"The Quantum Weather Butterfly ( Papilio Tempestae ) is an undistinguished yellow color, its outstanding feature is its ability to create weather.
This presumably began as a survival trait, since even an extremely hungry bird would find itself inconvenienced by a nasty localized tornado ( usually about 6 inches across ).
From there it possibly became a secondary sexual characteristic, like the plumage of birds. Look at *me*, the male says, flapping his wings lazily in the canopy of the rain forest.
I may be an undistinguished yellow color but in a fortnight's time, a thousand miles away, Freak Gales Cause Road Chaos. This is the butterfly of the storm"
Why the hell were you modded Interesting? I'm hoping there's sarcasm there(if so, then hats off, sir, and ignore the following).
First point:
What is punishment without purpose other then vindictiveness or sheer masochism?
So, assume the "evil"(ignoring the subjective moving target that 'evil' has been over the years) human is banished to hell. After the first 25 years, he's feeling mighty sorry for what he's done.
Maybe the year after he truly sees the error of his ways.
But no, he will be tormented for all eternity for no other reason then He wants it. Scary thought.
Second point is how you have effectively contradicted yourself.
"The punishment for rejecting an infinitely good God is infinite, nothing less is enough."
There is no infinite evil other then Lucifer and the anti-Christ. Thus no man can fairly be given infinite torment.
Man, the more I get into these, the more I'm happy I left my religion behind. Battles of semantics over re-translated words handed over hundreds of years to defend one's viewpoint when they can't get enough out of reality.
He's also been demonstrated to be quite a bit of a hypocrite.
However, Gore never said he was a climatologist. He was a presenter. A marketeer. The Sham-Wow guy for climate change. Anyone who thought otherwise is a twit.
It doesn't make what he was selling any less real.
If you can purchase the confounded thing for less then the $200-$700 price point that exists now for the bloody gadgets.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to get one, but it's hard to justify paying the same amount for a small embedded greyscale gadget that really only needs to read a pdf and text file as I would a cellphone, netbook or laptop.
I say they tax every ISP for all video content delivered solely through the highest IP within their subnet. At least that way the word "broadcast" would make more sense.
You aim to get more money from Canadians to fund that which needs no funding. Production online is cheap. The space to fill is infinite.
People will go watch that which is interesting to watch. It matters not one damn bit where that content come from.
Seeing as the entry level production expenses have dropped to within the average citizen's reach, there is NO reason for your meddling. If there's more US content on the internet(I've yet to see any statistics on that aside from the fact that Youtube is run by an American company) it means not as many Canadians are interested in placing themselves in front of a webcam.
Ripping additional money from their pockets is unlikely to change that. Adding borders to a borderless medium is a fruitless exercise.
Let business models evolve at their natural rate and keep the hell away from my wallet.
TV stations are mandated to provide a certain percent of Canadian content. This has led to some pretty bad shows in the past to try to meet the requirement.
They have a history of, and a tendency to, limit what it is we can see or hear.
"Windows has detected this application is attempting to load the Microsoft Internet Explorer Framework. Would you like to install it from Microsoft's website?"
In the time it will take you to learn to use Joomla to it's maximum, you'll have learned Perl or PHP(or Python, if you must) yourself, gotten a decent understanding of a certain brand of SQL and made a site custom tailored to you needs, as well as pick up an invaluable skill or two while doing it.
I find CMS', especially humongous ones like Joomla, to just be huge, kldugey, one-size-fits-all things without even the benefit of quick launch(unless you want the default content they include, at which point your site just looks like a template anyways).
Personal opinion, of course. It's free, try it out for yourself. But every time I've tried using it, I've ended up deleting it and just writing from scratch.
I think what's happening is the application developers don't globally distribute the app and, so, Apple obliges.
I'm not saying I agree with that philosophy(I think borders in software is a silly thing indeed), but imagine you release DeCSS for the iPhone(forget about how impractical that would be for one moment). That app is illegal in the US due to the DCMA. Yet it's legal in Canada(at least for now). So you dist it out to Canada but not the US to protect your legal arse.
As much as I'll blame Apple for many things, I can't really blame them if a developer forgets to check off "global" unless Apple does this censoring themselves.
Can any app developers shed light on whether the regions are controlled at the developer or corporate level?
And even at that, I'm sure something a bit more officially drawn would consider such problems and offset them at least to some extent.
