It might be, but the same thing applies to ANY mail service provider. Just because some small webmail service only allows you to store 3 MB of mail at a time, doesn't mean that they can keep archives of your deleted mail that far exceeds that amount.
If your email is a matter of national security importance, then you are not using a free email account. And if it isn't, then all these people who complain about GMail and sign their posts with a hotmail address are simply tin-foil hat hypocrits.
Obviously GMail isn't targeted towards you in the first place. It is a web mail service afterall, and you seem to be the type of person who wouldn't use any web mail provider. That's fine, but "pop3 is better" comments are not constructive.
If its just the amount of email that Google allows you to store you find offensive, then there is a handy thing called a delete button. If you only care to use 3 MB of storage on GMail because you feel that to use any more space is giving them access to too much of your email, then you can limit yourself to only allowing Google to store that much, by deleting mail when you go over your personal limit.
Give me a break, It doesn't even prove that. It means that you were adept enough to learn or memorize enough to pass your exams. I've taken more than a few courses where showing up for the class added pretty much nothing.
Yes, but privacy issues are less of a concern when it requires money, effort, and manpower to execute. Your cops from the street example, a reasonable assumption is that unless the cops had significant evidence to do so, they wouldn't waste the resources to monitor *you*. In that way we are safe from undue privacy violations of that sort.
The problem occurs when automated computer systems get involved, where it not only becomes possible, but efficient to monitor a very large percentage of the population for *unacceptable behaviour*. It is this sort of surveillance that becomes an unnacceptable invasion of privacy because it would take a very minor tweak for such automated systems to locate and identify people who distribute material, say, opposing a political party. The fact that a simple corporation has this power, and doesn't require a concerted effort by a governing body to implement makes it doubly bad.
Which is why, I am happy to live in Canada, where judges rule against these sorts of things.
Very well, you sir lack a sence of humour and are far too serious for your own good. I'm sorry,... no wait, you want me to be as accurate as possible,... I'm NOT sorry, you have fallen victim to the thing you condemn, the sweeping generalization that EVERYONE should ALWAYS be as accurate as they can be is not only wrong, but dangerous.
If a person comes to your door wielding a knife and asks where one of your family members is, do you a) tell them the truth. b) tell them that you do know but aren't going to tell them. c) lie.
There is also a thing known as tact, where respect and diplomacy is more important than absolute truth.
Finally, the woman writes a gossip column. Gossip columns are not meant to be the truth, as impartial and high minded as you desire. They are supposed to be entertainment and humourous, and frankly the dry dull truth of the situation is more often than not, dull. Take it with a grain of salt, read it for fun, but know that most likely its false.
And, eh, loosen up a bit. Being too uptight will take years off your life.
You must live in the United States. The car market here in Canada is quite different, and the manufacturer's have started to understand that. Most of us up here drive our cars into the ground. Most new fancy cars won't be looking so great after a winter or two on salted and sanded streets. True that there aren't too many 70s cars around anymore, because they've all rusted away. But mid 80s up until early 90s cars FAR outnumber newer cars on the roads, because they still run and haven't died yet.
We in Canada have cheaper drugs because our government regulates the cost of drugs for Canadians. Our government forces drug companies to sell their drugs in Canada at the average price that those drugs are sold in about a dozen developed nations (the US, and a large chunk of Europe I believe is used as the baseline).
The drug companies make a profit, but they are not allowed to charge the overinflated prices that they charge to the US private healthcare system. And thus the only reason there is big business in Americans importing Canadian drugs, is that the shipping cost from Canada is much cheaper than ordering from Europe.
Agree with you completely, 4 years ago I moved into residence at university where television was not only hard to get, chances are it wasn't showing what I wanted to watch anyway. After that year without tv, and after when I moved out on my own I watch very little. Sometimes the news, and sporting events that I find interesting and thats it. (In fairness, I listened to sports events on radio when in residence because I enjoyed them that much.)
And perhaps there is your answer. Don't think of restricting the car in that way because of the number of problems it could cause and (presumably) modifications that can bypass it. Instead think of educating drivers that reckless driving and impaired driving kill.
And as in most cases, education is the key, not the government acting like a babysitter.
5. Governors on all engines so that it's not possible to exceed the speed limit.
My question is, what speed limit? Where? If I drive my car to another province or country, then what? What if there comes a time when I need to speed? I know for sure that my dad once rushed me to the hospital and broke more than a few local speed limits as a result.
