And yet as much suckage as this film has, I'll bet you dimes to donuts that fully three-quarters of Slashdot users piss away their ten bucks on it, once again rewarding Hollywood for making lowest-common-denominator crap.
"MAD doesn't work as an effective deterrent when your enemy is willing to die to kill you."
Er, the same can be said for missile-defense anti-nuke shields. The danger to the USA isn't from outside the borders: no one's likely to toss an nuke missle at New York. The danger is from within, when some madmen decide to use a suitcase nuke, mail out smallpox, or use cheap'n'easy fertilizer bombs to blow up a federal building.
The Star Wars shield is just an excuse for funneling endless money to the defense industry; all part of the trend of taking money from the middle-class and give it to the super-rich.
Donchaknow that ol' Noah just took tissue samples and merely cloned the original species? The guy was millenia before his time, woulda given Celerea a run for its money...
Well, we were comparing debit card use in Canada to use in the US, so I'll continue that stream of thought.
Our telco systems have always been many years more advanced than American ones. Indeed, Canada has been a world leader in telco tech.
Our banks seem to be more advanced. They are, at any rate, buying up American banks at an astonishing rate. All our national banks are players in the global banking market.
We have a bunch of wireless companies that are tech leaders, too. Research in Motion would be one; Wi-Lan would be another. Both, I think, are spin-offs from the telco stuff, though.
There's a little startup that's developed a process for completely and safely incinerating (or is it digesting?) hazardous waste. It's got big contracts with the US Army. Canadian grown.
Oh, speaking of Canadian grown... but, no, let's not go there. The DEA won't like it.:-)
Our biotech industry is pretty much world-class, too, and always has been. Man, that's a nearly endless list of developments and technologies.
There's always Bombardier, the makers of everything from Lear(?) jets to snowmobiles and jetskis, to warplane instrumentation.
CAE is a world-class flight simulation/training company. And they're contracted to do something for the US Navy. Might be the control programs for their new Windows-based destroyer. Shudder. That'd be the project from hell.
Oil and gas technologies surely must be something we do. Can't name any, though; it's not something I've tried paying attention to. But alternative energy, we've got some great tech there, from fuel cells to thermoelectrical to wind power to hydroelectricity: pretty fine tech all around.
Hell, this is turning into an endless list. Tech-wise, Canada's near the top. We do it all, and we do it all extremely well.
"Little separation of Church & State with things like religious lessons in schools."
WTF? Not in any of the Western provinces. I think you must have experience only with Quebec.
"Canada doesn't place individual liberties above all else; the general good is at least as important."
Please name an example. I'm fairly certain you're mistaken, but perhaps I've remained ignorant of cases where an individuals rights were subsumed to the "greater good."
"it's a big pay cut from the US, especially when you add taxes on top"
I think not. In pursuing some of the ideas in this thread, I've taken a look into this. It seems that when all is said and done, you'll have about as much fun money left over after you take care of the necessities (tax, housing, food, retirement, etc) in either country. Mad-money-wise, it's break-even for the employee.
"This Hour Has 22 Minutes"
Truly the best reason to remain in Canada. Man, we eat our politicians alive up here! I eagerly await the next season, when Marge, Warrior Princess, really does begin to smite a few of those bastards.
Did you gap out on the 1:1 thing? C$70K puts your purchasing power within Canada at about the same level as U$70K does in the USA.
In other words, a Canuck with $70K will purchase a home, car, vacation, food, entertainment, and retirement plan that's very much the same as what an American with $70K will purchase.
But in Canada, he'll get better air quality, less violence, reduced crowding, better beer, and be welcomed by people in other nations.
You want to get informed about the real costs of taxation.
Start with something from the CATO Institute. You can find detailed and accurate accounts of the "hidden" taxation you're subjected to. In particular, the amount the government garnishes off your wages by forcing the employer to cough up money for employing you.
Then check out this Sales Tax Rate table. There are only five states that don't charge a sales tax. All others do: it may be a hidden tax. And I'm not entirely sure that the five oddballs aren't using some sort of skullduggery to tax the wholesale sale of merchandise; if so, that tax just gets passed on down to you, the consumer.
In Canada, at least, those taxes are up front and in the open, so that we know what the amount is and whether it gets changed. If the tax were hidden, it could go up and we'd never be told.
Those who are going to argue about health care systems would do themselves justice reading Canada's Burning, an expose on the media lies that are being fed to us all.
You may well find that what you thought you knew to be true, isn't.
Be cautious when comparing sales taxes. The GST (in all provinces) and PST (in BC) are out-in-front: they're calculated during the consumer sale. But for many provinces and states, the federal and state/provincial taxes are hidden: they're calculated before the product hits the shelves. You still pay the tax, but you don't have to calculate it.
Why would Calgary have a climate anything like Chicago? They're separated by a couple thousand miles or so. One's on a gigantic lake; the other is tucked up against the mountain foothills. Chicago gets purely evil winters. Calgary gets chinooks--basically, one-day summers in the middle of winter. Calgary doesn't have the humidity of Chicago, so it never feels as unbearably hot nor unbearably cold as Chicago.
