I was in New York City and Boston in the past few weeks and was disgusted by how many Hummer H2's were driving around.
Ah, the Hummers. I have an idea for those people: They should be drafted and sent to Iraq. Why should somebody else risk their lives for their gasoline?
This is really just an exercise in power, the US will back up these strong suggestions with threats of trade sanctions etc.
But that's just it: The US will set up trade blocks to protect any industry from foreign competition no matter what Canadians do. Say Canada were to incorporate DMCA into its own legislation. This wouldn't change a thing: The US would continue to carp about softwood lumber, mad cows, the American tiddliwinks industry, whatever. So Canada shrugs its collective shoulders and does what it thinks is best for Canada.
...is that the museums and science centers cave in so easily to the superstitious zealots. These institutions have a mission to educate and they are failing by behaving in such a cowardly way.
Yup. I've been getting a couple of popup ads from DeVry, so I wrote to them to tell them what I think of their marketing strategy. Had to work at it a bit, because they don't seem to have altogether grasped how to get the "contact the webmaster" page to work.
Actually Abiword does have a Mac OS X version, and it's very nice. You can also get TeXShop for the Mac, which is great for those of us who prefer to use LaTeX rather than word processor. So frankly who needs OO.
I also stood next to one a couple of weeks ago, and actually got to go inside. Here's a picture. You're right, they're huge, but I was impressed by how silent they were! There are two major sources of noise (I think): turbulence, and the generator itself. So the silence indicates that energy losses are minimized, i.e. optimal design.
I've been to North America many times, as far west as San Fransico, as far east as New York, as far south as Cape Kennedy and as far north as Canada. I will not being going back though. The requirements to be finger printed and iris scanned are the most over the top in the western world. Law enforcement is comparibly officious and oppresive and the people are highly insulated with very limited knowledge of the world in which they live. I think Americans are lovely people, just staggeringly poorly informed.
According to the article, the proposal is to add $0.25 to phone and internet bills, for tapping phones and reading e-mails.
This should not be on my bill because it's not a service provided to me that I asked for. It's different from 911, which is indeed a personal service to me if I have an emergency.
I don't see why this is any different from any other investigative technique that the police has to pay for. What's next, a hospital surcharge for DNA testing by police? There's a process if the police wants to justify a budget increase, and it passes through Parliament. This is an attempt to foist it on to the consumer instead, scaring us with "The terrorists are coming! The terrorists are coming!".
Try to get it through Parliament (good luck; we've just voted in a minority government), and if it passes, collect it through taxes, where everybody pays, and the rich pay more.
$10 for an 89 page book that promises this:
You'll discover smart ways to address outgoing mail, send and receive attachments successfully, and view incoming mail?
I don't think so.
Re 1. and 2.: LaTeX is not hard to learn. It's very common in the scientific community, because it's very easy to structure a document nicely, and it is superb when it comes to handling mathematical expressions.
Re 3.: Yes, there's LyX, whose authors describe as a "what-you-see-is-what-you-mean" editor. It's very user friendly. You get all the advantages of LaTeX without having to learn it.
I've always felt that university professors should be able to handle technology better than the average consumer. Regardless of specialization, an academic should be computer-literate.
Speaking as a university professor, those people asking you to digitize hundreds of pages need to get a clue. Point them towards a LaTeX manual, and get on with your life. You have better things to do.
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Indeed. "The fellow"?
Ah, the Hummers. I have an idea for those people: They should be drafted and sent to Iraq. Why should somebody else risk their lives for their gasoline?
Therefore, interestingly enough, conservation demands that we hunt more deer. No, conservation demands that we stop killing the wolves.
...is that the museums and science centers cave in so easily to the superstitious zealots. These institutions have a mission to educate and they are failing by behaving in such a cowardly way.
Yup. I've been getting a couple of popup ads from DeVry, so I wrote to them to tell them what I think of their marketing strategy. Had to work at it a bit, because they don't seem to have altogether grasped how to get the "contact the webmaster" page to work.
Actually Abiword does have a Mac OS X version, and it's very nice. You can also get TeXShop for the Mac, which is great for those of us who prefer to use LaTeX rather than word processor. So frankly who needs OO.
I also stood next to one a couple of weeks ago, and actually got to go inside. Here's a picture. You're right, they're huge, but I was impressed by how silent they were! There are two major sources of noise (I think): turbulence, and the generator itself. So the silence indicates that energy losses are minimized, i.e. optimal design.
That's all right then; it should be fairly easy to spot a suspicious-looking chimp near a polling station.
http://www.warblogging.com/: Excellent, thoughtful writing by George Paine.
http://www.juancole.com/: If you really want to understand the Iraq war and the Middle East.
http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/: Eschaton, for brief and very incisive commentary.
This should not be on my bill because it's not a service provided to me that I asked for. It's different from 911, which is indeed a personal service to me if I have an emergency.
I don't see why this is any different from any other investigative technique that the police has to pay for. What's next, a hospital surcharge for DNA testing by police? There's a process if the police wants to justify a budget increase, and it passes through Parliament. This is an attempt to foist it on to the consumer instead, scaring us with "The terrorists are coming! The terrorists are coming!".
Try to get it through Parliament (good luck; we've just voted in a minority government), and if it passes, collect it through taxes, where everybody pays, and the rich pay more.
This is Canada. There is no such thing as the right to bear arms.
$10 for an 89 page book that promises this: You'll discover smart ways to address outgoing mail, send and receive attachments successfully, and view incoming mail? I don't think so.
Re 1. and 2.: LaTeX is not hard to learn. It's very common in the scientific community, because it's very easy to structure a document nicely, and it is superb when it comes to handling mathematical expressions. Re 3.: Yes, there's LyX, whose authors describe as a "what-you-see-is-what-you-mean" editor. It's very user friendly. You get all the advantages of LaTeX without having to learn it. I've always felt that university professors should be able to handle technology better than the average consumer. Regardless of specialization, an academic should be computer-literate.
Speaking as a university professor, those people asking you to digitize hundreds of pages need to get a clue. Point them towards a LaTeX manual, and get on with your life. You have better things to do.