In Kitchener ON. Stuff was rattling on the shelves here... about 150 miles southwest of the epicenter.
The largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. was in 1964 in Alaska. It was 9.2 on the Richter scale. The second largest measured earthquake. In contrast the New Madrid Earthquake (about 150 miles south of Saint Louis on the Mississippi River) was estimated from 7.5 to 8.1. However, the geology of the Midwest (one big piece of underlying bedrock covering most of the U.S. Midwest and Southern Ontario) allows the effects of an earthquake to be felt with little diminishment quite far from the epicenter, unlike earthquakes in zones like California (where the effects are not transmitted anywhere near as far). The underlying reason for the New Madrid Earthquake Zone looks to be a failed rift valley causing a weak spot in the sheet of bedrock covering the Midwest.
Also, ca. 300 years ago there was an estimated 8.7 to 9.2 Megathrust Earthquake off the Cascadian coast in 1700 (off the west coast of North America from mid Vancouver Island in B.C. Canada, and down along Washington and Oregon States. This was large enough to cause a large tsunamis to strike the coast of central Japan. It is expected that this area will experience this type and magnitude periodically (every ca. 500 years). I know in Vancouver, and most of coastal B.C. for that matter, that extensive earthquake retrofitting has taken place, and new buildings have to meet tough earthquake codes.
I call bullshit. For one, I was involved in Y2K related work for businesses that would have failed if their systems were not upgraded, namely the main enterprise business systems for daily newspapers (their circulation systems); for prepaid and wholesale (single copy) sales. And that included almost every newspaper in North America, and many overseas (not that our company worked on every newspaper's system, but considering there are not that many circ system software solutions, and they pretty much all had Y2K issues...). As well, the dot com bubble didn't burst until at least January 2000 which means that the Y2K issue was sorted out or companies were out of business before the dot com people were out of work. As well, the dot com people thrown out of work were mostly web developers, and the Y2K issue affected server side, and often COBOL related software... not exactly in the dot com programming skills bag. The company I worked for by the way provided a non-COBOL replacement system to fix our clients Y2K... complete new system instead of patching the existing system. I don't know where this 'myth of the Y2K' came about, but it seems to yet another conspiracy theory. I haven't seen or heard of one Y2K fix being worked on that wasn't solving a real critical issue. You're not a 'truther' or 'birther' by any chance too?
These lists are mostly full of shit. There are a set number of criteria that are used to judge these things, and the biggest companies (and sometimes erstwhile sweatshops) devote whole teams of HR personnel to organizing ways in which the company can seem to be meeting these. They coach employees on how to answer questionnaires, or frame the questions, like skillful pollsters, so that any answer seems to slant in the way the question asker wants it to slant. I was at a company that was absolute shit to work at, and it was ridiculous the lengths to which the company would go to, to make the list. And they made the top ten in Canada every year for a long time. Granted, some on the list deserve to be there. Others... they are there based on the work of their saffron robed HR people.
This is very old news in Canada. And no he won't. He doesn't even want the job, and the government is not considering him.
And it is "Governor General" not governor. It is an appointed position akin to say the most ceremonial presidential position in some republics. That is, before a law can come into effect it must be signed off by the GG. It is called Royal Assent. The GG represents the Queen of Canada (Elizabeth II) in Canada, and the monarch of the constitutional monarchy must approve all laws before they can come into effect. However, the GG by tradition always gives Royal Assent at the request of the Prime Minister. However most people don't realize that the GG doesn't HAVE to sign. It is a form of check or balance in the system. Of course this would likely never happen except in the rarest of circumstance.
Royal Assent must also be given in England as well before a law created in Parliament can go into effect. Of course in their case, the Queen signs it herself.
Before the 20th century, it was more common for the monarch to be able to withhold Royal Assent than today (less political repercussions back then). It is this ability to withhold Royal Assent that lent itself to the American Presidential Veto.
About 20 or 30 years ago, New Zealand was so far in debt that the world bank cut off their credit. There were big advertisements on the tops of hospitals, police cars, and any space big enough to put an ad owned by the government. Seems to me that California is at least trying to be responsible for getting their house in order before their credit is cut off. And governments will have their credit cut off if eventually if they don't balance their books. Look at Greece. Look at Argentina who defaulted on all their loans... lenders won't let it get that far again. Good on California if they can make a buck doing this.
