Well because it's free, there's always a long waiting for operations. In the US, you can shell out the cash and get it done right away. That's the only reason. Well that, and doctors get paid less here, so all the REALLY good ones skip the country and sell out, so if you want someone super specialized, you might want to go to the US and pay.
Hey, do you know Chris Turner or Tyler Simpson or Reha.... or George or Adam Trudeau?
(They're all ME's except for Chris, he's Electrical). And yeah, you do pay more (although 3.5K is less than Waterloo Engineering or Business at UWO's Richard Ivey school, but I guess you get a discount for living out in the boonies.:) )
I think I know what country I'll go to college in now.
Not only that, but as a citizen, I pay under $2500(CDN) per semester of university, if you're not a citizen, double that, but still hell of a lot cheaper than in the US!:)
Earlier today I posted about how glad I am that I don't live in a twisted country like the US, because of a wonderful law that's being discussed. Here's a quick little tidbit.
File sharing would be punishable by prison sentences of up to ten years in addition to large fines. Another bill introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) - Called the "Pirate Act" - would empower the Justice Department to initiate lawsuits against file sharers. According to the both the entertainment industry and Sen. Hatch, P2P networks are virtual dens of thieves, with the most pernicious of un-American activities occurring in an attempt to lure young Internet users into a lifetime of lawbreaking.
In defending the Pirate Act, Hatch said the operators of P2P networks are running a conspiracy in which they lure children and young people with free music, movies and pornography. With these "human shields," the P2P companies are trying to blackmail the entertainment industries into accepting their networks as a distribution channel and source of revenue. "Unfortunately, piracy and pornography could then become the cornerstones of a 'business model,'" Hatch said in a statement. The illicit activities of file sharers "then generate huge advertising revenues for the architects of piracy."
And Then I got flamed because in Canada we pay excise tax on CDs (and soon to be other recording media) because they can potentially be used for pirating copyrighted works. I totally agree with that law. The money goes to the recording industry (I think) and everyone is fairly content with the deal. (besides, it's only a few bucks and it seems fair enough to me. Yeah, i know, majority of the people use the CDs for legit purposes, blah blah blah).
Oh no you don't! I'm a much bigger outlaw than you. I can do all of the above while wearing a patch over my right eye and proclaiming something to the tune of "YARRRRRRRRRRRR, I'm not attractive".
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I am also 1.88 m tall. I do not fit well in one of those little tin can cars that the world thinks I should use.
That's rather strange, since I'm 190cm tall and I owned a Metro, which was plenty big enough for me. In fact, a '95+ Metro/Swift (now Aveo/Swift) has more legroom in the front and back than a '94 Cavalier. These cars look tiny from the outside, but there's some rather impressive engineering at work to gain a lot of space.
I don't here too much about EU types having to travel say 3,000 km in 3 day with a wife 2 kids and luggage on board. I also don't hear about you buying plywood and lumber for building onto your property very often.
I have lived in Europe (Eastern Europe to be exact) and people do haul stuff around like you wouldn't believe! I've seen everything from bricks to cow shit (for fertelizer) moved in the trunk (which was often times in the front on many rear engined models) I've taken vacations spanning thousands of kilometers with a family of four. I've seen my grandfather hauling a trailer of fruits and veggies to the market with his 1968, 49HP Skoda 1000MB. Not to mention that the roads in Eastern Europe at this time were way worse than anything here, yet the little cars got the job done. It's all American perception that you need an SUV to go over a speed bump.
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The whole idea behind the TDI is fuel Economy. Yes, you can get more torque out of the thing by tweaking the chip, but you're going to use hell of a lot more diesel in the process, hence defeating the whole purpose of actually buying a VW TDI.
That's great. Now prove it, beyond a shadow of a doubt, in the court of law, that I have at some point LOOKED at MS source and then programmed some open source API.
