The true part: "There is a nation, it is called Canada."
Not so fast - them's fighting words... You need to know that within the Nation of Canada there's also the Nation of Quebec and the hundred or so First Nations. Then there's the Nunavut Territory, which is actually the Innu Nation. And don't forget the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, which was a Sovereign Nation until it grudgingly allowed the rest of Canada to join them in 1949 (and is still embroiled in a territorial dispute with the Nation of Quebec). Of course, now that we're down this path we're going to have to deal with the Metis Nation, the Acadian Nation and who knows what else. Eventually we'll reach the point where we have to recognize the Nation of the Borough of East York.
In short, the whole "Nation" thing is a bit messy up here, so it's really better for everyone if you just don't bring it up. To avoid similar confusion in the future, I suggest you go with the universally accepted moniker of "The 51st State".
2.) They push it as an internet device, with messaging/email/etc. but lack of a physical keyboard? I don't know. I mean, I know and you know we'll love it regardless, but will this really sway the Blackberry junkies?
Ideally you'd be able to pair a keyboard and/or mouse to it via Bluetooth, but I doubt that's in the cards.
Why isn't the government providing the tools the military needs.
Because this isn't about military procurement - the story is only partly about evolving military tactics (if there is a real need for these items, any self-respecting logistician would do whatever it takes to get them into the hands of their unit).
Mostly it's about people on the home front trying to feel like they are contributing. In that sense it has more in common with the campaign to knit socks in WWI or recycling in WWII.
How about Elonka Dunin? Elonka is a game developer and one of the world's top (amateur) cryptographers - advisor to the FBI, CIA etc... She's even been covered extensively by/..
Cuban is so convinced that GooTube will be a failure that he is in the process of acquiring the news agency owned by Robert Tur, currently involved in serious litigation with Google over copyright violations.
In retaliation, Sergey Brin has just announced plans to buy the L.A. Clippers.
Apple has placed an order for 12 million iPhones to be built by a Taiwanese contract manufacturer, according to an analyst citing reports from Asia.
Let's just be thankful that they aren't being designed by Microsoft. If they were, you could only talk to other Microsoft phone owners, and every number you called would get blocked after three calls or three days unless you paid extra to get it unlocked...
Interesting idea, but there is a problem with the methodology. The app samples about 9,600 pictures per day. Since multiple photos from the same user are included, it will skew more heavily towards users who take & store (vs. take & delete) and those who are pro users (since they can upload more). This behaviour is more likely found in someone who fits the 'prosumer' profile, hence the abundance of these type of cameras on the list.
For version 2 of the stats, it would be really useful to have it ignore multiple camera models from the same user. It would also be neat to see it compare post-processing apps and general camera 'categories' (i.e. cell phone vs. p&s vs. slr).
Who came up with the idea that they should let someone else sell your home as long as they can successfully trick the buyer? Whoever it was, they should be shot.
Ah, but you forget that there are two victims here - the seller and the purchaser. Let's say you buy a house for $400,000, and you take out a mortgage for $300,000. You also plow $50,000 worth of renovations into it. The paperwork checks out, everything is fine and your family settles in.
You've been living there for two years, and then one day someone claiming to be the real owner shows up and tells you to get the hell out of his house. Turns out he's right - this is/was his rental property. His long-gone tenants forged documents and sold the house, pocketing the $400,000 and running away. What happens to you? Your mortgage was legal, so if you get kicked out you're still on the hook for $300,000, not to mention the $100,000 of your own money that you essentially gave away. What if the owner refuses to cover the $50,000 in upgrades? Now you're out $450,000 and you're living out of your car. Not to mention legal fees, delays etc...
Title insurance may ease the financial pain, but it still remains that two people have a claim to own the house, and one of them has to lose. That's why it sucks.
On another note, Canadian law outside of Quebec is based on English common law.
Please note that the term "Radeon" is not an official definition. The term was recently proposed by the International Videocard Union to define a "Graphics card which costs less than $200 American dollars to purchase and whose shape is more highly inclined and angular than a traditional card". This definition causes all sorts of problems, such as how to define dual-card setups and what happens when a Radeon is attached to a daughter card rather than a motherboard. Videostronomers are currently divided between those who favour the term "Radeon" and those who argue that we should stick with the current definition favoured by consumers, which is "the weird square-ish blue plug at the back of my Dell".
