There is no mystery here. The Harper government has been suppressing any discussion of environment and climate topics that even come anywhere near to talking about climate change. Scientists and agencies are legitimately afraid for their funding and their jobs.
Then you're not paying attention. Threats on the president's life have skyrocketed since Obama took office. Right wing politicians fantasize about "second amendment remedies." There was a national day of prayer for his death.
You're wilfully remaining ignorant if you truly believe that there was more venom directed agains Bush than against Obama.
I know that Americans tend not to care what the rest of the world thinks about your country, but most of us think your tea partiers are nuts. Here's this wishy-washy, do-little centrist president, and you lot are going on and on about his socialist communist tyranny? And you invite open racists from European nationalist organisations to speak, but then claim the Tea Party isn't racist. Your infrastructure is crumbling because no one has the political will to use tax dollars to fix it, but you're Taxed Enough Already? We all think you're nuts.
Granted, its been a while since I've been in a Game or UK HMV, but my experience has been one small set of shelves given up to recent release titles, and the rest of the PC gaming section awash in 3 for £10 or 2 for £25 deals, and addons for simulators. My employer gave me a gift certificate to HMV last Christmas, and I went to about four locations on Regent St and Oxford St before I could find L4D2 and Fallout GOTY, both of which were recent releases at the time.
The most interesting bit of that to me is that this ended up on the front page of Slashdot before Boing Boing heard about it. That's not exactly cricket.
I'm sorry, did I miss the part where Steve announced they were removing the web browser? How on earth is a device that prominently features a web browser a closed system? Yes, it's less open than a PC or a Mac (which I would argue is more open than Windows as it ships with a development environment.) But it's very silly to claim that it's closed.
Spoken as someone who's never had to fuss about with signing a Symbian app. Nokia has hoops to jump through different from, but equally annoying as, Apple's.
I think you're exactly right in that that is what the FSF is saying. But look at it from Apple's perspective: do anything a desktop can tablets have been available for a decade, and they haven't taken off. Apple is saying "let's make it cheaper and simpler to create a new product." The lock-down is a deliberate gamble that the complexity is what's caused this product category to languish. I wouldn't be surprised if they're right.
I work near Oxford Circus, and don't find Americans worse than any other tourist here. Actually, I think the worst are the English who are in town now for their Christmas shopping. I was, however, asked when the show starts at the circus once by a nice middle-aged American lady who was appropriately embarrassed once I explained what the circus was.
Try a Budweiser here, too. They're the real thing, not the Anheiser Busch dog's piss. Try a cider or a scrumpy as well. You'll weep for what could have been next time you have a "bud" or a Strongbow.
If you fancy trying local brews, you can buy the Campaign for Real Ale's Good Beer Guide: http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=192602 . They sell it in book, ebook, and GPS POI file formats. Also look for the casque mark sign on pub entrances. They identify pubs that sell proper cask ales, and have proper cellaring and handling conditions. http://www.cask-marque.co.uk/
Regarding your power adaptor, any Maplins, Dixon's, Currys will sell North American to British adaptors. If you're flying through Heathrow T3, there's a last-chance duty free after baggage claim that sells them for £5. Muji sells a good, cheap all-countries adaptor as well, but its heavy and big.
No, definitely not-- there's no immediate business justification for it yet.
Spoken like someone who's employer doesn't use Exchange Server. I can't wait to ditch Entourage. Right now my mail solution is a horrible mess of Outlook Web Access in a Fluid SSB with MacBiff, Entourage and Outlook 2007 in a Windows XP VM. If I didn't have to have several VMs running at once, I'd just make do with the OL2007+XP things, as Entourage is just that bad.
Anonymous Coward's Law Corollary: should someone reply to that comment, the first poster will tell the critic to write the change themselves, regardless of complexity or critic's programming ability.
The purpose of the study was to show an effect, and if you want to do a study that shows the effects on your country by our pollutions you are free to do so.
Its already been done, at least in terms of the province of Ontario.
There are 693 U.S. coal-fired plants sending smog to Ontario â" 238 of them are more than 50 years old and 26 date back to World War II.
In June 2005, a major provincial study found that imported air pollution costs the Ontario economy $9.6 billion in damages, including $6.6 billion for health care, and causes 56 per cent of smog deaths here.
