Consumer companies will jump on this shit like crazy just to maintain teh price point of wireless routers and APs. I always expected to get a 802.11g router for cheap once 802.11n came out. Instead, it's harder to find g routers.
To me, and most people I know, a new 802.11 standard won't mean a row of beans and yet they'll still have to shell out $50 to buy a new router when they spill their coffee on it.
Holding politicians accountable requires the threat of an election: it's generally the only way they loose their jobs. Even disgraced Cabinet Ministers are MPs when they resign their post.
Therefore, if no party is threatening to declare non-confidence, the government stands and we continue to have issues popping up that should be thrown away (ACTA, DMCA) but aren't. As long as the Liberals and NDP are low in the polls, they won't cause an election because they know the result will be a Conservative majority.
What we're left with is a stable minority government where the Conservative government insists (wrongly) that they have a 'mandate' to govern and the balance of power is too afraid to tip the scales and trigger an election. This minority government lacks any leadership other than PM Harper and that pisses me off to no end.
While this Parliament is a minority one, it certainly hasn't been behaving like one... There are few objectives that PM Harper hasn't been able to push through without too much difficulty. Transparency in the government is not what it used to be and he's still gaining support in the polls despite his agenda that is far removed from the traditional Canadian mindset (Increasing military presence, reduced funding to women's groups, etc.).
I agree with you... I love a good minority government, but this one is so disjointed that it might as well be a Conservative majority. We would have been well served to have a coalition government of the NDP and Liberals at least so we could have an opposition with some chutzpah.
What do you do if you approach an intersection and the lights aren't on?
If I'm approaching the intersection and no lights are on (green or red) and I see you proceeding through the intersection, I'm going to stop and recognize the problem. The obvious solution is to proceede when it's safe (ie, when the other direction turns red).
I hate pseudoscience as much as the next red-blooded nerd, but honestly... people should choose to be outraged about relevant "issues".
The Canadian Blood Service is completely dependent on unpaid, volunteer donors. With people's fear of AIDS, malaria, vCJD and other blood-bourne pathogens, the CBS has to do everything in it's power to ensure the Canadian blood supply is sustainable.
Since volunteers are unpaid, they have to be motivated to sit in a chair for 15 minutes with a rather large needle stuck in their elbow. Motivation can take the form of many things, including silly personality profiles based on blood type. You do what it takes to ensure the organisation is perceived as a happy and fun place to go to give part of your body away. If I am in an accident and need blood products, I don't care if the blood came from an uneducated paper-folder who takes these profiles as gospel, or a PhD in cognitive neuroscience who vomits every time she sees a Zodiak symbol.
If people want to be pissed at the CBS, be mad about the default rejection of blood from homosexual men involved in long-term monogamous relationships.
By using Windows or any other software, I am using a service, since the 0s and 1s on my hard drive have no intrinsic value. So if I'm not buying the code... I must be paying for the privilege of using the code. Licensing...
That's the narrow perspective of gambling where the only point is to win money.
The more appropriate and realistic reasoning is that you're paying for a rush. It's exciting to have the feeling of winning a big stack of money. It's the same with paintball. No one plays paintball so they can get shot and develop welts. They play for the strategy and excitement.
Next time you're in the grocery store behind someone buying a lottery ticket, consider that maybe they're getting a few dollars worth of excitement in waiting for the numbers to come in and the anticipation that "maybe" they'll win a few million bucks.
That said, I do not gamble. I'm just open to different perspective and I ask people about their motivations.
Those drones carry ordinance and cost a great deal of cash. I'm sure drone pilots face serious repercussions if they write off a drone just as if a pilot writes off a Raptor.
They require skill to fly. Isn't that what pilots are being paid for?
Except maybe your kid that accidentally chokes on a toy and dies, or drowns in the tub, while you're zonked on smack.
If you are stupid enough to get inebriated while someone is under your care, and that person is harmed, you should be called negligent and be charged appropriately.
It doesn't make sense to charge someone with possession if their child dies. Their neglect would have killed the child, not possession of a controlled substance.
They are parties who believe in a sovereign Canada (or Quebec) and find American intrusion into politics beyond their own border unappealing - like the rest of the world.
