I guess they call anything with a motor and two wheels a motorcycle. I'm with you. I was wondering how they strapped the guy on so that he wouldn't fly off. Well, their motorcycle has a fuselage.
Neither the summary nor the article (I know...) mention what it's going to cost the heirs to get the rights back. TFA states that they can regain control a certain period after the grant of rights had been made, but is this just a normal end of the contract or do they have to buy it back? In the article Disney is quoted as saying they knew this was coming, so I'm guessing this is just the normal end whatever contract the film companies had to license the characters. Are there any IP lawyers who could shed some light on this?
First, the paint will likely reduce the conductivity of the exchanger tubes and reduce the efficiency. Really though, the issue isn't so much finding a corrosion resistant material (there are austenitics or even duplex stainless steels that hold up pretty well), the issue is that these things are running 24/7 for a long time and salt water is going to eventually eat away at whatever you run it through. Normally you can just use pipes thick enough to last a while, but when designing a heat exchanger you want to use tubes as thing as possible to minimize the thermal resistance. I used to work in oil and gas, we were on a lake, so I don't have direct experience with salt water, but with brackish water we were still using tube thicknesses around 1/10th of an inch in our heat exchangers.
The entire world doesn't live in the suburbs you know. In rural areas plumbing relies on wells and septic tanks, since the distances involved are too large to lay municipal/county water and sewage lines. The distances are also too large for even DSL to become economical, so internet access is through dial-up or, if you have the money and/or are lucky enough to be within LoS, satellite or radio, which generally isn't much faster.
So yes, people in rural areas can have access to indoor plumbing, but not high-speed. I've lived in that situation and it's probably more common than you think.
I'll second the ROM. It's more human-centric, but as the parent says they have a pretty good natural history section. I haven't been there since the renovations, but last I was there they had a really good bird room. The science center is decent, it's the same as every other science center in North America. As far as technology goes, if you're in the Toronto area I'd strongly recommend the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in nearby Hamilton. If you're heading further north then the National Aviation Museum is pretty good too.
Damn that Paul Martin, running his shipping company like every other shipping company in the world. Damn him for running an effective business and making money. We don't want our politicians to be pragmatic or anything. Otherwise they'd achieve real policy objectives. Politicians shouldn't be considering real factors in their decisions to achieve real goals; all they should be doing is waving flags and invading countries when God tells them too!
Your assymmetric criteria reinforce my prior assertion. You argue that to be a left-winger you need to espouse something close to communism, but to be a right-winger someone only need to espouse policies that you don't particularly like. If a left winger is a communist in your view, shouldn't a right-winger be a fascist? Again, I'm no Tory, but Harper defnitely isn't a black-shirt.
You just list off pet issues and accuse the supporters of being neo-cons. The Canadian-DMCA is dead in the water. How does drug enforcement make one a neo-con? Has the Canadian government deployed troops to Central America like the Americans have? Do you think trying to keep heroin off the streets is just some fascist plot? Do you think the Bikers in the east and the asian gangs in the west are just benign groups tragically driven to violence by government intervention?
I'm not going to defend the Harper government, but to call them neo-conservative is going too far. They have not undertaken a policy of regime change, they have not gone on millitary adventures like the U.S. The mission in Afghanistan is sanctioned by the U.N. and was a legitimate repsonse to an act of war against the U.S. under NATO. Is NATO some fascist conspiracy too? Harper has done some bone-headed things like sending Rona Ambrose to the climate change conference, trying to undermine the funding of the other political parties and re-introducing a structural deficit, but until he embarks on a policy to project "Canadian Values" onto other countries he's not a neo-conservative.
To elaborate, we have at least 4 (serious) political contenders who are in (or near) the center of the political spectrum here in Canada:
- The Marijuana Party
- The New Democratic Party
- The Green Party
- The Pirate Party (the new kid on the block)
These parties compete primarily with the Liberal Party (Canada's unofficial right-wing party); and the Liberal party is the only party that can offer any serious opposition to the Conservative party (Canada's unofficial neoconservative party), who tends to remain strong unless there is consistent and persistent and extreme scandals and incompetency during their terms in office (sorta like how the Republicans remain quite strong in the US despite their scandals and in-competencies).