You know what I'm talking about. I'm more hammered than the pope. and you wknow what. I hate how americans view being hammered or under the influence as a war. Amercians war against drugs. Oh yeah.. You're such dumbasses for that. I hate how you view people who drink alcohol as below you. Your country is useless. I like sweden because they ban adverts to young kids. I'm not from that country, but I envy them for that. Their gov't doesn't give a shit. If its not good for the people, they won't let it happen,. If the whole world was like that, there'd be no war. Except the amercican war against evrything.
lOOK at me.. I've replied to my own email. The point is, the kiddie swill develop whatever language they waynt on line. This is their life. AT my school, you pick up a girl by getting on er MSN first and ten you warm up to her, and then you get her numbe. Youd on't ask for ther number up front, tha'ts too scandelous. you just go vor the email addrsss that gets her on your msn list. then you chat her up, then you ask her out. its new dem obgraphics man. Its how th ekids work these dya.s you gotta respect.
I grew up online. Look at me. I'm a loser. Or maybe not. I've been on line since grade school, and now i'm in my fourth year of university. Doesn' relly matter. I've harassed about 219 girls at the bar tonight, didn't score though. I have about 50% successs rate at this bar I go to. Tonight is one of the not nights. I brought one home last week though. The point is,..hmm.. what is the point., i frget,, too much weed and booze.. The point is.. don't worry about it, you'll get laid with persistance. It works fr me, it hoould wourk for you too!:) later dude..
I didn't realize that you could write interest payments on your mortgage off your taxes. I live in Canada, and I'm pretty sure that's not allowed here, (although i'm definitely going to check now). But damn maybe I'll just buy a house in the States then. I only live 2 hours from the nearest border.:)
You can only have a set rate for 5 years maximum. That's what refinancing is all about. And with landlords, they can only increase your payments by a certain small percentage per year, which depends on the state/country you live in, and being Canadian, it is a very low percentage
This is off topic, but more insightful than most of the comments here. Mortgage is a good idea only when your rent is really high, or more specifically, if your rent is more than The interest payment portion of your mortgage.
For Example: You mortgage a $200,000 house for 25 years, assuming about 5% interest, your payments for the first five years are $1185 a month. In the first five years you've paid 60*1185 = $71,145, but oh so sad for you, $54,343 of that was in interest. Now then, say your rent is $500 a month (say you live with a room mate) and (this is the key) you put away the difference that you'd pay for the monthly mortgage, ($1185 - 500 = $685). Now do that for five years while renting, and you've saved $41,100 towards your house. So mortgage is NOT always the best way to go.
Nooooo, what the hell are you thinking. Think of this as the one piece of advice from a stranger that will save your life. You want to do marketing. I'm almost done my undergrad in TWO degrees. One is a BSc in Computer Electronics and one is a Business Admin Degree. Guess which degree is completely UESELESS?
Marketing is where its at for several reasons anyways. Marketing classes have more (and hot) girls in them. Business/Marketing requires about 15-20 hours of class and a little bit of homework, Computer crap requires days and days of hard work and hairloss. University is the best part of your life. THe last thing you want to do is work. With marketing, you can get a good job. Entry level jobs at GM (where i've worked as an intern) for marketing are over $60K CDN. And you start getting raises after the first year.
For a better demostration. Computer hardware is like "Write a program to calculate the checksum of a series of 8-bit numbers. The checksum is formed by doing an exclusive OR of all the numbers in the list. For example, if the series had three numbers: $28, $55, and $26, the checksum would be formed by $28 XOR $55 XOR $26. The checksum for the example would be $5B. Assume the length of the list is provided" and marketing is like "Explain the importance of information to the company." Your choice big guy. Make the right one.
-By the way, the two quotes were both taken from actual course class material.
Theres a few other sounds I've heard in many places before. When you kill a trooper in Dune2 (no not DOOM II) they sometimes make the same noise that you hear in "Freejack" the movie when they drive on the sidewalk and a guy jumps out of the way. I've heard it in other movies, always used with people jumping out of the way. There is one more REALLY famous noise, that's the noise used in all the Doom games - when you open a door, i've heard that noise in a ton of movies and tv shows.
