But in many other countries, all blank CD media has taxes that pay RIAA equivalents.
Such as in Canada. However, the thing about that tax (actually a levy) is that the same law that brought in the levy also brought in the right to copy music for personal use no matter the source. I can lend a friend a CD, they can make a copy of that CD, give me back the original and the CRIA (Canadian equivalent of the RIAA) can't do shit because no copyright infringement has taken place.
The people around here go to Florida in the winter and early spring. And because they're Canadians, they're very easy to spot. They're the ones wearing shorts.
Or do you want to be nerve-stapled just because you protested the Gov't?
I found that usually by the time my population was pissed off enough at me to need nerve stapling, the other groups were also pissed off enough that the minor atrocity of nerve stapling would get them to want to kill me. At that point my only option was to scour the face of the planet with missiles. Mwhahahaha!
You're sort of implying that he was elected because people thought he'd be a good leader, or do a good job representing them.... He was elected merely because he was a separatist.
Do you think that maybe because he was a separatist, that might have made the people in his riding think he'd do a good job representing them?
Why? Well to allow time to gain the necessary life experiences and education that will tend toward mature governance.
Wouldn't a democratic election weed out those too immature anyway? As I said, it's entirely possible for someone aged 18-34 to become the Prime Minister of Canada but it has yet to happen.
Seriously folks, has there *ever* in the history of Hollywood been a movie-from-a-scifi-novel which didn't actually rape-and-pillage the story in some way or other?
There was a movie called Harrison Bergeron that I consider better than the Kurt Vonnegut short story it was based on. Of course, it was a short story rather than a novel.
the government has minimum ages for many elected representatives.
Why is that? I mean, you have to be 35 (and a natural born citizen) to become president. Why 35?
In Canada, it is possible for an 18 year old to become Prime Minister. In practice they'd have to be the leader of the party with the most seats in Parliament (which isn't going to happen) but there's no law preventing it. The youngest Prime Minister so far was Joe Clark in 1979 at 39 years, 11 months.
The youngest Member of Parliament was Claude-André Lachance at 20 years, 3 months old in 1974.
I've received quotes from Indian outsourcing companies where they could supply a staff of people who spoke (a) brittish, (b) southern/texas, and (c) american/california accents, and promised they'd adjust their style to match the caller.
Two questions:
How would they know what accent to use when answering the phone?
Whatever you call it, the fact remains that paid maternity leave does cost money for the employer, and this makes it more expensive to hire a woman than a man, all other things being equal.
Depends on where you live. In Canada, employers do not pay employees on maternity leave. They do receive money from the federal government for the time they have off up to a maximum (17 weeks I believe). After that time is up, they and the father can take Parental leave. If the mother took Maternity leave, then she can take up to 35 weeks of Parental leave on top of the 17 weeks. The father can take up to 37 weeks of Parental leave. So in theory, the parents can take a total of 89 weeks. 17 Maternity, 35 Parental (mother), 37 Parental (father).
I gotta have my "Off the Hook" which is available at 2600.com. You see, they are supported by the listeners, and not corporate interests. (I really need to send some money to those guys.)
The entire radio station (WBAI in New York) is listener supported. The great thing about Off the Hook is that almost all of the shows since the beginning are available in mp3 (there are a few shows that have no known recording). So you can listen to Off the Hook from 1989 onwards. I'm up to Oct 1992.
The UK social security (and health) system loses hundreds of millions of pounds a year through false claims for unemployment benefit, income support and foreigners coming on "holliday" to Britain to get free operations on the NHS
Do you not have a health card or something similar? In Ontario we have a card you give to the hospital or doctor when you go there. It used to be that they were just a card with a number and name on them but they have change so that they now have your photo and signature on them. The thing with these cards is that they are not a form of identification. A cop will never ask you for your health card, a liquor store will not accept it as proof of age, and a library won't let you use it as ID when getting a library card.
So you've got this national ID card with biometric data. Who gets to see it and how often?
These cards will probably end up being abused in much the same way people get pulled over for DWB or DWA (driving while black and driving while arab). The difference here is that if you're required to keep your national id card on you at all times (papers please) people will be bothered for WWB and WWA (walking while black and walking while arab).
Their form to enter the time I wake up in the "mornings" is flawed. No option after noon (I usually rise at 1-3 pm, go to sleep at 4-5 am).
Site is slashdotted now but if I'm remembering correctly from an earlier visit (Discovery Channel Canada mentioned the site a week or two ago), it also doesn't allow you to specify going to sleep from 4:46am until sometime in the afternoon.
