A Senate committee recommended on November 12, 2002 that Canada should call all its soldiers home for two years and immediately give $4 billion to the military in order to start the process of bringing the military up to what is expected of a world leader.
Here's a look at Canada by the numbers.
Population 30,007,094 (2001 census) 11,507,000 (1941 census) 7,207,000 (1911 census)
Land Canada occupies 9,093,507 sq km, making it the second largest country in the world after Russia. Canada has 252,684 km of coastline and borders (243,791 km of coastline, 8,893 km of borders).
Military Expenditure Price of F-18A Hornet fighter jet: $50,000,000. Canada's defence budget for 2001/2002: $10,570,000,000 - enough to buy 211 Hornets.
Armed Forces
Today: 60,000 military personnel including 9,500 sailors, 19,000 soldiers, 13,000 air men and women and 18,500 administrative and support personnel. There are also 21,500 reservists.
Second World War: 60,000 men and women enlisted in Canada's armed forces in one month (September 1939) after the declaration of war.
First World War: More than 600,000 Canadians enlisted to fight in the First World War from 1914-1918.
Navy
Today: There are 34 warships and 9,500 sailors in Canada's navy.
Second World War: 23 Canadian ships were sunk by German U-Boats in the Battle of St. Lawrence alone.
First World War: During the course of the First World War, Canada's naval service grew to a force of 9,000 men and 100 ships.
Canadians on the front lines
Today: 2,300 armed forces have been deployed to combat terrorism; 1,500 Canadians deployed to NATO peacekeeping in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Second World War: More than one million served and approximately 45,000 died.
First World War: Almost 620,000 Canadians served in First World War and 66,000 died.
Canada in NATO:
Of NATO's 19 member countries, Canada is...
1st in land area (9,093,507 sq km), and sixth in total military spending ($10,570,000,000)
I get it, so the modern black person in the USA with ancestors who were slaves isn't allowed to feel enraged with ongoing racist tendancies in america?
Actually, Ontario is a net provider of electricity to the US as well. During peak times, Ontario has sometimes imported power from the US, but its rare. Its much more common for Ontario to export power, just like Quebec.
We sell americans fuel, wood, gold, electricity and water. They don't need us?
I was always offended by Bush's refering to the terrorists on those planes as cowards. As one talk show host said (pls reply with name), it takes a lot of guts to fly a plane into a building, knowing you'll die.
How many times have you realized that you really should do something, but you were afraid for your own safety? Aside from disagreeing with their beliefs, these terrorists did what they thought they needed to do, and were not cowards.
Enemies? Sure. Needing a good ass-kicking? Definately. Hiding in Iraq? Only since the fall of Saddam.
Part of the issue would be designing such quests to have self-calculating levels based on participation.
A new wall shouldn't take 4 times more ore than your village can mine in a year (unless a game year is less than... nvm).
At any rate, it wouldn't be that difficult -- and for the sake of fighters, its easy to have lots of characters trying to invade your village in the woods, etc.
Yeah, I'm a little tired of playing online games with people who believe spelling is an afterthought.
People who know how to write properly are allowed to make shorthand like "ls" or invent words like "grep" and "sed". "sed" however, does not mean something you spoke in the past tense.
"We need to build a wall for the city -- we need a few million loads of rock and a few hundred masons."
"There's a dragon guarding a huge treasure, it'll take at least 150 adventurers to kill it."
etc.
Hire some real story tellers and explain that they need to write stories around entire groups of people, not just a hero.
Re:this is from brazil & france, NOT USA pharm
on
HIV Vaccine
·
· Score: 1
Last country I remember bragging about their pharmeceutical testbed status was Nazi Germany.
See the Nuremburg trials for more about Bayer than you wanted to know.
That said, you're awfully blinded if you believe everything you hear about how much american research matters -- there is a lot of good research coming out of many other countries out there -- many of them the *parent* companies of those in the US.
I felt more a part of the Morrowind community chatting with people and exchanging mods and discussing terrible quests, etc. than I ever did playing various online MMORPGs with real people around.
I don't find it fun to run up to someone and hand them the 10 wood they need, while 14 other people do the same thing, and get the same next quest.
