it's all the evil piracy, it might not have anything to do with the fact that:
1. The music industry though they had found a licensese to print money by hyping clone bands.
2. They completely missed the possiblity of digitial distribution and are fighting it still tooth and nail.
3. They depreciated their own product by creating throw away stars.
How many musicians that are new on the market these days are you going to listen to? Assuming right now you bought the audio medium and can still play it back 10 years from now? I think there won't be a lot, throughout the 90s the companies set themselves up for a fall.
Piracy is a great argument to deflect from their own greed.
Same here, actually it worked quite nicely until I did a firmware upgrade to 1.3 and all of the sudden my iPod was a lot more quiet. I noticed because now sometimes the truck rumbling by is louder than my music:(
If a normal car hits a pedestrian he "flips" them on the hood. So you land there on your arm / back etc. The hood is designed in a way that it gives a little which lessens the impact.
When you get hit by a way, guess what is going to hit the hood? Yep, your head, full force, let's hope you wear a helmet while strolling down the street.
Or have a look at bike / motorcycle impact. Again, in a normal car you flip onto or over the car, not nice but still better then an SUV where you most likely slam into the side head first, let's hope you have a VERY good helmet and wear a nack brace like race car drivers do.
Let's not even start talking about what happens to kids when they get hit by an SUV.
Same is tru with other cars as well, not only are they used as crumble zones but at the same time they are also crushed because the bumper of an SUV is higher than the bumper of the car, so most of the crumble zone in a car is useless because the SUV just plows over it.
And there people wonder I really really really really hate those "cars".
... it seems that the German Constitution is in favour of people and against corporations while the American one is in favour of businesses and against people....
On Second thought.... Looks like they're all the same after all.
The difference was the ability of the passenger area to channel energy around the passenger while maintaining integrity. Design is more important than both weight and size.
Given that the majority of the inertia in this vehicle is below the floor of the passenger compartment, a design where this shears away may even be possible.
The Mercedes A class is the perfect example for this. The car is small but they tried to design it in a way that it is just as safe as a S class Mercedes.
So one of the things they did design the engine block in a way that during a frontal collision the engine would move downwards towards the floor and not push into the passenger compartment.
Also pedals are desgned in a way that they are pulled towards the car floor and won't be impaling your shins. Furthermore the steering column has pre-determined breaking points that prevents the steering wheel from pushing into the passenger compartment as well.
By northamerican standards the A class is small but Mercedes did some nifty engineering both on the A class and the smart car, of course both of them cost more than a Golf does, but are smaller, just as safe (if not safer).
The german version of the AAA did crash a Mitsubishi Pajero against a Golf a couple of years ago.
The result?
Both drivers where dead. The golf driver got crushed und the Pajeros wheel while the Pajero driver snapped his nack when his "safe car" was jumping over the hood of the golf.
I guess the dead body in the Pajero looked better, but as someone else once said:
I have a better solution... Keep the speed limit at 70 and fine the asshats that drive like idiots severly.
It's not the speed that kills. I grew up in Germany, I learned to drive there, I am / was used to drive at stretched 180K+ My personal record was around 270Kph.
Going slower isn't necessarily safer if you try to juggle a donut, coffee, cellphone and blackberry while your Lincoln Navigator is barreling down the highway at 50mph.
I take the German roads with driving drivers any day over any North American Highway where people seem to think driving is something they can do "on the side" while attending to the "really important stuff(TM)".
More mass means more kinetic energy when moving. This kinetic energy is transferred during a collision, and this is what kills the passengers of the Yugo, but it doesn't protect the passengers of the M1 much. If it were two M1s colliding, probably noone would survive.
Take a guess why most of the crashtest these days are made against a deforming barrier for once, and why no SUV producer ever crashed his SUV against another one.
The end-result would be anything but comforting for the soccer moms who buy them because of "safety".
In terms of being able to survive a collision with another vehicle, I don't really think the weight of the vehicle is the important issue. Larger cars are safer than smaller cars not because they weigh more, but because they have more room to let the car crumple to absorb the energy created by a collision.
True, but the problem is for example that SUVs (as they are trucks) don't really do that.
Also, it is not ony YOUR car that has to crumble but the other one as well, it doesn't really matter who converts the impact energy as long as someone does.
One of the nicest big cars out there is apparantly the Mercedes S class who crumbles extremlyl well and can absorbe huge amounts of the impact energy. H2 in comparision would probably just flatten you together with whoever is in the H2 themselves. (There are other reasons why SUVs "safety" is a myth and I am not only talking about Rollovers).
tell me, I am in Canada for the past 3 1/2 years working on a work permit. I can't get Landed immigrant status because (as far as I can tell by doing the self assessment) I am lacking 2 points.
