There are reasons to live in Canada, such as not getting shot at every 5 minutes, dwelling within a massive toxic cloud of smog, or having to witness one of the most painfully appalling pieces of urban blight ever foisted upon the Earth by the hand of man.
I guess there are parts of the world where people wear shoes in the house but in places where snow and mud make up most of the year, the first thing you do when coming into the house is take your shoes off.
Could this technology be put into a pair of socks?
Good for you for still being married....your what, one of the.0001% of gay couples still married after that mad dash to massachusetts to get married?
You may be trolling, but I hope you realize that there are places that aren't in the US where gays can get married. And in some of those places, the divorce laws haven't caught up yet so they can't divorce even if they want to.
You'd be amazed at the amount of anti-science drivel and neo-pagan mystic drivel that sneaks in the back door of the 'science fiction bookstore' these days.
Or maybe you wouldn't.
The back door is the most logical place for science fiction to come into bookstores when you consider that the sci-fi section is almost always stuck in a corner near the back of the store.
Women, try this simple test: Walk up to a male that knows you quite well, cover your eyes with one hand and ask him what colour your eyes are. Unless they're normally glowing red or something, what you will get is a desperate guess.
I can't remember what colour my eyes are, let alone other people's eyes.
I hope the Canadians take Trek where it's never been before: GLOBAL!
Damn I hope not. Global is notorious for showing part of a season of a good show and then never showing the rest. They seem to love buying up the rights to Sci-Fi shows and sticking them in shitty timeslots if they air them at all.
Oh. You weren't talking about the TV network. Never mind.
At least there's still Daily Planet, which is more to say than the US Discovery Channel.
Which is similar to the difference between G4TechTV and G4TechTV Canada. The Canadian version still has Call for Help, but one decent show does not a channel make.
Even Daily Planet (formerly named the painful to say "@ Discovery.ca") seems to be getting less relevant. Recently they aired a segment on a new shoe Adidas was making. The first commercial on after that segment aired? An ad for the shoe just featured on Daily Planet.
Even friggin' TLC has reality shows now. It's insane. And sad (anyone remember when TLC was shown in schools because it always ran educational content?).
What exactly am I supposed to be learning from TLC now? All I ever see on TLC is decorating shows and cameras following pregnent women around. Do they even show documentaries anymore?
Even Discovery Channel has turned away from what used to be its core programming. Motorcycles, Monster Garage, and Mythbusters. Early episodes of Mythbusters concentrated more on the myths and testing them. New episodes seem to like to show build competitions between the two hosts with lots of "conflict" between them. What does any of this have to do with science, technology, and history?
Failure to include the scouring of the Shire missed another key point in the book, that evil touches everything, even the most innocent of places and things. Between this and the preceeding point, it's clear that the writers had little literary understanding of Tolkien's work.
How would you have liked them to include this in the film? People complained enough about how many endings there were after the climax of the movie. If the Scouring had been included, by the time the movie reached that part of the story, everyone in the theatre would be saying "What the fuck? The ring is destroyed, I have to pee, Frodo and Sam are alive, I'm still not sure why they didn't just have one of those big-ass eagles drop the ring in the volcano, and now they're starting another storyline that's going to take another hour?"
Sure the hardcore fans would have stuck around to watch the Scouring, but the movie was already close to 4 hours long. The Scouring of the Shire would have added at least another half hour to the length of the film and make people wonder how much longer this thing was going to go on.
This was also used in Bruce Coville's "My Teacher is an Alien" series.
Yes. It showed up in the 4th book "My Teacher Flunked the Planet". It was used to allow the students to watch all the atrocities that humans inflict on other humans and still talk to each other without revealing their presence.
Which brought us, in the heyday of SNL, Bob and Doug McKenzie, and fame to Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, when they were told to "do some thing Canadian" to meet the requirement.
As long as youre wearing a spacesuit theres no reason why you couldn't base jump off to escape......Or for the fainter of heart - atmospheric bungee jumping!
There's a book by William Forstchen which describes exactly this. The book is called Article 23 and is part of the Star Voyager Academy series. It ends up being very similar to skydiving but for a longer time and with a heat shield on your back for most of the trip.
