* Oh, and a particularly lame Pascal textbook (in the 1980's) that priced out at 16 cents a page? I photocopied it ALL, then took the book back for a refund. Strangely, doing this just once cured me of being cheap. For ten bucks, I learned, I could have a smaller form factor, a hard binding, and a 2nd color used for highlighting key details that the photocopies lost.*
I did this for a particularly lame Setup-and-run-a-business textbook and saved myself $20. The 'text' was a complete waste of paper and I'm glad I never bought it.
I've also had one professor, unable to get his ramblings published, had the univerisity secretaries photocopy his draft, then sell the results, three hole punched and wrapped in saran wrap, as a mandatory book for his students who had to separately purchase the binder to house the pages.
* Why is this even necessary? You can return books to the University bookstore anytime within the first two weeks. You can do without books if you are really well organized, but if you do your homework the day before it is due, then the book purchase is worth it. *
Unless said book is shrinkwrapped, in which case the bookstore won't accept the return, and 9 times out of ten, the books required for my classes were shrinkwrapped.
They don't want him back, running the show. Now, THEY want to run the show. Give it a few months and Saddam's replacement will pop his/her/their head(s) up when they figure it's safe to do so.
This is why they're bombing police stations; you can't have ordinary Iraqis having the ability/resources/organization needed to stop the next coup.
* the tremendous victory of the Iraqis and the Americans here.*
What tremendous victory? They found a dirty, shivering, old man cowering in a hole in the ground. It's damn satisfying to see the bastard caught, but it isn't a tremendous victory.
There is a faction or factions within Iraq who are bombing Iraqi and American targets, the latest a police station. The death count from that is astounding and it happened AFTER the arrest of Saddam.
And old Saddam did NOT look the guy who was in charge of them there factions, he looked like anything BUT the guy in charge while the old American doc was checking him out for head lice.
Hell, Saddam's safety has probably been one big headache for whomever is running the various factions and now they're rid of the jerk and have resources (?and bank accounts?) freed up.
Catching Saddam doesn't mean a damned thing. It won't stop the bombing, it won't help stabilize the lives of the Iraqis.
And I doubt it was Saddam's bunch of henchmen who are doing the bombing anymore; it might have been at first, but I'll bet you that scene has shifted and is realigning itself, particularly after every extremist, American-hating, Islamic nut joined the fray.
About the only thing hunting Saddam's buddies will get you anymore is a varying group of thugs and their suitcases stuffed with diminishing amounts of cash.
It's time for the US to get the hell out of Iraq, let the various terrorist factions organize and show themselves. Then the US can go back in and hit them hard and fast. The situation in Iraq is currently far too chaotic to organize a government out of; the US is only making a target of its troups by remaining.
Give the various councils in Iraq a month to organize themselves, get out, and go back in for round two in six or seven months. That's the tactic of the terrorist factions, that has to be the tactic the Americans adopt also.
***... like back-grading to your previous versions.***
I had to backgrade from XP to ME; an ATI All-in-Wonder card that worked perfectly fine on an old computer running ME wouldn't work on the new computer running XP.
Multi-tasking as it was under XP is not the same joy now with ME, but at least I can watch/record tv on the computer again.
It's my experence that ANYTHING that might be impacted by DRM just doesn't work under XP. I'm starting to believe that XP was gumming up the works deliberately.
Yours knows the keyboard? Count your blessings! Mine regularly gets mad because he types web addresses wrong -- he uses 2 w's and not three -- and then wants me to fix the computer.
My brother set up a web link to his favourite site from the desktop, only the old guy couldn't quite double-click the icon fast enough.
There should be a law mandating computer use illegal to anyone over 60 years of age who hasn't passed some sort of Computer Newbie 101 course.
Is that the only method of rehabilitation that you can think of besides jail time? What is it that makes you think that? And lets take this a step further; what is it about jail time that makes you believe it rehabilitates?
Personally, I tend to go with the experts (some of whom are the sexual offenders themselves) who say that rehabilitation is impossible. Mainly because you hear of freaks who have 'served their sentences' and then re-offend. I'm of the belief that a person's sexual preferences are hardwired into the brain and are unchangeable. If someone gets their kicks from killing someone and their sex drive is strong, they will do it again.
So, is there a way we can determine who, amongst sexual offenders, will reoffend? No. That ability is somewhere in the future along with the ability to rewire someone's brain. So, what do we do with Freak and all Freaks like him in the meanwhile?