It is taking 2 years to process the application, has to be done outside Canada (which means in my case most likely Buffalo) and in the end it would come down to what the guy had for breakfast.
Great.
I like Canada, but not sure I want to stay here for the next 20 years on a work permit (if I could anyways).
Other things though have been toughened up because of 9/11 for example I know have to go and get my Social Insurance card renewed EVERYTIME I get an extension (or change) to my WP, same for OHIP (though that was the case from the beginning and makes sense).
First of all I am not a canadian citize, thus you're barking up the wrong tree.
Second of all: What does your statement has to do with what I am saying? There is a lot of FUD thrown around about how to make the homeland more secure, most of this is utter rubbish:
- Passports? They had all papers that were legit. - Immigration Papers? The files where with INS and were going to be approved.
It wasn't Canada who let them in nor did they use Canada as a transit land. It seems to me that there is the idea in some peoples had that the highjacker came into the US illegally, they did not. There was a breakdown in your system, but that is hardly how it is portraited in the media, now is it?
America has never been as obese, or as unhealthy, as it is today. Specific causes are uncertain (correlation does not prove causation, it really can only suggest it, and even then not always), but it is clear that as the American diet has embraced and increased its consumption of low-fat, high-carb products the populace has grown vastly more obese and unhealthy.
The past 20 or so odd years it has increased, ironcially enough with the invention of the "super sized meal".
Now have you ever read the nutrional information in any of the fastfood chains?
Here in Canada there is a franchise called "Swisschalet" I looked at their nutrional guidelines the other day and I came to the conclusion that in one sitting you could easily eat enough calories that would last the average person for a day and a half.
That's the reason why people baloon (besides other things like driving everywhere).
Atkins might or might now work, but it is not a cure to the decease, a change of lifestyle would be though.
I had the pleasure of working with SCO Unix back in 1998 which was bought by the company because they needed Unix but didn't want to pay big bucks for a Sun Server.
Set up by Windows people it didn't really work that well, so I was hired, I just hated it from day one. This thing does everything different from any other Unix I had ever worked with (heck, recompiling the kernel everytime you make a change?).
So out it went after a month and we installed Solaris 7 for Intel, not great, but better, then finally I convinced them to buy some Sparc Clones and we got Solaris 7 rolled out on them.
The only other times I had to deal with SCO was in Telco Enviroments, Nortel PBXs uses SCO in some of their extensions, but I haven't worked in a Unix shop in a long time that used Sco, if they ran Unix like operating system on X86 it was Linux or FreeBSD.
2) Some cardio is good. Run, bike, swim, but start easy. Do HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). A few minuts of HIIT is more effective than a long haul at the same intensity, even if you're pushing it. HIIT is easy: just warm up, then push kind of hard, then slack off, then push really hard, then slack off. Mix it up, but always start with a warm up and end with a cool down.
If you try to build a base you want to go long and slow in the lower spectrum of your Heart Rate.
Intervals or HIIT as you put it are the icing on the cake, but the entire training like this only results in some explosive power (e.g. sprinter) but no long distance abilities.
Of course it depends on what you want and I come definetly from the opposit spectrum (Triathlon, going long this year, half-Ironman and up).
That would be if they could find me, I am not living in my country of origin anymore and I don't have register. So in other words: They have no clue where I am.
And yes, the passport is not my property but that of the issuing government I am aware of this.
I don't know american passports, but my German passport has the pciture printed on the plastic and the plastic itself contains some holographs. So I doubt it is THAT easy to paste another picture into it.
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Sure,
it's all the evil piracy, it might not have anything to do with the fact that:
1. The music industry though they had found a licensese to print money by hyping clone bands.
2. They completely missed the possiblity of digitial distribution and are fighting it still tooth and nail.
3. They depreciated their own product by creating throw away stars.
How many musicians that are new on the market these days are you going to listen to? Assuming right now you bought the audio medium and can still play it back 10 years from now? I think there won't be a lot, throughout the 90s the companies set themselves up for a fall.
Piracy is a great argument to deflect from their own greed.
Same here, actually it worked quite nicely until I did a firmware upgrade to 1.3 and all of the sudden my iPod was a lot more quiet. I noticed because now sometimes the truck rumbling by is louder than my music :(
M.
