I have been hmming and hawing about buying the Jerker desk from Ikea, after seeing yours, I think I am sold. my current desk is a bloody mess with the 17" and 15" crts I use. To make them the right height, I have old manuals propping them up. With two cats in the house who like crawling up on the desk it is a recipe for disaster. When I'm doing homework from college, I like having my IM client, mp3 player and aMule, Azureus and a VNC session to my server running on the 15" screen and occasionally testing my code while keeping my text editor running in the 17" monitor.
I often wonder how the citizens of other countries in North and South America feel about "Americans" being used to refer to the residents of the U.S.
I, speaking for 1/32 000 000th of the population of Canada, don't mind at all. If you don't like "American", I am sure that people in the rest of the can come with some more names, some positive, some negative.
then again we don't have a department of homeland secScarity...
Well, don't you fret, it's on its way with the benignly titled Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. It does not have the pseudo-Nazi "homeland" name, but it is the department responsible for for the RCMP, CSIS, the Fireams Centre, Parole Board and Border Services, much like DHS does for the good ol' USA.
Problem is, 100mph, although well above the legal speed limit, is slow enough to get you killed on most of Britain's roads. Not just motorways, either. A lot of the A-roads up north are just as fast, but much, much narrower, and single-carriageway.
If your car can't hold 120mph on a lot of Britain's motorways, you are an accident waiting to happen.
Aye Caramba! Maybe we need some British riving instructors here. I have lived in Ottawa ON for a decade now and the slowness of the drivers shocks and frustrates me. I live in centretown so I don't need to use a car very often (2-3 times / week), but when I have to go out to the west end (usually for college or shopping at Costco and other shopping behemoths) I take the Queensway, (Hwy 417). Other drivers make me insane on that road. The speed limit is 100km/h and people like to drive between 70 and 90 on it. Even in Montreal and Toronto, traffic seems to move at 120-130km/h in non-rush hours. Why not here? People speed up when you try to pass them and tend to try to police you by cutting you off if you dare pass them on the right side. Far be it for me to criticise someone driving slow in the centre lanes. Anyhow, I'd be happy if they would manage 95-105. I guess because our city is so small, if one drives slower across it, it seems bigger.
Seeing more smaller cars would be great, especially if it meant more lanes on the highway by narrowing them, and therefore more ways to get around these sloths.
I am however, surprised that people drive 100-120mph in the motorways in the UK. I remember taking the M25 from Heathrow on the way to Brighton and there were speed cameras everwhere, put people were leaving us in the dust. Since everything except lager and chocolate bars is so much more expensive in the UK, the fines must be stiff.
You do realize that when two objects collide, the *exact same* amount of force is applied to both. If I throw a baseball at a mountain, the force that the baseball applies to the mountain is no stronger and no weaker than the force that the mountain applies to the baseball.
Yes, I do, and I apologise and will never throw a baseball at another mountain again. How much does it cost to fix a knocked-over mountain?
I just read TFA and realised that the patent referred to "long filenames".
My bad. Mod me -1 Moron.:-)
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I really wish people would stop telling Americans that they should just adopt electoral system from country X. Each country does its democracy differently. Here in Canada, elections are usually done one issue at a time (at least federally and provincially; Municipal elections are another matter.). We elect Parliaments on election day, not a President, Congressmen, Senators, Sheriffs, Judges, Animal Control Officers, referenda etc. Referenda are rare and seperate events on major issues here. It seems that in order to change to a "better" system, they will also need to have more elections or decide to proxy choices on matters to their elected representatives.
It's easy for us to have the scrutiny that we have here because we don't have 10 pages of ballots to look at. Maybe electronic voting is the way to go down there. Maybe a standardised system where you vote the same way in Screaming Armits Alabama as you would in Manhattan, NY or Manahattan, KS. While I like our parliamentary system better, it's mostly because I know and understand it.
Oh man! I can't believe I fell for it. I'm glad I used my yahoo account that I use for signing-up for things and put in fake information. We'll see if my yahoo box gets more traffic.
Wow, I don't know if you're joking or not with thispagraph, but I'm going to print it out and have it in my notebook thingy I use for meetings. If I ever get caught sleeping (again), I will just read what I see first. Thanks!
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Maybe he just got Weird Al's song stuck in his head and couldn't concentrate.
Why not just get a USB floppy? That way you can keep it in a box and if you need a quick recovery, them voilà! a floppy drive and no dust sicking orifice. With the USB floppy, you only need one for all machines in the house/office.
I think that you are making an unfair comparison between Finnish and English. When Finns moved abroad, they didn't take their language with them, but the English did. They did so mostly by having a larger population than the original inhabitants (killing the aborignal poeples hastened the process a tad). Now these former colonies are independent countries. Do you honestly believe that people in Australia, Jamaica, the US, Ireland etc are going to accept being told how to speak by some sort of "English Academy" in London. I don't think so.
