Sad fact is, the US has had more time to evolve than Canada...
Maybe it's not evolution though. It's more of a growing up. The parent nation of the US smacked them around a few too many times, and the US fought back, they figured that fighting back was a good way to get what you wanted. This set the course for how the US is.
Canada on the other hand, benifited from the US fighting back, they got treated better by the same parent nation, and grew into a more stable, responsible country...
Maybe it's time to teach the US to be responsable, and make it grow up into something more than the school yard bully?
(just talking out my ass here... I've got nothing against the US, some of it's policies are stupid... but then again, it's not like it's that much better here in Canada.
Only because you can't pull the wadding out of your ears and listen to a calm, rational dicussion about one's ideals and ideas.
Nobody pays much attention to the people who run around yelling about things. If you engage a person in a discussion, you can learn their point of view, and seek to understand it, and make your own point of view to them... maybe they'll teach you something that changes your view point, and maybe you'll do the same to them.
It's a interesting situation to be sure... but there's some differences (small, igsignificant ones)
Downloaders of music tend to be people that either a) don't buy CD's anyway, and if there was no p2p or MP3's networks would probably still just borrow someone's CD and burn a copy
or
b) want to get a hold of unusual, rare, or otherwise unavaliable music
or
c) Want to be able to sample more than what's played on the radio before buying a CD.
(Of course there's other kinds of folks that do it, but those are the main catagories, I think)
Cracking the DTV service is done simply to obtain free what would otherwise cost an arm and a leg... DTV fights back as best they can (sometimes with modest sucess), both by technical means, as well as legal means (IE the recent crackdown in Canada of people who sell DTV bypass systems). It's illegal, yes, and I'm sure if only a few people did it DTV wouldn't be so uptight, but it's entered into the realm of Joe Sixpack, which is a hazard to thier business.
Making copies of confidential documents is another ballpark entirely... akin to someone getting the source to windows and starting to mail it out to various Open Source programmers. (while everyone hates microsoft, I rather doubt that most would side against the notion that they're intitled to legally persuing the person who stole the code originally... though, most of us would point and laugh as well)
You do whatever the h*ll rings your bell, I'm just an engineer who wants to make the best OS possible.
There's too many people who stand up and yell about the ideals that they hold. Sure, Linus is doing it himself, but he's not saying "My way is right" but "This is how I'm going to do it, feel free to follow my lead, or do it your own way".
On a contruction site, there's a lot of conditions that won't be experianced by your average hiker or camper. Dirty/dusty/wet conditions, lots of small impacts (riding around in lunchbox, tool box etc), as well as less tendancy to treat it as anything but another tool.
naw, why bother? Just make sure a shipment of small arms is delivered to the more fanatical antispam advocates, and free T-Shirts (with targets on them) are provided to the spammers.
A "safer" computer language is one that assumes the programmer is too lazy to write unflawed code, that nobody looking over the code sees the error, that the user will not update even if there is an error found later and a patch/update release...
Basically, it assumes everyone's an idiot and plugs up various types of weak spots to be exploited.
Strange, I have an older Radeon (7500) that will lock with anything but the VESA drivers. And even with the VESA driver, if I want to change video settings there's a better than 50% chance it'll lock up, forceing a reboot.
How many request for a free sample will VersaLaser be getting. (For those who haven't been to the site, they offer a free sample of material cut with the lazer)
Use a normal everyday linksys hub, just plug your DSL modem into the uplink port (in my case at least, plugging it into a nomal port didn't work.) and use the software from your computer.
While a lot of folks will be up in arms over this, SARS is a large threat worldwide. Sure, this method will generate a lot of false positives, but it's probably less of an incovience than having to close down the airport and put a halt on all air travel, expecually in regions where SARS has a large presence.
Well, considering acording to the story this machine is normally busy plunking away at a cure for cancer... I think it'll be going back to work fairly quickly.
SARS isn't under control though. The only thing that's containing it was the rapid responce to it's existance, and that dispite not knowing much about it, certain drugs have some effect against it, as well as the body does create antibodies, so a serum can be made.
But actually understanding what SARS is... that's beyond us at present.
"On the quality of minds that work at the U.S. Department of Energy?" it should be.
I need to wake up.
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On the quality of minds that work at the U.S. of the sense of people who work at the Department of Energy? Sheesh. this guy's quote is just funny...
Another major advantage: "transporting natural gas as hydrates can be done at lower temperature and pressure than liquid natural gas, and the risk of ignition in transport is much lower,"
The transportation of it will be done at a lower pressure, yes, but at a higher temprature... not a lower one.
You need to cool and/or pressurise a gas to form a liquid. Cool and pressurise it more, and you can get a solid... simple changes in the state that the matter is in. Creating hydrates is a chemical reaction... which has differnt prerequsits for happening, and the result is more stable (I assume) where the temprature and pressure don't need to be as strictly monitored.
Certain types of homework are fine (essays, research, projects), as they're not homework exaclly, but may take some people more time than clastime allows (ie, you left that essay until the last minute, again). But others, like your normal math homework come across to me as being frequently without use.
If the student understands and feels comfortable with what they learned, why should they need to do extra work?
I think that everyone (teachers, parents, studnts) needs to realise that each student has ways that they work best, and that forcing everyone to take the same path just produces a bunch of learned idiots.
(thankfully when I went to school in grades 9-12 there was little emphisis on homework, it was optional, and you got a few extra marks for doing it, but didn't loose any for not doing it.)
It's acidic, and it flows easier than oil, so while it doesn't lubricate as oil does, it can dissolve some of the corrosion that caused the siezed parts. (often corrosion is easier to disolve because you can get more surface contact between it and the acid).
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Though, at the time they were trying to fight both the Canadains, and the British (mainly the british).
