Wow, you answered your own question. It may have something to do with the fact that you can't get into whistler without a permit for the duration of the games. So just about everyone is taking the bus up there.
I'm not saying the olympics are the greatest things since sliced bread, but come on!
As you are from Vancouver, you would know this is the warmest stretch of weather on record. Usually there is skiing on the local mountains well into late February.
The highway expansion up to whistler was way overdue, and getting the federal government to pay for part of it was a nice bonus. Yes, it's still our money, but I'd rather see it used here then keeping Quebec happy for once (No offense to anyone in Quebec, but it's true). Same with the Richmond SkyTrain. I'm sorry to say that a 100,000 trees means nothing to me, this is BC after all.
Homelessness sucks here, and the city/province/federal government should be doing more about, but this is a never ending problem, as soon as people are off the streets, there will be an influx from back east ('cause it's cold). It's a no win situation, and were this any other city the east side would have been bulldozed and gentrified many years ago. It would be nice to get some support from the federal government on this, rather then trying to shut down Insite over and over again.
On a related note - anyone know if there is a breakdown somewhere of how much cities (not just in canada) spend on things like homelessness, crime, etc.
I have heard that in the end they did use some other icing machine that was at the oval but not meant for use during the olympics, though no idea if it was the same brand as the 'official' ones. The ones that malfunctioned were already being used by the ring (for a good year now), they weren't brought in just for the Olympics (they got a paint job and some stickers), so there weren't any 'old' ones on hand.
Keeping to the rules might be because there were other events going on. I don't the few thousand people (don't know off hand the capacity) waiting outside for the next event would be very happy to hear 'sorry guys, the band wanted to get a full set in, we'll get to you in an hour and a half'.
Also, persons attending the skating even might have tickets to other events. Again, would you want to spend a few hundred on a ticket to miss the final races / finding out who actually won gold because you had to run to the next event because the band decided to play a full set?
Nevermind broadcast schedules, sponsor contracts (you bet the 'official' zamboni company would sue vanoc's ass if their product wasn't used), even some of the athletes had other events to attend. As mickey mouse as the games look, this isn't some county fair.
They, of course, could have brought the band back out out while sorting out the ice problems.
So I will have my OS tabs between IE and Firefox (or whatever) then tabs inside each application? Will MS Office just be a black hole then? top-level OS tabs to get to Excel, tabs inside excel for different files, the ribbon thing (pretty much tabs) for functionality, and then tabs to switch between worksheets? I'm sure all these tabs will have popup thumbnail previews as well, and half the population will die of epileptic seizures just moving their mouse from one corner of screen to the other.
It might have something to do with us humans eating them afterwards. If you had a choice, would you really want to eat livestock that has been infused with all sorts hormones/pharmaseudicals/etc from birth. All that shit doesn't just pass through their systems, it stays in the meat, and we end up eating it, and then it stays in our bodies.
You know how Tuna and lots of other fish (mmm, dolphin) are full of Mercury (or whatever metal it is - I'm rambling here so don't come to me with facts:) ) so our intake should be limited, it's the same deal except it's growth hormones and all sorts of other stuff.
I'm not going to pretend that freerange or organic is some magical solution where the animals are massaged twice a day, but there has to be a better way. Food is one place where we really shouldn't be going only for the fastest and cheapest.
And from quite a few accounts the Germans were getting close to having A-Bombs as well. Yeah it would have taken a lot of work to make the bombs small enough, or inversly, the rockets big enough, but the Germans were kinda good at this technical stuff.
Why, just keep yourself awake by playing with your man-boobs of course. I'm too lazy to find the link (playing with my moobs of course) to find a link to the study that came out recently linking drinking over three or so cups of coffee a day with developing one's own mamaries.
I hate to say it, but that's evolution. If you can't adapt to new threats then you'll die off and the smarter folks will bang your wife and live on.
That's just the way things works.
Yeah I know, the blind are screwed, but lets be honest, the odds aren't on their side to begin with. Perhaps it will shorten the time it takes to evolve sonar 'vision'. Take that political corectness!!
** this post may appear more rude than intended **
Was going to write the exact thing. Chinese leadership has always done as they please, and the 'west' coming in and wanting to use their facilities/cheap labour only doesn't change anything, it only provides them with a skilled workforce, and lots of 'western' technology for free.
