Businesses are power structures created for the purpose of making money.
They are not "the people" for the purpose of governance of a nation. Nor should they be.
I'm pretty sure he isn't.
I have seen a fair bit of evidence that he doesn't give a damn what us voters think.
I hope they don't try again with the copyright bill, just to sooth the hurting that they are getting from the rest of the world at the climate conference this week.
300000 people in a single ZIP code? In Canada, a unique Postal Code covers maybe 50-80 houses along a street or two, or at most one large condo building with 2000 residents or so.
Or an entire small town, and all the farms surrounding it.
For instance, Minnedosa, Manitoba has one postal code, which is for the post office building and all the mail boxes located there. The town and surrounding farms are all postal code R0J 1E0. Current population is a bit over 2500, probably closer to 3500 mailboxes when you count in businesses and farmers.
But in the cities, you are right. One postal code can be as few as one side of a street for one block.
Once you start using it it's just like with any new application a matter of time and experience for it to become familiar.
But then I never experienced Photoshop long enough to see it as a standard.
Anyhow, for those like me that need it it's just a quick download away.
This.
I have been using The Gimp for several years, and I don't see what all the complaints about "ugly" or "gawdawful UI" are about.
I like to have the toolboxes disconnected from the main edit window, and set them onto one monitor. That way I can maximize the main window on the other monitor.
If all the tools were docked or on ribbons or something I would have more cramped edit window available to work in.
Intereasting guessing.
Of course, you have no idea about my history.
I did happen to grow up poor, on a farm that just barely made ends meet. My wife grew up on welfare in a horrible neighborhood.
I'm busting my ass to make sure my kids have it better than I did.
And I get pissed off when someone sitting on his ass in the street calls me a "fucking asshole whitey" for not helping feed his addictions.
If any of this could happen without individual citizens not losing rights, then I bet there would be less opposition.
Unfortunately, that's not the way it is working. Corporate entities (which may be made up of groups of individual citizens, but are not - and should not be - the same as individual citizens) should not be treated the same under law as citizens.
As a member of one of those "groups who have the power" I (as an individual) don't feel very powerful, wealthy or in control of much of anything.
And I resent being called the cause of some other group's problems, simply because I look like someone who might have done something bad to their ancestors.
Why would someone want to spend his free time making use of extremely old and obsolete hardware when much newer hardware is cheaply available and there are useful and relevant things that can be done with modern software on newer hardware?
hobby
Pronunciation [hob-ee]
–noun, plural -bies.
1. an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation
Perhaps a group of musicians/athletes/performers traveling on a tour bus? With laptops, Wii, wi-fi PDAs, etc.
I'm sure there are other examples, but that's the first that popped into my head.
Ummm. I think you guys are trying to make slightly different points.
The parent was (I think) trying to refute the "you need secret stuff to build a machine that kills people" type claim.
Which in no way contradicts your experience based statement, which I interpret as: "you really do need lots of advanced hi-tech to build an accurate, advanced, effective killing machine"
When I was to post something about why doesn't Jobs do something at Disney about DRM, I get modded down..
However, when someone tries to put this to Job's name, everyone mods it up as fast as possible. Surely it can't be both ways?
So bottom line: People will soon be faced with having to wait for the delayed DVD rental, or purchase it now.
Or just don't watch it. That's the approach I've been increasingly taking.
Given the quality of movies that have been released in the last decade or so, that's not much of a hardship.
So did you post your configuration solution anywhere so that others may find it more easily in the futura?
Maybe on the project's WIKI? Or even an e-mail to the documentation maintainer?
Has anyone here done that?
Not trying to bust your balls, but maybe we have to look in the mirror for a solution to the documentation problem.
They have killed many times. Amnesty International says 351 people have been killed by tasers in police hands.
Which, on it's own, is a pretty useless number.
What percentage of taser uses does that 351 deaths represent? Go find some actual relevant stats to prove me wrong.
