Farmers in other countries seem to stay afloat without subsidies.
not really. not in the canadian west anyway. a bunch of the farmers are barely hanging on and there are currently a lot of farms for sale around here.
subsidies are a good thing IMO, as you can't really make a profit off of basic food stuffs (at least on the raw materials level), so people have to be compelled to produce them rather than something more profitable as a cash crop.
I'd like to see what happens if we elect a significant number of independents. You know, people who represent their constituents as opposed to their party.
anyone around here who has taken grade 12 history knows what happens in that instance. in the weeks leading up to an important vote, no independant MP has to buy food! thats exactly what happened in the early canadian parlament, and i don't think people have really changed all that much in the last 140 years or so...
Sorry for stating the obvious, but doesn't color depths beyond what the human eye can perceive just seem really... pointless? I don't think the human eye is going to evolve to greater color sensitivity during HDMI's lifetime. It's one thing to have a higher quality image to downsample to, but... seriously. Isn't there SOMETHING the bandwidth could be used for besides information we can't use?
i'd have to agree with that. allowing audio that is above or below human hearing has a purpose, as you can feel extremely deep tones, but colour is only visual, so there is no other sense to fall back on.
I don't see the point in setting up a "web proxy browser" to bypass the school's filtering.
it would be necessary to get your work done if their filtering software is anything like the shit they tried a couple years back at my school. the thing was waaaay too sensitive to things.
among things it blocked :
a history article on the holocaust (for history class, blocked for "inappropriate imagery")
an article on basic computer security (computers class, blocked for "explicit language")
a worksheet on finding derivatives (which was part of the school-board calculus curriculum, blocked for "explicit language")
needless to say, the software was shortly junked due to the techs getting bombarded with requests to unblock things
i'm from down in southren Saskatchewan, in around Moose Jaw and Regina. and as far as i know, there is no leagal requirement for it here, but they do it anyway.
If you think that the recording industry represents an economic interest that the USA would consider going to war for YOU are fooling YOURself. Now seriously, ease up on the hyperbole.
well, providing the OP wasn't a troll, i would think he's meaning more a metaphorical, economic, war than a guns 'n shooting war.
I'm not sure I buy this argument. I don't get carded trying to buy or rent an R movie, and if that were the normal practice I don't think anyone would think twice at seeing someone getting out their driver's licence at the Best Buy counter. Same for games - if everyone buying an M game were carded, it wouldn't be a big deal. My 2 cents anyway.
well, i'm pretty sure that already happens on a volentary basis. every store that sells M-rated games up here (Canada) requires photo ID before you can buy it. it's been that way for about 5 years IIRC and it seems to work just fine.
also all the video rental places and stores will ask for ID if you buy an R movie.
i don't know why it seems to work up here, yet the americans can't seem to get it right.
No party has won >50% of the popular vote in Canada in eons, but they govern all the same. First past the post for teh win.
but our system actually works, at least most of the time, due to the whole fact we have more than 2 "real" parties. we have 4 seat-holding parties in the house of commons, as opposed to the 2 seat-holding parties in the government in the US.
Okay, but how about something that will have an effect?
well, for the first idea, print the letter and mail it in. tell all your friends to do so as well. hell, tell everyone you know to do so.
make campaign contributions to those whose policies you agree with. eoncourage other to do so.
get out and vote for one of the smaller parties (greens, libertarians). tell everyone you know, and tell then to tell others. one vote may not be much, but tens of thousands of votes might get someone's attention.
I think they should track pedophiles any way feasable.
I'm not so much on the guest / immigrant worker part of this, but chipping a pedophile isn't anywhere close to the same catagory.
correct me if i'm wrong, but in some places in the US, a sex offender can be legally required to wear a monitering device (similar to a GPS transmitter). a RFID tag would not be a suitable replacement for this, as you would have to have RFID readers placed everywhere to be able to track it, as the things have pretty short range.
You mean like the Chernobyl disaster? The one that contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union?
AFAIK, the main cause of the SU falling apart was that they were trying to keep up with the US in the arms races, but they couldn't, but they tried anyway, until they simply ran out of money for anything else and crumbled.
Last genuinely funny games I played were the Monkey Island series of games. So this guy is certainly speaking a lot of truth.
Leisure Suit Larry games were never funny, mildly titilating if you're a 13 year old maybe, but funny? No. So I'm not sure how qualified he is to talk about making funny games.
humor is a matter of taste and there is still no accounting for taste.
It's not about supporting it, it's about tolerating it. Consider, when you bought your DVD player and found that you couldn't fast forward certain parts of media (like those stupid logos and copyright notices) did you take it back to the store and ask for a refund? No, you just put up with it. What we're calling DRM today is just the warm up game./i.
no, i didn't put up with it. i bought a DVD player that ignores that control lock BS. i also slash that stuff out when i rip my DVDs, which is perfectly legal up here where the government is not for sale (yet).
well, one thing i learned in home econ was that many of the jewish things regarding food are very sensible. there are several of their tenents that was now basic part of safe food preperation, such as not cutting vegitalbles with the same knife you used on the meat (without washing it anyway).
