a new business privacy act went into place as well, protecting individuals from shoddy business handling of information.
For those who don't know, part of this act is that businesses can't ask for unneeded information about you when you're buying a product or service. That means when you buy batteries from Radioshack, they don't ask for your life history anymore.
My guesses: Easily fatigued, less energy, sleeps more then usual. Requirement to get up and move on a regular basis slowing productiveness. Risk of passing out regularly. Regular visits to the hospital due to emergencies small and large which take out a good chunk of time for learning.
But how is being fatigued all the time a learning disability? I mean specifically a learning disability. A person with mononucleosis would have similar problems (except hospital visits) but I wouldn't consider them learning disabled.
Unless the heart condition caused something to happen in the brain, the heart condition itself doesn't sound like it would stop the person from learning normally except they wouldn't be able to learn for long stretches of time. Maybe there's something else to heart conditions that I don't know about, that's why I asked the question.
But there's no point in doing so, because it's every bit as legal to use $P2P_APP_OF_CHOICE in Canada to download for free.
That depends on how lazy you are and how particular you are in how you want your music. Say you want the album Day For Night by The Tragically Hip in Ogg Vorbis at a particular bitrate. You're unlikely to find that on any p2p network but allofmp3 will encode it for you. Even if you could find the files you want in the format you want and at the bitrate you want, the speed is probably faster through allofmp3. It'll probably cost you about $1 or less depending on bitrate.
This is why, for example, school prayer is still illegal. A law mandating, or even allowing it, would have the effect of establishing a particular religion, (i.e., that of the majority in that school, which is usually some christian denomination).
Just a slight correction on this. Praying at school is not illegal. A student can pray all they want at recess, during lunch, and during other free times. They can also pray before, during, and after a test as long as it doesn't disrupt other students (meaning do so silently).
I am 15 and learning disabled because of a serious heart condition. I am having a difficult time in school.
Could someone with medical training let me know how a heart condition affects your ability to learn? Unless it's either not pumping enough blood to the brain now or didn't pump enough blood to the brain early in life.
Unless you're a Russian citizen, living in Russia, listening to the music in Russia, allofmp3.com is also not legal.
It's not limited only to Russia. I've heard it argued that allofmp3.com is illegal to use in the US, but it looks legal in other countries. For example, the law in Canada allows people to make copies for personal use. The source of the song doesn't really matter for the person receiving the song. Any country with a similar provision in their copyright law should be okay with allofmp3
The RCMP are the equivalent of police officers in rural areas that cannot afford to have their own Police Department. They give speeding tickets, report to accidents/crime scenes, etc. just like any police officer would do.
Except in Ontario and Quebec where rural areas are covered by the OPP and whatever the Quebec provincial police are called (QPP maybe?). I don't think any of the other provinces have provincial police forces.
here is what it will take for me to pay for music: 1) must host every song ever, available for immediate speedy download in more than a few different formats/bitrates 2) a query tool (genre, artist, date of release, lyrics, etc) at LEAST a simple search utility 3) when I select a song I want to see the list of "other people who selected this song also selected.."
allofmp3.com has most of those requirements. They don't host every song ever but they do have songs that other online retailers don't have (The Beatles). It's also setup so that you can pick your format and bitrate. They have a reasonably good search tool. If you know the name of the song, album, or band, you can probably find it. And they have a "similar artists" function.
Of course, I'm not sure how legal it is for those in the US, but it's fine in Canada. Cheap too. 5 US dollars gets you 500MB of music.
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*Sigh* When will the death penalty ever be abandoned in the few remaining countries that still have it?
Who said I was for the death penalty? The last execution in my country was in 1962. It was removed from civilian law in 1976 and from military law in 1998. I think it's a pointless form of punishment, does nothing to deter crimes, and has resulted in too many innocent people being executed.
And IMHO, there's nothing honourable in throwing away something that you don't own; that's why suicide is a crime in many countries.
You don't own your own life? Why should others be allowed to decide when my life ends? I didn't really explain my point very well. If you know you killed someone else and have a choice between killing yourself and going through trial, killing yourself saves the family of the victim the grief of going through trial, saves the state from spending resources on the trial, and saves the executioner from having to live with himself. The goal is to lessen the amount of suffering for everyone involved.
