Nortel didn't go bankrupt in 2001 and they didn't sack the entire VoIP division. They sacked some departments, sold off some VoIP products but are still in the VoIP market.
If she got 4 weeks, UI will start after the 4 weeks and the 4 weeks is subtracted from your UI claim as if the government paid you the four weeks. I think it really sucks but that is definitely what's been happening in Ont.
Now it could be argued that if you have a severance package it serves the purpose of UI so you don't need UI. However I would argue in that case, if I have a job that pays me 14 weeks severance I should be able to get an exemption from paying into UI. It pisses me off that until my current job I have always had to pay UI but I have none of these jobs would qualify me to collect UI. If I'm not going to be qualified to collect UI I don't think I should have to pay it.
Anybody know where I could find out about copyrights on jazz standards, like Cole Porter, Ellington, etc? An online, free and legal realbook would be a great thing. I'd definitely contribute time to put them into Lilypond
Actually after the Vietnam war alot of the vets returning had heroin habits. Most of them kicked with the usual withdrawal process and never used heroin again. Most of them never experienced a craving for heroin again. Some people are junkies. Some people aren't. Being addicted to heroin doesn't make you a junkie IMHO. Starting to take heroin *again* after you've quit and you know how terrible withdrawal is and how badly having a jones can fsck up your life - that is a junkie. Anyone can be addicted, not everyone has the potential to be a junkie. Just my 2 cents
I'v been wondering about this for awhile. Couldn't the actual graphic format be altered to include an XXX flag for sexually explicit images? Then the censorware could just not load these images. I mean it not like porno sites are trying to subtly trick you into visiting porno sites (well ok alot of the time they do). They want you to know that the images are the hardest, nastiest, degrading smut you'll find on the net, right? So wouldn't they voluntarily accept this? It's not exactly enforceable but if accepted and implemented, it would allow places like libraries to prevent XXX images from loading without blocking sites. Personally I would be ok with my kids reading descriptions of just about sexual act if I could prevent them from accidentally stumbling upon graphic images of bestiality and I've done just that, completely unintentionally. Obviously there's going to be sites that will claim that this image and that image aren't really porn but it seems like a possibility worth exploring. I'm all for free speech but do you really want your 8 yr old viewing explicit images at the public library?
This is all fairly common stuff for professional musicians. I had a ganglioneuroma last summer and my doctor said the traditional treatment is to whack it with a bible (Traditionally the biggest book in the house). I was going to get mine surgically removed but fortunately the surgeon was on vacation and by the time he got back it went away, A piano player I played with last weekend said he had a very large ganglioneuroma broken up with ultrasonics. Sounds better than the bible!
I totally agree. I feel that way about so called free jazz. It is a participant not spectator sport (usually). I went to see Sun Ra in Boston when I was on my honeymoon a couple of years ago and it was fantastic. But I had seen a video about Sun Ra and his orchestra a couple weeks before and thought it was total bullshit. Sometimes its about being part of the moment.
I've got quite a bit of jazz theory - enough to know that truly great jazz musicians don't just rely on picking the "right" notes. They often use the wrong notes, they use the space between the notes. One of the differences between guitar and sax in jazz is guitarists don't have to breathe. As my jazz improv class prof used to say - "You're phrasing like a sax player would if he could run a hose up his ass for air!". But a computer doesn't have to breath. You can program it to only play so many notes before it has to leave some space but it will never know what it is to breathe. Plus great improvisors know when you can ignore the chords or change the chord qualities to fit a melodic idea. When does a quote of another melody sound cool and when does it sound corny? How closely does a melodic idea need to fit the changes to work. If you can get a computer to play "Goodbye" like Art Pepper on "Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard", I'm selling my bass!
I think if Linus believed he knew better than everyone else he wouldn't have opened his source code to others for input. He was probably capable of doing it all himself, but it would have taken much longer and noone would have been very interested.
I would also like to comment on the idea that Gates isn't evil. I saw an interview once where Gates said something about telling a friend & competitor "Don't ever tell me something I can use against you in business because I will". It's not evil but I'm glad he's not in my circle of friends.
Definitely Zorn! I listen to Masada alot when coding. If you're into jazz and Bartok, check out Dave Holland, a jazz bassist (THE jazz bassist IMHO) heavily influenced by Bartok.
I think the best part of the movie is the vague nature of the legend and the somewhat indescribable sounds in the woods, so that its clear they don't know what is out there. I don't believe they believe it the witch. But I found my self thinking "Are the woods really haunted?" "Is that kids?" "Sounds a bit like deer, or maybe a bear". It just left so much to the imagination. I went to see it a second time and I could really see how some people couldn't get into it. There were scenes that freaked me out the first time that I thought - "Wow - that seemed kinda stupid" the second time.
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Nortel didn't go bankrupt in 2001 and they didn't sack the entire VoIP division. They sacked some departments, sold off some VoIP products but are still in the VoIP market.
When Pat Robertson called us Soviet Canuckistan, I for one thought "Well, we must be doing something right".