Here, here! We need to go back to a tyme of small government and Liberty!!! The military though is different, yes we should a small core professional military but then also a citizen's militia. I'm tempted to say all adults up to say 65 being in it unless a person isn't capable. If a person isn't physically capable then they should be able to do something that doesn't require it, and if thier beliefs don't allow fighting then something else, such as support. We could make use of Switzerland's model.
well, i do think that would be a good idea, if not for the USA's tendency to go to war. you seem to get into one at least once a decade, whereas i can't think of the last time Switzerland was in a war.
well, this is in saskatchewan, where Sasktel is pretty much in control of such things.
frankly, i don't know why the dial up costs so frugging much. i see unlimited usage dialup for $10 a month all over the US. and not only that, but to get the high usage (180 hours/month), you have to get their long distance package.
But do people with dialup pay as much as people with broadband?
in my experiance, dial up users pay a lot more for their service, at least where i live.
you can get the bottom-end, unlimited usage, 128k up and down for $20 per month
the top end dial up, which gives you 180 hours monthly, for $60 per month.
the phone company (which is pretty much the only provider for the rural areas. not even AOL has a local number! not that i'd really want to use them even if they did.)
generally i've found that most of the unsubscribe addresses don't even work. i tried it on one of my spare email accounts and tried mailing some of the unsubscribe addresses. 15 out of 20 of them returned "delivery status notifacation : failure" messages.
Did you know that the twin towers were built to withstand a direct impact from a 707?
well, taking a detour off the topic here, they did survive the impact. they were still standing for how long after the planes hit? they only fell down when the steel beams in the structure lost strength due to the heat of the fires, something which appearently wasn't planned for, and they came down like a house of cards.
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In Soviet America, we stick ONE finger up to the game developer.
i'm pretty sure that he meant one finger on each hand.
Farmers in other countries seem to stay afloat without subsidies.
not really. not in the canadian west anyway. a bunch of the farmers are barely hanging on and there are currently a lot of farms for sale around here.
subsidies are a good thing IMO, as you can't really make a profit off of basic food stuffs (at least on the raw materials level), so people have to be compelled to produce them rather than something more profitable as a cash crop.
Educating the public is cheaper than patching the problem.
you obviously under-estimate the difficultly of educating the average computer user.
here's a little proverb in reply "Ignorance can be cured, but stupid is forever."
I'd like to see what happens if we elect a significant number of independents. You know, people who represent their constituents as opposed to their party.
anyone around here who has taken grade 12 history knows what happens in that instance. in the weeks leading up to an important vote, no independant MP has to buy food! thats exactly what happened in the early canadian parlament, and i don't think people have really changed all that much in the last 140 years or so...
Sorry for stating the obvious, but doesn't color depths beyond what the human eye can perceive just seem really... pointless? I don't think the human eye is going to evolve to greater color sensitivity during HDMI's lifetime. It's one thing to have a higher quality image to downsample to, but... seriously. Isn't there SOMETHING the bandwidth could be used for besides information we can't use?
i'd have to agree with that. allowing audio that is above or below human hearing has a purpose, as you can feel extremely deep tones, but colour is only visual, so there is no other sense to fall back on.
I don't see the point in setting up a "web proxy browser" to bypass the school's filtering.
it would be necessary to get your work done if their filtering software is anything like the shit they tried a couple years back at my school. the thing was waaaay too sensitive to things.
among things it blocked :
a history article on the holocaust (for history class, blocked for "inappropriate imagery")
an article on basic computer security (computers class, blocked for "explicit language")
a worksheet on finding derivatives (which was part of the school-board calculus curriculum, blocked for "explicit language")
needless to say, the software was shortly junked due to the techs getting bombarded with requests to unblock things
i'm from down in southren Saskatchewan, in around Moose Jaw and Regina. and as far as i know, there is no leagal requirement for it here, but they do it anyway.
If you think that the recording industry represents an economic interest that the USA would consider going to war for YOU are fooling YOURself. Now seriously, ease up on the hyperbole.
well, providing the OP wasn't a troll, i would think he's meaning more a metaphorical, economic, war than a guns 'n shooting war.
Now lets not go confusing laws with ethics, here people.
well, in the simplest sense, laws are merely a basic set of ethics that have been agreed upon by the majority.
I'm not sure I buy this argument. I don't get carded trying to buy or rent an R movie, and if that were the normal practice I don't think anyone would think twice at seeing someone getting out their driver's licence at the Best Buy counter. Same for games - if everyone buying an M game were carded, it wouldn't be a big deal. My 2 cents anyway.
well, i'm pretty sure that already happens on a volentary basis. every store that sells M-rated games up here (Canada) requires photo ID before you can buy it. it's been that way for about 5 years IIRC and it seems to work just fine.
also all the video rental places and stores will ask for ID if you buy an R movie.
i don't know why it seems to work up here, yet the americans can't seem to get it right.
