You are so right. We should be pressuring professional atheletes and movie stars for donations! Some actors get paid $20M per movie, for about 3 months worth of "working".
Atheletes get paid to "play".
I'm sure the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, Hollywood could easily put together $35M.
The separate waves likely resulted from the aftershocks produced from the initial earthquake. I believe they are called P and S waves, for Primary and Secondary.
I read that most people were actually confused when they saw the ocean receding from the beach. They never made the connection between the extremely low tide and the forth coming tsunami.
The people just stood around on the beach watching the water leave the beach, only to see it return as a huge wave.
It's so sad to see such devestation. Please people, go and donate at UNICEF it's the least you can do. I mean, if you saw someone fall and break a leg, would you not stop to help? Since we can't go over to help them, send money.
I have been accused of single-handedly taking down the original version of lawn darts with the spikes. This happened when a lawn dart impaled my friend's head and got stuck sticking straight out the top of his skull.
We never got to play with them ever again. It's been 22 years and counting since I've seen lawn darts.
Yeah. I've learned how to read the blinky light patterns to tell when malware is coming down the pipe. As soon as I see it in the queue, I hit the off button!
That's frikkin amazing!!! Hell, if your monitor ever goes down you could just surf by staring at the blinking lights! Amazing... simply amazing.
That is probably the only thing I'm going to hate when I go to the UK, or Europe for that matter. Having to pay ridiculous sums of money for everyday things. You must think it is a bargain bin when you come to North America.
I heard you right. I was explaining to you how badly a two tier system would be.
I understand your willingness to pay for better service, but how "able" are you to pay for it?
If there is a two tier system, the public system is going to be worse off than before. They aren't going to be able to offer the same level of services as the private tier. So ask yourself this, what happens when you can't afford private tier hospital service?
What are the odds that this group of skeletons found just happen to belong to a group of social outcasts at that time?
Something akin to future explorers looking at earth after world extinction only to be digging on a site where it happened to have a group home for the mentally/physically disabled? Would they declare them to be a different species than the ones they found at the Havard dig site?
No factual evidence to support my comments. Just a big "what if" idea.
They put caps on doctors salaries, so the most talented go to the U.S., and we are stuck with the mediocre, and people that really like the cold.:)
My friend is a doctor who does it out of the passion for other human beings. She would sacrifice her "salary" for a position where she can do the most good for humanity. I hold much hope for the future as there are plenty more like her. Don't lose faith.
So the question is, would you rather live in a country with 'free' healthcare but extremely long wait times or a country where you can get immediate specialist care?
You should replace the term "immediate" with "only as fast as you can pay for it".
If you can't afford treatment in that country, you don't get treatment. Think about the percentage of people who don't have health care insurance.
Two tier system? Are you sure you're Canadian? The whole point of not having that system is so that people of all socio-economic class have equal access to quality health care.
Once you get a two tier system you will never get fair health care ever again. Only those that have money can afford proper care.
You'll get a system like this:
Doctor: "Seems to me like you've got viral menningitis, but your health care only covers diagonosis. However, the good news is that for only an extra $1500, you can get treatment."
Oh, just to keep things in perspective, a simple CAT scan can cost upwards of several hundred dollars. Keep that in mind when you think about a two tier system and whether or not you want to pay for that. Or worst yet, think about someone having a commutable disease that cannot afford treatment and is released back onto the public. Good luck staying healthy.
How are they going to prove that BitTorrent trackers are allowing copyright infringement?
You can argue it this way. A criminal robs a bank and later gets on a public bus for the getaway. It is not the bus driver's business to ask why the criminal gets on the bus as long as the criminal doesn't cause any problems. Are they going to sue the public transportation company for assisting the criminal?
Or how about the Yellow Pages having entries for fraudulent businesses? Are they suppose to check every listing to see if it is legit lest they want to get sued as well for abetting a bad business.
This is getting way out of hand. Let's hope it just gets stuck in court forever.
Windmills may have an effect on birds and such and you do bring up an interesting argument with the article from Altamont Pass. However, what about the studies made from burning fossil fuels for energy? How many birds are killed from that directly and indirectly? One thousand birds locally from a wind farm compared to untold numbers from everywhere because of a coal burning electricity plant.
How is biometrics any better? Fingerprint recognition can be messed up if you cut your hand. Retinal scanning is messed up if you happen to develop a retinal tear or a bruised eye. Voice recognition is bungled up when you have laryngitis.
Any security has a flaw because it has a hole in it. Even if you have only one hole which happens to be the authenticated user, who's to say that user is the authentic person?
