Obama is a socialist. I don't want that kind of change. On the other hand McCain isn't any better, just another version of the current administration. So, the choices appear to be keep the poor status quo or make a change toward socialism.
You think Obama is a socialist? Silly American, you have no idea what socialism is.
2.1 kg it would appear. That's still a bit heavy for my taste.
And the PDF says that's its "starting weight". It doesn't specify whether that includes the standard battery or not, but it definitely doesn't include the 12-cell battery.
The single most important thing you can do to protect our democracy is to volunteer as an election judge -- or poll worker, or election inspector, or whatever you call us in your state.
It's easy, it's fun, and we desperately need more people under 80 to do it.
I started right after the election debacle in 2000. Call your city elections department NOW while you can still get into training sessions. Make sure that your local voting is clean, fair, legal, and trustworthy. It all depends on volunteers!
Why aren't these people paid? They're doing a kind of important job.
Comcast used to be able to sell unlimited until p2p came along. Then they started using sandvine and other mitigating tactics to still make it 'unlimited' while continuing to make a profit. Since the FCC has now disapproved of this, Comcast has no choice but to start measuring and capping, since there's no other way to provide unlimited service.
Bullshit. TekSavvy, an ISP based out of Chatham, Ontario offers two 5Mbit DSL plans. One is on a slightly lower-latency network and is capped at 200GB/month for $30. The other is $40/month for unlimited. They have to pay about $20/month to Bell Canada per subscriber. This is supposed to be a wholesale rate set by the CRTC (like the FCC) to cover Bell's costs. So out of the $10 or $20/month TekSavvy gets, they have to pay for their bandwidth, their employees (who are in Chatham instead of India), their equipment, other expenses, and still make some profit. So either the CRTC set the wholesale rate too low (doubtful considering the number of former Bell people on the CRTC) or ISPs make a lot more profit than they'd like you to think.
The same ISP posted charts on dslreports.com breaking down bandwidth usage. UDP (presumably mostly streaming media) was the most used, Web was second, and p2p was a distant third. This is an ISP that is most likely to have bandwidth "hogs" on it.
Seriously, try Colorado Springs, east of the mountains but west of where the big tornadoes start forming. Aside from being target #1 if nuclear war breaks out, we're pretty safe from any sort of natural disaster.
Well that and all the weird shit that comes out of the Stargate.
The problem here is not money it's the previous government signing a treaty that makes something like the DMCA a requirement and the US ambassador lobbying on behalf of the RIAA/MPAA threatening to damage Canada's economy with a trade war.
Just to be clear, parliament doesn't have to pass a DMCA-style bill. Signing the WIPO treaty is like dating, it's not a commitment to marriage. And even if they decide that they really do want to commit to complying with WIPO, most of the crappy parts of Bill C-61 aren't required under the treaty.
Although they have gone overboard when they stripped the gold medal from the Canadian when he tested positive for Pot. Seriously, Pot as a performance enhancing drug?
He appealed the decision and got his gold medal back.
In Australia stranglely enough the pedophilla card was played against google streetview. An article in one newspaper showed a photograph of a campaigner against it with her two young girls - and the implication was that the girls were in danger because there was a photograph of their house on the internet.
Yet she was fine with the newspaper publishing a picture of her and her two young girls. I wonder if anyone pointed that out to her.
This strikes me as one of those situations where what actually happened is less important than the company's reaction to your questions. The initial silence, followed by a response from a company official that is not in harmony with their published policy, screams "guilty conscience". They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar (yours, in this case), and they're just hoping you'll shut up and go away. I find myself wondering whether they routinely snoop databases hoping to find information that might be of use to them.
Or the support person was stunned into silence that the customer had called him to fix the problem, he'd fixed the problem, and now the customer was bitching that he'd read some settings in a database to help him fix the problem. I've worked in phone tech support and had access to tons of credit card information, usernames, and passwords. I can't think of anything that would be stored in a website's database that would be interesting enough to get me to bother looking in it instead of reading Slashdot and Fark.