SHOUTcast Radio is a web site which provides a directory of radio stations avalaible on the Internet. It provides categorizations of such stations, so it is easier to find one that matches your interest. According to users feedback, the integration of such directory inside VLC is one of the best features of the software.
It seems Shoutcast is important to many people. At least half a million according to some of the info in the article and its source. It also seems that many of the folks here seem to think Shoutcast is a trivial piece of work that costs nothing to operate and AOL should allow people to use it for free. AOL disagrees. That is their right. They own Shoutcast. If this is a problem for some of you, then create your own directory of internet radio stations. And create the protocol for it to be transmitted with. And pay for hosting the servers that the directory will reside on. And give all of it away for free. Or donate the money to pay for the services and the salaries to create and maintain it so that it can happen. Seems a lot of people think free software means being able to spend other people's money, and fork other people's code. To me it seems that a lot of the time, free software means working for free due to ones who like to spend other's money and fork other's code. Not all software supports service contracts like MySQL.
I never figured out how to get and use power armour without getting the power armour training which doesn't come until after you go through a lot of hassle... certainly more than four hours worth IMO. And I always set the game to the hardest level, and I haven't seen anything with power armour be killed outright by blowing up a car beside them. I do do that. I don't use any hacks or mods to get more power. Not saying you do. Maybe I'm not as 'good' at gaming, but I found most of FO3 very challenging. And I liked the realism and graphics. I expect graphics of this calibre now for this type of game. I would expect to have it in a multiplayer online game format. I agree that some add ons/downloadable content is not really related to the main story (like the mothership one), but otherwise they are in the same vein as post apocalypsia. And I agree that I would have liked a little more challenge from the AI. Like when you here the sound of a drum bouncing around after you accidentally hit it while sneaking, the bad guys don't hear it, but if you run or stand up, they will 'hear you' even if you are in another room. I absolutely hate 3rd person mode. FPS is to me the only way. And I have no idea at all why game makers do that to some driving games... 3rd person view only, when I want the first person view. I don't even look at driving games any more because of that. All in all, I think it is the best in the franchise. Based on its success, I think it is fair to say I am not alone.:) To each their own.
if you hate the sound of vuvuzelas, then you're a colonial racist who hates South African culture
What's funny about this, is we used to blow the exact same type of plastic horns at Toronto Argonauts CFL games when I was kid (a long time ago... at Exhibition Stadium). That was when the CFL was still a big draw in Toronto. Does that make me a colonial non-racist, or a South African?
There is so much that is wrong to what you say it would take a book to address. All I'll say on the matter is this:
There is no hatred, no ignorance here. I am a very centered person. I don't hate myself. I don't hate others except when I have to give up my heritage to accommodate people who come here and want me to change because they are unwilling to follow our traditions. And I am big on tradition. It is what makes heritage. If you don't understand that, you are likely the one who is self hating. Are you sure there isn't any transference going on? Are you the one who is really self hating. I haven't called you a retard, or thrown personal insults, yet you resort to such. I don't like people who want to impost their religion on me or want to bring it into government, or use it as an excuse to override our laws that we have worked centuries on. And if you try to say we've only been a country 133 years, you are ignoring that our laws and traditions date back to before the Magna Carta. Are you educated enough to know about that? Herd mentality. I live in Canada now. And I definitely don't walk in any herd here. You however are right in the middle of the sanctimonious bovines that make up left wing Canada. You may have traveled in the U.S. but like many Canadians who do so, you have the mistaken belief that you know all about it. You need to live there to understand it. I don't know all there is to know about it, but I certainly know more than you with nearly a decade of living there. I don't speak from ignorance, unlike you. The trouble with ignorant people is that they don't know they are ignorant and tend to put that label on others who aren't because their ignorance prevents them from understanding the argument. Go back to grazing.