These hairs do not recover from damage. Once the hair is killed, you have lost the ability to hear the frequency that hair was "tuned" for.
Actually this is not quite true, for most people they grow back within a couple of days.
There are certain times when this doesn't happen but in general a week should be sufficent to give you your hearing back.
Michael
Well,
just like most other resources on the planet? All hail the great US, no?
I've got some more for you:
If a normal car hits a pedestrian he "flips" them on the hood. So you land there on your arm / back etc. The hood is designed in a way that it gives a little which lessens the impact.
When you get hit by a way, guess what is going to hit the hood? Yep, your head, full force, let's hope you wear a helmet while strolling down the street.
Or have a look at bike / motorcycle impact. Again, in a normal car you flip onto or over the car, not nice but still better then an SUV where you most likely slam into the side head first, let's hope you have a VERY good helmet and wear a nack brace like race car drivers do.
Let's not even start talking about what happens to kids when they get hit by an SUV.
Same is tru with other cars as well, not only are they used as crumble zones but at the same time they are also crushed because the bumper of an SUV is higher than the bumper of the car, so most of the crumble zone in a car is useless because the SUV just plows over it.
And there people wonder I really really really really hate those "cars".
... it seems that the German Constitution is in favour of people and against corporations while the American one is in favour of businesses and against people....
On Second thought.... Looks like they're all the same after all.
The difference was the ability of the passenger area to channel energy around the passenger while maintaining integrity. Design is more important than both weight and size.
Given that the majority of the inertia in this vehicle is below the floor of the passenger compartment, a design where this shears away may even be possible.
The Mercedes A class is the perfect example for this. The car is small but they tried to design it in a way that it is just as safe as a S class Mercedes.
So one of the things they did design the engine block in a way that during a frontal collision the engine would move downwards towards the floor and not push into the passenger compartment.
Also pedals are desgned in a way that they are pulled towards the car floor and won't be impaling your shins. Furthermore the steering column has pre-determined breaking points that prevents the steering wheel from pushing into the passenger compartment as well.
By northamerican standards the A class is small but Mercedes did some nifty engineering both on the A class and the smart car, of course both of them cost more than a Golf does, but are smaller, just as safe (if not safer).
Bravo,
ever heard of a "rhetoric question"?
M.
Don't be so fast to shout bullshit.
The german version of the AAA did crash a Mitsubishi Pajero against a Golf a couple of years ago.
The result?
Both drivers where dead. The golf driver got crushed und the Pajeros wheel while the Pajero driver snapped his nack when his "safe car" was jumping over the hood of the golf.
I guess the dead body in the Pajero looked better, but as someone else once said:
"When you're dead and don't have a funeral, you're still dead."
I have a better solution... Keep the speed limit at 70 and fine the asshats that drive like idiots severly.
It's not the speed that kills. I grew up in Germany, I learned to drive there, I am / was used to drive at stretched 180K+ My personal record was around 270Kph.
Going slower isn't necessarily safer if you try to juggle a donut, coffee, cellphone and blackberry while your Lincoln Navigator is barreling down the highway at 50mph.
I take the German roads with driving drivers any day over any North American Highway where people seem to think driving is something they can do "on the side" while attending to the "really important stuff(TM)".
Friend of mine the other day asked the same question after I gave him two books to read:
"I was wondering why are they all up in arms about sharing files, when at the same time I can borrow a book off of you, it isn't any different."
Well, let's wait two more years and I am sure we get a license agreement with our ebook that doesn't allow us to share books either.
I think I stick to the paper kind.
M.
More mass means more kinetic energy when moving. This kinetic energy is transferred during a collision, and this is what kills the passengers of the Yugo, but it doesn't protect the passengers of the M1 much. If it were two M1s colliding, probably noone would survive.
Take a guess why most of the crashtest these days are made against a deforming barrier for once, and why no SUV producer ever crashed his SUV against another one.
The end-result would be anything but comforting for the soccer moms who buy them because of "safety".
M.
In terms of being able to survive a collision with another vehicle, I don't really think the weight of the vehicle is the important issue. Larger cars are safer than smaller cars not because they weigh more, but because they have more room to let the car crumple to absorb the energy created by a collision.
True, but the problem is for example that SUVs (as they are trucks) don't really do that.
Also, it is not ony YOUR car that has to crumble but the other one as well, it doesn't really matter who converts the impact energy as long as someone does.
One of the nicest big cars out there is apparantly the Mercedes S class who crumbles extremlyl well and can absorbe huge amounts of the impact energy. H2 in comparision would probably just flatten you together with whoever is in the H2 themselves. (There are other reasons why SUVs "safety" is a myth and I am not only talking about Rollovers).