This is so wrong I don't know where to start. First, I'm guessing you're pretty young if you think the Tories have been traditionally strong. Secondly, the Liberals are not, not have ever been right wing. They're a pragmatic centrist party. Before Chretien's election Canadian politics were dominated by the Tories and the Liberals. They were both centrists and back in the day the most common complaint heard was that there was no difference between the two. Then the Tories were decimated and the reform party which is definitely right-wing took over as the major opposition. Eventually they merged with the more moderate eastern tories to form what we know as the CPC today, though Reform appears to dominate the leadership. Though as an easterner I have no love for them, I would never say the party as a whole is neo-conservative.
The NDP has always been left wing, they've always been tied to the Unions (not withstanding the split with Buzz recently). To call them (or the Marijuana party) centrist is just plain crazy. Your characterization of Canadian politics betrays a fairly extreme leftist bent.
No, but they can play confidence-motion-chicken with it to push it through. Despite the interest among the slashdot crowd intellectual property is not a very sexy election issue for most of the electorate.
Soda bottles are made fomr PET. BPA is found in hard plastics like PC (as specifically stated in the summary.) There is absolutely no Bisphenol A in your soda bottles.
Congratulations, you've fallen into the same form of mass hysteria that leads people to censor games or the internet (a la Thailand) whenever a kid shoots someone/commits suicide.
While we all knew that Wikipedia was not exactly a reliable source, I think the prevalence of "good" news organizations using it as a primary source is new and informative. Oh... and the experiment didn't actually kill anybody.
I second "Web Designer". Even if they're getting a "picture" they need to put into markup then they're still designing. The word "design" has recently been co-opted by stylists and decorators, etc... but there's more to it than that. Mechanical designers and piping designers have been around for ages. They're the ones who translate the big picture idead into reality and I think that translates well into the position you're describing. Certainly, making a nice looking standards compliant page is non-trivial.
I usually use "web designer" for people involved in the front end and "web developer" for those who work on the back end scripts (or really heavy client-side scripting beyond dhtml).
It's not nonsense it's true (everywhere but the U.S.). Engineering is a profession. If you can't bother meeting that profession's standards then don't identify yourself with it.
I'd say top 50 in the Financial Times rankings, but the closer you are to the top the better. The tier 1 schools (top 10) are very expensive, but are a golden ticket to a few key companies that don't recruit much anywhere else.
I have an MBA, so as an engineer who's done this let me shed a bit of light on it. An MBA is a very different creature from a regular Academic master's degree. In the top tier schools (the only ones worth the tuition) it's basically a stepping stone to a few specific careers: Investment Banking, Fund Management, Consulting and to some degree entrepreneurship. If you're looking to either jump into consulting or finance then go for the MBA. If you want to climb the ladder in an IT organization get something else.
For the love of God, learn about your own civic structure. Australia is independent. The Queen rules Australia in right of Australia, completely separately from any other realm. The UK parliament has had zero authority over Australia since the statute of Westminster. The only reason that Australia has the same queen as the UK, Canada, etc... is because we all CHOSE to abide by the same succession criteria.
Don't go crying to the rest of us if you don't like your laws. You only have your own selves to blame and we won't be your scapegoats.
This is coming from Olympus so they should sure as hell be focussing on low light performance. Simply because it's the weakness of the smaller 4/3 format they use. I expect that Cannon and Nikkon will have other priorities. However, I agree; at this point more megapixels is meaningless.
I agree, this seems very normal. It might have caught my ire if they tried getting the data from a third party (e.g. Facebook), but they're going through a party to the action with the discovery process. The system is working as intended. Nothing to see here, move along.
That's 1/2 of the theory, the moral hazard half. The evidence suggests that insurance will increase consumption, primarily outpatient services. However, the people that love to point this out usually leave out another issue, adverse selection. Essentially sick people will tend to purchase better coverage, which will drive the cost of that coverage up until it's unaffordable. These leads to two issues: 1. Sick people will be unable to afford insurance, and 2. Insurance companies will spend a lot of money screening customers for "prior conditions". Does this sound familiar?
The jury's still out on exactly why the US healthcare sector is so much more expensive (as % of GDP) than everyone else, but the increased administrative costs created by the US' unique insurance market (other countries have private insurers, but place rules on turning people away, etc...) is a likely suspect of a significant part of the difference.