Damn. Didn't think I'd get that much emotion out of anyone. It wasn't supposed to be derogatory in any way. If you lose your job, you can find another one. I'm Canadian, our unemployment rate is a lot higher than in the states, and I didn't have too much of a problem finding a job, with my overpriced highschool diploma. I had 4 job offers out of 15 interviews, gotta count for something. All offers were for Marketing jobs. And by the way, I also have a useless BSc in Computing and Computer Electronics and the closest I get to programming anything is VLOOKUP. It's his livelyhood, but he'll find a new one. It's not smug, its life. Deal with it.
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mmmm.. that kind of sounds like an STD of some kind. A mix of crabs and clymedia. Can't wait to catch that one.
Well because it's free, there's always a long waiting for operations. In the US, you can shell out the cash and get it done right away. That's the only reason. Well that, and doctors get paid less here, so all the REALLY good ones skip the country and sell out, so if you want someone super specialized, you might want to go to the US and pay.
Hey, do you know Chris Turner or Tyler Simpson or Reha.... or George or Adam Trudeau?
:) )
(They're all ME's except for Chris, he's Electrical). And yeah, you do pay more (although 3.5K is less than Waterloo Engineering or Business at UWO's Richard Ivey school, but I guess you get a discount for living out in the boonies.
The liberals are alright, but not liberal enough for me. Check out the NDP, my party of choice. You're going to think we're total commies after this.
I was going to say the exact same thing. My room mates and I are all potheads, but none of us are jocks!
And Then I got flamed because in Canada we pay excise tax on CDs (and soon to be other recording media) because they can potentially be used for pirating copyrighted works. I totally agree with that law. The money goes to the recording industry (I think) and everyone is fairly content with the deal. (besides, it's only a few bucks and it seems fair enough to me. Yeah, i know, majority of the people use the CDs for legit purposes, blah blah blah).
Uh Oh, you agreed with Billy on /. Prepared to be strung from the highest tree.
I hate you.
If you were a country, I'd burn your flag.
Oh no you don't! I'm a much bigger outlaw than you. I can do all of the above while wearing a patch over my right eye and proclaiming something to the tune of "YARRRRRRRRRRRR, I'm not attractive".
Microsoft finally has something to say about this.
That's rather strange, since I'm 190cm tall and I owned a Metro, which was plenty big enough for me. In fact, a '95+ Metro/Swift (now Aveo/Swift) has more legroom in the front and back than a '94 Cavalier. These cars look tiny from the outside, but there's some rather impressive engineering at work to gain a lot of space.
I have lived in Europe (Eastern Europe to be exact) and people do haul stuff around like you wouldn't believe! I've seen everything from bricks to cow shit (for fertelizer) moved in the trunk (which was often times in the front on many rear engined models) I've taken vacations spanning thousands of kilometers with a family of four. I've seen my grandfather hauling a trailer of fruits and veggies to the market with his 1968, 49HP Skoda 1000MB. Not to mention that the roads in Eastern Europe at this time were way worse than anything here, yet the little cars got the job done. It's all American perception that you need an SUV to go over a speed bump.
The whole idea behind the TDI is fuel Economy. Yes, you can get more torque out of the thing by tweaking the chip, but you're going to use hell of a lot more diesel in the process, hence defeating the whole purpose of actually buying a VW TDI.
That's great. Now prove it, beyond a shadow of a doubt, in the court of law, that I have at some point LOOKED at MS source and then programmed some open source API.
oooh, J.R. Simplot.
uh oh.. i'm sobering up. I don't htink i should have posted that to /. ah well, shit happens. :)
You know what I'm talking about. I'm more hammered than the pope. and you wknow what. I hate how americans view being hammered or under the influence as a war. Amercians war against drugs. Oh yeah.. You're such dumbasses for that. I hate how you view people who drink alcohol as below you. Your country is useless. I like sweden because they ban adverts to young kids. I'm not from that country, but I envy them for that. Their gov't doesn't give a shit. If its not good for the people, they won't let it happen,. If the whole world was like that, there'd be no war. Except the amercican war against evrything.
lOOK at me.. I've replied to my own email. The point is, the kiddie swill develop whatever language they waynt on line. This is their life. AT my school, you pick up a girl by getting on er MSN first and ten you warm up to her, and then you get her numbe. Youd on't ask for ther number up front, tha'ts too scandelous. you just go vor the email addrsss that gets her on your msn list. then you chat her up, then you ask her out. its new dem obgraphics man. Its how th ekids work these dya.s you gotta respect.