Is water the logical choice for cooling? I'd have thought oil would be. Particularly as a synthetic oil should be non-reactive, quite unlike water. Although, come to think of it, that'd eliminate built-in product failure...
"They like a tough game, No rules, Some you win some you lose, Competition's good for you, They're dying to be free, They're the powers that be.
They like a bomb-proof cadillac, air conditioned, gold taps, back-seat gun rack, platinum hub caps, They pick horses for courses, They're the market forces (Nice car Jack)
They like order, make-up, lime-light, power, game shows, rodeos, star wars, TV They're the powers that be...
If you see them come, You better run - run You better run on home..."
A: They're the king-makers. They're the rule-breakers. They're the ones who buy and sell the souls of Congress and the Senate. They're the ones who have the power.
Q: Who the fuck are you?
A: You're no one. You're to keep quiet, go to work, and spend as much money as possible on immediate material gratification. Shut up, sit down, be good, give them the money, do what they say, and you better damn well like it.
If Rep. Tauzin is heading toward enforcing a well-regulated monopoly (and I'm not at all sure he is; the first exchange seems to indicate this, but the second seems contrary), then he's on the right track.
A monopoly that is controlled by the public can be a very nice beast, indeed. In exchange for a guaranteed reasonable profit, the monopoly must toe the line on service, upgrades, and such like. Both parties win: the monopoly can plan years in advance, while the consumer doesn't get shafted by the company.
Speaking of which, y'all been shafted to no end by the open market. From slamming to customer abuse, there's been no end to the pain the consumer has felt.
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And yet as much suckage as this film has, I'll bet you dimes to donuts that fully three-quarters of Slashdot users piss away their ten bucks on it, once again rewarding Hollywood for making lowest-common-denominator crap.
I'm so glad I'm boycotting the theatre chains.
With Opera, you can type "g " and get your google results without farting around at all...
(there are a dozen other one-letter shortcuts for the URL bar, too...)
Honest question: can the iBook run a Window applications at all competently? What sort of equivalent Intel CPU does it emulate?
:-(
'Cause I'd do an iBook in a heartbeat, except that my key application is available only for Windows.
"MAD doesn't work as an effective deterrent when your enemy is willing to die to kill you."
Er, the same can be said for missile-defense anti-nuke shields. The danger to the USA isn't from outside the borders: no one's likely to toss an nuke missle at New York. The danger is from within, when some madmen decide to use a suitcase nuke, mail out smallpox, or use cheap'n'easy fertilizer bombs to blow up a federal building.
The Star Wars shield is just an excuse for funneling endless money to the defense industry; all part of the trend of taking money from the middle-class and give it to the super-rich.
...in my opinion, is that a general manager did something useful.
It's a sure sign of the End Times. Gotta be. We'll be seeing pigs fly, next.
Donchaknow that ol' Noah just took tissue samples and merely cloned the original species? The guy was millenia before his time, woulda given Celerea a run for its money...
Is anyone able to access the CCRB site? I get a blank page...
(I hope that's not a really bad sign of just how restrictive our copyrights are going to become!)
...misspell your BigWords. Pretty darn tough to get caught if, for instance, you use "placebo" when you really mean "panacea."
I know, there's a risk the professor might actually read your paper and discover that you're illiterate, but it's a pretty slim risk...
...'cause most professors just toss the papers down a staircase, and grade 'em based on distance.
Well, we were comparing debit card use in Canada to use in the US, so I'll continue that stream of thought.
:-)
Our telco systems have always been many years more advanced than American ones. Indeed, Canada has been a world leader in telco tech.
Our banks seem to be more advanced. They are, at any rate, buying up American banks at an astonishing rate. All our national banks are players in the global banking market.
We have a bunch of wireless companies that are tech leaders, too. Research in Motion would be one; Wi-Lan would be another. Both, I think, are spin-offs from the telco stuff, though.
There's a little startup that's developed a process for completely and safely incinerating (or is it digesting?) hazardous waste. It's got big contracts with the US Army. Canadian grown.
Oh, speaking of Canadian grown... but, no, let's not go there. The DEA won't like it.
Our biotech industry is pretty much world-class, too, and always has been. Man, that's a nearly endless list of developments and technologies.
There's always Bombardier, the makers of everything from Lear(?) jets to snowmobiles and jetskis, to warplane instrumentation.
CAE is a world-class flight simulation/training company. And they're contracted to do something for the US Navy. Might be the control programs for their new Windows-based destroyer. Shudder. That'd be the project from hell.
Oil and gas technologies surely must be something we do. Can't name any, though; it's not something I've tried paying attention to. But alternative energy, we've got some great tech there, from fuel cells to thermoelectrical to wind power to hydroelectricity: pretty fine tech all around.
Hell, this is turning into an endless list. Tech-wise, Canada's near the top. We do it all, and we do it all extremely well.
"Little separation of Church & State with things like religious lessons in schools."
WTF? Not in any of the Western provinces. I think you must have experience only with Quebec.
"Canada doesn't place individual liberties above all else; the general good is at least as important."
