Sounds like an innovative addition to difficulty level.
Not only is the game hard, but it is also hard to play. Genius, pure genius. The GAME is the GAME! Oh man that blows my mind! They have shifted the game into reality, groovy. I must be smokin' they same stuff they smoke, because I get it man! I just get it!:)
For the sake of safety and security, why don't we use both? It isn't like they are mutually exclusive... Then if there is a failure, you have a, you know, a backup plan? Not to mention we have these new fangled things called computers, that are like, really good at doing calculations really fast... so you could like correlate both systems to each other and increase the accuracy of both likely. I am already assuming that they are going to use base stations to auto correct the positions from known values also. Anyway the more redundancy the better I say.
not to go to the States for any reason.I avoid the US of A because there hasn't been a lot going on there that I agree with over the last many years.
I have met many Americans that come to Canada, or are abroad, or years ago when I used to visit the eastern seaboard and can easily say that they have all be good people. However, as a group, you seem to like to elect crazy people, do crazy things, and make crazy decisions. So while 1-on-1 I feel nothing but rainbows and butterflies, as a nation you make me nervous. I can vacation elsewhere where it isn't so oppressive (though places like Mexico also isn't really high on my list anymore either for obvious reasons).
If you as a nation want to act like that, you can do so by yourself. My money is probably better spent locally anyway.
Call it insurance...:) Protection Money by any other name. "Sure would be a shame if something were to happen to you or your loved ones now wouldn't it..."
Army and coast guard... well there is something to be said there. I know there was a news story a couple of years ago that sort of pissed me off. Basically Israel was having (another) war with its neighbor. Thousands of "Canadian Citizens" had to be evacuated. Not tourists. People living there with Canadian Citizenship. Some likely have never set foot in Canada, or have spent most of their lives in another country. Yet here we are spending MILLIONS of tax dollars to help them (yet they pay ZERO Canadian Tax). Then to add injury upon insult, they for the most part all move back immediately, and a few days later, when hostilities break out again.... they are all evacuated yet again at huge expense. Same as the middle eastern kid who was charged with murder because he accidentally killed another kid in the middle east and was facing the death penalty. Partitioned Canada for diplomatic interference which they did, and was a big deal at the time, likely at cost, when in reality the kid had spent all of a few Months in Canada in total. I also liken it to the morons who live in "tornado ally" have their home destroyed, get a bailout from government, rebuild their house, have it destroyed, get bailout, rebuild, repeat... Why am I (or anyone else) paying for these people?
Don't get me wrong, if there is a legitimate disaster or emergency I want my government to do something about it to help, I just don't want to be paying for the poor choices of others. Yesterday I saw that the Red River flooded... again... and people lost their houses.... again. Either A) don't live there, or B) live with the risk and be prepared.
As for fire departments. one of the richest people ever to live on the planet did exactly that. Show up to the fire and ask an exorbitant price to save the residence, often buying them up outright for next to nothing, as the alternative is actually nothing, and then turning around after saving it, and selling it back at full market value. He was a Roman, I forget his name, back in ancient times. One of the top 10 richest people of all time. So while you try to make it sound ridiculous, someone was actually very successful doing exactly that. Crazy huh?
From what I have heard the FDA are pretty much in the pocket of the drug companies. While this might not be totally true, I would bet that there is plenty wrong with how they operate.
The folks getting sued for 6 billion are the Canadian music industry associations that own money to individual artists.
From my understanding, if a label made a CD for an Artist, they pay them a royalty per CD. So for instance Bare Naked Ladies would get say, 2$ per CD sold. If they sell 1,000,000 CD's they would get paid 2million bucks from the label.
However...
If the label made a CD that was say "The Best of" or Dance Mix 2009 or something like that, where songs from different CDs all get mixed into one, they pay a "pending" royalty, which I suppose depends on how much money they make (as it isn't fixed perhaps).
Anyway the industry associations have been very bad about actually paying out this pending royalty, in that they haven't been. Multiply that by over a decade of abuse, and angry artists... So the artists filed a class action suit against the associations using the per song copyright infringement penalties being used in the US. This has NEVER been awarded in Canada, nor has a single case been tried, so the likelihood of wining this is pretty much NIL.
