What's wrong with licence? From the OED, 2nd ed,:
licence, n., 1. a. Liberty (to do something), leave, permission. Now somewhat rare. Also occas. exemption from (something). Formerly often in phr. licence and leave; by, with, without (a person's) licence; to get, give, have, obtain, take (a) licence.
I disagree. Based on the results of the 2000 US election, you don't really need to be elected, you need a brother who will fix the results in a big state in a tight race.
These are brainwashing tactics... It is downright scary that these "guest teachers" are even allowed to spread such FUD
I have never understood why people insist on this type of aversion tactics. They just don't work. If someone is warned that horrible, scary, evil things will happen if they do something minor, and the consequece does not happen, then the credibility of the {parent|teacher|other adult} is destroyed. How can the person they are trying to influence take influencer seriously when they lie. Kids (like adults) do not like being lied to.
Wow, we have that technology in Canada too. As I seem to recall, our 2000 election happened after the US election, yet we knew the results of our election before the people in the US did.
I used to live in Montreal and I can not think of a safer city to live in. I never felt threatened by someone I saw on the street there.
Try Ottawa (if you consider it a city). Poeple are so self-absorbed here that you almost have to be walking down the street with waving a hand full of $50s (which stores don't want anyhow) in order to get someone to look at you. It's sad really.
Where the hell can you get beer for $7.00 for 12? You need at least $20.00 for 12 of anything worth drinking. I assume we are still talking about Vancouver BC here.....
Someone, possibly even myself should develop some sort of program, site, script etc to compare two companies, organisations, countries etc to pop out a result who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. It is just too much effort to keep track anymore.
Where do you get your sample and how big is it? I can't imagine that you would get a significant enough number to generalise. Is it a random sample? Based on surveys, most people in Canada are a little frustrated with their health-care systems, (often due to cuts to services to finance tax cuts and to contracting out) than the system itself being faulty. Here is a survey.
Do people think the system(s) needs work? Yes. Do they think is not worth anything? Based on a wilingness to allocate more tax money towards them, it would be hard to conclude that they are worth nothing. Who is willing to invest in something worthless?
PS, Health is a provincial responsibility. There are 13 systems, not one national one.
Are times so tough in Ohio that the loss of 500 low-paying jobs in one city is that important? Crappy jobs are always available.
To interpolate, there are 300 million people in the US and 12 million in Ohio. If people in Ohio joined the Do not call list at the US average, then he is pissing off 2 million Ohioicans (Ohiolios?, Ohiolers? etc) for the benefit of 500. That can't be good strategy.
THis man is my employee, i am calling him at his job, telling him hes not doing it to my satisfaction.
No, he is not your employee. He is an employee of the state. You have no direct say in the performance of his job. If he is accountable to anyone, he is accountable to the politicians who appointed him. The politicians, however, are accountable to you and you as a responsible citizen should make sure that the politicians hear your anger.
.. The trend in the USA is to not take responsibility for your actions. Their kids did it, blaming a game for their actions and now they're doing it...
Although it's out of context [it is in reference to the blackout] and I know he is a nutcase himself, but this type of nonsense makes Toronto's mayor, Mel Lastman seem more enlightened than he really is when he said "Tell me, have you ever seen the United States take blame for anything?"
What I can't figure out is sometimes after 10 seconds of starting to play a song, the DJ consents to playing a request, has time to go find the track and go back in time to play it. Radio is amazing.
Wow...every country has it's easily believed thieves. I wonder what Canada's are Aboriginals...Arabs... Somalis...Vietnamese. So many bigots...so many people to blame.
If I were a secretary and I came across a document proving that my boss was releasing toxins into a river (for example), I would whip out my digital camera and start taking pictures of the computer screen. Anything that has to be viewed by a human can be photographed, DRM or no DRM. I'd put my wristwatch into the picture, as well as having the office in the background.
If I were a secretary....umm wait, I am...I would bring that document up on someone else's computer. In some offices, the secretaries have everyone's password.
There is no sense losing your job [immediately] just so you can save the world.