If anything this has let the leadership know that as long as we get our cheap toys and electronics we'll turn a blind eye to anything not directly impacting the price and availability of said cheap items.
data coming from the severed cables reads: click click chirp chirp click - translation: "The Dolphin uprising has begun! Tremble mortals before your gray-smooth-skinned overlords. All your internet belong to us!"
Your partitions will still work - meaning you can still boot into WinXP or whatever - but you will not be able to use the Bootcamp 'wizard' to create or edit new partitions. So get this set up as you need them before the expiry date and you're good to go.
Right, could that be because Vista was delayed five odd years?
What were the gaps between Win98, WinME, Win2k, WinXP - to be fair WinME & 2K were for different market segments initially - oh, could they be about two years or less? I'm not the biggest fan of the continues updates from Apple either, but trust me MS would be doing the same thing if they could actually ship something out the door at a regular interval.
Admittedly I am pulling this out of my ass, trying to remember bits and pieces from various news sources.
Yes Burma hasn't had the best government for a good long time, but for most of it the people just 'put up with it'. The reason it's making news now is because there are mass protests across the country trying to get the government to reform, but the government is having none of it and has sent out the army. The last time this happened the army killed ~300 civilians, and currently there have been 2 to 6 reported civilian deaths so far.
Do you remember Tiananmen Square? well this is pretty much the same thing, except it's round two already, and exponentially more people have already been killed.
It shouldn't detract from the mess in your country or mine (Canada), but it is a major event.
I wonder, could someone twist this into an easy way to get out of any RIAA/MPAA lawsuits - your honour even windows goes and changes files on my computer without my permission, surely they were the ones that opened up all my ports and defaulted share settings on my *cough* linux iso's *cough* collection.
Ohh boy, here we go.
If you were British, the Tea Party was a terrorist act. Much like the combatants in Iraq now are 'terrorists' here and freedom fighters / rebels to others.
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I hope that one day I invent something as great as this, and I'll remove any sort of character limit. I think I will call it 'email'.
For bonus points, I won't keep this all out for the world to see and clutter search results.
I'm sorry, you need to restate in the form of a car analogy.
-- and I hadn't even noticed your sig until I typed this out.
This may be a very dumb question, but how will keyboard unit movement work? I hope it's not going mouse-only.
Wow, you answered your own question. It may have something to do with the fact that you can't get into whistler without a permit for the duration of the games. So just about everyone is taking the bus up there.
I'm not saying the olympics are the greatest things since sliced bread, but come on!
As you are from Vancouver, you would know this is the warmest stretch of weather on record. Usually there is skiing on the local mountains well into late February.
The highway expansion up to whistler was way overdue, and getting the federal government to pay for part of it was a nice bonus. Yes, it's still our money, but I'd rather see it used here then keeping Quebec happy for once (No offense to anyone in Quebec, but it's true). Same with the Richmond SkyTrain. I'm sorry to say that a 100,000 trees means nothing to me, this is BC after all.
Homelessness sucks here, and the city/province/federal government should be doing more about, but this is a never ending problem, as soon as people are off the streets, there will be an influx from back east ('cause it's cold). It's a no win situation, and were this any other city the east side would have been bulldozed and gentrified many years ago. It would be nice to get some support from the federal government on this, rather then trying to shut down Insite over and over again.
On a related note - anyone know if there is a breakdown somewhere of how much cities (not just in canada) spend on things like homelessness, crime, etc.
I have heard that in the end they did use some other icing machine that was at the oval but not meant for use during the olympics, though no idea if it was the same brand as the 'official' ones. The ones that malfunctioned were already being used by the ring (for a good year now), they weren't brought in just for the Olympics (they got a paint job and some stickers), so there weren't any 'old' ones on hand.
Keeping to the rules might be because there were other events going on. I don't the few thousand people (don't know off hand the capacity) waiting outside for the next event would be very happy to hear 'sorry guys, the band wanted to get a full set in, we'll get to you in an hour and a half'.
Also, persons attending the skating even might have tickets to other events. Again, would you want to spend a few hundred on a ticket to miss the final races / finding out who actually won gold because you had to run to the next event because the band decided to play a full set?
Nevermind broadcast schedules, sponsor contracts (you bet the 'official' zamboni company would sue vanoc's ass if their product wasn't used), even some of the athletes had other events to attend. As mickey mouse as the games look, this isn't some county fair.
They, of course, could have brought the band back out out while sorting out the ice problems.
Does this mean he was a clone / robot all along !?!?!
Or wait... he dies will be split into 4 different characters? I don't even know how the rest of that whole Superman's dead plot line played out.
