Solar is attractive because it isn't seasonal (unlike hydroelectric, which is only available during a portion of the year and is usually unavailable during the time we need it most, summer)
Kind of the opposite here in Ontario. The length of time the sun is out changes a lot. On June 20th of this year, the sun rose at 5:45am and set at 9:07pm (at my location of course). On December 20th of this year, the sun will rise at 7:52am and set at 4:52pm. The further north you go, the more drastic the changes.
Solar power should work out reasonably well even with those changes in daylight hours because peak electric use is during the summer where the most power is used.
Why is hydroelectric generation seasonal? It's my understanding that most of our hydro is generated using dams. Some is generated on rivers such as the Niagara River. Do your rivers dry up in the summer or something?
safety gear must be in place to "... ensure that a fall protection system is in place when employees or students work at elevations greater than 3 m (10ft) or where a fall from a lesser height involves an unusual risk of injury."
That's mostly for people working on ladders, scissor lifts, or on top of buildings. It means you wear a harness so if you fall you don't hit the ground. What kind of safety system does a regular helicopter or other vehicle that flies under its own power have? I'm not an expert, but I'm thinking seatbelt (or 5 point harness) and maybe webbing at the doors.
Not to mention that I'm not sure if Workmen's Comp has jurisdiction over this.
Electing federal, state, local, judicial, school board, etc. and voting on publicly proposed propositions and constitutional amendments. We have hundreds of races all on the same ballot.
A good question here is why do you have so many races at the same time? We have seperate federal and provincial elections. Local representatives and school board reps are elected at the same time.
If you really need to have one huge ballot for everything at once, what prevents using white circles instead of punch holes next to names?
Having primary elections with different ballots for different parties, with different rules on who can vote in each race across each state.
If I'm not mistaken, your primaries are not the same day as your other elections so it doesn't add to the big ballot.
Permuting the order of candidates listed in a race to eliminate any first-listing bias.
If I'm remembering correctly, candidates were listed alphabetically in Canada's last election. This includes the people who have no chance of winning. Programming a machine to count ballots where the candidates are randomized would be in my opinion, a lot tougher and more prone to bugs than having a human count.
There is absolutely no verification whatsoever in today's non-electronic voting systems. So how is it a bad thing when electronic voting is no worse than the current system?
I thought votes were supposed to be counted in public view or at least with members from the different parties watching.
There's also the matter of keystrokes, something that most people aren't as familiar with. The number of keystrokes per minute is at least as important for a hardcore computer user (keystroke tests use additional keys like ctrl, alt, shift, Fn, etc. and also test for number and punctuation skill). The ability to perform ctrl, alt, or Fn keystrokes in the midst of a stream of text typing without pausing and without having to look at the keyboard provides an additional serious speed increase in real-world computer use.
Being able to use function keys like you've mentioned requires that the function keys are in the same place on different keyboards. Even the enter and backslash keys move from keyboard to keyboard. The F keys also change. I've seen them in groups of 3 and groups of 4. The keyboard I'm typing on now has printscreen, scroll lock, and puase/break as part of a group of 9 with insert, home, pageup, delete, end, and pagedn.
Each time you bet, you get a receipt on a slip of paper; the font at the top is nice and readable, explaining your bet "#15 to win in race 7", and below that's a 2d barcode with the same info recorded.
What stops the people who make the machine from programming the machine to change the barcode to a different candidate? Or even just having a bug that prints the wrong barcode.
I think a font that a human and a machine can read would be better.
Even in places where you CAN go (politcally, legally) you still can't (logistically) like the whole north half of friggin Canada or Siberia.
You do know that Canada isn't bone-chilling cold year round, right? People live in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. People hunt there, people mine there. There are few places that would be nearly impossible to get to.
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Howard Dean was the only candidate that had real support from the people. I saw it around me - people were genuinely excited about the guy. Even though I thought he was looney, misguided, etc... his supporters didn't think so and could argue about him and why they liked him. It made for some really interesting and competitive debates that I enjoyed tremendously.
4 years ago you could pretty much say the same things about Alan Keyes. You could say a lot of things about him and his opinions, but the man was a hell of a lot less politician-like than the other candidates. Hell, Michael Moore endorsed him (though that was because he was the only one who would body surf in his Moore's portable mosh pit).
Lots of people have at least one issue that will make them not vote for a candidate who takes the wrong stance on it. The winning strategy in politics is to not let the public know that you have opinions. When someone asks a question that seems to require you to say what you feel about an issue, you want to either talk about something unrelated to the question or talk about how much the other party's position sucks.
why is a portion of their tuition/fees going to napster for a servie that they don't want?
When I was in college there was a mandatory fee that paid for a bus pass for each student. Of course, I live way outside where the buses run so a bus pass was useless to me. Could the bus pass be exchanged for a parking pass (or credit toward a parking pass)? Of course not.