Another Canadian who is full of himself. Canadian TV is shit. And if you think it isn't full of propaganda you are a moron. the CBC is an NDP/Liberal Party propaganda platform pure and simple. It aught to be eliminated. The shows suck. TV is there for entertainment, and CBC hasn't been entertaining... EVER. The CRTC is best known as the Canadian Roadblock To Communication. I have seen more of the world than you I warrant and speak from experience. Canadians by and large sit back and judge other countries, especially the U.S., but don't have the nuts to put their money where their mouth is. They yap about how good their education system is, when it is easier and less expensive to go to university in the U.S. Sure, many of the private schools are expensive but most of the state schools are the same price or less than Canadian universities. And community colleges are way less expensive. UCLA is one of the top schools in North America, and it is a state school, and up till the fiscal crisis in California, the tuition was around $6K per year. And you are allowed to transfer community college credits to university... something mostly not allowed in Canadian University. How many moon landings has the Canadian space program made? What is the per capita Nobel Prize output compared to the U.S. I listen to Canadians go on about their health care system. It sucks. I know. I have nerve damage in my left leg due to the length of time it took to get treatment for a spinal condition. Stop preening and acting like a peacock and crowing about how Canada's health care system is better than the United State's system. Typical Canadian blindness and self satisfying attitude. The Canadian medical system is one of the worst in the western world. Try talking to immigrants from western Europe and seeing what they think of the system here. I had people I worked with who were temporarily assigned from Israel. They couldn't believe how bad the medical system was here, and really couldn't fathom how Canadians could think it is so good. Yeah I'm Canadian. And no, the U.S. isn't perfect either. But at least they don't act like snobs and think their shit doesn't stink like many Canadians. Like YOU.
Read my example of what I experienced working with a government instituttion. This is why government costs more. People just don't have to think about what things REALLY cost. And sometimes, they are encouraged not to. Follow the rules you are not allowed to think. Some government versus private sector is overblown. When research is being done, I don't think it is. People need to be forced to understand what they are spending money on. If you have a kid, you'll know when they want something they see advertised and like, they don't care how much it costs. Unless you find a way to make them responsible for part of the cost. e.g. make them do chores to pay for it. Then they understand the value of it and they either change their minds or when they do get it, take care of it better. In this regard, research scientists are like kids who have never been forced to appreciate what they are spending money on.
I think this is very insightful. I was thinking the same thing but in different terms. Space Shuttle (government run operation) costs US$ 1 Billion per launch. The new Space-X Falcon 9 (private operation) is expected to cost US$ 55 Million per launch. I think the scientists and managers who work for ITER must be the 'academic type' who have had no or very little contact with the real world that has to live within its means. So we are seeing typical government style bureaucracy and the resultant cost escalations.
I once had to do some work for the Manitoba Research Council (a branch of the Province of Manitoba government). I was building a pilot unit for a membrane separation project. As I was seconded from an Engineering Company my time was not exactly cheap. Of course I had to make some purchases for parts. The first time, I had to order a number of parts totaling less than a couple of thousand dollars (some high pressure stainless steel fittings and a throttling valve if I remember right). Because it was over some magic limit (around $800 IIRC), by government mandate it had to go out to tender; even though I had it sourced and could have it in hand the next day. The first time this happened we had to wait a week for replies, and almost another week to get it in hand. My time sitting on my hands doing nothing while waiting for these parts to come in cost the government three or four times what the parts cost. I needed a few more parts to finish it off and had to go through the same process... for roughly the same amount. After waiting half a week of the expected two week delay, the VP in charge of that part of the council asked me what was going on. When I told him he said, "again?!" He then overrode the process and instructed the purchaser to just buy what I told him (within the scope of the project of course). I was able to get the unit operational in a week instead of a month. The contract between the company I worked for and the council was for me to work on this project only, and I was there till it was done.
I'm not saying this is what is going on here, but this is the kind of mentality you get in government projects. No thinking, just follow the rules and end up paying way more than common sense dictates. I would bet ten to one this is what is going on.
part of human nature in north america. we laugh at stupid sounding names. never name you kid something stupid. if your last is 'head', don't name your kid richard. Like one guy said here, if you last name is banger, don't name your kid william (willy banger). etc. We here in north america WILL laugh at them once old enough to understand the joke. Maybe in front of you, maybe behind your back. And for god sake, never name your kid 'Cuntfacedbastard-whoshootswetloavesofhighdensityriebreadpouthisassandsmellslikewombatshit'. Well OK, if you last name is 'smith' it might not be so bad.