The whole point of this is to put the 6 Billion dollar figure in the paper and media so that people are aware of the music associations shenanigans, which would hopefully force them to pay up.
The folks to distribute the Copyright Levy Tax, are a Government appointed corporation. From my general knowlege they had a lag time when it first started years and years ago, but within 3 years or so, caught up and distributed all the money. From what I understand all the money goes out each year using set rules and equations to artists, recording companies and the like.
That said I couldn't tell you how fair those rules are or how they are applied.
Not really. It is the other way around. Which is way MANAGERS like it. Replaceable staff.
Everyone and his dog has a MS certificate of some kind. You can also go and get one on a long weekend. Besides, most of the IT corporate world you deal with offers support in that. Be in your various software vendors, or your hardware lease.
Now try and go out and find a good Linux staff. You actually usually have to find a CS graduate for god sakes! Not only that, replacing them is a bitch as you can't just hire any damn flunky out there. Because of all that, they actually wish to get paid also!
Seriously if you think IT folks make these decisions your on crack. It is an easy choice for a Manager.
Though in all seriousness the amount of cars that are imported/exported say between markets (Japan, Europe, North America, Asia) are small.
Also the plugs are all different in all those places, as are all the voltages.
Hell the steering wheel isn't on the same side.
So having different standards in different market areas isn't really a big deal, and will likely happen anyway as it makes sense.
That said I would rather see a rational standard created that makes sense than one based on a free market... Mostly because the idea of a free market is mostly so much fiction. Particularly now in the auto industry. Seeing as both Canada and USA governments have such a large stake in the industry now, I would rather see a joint government commission decide (given choices from industry) what standard to use in North America.
Robber: "Well I originally was coming here looking for a job, and then thought to myself 'Wait a tick! Why don't I just take their money, that's way easier!'"
2) 1.3B Internet users does not equal 1.3B consumers
3) For the most part China still exports most of its goods.
Much of China is undeveloped. While many are moving to urban areas and earning a wage, many wouldn't have what we would describe as "disposable" income.
There are a new class of people in China that can certainly afford "stuff", however that number is much much less that the total internet users (though growing).
Google has also shown that it can break into well established markets and be successful.
Thus I am of the opinion that Google is not in a great big hurry. If I was Google I would play hardball as well. Perhaps down the road it will give you a favorable bargaining position.
Until Chinese start buying products at a fair market value (there is a reason why software in the USA costs 250$ and in China 13$), who exactly are you advertising to, and how can you make any money off of them? I mean if it takes 100 clicks on a link to sell one copy of software at 250$ then that service is worth X. If it takes 10,000 clicks on a link to sell one copy of software at 13$ then that service is worth Y. It is a rather simple equation. Now take a tally of all the X's and all the Y's and subtract that from what it cost to actually provide that service. If you get a negative number for Y, or a number so small in comparison to X, then basically you don't really care all that much one way or another. The only exception would be for "future considerations", basically start market penetration now (which will cost little), and in 10 years or so it might pay off. Of course if your Google, you can also leverage the fact that most of the known world uses your product, and if you keep it up, hopefully in 10 years that won't change, in which case penetrating that market down the road might not be that big a deal anyway.
It will happen, its just many years away is all, and Google need not bend over backwards simply to enter into a market of little value now in the hopes that one day it will work out.
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Sounds like an innovative addition to difficulty level.
Not only is the game hard, but it is also hard to play. Genius, pure genius. The GAME is the GAME! Oh man that blows my mind! They have shifted the game into reality, groovy. I must be smokin' they same stuff they smoke, because I get it man! I just get it! :)
Don't let them fool you Grigory Perelman! Admiral Akbar knows best!
A million bucks will buy you a lot of mushrooms...
Morose Mongoose I bet.
Maybe Moronic Moose (Bullwinkle?)
or Metaphysical Mallard
or Mickey Mouse! (sue)
the control system isn't being run by Windows, we'll all be OK...
I see your SHATNER, and raise you a Chuck Norris.
win.
I suppose he is just "investing" in that hollowed out volcano also eh?