Or better. 'Gasp' what a nightmare!
So I will have my OS tabs between IE and Firefox (or whatever) then tabs inside each application? Will MS Office just be a black hole then? top-level OS tabs to get to Excel, tabs inside excel for different files, the ribbon thing (pretty much tabs) for functionality, and then tabs to switch between worksheets? I'm sure all these tabs will have popup thumbnail previews as well, and half the population will die of epileptic seizures just moving their mouse from one corner of screen to the other.
It might have something to do with us humans eating them afterwards. If you had a choice, would you really want to eat livestock that has been infused with all sorts hormones/pharmaseudicals/etc from birth. All that shit doesn't just pass through their systems, it stays in the meat, and we end up eating it, and then it stays in our bodies.
You know how Tuna and lots of other fish (mmm, dolphin) are full of Mercury (or whatever metal it is - I'm rambling here so don't come to me with facts :) ) so our intake should be limited, it's the same deal except it's growth hormones and all sorts of other stuff.
I'm not going to pretend that freerange or organic is some magical solution where the animals are massaged twice a day, but there has to be a better way. Food is one place where we really shouldn't be going only for the fastest and cheapest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket
And from quite a few accounts the Germans were getting close to having A-Bombs as well. Yeah it would have taken a lot of work to make the bombs small enough, or inversly, the rockets big enough, but the Germans were kinda good at this technical stuff.
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Good plan, until the clerk at city hall does a name check and sees that some guy on wikipedia is already using it.
Why, just keep yourself awake by playing with your man-boobs of course. I'm too lazy to find the link (playing with my moobs of course) to find a link to the study that came out recently linking drinking over three or so cups of coffee a day with developing one's own mamaries.
I hate to say it, but that's evolution. If you can't adapt to new threats then you'll die off and the smarter folks will bang your wife and live on.
That's just the way things works.
Yeah I know, the blind are screwed, but lets be honest, the odds aren't on their side to begin with. Perhaps it will shorten the time it takes to evolve sonar 'vision'. Take that political corectness!!
** this post may appear more rude than intended **
I miss these web-bubble strategy sessions.
Was going to write the exact thing. Chinese leadership has always done as they please, and the 'west' coming in and wanting to use their facilities/cheap labour only doesn't change anything, it only provides them with a skilled workforce, and lots of 'western' technology for free.
If anything this has let the leadership know that as long as we get our cheap toys and electronics we'll turn a blind eye to anything not directly impacting the price and availability of said cheap items.
data coming from the severed cables reads: click click chirp chirp click - translation: "The Dolphin uprising has begun! Tremble mortals before your gray-smooth-skinned overlords. All your internet belong to us!"
Your partitions will still work - meaning you can still boot into WinXP or whatever - but you will not be able to use the Bootcamp 'wizard' to create or edit new partitions. So get this set up as you need them before the expiry date and you're good to go.
Right, could that be because Vista was delayed five odd years?
What were the gaps between Win98, WinME, Win2k, WinXP - to be fair WinME & 2K were for different market segments initially - oh, could they be about two years or less? I'm not the biggest fan of the continues updates from Apple either, but trust me MS would be doing the same thing if they could actually ship something out the door at a regular interval.
Admittedly I am pulling this out of my ass, trying to remember bits and pieces from various news sources.
Yes Burma hasn't had the best government for a good long time, but for most of it the people just 'put up with it'. The reason it's making news now is because there are mass protests across the country trying to get the government to reform, but the government is having none of it and has sent out the army. The last time this happened the army killed ~300 civilians, and currently there have been 2 to 6 reported civilian deaths so far.
Do you remember Tiananmen Square? well this is pretty much the same thing, except it's round two already, and exponentially more people have already been killed.
It shouldn't detract from the mess in your country or mine (Canada), but it is a major event.
Thanks for the list.
I wonder, could someone twist this into an easy way to get out of any RIAA/MPAA lawsuits - your honour even windows goes and changes files on my computer without my permission, surely they were the ones that opened up all my ports and defaulted share settings on my *cough* linux iso's *cough* collection.
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is this too obscure a reference?
But I thought America WAS the prison for all the stupid people. =)
crap, left my flame-proof pants at home.
Ohh boy, here we go. If you were British, the Tea Party was a terrorist act. Much like the combatants in Iraq now are 'terrorists' here and freedom fighters / rebels to others.
A new press release by Boeing Corporation announced that their 'algae' based fuel alternative will be called Soylent Green.