College should be about learning, not socializing, binge drinking, wanton promiscuity, or what have you.
well, if someone wanted to argue the point, one could consider those to learning about other things beyond purely academic learning.
and I'm sure those "core courses" must be annoying, but i wouldn't really know as there isn't really any such thing at my (technical) collage, namely SIAST.
i would guess that it would be something about the being able to really feel the disc, the grooves and such, without having to worry about fingerprints screwing up the playback.
i hit the wrong reply link. i was meaning to reply to your comment regarding conversion kits. fully converting all such ethanol-vulnerable materials in the fuel path would be rather difficult/expensive on many cars, and plus the fact that the mileage would be shot to hell without the right tuned-for-ethanol forced induction.
you might want to keep in mind that high concentrations of ethanol is pretty corrosive. thus is will turn any rubbers or plastics, some of which are found in the fuel system, that aren't designed to withstand it into jelly.
that's why flex-fuel vehicles a bit more expensive than ordinary gas ones. they need to replace the rubbers and plastics with either different, more expensive, rubbers and plastics or stainless steel or something else not affected by it.
also, ethanol has less potential energy than gas, but if you run it at high compressions (especially with forced induction) to take advantage of the higher octane rating, you can make very efficient use of the available energy, getting equal mileage, all while providing a little more power (about 5% that I've seen) from the engine.
that's only a good idea if the computer and everything else in the house has a good surge protector. the cheaper ones simply short to ground if there's a surge (a special type of resistor, which i can't remember the name of at the moment, between the power and the ground lines. resistace on it varries with voltage, and if it goes past a certain point, resistance goes to effectively zero, sending the surge to ground rather than into whatever is being powered) which can result in a nasty effect if the computer is plugged directly into the wall, even if you have the switch off.
well, being as the highest voltage you'll find in a PC (barring inside the power supply) is 12 volts, and that it is generally a bad idea to work on a PC while it is plugged in, as that tends to f-up components, there's not much to worry about.
well, in the US government, it would seem that a $1000 bill holds more influence than a ballot, especially if both of the names on the ballot are equally interested in "campaign contributions" for the next election.
well, to be fair, there are other places where information can be found, such as the settings themselves, like what sites you have allowed in no-script or what ads you have blocked through adblock.
and wiping those places can take a litte bit of time is isn't something you'd want to be doing on a regular basis.
i believe that they have been testing non-lethal weapons in this manner for years, on paid volunteers. it follows the same idea as scientific testing. you sign waver, they do testing, you get paid.
if it is being done with the person's consent, i see no trouble with this. if they are coerced or drafted into this, then i see problems.
someone please tell me this is merely a bad joke... if it isn't, there is gonna be some serious crap going down. seniors vote much more than average citizens. up here, IIRC, 87% of senior citizens voted, vs. 65% of the general population. i can imagine that there is a comparable phenomenon in the US.
and plus, the whole suing old people raised a PR firestorm upon the RIAA, so i can expect a similar effect on this.
provided again that this isn't a really early april fools joke...
well, the main thing regarding the respective party systems is that there are twice as many "real" parties in Canada as there are in the US. with a 2 party system, one party will always have a majority. and when things really get screwed, one party can control everything (senate, congress, presidant, judges) and just shove crap down if they can whip their members. that's one reason why i personally prefer our appointed senate, which pretty much ensures that no one party can have total control, though Harper (and most of the population it seems) just doesn't seem to get it.
whereas up here, we have 4 parties (liberal, conservative, bloc, and NDP) represented in the house, with 1 that is on the border of getting in (the green party), so the people have more real choices, besides the self-fulfilling prophecy of throwing anyway your vote on a minor party. so in times of uncertainty, often no party will be in control, but will have to compromise with others to get stuff done, which can often be a good thing, as i have witnessed in the past few years of minority governments. the important stuff gets through, but much of the junk gets swept out.
the only problem would seem to be that our voting system is fundamentally incompatible with the US election system. for some ununderstandable reason, they need to make everything excessively complex with near-total control by the people. you're not just voting for the presidant, but vice presidant, judges, school board, etc.
whereas we just vote for our MP, which then determine the PM, who then appoints various positions, starting with the cabenit, each minister then appoints those below them and so on and so forth.
it would seem to me to be a far for simple, accessable, and elegant (not to mention error resistant) system than the mess they have down south.
to make it feasable for the us election system, you'd need seperate ballots for each choice to be made and then you'd have to have each ballot go into a seperate box. for that to be largely fool-proof, you'd need a bunch of seperate sections in a the election area (vote for presidant/vice here, vote for judges here, etc.), which would require more workers. not to mention that it would take quite awhile to count that many ballots, as canada has about 33 million people, and we had about 65% voter turnout, so roughly 21 million ballots.