For those crimes where someone was raped, beaten, or killed, ie. hurt, the safety of the community comes foremost and is the paramount concern. Freak, by having hurt a member of the community is no longer a member of the community and his/her welfare comes second.
Why is it that Freak, and Freaks like Freak have no problem disregarding the laws that govern us all but then demand to be protected by those same laws?
Either you utterly disrespect the laws, or you toe the line (this includes disagreeing with a law but following legal procedures in having that law revoked).
*Lets murder all dissenders, lets bomb our way to a better world.*
This is a topic regarding sexual offenders. If you can convince the slashdot moderators to put up a topic regarding the war in iraq, then spout this drivel.
Real Criminal's not suspected until police run dna tests against the registered sex-offender and semen taken from the victim, and the two sets of dna don't match.
Two years down the road, little Billy across the street accuses Real Criminal of raping him. Police enter Real Criminal's dna into the database and BINGO, three more incidents pop up.
In the meanwhile, Registered Sex Offender is still living with his mother (because no one else will take him in). Dad Across The Street is still serving his 6 month sentence for breaking Registered Sex Offender's arms.
Personally, I believe 'that some people were flawed during manufacturing and should be recalled.'
A child was kidnapped off of the streets of Toronto in broad daylight, and reappeared in pieces in several suitcases the next morning. But the most shocking news was that within a 10 block radius of her house there were 200 sexual offenders that the police were aware of. Within the entire city there are thousands.
A sexual offender list is not a list of folks that parents can hunt down and kill. It's a 'heads-up' list. It's a 'yo! Don't let Suzie and little Billy anywhere near the freak two doors down.'
IMHO, freak forfeits his right to privacy the instant freak commits a criminal offense. And privacy is the least thing freak should be asked to give up as part of atoning for freak's crime.
No. A judge found that if *I* borrowed a music cd from a friend and *I* ripped/burnt a copy of that music cd for *myself*, then that is perfectly legal.
If a friend made a copy of his music cd and gave that copy to me, that is illegal.
Downloading is not considered legal. Uploading is a definite no-no.
I would like to understand why I should pay a surcharge to compensate someone else for an activity that I do NOT participate in. If suddenly I get hit with surcharges and I'm not p2p file sharing, my assumption is that music/video downloading from Kazaa or wherever is perfectly legal and I may participate in such activities to my heart's content.
*** Interestingly enough, if you read the law below, it seems they can lock this guy away for up to 10 years. With Canadian law (of which I'm hardly an expert) does that mean they can add ten years to the sentence he'll get for the child porn, or does he have to serve the sentence at the same time? Be nice if they could add ten years to his prison term... ***
No, no, these are Canadian judges who'll impose the sentence. That conviction prevert will get for owning child pornography (we've had judges toss out these convictions based on their pet theories that photos and stories of child molestation is 'harmless') will mean a theft of communications conviction will only be a 12 month sentence, if that. If a stupid enough judge is imposing sentence, he'll let the pervert walk with time already served.
We have provincial taxes (income and sales 7%), federal taxes (income and sales 8%), property taxes (municipal) and OHIP doesn't cover all that much.
What he's probably comparing is your federal tax to our federal and provincial tax. My total income taxes are about 40 to 45%, plus sales taxes of 15%, plus property taxes that are about the same as yours.
With the figures you gave in your answer, you'd be taxed at a 55% income tax rate, sales and property taxes are extra.
I stopped purchasing cds when I started hearing of 'copyright protection measures' that would prevent me from playing the cds on the computer, on the dvd player, etc etc.
Where is the a-spoon-full-of-sugar-helps-the-medicine-go-down neato feature of these new cds?
Who in their right mind wants to purchase something that is the exact same as the older product but is more of a hassle to use than the older product ever was?
Lemme get this straight?
I go out and buy ArtistX's latest cd/dvd. Costs me $20 bucks.
What do I get for this?
The DVD player refuses to play the cd.
The Imac freezes solid. Getting it unfrozen means I gotto trek down to the pc store and fork out an extra $120 for the service fee.
I gotta reboot the pc. And Zonealarm goes freaking crazy because program X keeps trying to dial out. Don't call me paranoid here -- it'll happen, it's just a matter of time.
