India is the world's most populous democracy. We're still the largest (square-footage-wise;).
Wrong again. Even in terms of land size, the USA is not the largest democracy in the world - it's the third largest. You can even check US government sources to verify it (ie the CIA World Factbook).
Russia
total: 17,075,200 sq km
water: 79,400 sq km
land: 16,995,800 sq km
Canada
total: 9,976,140 sq km
land: 9,220,970 sq km
water: 755,170 sq km
USA
total: 9,629,091 sq km
land: 9,158,960 sq km
water: 470,131 sq km
You still might be able to argue that Russia isn't a true democracy yet, but that only bumps the USA up to second, anyway.
In the context of the phrase "largest democracy", land size doesn't make sense anyway. Population is the logical measure, unless you favour some bizarre system of weighting votes depending on land holdings:)
Since when did the rate of exchange for Pounds Sterling drop to one for one with (preseumably) US dollars? £11 million is worth more like $17 million (USD).
Good for AOL and their subscribers. But I think I have a simpler way to block a billion spam messages/day: just go to Alan Ralsky's house and cut all his datalines?
I interned for a government agency when I was finishing university. I remember talking to some of the other IT people at coffee break one day about hardware disasters (the subject came up because some bonehead tested the fire alarm system by setting it off - which automatically cut power to the server room).
Anyway, they told me that when they had first moved into the building, the fact that there were water pipes running over top of the server racks had gone unnoticed, until one of the them, started leaking. This of course happened at night, so nobody found out until morning. When they came in, the Alpha (which the water was leaking directly onto) was still working properly. After they shut it down and opened it up, they found two cm of water in the bottom of the case.
1. To encrypt a message with X bits, go to a bank, convenience store, etc., and get X pennies (if you're a consultant, say you used quarters and bill accordingly).
2. Flip each penny once, record the result, then discard.
3. Melt all of the discarded pennies to make a large, heavy club. Use the club to hit anyone who tries to steal your OTP as you deliver the message.
Sure, this method may not be efficient, but it's about as practical as most OTP schemes are:)
You never could copyright genes, that's not the issue here.
Repeat after me: a patent is not a copyright. A copyright is not a patent. Do not use the two terms interchangeably, because they don't mean the same thing at all.
For the 'addict', you have a death age. When you char hits 40, your skills begin to degrade until you eventually die (yes, you character is no longer usable. Its gone.). This is a tactic to discourage addiction.
I've often wondered why it takes so long for some technologies to roll out in the US. Up here in Canada, direct payment at stores (using your atm card) was common almost a decade before it became available in the USA. Similarly, the city I live in has only 200k people, yet we have 5 different vendors for TV service: the two national satellite systems, regular cable, wireless cable, and the telephone company. If these companies can make a profit here, why aren't all of these technologies available in large US centres?
It really doesn't seem like there would be that many to me. It's slow and low altitude, so whoever was piloting one would be a sitting duck. I guess if it was really quiet it might have some utility for use at night. Still, it seems like a very cheap project in military terms - DARPA could've funded them for another decade for what they spent on R&D for the cupholders in the F-22.
How long before some android just uses a spray bottle full of the commanding officer's breath to breach security and try to kill Sigourney Weaver's clone? She musn't be harmed, as she's the only one who can defeat the aliens.
Well, that link is certainly helpful. Nothing proves your point better than a rant filled with mispelled words and poor grammar, written by someone who won't even sign his name to it.
Rapeseed != Canola, so don't use the names interchangeably. Canola is a derivative of Rapeseed, yes, but it was created through an intensive selective breeding program to have desirable properties that Rapeseed does not. Like humans being able to eat the oil pressed from the seeds (Rapeseed oil is not good for you, whereas Canola oil is one of the healthiest oils around).
I agree with you about the unjust nature of Monsanto's lawsuit. In order to get the evidence they used in court, Monsanto's agents had to trespass on his field, and also bullied/bribed the company he had paid to clean his seed into giving them another sample. The cops surely never would have been able to do this sort of thing without warrants and then use the evidence in court, so why should a private company be able to bend/break laws and then benefit from these actions in court?
It's roughly equivalent to PBS, only it receives government funding and has ads. They aren't allowed to use US shows in primetime, either (you won't see much US programming on CBC at other times of the day either).
Well, that would be because the article is about unfinished adventure games. Seeing as how none of the titles you mentioned were adventure games, it stands to reason that they'd be ignored in the article.
So what? You've missed the point entirely. Corporations can't accomplish anything on their own - that's why people work for them. You're right in that a corporation (which is just an abstract legal construct) doesn't have moral obligations, but the people who make the decisions for it sure as hell do.
An executive at Sun, or Microsoft, or whoever else, can't just sit there and say "there was money to be made, who am I to judge?" They had the opportunity to do the right thing, and say no.
Shrugging your shoulders and saying "that's what corporations do" is incredibly callous. The Chinese government is not playing around: people who get busted by these filters aren't getting a warning, or a fine - they're going to jail. Read some of the articles on the issue, like this one. People are being thrown in jail for simply speaking their mind using the net, and some of them have already died in custody.
I never did, and the clerk never refused to sell me something just because I wouldn't give my name. The refusals, along with fake names, probably consumed a fairly large chunk of their database.
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You have a strange definition of unbiased. Being biased in a way contrary to the mainstream US press is not the same thing as unbiased.
India is the world's most populous democracy. We're still the largest (square-footage-wise ;).
Wrong again. Even in terms of land size, the USA is not the largest democracy in the world - it's the third largest. You can even check US government sources to verify it (ie the CIA World Factbook).