One counter-terrorism source told the Daily News it was doubtful a plot to blow it up would be feasible, saying huge amounts of explosives and a detailed knowledge of blast effect would be necessary.
Dear Navy SEAL,
I am a happily married man with a warm and loving wife who is also my best friend. We've been together for 17 years and couldn't be happier. But lately she says she wants separate beds. I'm reeling! We're barely in our 40s, and in my mind separate sleeping is for seniors. Am I making too much of this? Help!
--Anxious In Andersonville
Dear Anxious,
Destroying a bridge might look easy in the movies, but remember: They're designed to withstand the immense shear-forces of wind and weather. Deploying an underwater M-32 satchel charge at the base of each load-bearing pylon looks like the answer, but it might not even shake a modern riveted steel highway or railroad bridge. Without delving into the complex language of the guerrilla combat engineer, the best advice I can give you is to forgo subtlety in favor of brute force: Put two satchel charges at each X-shaped trestle buck, and this should rob the bridge of any reinforcing strength and cause it to buckle nicely.
When Nasser became president, he sought someone less intelligent than he to be the vice president. He found Sadat. Sadat did the same and found Mubarak.
Mubarak still doesn't have a vice president.
Sounds like it's a good time for Dan Quayle to brush up his resume.
The SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) is not a backwaters school board stacked with religious fundamentalists. It is a mainstream, government-monitored agency that hands out almost $300mm per year of social sciences funding. Only 40% of applications get approved. In this case, it looks like they were justified in rejecting his application. Indeed, it looks like Alters is being a bit of a publicity-hunting suck. From another source:
Eva Schacherl, a spokeswoman for the council, said Wednesday the multidisciplinary committee was not convinced the proposal's scholarly approach was sound or that it would provide objective results on the question.
"I just want to underline that it is not correct to suggest that the funding proposal was not accepted because the council or the committee had doubts about evolution," she said.
"We understand the way the committee's comments were transcribed or written down or summarized could have misled him and we really regret that the note sent to him gave the impression that the committee had doubts about evolution. That was really not what the committee intended."
Schacherl noted the council has funded other research projects on evolution and gave $175,000 to Alters last year for a three-year project on concepts of biological evolution in Islamic society.
In short, just because you have the right idea doesn't mean you automatically get funding for a flawed study.
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Dual booting is a good way to get to the workplace - Have a Mac which can run XP when required.
And double the per-seat cost of support? At the end of the day, hardware is a minor cost for enterprise users. The support/patching/security issues of a machine that logs in on OSX one day and XP the next would be prohibitive. Maybe for specialized cases (web dev etc...), but certainly not enterprise-wide. And in those cases, the workers probably already have two machines on their desk.
"Industry sources have leaked that tomorrow, on the 30th Anniversary of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs will announce that the new intel-based Mac laptops will support dual-booting Windows XP and OS X 10.4."
Well, unless you sent this from somewhere east of +2 GMT, I'd say you're a bit early on this one...
To: Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME Re: Genetically modified mice
Dear Sir,
I understand that you are in the business of breeding custom-designed mice. I find this quite fascinating, as I require custom animals for my experiments. Do you, by chance, have any specimens which are flexible, clawless and agoraphobic?
I'm going to guess that office and IT environments around the globe probably share more in common than their superficial differences (language, decor, degree of automation etc...) suggest. Indeed, petty politics and general insanity are going to raise their heads regardless of your office's time zone. As such, how well does Dilbert, the quintessential North American corporate satire, translate into Arabic? Do you see your office in these cartoons? If not, is there an Arabic version that does a better job?
A team of undergraduates at the university in Socorro designed a ceramic mug that can fall 15 feet onto concrete pavement and still hold a full cup of java afterward without leaking.
The secret is to butter the bottom of the mug, thus ensuring that it always lands the right way up.
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The true part: "There is a nation, it is called Canada."
Not so fast - them's fighting words... You need to know that within the Nation of Canada there's also the Nation of Quebec and the hundred or so First Nations. Then there's the Nunavut Territory, which is actually the Innu Nation. And don't forget the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, which was a Sovereign Nation until it grudgingly allowed the rest of Canada to join them in 1949 (and is still embroiled in a territorial dispute with the Nation of Quebec). Of course, now that we're down this path we're going to have to deal with the Metis Nation, the Acadian Nation and who knows what else. Eventually we'll reach the point where we have to recognize the Nation of the Borough of East York.