compare that the US has roughly 299 million people, and assuming similar turn out (about 195 million voters) and 5 ballots per person (975 million ballots) you can see that it would take a lot of people a lot of time to count that many ballots, and due to the whole "we wanna know who won right now" thing about the US elections, that length of waiting would be annoying to them, thus in public perception it "won't work", even though they seem to largely ignore the steaming pile that their current system appears to be.
the problem is that the US likes to excessively over-complicate their election. you're not just voting for the president/vice president, you're also voting for school board positions, judges, etc. etc. which results in letter-page (or maybe legal-size depending on number of options) size ballots.
whereas up here, we vote for our MP (or MLA in provincial elections) and then they determine the PM or premier, and then all the other positions are appointed by the elected officials.
IMO, it's a much simpler and more elegant system, though it doesn't allow as much public control, though i personally think that is a wholly acceptable trade-off for the ease-of-use and the error resistance.
That's interesting. It's too bad you fail to point to the law that prohibits "broadcasting terrorist media". Oh, and you said he was only receiving these broadcasts, which is not the same as broadcasting. Oh wait, you don't even provide a link to this story that you obviously "read recently" and I totally can't make this up guys.
appearently al-manar is designated as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity", though hell if i can find any kind of exact definition of what the F that is besides another government buzzword, and as such all their US assets are frozen and any bussiness between americans and them is prohibited.
i'm not saying i buy it, but it does add up under the law as far as i can see, though it's anyone's guess is the law is legal.
and what about the multitudes of free stuff? sure, most is not real good, but there are many gems, and anyway, most youngsters couldn't tell the differance.
Well, maybe because it pleases the voters, the very people the politicians base their power on?
but as i said, it doesn't seem like the majority of the electorate cares, so it wouldn't make much sense to push on a (as far as most people are concerned) nonexistant issue.
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College should be about learning, not socializing, binge drinking, wanton promiscuity, or what have you.
well, if someone wanted to argue the point, one could consider those to learning about other things beyond purely academic learning.
and I'm sure those "core courses" must be annoying, but i wouldn't really know as there isn't really any such thing at my (technical) collage, namely SIAST.
i would guess that it would be something about the being able to really feel the disc, the grooves and such, without having to worry about fingerprints screwing up the playback.
just my $0.02.
i hit the wrong reply link. i was meaning to reply to your comment regarding conversion kits. fully converting all such ethanol-vulnerable materials in the fuel path would be rather difficult/expensive on many cars, and plus the fact that the mileage would be shot to hell without the right tuned-for-ethanol forced induction.
you might want to keep in mind that high concentrations of ethanol is pretty corrosive. thus is will turn any rubbers or plastics, some of which are found in the fuel system, that aren't designed to withstand it into jelly.
that's why flex-fuel vehicles a bit more expensive than ordinary gas ones. they need to replace the rubbers and plastics with either different, more expensive, rubbers and plastics or stainless steel or something else not affected by it.
also, ethanol has less potential energy than gas, but if you run it at high compressions (especially with forced induction) to take advantage of the higher octane rating, you can make very efficient use of the available energy, getting equal mileage, all while providing a little more power (about 5% that I've seen) from the engine.
that's only a good idea if the computer and everything else in the house has a good surge protector. the cheaper ones simply short to ground if there's a surge (a special type of resistor, which i can't remember the name of at the moment, between the power and the ground lines. resistace on it varries with voltage, and if it goes past a certain point, resistance goes to effectively zero, sending the surge to ground rather than into whatever is being powered) which can result in a nasty effect if the computer is plugged directly into the wall, even if you have the switch off.
no comments and it's already slashdotted...
i think you punched too one many zeros into your calculator, as i get 537000/1300000000=0.4%
well, being as the highest voltage you'll find in a PC (barring inside the power supply) is 12 volts, and that it is generally a bad idea to work on a PC while it is plugged in, as that tends to f-up components, there's not much to worry about.
you'd be suprised how many ads i find that are specific to a handful of interlinked sites.
