May I ask the counterpoint, is there a country anywhere that uses only metric ISO units?
Here in Canada we still put $/lb on food items, In the UK all the road signs are in Miles and speedometers are in Miles/hour and I do not know of anywhere that the weather report is given in Kelvin, as it should be. Is it just me or does a balmy 293K sounds much better that 20C.
We put the price in pounds in Canada because it makes things seem cheaper. 99 cents/lb for apples seems a lot better than $2.18/kg... however, the price is usually (and it may be required by law) displayed in $$/kg on the sign as well, usually in smaller print. Furthermore, the price that comes up on the till will be in $$/kg and the price listed on the receipt as well in $$/kg. It's really just a marketing ploy displaying the price on the sign in lbs... I doubt it'd make any difference to anyone if all the signs were changed to display the price only in $$/kg, at least once everyone got over the initial sticker shock.
Actually, even in the UK programme would be the wrong spelling when you're refering to a computer program. Programme is used for all the other varients of programme. In the UK it's a Computer Program and a Programme of Musical Study.
Sort of like cheque and check. At least, that's my understanding of the situation.
I would have to agree... I've never seen as much animosity towards the French among the general Canadian population as I've seen from a lot of Americans.
The animosity towards Quebecois has nothing to do with the French. They're totally different; different culture, different language (well, dialect). The hatred of the Quebecois isn't all that strong. It's mainly joking around, just like we do with the Newfies (People from Newfoundland). And in the great nation to the north, we tend to make fun of everyone from different parts of the country.
We are a nation that can laugh at ourselves and make friendly ribbings.
All the console apps are perfect the way they are. There is no possible way to improve them. GUI apps are just now getting the same functions that console apps have had for the last decade.
The little improvement that is happening with GUI apps is mainly with the GUI itself. All they've been doing it tweaking the design and look/fell of their apps.
When the first story about Elena's site was posted, there were a few salshdotters that though it was all a conspiracy to sell motorcycles.
I was thinking, maybe it's a conspiracy to get more tourists to go there; 'look at how much fun I'm having riding around this wasteland'. What do you guys think?
people well stop sending me emails reminding me that my penis is too small and I have trouble getting it up. However, I'd rather the senate put in a bill that shuts up whoever it is that keeps telling all theses marketers about my small penis and erectile difficulties.
I would have to agree, from what I have seen OSX is the best of both worlds. It has a beautiful interface and real power under the hood. I would also think the learning curve from a *nix platform to OSX would be minuscule. I could really see Apple taking hold in the enterprise world, assuming they lower prices of hardware and get a two/three buttom mouse.
I wonder if they've made the connection that suing their customers isn't the best way to increase sales of music? You couple that with the fact that there really isn't a lot of music that is worth buying and you have a problem in the market.
I have stopped buying any music from major lables due to the fact that they are attacking their customers. I refuse to support an industry that would go to such lengths just to stop a bit of piracy that probably has no real significant affect on their bottom line.
"Sooo..you don't have any facts,but you 'feeeel' you're right...pffhhtt"
No, I'm not totally sure about the exact figures. It was something damn close to that the figures I listed. As to crime rates, I don't have any figures, but I sure as hell don't see much crime. But so what, lets say that the crime rate is the same as the US. Who cares, at least I don't have to pay for all the health care costs after I get shot.
"Much better to have one huge overseer eh?...sad..." I don't see how the RCMP controls my life.
"WOW,talk about clueless...guess what?
1-screw welfare...freakn commies
2-the health care sucks..duh
3-the tax is driving professionals away..duh again 4-our economy blows...turn off the cbc, sheep" I'm not for just handing out money to anyone who demands it. What about reeducation programs, helping the children etc, etc, etc. What about the people that can't work because of disabilities? We should just throw them to the wolfs? And the amount of people that are leeching off of the system is small. Yes maybe the health care sucks, if your have lots of money. In the US you could go and get treatment right away. Here everyone is supposed to be treated equal. But if our health care sucks as much as you say it does, why is it that Canadians live an average of 2.3 years more than the average American?
And ok, the taxes on the individual are to high, we pay something like 90% of all the taxes. But again what country is perfect?
Our Economy blows? How's that, before free trade with the US, our dollar was worth equal if not more than the US dollar. In 2001 our economy grew 1.6% more than the US. And I didn't get that from CBC, it's right from the US Gov't.
"According to who? the UN?!?! The biggest socialist bunch on the planet...what a surprise...gawd" So your saying that the UN can not figure out what counties have a good quality of life, because they are "socialist[s]"? Well I don't think Americans can figure out how to help people because they are capitalists! It's ignorant to think just because someone has views that are different from yours that they will not be able to look at simple facts and come to a simple conclusion.
Yup you caught me I'm just "another commie". Because I like welfare programs I'm a commie! So I guess I don't like democracy then. And I guess I don't like free enterprise. Did I ever say anything about liking dictatorships? Did I say that I don't like private property? No. Therefore I am not a "commie". Get your facts straight, there is nothing that says capitalism can't be interlaced with welfare systems, aka, mixed economy.
When I was talking about redistributing the money more evenly, I was talking about the transfer payments to the provinces, not individuals money.