But freedoms are more valuable then propping up those who prop up those who take those freedoms away.
Hell, if it goes south, just blame it on the "economic downturn" like every other company is nowadays.
But all I'm saying is it goes both ways. The gov't doesn't have to bend over and take it from Nokia(though I'm sure many within it will gladly sell themselves to do so as with any gov't).
Solution: Nokia is attempting to extort the gov't to draw a custom law for them.
So the gov't nationalizes Nokia as part of a law they would draw up instead that states that Corps attempting extort the gov't should be nationalized.
Sure it doesn't sound fair and is, itself, a scary precedent. But it's no scarier then letting Nokia run a privately owned country and would certainly teach the CEO a thing or two about fucking with the people who grew his company up.
This seems to completely ignore software developers. Does the music industry get it because they were more childish?
If the Music industry gets a slice of a tax pie simply because people -may- be illegally copying their crap, then so should the porn industry, the games industry, the software industry, the movie studios, the indy music and film developers, authors, scientists, university professors, webmasters, graphic designers,photographers, font calligraphers, etc....
More proof that the CRTC is absolute junk. The only thing they're good for is patting Bell on the back and waiting for the FCC to make a decision and claiming it as theirs.
They have no accountability and are responsible for such wonderful things like our horrible TV service and world renowned cellular service.
I mean, seriously, who thought it was a good idea to sell people's private phone numbers without checking up on whomever was requesting it?
It should always have been "You call these people, you are fined. Oh, you don't know who they are? Send us some paperwork and we may send you a list. Until then, I would advise you don't call anyone".
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Because there's just so little for them to do.
Yes and Yes.
The US likes to fling trade agreements but hardly ever abides by them.
"The Quantum Weather Butterfly ( Papilio Tempestae ) is an undistinguished yellow color, its outstanding feature is its ability to create weather.
This presumably began as a survival trait, since even an extremely hungry bird would find itself inconvenienced by a nasty localized tornado ( usually about 6 inches across ).
From there it possibly became a secondary sexual characteristic, like the plumage of birds. Look at *me*, the male says, flapping his wings lazily in the canopy of the rain forest.
I may be an undistinguished yellow color but in a fortnight's time, a thousand miles away, Freak Gales Cause Road Chaos. This is the butterfly of the storm"
-Terry Pratchett
Why the hell were you modded Interesting? I'm hoping there's sarcasm there(if so, then hats off, sir, and ignore the following).
First point:
What is punishment without purpose other then vindictiveness or sheer masochism?
So, assume the "evil"(ignoring the subjective moving target that 'evil' has been over the years) human is banished to hell. After the first 25 years, he's feeling mighty sorry for what he's done.
Maybe the year after he truly sees the error of his ways.
But no, he will be tormented for all eternity for no other reason then He wants it. Scary thought.
Second point is how you have effectively contradicted yourself.
"The punishment for rejecting an infinitely good God is infinite, nothing less is enough."
There is no infinite evil other then Lucifer and the anti-Christ. Thus no man can fairly be given infinite torment.
Man, the more I get into these, the more I'm happy I left my religion behind. Battles of semantics over re-translated words handed over hundreds of years to defend one's viewpoint when they can't get enough out of reality.
-"What're quantum mechanics?"
-"I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose."
-- Terry Pratchett
Your carriers are pussies. Move to Canada if you truly want to see telecom demons from the ninth circle of hell.
Of course he isn't.
He's also been demonstrated to be quite a bit of a hypocrite.
However, Gore never said he was a climatologist. He was a presenter. A marketeer. The Sham-Wow guy for climate change. Anyone who thought otherwise is a twit.
It doesn't make what he was selling any less real.
If you can purchase the confounded thing for less then the $200-$700 price point that exists now for the bloody gadgets.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to get one, but it's hard to justify paying the same amount for a small embedded greyscale gadget that really only needs to read a pdf and text file as I would a cellphone, netbook or laptop.
I say they tax every ISP for all video content delivered solely through the highest IP within their subnet. At least that way the word "broadcast" would make more sense.
You aim to get more money from Canadians to fund that which needs no funding. Production online is cheap. The space to fill is infinite.
People will go watch that which is interesting to watch. It matters not one damn bit where that content come from.