In short, the whole "Nation" thing is a bit messy up here, so it's really better for everyone if you just don't bring it up. To avoid similar confusion in the future, I suggest you go with the universally accepted moniker of "The 51st State".
Here's a vintage /. discussion from 2001 that discusses Hanson's escape to Canada.
2.) They push it as an internet device, with messaging/email/etc. but lack of a physical keyboard? I don't know. I mean, I know and you know we'll love it regardless, but will this really sway the Blackberry junkies?
Ideally you'd be able to pair a keyboard and/or mouse to it via Bluetooth, but I doubt that's in the cards.
"NewtonberrySP"
Why isn't the government providing the tools the military needs.
Because this isn't about military procurement - the story is only partly about evolving military tactics (if there is a real need for these items, any self-respecting logistician would do whatever it takes to get them into the hands of their unit).
Mostly it's about people on the home front trying to feel like they are contributing. In that sense it has more in common with the campaign to knit socks in WWI or recycling in WWII.
How about Elonka Dunin? Elonka is a game developer and one of the world's top (amateur) cryptographers - advisor to the FBI, CIA etc... She's even been covered extensively by /..
Cuban is so convinced that GooTube will be a failure that he is in the process of acquiring the news agency owned by Robert Tur, currently involved in serious litigation with Google over copyright violations.
In retaliation, Sergey Brin has just announced plans to buy the L.A. Clippers.
Apple has placed an order for 12 million iPhones to be built by a Taiwanese contract manufacturer, according to an analyst citing reports from Asia.
Let's just be thankful that they aren't being designed by Microsoft. If they were, you could only talk to other Microsoft phone owners, and every number you called would get blocked after three calls or three days unless you paid extra to get it unlocked...
Interesting idea, but there is a problem with the methodology. The app samples about 9,600 pictures per day. Since multiple photos from the same user are included, it will skew more heavily towards users who take & store (vs. take & delete) and those who are pro users (since they can upload more). This behaviour is more likely found in someone who fits the 'prosumer' profile, hence the abundance of these type of cameras on the list.
For version 2 of the stats, it would be really useful to have it ignore multiple camera models from the same user. It would also be neat to see it compare post-processing apps and general camera 'categories' (i.e. cell phone vs. p&s vs. slr).
Who came up with the idea that they should let someone else sell your home as long as they can successfully trick the buyer? Whoever it was, they should be shot.
Ah, but you forget that there are two victims here - the seller and the purchaser. Let's say you buy a house for $400,000, and you take out a mortgage for $300,000. You also plow $50,000 worth of renovations into it. The paperwork checks out, everything is fine and your family settles in.
You've been living there for two years, and then one day someone claiming to be the real owner shows up and tells you to get the hell out of his house. Turns out he's right - this is/was his rental property. His long-gone tenants forged documents and sold the house, pocketing the $400,000 and running away. What happens to you? Your mortgage was legal, so if you get kicked out you're still on the hook for $300,000, not to mention the $100,000 of your own money that you essentially gave away. What if the owner refuses to cover the $50,000 in upgrades? Now you're out $450,000 and you're living out of your car. Not to mention legal fees, delays etc...
Title insurance may ease the financial pain, but it still remains that two people have a claim to own the house, and one of them has to lose. That's why it sucks.
On another note, Canadian law outside of Quebec is based on English common law.
Please note that the term "Radeon" is not an official definition. The term was recently proposed by the International Videocard Union to define a "Graphics card which costs less than $200 American dollars to purchase and whose shape is more highly inclined and angular than a traditional card".
This definition causes all sorts of problems, such as how to define dual-card setups and what happens when a Radeon is attached to a daughter card rather than a motherboard. Videostronomers are currently divided between those who favour the term "Radeon" and those who argue that we should stick with the current definition favoured by consumers, which is "the weird square-ish blue plug at the back of my Dell".
One counter-terrorism source told the Daily News it was doubtful a plot to blow it up would be feasible, saying huge amounts of explosives and a detailed knowledge of blast effect would be necessary.
Maybe the terrorists just need toAsk a Navy SEAL:
Dear Navy SEAL,
I am a happily married man with a warm and loving wife who is also my best friend. We've been together for 17 years and couldn't be happier. But lately she says she wants separate beds. I'm reeling! We're barely in our 40s, and in my mind separate sleeping is for seniors. Am I making too much of this? Help!