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"When somebody has built a 40,000 millimeter bridge across a creek on campus, then we can start to talk about a 40,000 kilometer bridge straight up".
I agree with the point of the post, but where are you finding a creek that needs a 40 metre long bridge to cross it? I don't think a flowing body of water approaching 40 metres across can properly be called a creek.
1000 signatures! Wow! We're at.003 percent of the population! Unfortunately, I believe the various pro-DMCA lobbies have a lot more weight in the form of dollars...a few million Canadian dollars still is a lot of money.
Something you should know about political contributions in Canada. There are strict limits on how much a company (or an individual) can contribute to politicians. Last I checked, it was something like $10,000 per party.
In theory, this is supposed to prevent politicians from being bought. It has flaws, but it does mean we don't end up with people like Senator Orrin Hatch in charge.
Not to be a downer, but replay and tivo services are actually not that expensive. I have the grandfathered-in $9.95/mo service from replay and that is my lowest monthly expense.
Replay and Tivo are not available everywhere. For example, the author of this article lives in St. Catherines, Ontario. The only PVRs generally available in Canada are through your cable or satellite provider.
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Surely having been arrested and got off should vindicate what he does?
If by "got off" you mean got $100,000 in debt in lawyers fees before the government finally dropped the charges, then yeah.
You missed the step where you write a cheque for a half million dollars.
I'm sorry folks but it's no longer high art when you get a slurpee named for it. I'll recant on this if they launch the new Van Gogh flavored slurpee.
Yeah. Like Star Wars was ever high art and not a vehicle for selling merchandise.
Mmmm Slurpee
There are reasons to live in Canada, such as not getting shot at every 5 minutes, dwelling within a massive toxic cloud of smog, or having to witness one of the most painfully appalling pieces of urban blight ever foisted upon the Earth by the hand of man.
Come on, Toronto isn't that bad.
I guess there are parts of the world where people wear shoes in the house but in places where snow and mud make up most of the year, the first thing you do when coming into the house is take your shoes off.
Could this technology be put into a pair of socks?
I dunno, you can get pretty decent quality over 64mbps connections these days.
I would hope so.
Good for you for still being married....your what, one of the .0001% of gay couples still married after that mad dash to massachusetts to get married?
You may be trolling, but I hope you realize that there are places that aren't in the US where gays can get married. And in some of those places, the divorce laws haven't caught up yet so they can't divorce even if they want to.
You'd be amazed at the amount of anti-science drivel and neo-pagan mystic drivel that sneaks in the back door of the 'science fiction bookstore' these days.
Or maybe you wouldn't.
The back door is the most logical place for science fiction to come into bookstores when you consider that the sci-fi section is almost always stuck in a corner near the back of the store.
Yeah, cause it's not like most of the country's grid is powered by domestic nuclear plants or anything.. oh, wait.
The state of New York imports a lot of hydro-electric power from Quebec.
the issue here is, Rogers actually wants to keep their customers.
Considering they recently introduced a monthly bandwidth cap, I find that difficult to believe.
If you don't want people flying over your property, you'll have to apply to the FAA to declare your property restricted airspace. Good luck.
Couldn't you secede from the nation, declare your property an independant country and defend your airspace from invaders?
Women, try this simple test: Walk up to a male that knows you quite well, cover your eyes with one hand and ask him what colour your eyes are. Unless they're normally glowing red or something, what you will get is a desperate guess.
I can't remember what colour my eyes are, let alone other people's eyes.
I hope the Canadians take Trek where it's never been before: GLOBAL!
Damn I hope not. Global is notorious for showing part of a season of a good show and then never showing the rest. They seem to love buying up the rights to Sci-Fi shows and sticking them in shitty timeslots if they air them at all.
Oh. You weren't talking about the TV network. Never mind.
At least there's still Daily Planet, which is more to say than the US Discovery Channel.
Which is similar to the difference between G4TechTV and G4TechTV Canada. The Canadian version still has Call for Help, but one decent show does not a channel make.
