Last time I checked the question of where the stuff of the big bang came from had no answer, and many scientists were not sure if it was a question that science could answer with current technology. That is one of the differences between science and dogma - science seeks the truth while dogma proclaims the truth. Science is not afraid to say I don't know, or I was wrong.
A Canadian government that decided to invade ANY country would never get elected again. That party would have just commited political suicide. Invading other countires isn't an option that would even occour to most Canadians as the solution to a problem - even if we had a military that could invade a small third world country.
While I often disagree with the USA's foriegn interventions I must admit that their overwhelming military strength allows Canada to have a rather small (and inexpensive) military and still be safe.
The army does not get to decide which countries it invades. The civilian government decided to invade, the army then does as the lawfully elected government orders it to do.
You should be mad at the government that decided to start an ill advised war that was justified by frabricated evidence, has cost many, many more lives than 911, and made the USA LESS safe.
All this assumes you are speaking about the USA army.
Back in the good old days if the band had one good song you bought the 45 (vinyl single) for $2.50. Albums were usually $12.00.
Then CD's came out. I rarely see any CD singles, but cd's with only 5 or 6 songs at a reduced price come out regularly from new bands.
I can't remember the last time any of the local radio stations played a new song that I "just had to buy" (actually it was Stabilo, great song called Everyone, but that was two years ago). I find most of the new music sounds an awful lot like music I have been hearing for years. It isn't bad, but it isn't good enough to buy when I have 100's of better CD's at home already.
I've been sampling classical music and older jazz in an effort to find something that is new to me. It been a long time since I heard something that I felt was completely new. I haven't experienced the thrill of hearing something new like Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Stranglers or Skinny Puppy for a LONG time. Will there ever be another Dark Side of the Moon? Part of this might just be me getting older and jaded, but even my kids often listen to older songs. They feel many of the new bands are recycling old tunes (or are posers).
I can afford to buy any music I like - there just hasn't been much worth buying.
Bad analogy. It is more like someone phoned you and accused you of being a skinhead. Should you be able to sue the phone company for letting them use the phone to slander you?
He CAN sue to get a user name for the poster of the libel. If he is really upset then he should go ahead and sue. How much more can it cost to start with a John Doe than to just sue the guy?
I don't think the Wiki should be held responsible for what is put up in what is a public space.
you can't think of an exmaple? It is easy:
What you are writing is TRUE, but some powerful enity (government, corporation,person) does not want this information distributed.
Company X sells products it knows are unsafe. Internal company memo says product X causes problem Y, but only every 500 times so we will sell it anyways.
Government X knows there is an outbreak of a dangerous disease, but wants to cover it up for political reasons.
Government Y has invaded country X giving Z has the reason why. Z was known to be untrue.
Maybe if gas cost more people would actually vote to improve puplic transit. I also don't use transit to get to work (it triples the travel time), but I do use it when it is just as fast as driving.
Pubplic transit is something that government routinely fund just likes roads. Public transit should be considered a simple extenstion to the roads that everyone is already comfortable paying for with taxes.
Depends on the sub-woofer. Mine has a manual on/off, plus an auto-on mode. When on auto mode it shuts off after about ten minutes of not recieving any signal. It has an LED at the front so you can tell it has actually shut off. I imaging it must draw at least some power fir the circuit that detects when to auto-on even when "off" in auto-mode.
Rodents do Chew through fiber. Just had it happen to us on Thursday. Pretty funny seeing "Rat chewed through fiber to XXXXXX" in a trouble ticket. I tried to find out how they knew it was a rat and not some other rodent, but no luck. We had two lines going to the site (it's a private company network link) so there was no disruption in service.
There is a large aluminum smelter in Kitamat BC. It was located there because it was a good place to build a hydro-electric dam to power the plant. Thats right - smelting aluminum uses all the electricty that a medium sized hydro-electric plant can produce. The price of aluminum went so low, and the price of electricty went high enough that they could make more money selling the electricity than selling the aluminum.
Aluminum is cheap - for a metal, but it very expensive compared to gasoline.
Cities, due to their density have much lower tranportation costs. It is much cheaper, per person, to get water and gas services to a single apartment building than 100 rural farms, or even 100 suburban homes. Virtually anything done in a city is cheaper per person than it is in rural areas.
Urban taxes pay for the network of roads and highways that make suburbs possible. Urban taxes pay the farm subsidizes. Urban taxes pay for public transit outside of cities. Urban taxes pay for rural schools and hospitals.