Unless you have an overly technical solution that can answer these questions, point 5 is ridiculous.
I believe you mean, 3 microphones. Hence tri-angulation. 2 microphones will let you determine two possible points where the sound came from, and be unable to determine which of those two points it was.
Cautious driving reduces the chance of needing sudden clever driving. And don't you think there are enough smart drivers out there being killed everyday because of stupid ones making a mistake?
Thats why I say, screw airbags. Everyone needs to have a mandatory foot long metal spike installed in the centre of the steering column. You'll instantly have better and more cautious drivers on the road. And if for some reason they aren't, instant darwinian selection takes place.
Its simple really, a lot of us want our applications (and operating systems) to look the way WE want it to look, not the way the developer wants it to look.
Personally, I use skins so that I can make a large number of the applications I use regularily look consistant with each other. I like having things that match, instead of having a silver/green/blue OS, baby blue/navy Trillian, greyish/ugly orange and green Winamp, etc.
There is though a counter-point to your comment, this 'bridge' is percieved as the enemy's bridge because they believe we (Canada) also pose a threat to their way of life. No one in the western world is immune to their hate.
So once the bridge has been used, and has served its purpose, why not blow it up? Doing so would mean that the enemy can now not use it as well.
Remember, that striking fear into the heart of a nation is almost as productive as dividing allies and making them suspicious of each other. Doing what the US is doing, treating citizens from allied nations like criminals, is server to drive a stake between those allied nations. And in the end the only things that are accomplished are the goals of those who benefit from that division.
Once the bridge has served its purpose, blowing it up makes a whole lot of sence.
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And that would be a problem?
It might be, but the same thing applies to ANY mail service provider. Just because some small webmail service only allows you to store 3 MB of mail at a time, doesn't mean that they can keep archives of your deleted mail that far exceeds that amount.
If your email is a matter of national security importance, then you are not using a free email account. And if it isn't, then all these people who complain about GMail and sign their posts with a hotmail address are simply tin-foil hat hypocrits.
Parent comment is way overrated.
Obviously GMail isn't targeted towards you in the first place. It is a web mail service afterall, and you seem to be the type of person who wouldn't use any web mail provider. That's fine, but "pop3 is better" comments are not constructive.
If its just the amount of email that Google allows you to store you find offensive, then there is a handy thing called a delete button. If you only care to use 3 MB of storage on GMail because you feel that to use any more space is giving them access to too much of your email, then you can limit yourself to only allowing Google to store that much, by deleting mail when you go over your personal limit.
Give me a break, It doesn't even prove that. It means that you were adept enough to learn or memorize enough to pass your exams. I've taken more than a few courses where showing up for the class added pretty much nothing.
Which is why I vote Conservative.
Yes, but privacy issues are less of a concern when it requires money, effort, and manpower to execute. Your cops from the street example, a reasonable assumption is that unless the cops had significant evidence to do so, they wouldn't waste the resources to monitor *you*. In that way we are safe from undue privacy violations of that sort.
The problem occurs when automated computer systems get involved, where it not only becomes possible, but efficient to monitor a very large percentage of the population for *unacceptable behaviour*. It is this sort of surveillance that becomes an unnacceptable invasion of privacy because it would take a very minor tweak for such automated systems to locate and identify people who distribute material, say, opposing a political party. The fact that a simple corporation has this power, and doesn't require a concerted effort by a governing body to implement makes it doubly bad.
Which is why, I am happy to live in Canada, where judges rule against these sorts of things.
Very well, you sir lack a sence of humour and are far too serious for your own good. I'm sorry, ... no wait, you want me to be as accurate as possible, ... I'm NOT sorry, you have fallen victim to the thing you condemn, the sweeping generalization that EVERYONE should ALWAYS be as accurate as they can be is not only wrong, but dangerous.
If a person comes to your door wielding a knife and asks where one of your family members is, do you a) tell them the truth. b) tell them that you do know but aren't going to tell them. c) lie.
There is also a thing known as tact, where respect and diplomacy is more important than absolute truth.
Finally, the woman writes a gossip column. Gossip columns are not meant to be the truth, as impartial and high minded as you desire. They are supposed to be entertainment and humourous, and frankly the dry dull truth of the situation is more often than not, dull. Take it with a grain of salt, read it for fun, but know that most likely its false.