For instance, if the history of North America turned out differently and the area that is now Manitoba and Minnesota had become "NewFinnLand", do you think that the new country they would accept the imposition of a language "controlled" by a foreign country no matter how positive the relationships are. Even the French, who have a very centralised control of their language through the Academie Francaise are not in touch with the rest of the world. I think the last time they added a French term was 'courriel' for email. I can't think of the one previous to that.
I just want to reiterate that it is unfair to compare a language spoken as a first language by five million people in one country to a language used as a first language by close to half a billion people in dozens of countries all six inhabited continents.
Why political parties? Same reason as hard-core porn, prostitution and pot smoking are permitted in Canberra. Politicians aren't like everyone else.
Political parties don't choose the government of Canberra. The people of Canberra do and because it's necessarily largely an educated, professional group of public servants, they tend towards liberal social policies and this is reflected by the government they elect.
Hmmm, now maybe the Canada should consider a National Capital Territory thing now that the two provinces have (foolishly) merged 16 municpalities into two. Sure it may chop off a largely Liberal part of Ontario and a strong federalist (ie Liberal) part of Quebec, so the disasters would happen in both provinces. What the hell, it;s not like the "Liberals" are truly liberal. Of course, Quebec would ask for its part back and we could get whiny and complain about the federal government on our licence plates...Wait, this isn't sounding like Australia.
I asked XM about service in Canada was told that the satellite was finely tuned and purchasing XM would probably be a waste of money. Considering I spend most of my time in Ottawa, which is close to the US, Montreal, which is closer or in New York State, I am surprised it would not work.
Could it really be that they are afraid of the big, bad CRTC?
Ok, I'm a registered independent voter, because I like to think for myself...
Please (you or someone) explain this to those of us outside the US. Who do you register with? I was a member of a political party in Canada years ago, but I got disillusioned with them and just vote their way if I like the candidate. I assumed that "registering" means you send the party a few bucks, they give you a membership card; send you junk mail and you get to vote for delegates to conventions etc. How do you "register" for no party?
Case in point: in college I wrote a paper for english class - which my professor liked so much that he circulated among the faculty. Several faculty members accused me of plagerism... I stuck to my guns and eventually they caved. I did not plagerize - but there was nothing I could definitively do to prove otherwise....
I feel bad for people in these situations. When I was in University (1990-1994), the internet (for those of us in Social "Science") was fairly new and was actively discouraged as a source. I tended to search abstracts on cd-rom. I photocopied articles and kept files with notes attached to the articles. With notes and sources that you could drop on the instructor or faculty's desk, it was easy to prove that the research was done and any similarities were co-incidental. I was however never questioned.
My degree was social work and most of my soc-sci electives were in psych and sociology and I found that I came back to the same work. It may be more difficult in other subject areas. I found that the best way to cheat when rushed is to make up sources. As long as you can make it believeable and are not doing a Level III course or above and don't make the assertion too interesting, then you are in the clear.
The next wave will be the fiber networks that can push Gigs. Then the existing (slow?) broadband will go to the light users (dial-uppers now), and the business/power users/media hogs will grab the Broader-band.
Maybe a network guy can correct me if I am wrong, but down't broadband refer to the fact that the data is compressed? LANs are (usually) baseband, but dialup over 9600baud and DSL/cable is broadband. Is fibre base- or broadband?
All that being said "Broaderband" would make a great name for an ISP that sells accounts with high bandwidth....
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I have been hmming and hawing about buying the Jerker desk from Ikea, after seeing yours, I think I am sold. my current desk is a bloody mess with the 17" and 15" crts I use. To make them the right height, I have old manuals propping them up. With two cats in the house who like crawling up on the desk it is a recipe for disaster. When I'm doing homework from college, I like having my IM client, mp3 player and aMule, Azureus and a VNC session to my server running on the 15" screen and occasionally testing my code while keeping my text editor running in the 17" monitor.
I, speaking for 1/32 000 000th of the population of Canada, don't mind at all. If you don't like "American", I am sure that people in the rest of the can come with some more names, some positive, some negative.
Americans make movies, lots of them, a few good, some bad, and many, really bad. Wait, even that to a certain extent ... is outsourced ... to Canada.
Well, don't you fret, it's on its way with the benignly titled Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. It does not have the pseudo-Nazi "homeland" name, but it is the department responsible for for the RCMP, CSIS, the Fireams Centre, Parole Board and Border Services, much like DHS does for the good ol' USA.
If your car can't hold 120mph on a lot of Britain's motorways, you are an accident waiting to happen.
Aye Caramba! Maybe we need some British riving instructors here. I have lived in Ottawa ON for a decade now and the slowness of the drivers shocks and frustrates me. I live in centretown so I don't need to use a car very often (2-3 times / week), but when I have to go out to the west end (usually for college or shopping at Costco and other shopping behemoths) I take the Queensway, (Hwy 417). Other drivers make me insane on that road. The speed limit is 100km/h and people like to drive between 70 and 90 on it. Even in Montreal and Toronto, traffic seems to move at 120-130km/h in non-rush hours. Why not here? People speed up when you try to pass them and tend to try to police you by cutting you off if you dare pass them on the right side. Far be it for me to criticise someone driving slow in the centre lanes. Anyhow, I'd be happy if they would manage 95-105. I guess because our city is so small, if one drives slower across it, it seems bigger.