What is sad is that he has joined an organization to maintain 'cultural heritage' in Quebec. In Quebec people who like to maintain cultural heritage like to implement things like Quebec's language law. A law already rebuked by the UN human rights courts that force parents to send their kids to all french schools, force store owners to put only french signs on their store fronts (or be fined into bankruptcy), and yield any of your own cultural heritage to the fancophone Quebec majority. Think 'A French Version of Right Wing Texas North.' Except as extreme left wing... bringing it closer to the same ideological enforcement as other historical societies. There are even cases where french cultural extremists have firebombed or tried to firebomb businesses that tried to defy the language laws and put English (and other language) signs on the front of their buildings. In Quebec, cultural heritage takes on a darker meaning. I'm not saying he is this camp, but be wary when you hear 'cultural heritage' in reference to Quebec. It is possible it refers to their ubiquitous mind police.
The truth hurts sometimes. TRUTH. Hey, have you figured out whether Jesus accepted a PPO or an HMO when he healed the sick? If he was a Christian republican he certainly wouldn't have done it for free. Do you like Limbaugh want America to fail and people to be hurt just so you can say it was Obama's fault? There are lots of good reasons to bash the right, right now. What would Thomas Jefferson say about the current state of affairs in the U.S. Oh yeah, according to Texas (the Bush benchmark for the right wing) he doesn't exist any more. Let's see how else we can rewrite history in a right wing republican way to back up your comments.
Seriously though, isn't this similar to some of the security screening techniques used by El Al (Israel's national airline)? From what I understand it is one of the most secure air carriers you can fly on. They don't just rely on searches of people, they look at the people themselves, as well. How they act, what nationality they are, etc. They do profile people.
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Too bad they don't euthanize them after two hours.
In Kitchener ON. Stuff was rattling on the shelves here... about 150 miles southwest of the epicenter.
The largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. was in 1964 in Alaska. It was 9.2 on the Richter scale. The second largest measured earthquake. In contrast the New Madrid Earthquake (about 150 miles south of Saint Louis on the Mississippi River) was estimated from 7.5 to 8.1. However, the geology of the Midwest (one big piece of underlying bedrock covering most of the U.S. Midwest and Southern Ontario) allows the effects of an earthquake to be felt with little diminishment quite far from the epicenter, unlike earthquakes in zones like California (where the effects are not transmitted anywhere near as far). The underlying reason for the New Madrid Earthquake Zone looks to be a failed rift valley causing a weak spot in the sheet of bedrock covering the Midwest.
Also, ca. 300 years ago there was an estimated 8.7 to 9.2 Megathrust Earthquake off the Cascadian coast in 1700 (off the west coast of North America from mid Vancouver Island in B.C. Canada, and down along Washington and Oregon States. This was large enough to cause a large tsunamis to strike the coast of central Japan. It is expected that this area will experience this type and magnitude periodically (every ca. 500 years). I know in Vancouver, and most of coastal B.C. for that matter, that extensive earthquake retrofitting has taken place, and new buildings have to meet tough earthquake codes.
I call bullshit. For one, I was involved in Y2K related work for businesses that would have failed if their systems were not upgraded, namely the main enterprise business systems for daily newspapers (their circulation systems); for prepaid and wholesale (single copy) sales. And that included almost every newspaper in North America, and many overseas (not that our company worked on every newspaper's system, but considering there are not that many circ system software solutions, and they pretty much all had Y2K issues...). As well, the dot com bubble didn't burst until at least January 2000 which means that the Y2K issue was sorted out or companies were out of business before the dot com people were out of work. As well, the dot com people thrown out of work were mostly web developers, and the Y2K issue affected server side, and often COBOL related software... not exactly in the dot com programming skills bag. The company I worked for by the way provided a non-COBOL replacement system to fix our clients Y2K... complete new system instead of patching the existing system. I don't know where this 'myth of the Y2K' came about, but it seems to yet another conspiracy theory. I haven't seen or heard of one Y2K fix being worked on that wasn't solving a real critical issue. You're not a 'truther' or 'birther' by any chance too?
