A feature in every modern OS and modern network card allows your to basically "wrap" another MAC address onto the card, making the outside world see that other MAC address, and your computer see that other MAC address, and the network card content knowing that there are two.
Using eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 right now, and I can tell you that remote debugging as well as directly deployment are built into it directly.
What Microsoft has done is just set some of the libraries in the WM 5 dev kit to be unable to be used with eVc4 (which supports WM 2002 and 2003/SE).
The grandparent has it correct though, the GUI and built in functionality of VC6 and eVc4 are virtually identical, (screen shots of the two compared side by side differ only by the icon, and only one line varies in there project settings between the two of them).
That said, the package that came with VC6 was a lot better if you have some small nagging problem, the general debugger built into eVc4/VC6 can be useless at times.
Almost every study says ANYTHING over 0% BAC causes some level of impairment, just because we have set an arbitrary standard of 0.08 or 0.10 doesn't mean that these are "safe" levels.
Many drivers at 0% can be more impaired then people with 0.15% due to distractions. But irregardless, it is safer to EVERYONE if the limit is "if you drink ANYTHING, you don't drive", yes you might have to get a taxi ride home and pick up your car in the morning, but that's the consequence of going out to drink, deal with it.
I think it should be noted that typically the logic board is the PCB that is on the bottom of the OUTSIDE of the drive. Theoretically you can replace the logic board on any drive without cracking the drive, but there are often many practial concerns. Still, its likly the most complicated part of a hard drive that is still (power) user replacable
The worst part about the blank media tax IMO is that we are all paying for crimes we have not even committed (innocent before guilty?).
I can remember on CBC last year sometime a report that all the money for the "Tax" was sitting in government coffers, and that nobody wanted to jump through the hoops to collect. The conclusion that the reporter drew was that the Recording Companies just wanted the price of the media to be higher. Haven't we learned so far that HIGH prices, low availability, and unreasonable restrictions breeds' piracy like bunnies!
With my ATX system, powered off the system consumes roughly 9-10 watts of power (attached power usage device). Idle its around 160 and cpu load its around 230.
This is implying "logical systems" such as a truss network on a bridge (lego) or a simple chemical reaction (baking soda + acid). Both of these things have the advantage that they both are visual (you can see the bridge, or the result of the reaction) and are easily repeated (for friends say, the good old cool factor). Young males (or all males in general) tend to be much less proficient at the less logical and more random nature of human interaction. People often don't say or do what they mean (little boy picking on a girl, doesn't quite understand the feelings he is having yet, but this is his best system of expression), results are rarely repeatable and even harder to predict.
I would say that our study of math is, in many ways, just a expression of this male-ness. We wish to explain everything in terms of equations and systems because they are usually predictable with great numerical accuracy (say with electric charges, we can easily predict the force between different charges, even if we don't quite understand totally how and why electric fields function) and are typically repeatable with similar results (definition of experiment anyone?).
The human brain may be a system, but understanding some parts of this system is simply not innate (it can be taught though). At the same time, weakness in math by girls may simply be that the entire system was derived and devised by men, with that type of thinking involved. I must say that, while I am fairly good at math (male), there are plenty girls in my engineering classes that are much better at math then I am. however, if you looked at any of my high school classes, only 1 (out of 20 or so) girls were better at math then I. It all depends on your sample really.
You were simply in monogamous "raiser" position. In semi-monogamous species like humans and birds, males attempt to win the youngest female they can, and often females will willingly enter into relationships in which they do not wish to produce young with that male, but believe that males ability to raise children is top notch. However the female then, in the form of affairs, will attempt to seek out a male that give her children the best genetic chance at success. Much of this process is hardwired, so don't entirely blame her nature, and at best, take this as a compliment that you would be a great father.
No matter the hacks and DRM systems that are created for all of time, I think you summed up the problem with DRM systems enforceability beautifully with this line.
"Even if it did, there's plenty of software/hardware that doesn't give a shit an will play it anyway."
If a system has restrictions, people will make money breaking it, and money motivates quite a darn bit.
I would assume that this applies more to people that are listed as "learning disabled" for reasons such as ADHD, uneven skills sets, eye problems, etc (all of which can be mostly determined by a psycho educational assessment). At my university these people receive things like extra time, access to computer for written exams, access to professors copy notes or tape record lectures.