I'm not anti-American, but I'm certainly pro-Canada. I don't like it when American lobbyists campaign on Parliament Hill; it pisses me off. I suspect Gilles Duceppe, Elizabeth May, and Jack Layton don't like it much either.
I suspect the Himalayas, Alps, or even the Rocky Mountains absorb more atmospheric energy than anyone could fathom. These massive structures are responsible for climatic conditions that span less than a continent (the East Coast of Canada feels no major effect from the Rockies).
These structures are magnitudes larger than windmill farms.
I have a sneaking suspicion that you've never attempted to track your genealogy and that you have a cruel disregard of archives. Living entirely in the present - as you seem to be - is a slap to your ancestors face.
I pity you if you feel life is so insignificant that it is not worth preserving a history... even for insignificant events. It smacks of nihilism.
In the future, anyone should be able to pick up a book and open the pages to look at photographs: it requires no skill. Running a computer program to open a picture (especially a lossy format such as jpeg) is overly complex.
The chemistry of photography is well known and good quality black and white prints can be made by high schoolers. Consumer digital, however, has been around for less than 10 years. You might be ready to hand over all your memories to computers, but I will never believe that computers will be the end-all of archives.
Digital collections that are reducible to 1s and 0s will never be the end-game for our collections. Analogue is just too deeply entrenched in our humanity. Petroglyphs, the Bible, Starry Night: all analogue. Analogue fulfills visual and tactile senses... things you won't likely store in the metadata of a jpeg.
We are certainly more prone to loose a data file due to careless computer usage than we are to loose a photo album. For instance, a few years ago, my computer got eaten by a virus and I lost a few hundred MB of pics. It was years and months of pictures.
Meanwhile, my photo album sits neatly in my closet. But I still have a huge gap in the documentation of my life.
You're right, the previous post was not insightful and just shows that there is a serious lack of foresight into our future.
We're all so dammed obsessed with the present and we have a reckless disregard for both the past and the future. People ignore history and don't consider the impact decisions will have on the future. It spans everything from adopting fully-documented open standards for digital works (documents, audio and images) to erasure of privacy that humanity has worked hard to enact over many generations of oppression.
The big thing people care about now in photography is how they can snap silly pictures of their friends at a drunken party. Don't get me wrong, those are great and I have many... but it doesn't satisfy the fact that jpeg is a compressed file and the compression algorithms can be lost in time.
There will come a time where people will accept that analogue formats have their place alongside digital formats. Sure, analogue is bulky, unwieldy and has its problems with archival too... but we have documents that are more than 2000 years old. There is no guarantee that we'll have our digital works 2000 years from now. Rendering a digital work requires a computer and a power source. Rendering a Kodachrome print requires sunlight and your eyes.
It's always fun to shit on the government... especially since the government is not able to defend itself from every jab that is wrote on a message board.
Clearly, though, you don't appreciate the efforts and work your government puts into providing the infrastructure that allows the free market survive. Free market and government has to work together. Either one of them working in a vacuum will lead to some horrendous despotism.
There's lots of examples of both governments and free market companies who are given too much power: Kim Jong Ill is a self-elected god who runs a country on fear of the world beyond their borders. Bell is a massive corporation that has been wrapped up in anti-trust lawsuits and concerns of monopoly for ages.
My point is, maybe the government is somewhat inefficient, but the inefficiency is what runs our world today. I wouldn't want to live in a country where ruthless efficiency is practiced.
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Consumer companies will jump on this shit like crazy just to maintain teh price point of wireless routers and APs. I always expected to get a 802.11g router for cheap once 802.11n came out. Instead, it's harder to find g routers.
To me, and most people I know, a new 802.11 standard won't mean a row of beans and yet they'll still have to shell out $50 to buy a new router when they spill their coffee on it.
I'm not sure if it's an oversight or dig, but Harper does represent two groups:
1) His caucus in Parliament as Leader and PM.
2) Calgary Southwest as MP
He doesn't even represent the Conservative Party of Canada, really. That's the job of the President of the Conservative Party of Canada: John Walsh.
Holding politicians accountable requires the threat of an election: it's generally the only way they loose their jobs. Even disgraced Cabinet Ministers are MPs when they resign their post.