Did anyone else have trouble listening to Rorshach in the trailer? I could hear him fine in the "standard resolution" trailer, but his voice is drowned out by the music in the HD version. I wasn't expecting anything particularly different there -- Rorshach is a normal human, after all.
In terms of not having any superpowers, I guess he's normal in that respect. I would say that he's a very abnormal human though.
Then again, if most folks look at computers as an appliance, who wants to be an appliance repairman? Seriously - how many folks wanted to work for the phone company in the 60s and 70s?
Plenty of people. Good pay, good union (making it hard to get fired for bullshit reasons), steady work, and at a company that would have to try very hard to go bankrupt.
It won't be until we're forced to start extracting oil from oil sands and shale oil that technologies like this will become cost competitive on the production front.
Where do you think the oil Alberta produces comes from?
clarify the roles and responsibilities of Internet Service Providers related to the copyright content flowing over their network facilities;
I've noticed a pattern in the writing style in these news stories. A normal person would refer to this as "copyrighted content" instead of "copyright content". A work can be copyrighted, but not copyright. It doesn't make sense grammatically. But when the people (the RIAA, MPAA, CRIA, and politicians who only listen to lobbyists from these industries) who want to impose these laws on us speak or write, they always seem to use the phrase as above.
Have you never been at a family gathering or some other function, like a baseball game or something, where they said a prayer and everyone was supposed to bow their heads and pray?
What did you do? Jump up and down and scream and cry about how there is no God or did you go along and bow your head and wait for it to be over?
I stay quiet but keep my head raised and my eyes open.
Yea, last night I was listening to those Penny Arcade and PvP 4th Edition podcasts and while I have never played any tabletop game in my life, listening to that made it sound like a lot of fun.
I just wish they'd release them faster. I want to find out what happens to Jim Darkmagic (of the New Hampshire Darkmagics).
Do you honestly believe that politicians, who need contributions to get re-elected, will bite the hands that feed them? American, Canadian, African - it doesn't matter.
Individuals in Canada are restricted in the amount they're allowed to contribute to political campaigns. Corporations, unions, and other organizations are not allowed to contribute at all. The politicians still love to suck up to large corporations, but that's more of a Good Old Boys thing rather than a bribery thing.
Indeed, he's not even 60 yet. His shelf life for this role is a little longer than some other traditional action heroes because it depends on him looking smart, rather than looking tough. If they're gonna do this within the next 3-5 years, get Anderson.
He left Stargate SG-1 to retire (though he's been back a few times). Part of the reason he left is one of his knees is bad enough that he was having trouble performing simple stunts like jumping into a cockpit.
We had an accident just outside our apartment years ago. A cop was speeding up a one way street, lights and sirens full on and blew the red light without slowing. This was in a dense urban area with little visibility around corners. He collided with the poor guys driving the cross street on the green light. They had been drinking and were arrested for DWI and reckless driving, failing to yield to an officer etc etc etc. The fact is, though, the cop blew the light without even slowing. No one could have avoided that accident, sober or not. They got screwed.
MADD also likes to play with their statistics in another way. They'll talk about accidents where alcohol was a factor. That makes you think "Oh, drunk driver." The problem is that alcohol as a factor can mean that a pedestrian who had a beer got hit by a sober driver.
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Oh and WTF is "Brawndo"?
It's got electrolytes. That's what plants crave.
Obama is a socialist. I don't want that kind of change. On the other hand McCain isn't any better, just another version of the current administration. So, the choices appear to be keep the poor status quo or make a change toward socialism.
You think Obama is a socialist? Silly American, you have no idea what socialism is.
2.1 kg it would appear. That's still a bit heavy for my taste.
And the PDF says that's its "starting weight". It doesn't specify whether that includes the standard battery or not, but it definitely doesn't include the 12-cell battery.