These people still write the same exams as everyone else. While this system is flawed (I personally believe that about 60% of the people in my engineering classes would fit these requirements) it still can help people that would otherwise by doing a job that a lot less skill dependant. Given a bit of extra care, you can easily produce well-trained graduates that can cope with their disabilities.
In our engineering faculty, all first year engineers take the exact same courses, then at the end of first year you apply for departments within the faculty (chemical, mechanical etc). These placements are done with a ranked GPA system. No matter how much extra time Little Retard Johnny gets, unless he gets that 2.9 he isn't going to be a mechanical engineer. Any system that allows students with disabilities to transcend mark requirements is in fact discriminating against the students that aren't disabled (look up the word discrimination if that doesn't make sense) and this would clearly be insane. Any intelligent student at such a school would want to transfer out of that program or school ASAP before they get their degree that is known as "Bsc. Paid Fees".
scanproof wallets would be almost impossible to block. Yes commercial products would be, but even a layer of lead or something with similar EM characteristics would provide blocking.
I would laugh if they banned tinfoil because it made the RFID in your drivers licence not function. This would piss more people off then not, and even a justification like "It will save children from being raped" would be knocked off as utter BS.
Common products like cold medicines can be used to make drugs like Meth, but are they banned? no, restricted from buying 20 packs, yes. but you dont need that much tinfoil to cover a drivers licence.
This also assumes that they all function at the same frequency, which they do not. The devices have two different means of powering (electric or magnetic fields). This immediatly reduces half of the "random" output.
If your really paranoid about this, there is a quick and easy solution. Get a lead lined photopaper bag and use it to line your wallet. This will require you to remove the card from your wallet everytime you need to use it, but I think that is more then reasonable to expect. This will elimate any EM from the RFID, now...if you could only put that cell phone down...
I stand by my 1000+ reads a day that would be required for any health problems in humans. The devices when read are only on for a very small amount of time. Some are designed to have large transmission ranges, but these are usually the active kinds. The passive ones are usually low power and frequency (to reduce cost more)
Low Power/Frequency + Low Exposure Time = Safe (except for extremes)
Not to mention the possible side effects of having a radio transmitting from inside a human body for long periods of time.
First of all, there are two kinds of RFID chips, the active kind, that contain a power source and constant transmit and the passive kind that only activate when they are around the reader.
Most of the tags in existance today are passive models, they are cheaper and have a virtually unlimited lifespan. They are powered by either a electric or magnetic field (depends on unit frequency). These models DO NOT CONSTANTLY TRANSMIT and would be unlikly to cause any problems to humans unless they were read a lot (1000+ times a day).
The active kind are unlikly to be used alot around humans do to cost. The battery installed into them means that they usually only have a lifespan of around 5 years, and would have to be replaced then. Chances are after a cycle or two of battery usage, whatever the tag was doing will be replaced by a better technology.
1) Credit Card Companies arent liable for fruad per direct fault, its more assoicated with being part of the goods deliverly process. A credit card company should only take orders from a server that will correctly respond to both the withdraw as well as correct functions. I am pretty sure that if you ignored these, the card companies would stop taking orders from you pretty darn quick. It came down to that people didnt go to the card companies to demand there money back, they went to the spammer.
2) For home users with broadband, ISP's generally tend to care if you use alot of bandwidth, but he was spending 50,000 a year for 10 T1 Lines. These are DESIGNED for a high and substained bandwidth, and thats what he paid for. His contract with his ISP likly specified a limit (TB/Month?) but he could easily handle any overage charges.
3) New people are coming onto the internet every day, and by raw numbers, at least some of them are going to be gullible. There are many other factors that can overcome the logic that says "THIS IS A SCAM, IGNORE" such as depression, poor education, peer pressure, etc.
The first people to play the game will be those who buy it, people waiting on the "free" version will likely be waiting at least a day for it to be cracked.
Which, for valve, will be a victory. First time in a few major game releases will the paying owners get to play before the people with leaks.
Also, for the CD's AND for those who will buy HL2 with STEAM this is true (HL2 still says 60% preloaded), despite the fact that those gcf files are encrypted valve would really like to pull a clean release off, then break apart from from VU and such with there homebuild distro system.