Excuse me while I hunt you down like the dog you are for forgetting the likes of:
CIV
MOO
X-COM
Also I am pretty sure all the of those game series belong mention when talking about hero's of the PC gaming history!
For the sake of safety and security, why don't we use both? It isn't like they are mutually exclusive... Then if there is a failure, you have a, you know, a backup plan? Not to mention we have these new fangled things called computers, that are like, really good at doing calculations really fast... so you could like correlate both systems to each other and increase the accuracy of both likely. I am already assuming that they are going to use base stations to auto correct the positions from known values also. Anyway the more redundancy the better I say.
not to go to the States for any reason.I avoid the US of A because there hasn't been a lot going on there that I agree with over the last many years.
I have met many Americans that come to Canada, or are abroad, or years ago when I used to visit the eastern seaboard and can easily say that they have all be good people. However, as a group, you seem to like to elect crazy people, do crazy things, and make crazy decisions. So while 1-on-1 I feel nothing but rainbows and butterflies, as a nation you make me nervous. I can vacation elsewhere where it isn't so oppressive (though places like Mexico also isn't really high on my list anymore either for obvious reasons).
If you as a nation want to act like that, you can do so by yourself. My money is probably better spent locally anyway.
I am always glad when people make the right decisions. Makes be happy I live in Canada.
Now we just have to kill that Copyright bill again.Lets go!
LOL... Just like the Mob...
Call it insurance... :) Protection Money by any other name. "Sure would be a shame if something were to happen to you or your loved ones now wouldn't it..."
Army and coast guard... well there is something to be said there. I know there was a news story a couple of years ago that sort of pissed me off. Basically Israel was having (another) war with its neighbor. Thousands of "Canadian Citizens" had to be evacuated. Not tourists. People living there with Canadian Citizenship. Some likely have never set foot in Canada, or have spent most of their lives in another country. Yet here we are spending MILLIONS of tax dollars to help them (yet they pay ZERO Canadian Tax). Then to add injury upon insult, they for the most part all move back immediately, and a few days later, when hostilities break out again.... they are all evacuated yet again at huge expense. Same as the middle eastern kid who was charged with murder because he accidentally killed another kid in the middle east and was facing the death penalty. Partitioned Canada for diplomatic interference which they did, and was a big deal at the time, likely at cost, when in reality the kid had spent all of a few Months in Canada in total. I also liken it to the morons who live in "tornado ally" have their home destroyed, get a bailout from government, rebuild their house, have it destroyed, get bailout, rebuild, repeat... Why am I (or anyone else) paying for these people?
Don't get me wrong, if there is a legitimate disaster or emergency I want my government to do something about it to help, I just don't want to be paying for the poor choices of others. Yesterday I saw that the Red River flooded... again... and people lost their houses.... again. Either A) don't live there, or B) live with the risk and be prepared.
As for fire departments. one of the richest people ever to live on the planet did exactly that. Show up to the fire and ask an exorbitant price to save the residence, often buying them up outright for next to nothing, as the alternative is actually nothing, and then turning around after saving it, and selling it back at full market value. He was a Roman, I forget his name, back in ancient times. One of the top 10 richest people of all time. So while you try to make it sound ridiculous, someone was actually very successful doing exactly that. Crazy huh?
From what I have heard the FDA are pretty much in the pocket of the drug companies. While this might not be totally true, I would bet that there is plenty wrong with how they operate.
all hail hypnotoad.
The folks getting sued for 6 billion are the Canadian music industry associations that own money to individual artists.
From my understanding, if a label made a CD for an Artist, they pay them a royalty per CD. So for instance Bare Naked Ladies would get say, 2$ per CD sold. If they sell 1,000,000 CD's they would get paid 2million bucks from the label.
However...
If the label made a CD that was say "The Best of" or Dance Mix 2009 or something like that, where songs from different CDs all get mixed into one, they pay a "pending" royalty, which I suppose depends on how much money they make (as it isn't fixed perhaps).
Anyway the industry associations have been very bad about actually paying out this pending royalty, in that they haven't been. Multiply that by over a decade of abuse, and angry artists... So the artists filed a class action suit against the associations using the per song copyright infringement penalties being used in the US. This has NEVER been awarded in Canada, nor has a single case been tried, so the likelihood of wining this is pretty much NIL.