Please name an example. I'm fairly certain you're mistaken, but perhaps I've remained ignorant of cases where an individuals rights were subsumed to the "greater good."
"it's a big pay cut from the US, especially when you add taxes on top"
I think not. In pursuing some of the ideas in this thread, I've taken a look into this. It seems that when all is said and done, you'll have about as much fun money left over after you take care of the necessities (tax, housing, food, retirement, etc) in either country. Mad-money-wise, it's break-even for the employee.
"This Hour Has 22 Minutes"
Truly the best reason to remain in Canada. Man, we eat our politicians alive up here! I eagerly await the next season, when Marge, Warrior Princess, really does begin to smite a few of those bastards.
Did you gap out on the 1:1 thing? C$70K puts your purchasing power within Canada at about the same level as U$70K does in the USA.
:-)
In other words, a Canuck with $70K will purchase a home, car, vacation, food, entertainment, and retirement plan that's very much the same as what an American with $70K will purchase.
But in Canada, he'll get better air quality, less violence, reduced crowding, better beer, and be welcomed by people in other nations.
Seems like a better deal to me.
Our Quebecois only imagine that they're treated like shit.
Truth is that money flows from other provinces into Quebec's coffers. I just *love* paying to have them treat me like shit.
Treated poorly by English Canada? Fuck sakes, they have *no* idea just how endlessly patient and tolerant we've been.
You want to get informed about the real costs of taxation.
Start with something from the CATO Institute. You can find detailed and accurate accounts of the "hidden" taxation you're subjected to. In particular, the amount the government garnishes off your wages by forcing the employer to cough up money for employing you.
Then check out this Sales Tax Rate table. There are only five states that don't charge a sales tax. All others do: it may be a hidden tax. And I'm not entirely sure that the five oddballs aren't using some sort of skullduggery to tax the wholesale sale of merchandise; if so, that tax just gets passed on down to you, the consumer.
In Canada, at least, those taxes are up front and in the open, so that we know what the amount is and whether it gets changed. If the tax were hidden, it could go up and we'd never be told.
Those who are going to argue about health care systems would do themselves justice reading Canada's Burning, an expose on the media lies that are being fed to us all.
You may well find that what you thought you knew to be true, isn't.
Be cautious when comparing sales taxes. The GST (in all provinces) and PST (in BC) are out-in-front: they're calculated during the consumer sale. But for many provinces and states, the federal and state/provincial taxes are hidden: they're calculated before the product hits the shelves. You still pay the tax, but you don't have to calculate it.
Why would Calgary have a climate anything like Chicago? They're separated by a couple thousand miles or so. One's on a gigantic lake; the other is tucked up against the mountain foothills. Chicago gets purely evil winters. Calgary gets chinooks--basically, one-day summers in the middle of winter. Calgary doesn't have the humidity of Chicago, so it never feels as unbearably hot nor unbearably cold as Chicago.
Shhhh. The IRS will want to know.
A virus wipes out most everyone, giving us a chance to start fresh. What to get rid of?
RIAA and ICANN. Can certainly do without them!
Any other (light-hearted) suggestions?
I fail to understand how that is ironic. Please explain. I suspect you may want to look up a dictionary definition of "ironic" before you do so.
Give me a Pentium-I 300Mhz with sixteen hours battery life any day of the week...
(I figure if they can make a P4 run four hours, the P1 should be good for at least four times longer!)
Is water the logical choice for cooling? I'd have thought oil would be. Particularly as a synthetic oil should be non-reactive, quite unlike water. Although, come to think of it, that'd eliminate built-in product failure...
As Water's wrote...
"They like a tough game, No rules, Some you win some you lose, Competition's good for you, They're dying to be free, They're the powers that be.
They like a bomb-proof cadillac, air conditioned, gold taps, back-seat gun rack, platinum hub caps, They pick horses for courses, They're the market forces
(Nice car Jack)
They like order, make-up, lime-light, power, game shows, rodeos, star wars, TV
They're the powers that be...
If you see them come,
You better run - run
You better run on home..."
Q: Who the fuck are they?
A: They're the king-makers. They're the rule-breakers. They're the ones who buy and sell the souls of Congress and the Senate. They're the ones who have the power.
Q: Who the fuck are you?
A: You're no one. You're to keep quiet, go to work, and spend as much money as possible on immediate material gratification. Shut up, sit down, be good, give them the money, do what they say, and you better damn well like it.
If Rep. Tauzin is heading toward enforcing a well-regulated monopoly (and I'm not at all sure he is; the first exchange seems to indicate this, but the second seems contrary), then he's on the right track.
A monopoly that is controlled by the public can be a very nice beast, indeed. In exchange for a guaranteed reasonable profit, the monopoly must toe the line on service, upgrades, and such like. Both parties win: the monopoly can plan years in advance, while the consumer doesn't get shafted by the company.
Speaking of which, y'all been shafted to no end by the open market. From slamming to customer abuse, there's been no end to the pain the consumer has felt.
No PPPOE in BC, either. I think it's strictly an Ontario curse.