Third parties, or more, simply lead to horse trading and pandering to try and bribe or coerce the smaller parties into a mainstream voting block, and in exchange they end up with something that's usually crazy or generally bad policy, but that's the price to be paid to govern at all.
Some would say Canada's best governments have been minority governments (not a valid concept under 2 party systems) due to the "horse trading" and "pandering". Those are also known as giving the electorate what they voted for, i.e. Democracy.
Certainly not perfect, but better than an ideological government using the flaws of the "first past the post" electoral system to garner a small majority (with ~40% of popular vote), then ramming through policies that easily 60% of voters disagree with.
It does have an SD card, removable battery, not too big (4.3"), hardware camera buttons (for both still and video camera), nice build quality with metal all around the outside edge. Also like that at www.htc-dev.com one can get the unlock code for the boot loader - that is due to them listening to the user community.
Dislike: Sense - it's nice but I really want the option to turn it off. Samsung Galaxy Nexus has similar hardware specs inside but is much smoother.
Dislike: came with Facebook app that could not be removed (on Android 2.3.4 - since been updated OTA to 4.0.? and will get 4.1 - Facebook no longer auto-starts with full permissions).
Dislike lack of hardware answer/hang-up buttons on face, with navigation ring button.
Dislike: lack of mods - too quick to release new models (HTC One) therefore there isn't much of a community for updates. Would love to get Cyanogen Mod for it!
So, I'm disappointed to see HTC hurting but if they want to get back into the game they've got to give us a chance to a) turn off Sense, b) encourage the modding community.
no animals / pets (inter-species friendship for example)
Anyway, more seriously, the Armstrong / Aldrin photo in the moon is a good idea, but the "state of the art technology" will become obsolete and meaningless to ourselves in perhaps half a generation, that is a bad example.
It's true that the technology would be obsolete rather quickly, but in the billion-year time frame under consideration, it would give an idea of how we interact with our (non-satellite consumer) tech. i.e. a human face gazing at a smart phone with a map displayed, or a video call...
A human interacting with a laptop showing the screen (data consumption & manipulation) & human face again...
I still think it would be worthwhile.
Once we have space elevator(s), we can "upload" more current images of our tech, how's that?;-)
I quickly browsed the images and had a couple thoughts.
1) Why didn't they etch images unencoded? Simply make micro images in high detail (ala microfiche) so they don't have to be decoded?
2) I really didn't think the choice of photos was representative of life on earth. No cityscapes, no human faces close up, no animals / pets (inter-species friendship for example), no image of something technological such as a state of the art mobile phone / laptop. No images of agriculture or even a bouquet of beautiful flowers.
Hell, I could barely tell what some images were supposed to be (well, number 1 took a couple seconds - I thought it was a crystalline structure, number two I haven't figured out yet).
I did like earth from space, but how about an image of Armstrong / Aldrin on the moon? A passenger jet taking off showing outside & in?
Interesting in itself, but if I'm understanding the TFA's properly, converting Gold from an undesirable form to something mainstream isn't "production" in the historical sense desired by the Alchemists--later learned by the physicist of the 20th century to involve altering the atomic nucleus (involving fusion or fission).
Thank you - I came here to say something similar - this is not producing gold, it seems to be isolating it.
For creating gold, a little more input energy is thought to be required:
My thought would be to build a concrete planter as high as is allowed around the outer edge of the property. This ought to be effective in reflecting a lot of the noise that comes from tires, engines, or is reflected off the road surface back toward the road.
Then possibly install a fence on top of that (or behind it); mount the fence panels on both the outside and inside of the posts for maximum sound reflection / damping. Make sure the fence panels are as rigid as possible (i.e. 3/4" plywood or glass blocks).
A bushy hedge planted in the concrete planter might help, not as much as the fencing but it should be cheap.
I've considered mounting a plexiglass sheet outside windows, some distance from the house wall, allowing window to be opened for air if necessary but acting as a separate shield. Be sure to try to eliminate sound waves from bouncing off house wall, hitting inside of plexiglass, then hitting window. Nicely crafted mounting brackets could make it acceptably attractive instead of hideously ugly.
Re-evaluate the windows that you've already replaced: properly done they ought to be stopping most sound, glass being so rigid as to reflect sound waves quite well. Maybe try triple-glazed in your office window(s).