As it is, they can only "vote" with their money.
well, in the US government, it would seem that a $1000 bill holds more influence than a ballot, especially if both of the names on the ballot are equally interested in "campaign contributions" for the next election.
unless he vetos said law.
dammit. finally something bright and my mob points expired yesterday...
one could also say similar things about sex education. same (lousy) idea, same (lousy) effect...
well, to be fair, there are other places where information can be found, such as the settings themselves, like what sites you have allowed in no-script or what ads you have blocked through adblock.
and wiping those places can take a litte bit of time is isn't something you'd want to be doing on a regular basis.
i was pretty sure that slashdot blocked tor. or did that change without me noticing?
i believe that they have been testing non-lethal weapons in this manner for years, on paid volunteers. it follows the same idea as scientific testing. you sign waver, they do testing, you get paid.
if it is being done with the person's consent, i see no trouble with this. if they are coerced or drafted into this, then i see problems.
someone please tell me this is merely a bad joke... if it isn't, there is gonna be some serious crap going down. seniors vote much more than average citizens. up here, IIRC, 87% of senior citizens voted, vs. 65% of the general population. i can imagine that there is a comparable phenomenon in the US.
and plus, the whole suing old people raised a PR firestorm upon the RIAA, so i can expect a similar effect on this.
provided again that this isn't a really early april fools joke...
well, the main thing regarding the respective party systems is that there are twice as many "real" parties in Canada as there are in the US. with a 2 party system, one party will always have a majority. and when things really get screwed, one party can control everything (senate, congress, presidant, judges) and just shove crap down if they can whip their members. that's one reason why i personally prefer our appointed senate, which pretty much ensures that no one party can have total control, though Harper (and most of the population it seems) just doesn't seem to get it.
whereas up here, we have 4 parties (liberal, conservative, bloc, and NDP) represented in the house, with 1 that is on the border of getting in (the green party), so the people have more real choices, besides the self-fulfilling prophecy of throwing anyway your vote on a minor party. so in times of uncertainty, often no party will be in control, but will have to compromise with others to get stuff done, which can often be a good thing, as i have witnessed in the past few years of minority governments. the important stuff gets through, but much of the junk gets swept out.
well, the 1st A issue is a given in this kind of thing. it's basically the only possible defense i can think of for this kind of thing.
the only problem would seem to be that our voting system is fundamentally incompatible with the US election system. for some ununderstandable reason, they need to make everything excessively complex with near-total control by the people. you're not just voting for the presidant, but vice presidant, judges, school board, etc.
whereas we just vote for our MP, which then determine the PM, who then appoints various positions, starting with the cabenit, each minister then appoints those below them and so on and so forth.
it would seem to me to be a far for simple, accessable, and elegant (not to mention error resistant) system than the mess they have down south.
to make it feasable for the us election system, you'd need seperate ballots for each choice to be made and then you'd have to have each ballot go into a seperate box. for that to be largely fool-proof, you'd need a bunch of seperate sections in a the election area (vote for presidant/vice here, vote for judges here, etc.), which would require more workers. not to mention that it would take quite awhile to count that many ballots, as canada has about 33 million people, and we had about 65% voter turnout, so roughly 21 million ballots.
compare that the US has roughly 299 million people, and assuming similar turn out (about 195 million voters) and 5 ballots per person (975 million ballots) you can see that it would take a lot of people a lot of time to count that many ballots, and due to the whole "we wanna know who won right now" thing about the US elections, that length of waiting would be annoying to them, thus in public perception it "won't work", even though they seem to largely ignore the steaming pile that their current system appears to be.
the problem is that the US likes to excessively over-complicate their election. you're not just voting for the president/vice president, you're also voting for school board positions, judges, etc. etc. which results in letter-page (or maybe legal-size depending on number of options) size ballots.
whereas up here, we vote for our MP (or MLA in provincial elections) and then they determine the PM or premier, and then all the other positions are appointed by the elected officials.
IMO, it's a much simpler and more elegant system, though it doesn't allow as much public control, though i personally think that is a wholly acceptable trade-off for the ease-of-use and the error resistance.
how about this?
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appearently al-manar is designated as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity", though hell if i can find any kind of exact definition of what the F that is besides another government buzzword, and as such all their US assets are frozen and any bussiness between americans and them is prohibited.
i'm not saying i buy it, but it does add up under the law as far as i can see, though it's anyone's guess is the law is legal.
nope. i wouldn't clear off the settlement, but if i'm thinking straight, it would clear everything else, leaving money to pay the settlement.
and what about the multitudes of free stuff? sure, most is not real good, but there are many gems, and anyway, most youngsters couldn't tell the differance.
Well, maybe because it pleases the voters, the very people the politicians base their power on?
but as i said, it doesn't seem like the majority of the electorate cares, so it wouldn't make much sense to push on a (as far as most people are concerned) nonexistant issue.
i'm not sure if you read my post. this trick makes a user agent switch ineffective. it basically asks a trick question.
site: what browser are you?
browser: i'm IE 6.0
site: how many plugins do you have?
browser: 4
site: WRONG ANSWER! IE doesn't use plugins! *denies*