To play the godforsaken audio cd, I gotta put the cd into the portable cd player, feed it into the computer and record an mp3, and use that mp3 to create an audio cd that plays on the dvd player, the imac, and the pc. All this for 20 bucks. Whatta deal!
OR, I could use the 10 minutes it takes to get the freaking saran wrap off of the audio cd and download the cd from Kazaa. For free.
ORRRRRRRRR, I could really stick it to the music company and the f'ing band who signed off with said music company and NOT BUY THE DAMN CD AND NOT DOWNLOAD IT!
When the music industry sees all interest in music cd's die utterly, both on Kazaa and in cd sales, they'll be falling over themselves to stop the DRM nonsense.
I also didn't like the special-new releases of the original SW films.
But dude, you simply cannot be thinking that the Lothlorien scenes were not greatly improved in the Special Edition of LOTR.
For TT, I'd like to see that Special Edition add a few more extra scenes and delete some others; there were *NEVER* elves at Helms freaking Deep. And does this mean that Jackson decided to eliminate the Northern Rangers and change Aragorn's entire history? And HOW is he going to adequately explain all of this in the third movie... [rant]
Dude, rent the first release, buy the second release to see how the movie SHOULD have looked, then buy the first release when the rental companies put 'em up for a cheap resale.
I bought an Epson as well; straight out of the box the printer wouldn't form feed the paper, and the cartridges wouldn't print. Epson's helpdesk was useless. I took the sucker back and got my self a HP all-in-one
It's too early to see how the all-in-one will do, but so far it's an absolute delight to use. Not to mention it worked right out of the box.
No one here drinks that stuff... if we want soda, we drink Coors Lite, and if we want beer, we drink Creemore, or Rickards Red, or a number of other excellent brews. Only the old ladies drink MG.
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* Oh, and a particularly lame Pascal textbook (in the 1980's) that priced out at 16 cents a page? I photocopied it ALL, then took the book back for a refund. Strangely, doing this just once cured me of being cheap. For ten bucks, I learned, I could have a smaller form factor, a hard binding, and a 2nd color used for highlighting key details that the photocopies lost.*
I did this for a particularly lame Setup-and-run-a-business textbook and saved myself $20. The 'text' was a complete waste of paper and I'm glad I never bought it.
I've also had one professor, unable to get his ramblings published, had the univerisity secretaries photocopy his draft, then sell the results, three hole punched and wrapped in saran wrap, as a mandatory book for his students who had to separately purchase the binder to house the pages.
* Why is this even necessary? You can return books to the University bookstore anytime within the first two weeks. You can do without books if you are really well organized, but if you do your homework the day before it is due, then the book purchase is worth it. *
Unless said book is shrinkwrapped, in which case the bookstore won't accept the return, and 9 times out of ten, the books required for my classes were shrinkwrapped.
Those are some great sites! Thanks for the urls!
They don't want him back, running the show. Now, THEY want to run the show. Give it a few months and Saddam's replacement will pop his/her/their head(s) up when they figure it's safe to do so.
This is why they're bombing police stations; you can't have ordinary Iraqis having the ability/resources/organization needed to stop the next coup.
* the tremendous victory of the Iraqis and the Americans here.*
What tremendous victory? They found a dirty, shivering, old man cowering in a hole in the ground. It's damn satisfying to see the bastard caught, but it isn't a tremendous victory.
There is a faction or factions within Iraq who are bombing Iraqi and American targets, the latest a police station. The death count from that is astounding and it happened AFTER the arrest of Saddam.
And old Saddam did NOT look the guy who was in charge of them there factions, he looked like anything BUT the guy in charge while the old American doc was checking him out for head lice.
Hell, Saddam's safety has probably been one big headache for whomever is running the various factions and now they're rid of the jerk and have resources (?and bank accounts?) freed up.
Catching Saddam doesn't mean a damned thing. It won't stop the bombing, it won't help stabilize the lives of the Iraqis.
And I doubt it was Saddam's bunch of henchmen who are doing the bombing anymore; it might have been at first, but I'll bet you that scene has shifted and is realigning itself, particularly after every extremist, American-hating, Islamic nut joined the fray.
About the only thing hunting Saddam's buddies will get you anymore is a varying group of thugs and their suitcases stuffed with diminishing amounts of cash.
