Just in case you forgot, we did let EVERY American airplane land in Canada on 9/11 - no hesitation. You needed help and we gave it. While we admire many things about our powerful neighbors to the south, many Canadians were not keen to join a "pre-emptive" war. If any country were to risk attacking the USA, you can certainly expect Canada to help out.
We actually have more ships and troops in the middle east than many of the official coalition forces, but we chose to not take part in the attack on Iraq, but continue help with blockades etc...
The problem we have run into is our window to backup large systems gets smaller and smaller as systems are used 8, then 12, then 24 hours a day, and we have to backup more data. We can't phyically get all the data onto tape during the 2 hours per night we can take down the system.
The solution is a "third mirror". The normal raid system has an extra mirror drive that can be taken offline with a very short outage, then we backup the third mirror to tape at our leisure. The third mirror is brought back online after the backup, rinse and repeat. This is a commercial system provided by a major storage provider, and I'm sure it will become more popular.
Only profession body builder do cycles, or split days, or any other advance technique. If you are a normal healthy person, you can safely work out twice a week, for an hour with weights. What are safe weights? You should be able to do two sets of ten reps, with a 1 minute break between sets.
Work out all the main muscles each time you work out. Muscle mags are full of all sorts of routines, but most are only suitable for advanced body builders. Aim for doing ten reps, a 1 minute break, then ten more reps. Do that for all the main muscle groups, once or twice a week, and you will build up some strength, tone your muscles, and if gifted with the right genetics even gain some muscle mass. So what are some good movements?
The best time to show self control with food is when grocery shopping. Can't eat fatty or sugary snacks if you didn't buy them.
Also, do not "diet". Change your eating habits in a way that you can realisticly keep up the REST of your life. I can't stay on a super restrictive diet for years at a time. Be patient! Slow gradual weight loss is more likely to stay off and much more healthy for you. Add exercise to your normal weekly routine. I hate jogging, but I like biking and swimimng. I also work out with weights once a week for an hour, and play ball hockey (floor hockey) once a week. There are lots of physical activities for both team play and solitary efforts to choose some. Try a few until you find something you like.
Watch portion size. Don't "super-size" any of your meals. Snack on fresh fruit and vegatbles. Watch out for pop and fruit juice - both are very high in calories. Nuts are also very high in fat.
Victims? Since when is a contractor a victim? MS is legally bound to treat contractor like contractors. Contractors know what they are getting into, and if they have a shred of sense have lined up new work before their current term or project is up.
I work with contractors frequently. They are treated differently because they are NOT employees. We still have them join us for lunch, but they do wear different badges, they get last pick of office space, and are the first to go when work slows down. It is the nature of contracting.
Both local labour lasw, tax laws, and the union demand that contractors are only for SHORT TERM WORK. If a contractor is doing the same thing for 3 years then its time to hire someone for that position. Now, MS does NOT want to have to hire all its contractors, or pay taxes as if they were employees, etc... so they are being very careful to treat their contractors as contractors in the eyes of the law. This may not be the intended effect of the lawsuit, but it is what I would expect from any large corporation.
The USA has it share of stupid, freedom trampling laws. Is it still illegal to vote for the commies in the USA? I can vote for 3 flavours of commies up here in the freedom loving Great White North, otherwise known as Canada.
The USA is moving towards being a police state. Arresting people without charging them. Spying on its own citizens in the name of "security". Reducing oversight on various domestic law enforcement agencies. Even before 9/11 and all the freedom trampling laws that followed that horrible event, the USA was using its "war on drugs" to lock up huge numbers of its citizens.
Now is the time for USA patriots to be heard and roll back the recent fascist laws.
And the USA didn't? So just where did the Taliban get all the USA made Stingers? Who was that was selling weapons to Iraq when it was fighting Iran? Why, that would be the USA, the largest seller of weapons in the world.
No, it is not becuase the USA attracts criminals. Ever hear of these things called "borders" and "immigration"? Most of your locked up people are citizens from the "war on drugs". The USA has a higher percentage of its citizens locked up than China.
Read the "Guns of August", a very interesting account of WWI up to when the trench warefare started. Machine guns are SO much more effective than single shot, or even semi-auto rifles at defense that they did, in fact, make a huge difference to the way war is waged. It just took a while for the generals to fully understand the ramifications.
If you are going to claim something, at least make sure you are right. What do you think this is, some internet forum?
