Wow... it looks like they had no choice but to go this route. Better to have people using their software than risking a fork incompatible with their commercial code.
Canada runs it provincially. It's a mandate by the Federal government.
So think of it run at the state level. Yes, even with people trying to cross state lines because they like the healthcare better on the other side. (regardless of separation of church and state, think about state policies regarding abortion, same sex spousal recognition, birth control, fertility, etc)
If you can live, work, vacation, conduct business, trade and travel within one country, see the arctic, visit sunny warm beaches on both the Atlantic and the Pacific without needing a passport, you wouldn't need to concern yourself with foreign affairs or world geography.
Refugees are people who will probably not live if you sent them back home.
"I thought we were pals."
Don't identify with your nation like you might identify with a sports team. You are not the U.S., you can't take resposibility for the errors of your government, nor can you take responsibility for their successes. Besides, it makes you sound dumb.
Meanwhile, insurance rates in this countly are through the roof for buisness getting sued into the ground becasue someone stupid hurt themselves with their product, because the warning label did not state something that should have been common sense
That's your public health insurance subsidy. "Have you been injured in an accident?! call <insert lawyer here>."
Not a very efficient system, but the lawyers like it.
Those things happened, but there was a person who was legally and financially responsible for their actions.
People would be less willing to pull in child slave labour, or put cities out of work if they lived in those cities or could be thrown in jail by the government of the child slaves.
Yeah, ultimately all decisions are made by people. But the decisions which are made against what is percieved to be in the best economic interest of the shareholders must be answered to and will probably result in termination.
The mistake is not made in the small actions of people at the bottom, it's made in the small actions of the government years ago to allow such structures to exist.
Yep. They have no soul, they have no conscience, no moral or ethical values, no sympathy, and no regrets. They're money machines which would kill people if it were in the best interest of their shareholders.
Yeah they take direction from groups of humans, but the mechanisms of the corporation can dispose of humans which get in the way of those shareholders.
I have to agree here, it always seemed like common sense.
I don't like speaking about farming issues, I'm a city-folk, I haven't spent enough time on farms, and I don't have the nerve to discipline a restless dog, but the cows I've met are pretty sharp. They are usually just not doing anything worth mentioning.
Get near a cow with a calf. Their "instincts" are pretty sophisticated, they seem to have an emotional relationship with farmers involving certain amounts of trust and fear, and it all comes into play when they have to make decisions about trusting a human, or protecting a calf.
In B.C., there's an island where some cows have gone feral. They have eveyrthing they need to survive in the wild with no human interaction. They've even had calves, which have grown into more feral cows.
...well, I should say cows and bulls:-)
That's better survival skills than most humans or dogs.
There's a huge barrier to implementing, testing, manufacturing and selling a device like a washing machine. It's not just a drum with a motor. If you prove it is viable by mass-producing it and testing the market, it would be nice to know that a bigger manufacturer couldn't buy one, take it apart, duplicate it and undercut you and your development costs.
You couldn't even sell the idea to the manufacturer unless you had a patent.
It's tough to draw a line between something like an MP3 player, a Washing machine and a one-click patent. I think that there's a moral intuition that it has something to do with the relationship between the effort to produce, test and market the invention, and the risk or cost of failure. IMHO, it's F-ing obvious that the one-click patent is an inevitable evolutionary development on the web, nearly zero-effort to produce and hence nearly zero cost of failure and absolutely not in need of patent protection.
But the MP3 format would not exist if it were not for the Frauenhofer patent.... on the other hand, Ogg might have not existed if it were not for it, or Ogg might have existed earlier.
Sony did sell albums in MD format, at least in Canada. They might still sell them. It was all very mainstream stuff.
The problem IMHO with the MD, was that it was priced far too high. I think for a long time it was $400CDN + blank disks? Everybody knew what they were, and they knew they were superior, they just couldn't justify the cost.
By comparision, a top-end kick-ass casette sized portable tape player (yeah, not a Sony Walkman) cost $200CDN. That's about the size and weight of an MD. Sony was selling nice durable walkmans for $80CDN, and much cheaper brands ($30-40CDN) were commonplace.