Finally, like others have said, bring in a specialist for their advice.
At least the ThinkGeek site lists S up to XXXL for universal and S up to XXL for female versions, so a variety of sizes is available and I guess the failure to mention this is just an omission.
Vancouver has a paltry 5 attendees listed, so I hope they don't send one shirt of each size. Seems an oversight and I hope they contact people to ask what is needed...
Mmmm.. okay. You may agree or disagree with Google's policies. However, your post raises an interesting question. What would happen in your country if something produced a video full of lies about the candidates, and left it anonymously at the door of as many citizens as possible? Would the police try to arrest someone in that case? If they did try to arrest someone, how likely do you think it would be that they go after the manufacturers of the tapes or digital devices where the videos were stored?
As a Canadian, and with regards to our last federal election, all I can say is that if a party posts lying and/or misleading videos accusing a candidate of things the accuser actually campaigns for but paints it in this case in a negative light... then the accusers get a majority government.
Accusers = Conservative Party of Canada (like US Republicans),
accused = Michael Ignatief, leader of Liberal Party of Canada (like US Democrats),
accusations = "Just Visiting Canada" (Ignatief taught Canadian Studies at Harvard University in USA before running for LPC party leadership),
reality = person going to job where one's talents command maximum pay / prestige is a concept championed predominately by right-wingers, hence the hypocrisy. (Of course it isn't something limited to right-wingers, just one of the fundamentals of a free market.)
Yes, I'm still sickened by the success the CPC enjoyed, by the damage they've done and continue to do to the country, by the gullibility of my fellow citizens, and by the lack of charges in the many instances of election fraud the CPC has committed over the past few years.
I avoid using Google for searching 99% of the time, block AdSense, Google Analytics, and usually Google APIs, but this is over the top:
YouTube is just one Google site based entirely on hosting and serving copyrighted material. Virtually nobody comes to YouTube for the original content.
Just bullshit. They are, if anything overly eager to have content pulled based upon loose matches by copyright bots.
Some of that copyrighted content is posted by the rights holders as advertising too.
Then there's this steaming turd:
The criminally insane Eric Smith, former CEO of Google
Criminally insane? Greedy maybe, but the only one criminally insane is the anonymous blogger that posted this crap.
Google is definitely not your friend.
Of course it isn't.
Google does evil, all the time.
Oh really? I don't trust them, but they've been remarkably non-evil considering the amount of power they wield.
Google does not give a shit about your privacy.
Agreed.
Google has no "noble" interests; everything they do is purely intended to help them rape your privacy.
They push for an open internet with open standards where ever they can; they could push closed standards but don't -- that's relatively noble, for a corporate entity.
Google doesn't give you anything "for free". You are the product and Google laughs the whole way to the bank.
Same with all ad-based content.
Please do not promote Google anymore. [...] If possible, circumvent as many Google services and downloads that you can, and help others remove their Google tentacles.
I don't and help others block their trackers and use other search engines.
They are not "the lesser of two evils".
They are the lesser of 5 evils (Apple, MS, Oracle, FaceBook, Google). I fear that someday they could become enormously evil, but for now the blogger is a hyperventilating, hyperbolic douche.
I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer almost one year ago (7 Oct 2011).
Now, my cancer is back and I'm starting chemo again this Thursday (20 Sep 2012). Having firsthand knowledge of addiction, kicking a 30+ year smoking habit and an oxy addiction, I will most likely resume taking oxy and get addicted all over again. Why? Because it helped me before. It will help me again. One week of mild discomfort from withdrawal symptoms is nothing compared to the pain and discomfort of chemotherapy.
Fuck.
I'm at a loss for words, but want to strongly extend my best wishes! Hope to see you posting back here in short order.
(And prior mods to this thread be damned - not posting this one anonymously.)
Today a former colleague picked up his Samsung Nexis and now only uses his Iphone for certain apps on Wifi until he decides what to do with it.
And Apple's shenanigans had a big part to do with it, as well as Rogers' BS such as their claim that "lying in our advertisements is our free speech right".
It feels good to see such companies paying the price through lost customers, one at a time.
Never owned one myself, but they claim they cool 40F below ambient. Not sure what kind of drain this would put on your battery, but perhaps a marine battery could handle it.
I have one of these, works great.
A photovoltaic solar panel to feed back into the battery (and maybe a 2nd battery) should work wonders.
