Sure, we're a western country, and we did send a few of our best troops overseas, but you can live here without the constant propaganda on the news, no-one will have a go at you for expressing your beliefs, you can say what you like about America, your kids will get a great education, even without health insurance our doctors will see you for free, medicine costs about US$2, our roads are great, lots of things to see, great and varying culture, nice people who will help you out in a bind, no guns on the street, no need to fear when walking the streets at night, big cars, mate the chicks in Australia are second to none, we also have Australia Zoo (Steve Irwin) which may be of interest.
Plus, you can say you're living on the worlds largest island.
I really feel sorry for any American with similar politcal beliefs as I, only slightly, slightly left wing.
"The fluoride compounds used for water fluoridation are trapped by "scrubbers" in the smokestack of factories like the one pictured above"
Companies don't make a profit by manufactring and selling flouride. By giving it to the government to put into the water supply, they save the money they would have had to spend getting rid of this noxious chemical.
There is no scientific study that gives proof, or anything more than statistical evidence that flouride actually helps teeth. They say "look, where there's flouride in the water, people have better teeth." The never mention that flouride is put into the water in countries where we have and can afford toothbrushes, toothpaste and dental care.
Statistically, people who consume flouride have better teeth. But statistically, people who consume flouride probably have a much higher standard of living than those that don't.
Personally, I've consumed flouride my whole life, I look after my teeth, but I still have plenty of holes, fillings, caries, all sorts of things. I look in the mirror and there's a filling in almost every tooth! And this is the case for a lot of people I know. So it begs the question, did the flouride actually stop any holes? Possibly, but the dentist would have patched them anyway.
The digital medium is secure enough that the Irdeto 2 and NDS statillite & cable TV digital encryption systems have not been hacked yet.
As opposed to the earlier versions, which were hacked within months of their release.
So it goes to show that if you can get decent encryption into your digital system, and afford to get decryption equipment to your customers, you can keep one step ahead of the hackers.
You mean the American drug comapnies wanted....free trade! Why shouldn't American companies be able to charge whatever they want for their goods? I'm sure our government sold them out and you are getting our drugs at a lower cost.
"Free Trade" is not compatiable with health care in Australia. You see, we have the ability to seperate some things from "the money."
The PBS is a system where everyone can get health care - regardless of what they have. Because if they don't have their health, guess what? They're not going to be working to pay income tax or anything like that. They're not going to contribute to society. Another concept that seems forign to Americans.
So at the end of the day, corporations in the US saw the way 'drugs' (we call them medicines) are paid for in Australia, and thought "now here's a scam if I've ever seen one... we just up the price, and the people pay"
THAT's why such a system would never work in the US. The whole concept of doing something for the good of society, as opposed to doing something to make money, has gone out the window. Can a US citizen make any decision now without thinking of his wallet?
Every year, I pay about 2% of my before tax wage for Medicare. About $750. You know how many times I've been to the doctor in the past five years since I started working? Twice. You know what? I'm HAPPY I'm paying that much. I LIKE paying that much - so PEOPLE who don't have a job, who are WORSE OFF than me, can get their problems fixed... hopefully ALLOWING them to get a job, thus continuing the cycle. I do NOT pay this Medicare charge every year so some greedy, selfish, imoral US stockholder can put it in his pocket!
Ah, you wouldn't know which ones were going to be searched. But you know if just one is searched, and something is found, the shit will hit the fan!
The security staff are not going to say "oh, we'll keep this bad guy, the rest of you fly away." They're going to shut down the airport, and search everybody who was boarding that plane.
You see, it's about deterrence. Making the probability of getting caught higher than the probability of success. Decreasing the cost-benifit ratio for the terrorist. Avoidance.
At the end of the day, if he's committed, the terrorist will get through no matter what you do. Ask the Brits about the IRA. You think a door lock is going to stop a derranged killer specifically targeting you? No, he'll just smash your window!
So you have to do many things which make it difficult to succeed, as opposed to thinking you can pick the terrorists out of a line. After all, if you *could* just pick them out, how come the authorities don't do that *before* they even get to the airport? If it can be done, how come it isn't? Because it can't be done.
So you can't pick terrorists out of a line. Much better to say to the terrorist "there's a literal one in four chance of getting screened" as opposed to "if you wear the right clothes, get the right ticket, pay the right way, it's more than likley you won't get stopped." Which of those two options really prevents more people attempting terrorism?
I think both the 11 year olds' and the Grandmothers' accounts were initaited by someone else... there's no way the 11 year old was paying for it herself.
So when RIAA ran their checks, it came up with the details of the credit card holder rather than the person using the connection.