These lists are mostly full of shit. There are a set number of criteria that are used to judge these things, and the biggest companies (and sometimes erstwhile sweatshops) devote whole teams of HR personnel to organizing ways in which the company can seem to be meeting these. They coach employees on how to answer questionnaires, or frame the questions, like skillful pollsters, so that any answer seems to slant in the way the question asker wants it to slant. I was at a company that was absolute shit to work at, and it was ridiculous the lengths to which the company would go to, to make the list. And they made the top ten in Canada every year for a long time. Granted, some on the list deserve to be there. Others... they are there based on the work of their saffron robed HR people.
This is very old news in Canada. And no he won't. He doesn't even want the job, and the government is not considering him.
And it is "Governor General" not governor. It is an appointed position akin to say the most ceremonial presidential position in some republics. That is, before a law can come into effect it must be signed off by the GG. It is called Royal Assent. The GG represents the Queen of Canada (Elizabeth II) in Canada, and the monarch of the constitutional monarchy must approve all laws before they can come into effect. However, the GG by tradition always gives Royal Assent at the request of the Prime Minister. However most people don't realize that the GG doesn't HAVE to sign. It is a form of check or balance in the system. Of course this would likely never happen except in the rarest of circumstance.
Royal Assent must also be given in England as well before a law created in Parliament can go into effect. Of course in their case, the Queen signs it herself.
Before the 20th century, it was more common for the monarch to be able to withhold Royal Assent than today (less political repercussions back then). It is this ability to withhold Royal Assent that lent itself to the American Presidential Veto.
About 20 or 30 years ago, New Zealand was so far in debt that the world bank cut off their credit. There were big advertisements on the tops of hospitals, police cars, and any space big enough to put an ad owned by the government. Seems to me that California is at least trying to be responsible for getting their house in order before their credit is cut off. And governments will have their credit cut off if eventually if they don't balance their books. Look at Greece. Look at Argentina who defaulted on all their loans... lenders won't let it get that far again. Good on California if they can make a buck doing this.
If all your friends do all day is twitter, are they interesting?
It seems Shoutcast is important to many people. At least half a million according to some of the info in the article and its source. It also seems that many of the folks here seem to think Shoutcast is a trivial piece of work that costs nothing to operate and AOL should allow people to use it for free. AOL disagrees. That is their right. They own Shoutcast. If this is a problem for some of you, then create your own directory of internet radio stations. And create the protocol for it to be transmitted with. And pay for hosting the servers that the directory will reside on. And give all of it away for free. Or donate the money to pay for the services and the salaries to create and maintain it so that it can happen. Seems a lot of people think free software means being able to spend other people's money, and fork other people's code. To me it seems that a lot of the time, free software means working for free due to ones who like to spend other's money and fork other's code. Not all software supports service contracts like MySQL.
I never figured out how to get and use power armour without getting the power armour training which doesn't come until after you go through a lot of hassle... certainly more than four hours worth IMO. And I always set the game to the hardest level, and I haven't seen anything with power armour be killed outright by blowing up a car beside them. I do do that. I don't use any hacks or mods to get more power. Not saying you do. Maybe I'm not as 'good' at gaming, but I found most of FO3 very challenging. And I liked the realism and graphics. I expect graphics of this calibre now for this type of game. I would expect to have it in a multiplayer online game format. I agree that some add ons/downloadable content is not really related to the main story (like the mothership one), but otherwise they are in the same vein as post apocalypsia. And I agree that I would have liked a little more challenge from the AI. Like when you here the sound of a drum bouncing around after you accidentally hit it while sneaking, the bad guys don't hear it, but if you run or stand up, they will 'hear you' even if you are in another room. I absolutely hate 3rd person mode. FPS is to me the only way. And I have no idea at all why game makers do that to some driving games... 3rd person view only, when I want the first person view. I don't even look at driving games any more because of that. All in all, I think it is the best in the franchise. Based on its success, I think it is fair to say I am not alone. :) To each their own.
