But don't you think we should have a president instead of a prime minister, Should we get rid of those fake titles and everything.
[nitpick] how is the title of "Prime Minister" anymore fake than the title of "President"?[/nitpick]
yes, senate can overrule a law, but that hasn't been done in over 20 years. they may in theory have the power, but in actuality, it's political suicide to try to do so (as the senate is appointed rather than elected). if the government tried to defeat a bill in the senate after it passed the house of commons, it would be like invoking section 33 of the charter of rights and freedoms (the so-called "not-withstanding clause", which allows the government to temporarily overrule some of the rights granted by the charter.). they would be quickly removed from power in the next election.
another good reason to keep the G-G is, it would be A LOT of hassle to eliminate the position. it would require amendments to the constitution, a process that is (and was intended to be) really long and cumbersome, not to mention expensive (it generally require a referendum, which are expensive due to all the work needed) i might mention that no attempt to make large changes to the constitution in Canada have succeeded (both the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords were defeated, though there have been 10 more minor amendments, such as the one regarding the creation of the territory of Nunavut.)
you know, this debate came up last week in my law class. the governor-general does more than just standing there looking nice. they act as the official head of state. that means when some foreign important guy comes along, she/he is the one who greets them, leaving the Prime Minister free to be (hopefully) doing something more important.
as for the "costly monarch visits" they're relatively rare. i don't believe that the queen came over when Paul Martin became Prime Minister. that's typically done by the G-G. Royal assent (the final bit in making a bill into a law) is also usually handled by the G-G, with the queen coming over only for really important laws (like the constitution act of 1982, for an example)
as for the senate, i agree. it's fairly much pointless, as it has very little power in this age (as it should, as it's appointed by the PM, rather than elected like the house of commons) and has just as little ceremonial value. i don't think that a bill has failed in the senate for over 20 years.
the rest of Europe would require you to learn a different language (of course, so would half of Canada,
half? i wasn't aware Quebec had 16.5 million people. it's about 7.5 million. roughly 1/4, and there aren't really that many french people elsewhere in canada (roughly 5% of the rest of the population)
well, AFAIK, every retailer (this is in canada) that sells M rated games already asks for ID. Wal-fart, Zellers, EB games, Circut city, Future Shop, et all. i don't really see the need for this law. though it would play nicely to the masses (of ignorants) rallying behind Jack's banner if what you suggested happened.
actually, according to the constitution act of 1982, we're our own country, with nothing to do with England. it just so happens that the queen/king of Canada is also the same person as the queen/king of England.
Why the voters keep voting for these idiots, I don't know.
because they're better than the alternative(the NDP don't have a snowball's change in hell of forming the government). somehow, i don't belive the conservative dogma that you can cut taxes, raise expendatures, and everything still balances. how much debt did they rack up last time they were in office?
sure the liberals have made a few screwups (the gun registry for example, but there was a lot of lobbying for that, just that public opinion wasn't real inlightened. and americans can't point at that, as i can just look at what your goverment does whenever the **AA cries)
yes, but my trouble is that they will go out kicking, screaming, ripping paintings off the walls, and making all kinds of a mess, which will then need to be cleaned up, which will likely take years.
Look at it this way. With $20, you could give a family a flock of chicks that could lay hundreds of eggs a year, providing them with additional protein and a source of trade income. For another $30, you can get two packs of Micropur tablets, which will treat 30 liters of water each. The tablets last for 3 years, so they can be saved for when it isn't possible to boil water. Another $30 could go to seed, rice, or lentils to give the family a little reserve. Then, spend the final $20 on whatever texts the kids need for their elementary school. $100 goes a lot farther when you're not spending it on computers.
thank you for bringing some logic into this. pity that my last mod point that i was saving exprired yesterday while i was out of town.
on a lot of cheapie PSUs, they report how much power they put out when the thing is running at 25 degrees. it's NEVER that cool inside those things, unless you're working in about 10 degree tempatures. realistic is around 35-40 degrees, and you're getting about 30-40% less power than they say.
and another thing, the wattage is coming to mean less and less. what matters is how many of those watts are on the 12v rails. most of the main draw is on the 12v. high-end video cards, processer, mobo power and expantion cards. good power supplies have more than one 12v rail, with some i've seen having 3 (IIRC, FCC regulations limit the power on one rail to 24 amps)
in general, one of the best ways to weed out a lousy PSUs is still weight. you got two 300 watt PSUs, compair weight. the heavier one is usually better. bigger capasitors and bigger heatsinks (and bigger is better, regardless of any old adages about size and its relitive importance), and additonal power cleaning circits, means more weight.
and modular PSUs are not all they're cracked up to be. the connecters give a big current loss (same as roughly 2 feet of wire) and thats under IDEAL conditions. it gets worse over time. it could be working fine one day a few years from now, then stabilitiy goes out the window and you can't figure out what the problem is.