Oh, okay,
;)
must be the language barrier
Yeah,
tell me, I am in Canada for the past 3 1/2 years working on a work permit. I can't get Landed immigrant status because (as far as I can tell by doing the self assessment) I am lacking 2 points.
It is taking 2 years to process the application, has to be done outside Canada (which means in my case most likely Buffalo) and in the end it would come down to what the guy had for breakfast.
Great.
I like Canada, but not sure I want to stay here for the next 20 years on a work permit (if I could anyways).
Other things though have been toughened up because of 9/11 for example I know have to go and get my Social Insurance card renewed EVERYTIME I get an extension (or change) to my WP, same for OHIP (though that was the case from the beginning and makes sense).
First of all I am not a canadian citize, thus you're barking up the wrong tree.
Second of all: What does your statement has to do with what I am saying? There is a lot of FUD thrown around about how to make the homeland more secure, most of this is utter rubbish:
- Passports? They had all papers that were legit.
- Immigration Papers? The files where with INS and were going to be approved.
It wasn't Canada who let them in nor did they use Canada as a transit land. It seems to me that there is the idea in some peoples had that the highjacker came into the US illegally, they did not. There was a breakdown in your system, but that is hardly how it is portraited in the media, now is it?
IIRC, relaxed immigration laws is one of the things the US is trying to "fix" with Canada, because of those dern terrorists.
Right, because they all came from Canada (not).
Still amazing though.
And yes, Canada IS easier (or was) to get into than the US.
I know it, I jumped through the hoops.
Instead of "mandating it" how about suggesting it? Or would they automatically assume that they had to do it if you suggest it?
America has never been as obese, or as unhealthy, as it is today. Specific causes are uncertain (correlation does not prove causation, it really can only suggest it, and even then not always), but it is clear that as the American diet has embraced and increased its consumption of low-fat, high-carb products the populace has grown vastly more obese and unhealthy.
The past 20 or so odd years it has increased, ironcially enough with the invention of the "super sized meal".
Now have you ever read the nutrional information in any of the fastfood chains?
Here in Canada there is a franchise called "Swisschalet" I looked at their nutrional guidelines the other day and I came to the conclusion that in one sitting you could easily eat enough calories that would last the average person for a day and a half.
That's the reason why people baloon (besides other things like driving everywhere).
Atkins might or might now work, but it is not a cure to the decease, a change of lifestyle would be though.
I had the pleasure of working with SCO Unix back in 1998 which was bought by the company because they needed Unix but didn't want to pay big bucks for a Sun Server.
Set up by Windows people it didn't really work that well, so I was hired, I just hated it from day one. This thing does everything different from any other Unix I had ever worked with (heck, recompiling the kernel everytime you make a change?).
So out it went after a month and we installed Solaris 7 for Intel, not great, but better, then finally I convinced them to buy some Sparc Clones and we got Solaris 7 rolled out on them.
The only other times I had to deal with SCO was in Telco Enviroments, Nortel PBXs uses SCO in some of their extensions, but I haven't worked in a Unix shop in a long time that used Sco, if they ran Unix like operating system on X86 it was Linux or FreeBSD.
M.
OK, so why not include the key ID, or something to help people out with it.
It's on the key servers, but you can also find it in my profile.
M.
Wouldn't really bug me. I am not a US citizen ;)
M.
2) Some cardio is good. Run, bike, swim, but start easy. Do HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). A few minuts of HIIT is more effective than a long haul at the same intensity, even if you're pushing it. HIIT is easy: just warm up, then push kind of hard, then slack off, then push really hard, then slack off. Mix it up, but always start with a warm up and end with a cool down.
If you try to build a base you want to go long and slow in the lower spectrum of your Heart Rate.
Intervals or HIIT as you put it are the icing on the cake, but the entire training like this only results in some explosive power (e.g. sprinter) but no long distance abilities.
Of course it depends on what you want and I come definetly from the opposit spectrum (Triathlon, going long this year, half-Ironman and up).
M.
That would be if they could find me, I am not living in my country of origin anymore and I don't have register. So in other words: They have no clue where I am.
And yes, the passport is not my property but that of the issuing government I am aware of this.
Michael
I don't know american passports, but my German passport has the pciture printed on the plastic and the plastic itself contains some holographs. So I doubt it is THAT easy to paste another picture into it.
Not that my picture ever looked like me.
M.