I don't have a real answer, but I'll bet it's down in the single digits.
Also, a +1 to the previous poster who pointed out that "bad cops" is a very small subset of "all cops"
Sorry to burst your conspiracy theory, but it all comes down to profit margins, and general corporate laziness.
Canada has a pretty low population (and even lower population density) than most of the places you mentioned. The retailers know that the marketplace won't sustain high profits if there is a lot of aggressive competition, so the companies generally don't enter into aggressive competition with each other. If I'm selling widget X and you're selling thingie Y, I'm not going to start selling thingie Y, because it won't be profitable to have half of a small pie. And a price war in a small market leads to mutually assured destruction.
The Criminal Code of Canada states (emphasis mine):
22. (1) Where a person counsels another person to be a party to an offence and that other person is afterwards a party to that offence, the person who counselled is a party to that offence, notwithstanding that the offence was committed in a way different from that which was counselled.
(2) Every one who counsels another person to be a party to an offence is a party to every offence that the other commits in consequence of the counselling that the person who counselled knew or ought to have known was likely to be committed in consequence of the counselling.
(3) For the purposes of this Act, "counsel" includes procure, solicit or incite. [R.S., c.C-34, s.22; R.S.C. 1985, c.27 (1st Supp.), s.7(1).]
Given that Malik and at least one other pranknetter are Canadians, I bet that would apply nicely.
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Businesses are power structures created for the purpose of making money.
They are not "the people" for the purpose of governance of a nation. Nor should they be.
Mr. PM are you listening?
I'm pretty sure he isn't.
I have seen a fair bit of evidence that he doesn't give a damn what us voters think.
I hope they don't try again with the copyright bill, just to sooth the hurting that they are getting from the rest of the world at the climate conference this week.
Or she figured that she's already been outed, so she might as well do something so it soesen't happen to someone else in the future.
And , of course, there's the money.
300000 people in a single ZIP code? In Canada, a unique Postal Code covers maybe 50-80 houses along a street or two, or at most one large condo building with 2000 residents or so.
Or an entire small town, and all the farms surrounding it.
For instance, Minnedosa, Manitoba has one postal code, which is for the post office building and all the mail boxes located there. The town and surrounding farms are all postal code R0J 1E0. Current population is a bit over 2500, probably closer to 3500 mailboxes when you count in businesses and farmers.
But in the cities, you are right. One postal code can be as few as one side of a street for one block.
This is a common myth. Police officers are *rarely* killed on the job.
Once is enough to make the rest of them kinda skittish
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3,4,5,6
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In less than 10 years, from one police force, in Canada. There have probably been more, but I'm getting depressed searching for them.
You need some packet lube to get them flowing smoothly again!
The first thing that came to mind was this.
I expect that in practice the robots at the show were almost as sophisticated.
Once you start using it it's just like with any new application a matter of time and experience for it to become familiar.
But then I never experienced Photoshop long enough to see it as a standard.
Anyhow, for those like me that need it it's just a quick download away.
This.
I have been using The Gimp for several years, and I don't see what all the complaints about "ugly" or "gawdawful UI" are about.
I like to have the toolboxes disconnected from the main edit window, and set them onto one monitor. That way I can maximize the main window on the other monitor.
If all the tools were docked or on ribbons or something I would have more cramped edit window available to work in.
Intereasting guessing.
Of course, you have no idea about my history.
I did happen to grow up poor, on a farm that just barely made ends meet. My wife grew up on welfare in a horrible neighborhood.
I'm busting my ass to make sure my kids have it better than I did.
And I get pissed off when someone sitting on his ass in the street calls me a "fucking asshole whitey" for not helping feed his addictions.
If any of this could happen without individual citizens not losing rights, then I bet there would be less opposition.
Unfortunately, that's not the way it is working. Corporate entities (which may be made up of groups of individual citizens, but are not - and should not be - the same as individual citizens) should not be treated the same under law as citizens.