You could trade tapes with your friends, record them on your home system, or play them at strange parties without unplugging things. If you wanted top-notch audio quality without recording, then CDs were king -- cheaper and better quality than MD.
Very true about musicians. Up until very recently, the MD was the cheapest way to get a good portable audio recording.
Nemisis was a Wrath of Khan remake which replaced recent generational memories of mid-atlantic submarine warfare, disasterous mistakes in eugenics and popular wild west overtones with science fantasy, bioethics debates in cloning, THX sound and a heap of smouldering CGI.
Now that's not even a theory, that's a pure assertion.
The theory of Evolution has clearly not been proven untrue, since we're not privy to a scientific examination of the unfolding of creation. Whether or not the theory of Evolution describes the facts which led to our existence will never be known. To say it is not a fact, is to presume that you have some supernatural insight. You do not.
(Despite reigious beliefs which you may or may not posess, your lack of supernatural insight into the creation of the universe is a fact and it's quite impossible to contradict in any objective way.)
I too would prefer more stickers. Stickers indicating that the aforementioned stickers are not proven facts, but they themselves are opinions regarding the factual nature of the theories contained within the attached book.
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Only a geek would call a "bass" a "guitar"
oh wait...
It might be better for Google to just block the disputed domain altogether. It's easier.
Wow... it looks like they had no choice but to go this route. Better to have people using their software than risking a fork incompatible with their commercial code.
Very cool
Canada runs it provincially. It's a mandate by the Federal government.
So think of it run at the state level. Yes, even with people trying to cross state lines because they like the healthcare better on the other side. (regardless of separation of church and state, think about state policies regarding abortion, same sex spousal recognition, birth control, fertility, etc)
If you can live, work, vacation, conduct business, trade and travel within one country, see the arctic, visit sunny warm beaches on both the Atlantic and the Pacific without needing a passport, you wouldn't need to concern yourself with foreign affairs or world geography.
You just wouldn't!
I think he's just saying that raw fish should not remind a woman that they need to visit the drug store.
Refugees are people who will probably not live if you sent them back home.
"I thought we were pals."
Don't identify with your nation like you might identify with a sports team. You are not the U.S., you can't take resposibility for the errors of your government, nor can you take responsibility for their successes. Besides, it makes you sound dumb.
It's a bad thing in this case.
Netscape? That bloated trash with all the crud bundled in with it?
Yeah, but it's better now... it's based on a lightweight Mozilla browser and its cousin Firefox.
... later that day...
This thing sucks. AIM keeps popping up and the browser is trying to sell me stuff. Glad we didn't consider any of that viral open source crud.
Meanwhile, insurance rates in this countly are through the roof for buisness getting sued into the ground becasue someone stupid hurt themselves with their product, because the warning label did not state something that should have been common sense
That's your public health insurance subsidy. "Have you been injured in an accident?! call <insert lawyer here>."
Not a very efficient system, but the lawyers like it.
Most subnotebooks occupy fewer cubic inches than the mini, including a display and battery.. The size of the thing really isn't all that big a deal.
Those things happened, but there was a person who was legally and financially responsible for their actions.
People would be less willing to pull in child slave labour, or put cities out of work if they lived in those cities or could be thrown in jail by the government of the child slaves.
Yeah, ultimately all decisions are made by people. But the decisions which are made against what is percieved to be in the best economic interest of the shareholders must be answered to and will probably result in termination.
The mistake is not made in the small actions of people at the bottom, it's made in the small actions of the government years ago to allow such structures to exist.
Yep. They have no soul, they have no conscience, no moral or ethical values, no sympathy, and no regrets. They're money machines which would kill people if it were in the best interest of their shareholders.
Yeah they take direction from groups of humans, but the mechanisms of the corporation can dispose of humans which get in the way of those shareholders.
"How can they have a billion less in revenue and a billion more in income?"
They sell in foreign markets and pay developers in the collapsing U.S. dollar.