It's not wasted time at all. It sends the message that Mr. Terrorist, it's a lucky dip. Come here, there's a one in four chance we'll search you. See, we even search old men!
It would be a lot easier for Mr. Terrorist to walk into an airport, confident he's got the right name, dressed well, return ticked paid by CC, and he can at the moment be quite sure he'll get though. By simply having "criteria" that can be met, the terrorist can learn to avoid these criteria.
It's simple psychology. It is far more risky and dangerous to proceed if the chance of being searched is just that - chance.
Silly... it shouldn't be about race, colour or anything. It should be *random* - every fourth person or whatever, regardless of who they are or what they look like.
This way, at least the bad guy won't be able to evade your security personel by looking and acting "normal."
But this is the perfect example of how the new digital age will work!
Performers, singers, artists, film makers all do their thing and make songs, which we all download off the net and listen to or watch.
We then fall in love with these people just as we always have, download our favourites, get all excited.
Then the performer comes to town, does a show, and makes a wicked living because so many people come to see them because they *want* to give something back to this person who they admire. Sell out shows make artists money.
We all know for example music artists get stuff all from a CD, and the bulk of their income at the moment comes from live shows anyway. By giving away the non-live recorded stuff, they through their altruism gain such a large fan base their live shows are extremly popular.
The internet will *never* be able to replicate the feeling and atmosphere of a live show. I'm sure this model will work.
Mike Moore deserves to charge heaps for a live performance. This is where he can make a living.
And you'd still have to calibrate your liquid mass flow metre just as often as the petrol station pumps are calibrated.
As the article stated the vast majority of inaccuracies are just metres loosing their accuracy, I see no reason why your metre in the car would be necessaraly any more accurate than the one in the pump.
To open external links from any third party app in a new tab in Firefox, rather than a new window, try Single Window by Aaron Spuler, a Firefox extention which I only found and installed yesterday.
It has two tick boxes, one for enabling single window mode for all links, and another to enable opening external links in new tabs. I've got the first one off and the second one on. Works great!
In Australia currently, the symbol rates are as follows:
Digital Cable, Standard Definition Only, Dolby + MPEG audio, 8mbps per channel.
Digital Terresterial TV, Standard Definition, Dolby + MPEG audio, 12mbps per channel.
Digital Terresterial TV, High Definition, Dolby Digital audio, 18mbps to 22mbps.
So with a 200mbps connection, you could easily, easily send a 22mbps high definition TV stream, and there would be no slow down for regular internet use.
Remember Digital TV uses MPEG2 compression, just like a DVD. You can set whatever symbol rate (data rate) you want. Obviously, the more bits thrown at it, the better the picture. However, there is little noticable difference between 22mbps and 45mbps, even with a 1080i screen.
Maybe one day when we can actually get 1080p screens, the higher broadcast quality symbol rate of 45mbps would be required.
But then again, DVD's run at 8-9mbps, and the picture from them is just fine. Excluding dark scenes. Or underwater. Or fog.
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We welcome you with open arms.
Sure, we're a western country, and we did send a few of our best troops overseas, but you can live here without the constant propaganda on the news, no-one will have a go at you for expressing your beliefs, you can say what you like about America, your kids will get a great education, even without health insurance our doctors will see you for free, medicine costs about US$2, our roads are great, lots of things to see, great and varying culture, nice people who will help you out in a bind, no guns on the street, no need to fear when walking the streets at night, big cars, mate the chicks in Australia are second to none, we also have Australia Zoo (Steve Irwin) which may be of interest.
Plus, you can say you're living on the worlds largest island.
I really feel sorry for any American with similar politcal beliefs as I, only slightly, slightly left wing.
No, no, you're not having a blonde day at all, that was clear, concise and correct :)
"The fluoride compounds used for water fluoridation are trapped by "scrubbers" in the smokestack of factories like the one pictured above"
Companies don't make a profit by manufactring and selling flouride. By giving it to the government to put into the water supply, they save the money they would have had to spend getting rid of this noxious chemical.
There is no scientific study that gives proof, or anything more than statistical evidence that flouride actually helps teeth. They say "look, where there's flouride in the water, people have better teeth." The never mention that flouride is put into the water in countries where we have and can afford toothbrushes, toothpaste and dental care.
Statistically, people who consume flouride have better teeth. But statistically, people who consume flouride probably have a much higher standard of living than those that don't.
Personally, I've consumed flouride my whole life, I look after my teeth, but I still have plenty of holes, fillings, caries, all sorts of things. I look in the mirror and there's a filling in almost every tooth! And this is the case for a lot of people I know. So it begs the question, did the flouride actually stop any holes? Possibly, but the dentist would have patched them anyway.