"'fix up the health care,'
didn't you just say it was fine...??? pffffhhttt" I never said that it was fine, I said it was better and more efficient than the American two tier system.
I never said Canada was perfect. There are many things that need to be fixed. There are lots of things that need to be fixed in the US. Is Canada really in as much jeopardy as everyone thinks? I don't think so, but that's just me.
Our health care costs us less than your public health care. I'm quoting a figure, not sure if it is correct but it's as best as I can remember, you guys spend 12% of GDP on your public health care, we spend 8% of GDP. Everyone gets health care from the public system here, where as only a few get it from the public system down there. Hmmm, what one do you think is more efficent? Who has a better public health care system?? the US or Canada, I think that is easy to answer. Sure it maybe underfunded, but lets say that we move up to 15% of GDP, then we would have a much better health care system, it would be much better than your two tier system.
"You voted for gun control, and what have you got? Skyrocketing crime, criminals that are more and more dangerous..." wtf are you talking about? Hell just take a look at the amount of cops killed by guns in Canada, vs. the US... I don't know any figures but I'm pretty sure it's a lot less in Canada.
"You voted for big government, and this is what you got: Taxes going through the roof, government services lacking, and Big Brother watching you" Yes, that's right, government services lacking, we need like 30 different police forces to do the same thing, what do you guys have, FBI, ATF, State Police, County Police, City Police, etc. Yes we should get rid of our nice RCMP (One of the best police forces in the world), and replace it with three different services, that's how we could save money.
Yes that's right, we should have been made the 52nd state, then we could all be sued for saying the wrong thing, not having some of the best educated work force, and k-12 students, not teaching evolution in the public school system, and all the other great things that the US has to offer. Oh but wait a minute, we wouldn't be charged 40% tax, we wouldn't get that health care system, we wouldn't have welfare, we wouldn't have an economy that is doing better than the US's, yes that's what we want!
Canada has been rated the best country to live in for seven years up to 2000, now we are 3rd or something. And guess who beat us, other more socialist countries. But lastly, yes Canada has some problems, but what country doesn't, the US has a lot more than Canada. I think Canada could use some reform, but if anything I would want it to be towards the left, I think we could streamline the government, redistribute the money more evenly, fix up the health care, etc. I think if we took ideas from Norway and Sweden we could come up with the best country in the world.
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I love metric, 1 metre is approximately 1 of my strides. Makes measuring distance easy.
May I ask the counterpoint, is there a country anywhere that uses only metric ISO units? Here in Canada we still put $/lb on food items, In the UK all the road signs are in Miles and speedometers are in Miles/hour and I do not know of anywhere that the weather report is given in Kelvin, as it should be. Is it just me or does a balmy 293K sounds much better that 20C.
We put the price in pounds in Canada because it makes things seem cheaper. 99 cents/lb for apples seems a lot better than $2.18/kg... however, the price is usually (and it may be required by law) displayed in $$/kg on the sign as well, usually in smaller print. Furthermore, the price that comes up on the till will be in $$/kg and the price listed on the receipt as well in $$/kg. It's really just a marketing ploy displaying the price on the sign in lbs... I doubt it'd make any difference to anyone if all the signs were changed to display the price only in $$/kg, at least once everyone got over the initial sticker shock.
Actually, even in the UK programme would be the wrong spelling when you're refering to a computer program. Programme is used for all the other varients of programme. In the UK it's a Computer Program and a Programme of Musical Study.
Sort of like cheque and check. At least, that's my understanding of the situation.
Actually, all the new Canadian notes have braille on them.
I've never seen paper money with braille on it, so I'm curious how blind people ANYWHERE manage paper money?
I would have to agree... I've never seen as much animosity towards the French among the general Canadian population as I've seen from a lot of Americans.
The animosity towards Quebecois has nothing to do with the French. They're totally different; different culture, different language (well, dialect). The hatred of the Quebecois isn't all that strong. It's mainly joking around, just like we do with the Newfies (People from Newfoundland). And in the great nation to the north, we tend to make fun of everyone from different parts of the country.
We are a nation that can laugh at ourselves and make friendly ribbings.
All the console apps are perfect the way they are. There is no possible way to improve them. GUI apps are just now getting the same functions that console apps have had for the last decade. The little improvement that is happening with GUI apps is mainly with the GUI itself. All they've been doing it tweaking the design and look/fell of their apps.
When the first story about Elena's site was posted, there were a few salshdotters that though it was all a conspiracy to sell motorcycles.
I was thinking, maybe it's a conspiracy to get more tourists to go there; 'look at how much fun I'm having riding around this wasteland'. What do you guys think?
people well stop sending me emails reminding me that my penis is too small and I have trouble getting it up. However, I'd rather the senate put in a bill that shuts up whoever it is that keeps telling all theses marketers about my small penis and erectile difficulties.
I did that too, I was rather confused when I started to read the body of the article, not to mention disappointed. Like what /.ers read novels?
I would have to agree, from what I have seen OSX is the best of both worlds. It has a beautiful interface and real power under the hood. I would also think the learning curve from a *nix platform to OSX would be minuscule. I could really see Apple taking hold in the enterprise world, assuming they lower prices of hardware and get a two/three buttom mouse.