What is meant by child pornography in this sentence? Only pictures? Someone who is a day less then 18? Pictures of children taking a bath?
I've always wondered why I'm legally allowed to have sex with someone as young as 14 (the age of consent in Canada) but can't take pictures. Are people with photographic memories who have sex with those 14-17 producing child porn?
When I was using online groceries, they used restaurant quality produce. After restaurants get their pick, they go to groceries, so picking produce at the local grocery is picking the restaurant rejects!
If you want fresh groceries that you pick, you are going to have to go to a road side produce mart.
I'm assuming that they're counting the number of copies sold. I have a copy of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. I got it out of a box of cereal (I think it was Cheerios). I wonder if these were counted to the totals.
You had scratch-n-sniff stickers? All we had were:
- Gold Stars or Unhappy Faces - Check, Check Plus, or Check Minus - Letter grades
Man, you were lucky. We didn't get any of those things. If our essay (which was written in the dirt during a rainstorm) wasn't perfect, we were stabbed by the teacher with a knife. The more times you were stabbed per essay, the worse it was. It was on a scale of 0 to 100 stabs. So if you were stabbed 12 times, that was the equivalent of 88%
If you had two students, one that you knew was brilliant and one that you knew wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, would you give them the same grade for the same paper?
Of course not. If two students handed in the same paper, they both get an F because one copied the other.
If he could reliably collide with the fielder to shed his inertia, he'd do that, instead, because it'd allow him full speed until he's right on the base.
Do that in most leagues around here and the umpire will toss you (if they follow the rules). It usually only comes up at home plate though.
hydroelectric is somewhat more reliable than solar energy.
Yes it is, in places that have nice rivers, fast streams, waterfalls, and other good things you can dam up. Ontario has quite a few hydro-electric plants, but we still depend on other methods of generating electricity.
I don't think Arizona or Nevada will be likely to use hydro as their main source of power in the near future.
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But in many other countries, all blank CD media has taxes that pay RIAA equivalents.
Such as in Canada. However, the thing about that tax (actually a levy) is that the same law that brought in the levy also brought in the right to copy music for personal use no matter the source. I can lend a friend a CD, they can make a copy of that CD, give me back the original and the CRIA (Canadian equivalent of the RIAA) can't do shit because no copyright infringement has taken place.
Why do people go to Florida in the summer?
The people around here go to Florida in the winter and early spring. And because they're Canadians, they're very easy to spot. They're the ones wearing shorts.
Or do you want to be nerve-stapled just because you protested the Gov't?
I found that usually by the time my population was pissed off enough at me to need nerve stapling, the other groups were also pissed off enough that the minor atrocity of nerve stapling would get them to want to kill me. At that point my only option was to scour the face of the planet with missiles. Mwhahahaha!
You're sort of implying that he was elected because people thought he'd be a good leader, or do a good job representing them. ... He was elected merely because he was a separatist.
Do you think that maybe because he was a separatist, that might have made the people in his riding think he'd do a good job representing them?
Why? Well to allow time to gain the necessary life experiences and education that will tend toward mature governance.
Wouldn't a democratic election weed out those too immature anyway? As I said, it's entirely possible for someone aged 18-34 to become the Prime Minister of Canada but it has yet to happen.
Seriously folks, has there *ever* in the history of Hollywood been a movie-from-a-scifi-novel which didn't actually rape-and-pillage the story in some way or other?
There was a movie called Harrison Bergeron that I consider better than the Kurt Vonnegut short story it was based on. Of course, it was a short story rather than a novel.
the government has minimum ages for many elected representatives.
Why is that? I mean, you have to be 35 (and a natural born citizen) to become president. Why 35?
In Canada, it is possible for an 18 year old to become Prime Minister. In practice they'd have to be the leader of the party with the most seats in Parliament (which isn't going to happen) but there's no law preventing it. The youngest Prime Minister so far was Joe Clark in 1979 at 39 years, 11 months.
The youngest Member of Parliament was Claude-André Lachance at 20 years, 3 months old in 1974.
I've received quotes from Indian outsourcing companies where they could supply a staff of people who spoke (a) brittish, (b) southern/texas, and (c) american/california accents, and promised they'd adjust their style to match the caller.
Two questions:
How would they know what accent to use when answering the phone?
No New York City accents?
I will ALWAYS take more experienced people, whatever their age, over younger types
So you'd take a 63 year old who just got laid off from their last job but will retire in 2 years? What about a 64 year old?