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If it doesn't exist, then the believer and the non-believer net out the same, with cessation of existence. And if the believer lived a happier life in the meanwhile, who's to say he/she was wrong? Conversely, what if the afterlife does exist? Then the outcome for the two could be very different. (Pascal's wager).
"But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make god madder and madder." - Homer Simpson
actually, it's already illegal to run to Canada. The US and the kanoooooks have had agreements in place for a few years now. Good stuff, huh?
It was illegal to run to Canada to avoid the draft in the Vietnam era too. The difference now is that the Canadian government has signed a deal with the American government to send back draft dodgers.
This is not something the average man on the street has heard about. I do wonder how long it would take after the first group of dodgers gets sent back before political pressure would force the Canadian government to stop. Remember that Canada has only once in its history had a draft. And those soldiers drafted were not even sent to the war, they were used to protect home military bases to free up the soldiers who were protecting them.
Even before music trading, I don't think consumers get enough credit. Copying CDs is just too much trouble. Who wants to make 2 trips to a store just to get one CD @~$15?
From the RIAA's perspective it is a problem. Not to mention it's harder to trace than normal p2p activity.
I'd be far more sympathetic with the RIAA if the return of music was opened up to 'satisfaction guaranteed'. One big reason why anybody'd download music instead of buying it is the "you open it, you bought it, too bad it sucks" cycle.
There's a big problem with that from the RIAA's perspective. People would "buy" a few CDs, take them home and copy them, and then return them for full purchase price. Free music!
I really don't expect to see this in Canada because what I described above is legal here if returning the CD was allowed.
BTW, even the McDonald's in Ottawa would offer gravy on their fries. Gravy on McDONALD'S FRIES??? What is this heresy?
If you think that's bad, Taco Bell serves french fries too. Every combo meal has either large fries or Fries Supreme with it. Fries Supreme is fries, meat, nacho cheese, sour cream, tomatoes, and green onions. Looks horrible.
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Flashing's a crime? Oh crap.
Solar is attractive because it isn't seasonal (unlike hydroelectric, which is only available during a portion of the year and is usually unavailable during the time we need it most, summer)
Kind of the opposite here in Ontario. The length of time the sun is out changes a lot. On June 20th of this year, the sun rose at 5:45am and set at 9:07pm (at my location of course). On December 20th of this year, the sun will rise at 7:52am and set at 4:52pm. The further north you go, the more drastic the changes.
Solar power should work out reasonably well even with those changes in daylight hours because peak electric use is during the summer where the most power is used.
Why is hydroelectric generation seasonal? It's my understanding that most of our hydro is generated using dams. Some is generated on rivers such as the Niagara River. Do your rivers dry up in the summer or something?
safety gear must be in place to "... ensure that a fall protection system is in place when employees or students work at elevations greater than 3 m (10ft) or where a fall from a lesser height involves an unusual risk of injury."
That's mostly for people working on ladders, scissor lifts, or on top of buildings. It means you wear a harness so if you fall you don't hit the ground. What kind of safety system does a regular helicopter or other vehicle that flies under its own power have? I'm not an expert, but I'm thinking seatbelt (or 5 point harness) and maybe webbing at the doors.
Not to mention that I'm not sure if Workmen's Comp has jurisdiction over this.
Electing federal, state, local, judicial, school board, etc. and voting on publicly proposed propositions and constitutional amendments. We have hundreds of races all on the same ballot.
A good question here is why do you have so many races at the same time? We have seperate federal and provincial elections. Local representatives and school board reps are elected at the same time.
If you really need to have one huge ballot for everything at once, what prevents using white circles instead of punch holes next to names?
Having primary elections with different ballots for different parties, with different rules on who can vote in each race across each state.
If I'm not mistaken, your primaries are not the same day as your other elections so it doesn't add to the big ballot.
Permuting the order of candidates listed in a race to eliminate any first-listing bias.
If I'm remembering correctly, candidates were listed alphabetically in Canada's last election. This includes the people who have no chance of winning. Programming a machine to count ballots where the candidates are randomized would be in my opinion, a lot tougher and more prone to bugs than having a human count.
We had a federal election a couple of months ago in Canada, and it was all paper & pens.
Untrue. My local polling station used pencils rather than pens.
There is absolutely no verification whatsoever in today's non-electronic voting systems. So how is it a bad thing when electronic voting is no worse than the current system?
I thought votes were supposed to be counted in public view or at least with members from the different parties watching.
There's also the matter of keystrokes, something that most people aren't as familiar with. The number of keystrokes per minute is at least as important for a hardcore computer user (keystroke tests use additional keys like ctrl, alt, shift, Fn, etc. and also test for number and punctuation skill). The ability to perform ctrl, alt, or Fn keystrokes in the midst of a stream of text typing without pausing and without having to look at the keyboard provides an additional serious speed increase in real-world computer use.