Or any of hundreds of possible reasons.
I have to agree here, it always seemed like common sense.
I don't like speaking about farming issues, I'm a city-folk, I haven't spent enough time on farms, and I don't have the nerve to discipline a restless dog, but the cows I've met are pretty sharp. They are usually just not doing anything worth mentioning.
Get near a cow with a calf. Their "instincts" are pretty sophisticated, they seem to have an emotional relationship with farmers involving certain amounts of trust and fear, and it all comes into play when they have to make decisions about trusting a human, or protecting a calf.
In B.C., there's an island where some cows have gone feral. They have eveyrthing they need to survive in the wild with no human interaction. They've even had calves, which have grown into more feral cows.
...well, I should say cows and bulls :-)
That's better survival skills than most humans or dogs.
It floods competitors out of the market.
This might be the first serious move for a corporation to defend their EULA "let's use the police to enforce our business" model.
Do you mean a simulation other than your left hand?
Their lawyers may also have had difficulty finding grounds for appeal which didn't attack the original ruling. I would't read much into this.
My ex girlfriend gave me one of these... 8 years ago. It's now four plants, I have to give some away.
These things make great gifts. We broke up on very amicable terms and had a great relationship, so it's a happy little plant to have around.
I'm having some luck with bamboo too. Seems to be quite resiliant, maybe up there with spider plants and devil's ivy.
There's a huge barrier to implementing, testing, manufacturing and selling a device like a washing machine. It's not just a drum with a motor. If you prove it is viable by mass-producing it and testing the market, it would be nice to know that a bigger manufacturer couldn't buy one, take it apart, duplicate it and undercut you and your development costs.
You couldn't even sell the idea to the manufacturer unless you had a patent.
It's tough to draw a line between something like an MP3 player, a Washing machine and a one-click patent. I think that there's a moral intuition that it has something to do with the relationship between the effort to produce, test and market the invention, and the risk or cost of failure. IMHO, it's F-ing obvious that the one-click patent is an inevitable evolutionary development on the web, nearly zero-effort to produce and hence nearly zero cost of failure and absolutely not in need of patent protection.
But the MP3 format would not exist if it were not for the Frauenhofer patent.... on the other hand, Ogg might have not existed if it were not for it, or Ogg might have existed earlier.
Sony did sell albums in MD format, at least in Canada. They might still sell them. It was all very mainstream stuff.
The problem IMHO with the MD, was that it was priced far too high. I think for a long time it was $400CDN + blank disks? Everybody knew what they were, and they knew they were superior, they just couldn't justify the cost.
By comparision, a top-end kick-ass casette sized portable tape player (yeah, not a Sony Walkman) cost $200CDN. That's about the size and weight of an MD. Sony was selling nice durable walkmans for $80CDN, and much cheaper brands ($30-40CDN) were commonplace.
You could trade tapes with your friends, record them on your home system, or play them at strange parties without unplugging things. If you wanted top-notch audio quality without recording, then CDs were king -- cheaper and better quality than MD.
Very true about musicians. Up until very recently, the MD was the cheapest way to get a good portable audio recording.
Nemisis was a Wrath of Khan remake which replaced recent generational memories of mid-atlantic submarine warfare, disasterous mistakes in eugenics and popular wild west overtones with science fantasy, bioethics debates in cloning, THX sound and a heap of smouldering CGI.
"Therefore, it is not a fact"
Now that's not even a theory, that's a pure assertion.
The theory of Evolution has clearly not been proven untrue, since we're not privy to a scientific examination of the unfolding of creation. Whether or not the theory of Evolution describes the facts which led to our existence will never be known. To say it is not a fact, is to presume that you have some supernatural insight. You do not.
(Despite reigious beliefs which you may or may not posess, your lack of supernatural insight into the creation of the universe is a fact and it's quite impossible to contradict in any objective way.)
I too would prefer more stickers. Stickers indicating that the aforementioned stickers are not proven facts, but they themselves are opinions regarding the factual nature of the theories contained within the attached book.
And oddly, it's "stuff that matters"