No party has won >50% of the popular vote in Canada in eons, but they govern all the same. First past the post for teh win.
but our system actually works, at least most of the time, due to the whole fact we have more than 2 "real" parties. we have 4 seat-holding parties in the house of commons, as opposed to the 2 seat-holding parties in the government in the US.
Okay, but how about something that will have an effect?
well, for the first idea, print the letter and mail it in. tell all your friends to do so as well. hell, tell everyone you know to do so.
make campaign contributions to those whose policies you agree with. eoncourage other to do so.
get out and vote for one of the smaller parties (greens, libertarians). tell everyone you know, and tell then to tell others. one vote may not be much, but tens of thousands of votes might get someone's attention.
The Lovejoy Gambit. Haven't seen that one defined before. Is it as official as Godwin's Law?
well, a quick google search for it returns no hits, but i do think that tht tactic deserves a name and this one sounds pretty good.
I think they should track pedophiles any way feasable.
I'm not so much on the guest / immigrant worker part of this, but chipping a pedophile isn't anywhere close to the same catagory.
correct me if i'm wrong, but in some places in the US, a sex offender can be legally required to wear a monitering device (similar to a GPS transmitter). a RFID tag would not be a suitable replacement for this, as you would have to have RFID readers placed everywhere to be able to track it, as the things have pretty short range.
though the overall differance is relitively minimal.
estimates place the male population (age 25-64) at around 363 million
similar extimates on the same age bracket place the female pop at around 345 million.
that makes a short fall of 18 million females.
to compare to the us, in the same bracket, there are 78 million males and 80 million females, for an extra 2 million females.
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there are 2 ways to get people. make them yourselves, or import them
which do you think china will do?
You mean like the Chernobyl disaster? The one that contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union?
AFAIK, the main cause of the SU falling apart was that they were trying to keep up with the US in the arms races, but they couldn't, but they tried anyway, until they simply ran out of money for anything else and crumbled.
Last genuinely funny games I played were the Monkey Island series of games. So this guy is certainly speaking a lot of truth.
Leisure Suit Larry games were never funny, mildly titilating if you're a 13 year old maybe, but funny? No. So I'm not sure how qualified he is to talk about making funny games.
humor is a matter of taste and there is still no accounting for taste.
It's not about supporting it, it's about tolerating it. Consider, when you bought your DVD player and found that you couldn't fast forward certain parts of media (like those stupid logos and copyright notices) did you take it back to the store and ask for a refund? No, you just put up with it. What we're calling DRM today is just the warm up game./i.
no, i didn't put up with it. i bought a DVD player that ignores that control lock BS. i also slash that stuff out when i rip my DVDs, which is perfectly legal up here where the government is not for sale (yet).
well, one thing i learned in home econ was that many of the jewish things regarding food are very sensible. there are several of their tenents that was now basic part of safe food preperation, such as not cutting vegitalbles with the same knife you used on the meat (without washing it anyway).
Here, here! We need to go back to a tyme of small government and Liberty!!! The military though is different, yes we should a small core professional military but then also a citizen's militia. I'm tempted to say all adults up to say 65 being in it unless a person isn't capable. If a person isn't physically capable then they should be able to do something that doesn't require it, and if thier beliefs don't allow fighting then something else, such as support. We could make use of Switzerland's model.
well, i do think that would be a good idea, if not for the USA's tendency to go to war. you seem to get into one at least once a decade, whereas i can't think of the last time Switzerland was in a war.
well, this is in saskatchewan, where Sasktel is pretty much in control of such things.
frankly, i don't know why the dial up costs so frugging much. i see unlimited usage dialup for $10 a month all over the US. and not only that, but to get the high usage (180 hours/month), you have to get their long distance package.
But do people with dialup pay as much as people with broadband?
in my experiance, dial up users pay a lot more for their service, at least where i live.
you can get the bottom-end, unlimited usage, 128k up and down for $20 per month
the top end dial up, which gives you 180 hours monthly, for $60 per month.
the phone company (which is pretty much the only provider for the rural areas. not even AOL has a local number! not that i'd really want to use them even if they did.)
generally i've found that most of the unsubscribe addresses don't even work. i tried it on one of my spare email accounts and tried mailing some of the unsubscribe addresses. 15 out of 20 of them returned "delivery status notifacation : failure" messages.
you seem to be labouring under the delusion that a law will actually work and that the spammers won't simply buy loopholes in the law.
look at CANSPAM. it seems to be real effective.... >/sarcasm
Did you know that the twin towers were built to withstand a direct impact from a 707?
well, taking a detour off the topic here, they did survive the impact. they were still standing for how long after the planes hit? they only fell down when the steel beams in the structure lost strength due to the heat of the fires, something which appearently wasn't planned for, and they came down like a house of cards.