The single most important thing you can do to protect our democracy is to volunteer as an election judge -- or poll worker, or election inspector, or whatever you call us in your state.
It's easy, it's fun, and we desperately need more people under 80 to do it.
I started right after the election debacle in 2000. Call your city elections department NOW while you can still get into training sessions. Make sure that your local voting is clean, fair, legal, and trustworthy. It all depends on volunteers!
Why aren't these people paid? They're doing a kind of important job.
Comcast used to be able to sell unlimited until p2p came along. Then they started using sandvine and other mitigating tactics to still make it 'unlimited' while continuing to make a profit. Since the FCC has now disapproved of this, Comcast has no choice but to start measuring and capping, since there's no other way to provide unlimited service.
Bullshit. TekSavvy, an ISP based out of Chatham, Ontario offers two 5Mbit DSL plans. One is on a slightly lower-latency network and is capped at 200GB/month for $30. The other is $40/month for unlimited. They have to pay about $20/month to Bell Canada per subscriber. This is supposed to be a wholesale rate set by the CRTC (like the FCC) to cover Bell's costs. So out of the $10 or $20/month TekSavvy gets, they have to pay for their bandwidth, their employees (who are in Chatham instead of India), their equipment, other expenses, and still make some profit. So either the CRTC set the wholesale rate too low (doubtful considering the number of former Bell people on the CRTC) or ISPs make a lot more profit than they'd like you to think.
The same ISP posted charts on dslreports.com breaking down bandwidth usage. UDP (presumably mostly streaming media) was the most used, Web was second, and p2p was a distant third. This is an ISP that is most likely to have bandwidth "hogs" on it.
Seriously, try Colorado Springs, east of the mountains but west of where the big tornadoes start forming. Aside from being target #1 if nuclear war breaks out, we're pretty safe from any sort of natural disaster.
Well that and all the weird shit that comes out of the Stargate.
The Reform Party was founded in 1987. Sure, they change their name every 5 years or so, but still.
I liked it when they were called CCRAP.
The problem here is not money it's the previous government signing a treaty that makes something like the DMCA a requirement and the US ambassador lobbying on behalf of the RIAA/MPAA threatening to damage Canada's economy with a trade war.
Just to be clear, parliament doesn't have to pass a DMCA-style bill. Signing the WIPO treaty is like dating, it's not a commitment to marriage. And even if they decide that they really do want to commit to complying with WIPO, most of the crappy parts of Bill C-61 aren't required under the treaty.
Although they have gone overboard when they stripped the gold medal from the Canadian when he tested positive for Pot. Seriously, Pot as a performance enhancing drug?
He appealed the decision and got his gold medal back.
In Australia stranglely enough the pedophilla card was played against google streetview. An article in one newspaper showed a photograph of a campaigner against it with her two young girls - and the implication was that the girls were in danger because there was a photograph of their house on the internet.
Yet she was fine with the newspaper publishing a picture of her and her two young girls. I wonder if anyone pointed that out to her.
This strikes me as one of those situations where what actually happened is less important than the company's reaction to your questions. The initial silence, followed by a response from a company official that is not in harmony with their published policy, screams "guilty conscience". They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar (yours, in this case), and they're just hoping you'll shut up and go away. I find myself wondering whether they routinely snoop databases hoping to find information that might be of use to them.
Or the support person was stunned into silence that the customer had called him to fix the problem, he'd fixed the problem, and now the customer was bitching that he'd read some settings in a database to help him fix the problem. I've worked in phone tech support and had access to tons of credit card information, usernames, and passwords. I can't think of anything that would be stored in a website's database that would be interesting enough to get me to bother looking in it instead of reading Slashdot and Fark.
Did anyone else have trouble listening to Rorshach in the trailer? I could hear him fine in the "standard resolution" trailer, but his voice is drowned out by the music in the HD version. I wasn't expecting anything particularly different there -- Rorshach is a normal human, after all.
