I'm not from Canada but i drive there sometimes. Canada has a flashing green light... which if i remember correctly is the same as the left-arrow in the US.
unlike other Canadian cities, right-turn-on-red is not allowed in Montreal.
I see the green left-turn arrow more often now than the flashing green light. I think when lights are replaced now, they're putting in ones with the arrow. The ones that have the flashing green light tend to look older and are usually in small towns.
And right-turn-on-red is not allowed in all of Quebec last I checked.
http://www.canadianisp.com/ lists several ISPs who claim to offer cable-based Internet including two with no bandwidth caps. Execulink is a SW ON based reseller. (Their HQ is just up the 401 from you in Burgessville.) Although I have no personal experience with them, I know several people in the K-W area who love their DSL service.
I don't think Execulink resells cable internet service. They bought out some of the smaller cable companies and offer cable internet where they have a local monopoly on the cable. Mostly in small towns like Ilderton and Thedford. So unless you live in a town where the cable company is Execulink, I don't think you can use them for cable internet access.
Canada uses metres as a distance measure, even on roads, I've never seen any speed limit or road signs in imperial units. We only use pounds for our produce...
The bridge height signs are generally in both metres and feet. Near the Canada/USA border, there's usually a big sign that tells Americans that 100 km/hour = 60 miles/hour.
It was cheaper and faster to switch to prepackaged sauce versus the warmed-up sauce in the back (which frankly tasted better... not that Taco Bell is "good"). The preparers don't have to manage the sauce in the back any more and can crank out however many items they need faster.
Or they can reduce staff and crank out the items at the same rate. The Taco Bell stands in malls in my area have Fire sauce, but the standalone ones just have Mild and Hot. They also have french fries on the menu.
I don't know where you live, but I think they took that off the phone bills quite a few years ago. Actually, what they will charge extra for is if you want pulse dialing. I think they still offer it in some places.
Bell Canada still charges it where I live. I think it's about $2 per month.
As for TV, one used to say Star Trek, but recent versions have less and less to do with science, and in any case aren't in production now. I enjoy the new Doctor Who, but that has a great deal of fantasy these days.
Show the Doctor Who episode "Blink" and have them try to work out the causality in it. Time travel paradoxes are fun.
Who is Jim Baen? He ain't Asimov, that's for sure! (And I believe Asimov had to be cajoled into letting his name be used as the magazine's title.)
Jim Baen is the publisher (or was, since he recently passed away). Baen Books is huge in their niche market of military science fiction and space opera. Many of the books they publish are also available as DRM-free ebooks. Quite a few are at the Baen Free Library for free and a lot of the newer hardcover books come with CDs containing other works by the author. These CDs can be freely distributed.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. I'm not happy with the authoritarian and decidedly non-left tendecies of Britain's labour party, but that all pales before the US's current direction. Considering what the US is currently becoming, I and many others in Europe are extremely concerned.
You think you're concerned in Europe? I'm in Canada. You at least have an ocean separating you from them. Wait until the southwest US becomes really desperate for water to grow lawns in the desert and someone realizes that there's a lightly defended country with a large portion of the world's fresh water reserves right next door.
Also note that in (1), the "work" is not "individual copy of the work," but rather the abstract notion of the work itself. For example, my copy of Santa Clause Defeats the Martians is not the work, but rather the concept/idea/production/etc. of the most amazing and wonderful film.
Do you mean Santa Claus Conquers the Martians? It's in the public domain now and can be downloaded from archive.org
Eight justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have ruled that trademarks cannot be used to extend the term of exclusive rights in a work whose U.S. copyright has expired. Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 539 U.S. 23 (2003).
Sadly, in Canada the opposite is true. Anne of Green Gables is in the public domain but the author's heirs and the government of PEI used some kind of trademark law loophole to keep a monopoly on it.
Another example: According to my French-Canadian WoW guildmates, "tabernacle" is considered to be a bit of a dirty word there, but here in the US it doesn't have any bad connotations.
I don't know about tabernacle, but tabernac (and other spellings) definitely is. It's a French Catholic thing. I don't get it either.
Is there somebody doing a science show for kids these days?
There's a channel in Canada called Discovery for Kids. The content seems a lot more MTVish than Mr. Wizard. Quick cuts and short segments. It looks like some of their content is newer, but some is also getting up there in age. Popular Mechanics for Kids is listed and that started about 10 years ago. On the plus side, one of the hosts was Elisha Cuthbert. On the down side, she was 14 or 15 at the time.
Which may be fine in yor country but in the UK you can be jailed (and people have been) for using undue force in their own homes for attacking burglers.
That's why you have to give them an option such as "Cake or Death?". If there's enough of them, eventually you'll run out of cake and then their only option will be "or Death". A smart robber will have the chicken if it comes down to it.
On a side note, I buy couple hundred blank CD/DVD a year and I have to pay that f***in tax on every one of them, even if almost all of them are used to store data (backup, Linux ISO, etc).
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I'm not from Canada but i drive there sometimes. Canada has a flashing green light... which if i remember correctly is the same as the left-arrow in the US.
unlike other Canadian cities, right-turn-on-red is not allowed in Montreal.
I see the green left-turn arrow more often now than the flashing green light. I think when lights are replaced now, they're putting in ones with the arrow. The ones that have the flashing green light tend to look older and are usually in small towns.
And right-turn-on-red is not allowed in all of Quebec last I checked.
As the saying goes, "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." hold very true here.
That is the perfect thing to compare this to when talking to the Conservative Party. They do love their guns.
http://www.canadianisp.com/ lists several ISPs who claim to offer cable-based Internet including two with no bandwidth caps. Execulink is a SW ON based reseller. (Their HQ is just up the 401 from you in Burgessville.) Although I have no personal experience with them, I know several people in the K-W area who love their DSL service.