I had heard of the old British system, a family friend went through it, and with a bit more technological innovation, it could be quite a good teaching method.
Yes, this problem affects many other democratic countries. Here in Alberta, they first time most "normal" (not AP/IB/special students) can take any calculus is in grade 12, and this class is only required for engineering students. Most people with science degrees do precalculus as a limit in high school, and need to do all of calculus in university (usually first or second year). I could very easily see the introduction of concepts like limits much earlier on, perhaps when students are taught factoring (as a use of factoring, to solve limits). Derivation/Integration could be much better placed in physics (I had a high school physics teacher that said, for every student that solves the problem in calculus, they will get a bonus mark or two) as well as chemistry. Even things like Newton's method could be taught alongside regular mathematics as a form of estimation.
Technology is the bane as well as the bastion of growth though. As much as technology supports and makes effective and interesting teaching a lot easier, it makes students forget the fundamentals. This year in first-year engineering, I have been completely deprived of a calculator and are doing pretty good, but I am not sure if last year I could have told you things like the cosine (75 deg) without my electronic crutch. While after the test, and in the workplace you can have any calculator you want, but what use are you if you need to look up math more simple then + - * / of numbers less then 100. These skills are also very fundamental to advanced math, and despite the fact that it may seem archaic, it might be useful to force students to learn curve sketching at the same time as functions, and eliminate the massively overpowered graphing calculators high school students use (in the sense that students can master the technology, not the math skills). I am leery about this for one reason, technology is ingrained into our society, and ignoring it entirely may be a worse crime. What would most likely be ideal is to, like my grade 12 calculus teacher did, is to simply create problems that are either to difficult, or impossible for the technology to solve. This forces the introduction of better educators, and we eventually get back into a viscous circle of problems.
Science and technology got modern democracies where they are now. Through encouraging growth and freedom we have placed ourselves in the lead for many few years, but without re-investing and re-developing the fundamental EDUCATION that got us here, we might really be in a bad position in the future.
Sue for malpractice internationally for a pittance?
Almost every country in the world will let Anybody sue for serious screw ups, but in almost every country in the world, the burden of proof of error is much higher. You have to prove: (A) It was directly their fault, or their fault due to non-action or ignorance. (B) That your quality of life is lower then if nothing had happened to you at all (after recovery and such). (C) That the doctor did not make normal and standardized efforts for your care and recovery (D) Also that, in the case of an accident, that if the doctor did not take Reasonable and standard steps to minimize risk.
This is vastly different then in the USA, especially in point A is a big one. In the USA, you could theoretically the doctor that delivered your child for them not making it into college, and would have a pretty reasonable chance of winning (don't doubt it).
Being able to sue, and a criminal system is important, but when it gets corrupt and full of greedy people, things like the ENTIRE MEDICAL SYSTEM get more and more expensive for everybody.
On a semi-unrelated note, I am planning to apply to medical school in Canada, and through my research, its rather disturbing how little standards some USA medical schools have. Many schools will take people with MCAT scores less then 20/45 (while its almost impossible to get in here with a 30/45) and some of the USMLE grades for students are insanely low. Often your residency programs for the same programs are a year or two shorter then here in the Great White North. As mentioned somewhere else in this article, unless you can keep some of the most trained professionals in your country as being quite smart, well educated, and socially aware, your will run into problems.
Countries like India and China have been focusing on building up that qualified and trained elite. While many/most of the people in those two countries have seen little growth in paycheck or quality/standard of life, they have, behind the scenes, a social system being developed to support first class societies.
While I hate to seem exclusionary, I think that we need to redesign the school systems across all of North America. Schools should be focusing on providing two distinct services, one is well-designed life skills training, and hard and aggressive knowledge training. Things like calculus and advanced chemistry should be introduced at as young as 9 or 10. While many will/cannot do this work, the ones that will are the important future engineers, doctors, scientists and professionals that we need.
I think he is talking about that lighter coloured section in the northwest.
That blob, while not red, is still important. It appears to be about where I live (Alberta). We produce a lot of oil for cars (we don't have emissions regulations on vehicles that I am aware of), and consume a lot of coal for electricity. Because the costs for using oil and coal for everything is quite a bit lower here, even the attempts to add wind power are limited at best.
for the USA at least, for a person to be able to write down how many electoral college votes there state has. What if you get it wrong? well, better luck next time.