The free market is a tool not an ideology. Remember, a free market is not a market free of government intervention, but one free from barriers. Moral hazard and adverse selection are two of many barriers present in the health insurance market and the government didn't put them there, so blindly keeping the government out of insurance will not magically make the health insurance market free./rant
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I guess they call anything with a motor and two wheels a motorcycle. I'm with you. I was wondering how they strapped the guy on so that he wouldn't fly off. Well, their motorcycle has a fuselage.
Neither the summary nor the article (I know...) mention what it's going to cost the heirs to get the rights back. TFA states that they can regain control a certain period after the grant of rights had been made, but is this just a normal end of the contract or do they have to buy it back? In the article Disney is quoted as saying they knew this was coming, so I'm guessing this is just the normal end whatever contract the film companies had to license the characters. Are there any IP lawyers who could shed some light on this?
The 6000 series alloys are also extremely expensive compared to steel and more importantly difficult to weld, even compared to stainless.
First, the paint will likely reduce the conductivity of the exchanger tubes and reduce the efficiency. Really though, the issue isn't so much finding a corrosion resistant material (there are austenitics or even duplex stainless steels that hold up pretty well), the issue is that these things are running 24/7 for a long time and salt water is going to eventually eat away at whatever you run it through. Normally you can just use pipes thick enough to last a while, but when designing a heat exchanger you want to use tubes as thing as possible to minimize the thermal resistance. I used to work in oil and gas, we were on a lake, so I don't have direct experience with salt water, but with brackish water we were still using tube thicknesses around 1/10th of an inch in our heat exchangers.
No, it means that if you break a web site's ToS you're not committing fraud.
Rix is either a troll or some poor kid who's never been farther than the subway train will take him.
The entire world doesn't live in the suburbs you know. In rural areas plumbing relies on wells and septic tanks, since the distances involved are too large to lay municipal/county water and sewage lines. The distances are also too large for even DSL to become economical, so internet access is through dial-up or, if you have the money and/or are lucky enough to be within LoS, satellite or radio, which generally isn't much faster.
So yes, people in rural areas can have access to indoor plumbing, but not high-speed. I've lived in that situation and it's probably more common than you think.
I'll second the ROM. It's more human-centric, but as the parent says they have a pretty good natural history section. I haven't been there since the renovations, but last I was there they had a really good bird room. The science center is decent, it's the same as every other science center in North America. As far as technology goes, if you're in the Toronto area I'd strongly recommend the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in nearby Hamilton. If you're heading further north then the National Aviation Museum is pretty good too.
Damn that Paul Martin, running his shipping company like every other shipping company in the world. Damn him for running an effective business and making money. We don't want our politicians to be pragmatic or anything. Otherwise they'd achieve real policy objectives. Politicians shouldn't be considering real factors in their decisions to achieve real goals; all they should be doing is waving flags and invading countries when God tells them too!
Your assymmetric criteria reinforce my prior assertion. You argue that to be a left-winger you need to espouse something close to communism, but to be a right-winger someone only need to espouse policies that you don't particularly like. If a left winger is a communist in your view, shouldn't a right-winger be a fascist? Again, I'm no Tory, but Harper defnitely isn't a black-shirt.
You just list off pet issues and accuse the supporters of being neo-cons. The Canadian-DMCA is dead in the water. How does drug enforcement make one a neo-con? Has the Canadian government deployed troops to Central America like the Americans have? Do you think trying to keep heroin off the streets is just some fascist plot? Do you think the Bikers in the east and the asian gangs in the west are just benign groups tragically driven to violence by government intervention?
I'm not going to defend the Harper government, but to call them neo-conservative is going too far. They have not undertaken a policy of regime change, they have not gone on millitary adventures like the U.S. The mission in Afghanistan is sanctioned by the U.N. and was a legitimate repsonse to an act of war against the U.S. under NATO. Is NATO some fascist conspiracy too? Harper has done some bone-headed things like sending Rona Ambrose to the climate change conference, trying to undermine the funding of the other political parties and re-introducing a structural deficit, but until he embarks on a policy to project "Canadian Values" onto other countries he's not a neo-conservative.
This is so wrong I don't know where to start. First, I'm guessing you're pretty young if you think the Tories have been traditionally strong. Secondly, the Liberals are not, not have ever been right wing. They're a pragmatic centrist party. Before Chretien's election Canadian politics were dominated by the Tories and the Liberals. They were both centrists and back in the day the most common complaint heard was that there was no difference between the two. Then the Tories were decimated and the reform party which is definitely right-wing took over as the major opposition. Eventually they merged with the more moderate eastern tories to form what we know as the CPC today, though Reform appears to dominate the leadership. Though as an easterner I have no love for them, I would never say the party as a whole is neo-conservative.