Actually, the default WMA settings are pretty crummy,
then don't use the default settings! i'm sure most people here are bright enough to move a slider from the left to the right, though finding that slider might take some slight mental effort.
If any industry should be forced to provide any information about content, they should provide hard facts about exactly what kind of content is in the game.
look on the back of 90% of game boxes. there'sa little box next to the rating, listing some details, such as "animated violence" "suggestive diologe", etc. if you need it more exact than that...
i've got a stack as tall as i am (6'1) of NES and old sega master system carterages. neither of the machines work any more. you know anywhere i can get one, short of ebay? didn't think so. i use an emulater and roms to play these old games. i don't have the equipment to make the roms. so i download them. i also download old arcade games and run them on MAME. technically illegal? likely, especially under the DMCA (as a lot of the games have some fancy copy protection), but i don't care. i'm not likely gonna go out and buy a dozen arcade machines (most of which are all-but unfindable, like one of my favs "Dungeons and Dragons : Shadow over Mystra"). i don't have the money, or the room in my house.
what if i don't want to buy a new system and all the games i already own?
to me, this is the same old story all over again. they tried to regulate rock music, as it "encouraged violence", they tried to ban comics for the same reason. they tried to ban violent movies, guess what happened in all three cases? they didn't win. still, they seem to be trying to head this off a bit earlier, so i'm not too sure about the outcome of this.
the US goverment as a general rule is made up of old men. this is a problem in this case. we need some "naive" people in the goverment. we shouldn't need to "get used to it because this is how it is", but by the time anyone gets into goverment, those ideals have been stomped out already. how many of the polititions plays the games they're regulating, hm? i could likely count them on one hand, if there are any. this is not an informed decision. this is the decision of people whining at the goverment in what i would say is less than a majority of the population.
If a parent wants their kid to play Grand Theft Slaughter Rape Party, they can still buy it themselves.
yes, but my issue is how long will they be able to do said thing? how long until the parent's control over what they show their children is removed and replaced with a homogenous law over what can and can't be shown to children by their parents?
granted, 3/10 parents shouldn't have been parents, but that still isn't justifacation for taking away the parent's right of control (or whatever they are able to control) over what their children are exposed to.
On the other hand, if I were to buy anything not GM, Ford, or Chrysler made, I would end up having to tow it somewhere (over 50 miles) to get it looked at under warranty...
i belive you mean GM, Ford, or Chevy. Chrysler is a division of GM.
i live in a small (100) village, merely 15 miles out of a fair size town (which has no fewer than 2 cable companies, both of which provide net access.) the phone company has been screwing around for many years (i was supposed to get high speed access back in 2002, and last time i checked the calender, it's now 2005, and i'm still on dial up) and even better, they've basically got a monopoly on the net access out here. there isn't even a local number for AOHell. and the techs are blameless. if you call, the problem is with your equipment (regardless of the fact that no one else in town can dial in). the price is a bit ludicris ($45/month for 180 hours (comes to about 3 hours a day between me and my sister, which is not nearly enough when downloads take fracking forever.)
For anything to fly that is that big, he showed that the air pressure had to be four times what it is today. Here's a link to his paper. It also explains why dinosaurs could have such long necks and not pass out from loss of blood to their brains.
correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't that problem with moving blood up a long neck have more to do with gravity than air pressure?
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But don't you think we should have a president instead of a prime minister, Should we get rid of those fake titles and everything.