Re:Programmers are not engineers, let me explain
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Your "drop a brick" nuke would have a VERY low yield. In fact, it might only get warm enough to melt a hole in your floor. A uranium bomb can be as simple as a cannon shooting a chunk of uranium at another chunk of uranium, but you have to at least use a cannon to get the two pieces together fast enough that they don't don't vaporize before reaching critical mass. The canon method also give a low yield bomb.
The raw materials are hard to get because the "weapons grade" uranium is a very small percentage of raw uranium and it is difficult and expensive to seperate it out. It is actually this step that holds up most uranium bombs.
Plutonium can be made in a large, sophisticated reactor that is pretty hard to hide. The engineering for a plutonium bomb is somwhat trickier than for uranium bombs of similiar yields.
Small, high yield nukes require very difficult engineering even after you get the raw materials.
Its just another step on the road to a police state which the current USA administration seems to feel is the only way to "protect" its citizens.
This will not stop a single criminal. Its a horriblely broad bill that criminalizes many standard computer practises. I hope someone with a shred of common sense will point this out and the bill dies.
Yeah, but I'd guess that 90% of our NT boxes are application servers running big apps that only run on NT. If the app is running OK you don't want to touch anything.
A Midnight Clear is an excellent story set in WWII about a small band of allied soldiers handling the surrender of some german troops. A very good movie.
If you like "Brother" see "Fireworks". Same actor/director.
Tough cop wants to retire with his ill wife. Keeps getting sidetracked into rather violent situations by his work, while being just the nicest guy with the wife.
I liked Pitch Black also. Good scares, interesting story (just don't think about the rather odd ecology), strong characters. For a horror movie for little of the "do something incredibly stupid" problem.
Event Horizon has terminal "stupid people" disease. IN many ways it was very creepy, but when the woman atstonaut went after her kid (stupid, stupid, stupid) it killed the movie for me.
The Sam & Max trailer at the Lucas theatre is for the original Sam & max, not the new one. They retained the slightly out of sync speech that I so fondly remember. Certainly a classic game.
Re:I'm for the war... but..
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Much of the world does not agree that "due cause" is preceeding the current USA attak on Iraq. For myself the most disturbing part of the USA attack on Iraq is the idea that the USA can premptively attack anyone who makes them uneasy. Saying this a continuation of the 1990 gulf war (and other similiar arguments) are just sophistry.
Can anyone explain what about Iraq has scared the USA so much that they are willing to completely ignore most of the rest of the world's opinion regarding attacking Iraq? I don't believe for a second this is about oil - something has scared the crap out of the current USA administration.
Water injection is a very old method to allow higher boost on forced induction internal combustion engines. It was used in some WWII era figher planes, and is still used in some high performance engines. Basicly, the water cools the mixture, allowing higher boost without detenation.
Try google (water injection power), or water injection
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Just in case you forgot, we did let EVERY American airplane land in Canada on 9/11 - no hesitation. You needed help and we gave it. While we admire many things about our powerful neighbors to the south, many Canadians were not keen to join a "pre-emptive" war. If any country were to risk attacking the USA, you can certainly expect Canada to help out.
We actually have more ships and troops in the middle east than many of the official coalition forces, but we chose to not take part in the attack on Iraq, but continue help with blockades etc...
The solution is a "third mirror". The normal raid system has an extra mirror drive that can be taken offline with a very short outage, then we backup the third mirror to tape at our leisure. The third mirror is brought back online after the backup, rinse and repeat. This is a commercial system provided by a major storage provider, and I'm sure it will become more popular.
Google is a private company. Can't say I ever noticed they don't advertize booze. Can't say I ever noticed any of their adds.
Work out all the main muscles each time you work out. Muscle mags are full of all sorts of routines, but most are only suitable for advanced body builders. Aim for doing ten reps, a 1 minute break, then ten more reps. Do that for all the main muscle groups, once or twice a week, and you will build up some strength, tone your muscles, and if gifted with the right genetics even gain some muscle mass. So what are some good movements?
Also, do not "diet". Change your eating habits in a way that you can realisticly keep up the REST of your life. I can't stay on a super restrictive diet for years at a time. Be patient! Slow gradual weight loss is more likely to stay off and much more healthy for you. Add exercise to your normal weekly routine. I hate jogging, but I like biking and swimimng. I also work out with weights once a week for an hour, and play ball hockey (floor hockey) once a week. There are lots of physical activities for both team play and solitary efforts to choose some. Try a few until you find something you like.
