Here's what the French French thought up: "mél" (pronounciation strikingly similar to that of "mail").
French magazines (Science&Vie comes to mind) started arguing that courriel was more interesting a few years ago. It does sound much more French...But then, French also give their clothes a 'pressing', not a "nettoyage à sec" (Quebecois version).
French French "more pure"? Subject to discussion, to say the least.
Interstingly enough, the per capita number of people in Canada is a mere fraction of that in hte U.S..
Less people per capita in Canada than in the US, eh? I guess we tend to have heads more often than most Americans you know. Go read a dictionary.
(Canadian, and proud of it - currently in the US, and happy to be able to travel more or less freely)
Here's a hint: 'per capita'=='per head'='per person'. There are less guns per people here (in the country where BB replicas are now mostly banned), and less violent crime victims per 1000.
To the grandparent: It may be so. However, if someone wants to kill, he or she will either:
-do so impulsively (Use a knife or a gun. who cares?)
-plan it. Triads have no problem doing violent crimes in Montreal and Toronto, afaik.
I dare advance that the problems might be in population concentrations.
In any case, i prefer knowing that if anything happens, the current greatest power on Earth has less chances of turning into some sort of dictatorship. Noticed how many of those 'revolutions' were led, in part or fully, by military and police leaders?
When only a few people have better ability to defend themselves and attack others, this is where power truly lies - not in the politicians, but in those who have the right bear arms. This power is dormant and easily forgotten in industrialized countries, since those people themselves seem to forget their own power, and, more importantly, believe in the current system. However, the moment they decide to organize themselves and become the leaders, it surely won't be MADD, or the general unarmed public that will stop them.
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Hey, we're still alive, and a slashdotting would sure be great:)
The newsgroups is still there (nntp://rec.games.corewar), and the main hill is hosted at http://www.koth.org (more newbie/evolver friendly hills at http://corewars.sourceforge.net/). There's an IRC channel (irc.koth.org:6667 #corewars), with weekly(sunday) mini tournaments. BTW, those who have played with the '86 or '88 standards a long time ago, might be interested in knowing that a new standard is in use ('94 draft - been a draft for 10 years now), which makes many, many things more logical(still backward compatible with '88 too)
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Here's what the French French thought up:
"mél" (pronounciation strikingly similar to that of "mail").
French magazines (Science&Vie comes to mind) started arguing that courriel was more interesting a few years ago. It does sound much more French...But then, French also give their clothes a 'pressing', not a "nettoyage à sec" (Quebecois version).
French French "more pure"? Subject to discussion, to say the least.
F=ma
:).
Work=F*l=mal
If acceleration is constant no matter what, then higher mass=more kinetic energy.
OTOH, if WORK is constant, well, kinetic energy is the same(as long as the projectile has a mass, i guess
Less people per capita in Canada than in the US, eh? I guess we tend to have heads more often than most Americans you know. Go read a dictionary.
(Canadian, and proud of it - currently in the US, and happy to be able to travel more or less freely)
Here's a hint: 'per capita'=='per head'='per person'. There are less guns per people here (in the country where BB replicas are now mostly banned), and less violent crime victims per 1000.
To the grandparent: It may be so. However, if someone wants to kill, he or she will either: -do so impulsively (Use a knife or a gun. who cares?) -plan it. Triads have no problem doing violent crimes in Montreal and Toronto, afaik.
I dare advance that the problems might be in population concentrations.
In any case, i prefer knowing that if anything happens, the current greatest power on Earth has less chances of turning into some sort of dictatorship. Noticed how many of those 'revolutions' were led, in part or fully, by military and police leaders?
When only a few people have better ability to defend themselves and attack others, this is where power truly lies - not in the politicians, but in those who have the right bear arms. This power is dormant and easily forgotten in industrialized countries, since those people themselves seem to forget their own power, and, more importantly, believe in the current system. However, the moment they decide to organize themselves and become the leaders, it surely won't be MADD, or the general unarmed public that will stop them.
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True. Maybe they should have taken the total scores VS all the (fe) Top 8.
Hey, we're still alive, and a slashdotting would sure be great :)
:)
The newsgroups is still there (nntp://rec.games.corewar), and the main hill is hosted at http://www.koth.org (more newbie/evolver friendly hills at http://corewars.sourceforge.net/). There's an IRC channel (irc.koth.org:6667 #corewars), with weekly(sunday) mini tournaments. BTW, those who have played with the '86 or '88 standards a long time ago, might be interested in knowing that a new standard is in use ('94 draft - been a draft for 10 years now), which makes many, many things more logical(still backward compatible with '88 too)
Good, i've done my evangelising of the month