You can get a ticket in Canada (well, I assume everywhere in Canada though vehicle licencing and law enforrcement are provincial responsibilies) for applying stickers to licence plates.
There was a case a few years ago in Quebec where a driver was fined for placing a Canadian flag on his licence plate. Other people have been fined for Mickey Mouse stickers.
I shared a PC with my roommate for a while. I booted in Linux (except for games) and she booted up in XP. I set the default mail & browser clients to Mozilla, she would change them to IE & OE.
She would get annoyed when she changed it back as she was more accustomed to OE for mail. She eventually got a virus and an email that she sent to an ex boyfriend got to her family, friends, neighbours, me, her son, maybe her current boyfriend......
When it was explained that she did it to herself and that with Mozilla, it probably would have not happened, (with Linux it would have definitely not have happened), she became a happy Mozilla user.
Sometimes, it just takes getting burned to get people to stop playing with OL & OE.
Virtually every govt dept of every country in the world has 'buy local' regulations in regards industries that exist in that country.
It would have been nice for this to happen in Canada with regards to software. Ottawa is home to both the federal Government and Corel (I realise that WP was developed in Utah). However, most departments chose MS Office. If the governments in the place where a product is from don't have the confidence in a product to use it, how can we expect people in other markets to care.
As a New Yorker, I can assure you the city was 100% dark on Thursday night. The fact that it looks brighter on the satellite view than Ottawa or even Toronto could be for a number of reasons but is most likely due to nothing more than population density - more cars (and their headlights), more people outside (using flashlights, or other light sources to light up local areas), and more businesses with backup power in a smaller amount of space. Most of the light I see on that image from the NY area is on what I know are the major roadways, particularly the NJ Turnpike. The electricity itself, though, was out to 100% of the city. Ottawa wasn't hit any harder than NYC.
In some ways, Ottawa got off lighter than other cities because we had more options than people in Toronto and in the US. We could go over to Quebec, though the traffic was crazy between 4 and 8pm.
Approx 3/4 (785 000) of the National Capital Region is in Ottawa Ontario (Ottawa, Nepean, Gloucester et al.) and approximately 1/4 (250 000) is in Gatineau, Quebec. Gatineau (the merged Gatineau [Aylmer, Hull, Masson, Angers, Buckingham & old Gatineau] experienced no change to its power situation, save for Ontarians (myself included) coming over in search of gas, food and well, it seemed like a good time to do laundry and go for a swim at Meech Lake.
It 1/4 of the metro area had electricity, you would think that the satellite image would show some light. What happened to the 250 000 people in Gatineau using electricity? I can see St. John NB, Moncton NB, Augusta ME and Bangor ME quite clearly on the map and all of those 3 cities are much smaller than Gatineau.
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What's wrong with licence? From the OED, 2nd ed,:
licence, n., 1. a. Liberty (to do something), leave, permission. Now somewhat rare. Also occas. exemption from (something). Formerly often in phr. licence and leave; by, with, without (a person's) licence; to get, give, have, obtain, take (a) licence.
I disagree. Based on the results of the 2000 US election, you don't really need to be elected, you need a brother who will fix the results in a big state in a tight race.
These are brainwashing tactics... It is downright scary that these "guest teachers" are even allowed to spread such FUD
I have never understood why people insist on this type of aversion tactics. They just don't work. If someone is warned that horrible, scary, evil things will happen if they do something minor, and the consequece does not happen, then the credibility of the {parent|teacher|other adult} is destroyed. How can the person they are trying to influence take influencer seriously when they lie. Kids (like adults) do not like being lied to.
If you get the chance, see Alun Cochrane. He's a British stand-up comedian. His "I'm a giant" gag is killer. Maybe taller people are funnier too?
Strange, but true.
I thought my Model M keyboard was going on 20 years, but a look at it said it as made 09-03-91. Oh well, it's still over a decade old.
What state is MA?
Try Ottawa (if you consider it a city). Poeple are so self-absorbed here that you almost have to be walking down the street with waving a hand full of $50s (which stores don't want anyhow) in order to get someone to look at you. It's sad really.