In terms of not having any superpowers, I guess he's normal in that respect. I would say that he's a very abnormal human though.
Then again, if most folks look at computers as an appliance, who wants to be an appliance repairman? Seriously - how many folks wanted to work for the phone company in the 60s and 70s?
Plenty of people. Good pay, good union (making it hard to get fired for bullshit reasons), steady work, and at a company that would have to try very hard to go bankrupt.
That could presumably be false if whoever is paying for the service pays for a limit GB/month allowance
They shouldn't leave their hose hooked up to a water fountain on the public sidewalk with a sign flashing "Drink From Me!" on it.
It won't be until we're forced to start extracting oil from oil sands and shale oil that technologies like this will become cost competitive on the production front.
Where do you think the oil Alberta produces comes from?
clarify the roles and responsibilities of Internet Service Providers related to the copyright content flowing over their network facilities;
I've noticed a pattern in the writing style in these news stories. A normal person would refer to this as "copyrighted content" instead of "copyright content". A work can be copyrighted, but not copyright. It doesn't make sense grammatically. But when the people (the RIAA, MPAA, CRIA, and politicians who only listen to lobbyists from these industries) who want to impose these laws on us speak or write, they always seem to use the phrase as above.
Have you never been at a family gathering or some other function, like a baseball game or something, where they said a prayer and everyone was supposed to bow their heads and pray?
What did you do? Jump up and down and scream and cry about how there is no God or did you go along and bow your head and wait for it to be over?
I stay quiet but keep my head raised and my eyes open.
Where else is a kid supposed to learn how to play poker?
From Grandpa on Christmas Eve.
Yea, last night I was listening to those Penny Arcade and PvP 4th Edition podcasts and while I have never played any tabletop game in my life, listening to that made it sound like a lot of fun.
I just wish they'd release them faster. I want to find out what happens to Jim Darkmagic (of the New Hampshire Darkmagics).
"Can you have an atheist cleric? I guess not."
The economics teacher had a masters in political science, but no high school diploma or bachelors from college.
How can someone get a masters degree without a high school diploma or a bachelors degree?
Before: 6 foot 2, 100 pounds even... competative ballroom dancer... 19 years old
now: 6 foot 2, 220 pounds... IT worker, 2-year old at home.
100 pounds? Do you have a torso or are you just two legs and a head?
Do you honestly believe that politicians, who need contributions to get re-elected, will bite the hands that feed them? American, Canadian, African - it doesn't matter.
Individuals in Canada are restricted in the amount they're allowed to contribute to political campaigns. Corporations, unions, and other organizations are not allowed to contribute at all. The politicians still love to suck up to large corporations, but that's more of a Good Old Boys thing rather than a bribery thing.
Indeed, he's not even 60 yet. His shelf life for this role is a little longer than some other traditional action heroes because it depends on him looking smart, rather than looking tough. If they're gonna do this within the next 3-5 years, get Anderson.
He left Stargate SG-1 to retire (though he's been back a few times). Part of the reason he left is one of his knees is bad enough that he was having trouble performing simple stunts like jumping into a cockpit.
Yeah, but how about 876-5309 ?
PEnnsylvania 6-5000. And get off my lawn.
We had an accident just outside our apartment years ago. A cop was speeding up a one way street, lights and sirens full on and blew the red light without slowing. This was in a dense urban area with little visibility around corners. He collided with the poor guys driving the cross street on the green light. They had been drinking and were arrested for DWI and reckless driving, failing to yield to an officer etc etc etc. The fact is, though, the cop blew the light without even slowing. No one could have avoided that accident, sober or not. They got screwed.
MADD also likes to play with their statistics in another way. They'll talk about accidents where alcohol was a factor. That makes you think "Oh, drunk driver." The problem is that alcohol as a factor can mean that a pedestrian who had a beer got hit by a sober driver.