Being able to use function keys like you've mentioned requires that the function keys are in the same place on different keyboards. Even the enter and backslash keys move from keyboard to keyboard. The F keys also change. I've seen them in groups of 3 and groups of 4. The keyboard I'm typing on now has printscreen, scroll lock, and puase/break as part of a group of 9 with insert, home, pageup, delete, end, and pagedn.
Just think - GNU colony could have the website g.nu!
Some squatter already took it.
128 MB of RAM? And I thought I was being cheap when I got 256 megs a year and a half ago.
Searching for unstable+VIA+chipsets garners 6,490 hits.
unstable+intel+chipsets gives 6550 hits
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Each time you bet, you get a receipt on a slip of paper; the font at the top is nice and readable, explaining your bet "#15 to win in race 7", and below that's a 2d barcode with the same info recorded.
What stops the people who make the machine from programming the machine to change the barcode to a different candidate? Or even just having a bug that prints the wrong barcode.
I think a font that a human and a machine can read would be better.
Then how would you get a jury of peers to judge those who are not "intelligent" enough to serve on a jury?
The US Constitution doesn't say anything about a jury of peers, just an impartial jury.
It has nothing to do with patriotism, so calling it the "Patriot Act" is misleading.
That sounds mighty unpatriotic of you. Perhaps you need to be sent to a reeducation center to improve your view of patriotism.
Even in places where you CAN go (politcally, legally) you still can't (logistically) like the whole north half of friggin Canada or Siberia.
You do know that Canada isn't bone-chilling cold year round, right? People live in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. People hunt there, people mine there. There are few places that would be nearly impossible to get to.
The first person to tie this to a worldwide conspiracy against OGG gets a pizza.
I don't think that deserves a pizza. Maybe a pizza trophy.
*checks the URL of the site*
Yup. slashdot.org
Almost thought I was on fark.com for a moment.
Howard Dean was the only candidate that had real support from the people. I saw it around me - people were genuinely excited about the guy. Even though I thought he was looney, misguided, etc... his supporters didn't think so and could argue about him and why they liked him. It made for some really interesting and competitive debates that I enjoyed tremendously.
4 years ago you could pretty much say the same things about Alan Keyes. You could say a lot of things about him and his opinions, but the man was a hell of a lot less politician-like than the other candidates. Hell, Michael Moore endorsed him (though that was because he was the only one who would body surf in his Moore's portable mosh pit).
Lots of people have at least one issue that will make them not vote for a candidate who takes the wrong stance on it. The winning strategy in politics is to not let the public know that you have opinions. When someone asks a question that seems to require you to say what you feel about an issue, you want to either talk about something unrelated to the question or talk about how much the other party's position sucks.
Oil on Mars you say?
why is a portion of their tuition/fees going to napster for a servie that they don't want?
When I was in college there was a mandatory fee that paid for a bus pass for each student. Of course, I live way outside where the buses run so a bus pass was useless to me. Could the bus pass be exchanged for a parking pass (or credit toward a parking pass)? Of course not.
If it doesn't exist, then the believer and the non-believer net out the same, with cessation of existence. And if the believer lived a happier life in the meanwhile, who's to say he/she was wrong? Conversely, what if the afterlife does exist? Then the outcome for the two could be very different. (Pascal's wager).
"But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make god madder and madder." - Homer Simpson
It's not clear what sort of emergency would knock out cell phone 911 yet leave the authorities unaware, however.
Fire in the cell tower?
actually, it's already illegal to run to Canada. The US and the kanoooooks have had agreements in place for a few years now. Good stuff, huh?
It was illegal to run to Canada to avoid the draft in the Vietnam era too. The difference now is that the Canadian government has signed a deal with the American government to send back draft dodgers.
This is not something the average man on the street has heard about. I do wonder how long it would take after the first group of dodgers gets sent back before political pressure would force the Canadian government to stop. Remember that Canada has only once in its history had a draft. And those soldiers drafted were not even sent to the war, they were used to protect home military bases to free up the soldiers who were protecting them.
That's a bigger problem than music downloading?
Even before music trading, I don't think consumers get enough credit. Copying CDs is just too much trouble. Who wants to make 2 trips to a store just to get one CD @~$15?
From the RIAA's perspective it is a problem. Not to mention it's harder to trace than normal p2p activity.
I'd be far more sympathetic with the RIAA if the return of music was opened up to 'satisfaction guaranteed'. One big reason why anybody'd download music instead of buying it is the "you open it, you bought it, too bad it sucks" cycle.
There's a big problem with that from the RIAA's perspective. People would "buy" a few CDs, take them home and copy them, and then return them for full purchase price. Free music!
I really don't expect to see this in Canada because what I described above is legal here if returning the CD was allowed.
BTW, even the McDonald's in Ottawa would offer gravy on their fries. Gravy on McDONALD'S FRIES??? What is this heresy?
If you think that's bad, Taco Bell serves french fries too. Every combo meal has either large fries or Fries Supreme with it. Fries Supreme is fries, meat, nacho cheese, sour cream, tomatoes, and green onions. Looks horrible.