Unless the sight hosting the game explicitly states on the page with the games that they are giving away the games and want you to download the code then the correct way to point people at the game site is to link to it. There is a email contact, but no directions on prefered use. I would say that Fuddruckers should have emailed him out of courtesy if they expected a large number of hits, but that they in general did nothing wrong.
I have a tutorial online that is linked to by many other sites. I expect this linking, and am pleased that others feel my little tutorial is worth sharing. One site copied the whole tutorial to their site and my name and contact info was removed. I sent them a polite email and they restored my contact info and credit. A polite email is the best first course of action.
Organic food doesn't have any advantage over non-organic food. If I buy "normal" fresh fruit, vegatables and meats, and cook them using healthy methods the resulting meal will be just as healthy as if I started with "organic" food. The only difference is that organic food wasn't sprayed with pesticides and only natural fertalizers were used to grow it.
Processed food is the problem. If I process organic food (chop it up, press it, fry it, add salt and sugar, etc...) it will now be unhealthy food.
If you want to eat healthy buy and eat FRESH fruit and vegatables. Buy fresh meat, poultry, and fish. Eat most fruit and vegatables raw. Steam your other vegatbles instead of boiling them. Do NOT deep fry anything. Keep sugary and fatty treats to a minimum. Cut back on the amount of meat you eat (unless you are training vigorously every day you most likely eat more meat than you need). Never drink more than a single glass of pop (soda to the Americans) per day. EXERCISE every day for at least 20 minutes.
Pop/soda is liquid sugar. All deep fried foods have too much fat. Virtually all processed foods have too much sugar, salt, and fat. Processing often reduces the vitamins, fibre, and other good parts of food. Cooking your own food is fun and healthy.
A very good book on the subject on the differences in how men and women communicate is: "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation" by Deborah Tannen. From her bio: "An internationally recognized scholar, she is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. "
It's an excellent book. I reccomend picking it up from the library if you ever need to talk to the opposite sex regularly.
I read multiple reviews to decide on movies I want to watch. Good movies stay good even after the marketing ends. But I do forget sometimes what I read about as the reviews go in the recyling bin, and off the front page at rotten tomoatoes/Ebert, so I write the names of the good movies down. Then I rent them as they become available and cross them off the list. I generaly see spectacles at the theatre and rent everything else.
I stopped buy food and drink at theatres about ten years ago due to the cost. To keep the admission cost down I buy coupons at work at a large discount. We get a few hundred people to order coupons at the same time. Instead of paying $11 or $13 cdn per admission I only pay $7.
Not much you can do about ill behaved attendees (cell phones, talking, kicking seats) except go talk to them and ask them to stop. Most stop. I find attending early morning shows reduces the number of idiots and makes parking a lot easier.
Why do I bother at all with a nice home theatre at home? I still like the huge screen and great sound for the movies that are spectacles - Star Wars, War of the Worlds, Gladiator, etc... I rent the comedies and dramas.
How could the theatre experience be improved? Here is my list:
Allow the theatre to keep more of the ticket price to fund a better theatre and allow cheaper food.
Have staff patrol theatres and KICK OUT any one using a cell phone, laser pointer, or talking.
Stadium seating. I only go to new theatres with stadium seating. No more big hair in the line of sight.
I have found that most useful work is done while my mind is fresh, not after 12 hours of non-stop work. The reason I see for getting "things done" near a deadline is that management generally stops changing the requirements once deadlines loom.
A reasonable punishment would be to take away the laptops.
If the kids won't follow the rules then take away the toys. If they are flounting the school rules then use one of the normal school punishments to deal with it. Even after repeat offensives of this type the school and parents should be able to deal with it without resorting to trumped up charges of "hacking". This is the school being vindictive.
In civilised countries kids who use a password TAPED to the computer have their computer privleges revoked, a lecture, and a meeting with their parents and the administration. They are NOT turned over to the police. In civilised countries the authorities know that children, even older teenagers, sometimes do stupid things and need more help and guidance than adults. When children screw up treating them as criminials just makes it more likely that they will become criminials.
Many countries have (even some states in the USA) have programs for first time offenders that diverts them from the normal criminal law courts. The diversion usually involves an apology, restitution, and community work. 90% of first time offenders that are diverted this way never commit another crime.
USA highschools, as reported in the media, are the most screwed up institutions on the planet. Scholastic achievment is punished, sports achievement is lauded, minor incidents are harshly punished. It is like some twisted Kaffkaesque prision.