Don't be, that one just looks like an empty tube rather than a real rocket.
As opposed to the earlier versions, which were hacked within months of their release.
So it goes to show that if you can get decent encryption into your digital system, and afford to get decryption equipment to your customers, you can keep one step ahead of the hackers.
Unfortunatly.
The security staff are not going to say "oh, we'll keep this bad guy, the rest of you fly away." They're going to shut down the airport, and search everybody who was boarding that plane.
You see, it's about deterrence. Making the probability of getting caught higher than the probability of success. Decreasing the cost-benifit ratio for the terrorist. Avoidance.
At the end of the day, if he's committed, the terrorist will get through no matter what you do. Ask the Brits about the IRA. You think a door lock is going to stop a derranged killer specifically targeting you? No, he'll just smash your window!
So you have to do many things which make it difficult to succeed, as opposed to thinking you can pick the terrorists out of a line. After all, if you *could* just pick them out, how come the authorities don't do that *before* they even get to the airport? If it can be done, how come it isn't? Because it can't be done.
So you can't pick terrorists out of a line. Much better to say to the terrorist "there's a literal one in four chance of getting screened" as opposed to "if you wear the right clothes, get the right ticket, pay the right way, it's more than likley you won't get stopped." Which of those two options really prevents more people attempting terrorism?
So when RIAA ran their checks, it came up with the details of the credit card holder rather than the person using the connection.
It would be a lot easier for Mr. Terrorist to walk into an airport, confident he's got the right name, dressed well, return ticked paid by CC, and he can at the moment be quite sure he'll get though. By simply having "criteria" that can be met, the terrorist can learn to avoid these criteria.
It's simple psychology. It is far more risky and dangerous to proceed if the chance of being searched is just that - chance.
This way, at least the bad guy won't be able to evade your security personel by looking and acting "normal."
You're not supposed to drink the grounds at the bottom.
You can read it, look at it and use it, but you still can't type out copy and sell it.
Yeah true bloody good thing too!
Red book is the CD Digital Audio standard... You mean yellow book.
What you need is a driver for your device rather than a service.
The other point to consider is that US$1 is worth a lot in a country where the factory pays the workers about US$25 a month.
Combined with the sheer volumes these manufactures are doing, I would not be surprised if they were doing OK at the end of the day.
It's = "it is"
John's bike = INCORRECT
Jonhs' bike = correct.
Valids are those with perfectly engineered DNA who would be much more suitable for space travel than those with normal DNA.
Performers, singers, artists, film makers all do their thing and make songs, which we all download off the net and listen to or watch.
We then fall in love with these people just as we always have, download our favourites, get all excited.
Then the performer comes to town, does a show, and makes a wicked living because so many people come to see them because they *want* to give something back to this person who they admire. Sell out shows make artists money.
We all know for example music artists get stuff all from a CD, and the bulk of their income at the moment comes from live shows anyway. By giving away the non-live recorded stuff, they through their altruism gain such a large fan base their live shows are extremly popular.
The internet will *never* be able to replicate the feeling and atmosphere of a live show. I'm sure this model will work.
Mike Moore deserves to charge heaps for a live performance. This is where he can make a living.
As the article stated the vast majority of inaccuracies are just metres loosing their accuracy, I see no reason why your metre in the car would be necessaraly any more accurate than the one in the pump.
Excluding dodged operators of course...
Voice Over I. P.
It has two tick boxes, one for enabling single window mode for all links, and another to enable opening external links in new tabs. I've got the first one off and the second one on. Works great!
If you had one of these, you would know of the buzz we speak of. :-)
Digital Cable, Standard Definition Only, Dolby + MPEG audio, 8mbps per channel.
Digital Terresterial TV, Standard Definition, Dolby + MPEG audio, 12mbps per channel.
Digital Terresterial TV, High Definition, Dolby Digital audio, 18mbps to 22mbps.
So with a 200mbps connection, you could easily, easily send a 22mbps high definition TV stream, and there would be no slow down for regular internet use.
Remember Digital TV uses MPEG2 compression, just like a DVD. You can set whatever symbol rate (data rate) you want. Obviously, the more bits thrown at it, the better the picture. However, there is little noticable difference between 22mbps and 45mbps, even with a 1080i screen.
Maybe one day when we can actually get 1080p screens, the higher broadcast quality symbol rate of 45mbps would be required.
But then again, DVD's run at 8-9mbps, and the picture from them is just fine. Excluding dark scenes. Or underwater. Or fog.
Ah, a great explanation, thanks! So the only way to get a similar effect in IE is to detect it and then use javascript... how annoying!