It's time for the US to get the hell out of Iraq, let the various terrorist factions organize and show themselves. Then the US can go back in and hit them hard and fast. The situation in Iraq is currently far too chaotic to organize a government out of; the US is only making a target of its troups by remaining.
Give the various councils in Iraq a month to organize themselves, get out, and go back in for round two in six or seven months. That's the tactic of the terrorist factions, that has to be the tactic the Americans adopt also.
*** ... like back-grading to your previous versions.***
I had to backgrade from XP to ME; an ATI All-in-Wonder card that worked perfectly fine on an old computer running ME wouldn't work on the new computer running XP.
Multi-tasking as it was under XP is not the same joy now with ME, but at least I can watch/record tv on the computer again.
It's my experence that ANYTHING that might be impacted by DRM just doesn't work under XP. I'm starting to believe that XP was gumming up the works deliberately.
Yours knows the keyboard? Count your blessings! Mine regularly gets mad because he types web addresses wrong -- he uses 2 w's and not three -- and then wants me to fix the computer.
My brother set up a web link to his favourite site from the desktop, only the old guy couldn't quite double-click the icon fast enough.
There should be a law mandating computer use illegal to anyone over 60 years of age who hasn't passed some sort of Computer Newbie 101 course.
*There's a lot of music that I'd like to download. So far, I've been restrained in the matter. Now I'm gonna have me some fun.*
You'n'me both.
*Sure lets kill them.*
Is that the only method of rehabilitation that you can think of besides jail time? What is it that makes you think that? And lets take this a step further; what is it about jail time that makes you believe it rehabilitates?
Personally, I tend to go with the experts (some of whom are the sexual offenders themselves) who say that rehabilitation is impossible. Mainly because you hear of freaks who have 'served their sentences' and then re-offend. I'm of the belief that a person's sexual preferences are hardwired into the brain and are unchangeable. If someone gets their kicks from killing someone and their sex drive is strong, they will do it again.
So, is there a way we can determine who, amongst sexual offenders, will reoffend? No. That ability is somewhere in the future along with the ability to rewire someone's brain. So, what do we do with Freak and all Freaks like him in the meanwhile?
For those crimes where someone was raped, beaten, or killed, ie. hurt, the safety of the community comes foremost and is the paramount concern. Freak, by having hurt a member of the community is no longer a member of the community and his/her welfare comes second.
Why is it that Freak, and Freaks like Freak have no problem disregarding the laws that govern us all but then demand to be protected by those same laws?
Either you utterly disrespect the laws, or you toe the line (this includes disagreeing with a law but following legal procedures in having that law revoked).
*Lets murder all dissenders, lets bomb our way to a better world.*
This is a topic regarding sexual offenders. If you can convince the slashdot moderators to put up a topic regarding the war in iraq, then spout this drivel.
Real Criminal's not suspected until police run dna tests against the registered sex-offender and semen taken from the victim, and the two sets of dna don't match.
Two years down the road, little Billy across the street accuses Real Criminal of raping him. Police enter Real Criminal's dna into the database and BINGO, three more incidents pop up.
In the meanwhile, Registered Sex Offender is still living with his mother (because no one else will take him in). Dad Across The Street is still serving his 6 month sentence for breaking Registered Sex Offender's arms.
Only if they rape children.
Personally, I believe 'that some people were flawed during manufacturing and should be recalled.'
A child was kidnapped off of the streets of Toronto in broad daylight, and reappeared in pieces in several suitcases the next morning. But the most shocking news was that within a 10 block radius of her house there were 200 sexual offenders that the police were aware of. Within the entire city there are thousands.
A sexual offender list is not a list of folks that parents can hunt down and kill. It's a 'heads-up' list. It's a 'yo! Don't let Suzie and little Billy anywhere near the freak two doors down.'
IMHO, freak forfeits his right to privacy the instant freak commits a criminal offense. And privacy is the least thing freak should be asked to give up as part of atoning for freak's crime.
No. A judge found that if *I* borrowed a music cd from a friend and *I* ripped/burnt a copy of that music cd for *myself*, then that is perfectly legal. If a friend made a copy of his music cd and gave that copy to me, that is illegal. Downloading is not considered legal. Uploading is a definite no-no. I would like to understand why I should pay a surcharge to compensate someone else for an activity that I do NOT participate in. If suddenly I get hit with surcharges and I'm not p2p file sharing, my assumption is that music/video downloading from Kazaa or wherever is perfectly legal and I may participate in such activities to my heart's content.