[nitpick] how is the title of "Prime Minister" anymore fake than the title of "President"?[/nitpick]
yes, senate can overrule a law, but that hasn't been done in over 20 years. they may in theory have the power, but in actuality, it's political suicide to try to do so (as the senate is appointed rather than elected). if the government tried to defeat a bill in the senate after it passed the house of commons, it would be like invoking section 33 of the charter of rights and freedoms (the so-called "not-withstanding clause", which allows the government to temporarily overrule some of the rights granted by the charter.). they would be quickly removed from power in the next election.
another good reason to keep the G-G is, it would be A LOT of hassle to eliminate the position. it would require amendments to the constitution, a process that is (and was intended to be) really long and cumbersome, not to mention expensive (it generally require a referendum, which are expensive due to all the work needed) i might mention that no attempt to make large changes to the constitution in Canada have succeeded (both the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords were defeated, though there have been 10 more minor amendments, such as the one regarding the creation of the territory of Nunavut.)
you know, this debate came up last week in my law class. the governor-general does more than just standing there looking nice. they act as the official head of state. that means when some foreign important guy comes along, she/he is the one who greets them, leaving the Prime Minister free to be (hopefully) doing something more important.
as for the "costly monarch visits" they're relatively rare. i don't believe that the queen came over when Paul Martin became Prime Minister. that's typically done by the G-G. Royal assent (the final bit in making a bill into a law) is also usually handled by the G-G, with the queen coming over only for really important laws (like the constitution act of 1982, for an example)
as for the senate, i agree. it's fairly much pointless, as it has very little power in this age (as it should, as it's appointed by the PM, rather than elected like the house of commons) and has just as little ceremonial value. i don't think that a bill has failed in the senate for over 20 years.
doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is still doing the right thing.
the rest of Europe would require you to learn a different language (of course, so would half of Canada,
half? i wasn't aware Quebec had 16.5 million people. it's about 7.5 million. roughly 1/4, and there aren't really that many french people elsewhere in canada (roughly 5% of the rest of the population)
well, AFAIK, every retailer (this is in canada) that sells M rated games already asks for ID. Wal-fart, Zellers, EB games, Circut city, Future Shop, et all. i don't really see the need for this law. though it would play nicely to the masses (of ignorants) rallying behind Jack's banner if what you suggested happened.
actually, according to the constitution act of 1982, we're our own country, with nothing to do with England. it just so happens that the queen/king of Canada is also the same person as the queen/king of England.
if they are guilty, yes. think how much money would be saved!
$10 to fix a bug that should never have gotten out the door, i'd be a bit pissed.
Why the voters keep voting for these idiots, I don't know.
because they're better than the alternative(the NDP don't have a snowball's change in hell of forming the government). somehow, i don't belive the conservative dogma that you can cut taxes, raise expendatures, and everything still balances. how much debt did they rack up last time they were in office?
sure the liberals have made a few screwups (the gun registry for example, but there was a lot of lobbying for that, just that public opinion wasn't real inlightened. and americans can't point at that, as i can just look at what your goverment does whenever the **AA cries)
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this perhaps? no fan, no dust.
yes, but my trouble is that they will go out kicking, screaming, ripping paintings off the walls, and making all kinds of a mess, which will then need to be cleaned up, which will likely take years.
It beats me why people still think that counting the vulnerabilities is of any value in determining the security of different browsers.
because management tends to make decesions they should leave to people who know what they are doing, and management likes numbers.
"Don't bother with the facts! Just give me details!"
Look at it this way. With $20, you could give a family a flock of chicks that could lay hundreds of eggs a year, providing them with additional protein and a source of trade income. For another $30, you can get two packs of Micropur tablets, which will treat 30 liters of water each. The tablets last for 3 years, so they can be saved for when it isn't possible to boil water. Another $30 could go to seed, rice, or lentils to give the family a little reserve. Then, spend the final $20 on whatever texts the kids need for their elementary school. $100 goes a lot farther when you're not spending it on computers.
thank you for bringing some logic into this. pity that my last mod point that i was saving exprired yesterday while i was out of town.
Hmmmmmm, ... I bet you'll call me a troll now.