Hmmm... On previewing that, if whiffs of a masterful troll. Sorry if it sounds like that, but the hypocracy and lies coming from the chinese government disgusts me. I find it sickening that a dictatorial few can deny one fifth of the world's population their basic human rights. The day China become a real democracy will be a great day.
I assume that the hypocracy and lies coming from any other government doesn't disgust you? A word to the wise, "All governments lie." WMDs in Iraq? Haha... they probably debate what constitutes 'Mass'. Grenades could technically fall under that category.
I find it sickening that a dictatorial few can deny nearly one half of a country their human rights. By that I mean GWB waging an illegal war where half the population did not agree to.
China is its own country, why should anyone get involved? If they want human rights, they'll fight for it. And that's what is happening, albeit slowly.
The story behind China and Taiwan goes a lot farther than most people here know. For those of you who say it isn't a problem to declare Taiwan as an independent country you really aren't thinking it through. If China allows one instance to go by people will view that as a sign of weakness. Then should one day everything acknowledges Taiwan as a country, the Chinese government loses control over its province. And that's not something the Chinese government wants.
This is sort of like saying that New York state is part of Canada. And allowing maps and games and software to show it. Pretty soon the world thinks New York is part of Canada. How do you think the US government is going to react to the world thinking that one of its states is known to the world as Canada's 11th province?
I think this is great having spyware remove spyware. At some point, one spyware is going to remove all competitors and leave just itself on your HD. Then all we really need is just a single adware/spyware removal program and we're all clean again.
Infected in the future? Follow these steps.
1. Visit dominating spyware webpage. 2. Allow spyware to remove other spyware. 3. Run spyware removal program. 4. w00t!
Sure, the page may not load should you be outside of the set geographic range, but what's really stopping anyone from getting in range, take a screen capture and take off?
Perhaps if you can only get the laptop to turn on in pre-determined geographic locations it would be more benefitial, but then again, that would defeat the purpose of having a laptop to begin with.
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You are so right. We should be pressuring professional atheletes and movie stars for donations! Some actors get paid $20M per movie, for about 3 months worth of "working".
Atheletes get paid to "play".
I'm sure the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, Hollywood could easily put together $35M.
It is a sad world indeed.
I'm sure if you took a flight out to Baghdad and walk off the plane, plenty of Iraqis will come to greet you in thanks.
The war in Iraq isn't anything like liberating Europe from the Nazis in WWII.
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AC has posted links to video footage of Tsunamis around the world.
The separate waves likely resulted from the aftershocks produced from the initial earthquake. I believe they are called P and S waves, for Primary and Secondary.
I read that most people were actually confused when they saw the ocean receding from the beach. They never made the connection between the extremely low tide and the forth coming tsunami.
The people just stood around on the beach watching the water leave the beach, only to see it return as a huge wave.
It's so sad to see such devestation. Please people, go and donate at UNICEF it's the least you can do. I mean, if you saw someone fall and break a leg, would you not stop to help? Since we can't go over to help them, send money.
I have been accused of single-handedly taking down the original version of lawn darts with the spikes. This happened when a lawn dart impaled my friend's head and got stuck sticking straight out the top of his skull.
We never got to play with them ever again. It's been 22 years and counting since I've seen lawn darts.
Yeah. I've learned how to read the blinky light patterns to tell when malware is coming down the pipe. As soon as I see it in the queue, I hit the off button!
That's frikkin amazing!!! Hell, if your monitor ever goes down you could just surf by staring at the blinking lights! Amazing... simply amazing.
I always thought that the US Military uses metric measurements for ranging and ballistics?
That is probably the only thing I'm going to hate when I go to the UK, or Europe for that matter. Having to pay ridiculous sums of money for everyday things. You must think it is a bargain bin when you come to North America.
That exchange to Canadian is like $4.42 a cup of coffee! How does that even being to make any sense?!
I'd rather get off my lazy ass, walk two steps to the closest Tim Horton's and pay $1.40 for 400ml of good hot coffee. That's about £0.58 pounds.
I heard you right. I was explaining to you how badly a two tier system would be.
I understand your willingness to pay for better service, but how "able" are you to pay for it?
If there is a two tier system, the public system is going to be worse off than before. They aren't going to be able to offer the same level of services as the private tier. So ask yourself this, what happens when you can't afford private tier hospital service?
What are the odds that this group of skeletons found just happen to belong to a group of social outcasts at that time?
Something akin to future explorers looking at earth after world extinction only to be digging on a site where it happened to have a group home for the mentally/physically disabled? Would they declare them to be a different species than the ones they found at the Havard dig site?
