I live in Canada, but we also have this same sort of pledge to bring high speed internet (not broadband specifically) to rural areas. I've been looking at rural homes, and to be honest, it's a real pain.
There is literally nothing in most parts of rural Ontario that exceed 3mbps down / 1mbps up, and with unlimited (or at least, overage charges that won't make you go broke) caps. If you go the 3G/4G route (which I would love to), many areas don't actually have coverage even if they claim they do, and the caps are 5gb if you're lucky..
I live south of Marmora (Highway 7 about 60 km east of Peterborough) and our only current option is Bell Turbo Hub (10 GB per month before the onset of ass rape.) However it's 4/1.5 most of the time, with surprising low latency. Ironically there's scads of dark fibre about 1 km away under the snowmobile trail (former railroad) that I'd dearly love to tap into.
I'll just have to march on up there and hand deliver my thoughts...she's my MP and the constituency office is a 10 minute walk away.
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...this crap is being foisted on us by the twin horrors of insurance liability and the femininization of the education system.
Take my son's school in Ontario, Canada for example.
The mother of one of my son's female classmates succeeded in getting the school to ban the playing of ballgames at recess because "her daughter has the right" to stand in the middle of the basketball court while a pickup game is in progress.
However what can you expect from a school board that has banned kids from packing juice in their lunch bags, because juice "attracts bees and wasps, and some children are allergic to bee stings."
This is "reporter speak". There are two sides to every issue and they have equal validity...at least thet's the way the mantra goes. We shouldn't ever cloud the issue with facts.
Dude, you should rent/download "Dante's Peak". That exact scenario is played out when a Mount St. Helens like volcano in the Pacific North West blows its wad.
Ditto for me...I also have a Dimage 7Hi. I was hoping to get the Maxxum 5d to replace the 7Hi and my 35mm Maxxum 5 (and use its lenses), but Konica-Minolta already have withdrawn marketing of their digitals here in Canada. It's a shame as they were good cameras. I guess I'll be joining the Canon crowd when I can afford it...but it's not top of my priority list as I have a sick out-of-warranty Thinkpad to repair/replace.
drop down some phone numbers, get a google map to where they are.
Or maybe you could call one of those phone numbers...I believe that's what they're for.
Please, try looking at the problem as a pragmatist and a realist, not with the simple and sophomoric eyes of a cheap cynic. The world is more complex, and a far richer place, than can ever be sufficiently explained with cheap cynicism.
Point taken, but the original comment was more about the kind of lawyers who become legislators rather than a blanket condemnation of all lawyers. Based on their track records, a healthy dose of cynicism regarding politicians and legislators is warranted IMHO.
When will legislators realize that it's time for serious legal reforms to end these types of frivolous, baseless lawsuits that are intended only to intimidate and harass?
Unfortunately many of the legislators are lawyers. It's not in their interest for this state of affairs to end.
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I live in Canada, but we also have this same sort of pledge to bring high speed internet (not broadband specifically) to rural areas. I've been looking at rural homes, and to be honest, it's a real pain.
There is literally nothing in most parts of rural Ontario that exceed 3mbps down / 1mbps up, and with unlimited (or at least, overage charges that won't make you go broke) caps. If you go the 3G/4G route (which I would love to), many areas don't actually have coverage even if they claim they do, and the caps are 5gb if you're lucky..
I live south of Marmora (Highway 7 about 60 km east of Peterborough) and our only current option is Bell Turbo Hub (10 GB per month before the onset of ass rape.) However it's 4/1.5 most of the time, with surprising low latency. Ironically there's scads of dark fibre about 1 km away under the snowmobile trail (former railroad) that I'd dearly love to tap into.
Don't count on those tortillas because most of the corn will be used for ethanol production.
I'll just have to march on up there and hand deliver my thoughts...she's my MP and the constituency office is a 10 minute walk away.
...this crap is being foisted on us by the twin horrors of insurance liability and the femininization of the education system.
Take my son's school in Ontario, Canada for example.
The mother of one of my son's female classmates succeeded in getting the school to ban the playing of ballgames at recess because "her daughter has the right" to stand in the middle of the basketball court while a pickup game is in progress.
However what can you expect from a school board that has banned kids from packing juice in their lunch bags, because juice "attracts bees and wasps, and some children are allergic to bee stings."
This is "reporter speak". There are two sides to every issue and they have equal validity...at least thet's the way the mantra goes. We shouldn't ever cloud the issue with facts.
Dude, you should rent/download "Dante's Peak". That exact scenario is played out when a Mount St. Helens like volcano in the Pacific North West blows its wad.
Ditto for me...I also have a Dimage 7Hi. I was hoping to get the Maxxum 5d to replace the 7Hi and my 35mm Maxxum 5 (and use its lenses), but Konica-Minolta already have withdrawn marketing of their digitals here in Canada. It's a shame as they were good cameras. I guess I'll be joining the Canon crowd when I can afford it...but it's not top of my priority list as I have a sick out-of-warranty Thinkpad to repair/replace.
drop down some phone numbers, get a google map to where they are. Or maybe you could call one of those phone numbers...I believe that's what they're for.
Please, try looking at the problem as a pragmatist and a realist, not with the simple and sophomoric eyes of a cheap cynic. The world is more complex, and a far richer place, than can ever be sufficiently explained with cheap cynicism.
Point taken, but the original comment was more about the kind of lawyers who become legislators rather than a blanket condemnation of all lawyers. Based on their track records, a healthy dose of cynicism regarding politicians and legislators is warranted IMHO.
When will legislators realize that it's time for serious legal reforms to end these types of frivolous, baseless lawsuits that are intended only to intimidate and harass?
Unfortunately many of the legislators are lawyers. It's not in their interest for this state of affairs to end.
Having a wife that sucks makes your job stress seem much less important. One could take that statement several ways.