And, eh, loosen up a bit. Being too uptight will take years off your life.
You must live in the United States. The car market here in Canada is quite different, and the manufacturer's have started to understand that. Most of us up here drive our cars into the ground. Most new fancy cars won't be looking so great after a winter or two on salted and sanded streets. True that there aren't too many 70s cars around anymore, because they've all rusted away. But mid 80s up until early 90s cars FAR outnumber newer cars on the roads, because they still run and haven't died yet.
We in Canada have cheaper drugs because our government regulates the cost of drugs for Canadians. Our government forces drug companies to sell their drugs in Canada at the average price that those drugs are sold in about a dozen developed nations (the US, and a large chunk of Europe I believe is used as the baseline).
The drug companies make a profit, but they are not allowed to charge the overinflated prices that they charge to the US private healthcare system. And thus the only reason there is big business in Americans importing Canadian drugs, is that the shipping cost from Canada is much cheaper than ordering from Europe.
Funny?? I say insightful. But I don't have mod points.
If you think that the only place in the world to do top end research is in the US, you need a tour of Canada, Europe, and Japan at the very least.
But, doesn't information want to be free? I seem to hear that quite a bit around here.
Is there a difference? Or is he pissing off the same people twice as much?
Obviously not, they don't use shuffle, they just make a 3 song playlist and hit 'repeat'.
Agree with you completely, 4 years ago I moved into residence at university where television was not only hard to get, chances are it wasn't showing what I wanted to watch anyway. After that year without tv, and after when I moved out on my own I watch very little. Sometimes the news, and sporting events that I find interesting and thats it. (In fairness, I listened to sports events on radio when in residence because I enjoyed them that much.)
If I made a volume dial where increasing volume was clockwise, people would be righteously pissed
BAD example, I can think of at least 3 pieces of hardware around my home where clockwise is increase, one of which is my stereo volume knob.
And perhaps there is your answer. Don't think of restricting the car in that way because of the number of problems it could cause and (presumably) modifications that can bypass it. Instead think of educating drivers that reckless driving and impaired driving kill.
And as in most cases, education is the key, not the government acting like a babysitter.
5. Governors on all engines so that it's not possible to exceed the speed limit.
My question is, what speed limit? Where? If I drive my car to another province or country, then what? What if there comes a time when I need to speed? I know for sure that my dad once rushed me to the hospital and broke more than a few local speed limits as a result.
Unless you have an overly technical solution that can answer these questions, point 5 is ridiculous.
2 microphones 100 yards a part
I believe you mean, 3 microphones. Hence tri-angulation. 2 microphones will let you determine two possible points where the sound came from, and be unable to determine which of those two points it was.
Cautious driving reduces the chance of needing sudden clever driving. And don't you think there are enough smart drivers out there being killed everyday because of stupid ones making a mistake?
Thats why I say, screw airbags. Everyone needs to have a mandatory foot long metal spike installed in the centre of the steering column. You'll instantly have better and more cautious drivers on the road. And if for some reason they aren't, instant darwinian selection takes place.
Nah, "crashes quickly and never recovers when cpu is struck with a sharp blow."
Its simple really, a lot of us want our applications (and operating systems) to look the way WE want it to look, not the way the developer wants it to look.
Personally, I use skins so that I can make a large number of the applications I use regularily look consistant with each other. I like having things that match, instead of having a silver/green/blue OS, baby blue/navy Trillian, greyish/ugly orange and green Winamp, etc.
I presume that they will indeed be able to do so, as they already had plans set up for an entire fifth season before they got the axe.
I'd mod you up if I could, but alas I cannot.
There is though a counter-point to your comment, this 'bridge' is percieved as the enemy's bridge because they believe we (Canada) also pose a threat to their way of life. No one in the western world is immune to their hate.
So once the bridge has been used, and has served its purpose, why not blow it up? Doing so would mean that the enemy can now not use it as well.
Remember, that striking fear into the heart of a nation is almost as productive as dividing allies and making them suspicious of each other. Doing what the US is doing, treating citizens from allied nations like criminals, is server to drive a stake between those allied nations. And in the end the only things that are accomplished are the goals of those who benefit from that division.
Once the bridge has served its purpose, blowing it up makes a whole lot of sence.
Come to Canada! We'll welcome you with open arms if you're a terrorist, and even if you're not!