There are some people you just don't want on your side.
If she got 4 weeks, UI will start after the 4 weeks and the 4 weeks is subtracted from your UI claim as if the government paid you the four weeks. I think it really sucks but that is definitely what's been happening in Ont.
Now it could be argued that if you have a severance package it serves the purpose of UI so you don't need UI. However I would argue in that case, if I have a job that pays me 14 weeks severance I should be able to get an exemption from paying into UI. It pisses me off that until my current job I have always had to pay UI but I have none of these jobs would qualify me to collect UI. If I'm not going to be qualified to collect UI I don't think I should have to pay it.
Before search engines there were no smart people.
How is C# pronounced? As a musician I've always thought it was "See Sharp"
Anybody know where I could find out about copyrights on jazz standards, like Cole Porter, Ellington, etc? An online, free and legal realbook would be a great thing. I'd definitely contribute time to put them into Lilypond
There was an excellent series on the "War on Drugs" in the Ottawa Citizen in the past year.e x. html
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/drugs/ind
Michael Creighton (sp?) talked abit about building microprocessors from brain tissue in "The Terminal Man" IIRC.
Actually after the Vietnam war alot of the vets returning had heroin habits. Most of them kicked with the usual withdrawal process and never used heroin again. Most of them never experienced a craving for heroin again. Some people are junkies. Some people aren't. Being addicted to heroin doesn't make you a junkie IMHO. Starting to take heroin *again* after you've quit and you know how terrible withdrawal is and how badly having a jones can fsck up your life - that is a junkie. Anyone can be addicted, not everyone has the potential to be a junkie. Just my 2 cents
I'v been wondering about this for awhile. Couldn't the actual graphic format be altered to include an XXX flag for sexually explicit images? Then the censorware could just not load these images. I mean it not like porno sites are trying to subtly trick you into visiting porno sites (well ok alot of the time they do). They want you to know that the images are the hardest, nastiest, degrading smut you'll find on the net, right? So wouldn't they voluntarily accept this? It's not exactly enforceable but if accepted and implemented, it would allow places like libraries to prevent XXX images from loading without blocking sites. Personally I would be ok with my kids reading descriptions of just about sexual act if I could prevent them from accidentally stumbling upon graphic images of bestiality and I've done just that, completely unintentionally.
Obviously there's going to be sites that will claim that this image and that image aren't really porn but it seems like a possibility worth exploring. I'm all for free speech but do you really want your 8 yr old viewing explicit images at the public library?
This is all fairly common stuff for professional musicians. I had a ganglioneuroma last summer and my doctor said the traditional treatment is to whack it with a bible (Traditionally the biggest book in the house). I was going to get mine surgically removed but fortunately the surgeon was on vacation and by the time he got back it went away, A piano player I played with last weekend said he had a very large ganglioneuroma broken up with ultrasonics. Sounds better than the bible!
I totally agree. I feel that way about so called free jazz. It is a participant not spectator sport (usually). I went to see Sun Ra in Boston when I was on my honeymoon a couple of years ago and it was fantastic. But I had seen a video about Sun Ra and his orchestra a couple weeks before and thought it was total bullshit. Sometimes its about being part of the moment.
I've got quite a bit of jazz theory - enough to know that truly great jazz musicians don't just rely on picking the "right" notes. They often use the wrong notes, they use the space between the notes. One of the differences between guitar and sax in jazz is guitarists don't have to breathe. As my jazz improv class prof used to say - "You're phrasing like a sax player would if he could run a hose up his ass for air!". But a computer doesn't have to breath. You can program it to only play so many notes before it has to leave some space but it will never know what it is to breathe. Plus great improvisors know when you can ignore the chords or change the chord qualities to fit a melodic idea. When does a quote of another melody sound cool and when does it sound corny? How closely does a melodic idea need to fit the changes to work. If you can get a computer to play "Goodbye" like Art Pepper on "Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard", I'm selling my bass!
I think if Linus believed he knew better than everyone else he wouldn't have opened his source code to others for input. He was probably capable of doing it all himself, but it would have taken much longer and noone would have been very interested.
I would also like to comment on the idea that Gates isn't evil. I saw an interview once where Gates said something about telling a friend & competitor "Don't ever tell me something I can use against you in business because I will". It's not evil but I'm glad he's not in my circle of friends.
Definitely Zorn! I listen to Masada alot when coding. If you're into jazz and Bartok, check out Dave Holland, a jazz bassist (THE jazz bassist IMHO) heavily influenced by Bartok.
I think the best part of the movie is the vague nature of the legend and the somewhat indescribable sounds in the woods, so that its clear they don't know what is out there. I don't believe they believe it the witch. But I found my self thinking "Are the woods really haunted?" "Is that kids?" "Sounds a bit like deer, or maybe a bear". It just left so much to the imagination. I went to see it a second time and I could really see how some people couldn't get into it. There were scenes that freaked me out the first time that I thought - "Wow - that seemed kinda stupid" the second time.