A large part of the problem is that the current USA government has made it much more difficult for USA people, companies and agencies to cooperate with other countries on any space related projects. Anyone involved in space research is required to register with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations)as a WEAPONS TRAFFICKER. Ant exchange of information or material, for example solar sail material, or metal tubes, requires a permit (TAA) from ITAR to export these dangerous weapons. This includes allies like Britian.
The planetary Society had to register as an Arms Trafficker!
Other laws like INA which wants to restrict exporting weapons to Iran are so broad that if a single agency anywhere in Russia is suspected of helping Iran with any weapons program then it is almost imposible to cooperate with any Russian agency. So if a private Russian company sells Iran machine tools that could be used in their nuclear program it affects cooperation with the Russian government space agencies. This is why USA companies may not use cheap Russian rockets to launch commercial satelites. This is a scam to "develop" the local USA space program in the opinion of many.
There is is less political interference in the police in Canada. If the police cover something up in Canada it is something the police did - not some politician's misdeed.
There is some run of the mill corruption, eg taking drug money, but most police abuse here is the police beating up small time hoods, driving people out of town in the middle of winter, or using a bit too much force. I would say mosy police abuse in Canada is the result of the poliec being frustrated with arraesting the same people over and over. Small property crimes, and dealing soft-drugs are not dealt with harshly in Canada.
Our walmart will let you trade the fullscreen for wide if it's the same movie. Once the wrapper is open you can't get a refund, only a replacement with the same movie. Same deal for video games.
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Last time I checked the question of where the stuff of the big bang came from had no answer, and many scientists were not sure if it was a question that science could answer with current technology. That is one of the differences between science and dogma - science seeks the truth while dogma proclaims the truth. Science is not afraid to say I don't know, or I was wrong.
While I often disagree with the USA's foriegn interventions I must admit that their overwhelming military strength allows Canada to have a rather small (and inexpensive) military and still be safe.
You should be mad at the government that decided to start an ill advised war that was justified by frabricated evidence, has cost many, many more lives than 911, and made the USA LESS safe.
All this assumes you are speaking about the USA army.
Then CD's came out. I rarely see any CD singles, but cd's with only 5 or 6 songs at a reduced price come out regularly from new bands.
I can't remember the last time any of the local radio stations played a new song that I "just had to buy" (actually it was Stabilo, great song called Everyone, but that was two years ago). I find most of the new music sounds an awful lot like music I have been hearing for years. It isn't bad, but it isn't good enough to buy when I have 100's of better CD's at home already.
I've been sampling classical music and older jazz in an effort to find something that is new to me. It been a long time since I heard something that I felt was completely new. I haven't experienced the thrill of hearing something new like Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Stranglers or Skinny Puppy for a LONG time. Will there ever be another Dark Side of the Moon? Part of this might just be me getting older and jaded, but even my kids often listen to older songs. They feel many of the new bands are recycling old tunes (or are posers).
I can afford to buy any music I like - there just hasn't been much worth buying.
He CAN sue to get a user name for the poster of the libel. If he is really upset then he should go ahead and sue. How much more can it cost to start with a John Doe than to just sue the guy?
I don't think the Wiki should be held responsible for what is put up in what is a public space.
What you are writing is TRUE, but some powerful enity (government, corporation
Company X sells products it knows are unsafe. Internal company memo says product X causes problem Y, but only every 500 times so we will sell it anyways.
Government X knows there is an outbreak of a dangerous disease, but wants to cover it up for political reasons.
Government Y has invaded country X giving Z has the reason why. Z was known to be untrue.
Pubplic transit is something that government routinely fund just likes roads. Public transit should be considered a simple extenstion to the roads that everyone is already comfortable paying for with taxes.
Depends on the sub-woofer. Mine has a manual on/off, plus an auto-on mode. When on auto mode it shuts off after about ten minutes of not recieving any signal. It has an LED at the front so you can tell it has actually shut off. I imaging it must draw at least some power fir the circuit that detects when to auto-on even when "off" in auto-mode.
Many computers that "soft-power off" are actually drawing some power. Mainly to allow "boot by LAN."
Rodents do Chew through fiber. Just had it happen to us on Thursday. Pretty funny seeing "Rat chewed through fiber to XXXXXX" in a trouble ticket. I tried to find out how they knew it was a rat and not some other rodent, but no luck. We had two lines going to the site (it's a private company network link) so there was no disruption in service.
Aluminum is cheap - for a metal, but it very expensive compared to gasoline.
In NewYork you are not allowed to sit on a park bench unless you are in the park with a child that you are the legal guardian of.
Woman ticket for sitting on bench sans child
Cities, due to their density have much lower tranportation costs. It is much cheaper, per person, to get water and gas services to a single apartment building than 100 rural farms, or even 100 suburban homes. Virtually anything done in a city is cheaper per person than it is in rural areas.