Watch portion size. Don't "super-size" any of your meals. Snack on fresh fruit and vegatbles. Watch out for pop and fruit juice - both are very high in calories. Nuts are also very high in fat.
Let moderation be your watchword.
I work with contractors frequently. They are treated differently because they are NOT employees. We still have them join us for lunch, but they do wear different badges, they get last pick of office space, and are the first to go when work slows down. It is the nature of contracting.
Both local labour lasw, tax laws, and the union demand that contractors are only for SHORT TERM WORK. If a contractor is doing the same thing for 3 years then its time to hire someone for that position. Now, MS does NOT want to have to hire all its contractors, or pay taxes as if they were employees, etc... so they are being very careful to treat their contractors as contractors in the eyes of the law. This may not be the intended effect of the lawsuit, but it is what I would expect from any large corporation.
The USA is moving towards being a police state. Arresting people without charging them. Spying on its own citizens in the name of "security". Reducing oversight on various domestic law enforcement agencies. Even before 9/11 and all the freedom trampling laws that followed that horrible event, the USA was using its "war on drugs" to lock up huge numbers of its citizens.
Now is the time for USA patriots to be heard and roll back the recent fascist laws.
And the USA didn't? So just where did the Taliban get all the USA made Stingers? Who was that was selling weapons to Iraq when it was fighting Iran? Why, that would be the USA, the largest seller of weapons in the world.
A very small number of people locked up in the USA are for capital crimes. Most are locked up for possesion of small amouints of illegal drugs.
No, it is not becuase the USA attracts criminals. Ever hear of these things called "borders" and "immigration"? Most of your locked up people are citizens from the "war on drugs". The USA has a higher percentage of its citizens locked up than China.
Read the "Guns of August", a very interesting account of WWI up to when the trench warefare started. Machine guns are SO much more effective than single shot, or even semi-auto rifles at defense that they did, in fact, make a huge difference to the way war is waged. It just took a while for the generals to fully understand the ramifications.
If you are going to claim something, at least make sure you are right. What do you think this is, some internet forum?
The raw materials are hard to get because the "weapons grade" uranium is a very small percentage of raw uranium and it is difficult and expensive to seperate it out. It is actually this step that holds up most uranium bombs.
Plutonium can be made in a large, sophisticated reactor that is pretty hard to hide. The engineering for a plutonium bomb is somwhat trickier than for uranium bombs of similiar yields.
Small, high yield nukes require very difficult engineering even after you get the raw materials.
That should be: Are there any games any more that are not made by EA Games? I thought they made every game.
But you gain a point for spelling "their" correctly.
This will not stop a single criminal. Its a horriblely broad bill that criminalizes many standard computer practises. I hope someone with a shred of common sense will point this out and the bill dies.
Yeah, but I'd guess that 90% of our NT boxes are application servers running big apps that only run on NT. If the app is running OK you don't want to touch anything.
MOD UP. A great mind bending movie. Wormholes (?) monster rabbits, falling jet engines, mystery and angst. What more could you want?
A Midnight Clear is an excellent story set in WWII about a small band of allied soldiers handling the surrender of some german troops. A very good movie.
Tough cop wants to retire with his ill wife. Keeps getting sidetracked into rather violent situations by his work, while being just the nicest guy with the wife.
Event Horizon has terminal "stupid people" disease. IN many ways it was very creepy, but when the woman atstonaut went after her kid (stupid, stupid, stupid) it killed the movie for me.
you can see the "Helper" robots in Return of the Jedi - I think it was in Jabba's robot torture chamber.
Supernova was WAY too predictable. Ok effects, ok direction, ok BUT predictable story. Totally by the numbers.
The Sam & Max trailer at the Lucas theatre is for the original Sam & max, not the new one. They retained the slightly out of sync speech that I so fondly remember. Certainly a classic game.
Can anyone explain what about Iraq has scared the USA so much that they are willing to completely ignore most of the rest of the world's opinion regarding attacking Iraq? I don't believe for a second this is about oil - something has scared the crap out of the current USA administration.
Water injection is a very old method to allow higher boost on forced induction internal combustion engines. It was used in some WWII era figher planes, and is still used in some high performance engines. Basicly, the water cools the mixture, allowing higher boost without detenation. Try google (water injection power), or water injection