Even something as simple as if you buy a 100.00 dollar gift with a 17% sales tax, how much do you have to pay. DEMOCRATICY is based on the idea of an informed and active voter body. Wondering why democraticy is going down the tubes in the western countries, voter apathy and ignorance drives it.
Its basically a more refined process of distilling out a liquid from a solution, and getting a solid out. However this new solid has chemical properties of both parts of whatever was in the solution. It allows for things like low-temperature glassmaking.
Literally a "sol-gel" is just a solid that still has some of the properties of a liquid/fluid such as flowing and free atomic relocation, but is much closer to a solid then a traditional fluid. This however does not make it a "jelly" or a "gel" its chemically, as well as physically distinct.
Where are your numbers? Its good to get nice and worked up, and pissed off at everybody else here, but you cant ramble on unless you have some solid facts.
Even if they are cheaper IN THE SHORT RUN, the author of the pdf wanted a long lasting and substainable power supply. Wind is a nice source of power, but its regionally dependant for production. While we have the transmission system all set up, wind power doesnt offer the same density (due to availablity of proper sites for generation, and output of said sites) As nuclear energy. Does this mean that either are they cheapest, no, but the density and reusability of nuclear power vastly outgrows wind.
The growth of wind power is not a bad thing, but its not going to solve our energy problems outright. They have there own problems as well; they look bad (farms of oversized cellphone towers that are turning out on hilltops), they cause noise pollution, and they wreck havok on bird life.
Wind power is a innovative and rapidly growing tech, but it lacks the track record and reliability that nuclear power CURRENTLY has. In 50 years we might live off solar/wind power, but to reduce our impact on the enviroment now, nuclear is the only way to go.
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A feature in every modern OS and modern network card allows your to basically "wrap" another MAC address onto the card, making the outside world see that other MAC address, and your computer see that other MAC address, and the network card content knowing that there are two.
Medevo
Using eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 right now, and I can tell you that remote debugging as well as directly deployment are built into it directly.
What Microsoft has done is just set some of the libraries in the WM 5 dev kit to be unable to be used with eVc4 (which supports WM 2002 and 2003/SE).
The grandparent has it correct though, the GUI and built in functionality of VC6 and eVc4 are virtually identical, (screen shots of the two compared side by side differ only by the icon, and only one line varies in there project settings between the two of them).
That said, the package that came with VC6 was a lot better if you have some small nagging problem, the general debugger built into eVc4/VC6 can be useless at times.
Medevo
Almost every study says ANYTHING over 0% BAC causes some level of impairment, just because we have set an arbitrary standard of 0.08 or 0.10 doesn't mean that these are "safe" levels.
Many drivers at 0% can be more impaired then people with 0.15% due to distractions. But irregardless, it is safer to EVERYONE if the limit is "if you drink ANYTHING, you don't drive", yes you might have to get a taxi ride home and pick up your car in the morning, but that's the consequence of going out to drink, deal with it.
Medevo
I think it should be noted that typically the logic board is the PCB that is on the bottom of the OUTSIDE of the drive. Theoretically you can replace the logic board on any drive without cracking the drive, but there are often many practial concerns. Still, its likly the most complicated part of a hard drive that is still (power) user replacable
The worst part about the blank media tax IMO is that we are all paying for crimes we have not even committed (innocent before guilty?).
I can remember on CBC last year sometime a report that all the money for the "Tax" was sitting in government coffers, and that nobody wanted to jump through the hoops to collect. The conclusion that the reporter drew was that the Recording Companies just wanted the price of the media to be higher. Haven't we learned so far that HIGH prices, low availability, and unreasonable restrictions breeds' piracy like bunnies!
Medevo
under 1 watt of power. I hardly doubt that.
With my ATX system, powered off the system consumes roughly 9-10 watts of power (attached power usage device). Idle its around 160 and cpu load its around 230.
(P4 2.8C)
Medevo
This is implying "logical systems" such as a truss network on a bridge (lego) or a simple chemical reaction (baking soda + acid). Both of these things have the advantage that they both are visual (you can see the bridge, or the result of the reaction) and are easily repeated (for friends say, the good old cool factor). Young males (or all males in general) tend to be much less proficient at the less logical and more random nature of human interaction. People often don't say or do what they mean (little boy picking on a girl, doesn't quite understand the feelings he is having yet, but this is his best system of expression), results are rarely repeatable and even harder to predict.
