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  1. Re:Religion Question? on Canadian Census: 20,000 Jedi Worshippers · · Score: 1

    You will also find that the Catholic school boards are more than just tradition. They were part of the the agreement for (IIRC) Manitoba and Saskatchewan to join Upper and Lower Canada (Quebec and Ontario) in the Dominion of Canada.

    It is a part of Canadian law that is harder to fight and drop then you might imagine, like native hunting rights, the Queen being the Head of State and Quebec wanting to sucede.

  2. Re:Religion Question? on Canadian Census: 20,000 Jedi Worshippers · · Score: 1

    I think religion is a very valid question for a census, as well as race. The idea of the census is to judge where government should be gearing resources and focusing attention. IMO, it is necessary for a government to have an idea of the demographics of the population it is making decisions for. Let's try to not be over-sensitive on issues. While I agree that race and religion should not be used in a discriminatory manner, we do have to recognize that there are differences. Let's just make sure that we are celebrating them, not prosecuting them.

  3. Re:DTML... on Mozilla 1.2.1 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    From one of the bug dependencies at bugzilla...

    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
    Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

    If an input filed with type set to hidden is not preceded by either the body
    open tag or text it will be displayed as a text field, but will not have it's
    default value set.

    Reproducible: Always

    Steps to Reproduce:
    1. Save the following in a file:
    <html>
    <form action="/listings/update.php" method=post>
    <input type=hidden name=test1 value=value1> :test1<br>
    test2: <input type=hidden name=test2 value=value2><br>
    </table>
    </form>
    </html>

    2. Load the file in Mozilla

    Actual Results:
    An empty text input field apears before the test ' :test1'

    Expected Results:
    the field should have been hidden and kept its value.

    Workarounds are trivial, the <body> tag or any text, even a period, prior to the
    hidden input will cause it to behave normaly.

  4. The Evolution of Physics on Physics Books for the Novice? · · Score: 1

    Depending on how modern you want to go I would highly recommend "The Evolution of Physics" by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld. It is written with a lucidity that only a true master of the subject could achieve. This will get you up to speed on most of modern physics (the subtitle is 'From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta') If you want to explore more into the present day thought, "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene is an excellent book describing the fundamentals of string theory. And finally there is always "A Brief History of Time" but that IMO relates more to astrophysics than anything (but it's all interrelated in the end so...).

    If you're looking for alternative descriptions of the same ideas take a look at "The Tao of Physics" and "Dancing Wu Li Masters"