I grew up online. Look at me. I'm a loser. Or maybe not. I've been on line since grade school, and now i'm in my fourth year of university. Doesn' relly matter. I've harassed about 219 girls at the bar tonight, didn't score though. I have about 50% successs rate at this bar I go to. Tonight is one of the not nights. I brought one home last week though. The point is, ..hmm.. what is the point., i frget,, too much weed and booze.. The point is.. don't worry about it, you'll get laid with persistance. It works fr me, it hoould wourk for you too! :) later dude..
I didn't realize that you could write interest payments on your mortgage off your taxes. I live in Canada, and I'm pretty sure that's not allowed here, (although i'm definitely going to check now). But damn maybe I'll just buy a house in the States then. I only live 2 hours from the nearest border. :)
You can only have a set rate for 5 years maximum. That's what refinancing is all about. And with landlords, they can only increase your payments by a certain small percentage per year, which depends on the state/country you live in, and being Canadian, it is a very low percentage
This is off topic, but more insightful than most of the comments here. Mortgage is a good idea only when your rent is really high, or more specifically, if your rent is more than The interest payment portion of your mortgage. For Example: You mortgage a $200,000 house for 25 years, assuming about 5% interest, your payments for the first five years are $1185 a month. In the first five years you've paid 60*1185 = $71,145, but oh so sad for you, $54,343 of that was in interest. Now then, say your rent is $500 a month (say you live with a room mate) and (this is the key) you put away the difference that you'd pay for the monthly mortgage, ($1185 - 500 = $685). Now do that for five years while renting, and you've saved $41,100 towards your house. So mortgage is NOT always the best way to go.
Nooooo, what the hell are you thinking. Think of this as the one piece of advice from a stranger that will save your life. You want to do marketing. I'm almost done my undergrad in TWO degrees. One is a BSc in Computer Electronics and one is a Business Admin Degree. Guess which degree is completely UESELESS?
Marketing is where its at for several reasons anyways. Marketing classes have more (and hot) girls in them. Business/Marketing requires about 15-20 hours of class and a little bit of homework, Computer crap requires days and days of hard work and hairloss. University is the best part of your life. THe last thing you want to do is work. With marketing, you can get a good job. Entry level jobs at GM (where i've worked as an intern) for marketing are over $60K CDN. And you start getting raises after the first year.
For a better demostration. Computer hardware is like "Write a program to calculate the checksum of a series of 8-bit numbers. The checksum is formed by doing an exclusive OR of all the numbers in the list. For example, if the series had three numbers: $28, $55, and $26, the checksum would be formed by $28 XOR $55 XOR $26. The checksum for the example would be $5B. Assume the length of the list is provided" and marketing is like "Explain the importance of information to the company." Your choice big guy. Make the right one.
-By the way, the two quotes were both taken from actual course class material.
Theres a few other sounds I've heard in many places before. When you kill a trooper in Dune2 (no not DOOM II) they sometimes make the same noise that you hear in "Freejack" the movie when they drive on the sidewalk and a guy jumps out of the way. I've heard it in other movies, always used with people jumping out of the way. There is one more REALLY famous noise, that's the noise used in all the Doom games - when you open a door, i've heard that noise in a ton of movies and tv shows.
Damn. Didn't think I'd get that much emotion out of anyone. It wasn't supposed to be derogatory in any way. If you lose your job, you can find another one. I'm Canadian, our unemployment rate is a lot higher than in the states, and I didn't have too much of a problem finding a job, with my overpriced highschool diploma. I had 4 job offers out of 15 interviews, gotta count for something. All offers were for Marketing jobs. And by the way, I also have a useless BSc in Computing and Computer Electronics and the closest I get to programming anything is VLOOKUP. It's his livelyhood, but he'll find a new one. It's not smug, its life. Deal with it.