Urban taxes pay for the network of roads and highways that make suburbs possible. Urban taxes pay the farm subsidizes. Urban taxes pay for public transit outside of cities. Urban taxes pay for rural schools and hospitals.
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the doctrine of first sale applies to copyright not patents.
I have a tutorial online that is linked to by many other sites. I expect this linking, and am pleased that others feel my little tutorial is worth sharing. One site copied the whole tutorial to their site and my name and contact info was removed. I sent them a polite email and they restored my contact info and credit. A polite email is the best first course of action.
Processed food is the problem. If I process organic food (chop it up, press it, fry it, add salt and sugar, etc...) it will now be unhealthy food.
If you want to eat healthy buy and eat FRESH fruit and vegatables. Buy fresh meat, poultry, and fish. Eat most fruit and vegatables raw. Steam your other vegatbles instead of boiling them. Do NOT deep fry anything. Keep sugary and fatty treats to a minimum. Cut back on the amount of meat you eat (unless you are training vigorously every day you most likely eat more meat than you need). Never drink more than a single glass of pop (soda to the Americans) per day. EXERCISE every day for at least 20 minutes.
Pop/soda is liquid sugar. All deep fried foods have too much fat. Virtually all processed foods have too much sugar, salt, and fat. Processing often reduces the vitamins, fibre, and other good parts of food. Cooking your own food is fun and healthy.
It's an excellent book. I reccomend picking it up from the library if you ever need to talk to the opposite sex regularly.
I read multiple reviews to decide on movies I want to watch. Good movies stay good even after the marketing ends. But I do forget sometimes what I read about as the reviews go in the recyling bin, and off the front page at rotten tomoatoes/Ebert, so I write the names of the good movies down. Then I rent them as they become available and cross them off the list. I generaly see spectacles at the theatre and rent everything else.
Not much you can do about ill behaved attendees (cell phones, talking, kicking seats) except go talk to them and ask them to stop. Most stop. I find attending early morning shows reduces the number of idiots and makes parking a lot easier.
Why do I bother at all with a nice home theatre at home? I still like the huge screen and great sound for the movies that are spectacles - Star Wars, War of the Worlds, Gladiator, etc... I rent the comedies and dramas.
How could the theatre experience be improved? Here is my list:
I have found that most useful work is done while my mind is fresh, not after 12 hours of non-stop work. The reason I see for getting "things done" near a deadline is that management generally stops changing the requirements once deadlines loom.
If the kids won't follow the rules then take away the toys. If they are flounting the school rules then use one of the normal school punishments to deal with it. Even after repeat offensives of this type the school and parents should be able to deal with it without resorting to trumped up charges of "hacking". This is the school being vindictive.
In civilised countries kids who use a password TAPED to the computer have their computer privleges revoked, a lecture, and a meeting with their parents and the administration. They are NOT turned over to the police. In civilised countries the authorities know that children, even older teenagers, sometimes do stupid things and need more help and guidance than adults. When children screw up treating them as criminials just makes it more likely that they will become criminials.
Many countries have (even some states in the USA) have programs for first time offenders that diverts them from the normal criminal law courts. The diversion usually involves an apology, restitution, and community work. 90% of first time offenders that are diverted this way never commit another crime.
USA highschools, as reported in the media, are the most screwed up institutions on the planet. Scholastic achievment is punished, sports achievement is lauded, minor incidents are harshly punished. It is like some twisted Kaffkaesque prision.
The planetary Society had to register as an Arms Trafficker!
Other laws like INA which wants to restrict exporting weapons to Iran are so broad that if a single agency anywhere in Russia is suspected of helping Iran with any weapons program then it is almost imposible to cooperate with any Russian agency. So if a private Russian company sells Iran machine tools that could be used in their nuclear program it affects cooperation with the Russian government space agencies. This is why USA companies may not use cheap Russian rockets to launch commercial satelites. This is a scam to "develop" the local USA space program in the opinion of many.
There is some run of the mill corruption, eg taking drug money, but most police abuse here is the police beating up small time hoods, driving people out of town in the middle of winter, or using a bit too much force. I would say mosy police abuse in Canada is the result of the poliec being frustrated with arraesting the same people over and over. Small property crimes, and dealing soft-drugs are not dealt with harshly in Canada.
Our walmart will let you trade the fullscreen for wide if it's the same movie. Once the wrapper is open you can't get a refund, only a replacement with the same movie. Same deal for video games.