Therefore, if no party is threatening to declare non-confidence, the government stands and we continue to have issues popping up that should be thrown away (ACTA, DMCA) but aren't. As long as the Liberals and NDP are low in the polls, they won't cause an election because they know the result will be a Conservative majority.
What we're left with is a stable minority government where the Conservative government insists (wrongly) that they have a 'mandate' to govern and the balance of power is too afraid to tip the scales and trigger an election. This minority government lacks any leadership other than PM Harper and that pisses me off to no end.
While this Parliament is a minority one, it certainly hasn't been behaving like one... There are few objectives that PM Harper hasn't been able to push through without too much difficulty. Transparency in the government is not what it used to be and he's still gaining support in the polls despite his agenda that is far removed from the traditional Canadian mindset (Increasing military presence, reduced funding to women's groups, etc.).
I agree with you... I love a good minority government, but this one is so disjointed that it might as well be a Conservative majority. We would have been well served to have a coalition government of the NDP and Liberals at least so we could have an opposition with some chutzpah.
USA didn't 'whip' Canada. Ryan Miller is just a very good goalie... 93% save percentage while Brodeur didn't do as hot with 82%.
We'll see in the finals.
Except the food surplus is probably the result of rather large fertilizer imports.
Then they are an idiot and failed to proceed when the way was clear (ie, when opposing traffic had a red light).
This isn't a complex problem if you think about it.
What do you do if you approach an intersection and the lights aren't on?
If I'm approaching the intersection and no lights are on (green or red) and I see you proceeding through the intersection, I'm going to stop and recognize the problem. The obvious solution is to proceede when it's safe (ie, when the other direction turns red).
No snow sensor is needed, other than your eyes.
I hate pseudoscience as much as the next red-blooded nerd, but honestly... people should choose to be outraged about relevant "issues".
The Canadian Blood Service is completely dependent on unpaid, volunteer donors. With people's fear of AIDS, malaria, vCJD and other blood-bourne pathogens, the CBS has to do everything in it's power to ensure the Canadian blood supply is sustainable.
Since volunteers are unpaid, they have to be motivated to sit in a chair for 15 minutes with a rather large needle stuck in their elbow. Motivation can take the form of many things, including silly personality profiles based on blood type. You do what it takes to ensure the organisation is perceived as a happy and fun place to go to give part of your body away. If I am in an accident and need blood products, I don't care if the blood came from an uneducated paper-folder who takes these profiles as gospel, or a PhD in cognitive neuroscience who vomits every time she sees a Zodiak symbol.
If people want to be pissed at the CBS, be mad about the default rejection of blood from homosexual men involved in long-term monogamous relationships.
You can give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please.
Blemish-free is pesticide-rich ;)
By using Windows or any other software, I am using a service, since the 0s and 1s on my hard drive have no intrinsic value. So if I'm not buying the code... I must be paying for the privilege of using the code. Licensing...
And no one likes that either.
Maybe people just don't like to spend money!
That's the narrow perspective of gambling where the only point is to win money.
The more appropriate and realistic reasoning is that you're paying for a rush. It's exciting to have the feeling of winning a big stack of money. It's the same with paintball. No one plays paintball so they can get shot and develop welts. They play for the strategy and excitement.
Next time you're in the grocery store behind someone buying a lottery ticket, consider that maybe they're getting a few dollars worth of excitement in waiting for the numbers to come in and the anticipation that "maybe" they'll win a few million bucks.
That said, I do not gamble. I'm just open to different perspective and I ask people about their motivations.
That's certainly not fair...
Those drones carry ordinance and cost a great deal of cash. I'm sure drone pilots face serious repercussions if they write off a drone just as if a pilot writes off a Raptor.
They require skill to fly. Isn't that what pilots are being paid for?
Thank you for the reality check...
For my folks, 60s music has certainly not disappeared - it's ubiquitous. If the recording is worth keeping, it will be done by the record industry.
Physical artifacts are more important; not digital works that can be duplicated.
Except maybe your kid that accidentally chokes on a toy and dies, or drowns in the tub, while you're zonked on smack.