What if you murdered someone and believe you should face the ultimate penalty for it?
It's my understanding that suicide is the honourable thing in that situation. Though I guess pleading guilty and being sentenced to death is a form of suicide.
Legal disclaimer: it's not my fault if you kill yourself in a situation like this. If you kill yourself, don't come and sue me afterwards.
Nearly as good, perhaps, but while you may have minimized light pollution by using the Antartic you still have the atmosphere diffusing incoming light.
Wouldn't the other problem be the southern lights?
Because Bush has the Christian Right, a sizeable population. Bush can screw the enviroment, tax people into the ground, reinstate the draft, declare war on canada and mexico and still have the christian right's vote.
Yup, this is done in Niagara Falls to keep up with daytime demand. At night, water is pumped into a resevoir. During the day, the water is sent back over the falls where these same pumps act as generators.
It's also done so that Niagra Falls actually has plenty of water flowing over it during the daytime. Niagara Falls wouldn't be nearly as attractive as a tourist trap if it only had a trickle flowing over it.
He moved from California to Texas because of Texas' more liberal gun laws
Does anyone else find it interesting that less restrictive laws on guns are called liberal? Yes that's the correct usage of the word, but if we were to go by what the media calls liberal, the words Texas, liberal, and gun laws would probably not go together.
At least around here (NJ), the sidewalks in neighborhoods are privately owned. The sidewalk in front of each homeowner's home is part of his plot. Local laws provide that 1. you must maintain your sidewalk (ie shovel the snow) and 2. your sidewalk is considered a public easement (ie meant for the public to walk across).
What happens if a section of the sidewalk is cracked and falls apart? Do you have to go out there with your concrete truck and pour another section of sidewalk?
It sounds to me like it's just a way for the government to avoid plowing sidewalks but still have them cleared off.
I think you've either encountered a disproportionate amount of Americans who don't type "eh", or your statistics are flawed. I've seen a lot of Americans, including myself, make fun of you guys (and you Minnesotans too) and we all type "eh".
You're probably right about that. I only really notice the ones who type "aye" and don't think of the ones that actually type "eh". It's just something that's really jarring to read. That said, I have noticed it a number of times on slashdot. So people, if you're going to make fun of a group of people based on their country, race, religion, or whatever, take the time to do it right.
or our municipa elections here in Toronto we fill out a ballot (often with 20 or 30 candidates on it because for a couple hundred bucks any knob can get on the ballot), and what happens is you fill it out, then bring it to the 'box' which is a machine. it reads the pencil marks you've made, and if you've done it wrong it rejects it.
The last municipal election we had here was sadly a vote by mail election. Too cheap to pay for polling stations I guess. I'm pretty sure the votes weren't tampered with (at least not by the incumbents) since almost everyone in power got the boot.
It might have something to do with the slight difference in population between Canada and the United States?
The great thing about vote counting is that it scales really well. You have 10 times the population? That's fine. You probably have 10 times the number of voting locations and times the number of voting booths. This also means you have ten times the number of people running the voting booths. And you should also have 10 times the number of party representatives to witness the counting of the ballots.
The big difference is that Canadian elections are normally for one thing at a time. We normally only have 3 types of elections: Federal, Provincial, and Municipal. Federal we elect a Member of Parliament. Provincial we elect a Member of Provincial Parliament. Municipal varies but you normally elect a mayor, deputy mayor, a representative for your Ward (section of the area), and school board representatives. The only other time we normally vote is for referendums. These are rare; the last one I recall was the Quebec referendum on seperating from the country. And that was in 1995.
From what I understand of the American system, they tend to vote on a whole bunch of issues on one ballot. It shouldn't take all that long to count the ballots, but if they really want speed and a paper trail, then "fill in the bubble with a pencil" scantron sheets would probably be best. At least there'd be no chads to worry about.
They got a professional crew in, guys that clean out ambulances, crime scenes, etc. The car still reeked at the end of the show, and wound up getting sold for the engine & transmission.