That's a single-player RPG... and a poorly made one at that.
By your comparison, you believe that a court would find me guilty of Copyright infringement for borrowing my neighbour's copy of Sunday night's Alias that he recorded because I forgot to turn on my VCR/PVR.
IMHO, judges are more smarter than that -- common belief *is* the law in a democratic country. We don't live in countries controlled entirely by corporations *yet*... by the people, for the people, corporate and others alike.
How do I know if those people are also copying it for fair-use or non fair-use reasons?
Since here in Canada, Alias is on public airwaves on CTV, I can assume all canadians have free access to it on Sunday nights as well.
In a canadian court ruling recently w.r.t. revealing the names of music file uploaders in favor of the ISPs (who did not wish to reveal their clients' information), the judge compared this issue to that of a photocopier in a library -- that is to say, just because one can easily break Copyright law with the photocopier, should we ban them in libraries, where there is also significant non-infringing use?
If someone is breaking the law, they should be directly prosecuted. Kazaa and its ilk are not like lock-picking devices; they have many non-infringing uses that are ignored by nay-sayers all the time. Prosecute those who are *actually* breaking the law.
Thanks to the other poster for commenting on canadian law vs. american for me -- also, I know exactly what Kazaa is -- it does the same thing as BitTorrent but less directed.
You're buying into their version of what Copyright means.
Remember that in some countries (like Canada) where their software is used, making private copies of someone else's music is also legal, as long as its for private purposes.
The music and movie industries both made much better money in the recent recession in the US than most other industries. Their claims about losing billions of dollars are fatnastic -- that is, rooted in a (drug-induced?) fantasy.
Where are those billions of dollars? Economies don't invent money. Someone would have had to spend that money for it to be "lost" potential revenue. They're not losing "real" money, they're losing potential money from sales they didn't get. If the economy can't sustain that level of sales, then they didn't lose the money.
That's not true -- I use BitTorrent to download Alias episodes because I'm never home on Sunday nights. I watch them on Monday nights with my wife. That's time-shifting.
I get CTV so I *could* watch it on Sunday night, were I home.
That's another reason I love reading other peoples' Python code. Even if they have no idea what they're doing, the syntax almost forces them to keep the complexity of any given section to a dull roar.
I've seen some insanely complicated Python code, and perhaps an obfuscated Python contest would show us more, but I believe its more difficult to achieve than in languages like C and PERL. At the very lease, the language dissuades such behaviour.
For example, this site mentions the following example:
cmath.sqrt((reduce(operator.add, [i**2 for i in l], 0)-(reduce(operator.add, l, 0)*reduce(operator.add, l, 0)/len(l)))/(len(l)-1))
That isn't half as bad as some of the "normal" PERL I've seen.
He didn't say readability -- he said parse, as in for the machine.
The original poster assumed that whitespace was used instead of squigglies because of parsing on the part of the interpreter, but its used for readability whereas squigglies are actually designed to make the compiler / interpreter's life easier.
Its not that they're hard to parse, its that they're unnecessary and ugly.
if (x == y) {
if (!do(something))
{
printf(failuremsg);
return -1;
}
return 0; }
vs.
if x == y:
if not do(something):
print failuremsg
return -1
return 0
Linus' comments in the kernel's CodingStyle document are relevant too -- try to keep your functions so that you can read most of them on one screen. Python allows you to do this more often (I find) without resorting to strange brace positions.
"Well, to be honest..." "To tell you the truth..." "I swear,..." "As god is my witness..." (I could've sworn he was always witnessing, but maybe he turns a blind eye the rest of the time?)
French has a lot of cool tenses though, enjoyed learning them all.
Go buy yourself a "Bescherelle" and learn some of them.
I patented breathing air consisting of (but not exclusively limited to) oxygen and nitrogen and I will be licensing this technology to others for a meagre $1 for life.
If you are already using this technology, then you are in violation of my patent and need a license to continue breathing. If you refuse to stop breathing without a license, we will be forced to use the courts.
I hear Texas likes to stop bad people from breathing.