I would say that our study of math is, in many ways, just a expression of this male-ness. We wish to explain everything in terms of equations and systems because they are usually predictable with great numerical accuracy (say with electric charges, we can easily predict the force between different charges, even if we don't quite understand totally how and why electric fields function) and are typically repeatable with similar results (definition of experiment anyone?).
The human brain may be a system, but understanding some parts of this system is simply not innate (it can be taught though). At the same time, weakness in math by girls may simply be that the entire system was derived and devised by men, with that type of thinking involved. I must say that, while I am fairly good at math (male), there are plenty girls in my engineering classes that are much better at math then I am. however, if you looked at any of my high school classes, only 1 (out of 20 or so) girls were better at math then I. It all depends on your sample really.
Medevo
As it applies to Linux, that smarter guy SHOULD allow his code to be added to the common effort.
What is much more likly is that he will start his own security company and Linux will develop technology to emulate it.
Medevo
You were simply in monogamous "raiser" position. In semi-monogamous species like humans and birds, males attempt to win the youngest female they can, and often females will willingly enter into relationships in which they do not wish to produce young with that male, but believe that males ability to raise children is top notch. However the female then, in the form of affairs, will attempt to seek out a male that give her children the best genetic chance at success. Much of this process is hardwired, so don't entirely blame her nature, and at best, take this as a compliment that you would be a great father.
Medevo
No matter the hacks and DRM systems that are created for all of time, I think you summed up the problem with DRM systems enforceability beautifully with this line.
"Even if it did, there's plenty of software/hardware that doesn't give a shit an will play it anyway."
If a system has restrictions, people will make money breaking it, and money motivates quite a darn bit.
Medevo
I would assume that this applies more to people that are listed as "learning disabled" for reasons such as ADHD, uneven skills sets, eye problems, etc (all of which can be mostly determined by a psycho educational assessment). At my university these people receive things like extra time, access to computer for written exams, access to professors copy notes or tape record lectures.
These people still write the same exams as everyone else. While this system is flawed (I personally believe that about 60% of the people in my engineering classes would fit these requirements) it still can help people that would otherwise by doing a job that a lot less skill dependant. Given a bit of extra care, you can easily produce well-trained graduates that can cope with their disabilities.
In our engineering faculty, all first year engineers take the exact same courses, then at the end of first year you apply for departments within the faculty (chemical, mechanical etc). These placements are done with a ranked GPA system. No matter how much extra time Little Retard Johnny gets, unless he gets that 2.9 he isn't going to be a mechanical engineer. Any system that allows students with disabilities to transcend mark requirements is in fact discriminating against the students that aren't disabled (look up the word discrimination if that doesn't make sense) and this would clearly be insane. Any intelligent student at such a school would want to transfer out of that program or school ASAP before they get their degree that is known as "Bsc. Paid Fees".
Medevo
scanproof wallets would be almost impossible to block. Yes commercial products would be, but even a layer of lead or something with similar EM characteristics would provide blocking.
I would laugh if they banned tinfoil because it made the RFID in your drivers licence not function. This would piss more people off then not, and even a justification like "It will save children from being raped" would be knocked off as utter BS.
Common products like cold medicines can be used to make drugs like Meth, but are they banned? no, restricted from buying 20 packs, yes. but you dont need that much tinfoil to cover a drivers licence.
Medevo
This also assumes that they all function at the same frequency, which they do not. The devices have two different means of powering (electric or magnetic fields). This immediatly reduces half of the "random" output.
If your really paranoid about this, there is a quick and easy solution. Get a lead lined photopaper bag and use it to line your wallet. This will require you to remove the card from your wallet everytime you need to use it, but I think that is more then reasonable to expect. This will elimate any EM from the RFID, now...if you could only put that cell phone down...
Medevo
I stand by my 1000+ reads a day that would be required for any health problems in humans. The devices when read are only on for a very small amount of time. Some are designed to have large transmission ranges, but these are usually the active kinds. The passive ones are usually low power and frequency (to reduce cost more)
Low Power/Frequency + Low Exposure Time = Safe (except for extremes)
Medevo
Not to mention the possible side effects of having a radio transmitting from inside a human body for long periods of time.