Just a clarification. The professionals gave them some tips and some training on how to clean a vehicle but the professionals weren't the ones cleaning the car. The boss of the professional cleaning company mostly seemed to stand fairly far back, say that he's smelled worse smells, and chuckle at the Mythbusters. The hosts of the show later said that the professional guy said that his crew would take a few days taking the thing apart and cleaning every crevice, then put it back together. I got the feeling that this would not be cheap to do.
The writer of that article seems too impatient to research the subject he writes of. Any other authors I'm missing?
Try the author quoted in the article, Robert J. Sawyer. His books are generally hard science fiction. Depends on what you want to read though. If you want courtroom drama, try Illegal Alien. If you want alternate universe friendly neanderthals, try Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids. For discussion about the existence of a god, try Calculating God. Genetic engineering, try Frameshift. Artifical intelligence, try The Terminal Experiment. For a first contact story, try Factoring Humanity (the author's personal favourite).
Here in Canada there's ONE store, Chapters. If a book doesn't make their inventory for whatever reason, it doesn't get sold.
Untrue, there's also Coles bookstores. Of course, they're owned by the same parent company (Indigo), but they are a different store. Your point still stands though.
In this country it's perfectly legal to have sex with a 16 year old - they are considered adult at that age (on the other hand 16 year old boys have been put on trial as paedophiles for having sex with their 15 year old girlfriends... the law is just as crappy over here).
Want to know the really weird thing? In this country (Canada), the legal age of consent is 14. That means an adult can have sex with a 14 - 17 year old. But, and this is a big but, recordings of that sex would be considered child porn. So I can have sex with a girl who is 14, 15, 16, or 17 but if any pictures are taken, those pictures are illegal.
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a new business privacy act went into place as well, protecting individuals from shoddy business handling of information.
For those who don't know, part of this act is that businesses can't ask for unneeded information about you when you're buying a product or service. That means when you buy batteries from Radioshack, they don't ask for your life history anymore.
My guesses: Easily fatigued, less energy, sleeps more then usual. Requirement to get up and move on a regular basis slowing productiveness. Risk of passing out regularly. Regular visits to the hospital due to emergencies small and large which take out a good chunk of time for learning.
But how is being fatigued all the time a learning disability? I mean specifically a learning disability. A person with mononucleosis would have similar problems (except hospital visits) but I wouldn't consider them learning disabled.
Unless the heart condition caused something to happen in the brain, the heart condition itself doesn't sound like it would stop the person from learning normally except they wouldn't be able to learn for long stretches of time. Maybe there's something else to heart conditions that I don't know about, that's why I asked the question.
But there's no point in doing so, because it's every bit as legal to use $P2P_APP_OF_CHOICE in Canada to download for free.
That depends on how lazy you are and how particular you are in how you want your music. Say you want the album Day For Night by The Tragically Hip in Ogg Vorbis at a particular bitrate. You're unlikely to find that on any p2p network but allofmp3 will encode it for you. Even if you could find the files you want in the format you want and at the bitrate you want, the speed is probably faster through allofmp3. It'll probably cost you about $1 or less depending on bitrate.
This is why, for example, school prayer is still illegal. A law mandating, or even allowing it, would have the effect of establishing a particular religion, (i.e., that of the majority in that school, which is usually some christian denomination).
Just a slight correction on this. Praying at school is not illegal. A student can pray all they want at recess, during lunch, and during other free times. They can also pray before, during, and after a test as long as it doesn't disrupt other students (meaning do so silently).
I am 15 and learning disabled because of a serious heart condition. I am having a difficult time in school.
Could someone with medical training let me know how a heart condition affects your ability to learn? Unless it's either not pumping enough blood to the brain now or didn't pump enough blood to the brain early in life.
Unless you're a Russian citizen, living in Russia, listening to the music in Russia, allofmp3.com is also not legal.