If you are stupid enough to get inebriated while someone is under your care, and that person is harmed, you should be called negligent and be charged appropriately.
It doesn't make sense to charge someone with possession if their child dies. Their neglect would have killed the child, not possession of a controlled substance.
Anti-American? I certainly don't think so.
They are parties who believe in a sovereign Canada (or Quebec) and find American intrusion into politics beyond their own border unappealing - like the rest of the world.
I'm not anti-American, but I'm certainly pro-Canada. I don't like it when American lobbyists campaign on Parliament Hill; it pisses me off. I suspect Gilles Duceppe, Elizabeth May, and Jack Layton don't like it much either.
Point it at a tea light!
Also I am exactly 26 years old
Happy Birthday!
How fast is "God Speed" anyway?
Is it faster than Plaid?
They do! Well... not Superior, but Lake Ontario.
Toronto has a rather large system that uses deep, cool water as a heat sink.
Enwave is the company that provides this service.
I suspect the Himalayas, Alps, or even the Rocky Mountains absorb more atmospheric energy than anyone could fathom. These massive structures are responsible for climatic conditions that span less than a continent (the East Coast of Canada feels no major effect from the Rockies).
These structures are magnitudes larger than windmill farms.
I have a sneaking suspicion that you've never attempted to track your genealogy and that you have a cruel disregard of archives. Living entirely in the present - as you seem to be - is a slap to your ancestors face.
I pity you if you feel life is so insignificant that it is not worth preserving a history... even for insignificant events. It smacks of nihilism.
I don't think it's silly.
In the future, anyone should be able to pick up a book and open the pages to look at photographs: it requires no skill. Running a computer program to open a picture (especially a lossy format such as jpeg) is overly complex.
The chemistry of photography is well known and good quality black and white prints can be made by high schoolers. Consumer digital, however, has been around for less than 10 years. You might be ready to hand over all your memories to computers, but I will never believe that computers will be the end-all of archives.
Digital collections that are reducible to 1s and 0s will never be the end-game for our collections. Analogue is just too deeply entrenched in our humanity. Petroglyphs, the Bible, Starry Night: all analogue. Analogue fulfills visual and tactile senses... things you won't likely store in the metadata of a jpeg.
We are certainly more prone to loose a data file due to careless computer usage than we are to loose a photo album. For instance, a few years ago, my computer got eaten by a virus and I lost a few hundred MB of pics. It was years and months of pictures.
Meanwhile, my photo album sits neatly in my closet. But I still have a huge gap in the documentation of my life.
You're right, the previous post was not insightful and just shows that there is a serious lack of foresight into our future.
We're all so dammed obsessed with the present and we have a reckless disregard for both the past and the future. People ignore history and don't consider the impact decisions will have on the future. It spans everything from adopting fully-documented open standards for digital works (documents, audio and images) to erasure of privacy that humanity has worked hard to enact over many generations of oppression.
The big thing people care about now in photography is how they can snap silly pictures of their friends at a drunken party. Don't get me wrong, those are great and I have many... but it doesn't satisfy the fact that jpeg is a compressed file and the compression algorithms can be lost in time.
There will come a time where people will accept that analogue formats have their place alongside digital formats. Sure, analogue is bulky, unwieldy and has its problems with archival too... but we have documents that are more than 2000 years old. There is no guarantee that we'll have our digital works 2000 years from now. Rendering a digital work requires a computer and a power source. Rendering a Kodachrome print requires sunlight and your eyes.
It's always fun to shit on the government... especially since the government is not able to defend itself from every jab that is wrote on a message board.
Clearly, though, you don't appreciate the efforts and work your government puts into providing the infrastructure that allows the free market survive. Free market and government has to work together. Either one of them working in a vacuum will lead to some horrendous despotism.
There's lots of examples of both governments and free market companies who are given too much power: Kim Jong Ill is a self-elected god who runs a country on fear of the world beyond their borders. Bell is a massive corporation that has been wrapped up in anti-trust lawsuits and concerns of monopoly for ages.
My point is, maybe the government is somewhat inefficient, but the inefficiency is what runs our world today. I wouldn't want to live in a country where ruthless efficiency is practiced.