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no, i'll call you a crackpot who doesn't seem to have a [four letter word]ing clue on what this is about.
this is a back door around the betamax decision (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sony_C
people have the LEGAL RIGHT to record whatever they damn well please off the TV for personal use.
on a lot of cheapie PSUs, they report how much power they put out when the thing is running at 25 degrees. it's NEVER that cool inside those things, unless you're working in about 10 degree tempatures. realistic is around 35-40 degrees, and you're getting about 30-40% less power than they say.
and another thing, the wattage is coming to mean less and less. what matters is how many of those watts are on the 12v rails. most of the main draw is on the 12v. high-end video cards, processer, mobo power and expantion cards. good power supplies have more than one 12v rail, with some i've seen having 3 (IIRC, FCC regulations limit the power on one rail to 24 amps)
in general, one of the best ways to weed out a lousy PSUs is still weight. you got two 300 watt PSUs, compair weight. the heavier one is usually better. bigger capasitors and bigger heatsinks (and bigger is better, regardless of any old adages about size and its relitive importance), and additonal power cleaning circits, means more weight.
and modular PSUs are not all they're cracked up to be. the connecters give a big current loss (same as roughly 2 feet of wire) and thats under IDEAL conditions. it gets worse over time. it could be working fine one day a few years from now, then stabilitiy goes out the window and you can't figure out what the problem is.
then the terrorists will have finger transplants with the face transplants!
Actually, the default WMA settings are pretty crummy,
then don't use the default settings! i'm sure most people here are bright enough to move a slider from the left to the right, though finding that slider might take some slight mental effort.
If any industry should be forced to provide any information about content, they should provide hard facts about exactly what kind of content is in the game.
look on the back of 90% of game boxes. there'sa little box next to the rating, listing some details, such as "animated violence" "suggestive diologe", etc. if you need it more exact than that...
i've got a stack as tall as i am (6'1) of NES and old sega master system carterages. neither of the machines work any more. you know anywhere i can get one, short of ebay? didn't think so. i use an emulater and roms to play these old games. i don't have the equipment to make the roms. so i download them. i also download old arcade games and run them on MAME. technically illegal? likely, especially under the DMCA (as a lot of the games have some fancy copy protection), but i don't care. i'm not likely gonna go out and buy a dozen arcade machines (most of which are all-but unfindable, like one of my favs "Dungeons and Dragons : Shadow over Mystra"). i don't have the money, or the room in my house.
what if i don't want to buy a new system and all the games i already own?
to me, this is the same old story all over again. they tried to regulate rock music, as it "encouraged violence", they tried to ban comics for the same reason. they tried to ban violent movies, guess what happened in all three cases? they didn't win. still, they seem to be trying to head this off a bit earlier, so i'm not too sure about the outcome of this.
the US goverment as a general rule is made up of old men. this is a problem in this case. we need some "naive" people in the goverment. we shouldn't need to "get used to it because this is how it is", but by the time anyone gets into goverment, those ideals have been stomped out already. how many of the polititions plays the games they're regulating, hm? i could likely count them on one hand, if there are any. this is not an informed decision. this is the decision of people whining at the goverment in what i would say is less than a majority of the population.
If a parent wants their kid to play Grand Theft Slaughter Rape Party, they can still buy it themselves.
yes, but my issue is how long will they be able to do said thing? how long until the parent's control over what they show their children is removed and replaced with a homogenous law over what can and can't be shown to children by their parents?
granted, 3/10 parents shouldn't have been parents, but that still isn't justifacation for taking away the parent's right of control (or whatever they are able to control) over what their children are exposed to.
On the other hand, if I were to buy anything not GM, Ford, or Chrysler made, I would end up having to tow it somewhere (over 50 miles) to get it looked at under warranty...
i belive you mean GM, Ford, or Chevy. Chrysler is a division of GM.
i live in a small (100) village, merely 15 miles out of a fair size town (which has no fewer than 2 cable companies, both of which provide net access.) the phone company has been screwing around for many years (i was supposed to get high speed access back in 2002, and last time i checked the calender, it's now 2005, and i'm still on dial up) and even better, they've basically got a monopoly on the net access out here. there isn't even a local number for AOHell. and the techs are blameless. if you call, the problem is with your equipment (regardless of the fact that no one else in town can dial in). the price is a bit ludicris ($45/month for 180 hours (comes to about 3 hours a day between me and my sister, which is not nearly enough when downloads take fracking forever.)
It's called air pressure.
For anything to fly that is that big, he showed that the air pressure had to be four times what it is today. Here's a link to his paper. It also explains why dinosaurs could have such long necks and not pass out from loss of blood to their brains.
correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't that problem with moving blood up a long neck have more to do with gravity than air pressure?
this is basicaly first-generation stuff. just wait. the weight will go down as they improve the tech.