Whatever you call it, the fact remains that paid maternity leave does cost money for the employer, and this makes it more expensive to hire a woman than a man, all other things being equal.
Depends on where you live. In Canada, employers do not pay employees on maternity leave. They do receive money from the federal government for the time they have off up to a maximum (17 weeks I believe). After that time is up, they and the father can take Parental leave. If the mother took Maternity leave, then she can take up to 35 weeks of Parental leave on top of the 17 weeks. The father can take up to 37 weeks of Parental leave. So in theory, the parents can take a total of 89 weeks. 17 Maternity, 35 Parental (mother), 37 Parental (father).
I gotta have my "Off the Hook" which is available at 2600.com. You see, they are supported by the listeners, and not corporate interests. (I really need to send some money to those guys.)
The entire radio station (WBAI in New York) is listener supported. The great thing about Off the Hook is that almost all of the shows since the beginning are available in mp3 (there are a few shows that have no known recording). So you can listen to Off the Hook from 1989 onwards. I'm up to Oct 1992.
The UK social security (and health) system loses hundreds of millions of pounds a year through false claims for unemployment benefit, income support and foreigners coming on "holliday" to Britain to get free operations on the NHS
Do you not have a health card or something similar? In Ontario we have a card you give to the hospital or doctor when you go there. It used to be that they were just a card with a number and name on them but they have change so that they now have your photo and signature on them. The thing with these cards is that they are not a form of identification. A cop will never ask you for your health card, a liquor store will not accept it as proof of age, and a library won't let you use it as ID when getting a library card.
So you've got this national ID card with biometric data. Who gets to see it and how often?
These cards will probably end up being abused in much the same way people get pulled over for DWB or DWA (driving while black and driving while arab). The difference here is that if you're required to keep your national id card on you at all times (papers please) people will be bothered for WWB and WWA (walking while black and walking while arab).
Their form to enter the time I wake up in the "mornings" is flawed. No option after noon (I usually rise at 1-3 pm, go to sleep at 4-5 am).
Site is slashdotted now but if I'm remembering correctly from an earlier visit (Discovery Channel Canada mentioned the site a week or two ago), it also doesn't allow you to specify going to sleep from 4:46am until sometime in the afternoon.
What is meant by child pornography in this sentence? Only pictures? Someone who is a day less then 18? Pictures of children taking a bath?
I've always wondered why I'm legally allowed to have sex with someone as young as 14 (the age of consent in Canada) but can't take pictures. Are people with photographic memories who have sex with those 14-17 producing child porn?
It sounds like you need to be introduced to a great substance that's great at restraining children.
When I was using online groceries, they used restaurant quality produce. After restaurants get their pick, they go to groceries, so picking produce at the local grocery is picking the restaurant rejects!
If you want fresh groceries that you pick, you are going to have to go to a road side produce mart.
Woah, did anyone else get deja vu from this?
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?
I'm assuming that they're counting the number of copies sold. I have a copy of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. I got it out of a box of cereal (I think it was Cheerios). I wonder if these were counted to the totals.
You had scratch-n-sniff stickers? All we had were:
- Gold Stars or Unhappy Faces
- Check, Check Plus, or Check Minus
- Letter grades
Man, you were lucky. We didn't get any of those things. If our essay (which was written in the dirt during a rainstorm) wasn't perfect, we were stabbed by the teacher with a knife. The more times you were stabbed per essay, the worse it was. It was on a scale of 0 to 100 stabs. So if you were stabbed 12 times, that was the equivalent of 88%
If you had two students, one that you knew was brilliant and one that you knew wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, would you give them the same grade for the same paper?
Of course not. If two students handed in the same paper, they both get an F because one copied the other.
If he could reliably collide with the fielder to shed his inertia, he'd do that, instead, because it'd allow him full speed until he's right on the base.
Do that in most leagues around here and the umpire will toss you (if they follow the rules). It usually only comes up at home plate though.
Alien vs Predator... now there's a great non-mainstream comic concept that should be a really great movie to watch
You mean something like this?
For the record, I'm a happy carnivore.
You meant omnivore, right? I'm not sure if a human can live off an entirely meat diet.
Excellent story but I have one question: what are these 'typewriters' you speak of?
hydroelectric is somewhat more reliable than solar energy.
Yes it is, in places that have nice rivers, fast streams, waterfalls, and other good things you can dam up. Ontario has quite a few hydro-electric plants, but we still depend on other methods of generating electricity.
I don't think Arizona or Nevada will be likely to use hydro as their main source of power in the near future.