I don't think Execulink resells cable internet service. They bought out some of the smaller cable companies and offer cable internet where they have a local monopoly on the cable. Mostly in small towns like Ilderton and Thedford. So unless you live in a town where the cable company is Execulink, I don't think you can use them for cable internet access.
I see a suspicious "if" in there...
Is it possible to take endless meandering and bind it into 4500 pages and sell it as a single volume?
Robert Jordon had said in an interview that book 12 would be the last book even if you needed a hand truck to get it in and out of the bookstore.
What a stupid question. Sex with computer games is the obvious answer. Oh, hello cake, I think I'll eat you AND have you, too!
The cake is a lie.
Canada uses metres as a distance measure, even on roads, I've never seen any speed limit or road signs in imperial units. We only use pounds for our produce...
The bridge height signs are generally in both metres and feet. Near the Canada/USA border, there's usually a big sign that tells Americans that 100 km/hour = 60 miles/hour.
Drinking pure olive oil should also help (but taste like shit:).
Where are you getting your olive oil?
It was cheaper and faster to switch to prepackaged sauce versus the warmed-up sauce in the back (which frankly tasted better... not that Taco Bell is "good"). The preparers don't have to manage the sauce in the back any more and can crank out however many items they need faster.
Or they can reduce staff and crank out the items at the same rate. The Taco Bell stands in malls in my area have Fire sauce, but the standalone ones just have Mild and Hot. They also have french fries on the menu.
I don't know where you live, but I think they took that off the phone bills quite a few years ago. Actually, what they will charge extra for is if you want pulse dialing. I think they still offer it in some places.
Bell Canada still charges it where I live. I think it's about $2 per month.
I could easily be accused of being a rapist, since I "own" certain "raping tools", i.e. a penis.
And I carry it with me all the fscking time.
You should get a detachable one.
As for TV, one used to say Star Trek, but recent versions have less and less to do with science, and in any case aren't in production now. I enjoy the new Doctor Who, but that has a great deal of fantasy these days.
Show the Doctor Who episode "Blink" and have them try to work out the causality in it. Time travel paradoxes are fun.
Part of your view is the problem. Web 2.0 isn't a "sexy new technology", it's a paradigm shift.
Pastel colours are a paradigm shift?
Who is Jim Baen? He ain't Asimov, that's for sure! (And I believe Asimov had to be cajoled into letting his name be used as the magazine's title.)
Jim Baen is the publisher (or was, since he recently passed away). Baen Books is huge in their niche market of military science fiction and space opera. Many of the books they publish are also available as DRM-free ebooks. Quite a few are at the Baen Free Library for free and a lot of the newer hardcover books come with CDs containing other works by the author. These CDs can be freely distributed.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. I'm not happy with the authoritarian and decidedly non-left tendecies of Britain's labour party, but that all pales before the US's current direction. Considering what the US is currently becoming, I and many others in Europe are extremely concerned.
You think you're concerned in Europe? I'm in Canada. You at least have an ocean separating you from them. Wait until the southwest US becomes really desperate for water to grow lawns in the desert and someone realizes that there's a lightly defended country with a large portion of the world's fresh water reserves right next door.
Also note that in (1), the "work" is not "individual copy of the work," but rather the abstract notion of the work itself. For example, my copy of Santa Clause Defeats the Martians is not the work, but rather the concept/idea/production/etc. of the most amazing and wonderful film.
Do you mean Santa Claus Conquers the Martians? It's in the public domain now and can be downloaded from archive.org
Eight justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have ruled that trademarks cannot be used to extend the term of exclusive rights in a work whose U.S. copyright has expired. Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 539 U.S. 23 (2003).
Sadly, in Canada the opposite is true. Anne of Green Gables is in the public domain but the author's heirs and the government of PEI used some kind of trademark law loophole to keep a monopoly on it.
Another example: According to my French-Canadian WoW guildmates, "tabernacle" is considered to be a bit of a dirty word there, but here in the US it doesn't have any bad connotations.
I don't know about tabernacle, but tabernac (and other spellings) definitely is. It's a French Catholic thing. I don't get it either.
Read The Fucking Title
Ahem. You must be new here.
Is there somebody doing a science show for kids these days?
There's a channel in Canada called Discovery for Kids. The content seems a lot more MTVish than Mr. Wizard. Quick cuts and short segments. It looks like some of their content is newer, but some is also getting up there in age. Popular Mechanics for Kids is listed and that started about 10 years ago. On the plus side, one of the hosts was Elisha Cuthbert. On the down side, she was 14 or 15 at the time.
And this will restore 'peace'? Make people believe that you are there for helping them?
Sure. You could even call it the Forever Peace.
Which may be fine in yor country but in the UK you can be jailed (and people have been) for using undue force in their own homes for attacking burglers.
That's why you have to give them an option such as "Cake or Death?". If there's enough of them, eventually you'll run out of cake and then their only option will be "or Death". A smart robber will have the chicken if it comes down to it.
On a side note, I buy couple hundred blank CD/DVD a year and I have to pay that f***in tax on every one of them, even if almost all of them are used to store data (backup, Linux ISO, etc).
There's no levy on blank DVDs.
All of the Sci-Fi series that have started to get traction sense, in particular Firefly, Stargate and Firefly have benefited from it leading the way.
But what about Firefly? You forgot about that series.
What if there's been a lot of traffic in "Santa Claus versus the Martians", and it's pretty constant - maybe rereleasing the DVD will make some cash.
If you're referring to Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, it's in the public domain now. So anyone can rerelease it on DVD.
I really started to appreciate it after coming back and using the soda machine at church.
Your church has a vending machine?