Even Daily Planet (formerly named the painful to say "@ Discovery.ca") seems to be getting less relevant. Recently they aired a segment on a new shoe Adidas was making. The first commercial on after that segment aired? An ad for the shoe just featured on Daily Planet.
Even friggin' TLC has reality shows now. It's insane. And sad (anyone remember when TLC was shown in schools because it always ran educational content?).
What exactly am I supposed to be learning from TLC now? All I ever see on TLC is decorating shows and cameras following pregnent women around. Do they even show documentaries anymore?
Even Discovery Channel has turned away from what used to be its core programming. Motorcycles, Monster Garage, and Mythbusters. Early episodes of Mythbusters concentrated more on the myths and testing them. New episodes seem to like to show build competitions between the two hosts with lots of "conflict" between them. What does any of this have to do with science, technology, and history?
Failure to include the scouring of the Shire missed another key point in the book, that evil touches everything, even the most innocent of places and things. Between this and the preceeding point, it's clear that the writers had little literary understanding of Tolkien's work.
How would you have liked them to include this in the film? People complained enough about how many endings there were after the climax of the movie. If the Scouring had been included, by the time the movie reached that part of the story, everyone in the theatre would be saying "What the fuck? The ring is destroyed, I have to pee, Frodo and Sam are alive, I'm still not sure why they didn't just have one of those big-ass eagles drop the ring in the volcano, and now they're starting another storyline that's going to take another hour?"
Sure the hardcore fans would have stuck around to watch the Scouring, but the movie was already close to 4 hours long. The Scouring of the Shire would have added at least another half hour to the length of the film and make people wonder how much longer this thing was going to go on.
This was also used in Bruce Coville's "My Teacher is an Alien" series.
Yes. It showed up in the 4th book "My Teacher Flunked the Planet". It was used to allow the students to watch all the atrocities that humans inflict on other humans and still talk to each other without revealing their presence.
Which brought us, in the heyday of SNL, Bob and Doug McKenzie, and fame to Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, when they were told to "do some thing Canadian" to meet the requirement.
That was SCTV, not Saturday Night Live.
As long as youre wearing a spacesuit theres no reason why you couldn't base jump off to escape... ...Or for the fainter of heart - atmospheric bungee jumping!
There's a book by William Forstchen which describes exactly this. The book is called Article 23 and is part of the Star Voyager Academy series. It ends up being very similar to skydiving but for a longer time and with a heat shield on your back for most of the trip.
"When somebody has built a 40,000 millimeter bridge across a creek on campus, then we can start to talk about a 40,000 kilometer bridge straight up".
I agree with the point of the post, but where are you finding a creek that needs a 40 metre long bridge to cross it? I don't think a flowing body of water approaching 40 metres across can properly be called a creek.
How about a 4000mm bridge across a creek?
1000 signatures! Wow! We're at .003 percent of the population! Unfortunately, I believe the various pro-DMCA lobbies have a lot more weight in the form of dollars...a few million Canadian dollars still is a lot of money.
Something you should know about political contributions in Canada. There are strict limits on how much a company (or an individual) can contribute to politicians. Last I checked, it was something like $10,000 per party.
In theory, this is supposed to prevent politicians from being bought. It has flaws, but it does mean we don't end up with people like Senator Orrin Hatch in charge.
"It looks like you're trying to pick up 14 year old girls on IRC. Would you like me to alert the authorities with your home address now?"
Age of consent in Canada is 14. You can have sex with them, just don't take pictures.
Unless it is a Canadian strip club. They'll take anything with a dead president on it. Once again, not that I know from personal experience.
Ah, but try using standard $2 Canadian money at a strip club. It will not go over well.
Not to be a downer, but replay and tivo services are actually not that expensive. I have the grandfathered-in $9.95/mo service from replay and that is my lowest monthly expense.
Replay and Tivo are not available everywhere. For example, the author of this article lives in St. Catherines, Ontario. The only PVRs generally available in Canada are through your cable or satellite provider.
It is illegal to try to violently overthrow the government, make no mistake.
Only if you fail.