of distance. Unless that person's webserver is located in the Orion nebula, I think its a given that its closer than 12 parsecs.
Heck, the Royal Bank here in Canada had all their systems go down for about a week so nobody could access any accounts and no transactions could be processed.
Now, just so you know this is not a small bank, its one of the big 4 up here (Royal, BMO, TD, and Scotia if I remember correctly).
Their system of notification was to post a sign on the door and a message on their phone service, but some people still had difficulty finding money for food.
I also lecture at a university - whenever students use their phone in class, it shows a distinct lack of respect for me and for the other students, some of whom are finding it difficult enough to follow the course content as it is.
Have you tried throwing chalk at them? It works extremely well. Warn your class beforehand that you will do it, and then follow through if it happens. I had one prof in my 2nd year (I'm a 4th year student atm) who did that, and the entire semester I only ever heard 1 phone ring.
IANAL, but presumably Rooster Teeth owns Red vs. Blue as it is a parody.
No, removing the power to use John Doe legislation from a group would be a miscarriage of justice. That would prevent them from ever bringing a lawsuit against a person whom they did not know the exact identity. What would bring pride is a ruling against the complaints of the RIAA that they are sending these legal notices out for.
That is what extradition treaties are for.
If you break a law in a country, and are in that country you can be arrested.
If you break a law in a country from outside of it, you must be extradited there to stand trial with the willing co-operation of your nation of residence.
Anything less would be insanity.
Actually, technically its Thursday.
Like I said, I agree with the law and would encourage my own country to follow suit. In fact, I encourage your country to go to the international community and encourage other countries to pass a mutual agreement for such a thing.
However, what I vehemently disagree with is the parent's expression which implies a belief that the imposition of American laws on the rest of the world is a good thing!
Set up shop outside the border and you're immune, sadly.
Sadly? Excuse Me?
Ok, I'm as much against spyware as the next guy, and from what I've read this seems like a pretty good, well intentioned bill.
But I am MUCH more opposed to having a foreign country impose its laws on me, restricting the freedoms that I possess according to my country's laws than I am to spyware.
Please, think before you say such things, people around the world are just as opposed to having the US impose its laws on them, as you would be in the opposite circumstances.
Not quite 1000 miles in a day, closer to 500km per day, but still rather impressive.
A 15,000km 40day world record tour of Canada and the US.
http://midsun.uwaterloo.ca/tour/tour_news/
And proud to say it was my university that did it.
Yes, I am aware of that stretch of highway, as well as Hwy 99 through to Whistler. One lane bridge on a national highway anyone?
Those are the exceptions in this country, out of necessity due to the nature of the terrain.
Until I was 18, my family spent a lot of time driving through North-west Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, since then I've lived in Southern Ontario, but have been through Quebec and all the atlantic provinces numerous times. For the most part our nations roads and highways are relatively flat and straight with shoulders but very few 'run-away lanes' as the parent mentions.
We do have the good old 'white-knuckle' highways, but a comparatively low percentage of them to a lot of nations across the pond.
Runaway lanes? They aren't common in Canada, let alone Europe. For the most part roads in Europe are older , narrower, and windier than up here.
I've driven in the US a few times, and from what I've seen the US is unusual in being widely paved with large open streets and highways.
It's easy to just say you do ("why, I'm a practicing Catholic ...") and then just adjust your actual actions and beliefs to whatever is comfortable or expedient.
Or what is right?
Give me a break, the problem in a large number of situations is the follow-the-herd mentality, because we see it as the safe approach. There is comfort in numbers, and being the same as others, and the threat of rejection by being different.
It is easier to agree than to stand up for what you believe in.
Thats a very interesting idea, no country in the modern day would possibly consider it, but it is very interesting none the less.
How would you propose though to fill president/prime minister as well as other important positions that usually require appointments or deal directly with foreign relations? In Canada we have someone called the Minister of Finance, one of a number of appointment positions by the Prime Minister from the pool of elected Members of Parliment. The Minister of Finance is in charge of keeping the governments books straight, putting together budgets and that sort of thing. With a direct lottery I could see issues of a wholly unsuitable person getting lotteried into such a position due to the demands placed upon that person.
Any ideas?
The Canadian DaVinci project has already stated that they are a couple weeks from launching, so if SpaceShipOne for some reason is unable to complete its bid for the X-prize in the next 2 weeks there is a possibility it could occur.
In addition, they have stated that they will be proceeding with the launches regardless of whether the SpaceShipOne project succeeds in claiming the prize or not. Their goal is to prove that they can do it, even if they don't win the prize.
Its very easy really. You send the 500MB attachment from the same account. Haven't you ever sent email from an account to itself as a reminder to do something? I do it all the time at work, so that when I check my email at home it pops up.
I also don't think he enjoys having the public improving upon existing works...
Same here... and the more that goes on, the less I want to live anywhere near them either.
Most stable as in, the US is one of the world's longest running democracies, and has held regular elections every 4 years for the past 220+ years in all but violence free peaceful, and relatively fair manner.
Stable democracry in this case is not referring to the country's activities, but the state of its democracy. And I'd be willing to concede that the US has a legitimate, and very good shot at that title, regardless if its official or not.
Its already been accomplished, its sitting on blocks on my front lawn. Retail Price: $15.
Technically, if we coudl find something that works entirely contradictory to a known law of physics (conservation of energy say...) then it would still work because if follows the laws of physics. It would just happen that we were wrong about what the laws of physics actually are.
Oh I love it when 1024x768 jpegs are use for thumbnails!
Just to be annoying...
:).
I usually call it a USB Key.
Though that probably is a little misleading
Yes, and lets impose Customs Tariffs to keep companies from investing in poorer nations, forcing even them to cut more corners (such as reduce already pitiful wages even further) in order to compete in a marketplace that is already tilted in favour of the rich.
Countries that impose protectionist tariffs are not known for voluntarily and unilaterally reducing those tariffs for the benefit of foreign competition. If anyone thinks imposing tariffs as a threat for a country to pay its workers better, guess what? It doesn't work because those tariff rates are almost never dropped to reward countries that do!