I wonder if they've made the connection that suing their customers isn't the best way to increase sales of music? You couple that with the fact that there really isn't a lot of music that is worth buying and you have a problem in the market.
I have stopped buying any music from major lables due to the fact that they are attacking their customers. I refuse to support an industry that would go to such lengths just to stop a bit of piracy that probably has no real significant affect on their bottom line.
"Sooo..you don't have any facts,but you 'feeeel' you're right...pffhhtt"
No, I'm not totally sure about the exact figures. It was something damn close to that the figures I listed. As to crime rates, I don't have any figures, but I sure as hell don't see much crime. But so what, lets say that the crime rate is the same as the US. Who cares, at least I don't have to pay for all the health care costs after I get shot.
"Much better to have one huge overseer eh?...sad..."
I don't see how the RCMP controls my life.
"WOW,talk about clueless...guess what?
1-screw welfare...freakn commies
2-the health care sucks..duh
3-the tax is driving professionals away..duh again
4-our economy blows...turn off the cbc, sheep"
I'm not for just handing out money to anyone who demands it. What about reeducation programs, helping the children etc, etc, etc. What about the people that can't work because of disabilities? We should just throw them to the wolfs? And the amount of people that are leeching off of the system is small.
Yes maybe the health care sucks, if your have lots of money. In the US you could go and get treatment right away. Here everyone is supposed to be treated equal.
But if our health care sucks as much as you say it does, why is it that Canadians live an average of 2.3 years more than the average American?
And ok, the taxes on the individual are to high, we pay something like 90% of all the taxes. But again what country is perfect?
Our Economy blows? How's that, before free trade with the US, our dollar was worth equal if not more than the US dollar.
In 2001 our economy grew 1.6% more than the US. And I didn't get that from CBC, it's right from the US Gov't.
"According to who? the UN?!?! The biggest socialist bunch on the planet...what a surprise...gawd"
So your saying that the UN can not figure out what counties have a good quality of life, because they are "socialist[s]"? Well I don't think Americans can figure out how to help people because they are capitalists! It's ignorant to think just because someone has views that are different from yours that they will not be able to look at simple facts and come to a simple conclusion.
Yup you caught me I'm just "another commie". Because I like welfare programs I'm a commie!
So I guess I don't like democracy then. And I guess I don't like free enterprise.
Did I ever say anything about liking dictatorships? Did I say that I don't like private property? No.
Therefore I am not a "commie". Get your facts straight, there is nothing that says capitalism can't be interlaced with welfare systems, aka, mixed economy.
When I was talking about redistributing the money more evenly, I was talking about the transfer payments to the provinces, not individuals money.
"'fix up the health care,'
didn't you just say it was fine...??? pffffhhttt" I never said that it was fine, I said it was better and more efficient than the American two tier system.
I never said Canada was perfect. There are many things that need to be fixed. There are lots of things that need to be fixed in the US.
Is Canada really in as much jeopardy as everyone thinks? I don't think so, but that's just me.
Our health care costs us less than your public health care. I'm quoting a figure, not sure if it is correct but it's as best as I can remember, you guys spend 12% of GDP on your public health care, we spend 8% of GDP. Everyone gets health care from the public system here, where as only a few get it from the public system down there. Hmmm, what one do you think is more efficent? Who has a better public health care system?? the US or Canada, I think that is easy to answer. Sure it maybe underfunded, but lets say that we move up to 15% of GDP, then we would have a much better health care system, it would be much better than your two tier system.
"You voted for gun control, and what have you got? Skyrocketing crime, criminals that are more and more dangerous..." wtf are you talking about? Hell just take a look at the amount of cops killed by guns in Canada, vs. the US... I don't know any figures but I'm pretty sure it's a lot less in Canada.
"You voted for big government, and this is what you got: Taxes going through the roof, government services lacking, and Big Brother watching you" Yes, that's right, government services lacking, we need like 30 different police forces to do the same thing, what do you guys have, FBI, ATF, State Police, County Police, City Police, etc. Yes we should get rid of our nice RCMP (One of the best police forces in the world), and replace it with three different services, that's how we could save money.
Yes that's right, we should have been made the 52nd state, then we could all be sued for saying the wrong thing, not having some of the best educated work force, and k-12 students, not teaching evolution in the public school system, and all the other great things that the US has to offer. Oh but wait a minute, we wouldn't be charged 40% tax, we wouldn't get that health care system, we wouldn't have welfare, we wouldn't have an economy that is doing better than the US's, yes that's what we want!
Canada has been rated the best country to live in for seven years up to 2000, now we are 3rd or something. And guess who beat us, other more socialist countries.
But lastly, yes Canada has some problems, but what country doesn't, the US has a lot more than Canada. I think Canada could use some reform, but if anything I would want it to be towards the left, I think we could streamline the government, redistribute the money more evenly, fix up the health care, etc. I think if we took ideas from Norway and Sweden we could come up with the best country in the world.
I was just wondering, how can they respond to the letter if they only speak French?
Shouldn't the Lawyer send the letter in French?