First of all, there are two kinds of RFID chips, the active kind, that contain a power source and constant transmit and the passive kind that only activate when they are around the reader.
Most of the tags in existance today are passive models, they are cheaper and have a virtually unlimited lifespan. They are powered by either a electric or magnetic field (depends on unit frequency). These models DO NOT CONSTANTLY TRANSMIT and would be unlikly to cause any problems to humans unless they were read a lot (1000+ times a day).
The active kind are unlikly to be used alot around humans do to cost. The battery installed into them means that they usually only have a lifespan of around 5 years, and would have to be replaced then. Chances are after a cycle or two of battery usage, whatever the tag was doing will be replaced by a better technology.
Medevo
1)
Credit Card Companies arent liable for fruad per direct fault, its more assoicated with being part of the goods deliverly process. A credit card company should only take orders from a server that will correctly respond to both the withdraw as well as correct functions. I am pretty sure that if you ignored these, the card companies would stop taking orders from you pretty darn quick. It came down to that people didnt go to the card companies to demand there money back, they went to the spammer.
2)
For home users with broadband, ISP's generally tend to care if you use alot of bandwidth, but he was spending 50,000 a year for 10 T1 Lines. These are DESIGNED for a high and substained bandwidth, and thats what he paid for. His contract with his ISP likly specified a limit (TB/Month?) but he could easily handle any overage charges.
3)
New people are coming onto the internet every day, and by raw numbers, at least some of them are going to be gullible. There are many other factors that can overcome the logic that says "THIS IS A SCAM, IGNORE" such as depression, poor education, peer pressure, etc.
Medevo
The first people to play the game will be those who buy it, people waiting on the "free" version will likely be waiting at least a day for it to be cracked.
Which, for valve, will be a victory. First time in a few major game releases will the paying owners get to play before the people with leaks.
Also, for the CD's AND for those who will buy HL2 with STEAM this is true (HL2 still says 60% preloaded), despite the fact that those gcf files are encrypted valve would really like to pull a clean release off, then break apart from from VU and such with there homebuild distro system.
This is exactly what they did, they left out a .gcf file with the primary execution code in it.
Medevo
I had heard of the old British system, a family friend went through it, and with a bit more technological innovation, it could be quite a good teaching method.
Yes, this problem affects many other democratic countries. Here in Alberta, they first time most "normal" (not AP/IB/special students) can take any calculus is in grade 12, and this class is only required for engineering students. Most people with science degrees do precalculus as a limit in high school, and need to do all of calculus in university (usually first or second year). I could very easily see the introduction of concepts like limits much earlier on, perhaps when students are taught factoring (as a use of factoring, to solve limits). Derivation/Integration could be much better placed in physics (I had a high school physics teacher that said, for every student that solves the problem in calculus, they will get a bonus mark or two) as well as chemistry. Even things like Newton's method could be taught alongside regular mathematics as a form of estimation.
Technology is the bane as well as the bastion of growth though. As much as technology supports and makes effective and interesting teaching a lot easier, it makes students forget the fundamentals. This year in first-year engineering, I have been completely deprived of a calculator and are doing pretty good, but I am not sure if last year I could have told you things like the cosine (75 deg) without my electronic crutch. While after the test, and in the workplace you can have any calculator you want, but what use are you if you need to look up math more simple then + - * / of numbers less then 100. These skills are also very fundamental to advanced math, and despite the fact that it may seem archaic, it might be useful to force students to learn curve sketching at the same time as functions, and eliminate the massively overpowered graphing calculators high school students use (in the sense that students can master the technology, not the math skills). I am leery about this for one reason, technology is ingrained into our society, and ignoring it entirely may be a worse crime. What would most likely be ideal is to, like my grade 12 calculus teacher did, is to simply create problems that are either to difficult, or impossible for the technology to solve. This forces the introduction of better educators, and we eventually get back into a viscous circle of problems.
Science and technology got modern democracies where they are now. Through encouraging growth and freedom we have placed ourselves in the lead for many few years, but without re-investing and re-developing the fundamental EDUCATION that got us here, we might really be in a bad position in the future.
Medevo
Sue for malpractice internationally for a pittance?