Where the hell can you get beer for $7.00 for 12? You need at least $20.00 for 12 of anything worth drinking. I assume we are still talking about Vancouver BC here.....
Someone, possibly even myself should develop some sort of program, site, script etc to compare two companies, organisations, countries etc to pop out a result who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. It is just too much effort to keep track anymore.
Do people think the system(s) needs work? Yes. Do they think is not worth anything? Based on a wilingness to allocate more tax money towards them, it would be hard to conclude that they are worth nothing. Who is willing to invest in something worthless?
PS, Health is a provincial responsibility. There are 13 systems, not one national one.
To interpolate, there are 300 million people in the US and 12 million in Ohio. If people in Ohio joined the Do not call list at the US average, then he is pissing off 2 million Ohioicans (Ohiolios?, Ohiolers? etc) for the benefit of 500. That can't be good strategy.
I don't think there are words eloquent enough to apologise for Celine Dion. We're so sorry.
THis man is my employee, i am calling him at his job, telling him hes not doing it to my satisfaction.
No, he is not your employee. He is an employee of the state. You have no direct say in the performance of his job. If he is accountable to anyone, he is accountable to the politicians who appointed him. The politicians, however, are accountable to you and you as a responsible citizen should make sure that the politicians hear your anger.
Although it's out of context [it is in reference to the blackout] and I know he is a nutcase himself, but this type of nonsense makes Toronto's mayor, Mel Lastman seem more enlightened than he really is when he said "Tell me, have you ever seen the United States take blame for anything?"
Would you be willing to accept Elizabeth II as your Head of State?
Umm...uhh...Oh, that is taken care of. Umm, how about accepting a really low-valued dollar? Ummm ... got that too. The metric system ... got that too.
It looks like you're half way there...
Now, French with an Australian accent is something I'd like to hear.
What I can't figure out is sometimes after 10 seconds of starting to play a song, the DJ consents to playing a request, has time to go find the track and go back in time to play it. Radio is amazing.
I love my model M keyboard. It's great telling my roommate to hit the Windows key when she needs to do something.
Wow...every country has it's easily believed thieves. I wonder what Canada's are Aboriginals...Arabs... Somalis...Vietnamese. So many bigots...so many people to blame.
If I were a secretary....umm wait, I am...I would bring that document up on someone else's computer. In some offices, the secretaries have everyone's password.
There is no sense losing your job [immediately] just so you can save the world.
There was a case a few years ago in Quebec where a driver was fined for placing a Canadian flag on his licence plate. Other people have been fined for Mickey Mouse stickers.
She would get annoyed when she changed it back as she was more accustomed to OE for mail. She eventually got a virus and an email that she sent to an ex boyfriend got to her family, friends, neighbours, me, her son, maybe her current boyfriend......
When it was explained that she did it to herself and that with Mozilla, it probably would have not happened, (with Linux it would have definitely not have happened), she became a happy Mozilla user.
Sometimes, it just takes getting burned to get people to stop playing with OL & OE.
It would have been nice for this to happen in Canada with regards to software. Ottawa is home to both the federal Government and Corel (I realise that WP was developed in Utah). However, most departments chose MS Office. If the governments in the place where a product is from don't have the confidence in a product to use it, how can we expect people in other markets to care.
In some ways, Ottawa got off lighter than other cities because we had more options than people in Toronto and in the US. We could go over to Quebec, though the traffic was crazy between 4 and 8pm.
Approx 3/4 (785 000) of the National Capital Region is in Ottawa Ontario (Ottawa, Nepean, Gloucester et al.) and approximately 1/4 (250 000) is in Gatineau, Quebec. Gatineau (the merged Gatineau [Aylmer, Hull, Masson, Angers, Buckingham & old Gatineau] experienced no change to its power situation, save for Ontarians (myself included) coming over in search of gas, food and well, it seemed like a good time to do laundry and go for a swim at Meech Lake.
It 1/4 of the metro area had electricity, you would think that the satellite image would show some light. What happened to the 250 000 people in Gatineau using electricity? I can see St. John NB, Moncton NB, Augusta ME and Bangor ME quite clearly on the map and all of those 3 cities are much smaller than Gatineau.