Hilariously, though, Elliot Spitzer's office sued the Federal Government for the polution over NYC.
Nope. Its expensive here in London. Our life here versus in Toronto, Canada is MUCH more frugal. Kind of like it was when we were just starting out after school. I find we just have to prioritise. No fancy TV, no stereo, really. Many of our friends are the same. Interestingly, though, the personal savings rate here is higher than in North America. Makes me wonder if NA is out of whack with the rest of the world on this.
I'm a web developer, and I recently moved to the UK from Canada. Not technically Europe, but pretty close.
It was easy to find work over here, but one interesting thing was that I had to find a recruiter to work with first. Wasn't used to that at my lowly level. I worked with about five to varying degrees of success. Stick your resume on Monster, and they'll call you. Not always with specific jobs, sometimes just to get a feel for what you're looking for.
As to travel, once you get to the UK, its dead easy. Sign up for deals on lastminute.com and Expedia. My wife and I have done all kinds of city breaks. Easy, inexpensive, highly recommend. Visit central Europe before it gets too touristy... and that's happening now.
Also, while in the UK, you can easily enroll in one of the many private French schools. My wife's done Alliance Francais in Canada and in France, and loved it.
Cost of living... expect to live a lot more frugally than you're used to!
I hope you take this opportunity! Its really changed our lives living here in London. Give me a shout at a[a t]awhite.info if you have any specific questions about stuff I've mentioned.
Really, in Britain we think he's liberal? Or he's actually known as liberal? Comes as a surprise to me. It would also come as a surprise to many liberals that they are pro all those things.
However, the biggest surprise of all would be that you are talking out of anywhere other than your arse.
What makes matters worst is Mr. Harpers response to the opposition and declaring that they don't have Canada's security in mind. Talk about spreading FUD; our PM is good at it.
What makes matters even worse is that Harper stood up and accused the Liberals of voting down the down the law in order to protect one of their own, called them weak on Terror, and suggested they are putting every Canadian life at risk. Personal attacks, hyperbolic rhetoric... sounds far too much like the kind of "debate" you see mocked on the Daily Show every day for my tastes.
How about we try keep it civil, Mr Prime Minister? (Or return to civility, since the last year has seen a marked deterioration of the national discourse.)
the liberals only pay attention to self-promoting issues
Unlike the Conservatives? You mention trust funds (I think you mean income trusts, genius. Trust fund is what enables Mulrooney Jr to spend all his time at pissups)? Do I need to remind you that your precious Cons campaigned on the promise to eliminate those trusts? And then reneged on their promise and weren't going to do it until the opposition hammered them to do so in parliament?
Hell, even the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses know not to come down the back roads in this neigborhood.
I pity the poor defenseless Canadians. Just a warning, one of our neighbors always has a lot of meat curing, but he never goes shopping or hunting. Odd.
WED Fan, I think you're safe. We Canuckistanis are photographing your houses, not your trailer parks and refridgerator boxes. We won't be anywhere near you.
Look, if you're a Vim or Emacs wizard, this app probably isn't going to do much for you that those editors don't do. Except, perhaps, rendering Markdown and a variety of wiki markups (works very nicely with DokuWiki for one.) If you're coming from Homesite or Joe, like, oh, say... me, this editor gets you nearly to the power of Vim/Emacs in a much shorter timeline.
I think the best way to see what its capable of is to watch Macromate's screencasts. For me, the columnar editing (and I found a somewhat flakey bundle that lets you mark several points in the buffer to insert the text you're typing simultaneously) has made a lot of my common HTML editing tasks way less painful.
The chief difference between Canada and America? At least the Canadians get fair warning.
June 15th, the date this went into effect, was two weeks ago, and the Globe and Mail article was posted yesterday. So either Bell Sympatico told people with little to no warning, or the Globe and Mail didn't bother to run this until everything was said and done. Either way, this sucks.
Matter of fact, I'm a Sympatico Customer, and this is the first I've heard of it. You do the math.
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There is no mystery here. The Harper government has been suppressing any discussion of environment and climate topics that even come anywhere near to talking about climate change. Scientists and agencies are legitimately afraid for their funding and their jobs.