Some "space blankets" shading the windows not blocked by a PV panel and it should work magically. Just watch for condensation inside the cooler - maybe put your devices inside a paper bag.
I think mine (mini fridge size) is about 50-60 watts, so it can run 4-ish hours on a well charge battery.
It may be a good idea to get a timer to keep it from actually freezing (not likely a problem in a car in the middle east), but manufacturers warn against frost.
Note, these coolers use the the Peletier effect which is a good read all by itself.
It was thought to be caused by a series of volcanic eruptions combined with an historic low in solar activity.
The result was:
major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.[3][4]
Historian John D. Post has called this "the last great subsistence crisis in the Western world".[5]
The result was regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic,[clarification needed] and increased mortality.
Famine was prevalent in north and southwest Ireland, following the failure of wheat, oats, and potato harvests. The crisis was severe in Germany, where food prices rose sharply. Due to the unknown cause of the problems, demonstrations in front of grain markets and bakeries, followed by riots, arson, and looting, took place in many European cities. It was the worst famine of the 19th century.[8][11]
All that and more with a global variation of <1 degree Celsius.
It really is in our interest to keep global temperature averages from fluctuating too far from what we're accustomed to if possible. The repercussions with such a dramatically larger population could be catastrophic.
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Drilling is one thing, but actual coal mining on campus? How would that even work?
1) Compress the students until they're charcoal briquette sized chunks of mostly carbon
2) Profit
Third parties, or more, simply lead to horse trading and pandering to try and bribe or coerce the smaller parties into a mainstream voting block, and in exchange they end up with something that's usually crazy or generally bad policy, but that's the price to be paid to govern at all.
Some would say Canada's best governments have been minority governments (not a valid concept under 2 party systems) due to the "horse trading" and "pandering". Those are also known as giving the electorate what they voted for, i.e. Democracy.
Certainly not perfect, but better than an ideological government using the flaws of the "first past the post" electoral system to garner a small majority (with ~40% of popular vote), then ramming through policies that easily 60% of voters disagree with.
what's funny about assassination?
Just wondering...
The joke was: McCain's VP nomination (Sarah Palin) was a worse choice for VP than Quayle or Cheney.
Obviously an arguable point, but humorous none-the-less.
You might as well just make the scale just 8, 9 and 10 at that point.
For the record, my book received the lowest book rating he's ever given on /., which was a 6. Glad I could help set the bar somewhere.
I just read that - was there anything unfair or inaccurate about the review?
He was encouraging in the final paragraph, I'd hold on to that. Also, kudos for donations to Drupal Association!
It does have an SD card, removable battery, not too big (4.3"), hardware camera buttons (for both still and video camera), nice build quality with metal all around the outside edge. Also like that at www.htc-dev.com one can get the unlock code for the boot loader - that is due to them listening to the user community.
Dislike: Sense - it's nice but I really want the option to turn it off. Samsung Galaxy Nexus has similar hardware specs inside but is much smoother.
Dislike: came with Facebook app that could not be removed (on Android 2.3.4 - since been updated OTA to 4.0.? and will get 4.1 - Facebook no longer auto-starts with full permissions).
Dislike lack of hardware answer/hang-up buttons on face, with navigation ring button.
Dislike: lack of mods - too quick to release new models (HTC One) therefore there isn't much of a community for updates. Would love to get Cyanogen Mod for it!
So, I'm disappointed to see HTC hurting but if they want to get back into the game they've got to give us a chance to a) turn off Sense, b) encourage the modding community.
TFA says that Nokia's "street view" cars are also equipped with LIDAR -- this strikes me as brilliant.
In addition, they use fleets of commercial vehicles (i.e. Fedex) to complement their data and detect new "road segments".
I'd use Nokia maps in a heartbeat if it were available on Android.
Sounds impressively innovative.
1) Why didn't they etch images unencoded? Simply make micro images in high detail (ala microfiche) so they don't have to be decoded?
Isn't that exactly what they've done? A lot of people seem to have missed this. They're etched on the blue centre of the disc.
Now that you mention it, yes, it looks like they have. Although the disk appears cut away.
Harrumph - like I said, it would be a good idea...
*looks away, pretends to be busy*
no animals / pets (inter-species friendship for example)
Anyway, more seriously, the Armstrong / Aldrin photo in the moon is a good idea, but the "state of the art technology" will become obsolete and meaningless to ourselves in perhaps half a generation, that is a bad example.
