Here in Ontario, Canada there is a highway called the 407 Express Toll Route (ETR) which bypasses most of the awful Toronto traffic on highway 401. It's been taking pictures and billing you via mail for 10 years and works quite well. The tolls are fairly reasonable for the convenience and you can pay monthly if you use it often (for commuting etc.). And every year, supposedly due to profit from the tolls, it expands a little farther east and west. Believe it or not, unlike the US, there aren't many toll highways up here.
Having just returned to Canada from my vacation I concur with you on that one. The airline I booked with put us on a 3rd party airline (seemingly because they didn't have enough planes in the area to handle the flights they had booked). It was a fairly new airline, kind of got the feeling they haven't worked out all the kinks with their staff. Kind of like a flying circus, and sometimes a gong show. But in the end, my final feeling was definitely: MOO
Those microscopic airborne razor blades will probably be distributed across much of the US due to the jet stream.
What a relief... here I thought Canada might get some of those. I guess "microscopic airborne razor blades" are pretty loyal to their country of origin. Good thing we didn't add those to NAFTA. I, for one, am glad that it's just going to skip over Canada.
I once got a parking ticket in the downtown core of my city... a ticket in which I disagreed with (only $7, but still, it's the principal). So, I went to the bank and got $7 worth of rolled pennies, opened the rolls into a bag and proceeded to City Hall to pay my fine (being the smart-ass that I am). To my surprise they refused the payment and it turns out there was an active by-law prohibiting the same thing that I was doing. I guess sometime (about 30+ years ago) a man was upset for a $200 fine that he received from the City. He went to the bank and withdrew $200 in nickels and dimes, loaded them into a large bucket, went to City Hall and dumped it all over the floor. He then asked them to count it and get a receipt. Here I thought I was crazy...
I think everyone has been getting these, whether or not you have signed up for the do-not-call list. I've had 000 calls range from travel/vacation scams to offers from Bell Canada telephone/cell/tv. Really doesn't make me like Bell Canada any more than I do currently (which on a scale of 1-10 is in the negatives now from my last count).
Paraphrased as: Burning oil is bad, man! We need alternatives, man! Wind energy is the way to go, man... whatever you do though, don't put it in my back yard!
Fuck that hypocritical hippy bullshit! Either you support these turbines or you don't. There is no 'yeah they're great, they should be everywhere, but....'
maybe, just maybe, when a blackhole 'consumes' enough matter that it then explodes and creating an expanding universe and a much smaller blackhole? The cycle would then continue. The blackhole grows by 'consuming' more matter until it reaches a critical mass... rinse.. repeat.
Certainly out of my field of science expertise, but I always thought it would be a neat theory.
As much as people like to bitch about outsourcing here in the USA, why should we allow our talent to migrate to Canada?
Marketplaces are global now, whether you like it or not, and restricting labour to work in their home country is not only holding back the global market but also restricting viable financial options of those workers. What if Canada didn't let any hockey players play in the NHL that were not originally born in North America (or even Canada)? Wouldn't be as good a league. Restricting how and where people can work only lets the entire industry suffer as a whole. These people have been laid-off and/or fired. If they can't find gainful employment in their field in the area in which they live, who has the right to tell them they can't move to a place where they have a job that they are experienced in and making equal money. Who could tell them to stay put and take a huge pay-cut in a semi-related field? If the US economy can't handle them without taking a hit on their quality of life and their is an alternative then 'all's fair in love and war'.
I get the meaning behind your example... but the Titanic was never said to be 'unsinkable', that's just one of those myths that keep flying around. And anyone with any reasonable knowledge of computer programming/security knows that nothing is 'unhackable'.
If one wanted to build their own home "super" computer then why not just use CUDA and a few Nvidia cards?
Not only that, but why wouldn't you just buy a shit-load of old computers from an auction or bank reclaimed assets from a sunken business? $4000 could buy a huge number of old Pentium 3s or even 4s if you know where to look. One of the main points of a cluster is the fact that you can make up for brute per-processor speed by just having more hardware.
The problem is not that the CAN-SPAM act of 2003 is flawed. The problem is that the US seems to assume that laws made in their country are globally accepted. Prohibiting pretty much anything will just make those people that want it get it from another source. For example, look at the prohibition of alcohol in the US... suddenly many people had the urge to visit Canada and/or Mexico more often (even bring back 'souvenirs').
I actually had the pleasure of beta testing this one. It was quite fun (if you like the complex puzzles that Myth/Riven presented you). One of the best beta-testing experiences I have had and if I remember correctly, I'm actually in the credits on the retail CD.
Besides all that, it's a great game and I'm pleased they are open sourcing it!
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Here in Ontario, Canada there is a highway called the 407 Express Toll Route (ETR) which bypasses most of the awful Toronto traffic on highway 401.
It's been taking pictures and billing you via mail for 10 years and works quite well. The tolls are fairly reasonable for the convenience and you can pay monthly if you use it often (for commuting etc.). And every year, supposedly due to profit from the tolls, it expands a little farther east and west.
Believe it or not, unlike the US, there aren't many toll highways up here.