Then you're not paying attention. Threats on the president's life have skyrocketed since Obama took office. Right wing politicians fantasize about "second amendment remedies." There was a national day of prayer for his death.
You're wilfully remaining ignorant if you truly believe that there was more venom directed agains Bush than against Obama.
I know that Americans tend not to care what the rest of the world thinks about your country, but most of us think your tea partiers are nuts. Here's this wishy-washy, do-little centrist president, and you lot are going on and on about his socialist communist tyranny? And you invite open racists from European nationalist organisations to speak, but then claim the Tea Party isn't racist. Your infrastructure is crumbling because no one has the political will to use tax dollars to fix it, but you're Taxed Enough Already? We all think you're nuts.
Granted, its been a while since I've been in a Game or UK HMV, but my experience has been one small set of shelves given up to recent release titles, and the rest of the PC gaming section awash in 3 for £10 or 2 for £25 deals, and addons for simulators. My employer gave me a gift certificate to HMV last Christmas, and I went to about four locations on Regent St and Oxford St before I could find L4D2 and Fallout GOTY, both of which were recent releases at the time.
The most interesting bit of that to me is that this ended up on the front page of Slashdot before Boing Boing heard about it. That's not exactly cricket.
I'm sorry, did I miss the part where Steve announced they were removing the web browser? How on earth is a device that prominently features a web browser a closed system? Yes, it's less open than a PC or a Mac (which I would argue is more open than Windows as it ships with a development environment.) But it's very silly to claim that it's closed.
Spoken as someone who's never had to fuss about with signing a Symbian app. Nokia has hoops to jump through different from, but equally annoying as, Apple's.
I think you're exactly right in that that is what the FSF is saying. But look at it from Apple's perspective: do anything a desktop can tablets have been available for a decade, and they haven't taken off. Apple is saying "let's make it cheaper and simpler to create a new product." The lock-down is a deliberate gamble that the complexity is what's caused this product category to languish. I wouldn't be surprised if they're right.
I work near Oxford Circus, and don't find Americans worse than any other tourist here. Actually, I think the worst are the English who are in town now for their Christmas shopping. I was, however, asked when the show starts at the circus once by a nice middle-aged American lady who was appropriately embarrassed once I explained what the circus was.
Try a Budweiser here, too. They're the real thing, not the Anheiser Busch dog's piss. Try a cider or a scrumpy as well. You'll weep for what could have been next time you have a "bud" or a Strongbow.
If you fancy trying local brews, you can buy the Campaign for Real Ale's Good Beer Guide: http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=192602 . They sell it in book, ebook, and GPS POI file formats. Also look for the casque mark sign on pub entrances. They identify pubs that sell proper cask ales, and have proper cellaring and handling conditions. http://www.cask-marque.co.uk/
Regarding your power adaptor, any Maplins, Dixon's, Currys will sell North American to British adaptors. If you're flying through Heathrow T3, there's a last-chance duty free after baggage claim that sells them for £5. Muji sells a good, cheap all-countries adaptor as well, but its heavy and big.
Seconded. I'd suggest Larn, I think its the most accessible of the bunch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larn
Spoken like someone who's employer doesn't use Exchange Server. I can't wait to ditch Entourage. Right now my mail solution is a horrible mess of Outlook Web Access in a Fluid SSB with MacBiff, Entourage and Outlook 2007 in a Windows XP VM. If I didn't have to have several VMs running at once, I'd just make do with the OL2007+XP things, as Entourage is just that bad.
Anonymous Coward's Law Corollary: should someone reply to that comment, the first poster will tell the critic to write the change themselves, regardless of complexity or critic's programming ability.
Seconded. There's nothing even remotely worth reading in these comments. TFA is only slightly more interesting.
Its already been done, at least in terms of the province of Ontario.
Hilariously, though, Elliot Spitzer's office sued the Federal Government for the polution over NYC.
Was my research way off?
Nope. Its expensive here in London. Our life here versus in Toronto, Canada is MUCH more frugal. Kind of like it was when we were just starting out after school. I find we just have to prioritise. No fancy TV, no stereo, really. Many of our friends are the same. Interestingly, though, the personal savings rate here is higher than in North America. Makes me wonder if NA is out of whack with the rest of the world on this.
