He also misspelled the party name, "Libral", the name of the riding Beacon Hill, not "Becon" and even the politician's name! (Should be Jeff Bray). In addition he is confusing his local representatives: Jeff Bray is the provincial MLA for Victoria-Beacon Hill, while David Anderson is the federal MP for Victoria.
It would probably be pointless to send anything to Jeff Bray, particularly since he will be unemployed in 5 weeks.
I discovered that there are a few Canadian 1 and 2 dollar bills out there, usually hiding in US banks. A couple of years ago, my cousin from Idaho came up for a visit. Before leaving, she went to her local bank to get some Canadian currency and they gave her a bunch of 1 and 2 dollar bills.
Unfortunatly it doesn't work for Flash animations.
The trick to getting rid of Flash ads with NukeAnything is to right-click just off the edge of the ad. This avoids bringing up the Flash menu, but you are still within the container for the Flash object.
It would be nice though if a future version had the ability to insert the "Remove this object" command into the Flash menu, or if there were a way to execute the command without going throught the right click menu (eg. alt+click or something).
For many tech companies these days, it's downright impossible to figure out what they actually do from their marketing material.
Down the street from my place there is a business in a second floor office. At the street entrance there is a brightly lit sign with the business name on it: "Dynamic Solutions". There is absolutely no clue given as to what they actually do. I wonder if the sign gets them any walk-in business?
So in other words, telomeres are basically DRM for life forms? Who came up with that idea? I guess we will just have to stick to creating life the analog way...
I remember reading this story when it was happening more that 2 years ago. At that time it was reported that experts were highly doubtful that the tubes were for nuclear refinement.
Why does it seem that nobody listens to what anybody else says if the president claims something contrary. Do you think the guy in the Oval Office is some kind of God handing down holy truth and his word is to be trusted above anyone else's -- even if they are experts on the issue?
Grow up, Americans! It's time you got over your infantile fixation on hero figures and giving them divine, infallable status.
I don't know what it is like in other countries, but here in Canada, even people who generally like the Prime Minister will treat things he says with a measure of healthy scepticism. And if a bunch of experts line up saying the PM is full of shit, people will listen to the experts, not the PM.
When this was in the news 2 years ago, it was easy enough to conclude that the White House was off base in its assertions. Why is it just now that people are thinking "Hey! Maybe the experts were right and the president was wrong"?
I find it rather curious that the states with the highest support for Ralph Nader are Idaho and Montana, both at 6%. Does anybody have any insight as to why he is (relativly) popular in this corner of the country?
Pretention. You're a small company, but you can give the impression that you're a BIG company in order to make potential clients trust you with their business.
Deceiving your potential clients doesn't seem like a very good way to inspire trust. Besides, what happens when they try to call you back and end up reaching the Big Company instead?
Either:
a) they discover that you hoaxed them and report your fraudulent activity to the police, or,
b) they thought it was the Big Company in the first place, and now your major competitor has your new client.
Even if they decide they want to do business with you, they can't because they don't know your real number.
I hope you are making an honest living because you would suck at being a shady businessman.
Why hide your DVD-R backup under the desk? Carry it with you. That way you will always have access to your data, no matter where you are.
Also, if something happens that is severe enough to destroy the disk, it will probably also kill you, so you won't be needing that data backup anymore.
I think the Globe and Mail have their system set up so that casual visitors aren't required to register, but frequent visitors are. (Easy enough to track with cookies.)
This policy makes more sense than all the other news sites make you register just to read one article even though you'll probably never read their site again. Fortunate for those, there is bugmenot.com.
I think it is grossly unfair to make everybody pay for wiretapping when the majority of people will themselves never be wiretapped. Kind of like paying the private copying levy on blank CDs when all you are doing is backing up your data.
To be fair, they should only add the levy to the phone bills of people who are being wiretapped.
I tend to be obvious about my information poisoning. My name for registration purposes is "Private Individual", my address is 123 Fake St., Fake City. My email address uses the domain @example.com. The only truthful information I usually give is my country -- I figure that much won't compromise my privacy, and they could easily figure it out anyway from my IP address.
If they insist on other demographic info, my occupation is "Other" and my birthdate is in the 1800's.
I really do hope they pass my info to their advertisers so they can see the poor quality of the info they are getting.