Well... we used to have Corel in Ottawa... but we all know what happened to them
Doomsday?! No way man, we're celebrating with some blue kool-aid! It's the only way to
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damn it I missed it!
1. Netcraft...
2. Overlords...
3. Shampoo...
4. Skynet...
5. ????
6. Profit!
Having just returned to Canada from my vacation I concur with you on that one. The airline I booked with put us on a 3rd party airline (seemingly because they didn't have enough planes in the area to handle the flights they had booked).
It was a fairly new airline, kind of got the feeling they haven't worked out all the kinks with their staff. Kind of like a flying circus, and sometimes a gong show.
But in the end, my final feeling was definitely:
MOO
Those microscopic airborne razor blades will probably be distributed across much of the US due to the jet stream.
What a relief... here I thought Canada might get some of those.
I guess "microscopic airborne razor blades" are pretty loyal to their country of origin. Good thing we didn't add those to NAFTA. I, for one, am glad that it's just going to skip over Canada.
The stats show that this little Slashvertisement worked quite well.
I once got a parking ticket in the downtown core of my city... a ticket in which I disagreed with (only $7, but still, it's the principal).
So, I went to the bank and got $7 worth of rolled pennies, opened the rolls into a bag and proceeded to City Hall to pay my fine (being the smart-ass that I am).
To my surprise they refused the payment and it turns out there was an active by-law prohibiting the same thing that I was doing.
I guess sometime (about 30+ years ago) a man was upset for a $200 fine that he received from the City. He went to the bank and withdrew $200 in nickels and dimes, loaded them into a large bucket, went to City Hall and dumped it all over the floor. He then asked them to count it and get a receipt.
Here I thought I was crazy...
I think everyone has been getting these, whether or not you have signed up for the do-not-call list.
I've had 000 calls range from travel/vacation scams to offers from Bell Canada telephone/cell/tv. Really doesn't make me like Bell Canada any more than I do currently (which on a scale of 1-10 is in the negatives now from my last count).
Paraphrased as:
Burning oil is bad, man!
We need alternatives, man!
Wind energy is the way to go, man... whatever you do though, don't put it in my back yard!
Fuck that hypocritical hippy bullshit! Either you support these turbines or you don't. There is no 'yeah they're great, they should be everywhere, but....'
I fail to see the problem.....
I resent that!
(yes I know you weren't talking about me)
maybe, just maybe, when a blackhole 'consumes' enough matter that it then explodes and creating an expanding universe and a much smaller blackhole? The cycle would then continue.
The blackhole grows by 'consuming' more matter until it reaches a critical mass... rinse.. repeat.
Certainly out of my field of science expertise, but I always thought it would be a neat theory.
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Well it would seem that this will answer your question. Go straight to the bottom, no need to read it all haha
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Of course then that would be assuming that the information is credible...
From the article:
Ar-Rahman Farajallah revealed an alternative to cooking gas that he developed at a press conference on Thursday.
Now either he's really quick at developing alternative fuels...
or
That was a really long press conference.
As much as people like to bitch about outsourcing here in the USA, why should we allow our talent to migrate to Canada?
Marketplaces are global now, whether you like it or not, and restricting labour to work in their home country is not only holding back the global market but also restricting viable financial options of those workers.
What if Canada didn't let any hockey players play in the NHL that were not originally born in North America (or even Canada)? Wouldn't be as good a league. Restricting how and where people can work only lets the entire industry suffer as a whole.
These people have been laid-off and/or fired. If they can't find gainful employment in their field in the area in which they live, who has the right to tell them they can't move to a place where they have a job that they are experienced in and making equal money. Who could tell them to stay put and take a huge pay-cut in a semi-related field? If the US economy can't handle them without taking a hit on their quality of life and their is an alternative then 'all's fair in love and war'.
I get the meaning behind your example... but the Titanic was never said to be 'unsinkable', that's just one of those myths that keep flying around. And anyone with any reasonable knowledge of computer programming/security knows that nothing is 'unhackable'.
Titanic - Unsinkable
Deep Blue Screen of Death
Amen to that!
Exactly what I was thinking
If one wanted to build their own home "super" computer then why not just use CUDA and a few Nvidia cards?
Not only that, but why wouldn't you just buy a shit-load of old computers from an auction or bank reclaimed assets from a sunken business? $4000 could buy a huge number of old Pentium 3s or even 4s if you know where to look.
One of the main points of a cluster is the fact that you can make up for brute per-processor speed by just having more hardware.
The problem is not that the CAN-SPAM act of 2003 is flawed.
The problem is that the US seems to assume that laws made in their country are globally accepted.
Prohibiting pretty much anything will just make those people that want it get it from another source. For example, look at the prohibition of alcohol in the US... suddenly many people had the urge to visit Canada and/or Mexico more often (even bring back 'souvenirs').
Just my 2-cents in the matter.
I don't see how this is a burglar alarm.
Anti-theft device sure, alarm no.
I actually had the pleasure of beta testing this one. It was quite fun (if you like the complex puzzles that Myth/Riven presented you).
One of the best beta-testing experiences I have had and if I remember correctly, I'm actually in the credits on the retail CD.
Besides all that, it's a great game and I'm pleased they are open sourcing it!