Sad fact is, the US has had more time to evolve than Canada...
Maybe it's not evolution though. It's more of a growing up. The parent nation of the US smacked them around a few too many times, and the US fought back, they figured that fighting back was a good way to get what you wanted. This set the course for how the US is.
Canada on the other hand, benifited from the US fighting back, they got treated better by the same parent nation, and grew into a more stable, responsible country...
Maybe it's time to teach the US to be responsable, and make it grow up into something more than the school yard bully?
(just talking out my ass here... I've got nothing against the US, some of it's policies are stupid... but then again, it's not like it's that much better here in Canada.
Anyone else notice the lack of the AC checkbox?)
The editors own and love this book. Just look at all the dupes posted. Same info again and again... (and in some cases, again and again...)
Only because you can't pull the wadding out of your ears and listen to a calm, rational dicussion about one's ideals and ideas.
Nobody pays much attention to the people who run around yelling about things. If you engage a person in a discussion, you can learn their point of view, and seek to understand it, and make your own point of view to them... maybe they'll teach you something that changes your view point, and maybe you'll do the same to them.
It's a interesting situation to be sure... but there's some differences (small, igsignificant ones)
Downloaders of music tend to be people that either
a) don't buy CD's anyway, and if there was no p2p or MP3's networks would probably still just borrow someone's CD and burn a copy
or
b) want to get a hold of unusual, rare, or otherwise unavaliable music
or
c) Want to be able to sample more than what's played on the radio before buying a CD.
(Of course there's other kinds of folks that do it, but those are the main catagories, I think)
Cracking the DTV service is done simply to obtain free what would otherwise cost an arm and a leg... DTV fights back as best they can (sometimes with modest sucess), both by technical means, as well as legal means (IE the recent crackdown in Canada of people who sell DTV bypass systems). It's illegal, yes, and I'm sure if only a few people did it DTV wouldn't be so uptight, but it's entered into the realm of Joe Sixpack, which is a hazard to thier business.
Making copies of confidential documents is another ballpark entirely... akin to someone getting the source to windows and starting to mail it out to various Open Source programmers. (while everyone hates microsoft, I rather doubt that most would side against the notion that they're intitled to legally persuing the person who stole the code originally... though, most of us would point and laugh as well)
On a contruction site, there's a lot of conditions that won't be experianced by your average hiker or camper. Dirty/dusty/wet conditions, lots of small impacts (riding around in lunchbox, tool box etc), as well as less tendancy to treat it as anything but another tool.
naw, why bother? Just make sure a shipment of small arms is delivered to the more fanatical antispam advocates, and free T-Shirts (with targets on them) are provided to the spammers.
A "safer" computer language is one that assumes the programmer is too lazy to write unflawed code, that nobody looking over the code sees the error, that the user will not update even if there is an error found later and a patch/update release...
Basically, it assumes everyone's an idiot and plugs up various types of weak spots to be exploited.
Strange, I have an older Radeon (7500) that will lock with anything but the VESA drivers. And even with the VESA driver, if I want to change video settings there's a better than 50% chance it'll lock up, forceing a reboot.
How many request for a free sample will VersaLaser be getting. (For those who haven't been to the site, they offer a free sample of material cut with the lazer)
More junk to collect!
Naw, it's be OS^2, otherwise it'd just be half and OS
Use a normal everyday linksys hub, just plug your DSL modem into the uplink port (in my case at least, plugging it into a nomal port didn't work.) and use the software from your computer.
A good, senseable use for airport security.
While a lot of folks will be up in arms over this, SARS is a large threat worldwide. Sure, this method will generate a lot of false positives, but it's probably less of an incovience than having to close down the airport and put a halt on all air travel, expecually in regions where SARS has a large presence.
Equivalent of 1 shot of alcohol, to 2 cups of strong coffee.
Read things though. Alcohol alone was proven to be helpful in small doses. They looked for things to mix it with to give greater benifits.
And no, it's not a preventative measure, it's developed to be part of the post stroke treatment.
Well, considering acording to the story this machine is normally busy plunking away at a cure for cancer... I think it'll be going back to work fairly quickly.
SARS isn't under control though. The only thing that's containing it was the rapid responce to it's existance, and that dispite not knowing much about it, certain drugs have some effect against it, as well as the body does create antibodies, so a serum can be made.
But actually understanding what SARS is... that's beyond us at present.
What a fucked up first line.
"On the quality of minds that work at the U.S. Department of Energy?" it should be.
I need to wake up.
And all the geeks will be laughing because they got free webcams and someone cranked out a program to allow it to be used without AOL.
Certain types of homework are fine (essays, research, projects), as they're not homework exaclly, but may take some people more time than clastime allows (ie, you left that essay until the last minute, again). But others, like your normal math homework come across to me as being frequently without use.
If the student understands and feels comfortable with what they learned, why should they need to do extra work?
I think that everyone (teachers, parents, studnts) needs to realise that each student has ways that they work best, and that forcing everyone to take the same path just produces a bunch of learned idiots.
(thankfully when I went to school in grades 9-12 there was little emphisis on homework, it was optional, and you got a few extra marks for doing it, but didn't loose any for not doing it.)
Probably at the point where they can make judgement calls, rather than simply following the logic of their programming.
Naw, vodka was what prior articals on the subject suggested.
Actually, a better setup would be geta Semi trailer and do it.
Actually, I beleive Radio Shack has one, that they use to demo their high end home theater stuff.
It's acidic, and it flows easier than oil, so while it doesn't lubricate as oil does, it can dissolve some of the corrosion that caused the siezed parts. (often corrosion is easier to disolve because you can get more surface contact between it and the acid).
They're suppose to come out with a 1gig xD card this year, and they project that they'll make up to 8 gig cards.