It's true that the technology would be obsolete rather quickly, but in the billion-year time frame under consideration, it would give an idea of how we interact with our (non-satellite consumer) tech. i.e. a human face gazing at a smart phone with a map displayed, or a video call...
A human interacting with a laptop showing the screen (data consumption & manipulation) & human face again...
I still think it would be worthwhile.
Once we have space elevator(s), we can "upload" more current images of our tech, how's that? ;-)
I quickly browsed the images and had a couple thoughts.
1) Why didn't they etch images unencoded? Simply make micro images in high detail (ala microfiche) so they don't have to be decoded?
2) I really didn't think the choice of photos was representative of life on earth. No cityscapes, no human faces close up, no animals / pets (inter-species friendship for example), no image of something technological such as a state of the art mobile phone / laptop. No images of agriculture or even a bouquet of beautiful flowers.
Hell, I could barely tell what some images were supposed to be (well, number 1 took a couple seconds - I thought it was a crystalline structure, number two I haven't figured out yet).
I did like earth from space, but how about an image of Armstrong / Aldrin on the moon? A passenger jet taking off showing outside & in?
So many choices, so poorly selected IMHO.
I'd add www.coveragemapper.com and www.cellmapper.net to the list although I'm not sure how complete their coverage maps are for USA; pretty good for Canada.
I checked out opensignal.com (formerly opensignalmaps.com) and was disappointed in the countries & cities they had maps for.
Interesting in itself, but if I'm understanding the TFA's properly, converting Gold from an undesirable form to something mainstream isn't "production" in the historical sense desired by the Alchemists--later learned by the physicist of the 20th century to involve altering the atomic nucleus (involving fusion or fission).
Thank you - I came here to say something similar - this is not producing gold, it seems to be isolating it.
For creating gold, a little more input energy is thought to be required:
From Wikipedia:
My thought would be to build a concrete planter as high as is allowed around the outer edge of the property. This ought to be effective in reflecting a lot of the noise that comes from tires, engines, or is reflected off the road surface back toward the road.
Then possibly install a fence on top of that (or behind it); mount the fence panels on both the outside and inside of the posts for maximum sound reflection / damping. Make sure the fence panels are as rigid as possible (i.e. 3/4" plywood or glass blocks).
A bushy hedge planted in the concrete planter might help, not as much as the fencing but it should be cheap.
I've considered mounting a plexiglass sheet outside windows, some distance from the house wall, allowing window to be opened for air if necessary but acting as a separate shield. Be sure to try to eliminate sound waves from bouncing off house wall, hitting inside of plexiglass, then hitting window. Nicely crafted mounting brackets could make it acceptably attractive instead of hideously ugly.
Re-evaluate the windows that you've already replaced: properly done they ought to be stopping most sound, glass being so rigid as to reflect sound waves quite well. Maybe try triple-glazed in your office window(s).
Finally, like others have said, bring in a specialist for their advice.
Good luck!
At least the ThinkGeek site lists S up to XXXL for universal and S up to XXL for female versions, so a variety of sizes is available and I guess the failure to mention this is just an omission.
Vancouver has a paltry 5 attendees listed, so I hope they don't send one shirt of each size. Seems an oversight and I hope they contact people to ask what is needed...
I'm hoping not to get a small or extra large (just large) T-shirt.
How is Slashdot going to size the shirts?
Seems each attendee ought to specify a shirt size.
It's all TL;DR.
*goes back to playing angry birds*
Huh? No, I am not over stimulated! My attention span is just fine, thank you ver-
*angry angry birds*
Mmmm.. okay. You may agree or disagree with Google's policies. However, your post raises an interesting question. What would happen in your country if something produced a video full of lies about the candidates, and left it anonymously at the door of as many citizens as possible? Would the police try to arrest someone in that case? If they did try to arrest someone, how likely do you think it would be that they go after the manufacturers of the tapes or digital devices where the videos were stored?
As a Canadian, and with regards to our last federal election, all I can say is that if a party posts lying and/or misleading videos accusing a candidate of things the accuser actually campaigns for but paints it in this case in a negative light... then the accusers get a majority government.