One of the reasons I've loved playing Morrowind (the computer game) is because it has seperate long and short sword skills, light, medium and heavy armour skills, as well as unarmoured, etc.
I created a great longsword fighter with medium armour capabilities and good acrobatics (for getting out of sticky situations). It took a lot of effort to teach him to use heavy armour when I decided I wanted to go that way.
Slashdot Mirror
A Senate committee recommended on November 12, 2002 that Canada should call all its soldiers home for two years and immediately give $4 billion to the military in order to start the process of bringing the military up to what is expected of a world leader.
Here's a look at Canada by the numbers.
Population
30,007,094 (2001 census)
11,507,000 (1941 census)
7,207,000 (1911 census)
Land
Canada occupies 9,093,507 sq km, making it the second largest country in the world after Russia.
Canada has 252,684 km of coastline and borders (243,791 km of coastline, 8,893 km of borders).
Military Expenditure
Price of F-18A Hornet fighter jet: $50,000,000.
Canada's defence budget for 2001/2002: $10,570,000,000 - enough to buy 211 Hornets.
Armed Forces
Navy
Canadians on the front lines
Canada in NATO:
Of NATO's 19 member countries, Canada is...
1st in land area (9,093,507 sq km), and sixth in total military spending ($10,570,000,000)
I get it, so the modern black person in the USA with ancestors who were slaves isn't allowed to feel enraged with ongoing racist tendancies in america?
Actually, Ontario is a net provider of electricity to the US as well. During peak times, Ontario has sometimes imported power from the US, but its rare. Its much more common for Ontario to export power, just like Quebec.
We sell americans fuel, wood, gold, electricity and water. They don't need us?
I was always offended by Bush's refering to the terrorists on those planes as cowards. As one talk show host said (pls reply with name), it takes a lot of guts to fly a plane into a building, knowing you'll die.
How many times have you realized that you really should do something, but you were afraid for your own safety? Aside from disagreeing with their beliefs, these terrorists did what they thought they needed to do, and were not cowards.
Enemies? Sure. Needing a good ass-kicking? Definately. Hiding in Iraq? Only since the fall of Saddam.
Part of the issue would be designing such quests to have self-calculating levels based on participation.
... nvm).
A new wall shouldn't take 4 times more ore than your village can mine in a year (unless a game year is less than
At any rate, it wouldn't be that difficult -- and for the sake of fighters, its easy to have lots of characters trying to invade your village in the woods, etc.
Ok ... ok ... *pant* ... done laughing now.
(Got up off my floor too)
Yeah, I'm a little tired of playing online games with people who believe spelling is an afterthought.
People who know how to write properly are allowed to make shorthand like "ls" or invent words like "grep" and "sed". "sed" however, does not mean something you spoke in the past tense.
Too lazy to type properly? Get a headset.
*gets mute button ready*
Its called group projects.
"We need to build a wall for the city -- we need a few million loads of rock and a few hundred masons."
"There's a dragon guarding a huge treasure, it'll take at least 150 adventurers to kill it."
etc.
Hire some real story tellers and explain that they need to write stories around entire groups of people, not just a hero.
Last country I remember bragging about their pharmeceutical testbed status was Nazi Germany.
See the Nuremburg trials for more about Bayer than you wanted to know.
That said, you're awfully blinded if you believe everything you hear about how much american research matters -- there is a lot of good research coming out of many other countries out there -- many of them the *parent* companies of those in the US.
I felt more a part of the Morrowind community chatting with people and exchanging mods and discussing terrible quests, etc. than I ever did playing various online MMORPGs with real people around.
... and a poorly made one at that.
I don't find it fun to run up to someone and hand them the 10 wood they need, while 14 other people do the same thing, and get the same next quest.
That's a single-player RPG
By your comparison, you believe that a court would find me guilty of Copyright infringement for borrowing my neighbour's copy of Sunday night's Alias that he recorded because I forgot to turn on my VCR/PVR.
... by the people, for the people, corporate and others alike.
IMHO, judges are more smarter than that -- common belief *is* the law in a democratic country. We don't live in countries controlled entirely by corporations *yet*
How do I know if those people are also copying it for fair-use or non fair-use reasons?