Hey, hey, hey, don't be saying things like this; the Ontario Liberals are already looking for any and all excuses to jack up the price of electricity!
*** Interestingly enough, if you read the law below, it seems they can lock this guy away for up to 10 years. With Canadian law (of which I'm hardly an expert) does that mean they can add ten years to the sentence he'll get for the child porn, or does he have to serve the sentence at the same time? Be nice if they could add ten years to his prison term... ***
No, no, these are Canadian judges who'll impose the sentence. That conviction prevert will get for owning child pornography (we've had judges toss out these convictions based on their pet theories that photos and stories of child molestation is 'harmless') will mean a theft of communications conviction will only be a 12 month sentence, if that. If a stupid enough judge is imposing sentence, he'll let the pervert walk with time already served.
No, I'm not kidding.
The Canadian justice system is a freaking joke.
The last ice age didn't kill off the mastadons; over-hunting by humans did that.
We have provincial taxes (income and sales 7%), federal taxes (income and sales 8%), property taxes (municipal) and OHIP doesn't cover all that much.
What he's probably comparing is your federal tax to our federal and provincial tax. My total income taxes are about 40 to 45%, plus sales taxes of 15%, plus property taxes that are about the same as yours.
With the figures you gave in your answer, you'd be taxed at a 55% income tax rate, sales and property taxes are extra.
I stopped purchasing cds when I started hearing of 'copyright protection measures' that would prevent me from playing the cds on the computer, on the dvd player, etc etc.
Where is the a-spoon-full-of-sugar-helps-the-medicine-go-down neato feature of these new cds?
Who in their right mind wants to purchase something that is the exact same as the older product but is more of a hassle to use than the older product ever was?
Lemme get this straight? I go out and buy ArtistX's latest cd/dvd. Costs me $20 bucks. What do I get for this? The DVD player refuses to play the cd. The Imac freezes solid. Getting it unfrozen means I gotto trek down to the pc store and fork out an extra $120 for the service fee. I gotta reboot the pc. And Zonealarm goes freaking crazy because program X keeps trying to dial out. Don't call me paranoid here -- it'll happen, it's just a matter of time. To play the godforsaken audio cd, I gotta put the cd into the portable cd player, feed it into the computer and record an mp3, and use that mp3 to create an audio cd that plays on the dvd player, the imac, and the pc. All this for 20 bucks. Whatta deal! OR, I could use the 10 minutes it takes to get the freaking saran wrap off of the audio cd and download the cd from Kazaa. For free. ORRRRRRRRR, I could really stick it to the music company and the f'ing band who signed off with said music company and NOT BUY THE DAMN CD AND NOT DOWNLOAD IT! When the music industry sees all interest in music cd's die utterly, both on Kazaa and in cd sales, they'll be falling over themselves to stop the DRM nonsense.
I also didn't like the special-new releases of the original SW films.
... [rant]
But dude, you simply cannot be thinking that the Lothlorien scenes were not greatly improved in the Special Edition of LOTR.
For TT, I'd like to see that Special Edition add a few more extra scenes and delete some others; there were *NEVER* elves at Helms freaking Deep. And does this mean that Jackson decided to eliminate the Northern Rangers and change Aragorn's entire history? And HOW is he going to adequately explain all of this in the third movie
Dude, rent the first release, buy the second release to see how the movie SHOULD have looked, then buy the first release when the rental companies put 'em up for a cheap resale.
I bought an Epson as well; straight out of the box the printer wouldn't form feed the paper, and the cartridges wouldn't print. Epson's helpdesk was useless. I took the sucker back and got my self a HP all-in-one
It's too early to see how the all-in-one will do, but so far it's an absolute delight to use. Not to mention it worked right out of the box.
I will never buy another Epson.
Oh God dude, never ever drink Molson Golden!
... if we want soda, we drink Coors Lite, and if we want beer, we drink Creemore, or Rickards Red, or a number of other excellent brews. Only the old ladies drink MG.
No one here drinks that stuff
Come north! Spend money! Bring Tivo with you ...
Y'all tried that once already. Let's not do that a second time.
Oh yeah. There's nothing like living in the land of the "da proof is da proof when it's proven it's the proof and then it's proven."
And American's think THEIR leader can't speak straight???? GWB has NOTHING on the old PM.