Almost every country in the world will let Anybody sue for serious screw ups, but in almost every country in the world, the burden of proof of error is much higher. You have to prove:
(A) It was directly their fault, or their fault due to non-action or ignorance.
(B) That your quality of life is lower then if nothing had happened to you at all (after recovery and such).
(C) That the doctor did not make normal and standardized efforts for your care and recovery
(D) Also that, in the case of an accident, that if the doctor did not take Reasonable and standard steps to minimize risk.
This is vastly different then in the USA, especially in point A is a big one. In the USA, you could theoretically the doctor that delivered your child for them not making it into college, and would have a pretty reasonable chance of winning (don't doubt it).
Being able to sue, and a criminal system is important, but when it gets corrupt and full of greedy people, things like the ENTIRE MEDICAL SYSTEM get more and more expensive for everybody.
On a semi-unrelated note, I am planning to apply to medical school in Canada, and through my research, its rather disturbing how little standards some USA medical schools have. Many schools will take people with MCAT scores less then 20/45 (while its almost impossible to get in here with a 30/45) and some of the USMLE grades for students are insanely low. Often your residency programs for the same programs are a year or two shorter then here in the Great White North. As mentioned somewhere else in this article, unless you can keep some of the most trained professionals in your country as being quite smart, well educated, and socially aware, your will run into problems.
Countries like India and China have been focusing on building up that qualified and trained elite. While many/most of the people in those two countries have seen little growth in paycheck or quality/standard of life, they have, behind the scenes, a social system being developed to support first class societies.
While I hate to seem exclusionary, I think that we need to redesign the school systems across all of North America. Schools should be focusing on providing two distinct services, one is well-designed life skills training, and hard and aggressive knowledge training. Things like calculus and advanced chemistry should be introduced at as young as 9 or 10. While many will/cannot do this work, the ones that will are the important future engineers, doctors, scientists and professionals that we need.
I think he is talking about that lighter coloured section in the northwest.
That blob, while not red, is still important. It appears to be about where I live (Alberta). We produce a lot of oil for cars (we don't have emissions regulations on vehicles that I am aware of), and consume a lot of coal for electricity. Because the costs for using oil and coal for everything is quite a bit lower here, even the attempts to add wind power are limited at best.
Medevo
I agree totally
for the USA at least, for a person to be able to write down how many electoral college votes there state has. What if you get it wrong? well, better luck next time.
Even something as simple as if you buy a 100.00 dollar gift with a 17% sales tax, how much do you have to pay. DEMOCRATICY is based on the idea of an informed and active voter body. Wondering why democraticy is going down the tubes in the western countries, voter apathy and ignorance drives it.
Medevo
Check out http://www.solgel.com/educational/glossary.htm/ and http://www.chemat.com/html/solgel.html/
Its basically a more refined process of distilling out a liquid from a solution, and getting a solid out. However this new solid has chemical properties of both parts of whatever was in the solution. It allows for things like low-temperature glassmaking.
Literally a "sol-gel" is just a solid that still has some of the properties of a liquid/fluid such as flowing and free atomic relocation, but is much closer to a solid then a traditional fluid. This however does not make it a "jelly" or a "gel" its chemically, as well as physically distinct.
Medevo
Where are your numbers? Its good to get nice and worked up, and pissed off at everybody else here, but you cant ramble on unless you have some solid facts.
Even if they are cheaper IN THE SHORT RUN, the author of the pdf wanted a long lasting and substainable power supply. Wind is a nice source of power, but its regionally dependant for production. While we have the transmission system all set up, wind power doesnt offer the same density (due to availablity of proper sites for generation, and output of said sites) As nuclear energy. Does this mean that either are they cheapest, no, but the density and reusability of nuclear power vastly outgrows wind.
The growth of wind power is not a bad thing, but its not going to solve our energy problems outright. They have there own problems as well; they look bad (farms of oversized cellphone towers that are turning out on hilltops), they cause noise pollution, and they wreck havok on bird life.
Wind power is a innovative and rapidly growing tech, but it lacks the track record and reliability that nuclear power CURRENTLY has. In 50 years we might live off solar/wind power, but to reduce our impact on the enviroment now, nuclear is the only way to go.
Medevo
you need to get out more man, or at least watch some TV :P
Medevo