The NDP has always been left wing, they've always been tied to the Unions (not withstanding the split with Buzz recently). To call them (or the Marijuana party) centrist is just plain crazy. Your characterization of Canadian politics betrays a fairly extreme leftist bent.
That spanish won't help you much in Brazil...
No, but they can play confidence-motion-chicken with it to push it through. Despite the interest among the slashdot crowd intellectual property is not a very sexy election issue for most of the electorate.
Soda bottles are made fomr PET. BPA is found in hard plastics like PC (as specifically stated in the summary.) There is absolutely no Bisphenol A in your soda bottles. Congratulations, you've fallen into the same form of mass hysteria that leads people to censor games or the internet (a la Thailand) whenever a kid shoots someone/commits suicide.
While we all knew that Wikipedia was not exactly a reliable source, I think the prevalence of "good" news organizations using it as a primary source is new and informative. Oh... and the experiment didn't actually kill anybody.
I second "Web Designer". Even if they're getting a "picture" they need to put into markup then they're still designing. The word "design" has recently been co-opted by stylists and decorators, etc... but there's more to it than that. Mechanical designers and piping designers have been around for ages. They're the ones who translate the big picture idead into reality and I think that translates well into the position you're describing. Certainly, making a nice looking standards compliant page is non-trivial.
I usually use "web designer" for people involved in the front end and "web developer" for those who work on the back end scripts (or really heavy client-side scripting beyond dhtml).
It's not nonsense it's true (everywhere but the U.S.). Engineering is a profession. If you can't bother meeting that profession's standards then don't identify yourself with it.
It would be more like hating the government in general. I believe they call themselves libertarians.
I'd say top 50 in the Financial Times rankings, but the closer you are to the top the better. The tier 1 schools (top 10) are very expensive, but are a golden ticket to a few key companies that don't recruit much anywhere else.
I have an MBA, so as an engineer who's done this let me shed a bit of light on it. An MBA is a very different creature from a regular Academic master's degree. In the top tier schools (the only ones worth the tuition) it's basically a stepping stone to a few specific careers: Investment Banking, Fund Management, Consulting and to some degree entrepreneurship. If you're looking to either jump into consulting or finance then go for the MBA. If you want to climb the ladder in an IT organization get something else.
For the love of God, learn about your own civic structure. Australia is independent. The Queen rules Australia in right of Australia, completely separately from any other realm. The UK parliament has had zero authority over Australia since the statute of Westminster. The only reason that Australia has the same queen as the UK, Canada, etc... is because we all CHOSE to abide by the same succession criteria. Don't go crying to the rest of us if you don't like your laws. You only have your own selves to blame and we won't be your scapegoats.
This is coming from Olympus so they should sure as hell be focussing on low light performance. Simply because it's the weakness of the smaller 4/3 format they use. I expect that Cannon and Nikkon will have other priorities. However, I agree; at this point more megapixels is meaningless.
That protection doesn't exist in Canada.
I agree, this seems very normal. It might have caught my ire if they tried getting the data from a third party (e.g. Facebook), but they're going through a party to the action with the discovery process. The system is working as intended. Nothing to see here, move along.
That's 1/2 of the theory, the moral hazard half. The evidence suggests that insurance will increase consumption, primarily outpatient services. However, the people that love to point this out usually leave out another issue, adverse selection. Essentially sick people will tend to purchase better coverage, which will drive the cost of that coverage up until it's unaffordable. These leads to two issues: 1. Sick people will be unable to afford insurance, and 2. Insurance companies will spend a lot of money screening customers for "prior conditions". Does this sound familiar?
/rant
The jury's still out on exactly why the US healthcare sector is so much more expensive (as % of GDP) than everyone else, but the increased administrative costs created by the US' unique insurance market (other countries have private insurers, but place rules on turning people away, etc...) is a likely suspect of a significant part of the difference.
The free market is a tool not an ideology. Remember, a free market is not a market free of government intervention, but one free from barriers. Moral hazard and adverse selection are two of many barriers present in the health insurance market and the government didn't put them there, so blindly keeping the government out of insurance will not magically make the health insurance market free.