It supports more sites, and protocold. Like Gopher.
Let's see IE7 do that!
As a member of one of those "groups who have the power" I (as an individual) don't feel very powerful, wealthy or in control of much of anything.
And I resent being called the cause of some other group's problems, simply because I look like someone who might have done something bad to their ancestors.
Some people like doing things "the hard way" for the challenge of it.
Why is that so hard to understand?
Why would someone want to spend his free time making use of extremely old and obsolete hardware when much newer hardware is cheaply available and there are useful and relevant things that can be done with modern software on newer hardware?
hobby
Pronunciation [hob-ee]
–noun, plural -bies.
1. an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation
Perhaps a group of musicians/athletes/performers traveling on a tour bus? With laptops, Wii, wi-fi PDAs, etc.
I'm sure there are other examples, but that's the first that popped into my head.
Ummm. I think you guys are trying to make slightly different points.
The parent was (I think) trying to refute the "you need secret stuff to build a machine that kills people" type claim.
Which in no way contradicts your experience based statement, which I interpret as: "you really do need lots of advanced hi-tech to build an accurate, advanced, effective killing machine"
When I was to post something about why doesn't Jobs do something at Disney about DRM, I get modded down.. However, when someone tries to put this to Job's name, everyone mods it up as fast as possible. Surely it can't be both ways?
I'm afraid it's just you.
So bottom line: People will soon be faced with having to wait for the delayed DVD rental, or purchase it now.
Or just don't watch it. That's the approach I've been increasingly taking.
Given the quality of movies that have been released in the last decade or so, that's not much of a hardship.
Does anyone have a human-readable version of this?
> What am I missing?
Document != page
19,856,160 pages at 3 seconds per court document.
I expect many (most?) of those court documents are multi-page documents.
By then we will not download ringtones anymore, but cartones. Think of the possibilities! .
I'll have a Model A Ford, complete with awooga horn.
Or perhaps a Peterbuilt with a broken muffler.
So did you post your configuration solution anywhere so that others may find it more easily in the futura?
Maybe on the project's WIKI? Or even an e-mail to the documentation maintainer?
Has anyone here done that?
Not trying to bust your balls, but maybe we have to look in the mirror for a solution to the documentation problem.
Taser are NOT "non-lethal."
They have killed many times. Amnesty International says 351 people have been killed by tasers in police hands.
Which, on it's own, is a pretty useless number.
What percentage of taser uses does that 351 deaths represent?
Go find some actual relevant stats to prove me wrong.
I don't have a real answer, but I'll bet it's down in the single digits.
Also, a +1 to the previous poster who pointed out that "bad cops" is a very small subset of "all cops"
Sorry to burst your conspiracy theory, but it all comes down to profit margins, and general corporate laziness.
Canada has a pretty low population (and even lower population density) than most of the places you mentioned. The retailers know that the marketplace won't sustain high profits if there is a lot of aggressive competition, so the companies generally don't enter into aggressive competition with each other. If I'm selling widget X and you're selling thingie Y, I'm not going to start selling thingie Y, because it won't be profitable to have half of a small pie.
And a price war in a small market leads to mutually assured destruction.
The Criminal Code of Canada states (emphasis mine):
22. (1) Where a person counsels another person to be a party to an offence and that other person is afterwards a party to that offence, the person who counselled is a party to that offence, notwithstanding that the offence was committed in a way different from that which was counselled.
(2) Every one who counsels another person to be a party to an offence is a party to every offence that the other commits in consequence of the counselling that the person who counselled knew or ought to have known was likely to be committed in consequence of the counselling.
(3) For the purposes of this Act, "counsel" includes procure, solicit or incite. [R.S., c.C-34, s.22; R.S.C. 1985, c.27 (1st Supp.), s.7(1).]
Given that Malik and at least one other pranknetter are Canadians, I bet that would apply nicely.