Since here in Canada, Alias is on public airwaves on CTV, I can assume all canadians have free access to it on Sunday nights as well.
In a canadian court ruling recently w.r.t. revealing the names of music file uploaders in favor of the ISPs (who did not wish to reveal their clients' information), the judge compared this issue to that of a photocopier in a library -- that is to say, just because one can easily break Copyright law with the photocopier, should we ban them in libraries, where there is also significant non-infringing use?
If someone is breaking the law, they should be directly prosecuted. Kazaa and its ilk are not like lock-picking devices; they have many non-infringing uses that are ignored by nay-sayers all the time. Prosecute those who are *actually* breaking the law.
Thanks to the other poster for commenting on canadian law vs. american for me -- also, I know exactly what Kazaa is -- it does the same thing as BitTorrent but less directed.
Get over it.
You're buying into their version of what Copyright means.
Remember that in some countries (like Canada) where their software is used, making private copies of someone else's music is also legal, as long as its for private purposes.
The music and movie industries both made much better money in the recent recession in the US than most other industries. Their claims about losing billions of dollars are fatnastic -- that is, rooted in a (drug-induced?) fantasy.
Where are those billions of dollars? Economies don't invent money. Someone would have had to spend that money for it to be "lost" potential revenue. They're not losing "real" money, they're losing potential money from sales they didn't get. If the economy can't sustain that level of sales, then they didn't lose the money.
That's not true -- I use BitTorrent to download Alias episodes because I'm never home on Sunday nights. I watch them on Monday nights with my wife. That's time-shifting.
I get CTV so I *could* watch it on Sunday night, were I home.
I stopped doing that type of thing in C a long time ago because of allocation issues dealing with sprintf all the time.
Now I can just use:... and so on.
That's another reason I love reading other peoples' Python code. Even if they have no idea what they're doing, the syntax almost forces them to keep the complexity of any given section to a dull roar.
I've seen some insanely complicated Python code, and perhaps an obfuscated Python contest would show us more, but I believe its more difficult to achieve than in languages like C and PERL. At the very lease, the language dissuades such behaviour.
For example, this site mentions the following example:
That isn't half as bad as some of the "normal" PERL I've seen.
See also these suggestions.
Someone moderate that as funny ... ... please.
I worked with someone who printed reams of paper every time he wanted to look at his source code. It would just kill me to watch.
I read my source on-screen, with tracing tools to find where a variable was last used, what else referneces a function, etc.
Again, I hope that was intended as funny.
He didn't say readability -- he said parse, as in for the machine.
The original poster assumed that whitespace was used instead of squigglies because of parsing on the part of the interpreter, but its used for readability whereas squigglies are actually designed to make the compiler / interpreter's life easier.
I concur ... but I just won't use them in all likelihood.
If I run into code that uses them, that's another story.
"Well, to be honest ..." ..." ..." ..."
"To tell you the truth
"I swear,
"As god is my witness
(I could've sworn he was always witnessing, but maybe he turns a blind eye the rest of the time?)
French has a lot of cool tenses though, enjoyed learning them all.
Go buy yourself a "Bescherelle" and learn some of them.
I patented breathing air consisting of (but not exclusively limited to) oxygen and nitrogen and I will be licensing this technology to others for a meagre $1 for life.
If you are already using this technology, then you are in violation of my patent and need a license to continue breathing. If you refuse to stop breathing without a license, we will be forced to use the courts.
I hear Texas likes to stop bad people from breathing.
Damn.
... I still own Unixware 7.
And I didn't want a Linux license.
Oh well
Installed it once, replaced it with Linux for more functionality.
I have a +7 Axs of Diesel Elimination, but I'm not strong enough to lift it.
One of the reasons I've loved playing Morrowind (the computer game) is because it has seperate long and short sword skills, light, medium and heavy armour skills, as well as unarmoured, etc.
I created a great longsword fighter with medium armour capabilities and good acrobatics (for getting out of sticky situations). It took a lot of effort to teach him to use heavy armour when I decided I wanted to go that way.