Accusers = Conservative Party of Canada (like US Republicans),
accused = Michael Ignatief, leader of Liberal Party of Canada (like US Democrats),
accusations = "Just Visiting Canada" (Ignatief taught Canadian Studies at Harvard University in USA before running for LPC party leadership),
reality = person going to job where one's talents command maximum pay / prestige is a concept championed predominately by right-wingers, hence the hypocrisy. (Of course it isn't something limited to right-wingers, just one of the fundamentals of a free market.)
Yes, I'm still sickened by the success the CPC enjoyed, by the damage they've done and continue to do to the country, by the gullibility of my fellow citizens, and by the lack of charges in the many instances of election fraud the CPC has committed over the past few years.
That linked-to blog is rather full of shit.
I avoid using Google for searching 99% of the time, block AdSense, Google Analytics, and usually Google APIs, but this is over the top:
Just bullshit. They are, if anything overly eager to have content pulled based upon loose matches by copyright bots.
Some of that copyrighted content is posted by the rights holders as advertising too.
Then there's this steaming turd:
Criminally insane? Greedy maybe, but the only one criminally insane is the anonymous blogger that posted this crap.
Of course it isn't.
Oh really? I don't trust them, but they've been remarkably non-evil considering the amount of power they wield.
Agreed.
They push for an open internet with open standards where ever they can; they could push closed standards but don't -- that's relatively noble, for a corporate entity.
Same with all ad-based content.
I don't and help others block their trackers and use other search engines.
They are the lesser of 5 evils (Apple, MS, Oracle, FaceBook, Google). I fear that someday they could become enormously evil, but for now the blogger is a hyperventilating, hyperbolic douche.
I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer almost one year ago (7 Oct 2011).
Now, my cancer is back and I'm starting chemo again this Thursday (20 Sep 2012). Having firsthand knowledge of addiction, kicking a 30+ year smoking habit and an oxy addiction, I will most likely resume taking oxy and get addicted all over again. Why? Because it helped me before. It will help me again. One week of mild discomfort from withdrawal symptoms is nothing compared to the pain and discomfort of chemotherapy.
Fuck.
I'm at a loss for words, but want to strongly extend my best wishes! Hope to see you posting back here in short order.
(And prior mods to this thread be damned - not posting this one anonymously.)
I've closed the tab, but in the article, they quoted someone saying that red tide is a "marine" as opposed to fresh water phenomenon.
So, while I cringe for the fishermen (and those that eat their catch), it's lot that type of toxic.
Fuck off Apple.
Today a former colleague picked up his Samsung Nexis and now only uses his Iphone for certain apps on Wifi until he decides what to do with it.
And Apple's shenanigans had a big part to do with it, as well as Rogers' BS such as their claim that "lying in our advertisements is our free speech right".
It feels good to see such companies paying the price through lost customers, one at a time.
Never owned one myself, but they claim they cool 40F below ambient. Not sure what kind of drain this would put on your battery, but perhaps a marine battery could handle it.
I have one of these, works great.
A photovoltaic solar panel to feed back into the battery (and maybe a 2nd battery) should work wonders.
Some "space blankets" shading the windows not blocked by a PV panel and it should work magically. Just watch for condensation inside the cooler - maybe put your devices inside a paper bag.
I think mine (mini fridge size) is about 50-60 watts, so it can run 4-ish hours on a well charge battery.
It may be a good idea to get a timer to keep it from actually freezing (not likely a problem in a car in the middle east), but manufacturers warn against frost.
Note, these coolers use the the Peletier effect which is a good read all by itself.
I could explain why I wrote that, but the fact remains that you are right ;-)
Well - that response was a surprising one - and a good one.
Cheers
No it is not, you fscking moron. Ulgh...
If you mod this down, may God strike you dead at once.
-- ;-)
You and I are both universe. We all are. So why get 'personal'?
Interesting conflict between post content & signature.
Dear Rest of World,
Fuck off.
Love,
Uncle Sam
Ah, I see you embrace your fascism.
Enjoy then...
The Year without a Summer (1816) had a global temperature drop of 0.4C to 0.7C.
It was thought to be caused by a series of volcanic eruptions combined with an historic low in solar activity.
The result was:
All that and more with a global variation of <1 degree Celsius.
It really is in our interest to keep global temperature averages from fluctuating too far from what we're accustomed to if possible. The repercussions with such a dramatically larger population could be catastrophic.