The whole point of this is to put the 6 Billion dollar figure in the paper and media so that people are aware of the music associations shenanigans, which would hopefully force them to pay up.
I do not believe those are the same institutions.
The folks to distribute the Copyright Levy Tax, are a Government appointed corporation. From my general knowlege they had a lag time when it first started years and years ago, but within 3 years or so, caught up and distributed all the money. From what I understand all the money goes out each year using set rules and equations to artists, recording companies and the like.
That said I couldn't tell you how fair those rules are or how they are applied.
So now I can exceed my monthly 60GB cap even faster now? Sweet.
OK call me a hoser, but WTF is a "virtual fence"?
I can only parse that together to mean "Not a real fence" or a "fence that doesn't really exist".
You spent 1.3B on that? You are surprised that it "didn't work"?
I think I have some interesting projects for you and I am in need of some funding...
Not really. It is the other way around. Which is way MANAGERS like it. Replaceable staff.
Everyone and his dog has a MS certificate of some kind. You can also go and get one on a long weekend. Besides, most of the IT corporate world you deal with offers support in that. Be in your various software vendors, or your hardware lease.
Now try and go out and find a good Linux staff. You actually usually have to find a CS graduate for god sakes! Not only that, replacing them is a bitch as you can't just hire any damn flunky out there. Because of all that, they actually wish to get paid also!
Seriously if you think IT folks make these decisions your on crack. It is an easy choice for a Manager.
Though in all seriousness the amount of cars that are imported/exported say between markets (Japan, Europe, North America, Asia) are small.
Also the plugs are all different in all those places, as are all the voltages.
Hell the steering wheel isn't on the same side.
So having different standards in different market areas isn't really a big deal, and will likely happen anyway as it makes sense.
That said I would rather see a rational standard created that makes sense than one based on a free market... Mostly because the idea of a free market is mostly so much fiction. Particularly now in the auto industry. Seeing as both Canada and USA governments have such a large stake in the industry now, I would rather see a joint government commission decide (given choices from industry) what standard to use in North America.
Just be glad they didn't say LED diode...
1...2...3...4, I declare a patent war! :)
people are constantly robbing you...
Robber: "Well I originally was coming here looking for a job, and then thought to myself 'Wait a tick! Why don't I just take their money, that's way easier!'"
Emphasis on "down the road."
1) Google makes ALL its money through Ad revenue.
2) 1.3B Internet users does not equal 1.3B consumers
3) For the most part China still exports most of its goods.
Much of China is undeveloped. While many are moving to urban areas and earning a wage, many wouldn't have what we would describe as "disposable" income.
There are a new class of people in China that can certainly afford "stuff", however that number is much much less that the total internet users (though growing).
Google has also shown that it can break into well established markets and be successful.
Thus I am of the opinion that Google is not in a great big hurry. If I was Google I would play hardball as well. Perhaps down the road it will give you a favorable bargaining position.
Until Chinese start buying products at a fair market value (there is a reason why software in the USA costs 250$ and in China 13$), who exactly are you advertising to, and how can you make any money off of them? I mean if it takes 100 clicks on a link to sell one copy of software at 250$ then that service is worth X. If it takes 10,000 clicks on a link to sell one copy of software at 13$ then that service is worth Y. It is a rather simple equation. Now take a tally of all the X's and all the Y's and subtract that from what it cost to actually provide that service. If you get a negative number for Y, or a number so small in comparison to X, then basically you don't really care all that much one way or another. The only exception would be for "future considerations", basically start market penetration now (which will cost little), and in 10 years or so it might pay off. Of course if your Google, you can also leverage the fact that most of the known world uses your product, and if you keep it up, hopefully in 10 years that won't change, in which case penetrating that market down the road might not be that big a deal anyway.
It will happen, its just many years away is all, and Google need not bend over backwards simply to enter into a market of little value now in the hopes that one day it will work out.
awww I read it as "Iran Hacks US Spy Sats"
was a way more funny post then
I can see my house from here!