I'm a web developer, and I recently moved to the UK from Canada. Not technically Europe, but pretty close.
It was easy to find work over here, but one interesting thing was that I had to find a recruiter to work with first. Wasn't used to that at my lowly level. I worked with about five to varying degrees of success. Stick your resume on Monster, and they'll call you. Not always with specific jobs, sometimes just to get a feel for what you're looking for.
As to travel, once you get to the UK, its dead easy. Sign up for deals on lastminute.com and Expedia. My wife and I have done all kinds of city breaks. Easy, inexpensive, highly recommend. Visit central Europe before it gets too touristy ... and that's happening now.
Also, while in the UK, you can easily enroll in one of the many private French schools. My wife's done Alliance Francais in Canada and in France, and loved it.
Cost of living ... expect to live a lot more frugally than you're used to!
I hope you take this opportunity! Its really changed our lives living here in London. Give me a shout at a[a t]awhite.info if you have any specific questions about stuff I've mentioned.
Really, in Britain we think he's liberal? Or he's actually known as liberal? Comes as a surprise to me. It would also come as a surprise to many liberals that they are pro all those things. However, the biggest surprise of all would be that you are talking out of anywhere other than your arse.
What makes matters worst is Mr. Harpers response to the opposition and declaring that they don't have Canada's security in mind. Talk about spreading FUD; our PM is good at it.
... sounds far too much like the kind of "debate" you see mocked on the Daily Show every day for my tastes.
What makes matters even worse is that Harper stood up and accused the Liberals of voting down the down the law in order to protect one of their own, called them weak on Terror, and suggested they are putting every Canadian life at risk. Personal attacks, hyperbolic rhetoric
How about we try keep it civil, Mr Prime Minister? (Or return to civility, since the last year has seen a marked deterioration of the national discourse.)
Too late, eh, ya hoser. We're already in your country, photographin' yer houses, eh?
Dudley Doright FTW!
(Dick.)
That got a 4, Insightful? Have the admins been allowing Virgil Goode to moderate?
the liberals only pay attention to self-promoting issues
Unlike the Conservatives? You mention trust funds (I think you mean income trusts, genius. Trust fund is what enables Mulrooney Jr to spend all his time at pissups)? Do I need to remind you that your precious Cons campaigned on the promise to eliminate those trusts? And then reneged on their promise and weren't going to do it until the opposition hammered them to do so in parliament?
Also, how about Con Heritage Minister Bev Oda and her tax payer funded limo to the Junos? Or how about how Bev Oda is thoroughly owned by the Recording Industry? You know, Hollywood's Member of Parliament?
I think the Libs deserved to get ousted, but anyway you slice it, he Cons are worse.
They did nothing about it (or anything else for that matter) when they were in power.
You're right. Far worse to do nothing than to sell out your nation to corporate interests.
Hell, even the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses know not to come down the back roads in this neigborhood.
I pity the poor defenseless Canadians. Just a warning, one of our neighbors always has a lot of meat curing, but he never goes shopping or hunting. Odd.
WED Fan, I think you're safe. We Canuckistanis are photographing your houses, not your trailer parks and refridgerator boxes. We won't be anywhere near you.
Look, if you're a Vim or Emacs wizard, this app probably isn't going to do much for you that those editors don't do. Except, perhaps, rendering Markdown and a variety of wiki markups (works very nicely with DokuWiki for one.) If you're coming from Homesite or Joe, like, oh, say ... me, this editor gets you nearly to the power of Vim/Emacs in a much shorter timeline.
I think the best way to see what its capable of is to watch Macromate's screencasts. For me, the columnar editing (and I found a somewhat flakey bundle that lets you mark several points in the buffer to insert the text you're typing simultaneously) has made a lot of my common HTML editing tasks way less painful.
The chief difference between Canada and America? At least the Canadians get fair warning. June 15th, the date this went into effect, was two weeks ago, and the Globe and Mail article was posted yesterday. So either Bell Sympatico told people with little to no warning, or the Globe and Mail didn't bother to run this until everything was said and done. Either way, this sucks. Matter of fact, I'm a Sympatico Customer, and this is the first I've heard of it. You do the math.
The ads you're talking about where for IKEA, and played here in Canada at least, possibly NAmerica wide.