Russia
total: 17,075,200 sq km
water: 79,400 sq km
land: 16,995,800 sq km
Canada
total: 9,976,140 sq km
land: 9,220,970 sq km
water: 755,170 sq km
USA
total: 9,629,091 sq km
land: 9,158,960 sq km
water: 470,131 sq km
You still might be able to argue that Russia isn't a true democracy yet, but that only bumps the USA up to second, anyway.
In the context of the phrase "largest democracy", land size doesn't make sense anyway. Population is the logical measure, unless you favour some bizarre system of weighting votes depending on land holdings:)
Since when did the rate of exchange for Pounds Sterling drop to one for one with (preseumably) US dollars? £11 million is worth more like $17 million (USD).
Good for AOL and their subscribers. But I think I have a simpler way to block a billion spam messages/day: just go to Alan Ralsky's house and cut all his datalines?
Do you have any idea of the mass transfer involved before this becomes an issue?
Why would conservations care at all about mining the moon? It's not like there are any snowy iguanas getting caught in the tuna nets there...
Has anyone ever heard a real conservations object to mining lifeless hunks of rock in outer space? Or are we just putting words in their mouths?
I interned for a government agency when I was finishing university. I remember talking to some of the other IT people at coffee break one day about hardware disasters (the subject came up because some bonehead tested the fire alarm system by setting it off - which automatically cut power to the server room).
Anyway, they told me that when they had first moved into the building, the fact that there were water pipes running over top of the server racks had gone unnoticed, until one of the them, started leaking. This of course happened at night, so nobody found out until morning. When they came in, the Alpha (which the water was leaking directly onto) was still working properly. After they shut it down and opened it up, they found two cm of water in the bottom of the case.
Must be one _serious_ porn addiction...
1. To encrypt a message with X bits, go to a bank, convenience store, etc., and get X pennies (if you're a consultant, say you used quarters and bill accordingly). 2. Flip each penny once, record the result, then discard. 3. Melt all of the discarded pennies to make a large, heavy club. Use the club to hit anyone who tries to steal your OTP as you deliver the message. Sure, this method may not be efficient, but it's about as practical as most OTP schemes are:)
You never could copyright genes, that's not the issue here.
Repeat after me: a patent is not a copyright. A copyright is not a patent. Do not use the two terms interchangeably, because they don't mean the same thing at all.
I got busted once when I tried to buy beer when I was 17. Therefore we must not need legislation governing the sale of alchohol to minors.
For the 'addict', you have a death age. When you char hits 40, your skills begin to degrade until you eventually die (yes, you character is no longer usable. Its gone.). This is a tactic to discourage addiction.
Why would Sony want to discourage addiction?
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It really doesn't seem like there would be that many to me. It's slow and low altitude, so whoever was piloting one would be a sitting duck. I guess if it was really quiet it might have some utility for use at night. Still, it seems like a very cheap project in military terms - DARPA could've funded them for another decade for what they spent on R&D for the cupholders in the F-22.
True, but the justice minister wasn't the one making the proposal on the other occasions.
Hmm...interesting idea. What's Alan Ralsky's cellphone number?
How long before some android just uses a spray bottle full of the commanding officer's breath to breach security and try to kill Sigourney Weaver's clone? She musn't be harmed, as she's the only one who can defeat the aliens.
Well, that link is certainly helpful. Nothing proves your point better than a rant filled with mispelled words and poor grammar, written by someone who won't even sign his name to it.
Since we'll be decriminalizing pot possession (up to 30 grams) after Christmas up here (in Canada).
Pot penalties out of whack, MPs say
Rapeseed != Canola, so don't use the names interchangeably. Canola is a derivative of Rapeseed, yes, but it was created through an intensive selective breeding program to have desirable properties that Rapeseed does not. Like humans being able to eat the oil pressed from the seeds (Rapeseed oil is not good for you, whereas Canola oil is one of the healthiest oils around).
I agree with you about the unjust nature of Monsanto's lawsuit. In order to get the evidence they used in court, Monsanto's agents had to trespass on his field, and also bullied/bribed the company he had paid to clean his seed into giving them another sample. The cops surely never would have been able to do this sort of thing without warrants and then use the evidence in court, so why should a private company be able to bend/break laws and then benefit from these actions in court?
It's roughly equivalent to PBS, only it receives government funding and has ads. They aren't allowed to use US shows in primetime, either (you won't see much US programming on CBC at other times of the day either).
Well, that would be because the article is about unfinished adventure games. Seeing as how none of the titles you mentioned were adventure games, it stands to reason that they'd be ignored in the article.
So what? You've missed the point entirely. Corporations can't accomplish anything on their own - that's why people work for them. You're right in that a corporation (which is just an abstract legal construct) doesn't have moral obligations, but the people who make the decisions for it sure as hell do.
An executive at Sun, or Microsoft, or whoever else, can't just sit there and say "there was money to be made, who am I to judge?" They had the opportunity to do the right thing, and say no.
Shrugging your shoulders and saying "that's what corporations do" is incredibly callous. The Chinese government is not playing around: people who get busted by these filters aren't getting a warning, or a fine - they're going to jail. Read some of the articles on the issue, like this one. People are being thrown in jail for simply speaking their mind using the net, and some of them have already died in custody.
I never did, and the clerk never refused to sell me something just because I wouldn't give my name. The refusals, along with fake names, probably consumed a fairly large chunk of their database.
Probably not much longer than it takes the cowboys on horseback that you send the backups up here with:)