It's not limited only to Russia. I've heard it argued that allofmp3.com is illegal to use in the US, but it looks legal in other countries. For example, the law in Canada allows people to make copies for personal use. The source of the song doesn't really matter for the person receiving the song. Any country with a similar provision in their copyright law should be okay with allofmp3
The RCMP are the equivalent of police officers in rural areas that cannot afford to have their own Police Department. They give speeding tickets, report to accidents/crime scenes, etc. just like any police officer would do.
Except in Ontario and Quebec where rural areas are covered by the OPP and whatever the Quebec provincial police are called (QPP maybe?). I don't think any of the other provinces have provincial police forces.
Jokes about how much $1600 CDN is in US dollars in 3...2...1
(it's about $1255 according to xe.com's currency converter)
here is what it will take for me to pay for music:
1) must host every song ever, available for immediate speedy download in more than a few different formats/bitrates
2) a query tool (genre, artist, date of release, lyrics, etc) at LEAST a simple search utility
3) when I select a song I want to see the list of "other people who selected this song also selected.."
allofmp3.com has most of those requirements. They don't host every song ever but they do have songs that other online retailers don't have (The Beatles). It's also setup so that you can pick your format and bitrate. They have a reasonably good search tool. If you know the name of the song, album, or band, you can probably find it. And they have a "similar artists" function.
Of course, I'm not sure how legal it is for those in the US, but it's fine in Canada. Cheap too. 5 US dollars gets you 500MB of music.
*Sigh* When will the death penalty ever be abandoned in the few remaining countries that still have it?
Who said I was for the death penalty? The last execution in my country was in 1962. It was removed from civilian law in 1976 and from military law in 1998. I think it's a pointless form of punishment, does nothing to deter crimes, and has resulted in too many innocent people being executed.
And IMHO, there's nothing honourable in throwing away something that you don't own; that's why suicide is a crime in many countries.
You don't own your own life? Why should others be allowed to decide when my life ends? I didn't really explain my point very well. If you know you killed someone else and have a choice between killing yourself and going through trial, killing yourself saves the family of the victim the grief of going through trial, saves the state from spending resources on the trial, and saves the executioner from having to live with himself. The goal is to lessen the amount of suffering for everyone involved.
Just my take on it.
What if you murdered someone and believe you should face the ultimate penalty for it?
It's my understanding that suicide is the honourable thing in that situation. Though I guess pleading guilty and being sentenced to death is a form of suicide.
Legal disclaimer: it's not my fault if you kill yourself in a situation like this. If you kill yourself, don't come and sue me afterwards.
Nearly as good, perhaps, but while you may have minimized light pollution by using the Antartic you still have the atmosphere diffusing incoming light.
Wouldn't the other problem be the southern lights?
Because Bush has the Christian Right, a sizeable population. Bush can screw the enviroment, tax people into the ground, reinstate the draft, declare war on canada and mexico and still have the christian right's vote.
Hey, don't give him any ideas.
Yup, this is done in Niagara Falls to keep up with daytime demand. At night, water is pumped into a resevoir. During the day, the water is sent back over the falls where these same pumps act as generators.
It's also done so that Niagra Falls actually has plenty of water flowing over it during the daytime. Niagara Falls wouldn't be nearly as attractive as a tourist trap if it only had a trickle flowing over it.
It's a little hard fly like superman on a roller coaster, even if the roller coaster is called "fly like superman roller coaster".
You probably can fly like superman for a little bit if you wiggle out of your harness, it's just the landing would be very unsuperman-like.
He moved from California to Texas because of Texas' more liberal gun laws
Does anyone else find it interesting that less restrictive laws on guns are called liberal? Yes that's the correct usage of the word, but if we were to go by what the media calls liberal, the words Texas, liberal, and gun laws would probably not go together.
At least around here (NJ), the sidewalks in neighborhoods are privately owned. The sidewalk in front of each homeowner's home is part of his plot. Local laws provide that 1. you must maintain your sidewalk (ie shovel the snow) and 2. your sidewalk is considered a public easement (ie meant for the public to walk across).
What happens if a section of the sidewalk is cracked and falls apart? Do you have to go out there with your concrete truck and pour another section of sidewalk?
It sounds to me like it's just a way for the government to avoid plowing sidewalks but still have them cleared off.