Send this to Myth Busters.
After FO3 there is no going back.
What's funny about this, is we used to blow the exact same type of plastic horns at Toronto Argonauts CFL games when I was kid (a long time ago... at Exhibition Stadium). That was when the CFL was still a big draw in Toronto. Does that make me a colonial non-racist, or a South African?
There is so much that is wrong to what you say it would take a book to address. All I'll say on the matter is this:
There is no hatred, no ignorance here. I am a very centered person. I don't hate myself. I don't hate others except when I have to give up my heritage to accommodate people who come here and want me to change because they are unwilling to follow our traditions. And I am big on tradition. It is what makes heritage. If you don't understand that, you are likely the one who is self hating. Are you sure there isn't any transference going on? Are you the one who is really self hating. I haven't called you a retard, or thrown personal insults, yet you resort to such. I don't like people who want to impost their religion on me or want to bring it into government, or use it as an excuse to override our laws that we have worked centuries on. And if you try to say we've only been a country 133 years, you are ignoring that our laws and traditions date back to before the Magna Carta. Are you educated enough to know about that? Herd mentality. I live in Canada now. And I definitely don't walk in any herd here. You however are right in the middle of the sanctimonious bovines that make up left wing Canada. You may have traveled in the U.S. but like many Canadians who do so, you have the mistaken belief that you know all about it. You need to live there to understand it. I don't know all there is to know about it, but I certainly know more than you with nearly a decade of living there. I don't speak from ignorance, unlike you. The trouble with ignorant people is that they don't know they are ignorant and tend to put that label on others who aren't because their ignorance prevents them from understanding the argument. Go back to grazing.
Another Canadian who is full of himself. Canadian TV is shit. And if you think it isn't full of propaganda you are a moron. the CBC is an NDP/Liberal Party propaganda platform pure and simple. It aught to be eliminated. The shows suck. TV is there for entertainment, and CBC hasn't been entertaining... EVER. The CRTC is best known as the Canadian Roadblock To Communication. I have seen more of the world than you I warrant and speak from experience. Canadians by and large sit back and judge other countries, especially the U.S., but don't have the nuts to put their money where their mouth is. They yap about how good their education system is, when it is easier and less expensive to go to university in the U.S. Sure, many of the private schools are expensive but most of the state schools are the same price or less than Canadian universities. And community colleges are way less expensive. UCLA is one of the top schools in North America, and it is a state school, and up till the fiscal crisis in California, the tuition was around $6K per year. And you are allowed to transfer community college credits to university... something mostly not allowed in Canadian University. How many moon landings has the Canadian space program made? What is the per capita Nobel Prize output compared to the U.S. I listen to Canadians go on about their health care system. It sucks. I know. I have nerve damage in my left leg due to the length of time it took to get treatment for a spinal condition. Stop preening and acting like a peacock and crowing about how Canada's health care system is better than the United State's system. Typical Canadian blindness and self satisfying attitude. The Canadian medical system is one of the worst in the western world. Try talking to immigrants from western Europe and seeing what they think of the system here. I had people I worked with who were temporarily assigned from Israel. They couldn't believe how bad the medical system was here, and really couldn't fathom how Canadians could think it is so good. Yeah I'm Canadian. And no, the U.S. isn't perfect either. But at least they don't act like snobs and think their shit doesn't stink like many Canadians. Like YOU.
How would that ruin the site? It would be an improvement.
Read my example of what I experienced working with a government instituttion. This is why government costs more. People just don't have to think about what things REALLY cost. And sometimes, they are encouraged not to. Follow the rules you are not allowed to think. Some government versus private sector is overblown. When research is being done, I don't think it is. People need to be forced to understand what they are spending money on. If you have a kid, you'll know when they want something they see advertised and like, they don't care how much it costs. Unless you find a way to make them responsible for part of the cost. e.g. make them do chores to pay for it. Then they understand the value of it and they either change their minds or when they do get it, take care of it better. In this regard, research scientists are like kids who have never been forced to appreciate what they are spending money on.