No factual evidence to support my comments. Just a big "what if" idea.
My friend is a doctor who does it out of the passion for other human beings. She would sacrifice her "salary" for a position where she can do the most good for humanity. I hold much hope for the future as there are plenty more like her. Don't lose faith.
You should replace the term "immediate" with "only as fast as you can pay for it".
If you can't afford treatment in that country, you don't get treatment. Think about the percentage of people who don't have health care insurance.
Two tier system? Are you sure you're Canadian? The whole point of not having that system is so that people of all socio-economic class have equal access to quality health care.
Once you get a two tier system you will never get fair health care ever again. Only those that have money can afford proper care.
You'll get a system like this:
Doctor: "Seems to me like you've got viral menningitis, but your health care only covers diagonosis. However, the good news is that for only an extra $1500, you can get treatment."
Oh, just to keep things in perspective, a simple CAT scan can cost upwards of several hundred dollars. Keep that in mind when you think about a two tier system and whether or not you want to pay for that. Or worst yet, think about someone having a commutable disease that cannot afford treatment and is released back onto the public. Good luck staying healthy.
How are they going to prove that BitTorrent trackers are allowing copyright infringement?
You can argue it this way. A criminal robs a bank and later gets on a public bus for the getaway. It is not the bus driver's business to ask why the criminal gets on the bus as long as the criminal doesn't cause any problems. Are they going to sue the public transportation company for assisting the criminal?
Or how about the Yellow Pages having entries for fraudulent businesses? Are they suppose to check every listing to see if it is legit lest they want to get sued as well for abetting a bad business.
This is getting way out of hand. Let's hope it just gets stuck in court forever.
Check out his sig.
I'd rather have an unsightly view than a view obscured by smog.
Coal and oil plants produce particulates that are released into the air and eventually into my lungs.
That in my opinion is much worse than seeing a bunch of windmills. I have a choice as to what I see, but not what I breathe.
Windmills may have an effect on birds and such and you do bring up an interesting argument with the article from Altamont Pass. However, what about the studies made from burning fossil fuels for energy? How many birds are killed from that directly and indirectly? One thousand birds locally from a wind farm compared to untold numbers from everywhere because of a coal burning electricity plant.
How is biometrics any better? Fingerprint recognition can be messed up if you cut your hand. Retinal scanning is messed up if you happen to develop a retinal tear or a bruised eye. Voice recognition is bungled up when you have laryngitis.
Any security has a flaw because it has a hole in it. Even if you have only one hole which happens to be the authenticated user, who's to say that user is the authentic person?
Honestly what movie with midgets doesn't rock???
Hmmm... On previewing that, if whiffs of a masterful troll. Sorry if it sounds like that, but the hypocracy and lies coming from the chinese government disgusts me. I find it sickening that a dictatorial few can deny one fifth of the world's population their basic human rights. The day China become a real democracy will be a great day.
I assume that the hypocracy and lies coming from any other government doesn't disgust you? A word to the wise, "All governments lie." WMDs in Iraq? Haha... they probably debate what constitutes 'Mass'. Grenades could technically fall under that category.
I find it sickening that a dictatorial few can deny nearly one half of a country their human rights. By that I mean GWB waging an illegal war where half the population did not agree to.
China is its own country, why should anyone get involved? If they want human rights, they'll fight for it. And that's what is happening, albeit slowly.
The story behind China and Taiwan goes a lot farther than most people here know. For those of you who say it isn't a problem to declare Taiwan as an independent country you really aren't thinking it through. If China allows one instance to go by people will view that as a sign of weakness. Then should one day everything acknowledges Taiwan as a country, the Chinese government loses control over its province. And that's not something the Chinese government wants.
This is sort of like saying that New York state is part of Canada. And allowing maps and games and software to show it. Pretty soon the world thinks New York is part of Canada. How do you think the US government is going to react to the world thinking that one of its states is known to the world as Canada's 11th province?
I think this is great having spyware remove spyware. At some point, one spyware is going to remove all competitors and leave just itself on your HD. Then all we really need is just a single adware/spyware removal program and we're all clean again.
Infected in the future? Follow these steps.
1. Visit dominating spyware webpage.
2. Allow spyware to remove other spyware.
3. Run spyware removal program.
4. w00t!
I've always found 52 Pick Up to be a rather entertaining game to play!
Sure, the page may not load should you be outside of the set geographic range, but what's really stopping anyone from getting in range, take a screen capture and take off?
Perhaps if you can only get the laptop to turn on in pre-determined geographic locations it would be more benefitial, but then again, that would defeat the purpose of having a laptop to begin with.