I think you've either encountered a disproportionate amount of Americans who don't type "eh", or your statistics are flawed. I've seen a lot of Americans, including myself, make fun of you guys (and you Minnesotans too) and we all type "eh".
You're probably right about that. I only really notice the ones who type "aye" and don't think of the ones that actually type "eh". It's just something that's really jarring to read. That said, I have noticed it a number of times on slashdot. So people, if you're going to make fun of a group of people based on their country, race, religion, or whatever, take the time to do it right.
As long as you don't change our national motto to "Land of the free, aye?"
Why do americans think that "eh" is spelled "aye"?
eh is pronounced like the letter A.
aye is pronounced like the letter I.
It's not that hard.
or our municipa elections here in Toronto we fill out a ballot (often with 20 or 30 candidates on it because for a couple hundred bucks any knob can get on the ballot), and what happens is you fill it out, then bring it to the 'box' which is a machine. it reads the pencil marks you've made, and if you've done it wrong it rejects it.
The last municipal election we had here was sadly a vote by mail election. Too cheap to pay for polling stations I guess. I'm pretty sure the votes weren't tampered with (at least not by the incumbents) since almost everyone in power got the boot.
It might have something to do with the slight difference in population between Canada and the United States?
The great thing about vote counting is that it scales really well. You have 10 times the population? That's fine. You probably have 10 times the number of voting locations and times the number of voting booths. This also means you have ten times the number of people running the voting booths. And you should also have 10 times the number of party representatives to witness the counting of the ballots.
The big difference is that Canadian elections are normally for one thing at a time. We normally only have 3 types of elections: Federal, Provincial, and Municipal. Federal we elect a Member of Parliament. Provincial we elect a Member of Provincial Parliament. Municipal varies but you normally elect a mayor, deputy mayor, a representative for your Ward (section of the area), and school board representatives. The only other time we normally vote is for referendums. These are rare; the last one I recall was the Quebec referendum on seperating from the country. And that was in 1995.
From what I understand of the American system, they tend to vote on a whole bunch of issues on one ballot. It shouldn't take all that long to count the ballots, but if they really want speed and a paper trail, then "fill in the bubble with a pencil" scantron sheets would probably be best. At least there'd be no chads to worry about.
They got a professional crew in, guys that clean out ambulances, crime scenes, etc. The car still reeked at the end of the show, and wound up getting sold for the engine & transmission.
Just a clarification. The professionals gave them some tips and some training on how to clean a vehicle but the professionals weren't the ones cleaning the car. The boss of the professional cleaning company mostly seemed to stand fairly far back, say that he's smelled worse smells, and chuckle at the Mythbusters. The hosts of the show later said that the professional guy said that his crew would take a few days taking the thing apart and cleaning every crevice, then put it back together. I got the feeling that this would not be cheap to do.
The writer of that article seems too impatient to research the subject he writes of. Any other authors I'm missing?
Try the author quoted in the article, Robert J. Sawyer. His books are generally hard science fiction. Depends on what you want to read though. If you want courtroom drama, try Illegal Alien. If you want alternate universe friendly neanderthals, try Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids. For discussion about the existence of a god, try Calculating God. Genetic engineering, try Frameshift. Artifical intelligence, try The Terminal Experiment. For a first contact story, try Factoring Humanity (the author's personal favourite).
Here in Canada there's ONE store, Chapters. If a book doesn't make their inventory for whatever reason, it doesn't get sold.
Untrue, there's also Coles bookstores. Of course, they're owned by the same parent company (Indigo), but they are a different store. Your point still stands though.
In this country it's perfectly legal to have sex with a 16 year old - they are considered adult at that age (on the other hand 16 year old boys have been put on trial as paedophiles for having sex with their 15 year old girlfriends... the law is just as crappy over here).
Want to know the really weird thing? In this country (Canada), the legal age of consent is 14. That means an adult can have sex with a 14 - 17 year old. But, and this is a big but, recordings of that sex would be considered child porn. So I can have sex with a girl who is 14, 15, 16, or 17 but if any pictures are taken, those pictures are illegal.