I think this is very insightful. I was thinking the same thing but in different terms. Space Shuttle (government run operation) costs US$ 1 Billion per launch. The new Space-X Falcon 9 (private operation) is expected to cost US$ 55 Million per launch. I think the scientists and managers who work for ITER must be the 'academic type' who have had no or very little contact with the real world that has to live within its means. So we are seeing typical government style bureaucracy and the resultant cost escalations.
I once had to do some work for the Manitoba Research Council (a branch of the Province of Manitoba government). I was building a pilot unit for a membrane separation project. As I was seconded from an Engineering Company my time was not exactly cheap. Of course I had to make some purchases for parts. The first time, I had to order a number of parts totaling less than a couple of thousand dollars (some high pressure stainless steel fittings and a throttling valve if I remember right). Because it was over some magic limit (around $800 IIRC), by government mandate it had to go out to tender; even though I had it sourced and could have it in hand the next day. The first time this happened we had to wait a week for replies, and almost another week to get it in hand. My time sitting on my hands doing nothing while waiting for these parts to come in cost the government three or four times what the parts cost. I needed a few more parts to finish it off and had to go through the same process... for roughly the same amount. After waiting half a week of the expected two week delay, the VP in charge of that part of the council asked me what was going on. When I told him he said, "again?!" He then overrode the process and instructed the purchaser to just buy what I told him (within the scope of the project of course). I was able to get the unit operational in a week instead of a month. The contract between the company I worked for and the council was for me to work on this project only, and I was there till it was done.
I'm not saying this is what is going on here, but this is the kind of mentality you get in government projects. No thinking, just follow the rules and end up paying way more than common sense dictates. I would bet ten to one this is what is going on.
part of human nature in north america. we laugh at stupid sounding names. never name you kid something stupid. if your last is 'head', don't name your kid richard. Like one guy said here, if you last name is banger, don't name your kid william (willy banger). etc. We here in north america WILL laugh at them once old enough to understand the joke. Maybe in front of you, maybe behind your back. And for god sake, never name your kid 'Cuntfacedbastard-whoshootswetloavesofhighdensityriebreadpouthisassandsmellslikewombatshit'. Well OK, if you last name is 'smith' it might not be so bad.
Are you saying Chinese kings were dicks?
What is sad is that he has joined an organization to maintain 'cultural heritage' in Quebec. In Quebec people who like to maintain cultural heritage like to implement things like Quebec's language law. A law already rebuked by the UN human rights courts that force parents to send their kids to all french schools, force store owners to put only french signs on their store fronts (or be fined into bankruptcy), and yield any of your own cultural heritage to the fancophone Quebec majority. Think 'A French Version of Right Wing Texas North.' Except as extreme left wing... bringing it closer to the same ideological enforcement as other historical societies. There are even cases where french cultural extremists have firebombed or tried to firebomb businesses that tried to defy the language laws and put English (and other language) signs on the front of their buildings. In Quebec, cultural heritage takes on a darker meaning. I'm not saying he is this camp, but be wary when you hear 'cultural heritage' in reference to Quebec. It is possible it refers to their ubiquitous mind police.
So lawyers can make more money. QED
The truth hurts sometimes. TRUTH. Hey, have you figured out whether Jesus accepted a PPO or an HMO when he healed the sick? If he was a Christian republican he certainly wouldn't have done it for free. Do you like Limbaugh want America to fail and people to be hurt just so you can say it was Obama's fault? There are lots of good reasons to bash the right, right now. What would Thomas Jefferson say about the current state of affairs in the U.S. Oh yeah, according to Texas (the Bush benchmark for the right wing) he doesn't exist any more. Let's see how else we can rewrite history in a right wing republican way to back up your comments.
Sort of, he was having aural sects.
They didn't care. Most of the data referred to Thomas Jefferson.
Seriously though, isn't this similar to some of the security screening techniques used by El Al (Israel's national airline)? From what I understand it is one of the most secure air carriers you can fly on. They don't just rely on searches of people, they look at the people themselves, as well. How they act, what nationality they are, etc. They do profile people.