--Anxious In Andersonville
Dear Anxious,
Destroying a bridge might look easy in the movies, but remember: They're designed to withstand the immense shear-forces of wind and weather. Deploying an underwater M-32 satchel charge at the base of each load-bearing pylon looks like the answer, but it might not even shake a modern riveted steel highway or railroad bridge. Without delving into the complex language of the guerrilla combat engineer, the best advice I can give you is to forgo subtlety in favor of brute force: Put two satchel charges at each X-shaped trestle buck, and this should rob the bridge of any reinforcing strength and cause it to buckle nicely.
In a cage match of you vs. Hank Azaria, who would win? How about your characters vs. Hank's characters? What if it was in jello instead of a cage?
When Nasser became president, he sought someone less intelligent than he to be the vice president. He found Sadat. Sadat did the same and found Mubarak.
Mubarak still doesn't have a vice president.
Sounds like it's a good time for Dan Quayle to brush up his resume.
Think of it as the Harry Potter approach to the Great Firewall -- just shut your eyes and walk onto Platform 9¾.
Considering China's likely response, this might not be the best analogy to use.
The SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) is not a backwaters school board stacked with religious fundamentalists. It is a mainstream, government-monitored agency that hands out almost $300mm per year of social sciences funding. Only 40% of applications get approved. In this case, it looks like they were justified in rejecting his application. Indeed, it looks like Alters is being a bit of a publicity-hunting suck. From another source:
Eva Schacherl, a spokeswoman for the council, said Wednesday the multidisciplinary committee was not convinced the proposal's scholarly approach was sound or that it would provide objective results on the question.
"I just want to underline that it is not correct to suggest that the funding proposal was not accepted because the council or the committee had doubts about evolution," she said.
"We understand the way the committee's comments were transcribed or written down or summarized could have misled him and we really regret that the note sent to him gave the impression that the committee had doubts about evolution. That was really not what the committee intended."
Schacherl noted the council has funded other research projects on evolution and gave $175,000 to Alters last year for a three-year project on concepts of biological evolution in Islamic society.
In short, just because you have the right idea doesn't mean you automatically get funding for a flawed study.
Dual booting is a good way to get to the workplace - Have a Mac which can run XP when required.
And double the per-seat cost of support? At the end of the day, hardware is a minor cost for enterprise users. The support/patching/security issues of a machine that logs in on OSX one day and XP the next would be prohibitive. Maybe for specialized cases (web dev etc...), but certainly not enterprise-wide. And in those cases, the workers probably already have two machines on their desk.
"Industry sources have leaked that tomorrow, on the 30th Anniversary of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs will announce that the new intel-based Mac laptops will support dual-booting Windows XP and OS X 10.4."
Well, unless you sent this from somewhere east of +2 GMT, I'd say you're a bit early on this one...
I haven't purchased a Nike product for well over a decade due to their use of sweatshops in Asia.
Why is this a bad thing? If I'm going to buy a wicking running shirt, I'd like it to be made by someone who understands perspiration.
To: Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Re: Genetically modified mice
Dear Sir,
I understand that you are in the business of breeding custom-designed mice. I find this quite fascinating, as I require custom animals for my experiments. Do you, by chance, have any specimens which are flexible, clawless and agoraphobic?
Regards,
R. Gere
I'm going to guess that office and IT environments around the globe probably share more in common than their superficial differences (language, decor, degree of automation etc...) suggest. Indeed, petty politics and general insanity are going to raise their heads regardless of your office's time zone. As such, how well does Dilbert, the quintessential North American corporate satire, translate into Arabic? Do you see your office in these cartoons? If not, is there an Arabic version that does a better job?
A team of undergraduates at the university in Socorro designed a ceramic mug that can fall 15 feet onto concrete pavement and still hold a full cup of java afterward without leaking.
The secret is to butter the bottom of the mug, thus ensuring that it always lands the right way up.
Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit... creating human-animal hybrids
I suspect that Bush is pissed because this all hits just a little too close to home.
Wait... TWO guys on a Segway? Well, that'll get this documentary an NC-17 rating if anything will.
Coming next year to Sundance:
Brokeback Segway...
"Balance Is A Force Of Nature"
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