Seriously? ROFL, grow up, Not allowing people to be asses in one small area of one monument does not equal what happened in China.
Suppression of freedom of speech is suppression of freedom of speech. The scale may be different but a country that denies freedom of speech has no moral right to claim otherwise.
Indeed - elections are not expensive to Canada as a whole. As far as I am aware, not a single penny gets spent outside the Canadian borders, and so it's a good stimulus to the economy. It also aids unemployed Canadians who are available and eager to work for Elections Canada during the polls.
Metric is based on the meter (length), which is based on the speed of light in a vacuum.
Well it is NOW, but not when the metre was first conceived in the 17th century. It was defined as one-millionth the distance from the pole to the equator. Because of more accurate measuring the Earth, current figures estimate the circumference of the Earth is a twinge over 40,000km. In the middle of the 20th century it was decided to define the metre as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths in vacuum of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the 2p10 and 5d5 quantum levels of the krypton-86 atom. Now how is that of any help, and why the seemingly random number of wavelengths? That would be because it was decided to try to keep the length as close to the original definition as possible - i.e. one-millionth the distance from the pole to the equator.
Volume and mass are defined based on a cube (length^3) of water and its specific gravity. Doesn't sound too specific to our planet.
Volume is dependent on the length standard, which as I've said is based on an earthly measurement. Mass is in kilograms now but started out as the gram: "the absolute weight of a volume of water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of the meter, at the temperature of melting ice." Practically though, using a kilogram as the base unit is better, and so a cubic decimeter of water was used, and given the name "litre". Water is denser at 4C than it is at it's freezing point of 0C, so what temperature should be used? It was decided to go with 4C because liquid is easier to confirm as consistent than solid ice. However, the volume of 1 kilogram of water at sea level is different than at 5000m above sea level. Pressure plays a part too, and so the ultimate measurement of our standard unit of mass is based not only upon length (which was tied to a physical measurement unique to our planet) but also to a specific pressure point that is tied to our planet.
Unless we completely start from scratch, our standard units are based on where we live - planet Earth.
I'm going to guess speeding, jay-walking, writing on dollar bills, drug abuse (taking someone else's medication, smoking a joint), petty theft (got a pencil from the office at home?), aiding an offender (do you know someone who has committed a felony, but you have not called the cops?), littering...
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Seriously? ROFL, grow up, Not allowing people to be asses in one small area of one monument does not equal what happened in China.
Suppression of freedom of speech is suppression of freedom of speech. The scale may be different but a country that denies freedom of speech has no moral right to claim otherwise.
Militant : "Combative and aggressive in support of a political or social cause"
Seems to fit. You militant, you.
Tolerance is such a dirty word, don't you think?
You want to believe in God? Yeah, I'll tolerate that. I give you permission to believe.
Try understanding on both sides, and then see where that gets us. A lot farther, I bet, than tolerance ever has.
Your are a moron. Name one instance where freedom of speech has been suppressed in the US.
Oh, that's an easy one. Here's one from last week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW9FbjjkKo4
No, that would be me
FUCK YOU, I just lost the game :(
So, you location is tracked with +-200m accuracy (which can be narrowed down to +-50m using careful analysis of the data). So it is OK now?
By the same token, do you agree to publish your GPS location track? After all, it's accurate to about 30 m.
Being tracked and having that data published are two entirely separate things.
Your bank tracks how much money you have. Do you agree to publish that data?
Probably the same one I use. TD Canada Trust.
22 million email addresses in a file marked "sony.dat"
The NDP are quite clear that this is one of their platform issues. I sincerely doubt that PM Jack Layton would push through CDMCA.
Indeed - elections are not expensive to Canada as a whole. As far as I am aware, not a single penny gets spent outside the Canadian borders, and so it's a good stimulus to the economy. It also aids unemployed Canadians who are available and eager to work for Elections Canada during the polls.
Netflix in Canada is great if you want to watch a movie no-one has heard of outside of Moldova.
Great idea, crappy crappy catalogue.
Which is why if anyone can break it, Google can. I welcome our global streaming overlords.
I personally am a huge Pixar fan
All eleven of their feature length movies?
Metric is based on the meter (length), which is based on the speed of light in a vacuum.
Well it is NOW, but not when the metre was first conceived in the 17th century. It was defined as one-millionth the distance from the pole to the equator. Because of more accurate measuring the Earth, current figures estimate the circumference of the Earth is a twinge over 40,000km. In the middle of the 20th century it was decided to define the metre as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths in vacuum of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the 2p10 and 5d5 quantum levels of the krypton-86 atom. Now how is that of any help, and why the seemingly random number of wavelengths? That would be because it was decided to try to keep the length as close to the original definition as possible - i.e. one-millionth the distance from the pole to the equator.
Volume and mass are defined based on a cube (length^3) of water and its specific gravity. Doesn't sound too specific to our planet.
Volume is dependent on the length standard, which as I've said is based on an earthly measurement. Mass is in kilograms now but started out as the gram: "the absolute weight of a volume of water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of the meter, at the temperature of melting ice." Practically though, using a kilogram as the base unit is better, and so a cubic decimeter of water was used, and given the name "litre". Water is denser at 4C than it is at it's freezing point of 0C, so what temperature should be used? It was decided to go with 4C because liquid is easier to confirm as consistent than solid ice. However, the volume of 1 kilogram of water at sea level is different than at 5000m above sea level. Pressure plays a part too, and so the ultimate measurement of our standard unit of mass is based not only upon length (which was tied to a physical measurement unique to our planet) but also to a specific pressure point that is tied to our planet.
Unless we completely start from scratch, our standard units are based on where we live - planet Earth.
But I always seem to end up in Poland.
Why are you posting to /. instead of helping to feed and clothe the poor, or campaigning for better childhood education?
I try really really hard not to reply to AC ... but the answer is "because other people will benefit". Enlightened Self Interest. Know it, practise it.
It's drop, as in a Hip Hop artist referring to an album release date as when it's going to drop.
Thank you. I can now look cool if I ever become a Hip Hop artist and decide to release^H^H^H^H^H^H^H drop an album.
Drop? As in get rid of, lose, no longer keep?
Is this another US/Everyone else language fail, like "Let's table this idea"?
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And of course, replacing Dr. Who's became the norm back long before most of us were even born.
Who is this "Dr. Who" character of which you speak? Shirley, you mean the Doctor.
Have you seen any terrorism around those cameras?
Yes
I'm going to guess speeding, jay-walking, writing on dollar bills, drug abuse (taking someone else's medication, smoking a joint), petty theft (got a pencil from the office at home?), aiding an offender (do you know someone who has committed a felony, but you have not called the cops?), littering ...