Seeing more smaller cars would be great, especially if it meant more lanes on the highway by narrowing them, and therefore more ways to get around these sloths.
I am however, surprised that people drive 100-120mph in the motorways in the UK. I remember taking the M25 from Heathrow on the way to Brighton and there were speed cameras everwhere, put people were leaving us in the dust. Since everything except lager and chocolate bars is so much more expensive in the UK, the fines must be stiff.
Yes, I do, and I apologise and will never throw a baseball at another mountain again. How much does it cost to fix a knocked-over mountain?
Gay marriage in Canada, well that's coming soon.
You could get one of Bush's cronies. I'd be more afraid if Ashroft managed to find himself running in 2008.
I just read TFA and realised that the patent referred to "long filenames".
My bad. Mod me -1 Moron. :-)
I just happen to have mod points. I would have modded you -1 moron, but the option didn't exist. I can offer you: Normal, Off-Topic, Flamebait, Troll, Redundant, Insightful, Interesting, Informative, Funny, Overrated, or Underrated.
Hurry up, I think my points will run out soon. :)
It's easy for us to have the scrutiny that we have here because we don't have 10 pages of ballots to look at. Maybe electronic voting is the way to go down there. Maybe a standardised system where you vote the same way in Screaming Armits Alabama as you would in Manhattan, NY or Manahattan, KS. While I like our parliamentary system better, it's mostly because I know and understand it.
Oh man! I can't believe I fell for it. I'm glad I used my yahoo account that I use for signing-up for things and put in fake information. We'll see if my yahoo box gets more traffic.
Wow, I don't know if you're joking or not with thispagraph, but I'm going to print it out and have it in my notebook thingy I use for meetings. If I ever get caught sleeping (again), I will just read what I see first. Thanks!
Maybe he just got Weird Al's song stuck in his head and couldn't concentrate.
Why not just get a USB floppy? That way you can keep it in a box and if you need a quick recovery, them voilà! a floppy drive and no dust sicking orifice. With the USB floppy, you only need one for all machines in the house/office.
For instance, if the history of North America turned out differently and the area that is now Manitoba and Minnesota had become "NewFinnLand", do you think that the new country they would accept the imposition of a language "controlled" by a foreign country no matter how positive the relationships are. Even the French, who have a very centralised control of their language through the Academie Francaise are not in touch with the rest of the world. I think the last time they added a French term was 'courriel' for email. I can't think of the one previous to that.
I just want to reiterate that it is unfair to compare a language spoken as a first language by five million people in one country to a language used as a first language by close to half a billion people in dozens of countries all six inhabited continents.
Political parties don't choose the government of Canberra. The people of Canberra do and because it's necessarily largely an educated, professional group of public servants, they tend towards liberal social policies and this is reflected by the government they elect.
Hmmm, now maybe the Canada should consider a National Capital Territory thing now that the two provinces have (foolishly) merged 16 municpalities into two. Sure it may chop off a largely Liberal part of Ontario and a strong federalist (ie Liberal) part of Quebec, so the disasters would happen in both provinces. What the hell, it;s not like the "Liberals" are truly liberal. Of course, Quebec would ask for its part back and we could get whiny and complain about the federal government on our licence plates...Wait, this isn't sounding like Australia.
Could it really be that they are afraid of the big, bad CRTC?
Please (you or someone) explain this to those of us outside the US. Who do you register with? I was a member of a political party in Canada years ago, but I got disillusioned with them and just vote their way if I like the candidate. I assumed that "registering" means you send the party a few bucks, they give you a membership card; send you junk mail and you get to vote for delegates to conventions etc. How do you "register" for no party?
I feel bad for people in these situations. When I was in University (1990-1994), the internet (for those of us in Social "Science") was fairly new and was actively discouraged as a source. I tended to search abstracts on cd-rom. I photocopied articles and kept files with notes attached to the articles. With notes and sources that you could drop on the instructor or faculty's desk, it was easy to prove that the research was done and any similarities were co-incidental. I was however never questioned.
My degree was social work and most of my soc-sci electives were in psych and sociology and I found that I came back to the same work. It may be more difficult in other subject areas. I found that the best way to cheat when rushed is to make up sources. As long as you can make it believeable and are not doing a Level III course or above and don't make the assertion too interesting, then you are in the clear.
Maybe a network guy can correct me if I am wrong, but down't broadband refer to the fact that the data is compressed? LANs are (usually) baseband, but dialup over 9600baud and DSL/cable is broadband. Is fibre base- or broadband?
All that being said "Broaderband" would make a great name for an ISP that sells accounts with high bandwidth....
He doesn't need to. He does, however, have a one-point plan for better America.
:)
What? You mean there is more than one USA? Where?
So, I guess when the aide to our (then) Prime Minister called Mr Bush a moron, she was just addressing him by his title....
Don't forget the duplicate sales when obsessive kids buy imports so that they can get both covers.
What's next, a license to spell?
Don't you mean licence?