Seeing as the entry level production expenses have dropped to within the average citizen's reach, there is NO reason for your meddling. If there's more US content on the internet(I've yet to see any statistics on that aside from the fact that Youtube is run by an American company) it means not as many Canadians are interested in placing themselves in front of a webcam.
Ripping additional money from their pockets is unlikely to change that. Adding borders to a borderless medium is a fruitless exercise.
Let business models evolve at their natural rate and keep the hell away from my wallet.
TV stations are mandated to provide a certain percent of Canadian content. This has led to some pretty bad shows in the past to try to meet the requirement.
They have a history of, and a tendency to, limit what it is we can see or hear.
I've no love for them.
"Windows has detected this application is attempting to load the Microsoft Internet Explorer Framework. Would you like to install it from Microsoft's website?"
5 million people used Frontpage in 2001
IE 6 still has 20% marketshare
Numbers mean nothing.
In the time it will take you to learn to use Joomla to it's maximum, you'll have learned Perl or PHP(or Python, if you must) yourself, gotten a decent understanding of a certain brand of SQL and made a site custom tailored to you needs, as well as pick up an invaluable skill or two while doing it.
I find CMS', especially humongous ones like Joomla, to just be huge, kldugey, one-size-fits-all things without even the benefit of quick launch(unless you want the default content they include, at which point your site just looks like a template anyways).
Personal opinion, of course. It's free, try it out for yourself. But every time I've tried using it, I've ended up deleting it and just writing from scratch.
Throw Jack back to prehistory, thousands of years before videogames existed. I bet you he wouldn't survive the week!
I think what's happening is the application developers don't globally distribute the app and, so, Apple obliges.
I'm not saying I agree with that philosophy(I think borders in software is a silly thing indeed), but imagine you release DeCSS for the iPhone(forget about how impractical that would be for one moment). That app is illegal in the US due to the DCMA. Yet it's legal in Canada(at least for now). So you dist it out to Canada but not the US to protect your legal arse.
As much as I'll blame Apple for many things, I can't really blame them if a developer forgets to check off "global" unless Apple does this censoring themselves.
Can any app developers shed light on whether the regions are controlled at the developer or corporate level?
Made especially funny by the fact that that storefont has never worked in Canada or elsewhere :)
I just downloaded a free app and I'm in Nova-Scotia and not behind any proxy.
I also purchased an app earlier this afternoon.
Maybe it's only certain apps?
interesting, I distinctly saw the "smaller then" sign on the preview.
It should have read "Shareholders < citizens"
Shareholders citizens
And even at that, I'm sure something a bit more officially drawn would consider such problems and offset them at least to some extent.
But freedoms are more valuable then propping up those who prop up those who take those freedoms away.
Hell, if it goes south, just blame it on the "economic downturn" like every other company is nowadays.
But all I'm saying is it goes both ways. The gov't doesn't have to bend over and take it from Nokia(though I'm sure many within it will gladly sell themselves to do so as with any gov't).
Solution: Nokia is attempting to extort the gov't to draw a custom law for them.
So the gov't nationalizes Nokia as part of a law they would draw up instead that states that Corps attempting extort the gov't should be nationalized.
Sure it doesn't sound fair and is, itself, a scary precedent. But it's no scarier then letting Nokia run a privately owned country and would certainly teach the CEO a thing or two about fucking with the people who grew his company up.
This seems to completely ignore software developers. Does the music industry get it because they were more childish?
If the Music industry gets a slice of a tax pie simply because people -may- be illegally copying their crap, then so should the porn industry, the games industry, the software industry, the movie studios, the indy music and film developers, authors, scientists, university professors, webmasters, graphic designers,photographers, font calligraphers, etc....
Zune indeed accepts firmware updates. That's how they got all older Zunes to have the features of the newer ones, something Apple never saw fit to do.
More proof that the CRTC is absolute junk. The only thing they're good for is patting Bell on the back and waiting for the FCC to make a decision and claiming it as theirs.
They have no accountability and are responsible for such wonderful things like our horrible TV service and world renowned cellular service.
I mean, seriously, who thought it was a good idea to sell people's private phone numbers without checking up on whomever was requesting it?
It should always have been "You call these people, you are fined. Oh, you don't know who they are? Send us some paperwork and we may send you a list. Until then, I would advise you don't call anyone".
------Whooosh----->