As everyone has equal rights to vote, everyone's rights must be protected equally. At the same time, everyone has an equal privilege to the privacy of the vote. If a blind person can't read the receipt, he has to choose either less privacy (by having someone verify it) or less protection (by not doing so). It definitely creates a disparity of privilege for the individual.
So since blind people can't verify their vote, the way to make it fair is to make it so that no one can verify their vote???!! !
Well I'm probably going to cast my vote for the Green Party. Fiscally conservative, socially progressive and for enviromentally sustainablility. They are the only party taking a long term view, such as what kind of country are we leaving for our kids to inherit, instead of seeing no further than the next election like the other parties.
Even if the Green candidate in your riding doesn't win, your vote still counts for something under the new election campaign financing rules.
You can download the Canadian English (or even NZ or Australian English) spellchecker dictionary for OpenOffice / Star Office from this location.
Dictionaries for several dozen other languages are also available. Includes some that probably aren't available for MS Word - Moari, Faroese, Setswana, Zulu, etc.
Here are some very practical reasons for using GPS on snow plows:
1) snow plows are usually out on the roads before the snowstorm has stopped, and driving conditions are dangerous even for snow plows. If the plow is in an accident, GPS can provide tracking for emergency help.
2) Dispatch can monitor progress of all plows and see which areas are behind and can re-assign plows as needed.
3) GPS tracking data can show how recently each street has been plowed. This can be fed into a road conditions website, so if someone has to go somewhere, they can plan the safest route.
I would think that if you are going to spend money on GPS tracking you should do something useful with it instead of keeping a big brother eye on contractors just to make sure that Mr. Plow is actually out on the streets and not hanging at Moe's with the Plow King.
or will you be voting for the lesser of thoes two evils this time around?
Don't forget: voting for the lesser evil is still a vote for EVIL. Vote for the candidate that best reflects your values, no matter what their party. You will not change the situation by continuing to vote for the status quo.
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I want one of those styrofoam boulders that they used in every other episode.
He also misspelled the party name, "Libral", the name of the riding Beacon Hill, not "Becon" and even the politician's name! (Should be Jeff Bray). In addition he is confusing his local representatives: Jeff Bray is the provincial MLA for Victoria-Beacon Hill, while David Anderson is the federal MP for Victoria.
It would probably be pointless to send anything to Jeff Bray, particularly since he will be unemployed in 5 weeks.
I discovered that there are a few Canadian 1 and 2 dollar bills out there, usually hiding in US banks. A couple of years ago, my cousin from Idaho came up for a visit. Before leaving, she went to her local bank to get some Canadian currency and they gave her a bunch of 1 and 2 dollar bills.
Unfortunatly it doesn't work for Flash animations.
The trick to getting rid of Flash ads with NukeAnything is to right-click just off the edge of the ad. This avoids bringing up the Flash menu, but you are still within the container for the Flash object.
It would be nice though if a future version had the ability to insert the "Remove this object" command into the Flash menu, or if there were a way to execute the command without going throught the right click menu (eg. alt+click or something).
Within 3 months Michael Powell will be working as a lobbyist for a large media corportation.
For many tech companies these days, it's downright impossible to figure out what they actually do from their marketing material.
Down the street from my place there is a business in a second floor office. At the street entrance there is a brightly lit sign with the business name on it: "Dynamic Solutions". There is absolutely no clue given as to what they actually do. I wonder if the sign gets them any walk-in business?
So in other words, telomeres are basically DRM for life forms? Who came up with that idea? I guess we will just have to stick to creating life the analog way...
I remember reading this story when it was happening more that 2 years ago. At that time it was reported that experts were highly doubtful that the tubes were for nuclear refinement.
Why does it seem that nobody listens to what anybody else says if the president claims something contrary. Do you think the guy in the Oval Office is some kind of God handing down holy truth and his word is to be trusted above anyone else's -- even if they are experts on the issue?
Grow up, Americans! It's time you got over your infantile fixation on hero figures and giving them divine, infallable status.
I don't know what it is like in other countries, but here in Canada, even people who generally like the Prime Minister will treat things he says with a measure of healthy scepticism. And if a bunch of experts line up saying the PM is full of shit, people will listen to the experts, not the PM.
When this was in the news 2 years ago, it was easy enough to conclude that the White House was off base in its assertions. Why is it just now that people are thinking "Hey! Maybe the experts were right and the president was wrong"?
I was getting tired of the CIA monitoring all my communications.
I find it rather curious that the states with the highest support for Ralph Nader are Idaho and Montana, both at 6%. Does anybody have any insight as to why he is (relativly) popular in this corner of the country?
Pretention. You're a small company, but you can give the impression that you're a BIG company in order to make potential clients trust you with their business.
Deceiving your potential clients doesn't seem like a very good way to inspire trust. Besides, what happens when they try to call you back and end up reaching the Big Company instead?
Either:
a) they discover that you hoaxed them and report your fraudulent activity to the police, or,
b) they thought it was the Big Company in the first place, and now your major competitor has your new client.
Even if they decide they want to do business with you, they can't because they don't know your real number.
I hope you are making an honest living because you would suck at being a shady businessman.
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Reality is as reality does.
Why hide your DVD-R backup under the desk? Carry it with you. That way you will always have access to your data, no matter where you are.
Also, if something happens that is severe enough to destroy the disk, it will probably also kill you, so you won't be needing that data backup anymore.
I think the Globe and Mail have their system set up so that casual visitors aren't required to register, but frequent visitors are. (Easy enough to track with cookies.)
This policy makes more sense than all the other news sites make you register just to read one article even though you'll probably never read their site again. Fortunate for those, there is bugmenot.com.
I think it is grossly unfair to make everybody pay for wiretapping when the majority of people will themselves never be wiretapped. Kind of like paying the private copying levy on blank CDs when all you are doing is backing up your data.
To be fair, they should only add the levy to the phone bills of people who are being wiretapped.
Is a capitilist driven system superior to a state run system? Most definately.
If you wish to make assertions about the superiority of a capitalist system, it would definitely behoove you to learn how to spell.
Or do you blame the state run schools for your semi-illiteracy?
I thought most of the actors in LOTR were celebrities.
I tend to be obvious about my information poisoning. My name for registration purposes is "Private Individual", my address is 123 Fake St., Fake City. My email address uses the domain @example.com. The only truthful information I usually give is my country -- I figure that much won't compromise my privacy, and they could easily figure it out anyway from my IP address.
If they insist on other demographic info, my occupation is "Other" and my birthdate is in the 1800's.
I really do hope they pass my info to their advertisers so they can see the poor quality of the info they are getting.
As everyone has equal rights to vote, everyone's rights must be protected equally. At the same time, everyone has an equal privilege to the privacy of the vote. If a blind person can't read the receipt, he has to choose either less privacy (by having someone verify it) or less protection (by not doing so). It definitely creates a disparity of privilege for the individual.
So since blind people can't verify their vote, the way to make it fair is to make it so that no one can verify their vote???!!
!
Well I'm probably going to cast my vote for the Green Party. Fiscally conservative, socially progressive and for enviromentally sustainablility. They are the only party taking a long term view, such as what kind of country are we leaving for our kids to inherit, instead of seeing no further than the next election like the other parties.
Even if the Green candidate in your riding doesn't win, your vote still counts for something under the new election campaign financing rules.
You can download the Canadian English (or even NZ or Australian English) spellchecker dictionary for OpenOffice / Star Office from this location.
Dictionaries for several dozen other languages are also available. Includes some that probably aren't available for MS Word - Moari, Faroese, Setswana, Zulu, etc.
When Black Holes Attack!
Here are some very practical reasons for using GPS on snow plows:
1) snow plows are usually out on the roads before the snowstorm has stopped, and driving conditions are dangerous even for snow plows. If the plow is in an accident, GPS can provide tracking for emergency help.
2) Dispatch can monitor progress of all plows and see which areas are behind and can re-assign plows as needed.
3) GPS tracking data can show how recently each street has been plowed. This can be fed into a road conditions website, so if someone has to go somewhere, they can plan the safest route.
I would think that if you are going to spend money on GPS tracking you should do something useful with it instead of keeping a big brother eye on contractors just to make sure that Mr. Plow is actually out on the streets and not hanging at Moe's with the Plow King.
In 20 years Indian tech companies will be outsourcing work to cheap American labour.
In other words, politicians won't take anything serioiusly until someone goes out and kills a bunch of trees to make their point.
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Ideology is for ideots.
or will you be voting for the lesser of thoes two evils this time around?
Don't forget: voting for the lesser evil is still a vote for EVIL. Vote for the candidate that best reflects your values, no matter what their party. You will not change the situation by continuing to vote for the status quo.
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Ideology is for ideots.